Student Council also heard a presentation given by Jocelyn Milner, vice provost of Academic Affairs and director of Academic Planning and Institutional Research, about the Higher Learning Commission Accreditation Project for March 2019.
UW-Madison’s Suicide Prevention Council, started in 2013, tries to assist students who need help and improve well-being on campus, Donovan said. Overall, college is considered to be “protective” against suicide, but “there are significant stressors,” she said.
In a majority liberal university, it’s easy for students to lose touch with their political views, commentator says.
Though he won’t be competing directly against star performers, Jim Leary, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of folklore and Scandinavian Studies, was nominated for his second Grammy, this time for writing the album notes for “Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924,” an album of folk tunes recorded by a Wisconsin label.
From crime to politics and everything in between, there has never been a dull moment of reporting this semester.
Don Stanley started teaching a course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about podcasting, blogging and social media in 2008. That’s eons in social media years. It also dates back to a time when brands like Facebook and Twitter were more associated with fun and community than identity theft and fake news.
From the Crazylegs Classic race to Maxwell Street Days, Downtown Madison is a magnet for events. But a city staff proposal could force many popular ones to change starting times, routes or days and perhaps deter new ones.
Housing Director Jeff Novak said cost of living is increasing to compensate for rising operational costs.
For the last 25 years, the Center for Educational Opportunity has served the UW-Madison community. This Friday, an event will be held to honor the accomplishments of the program and it’s students.
Concerns of future enrollment growth accomodations paved the way for discussion on housing accessibility and affordability.
The number of international graduate students’ enrollment at UW-Madison is significantly higher than the national average — it was close to 2,703 in Fall 2017, nearly half as many as the 4,791 American students, according to UW-Madison’s Office of the Registrar.
Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they’ve broken up a long-running campus theft ring.
“This is an opportunity where I get to go back home to my community and serve the people of our community and do something really special for them,” said Zach Schranm, Marine and UWPD Security Officer.
“I’m terrified alcohol would take my life away,” Jonah Beleckis wrote in an op-ed when he was a senior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which is a notorious party school. “Addiction is in my blood. It etches a death threat in my mirror every Friday night, warning me what might come.”
For the past several months, a group of 24 freshman engineering students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been building a sensory playhouse for an 11-year-old girl named Laura who has severe disabilities.
Madison streets around the construction site for the UW-Madison Chemistry Building project are in lane closure and street closing mode, and some will be until spring.
Construction on the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Chemistry Building will continue through 2021, causing various types of lane closures throughout the project, according to city officials.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the budgets of Wisconsin Association of Black Men and Sex Out Loud Monday evening.
They challenged the nine departments within the Division of Student Life to a friendly competition aimed at increasing donations to the Open Seat Food Pantry.
UW-Madison’s Lowell Center purchased the “Ringo” Bucky statue by Kari Fisher from this summer’s Bucky on Parade event and held a location unveiling event Friday with its namesake, former Badgers men’s hockey player Rob Andringa. Lance Baldus and Matt Vieth from the Lowell Center and Andringa speak.
The Mercile J. Lee Scholars Program will now oversee the two scholarship programs Lee founded over 30 years ago: Chancellor’s and Powers-Knapp scholarship programs.
According to the release, this move comes after the Wisconsin Division of Student Life conducted investigations over several months into various allegation which resulted in numerous unsubstantiated findings against the Fraternity.
Two UW-Madison professors have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Senior Jamie Dawson was selected by senior class officers.
Students conversed about issues of identity, tradition, mental health
UW spokesperson Meredith McGlone said the university is taking steps to improve campus climate for Native students and other underrepresented groups. Recently, the university launched the Elders-in-Residence program, which brings Native community leaders to campus.
The All Ways Forward fundraising campaign at UW-Madison received a significant boost Monday, with alumni John and Anne Oros committing $10 million.
A coalition of University of Wisconsin campus organizations will hold a rally to show solidarity with and raise money for asylum seekers at the southern border, some of whom were assaulted with tear gas by border patrol officers Sunday.
UW professor Finn Enke, who specializes in the history of gender and sexuality, believes the effects of the memo can already be observed.
When student organizations underspend their yearly budgets, those extra funds wind up in SSFC’s reserve. Over the years, the reserve has grown substantially. “The reserve funds are excessive,” SSFC Chair Jeremy Swanson said.
Over the years, over the decades, Mike Leckrone has said he would know when it was time to retire.
Mike Leckrone reflects on his 50 years as the director of the UW bands.
Bucky’s Tuition Promise pledges to cover four years of tuition and fees — a total of $10,555 per year — for all incoming in-state freshmen whose families’ adjusted gross income is at or below $56,000, roughly the state’s median family income. Transfer students from Wisconsin meeting the same criteria will receive two years of tuition and fees.
He spoke to the band members after the game as fans looked on as some held signs with hearts on them.
The 82-year-old estimates he’s worked with close to 3,500 students in his career and said that it’s because of the students that the job never got old.
It was a bitter sweet Saturday for Badger fans of all ages, as UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone led the band for the final time at Camp Randal Stadium after 50 years a top the ladder.
Newly proposed rules put forth last week by President Donald Trump’s education secretary would reduce the liability of UW-Madison and other Wisconsin universities investigating sexual assault by changing the definition of what constitutes sexual harassment.
The program covers four years at UW’s flagship university and is funded through private gifts, not taxpayer dollars.
The group also employed its share of gimmicks. In August, organizers brought puppies to the UW-Madison campus to encourage students to register to vote. A few days before the election, a giraffe-shaped bounce house graced the UW-Madison campus to encourage early voting.
This Saturday’s game vs. Minnesota will be the last time Leckrone leads the UW Marching Band at Camp Randall. One last “run-on”, half-time show, and one last “Fifth Quarter”.
While a student has the right to protest a speaker, a student never has the right to disrupt a speaker, Schweber said. It is “the obligation of the university” to stop a student from disrupting a speaker.
Schweber opened his speech by explaining the difference between free speech and academic freedom. He explained academic freedom as the ability of a university to guide its own educational mission. Free speech and academic freedom are opposing concepts because of that discretion, and the two can often be confusing for people to understand, Schweber said.
Claims against UW professor were substantiated in university investigation.
Nostalgia has laced much of Leckrone’s last football season: In the back of his mind and in his assistants’ and students’ minds is a ticking clock, counting down the days, the rehearsals, the games he has left.
A UW-Madison professor who students and staff accused of inappropriately touching, staring and commenting in a pattern of sexual harassment going back decades retired in May amid a university investigation into his behavior.
Noted: Voting in Madison and Milwaukee was supported by a 28 percent increase in turnout from the 2014 election on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and a 43 percent increase on UW-Milwaukee’s campus. NextGen America, a liberal group that spent $2.8 million in Wisconsin to boost Democratic turnout among millennials, reported between 75 percent and 80 percent of the vote share on the campuses went to Evers.
The director said “poor countries are suffering, but it is wealthy countries that are causing the problem.”
The professor said monuments are not just distant history, but a challenge for America to learn history, improve.
University of Wisconsin’s Associated Students of Madison approved their internal budget for fiscal year 2020 Wednesday, which included amendments within the Grant Allocation Committee and changes to the budget for recruitment drives.
Elder-in-residence Ada Deer also welcomed to campus.
Leading Women for Tomorrow is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that has been brought to the university by Rachel Sweet, the recently appointed president of the UW chapter.
Noted: Among them was Marion Cranefield, one of the first Madison men killed in World War I. Cranefield was a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior when he joined the Army. He had tried to enlist the previous year to take part in the U.S. Army’s pursuit of Pancho Villa but was turned down because he was too thin. He wrote home from France, telling his family “it’s a wonderful country and worth dying for.”
UW-Madison has terminated its Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter after people pushed a television off the chapter’s balcony and nearly hit a woman this summer.
Thousands of miles from his hometown, Thousand Oaks, CA, UW-Madison freshman Matthew Mitnick said his nightmare began Wednesday night. He learned a gunman opened fire on a bar in his hometown.
Though it is often used as a concept in TV shows, movies, science fiction books and pop culture, Peter Vranas, a University of Wisconsin philosophy professor, took the topic seriously. He wondered how time travel should be defined and what would have to be true for it to exist.
The panel discussed some of the major cultural differences between campus life and life on a reservation, and the difficulties many students face bridging these differences.
Communications Specialist Xai Xiong said that of the eight total polling locations on campus, the voter turnout totaled 87 percent of those eligible to vote at these wards. Additionally, throughout the city of Madison, the pre-registered voter turnout totaled 92.9 percent.
Standing on a skateboard for the first time in her life, Bing Sun radiates joy. She’s taking it slow as she coasts down State Street, but it’s still thrilling. “When I was young, this was not so popular,” says Sun, a native of China and a visiting scholar at UW-Madison. “Then I got married, had a daughter — I had no time to play.”
Even though Nov. 11 is commemorated as the date of the armistice ending World War I, it’s also a day to honor all veterans, thanks to a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate.
The key to Tuesday’s stunning Democratic upset of Wisconsin’s eight-year Republican lock on state government came from a blue tsunami in Wisconsin’s largest counties and possibly a smaller wave on college campuses around the state.
