Two transgender Wisconsin state employees will receive $780,000 after previously being denied healthcare coverage for treatments such as sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. A jury awarded the damages this week.
Two transgender Wisconsin state employees will receive $780,000 after previously being denied healthcare coverage for treatments such as sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. A jury awarded the damages this week.
Quoted: The swipes underscore the fact that “the public is not enamored of Washington at the moment,” said political scientist Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Foxconn Technology Group on Tuesday said it has bought a three-story, 46,000-square-foot office building in downtown Racine and will turn the structure into yet another of what the company is calling its innovation centers.
The next Science on Tap in Minocqua is set for Wednesday(10/3/18) in Minocqua.
For seven years, the Wisconsin Science Festival has been engaging communities of all ages to learn and discover scientific theories and principles in Wisconsin. Now in it’s eighth year, the festival hopes to bring even more knowledge, creativity, innovation to our local residents by taking educational science events to Capitol Square and all around Wisconsin.
Walker accepted accuracy of recent polls, but recalled Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s 2016 reelection victory.
In March 2018, the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, which serves 8,600 students, proposed axing all of its humanities degrees in response to a $4.5 million deficit, an amount equal to 0.01 percent of the state’s financial commitment to Foxconn.
Ruling in a lawsuit brought by two UW-Madison employees who are transitioning to female, U.S. District Judge William Conley said the rule set by the state Group Insurance Board (GIB), which excludes coverage for gender transition-related care, violates a federal prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex under the federal Civil Rights Act.
A federal judge has ordered the state and its insurers to cover transgender employees’ transition surgeries.
Those are the uncomfortable questions that now confront Beverly A. Kopper, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. An investigation, the details of which were made public last week, concluded that Alan (Pete) Hill, Kopper’s husband, had sexually harassed women employed on the campus.
Ruling in a lawsuit brought by two UW-Madison employees who are transitioning to female, U.S. District Judge William Conley said the rule set by the state Group Insurance Board (GIB), which excludes coverage for gender transition-related care, violates a federal prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex under the federal Civil Rights Act.
Vukmir, a UW alumna, brands herself as a “mom of the cause.” As a mother of two and a nurse for over 25 years, Vukmir said she was always an activist in her own right, often fighting for things she believed.
“Until (cancer) hit really close to home and as close as possible, you never really grasp the full scope of how this disease can be devastating to a person and to their family and friends,” Gard said.
WARRENS, WI– – Cranberries should be plentiful and pretty cheap this time of year, but that may change in the future.
LeSandra Perkins admits she is skeptical that voting makes much of a difference. The system feels rigged to her.
Wisconsin college graduates who live and work in-state would be eligible for up to $5,000 in tax credits under a proposal Gov. Scott Walker released in more detail on Tuesday.
The ad released Tuesday features Walker talking to students in a classroom, where he touts his plan to continue a University of Wisconsin System tuition freeze for four more years.
Wisconsin’s flagship university remains one of the top public higher education institutions in the United States despite a slight drop compared to last year, according to a report released Monday.
In a surprising reversal, a Wisconsin board has voted to again offer insurance coverage to transgender state employees seeking hormone therapy and gender confirmation surgery.
Foxconn Technology Group continues to make its presence felt in the Wisconsin business community. The latest move: The Taiwanese contract manufacturer is forming a $100 million early-stage venture capital fund with three of the Badger State’s leading companies and organizations.
This week’s devastating floods in Madison — and the potential for more rain this weekend and beyond — underscores the vulnerability that record rainfall may pose on a populous strip of land that rests between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona.
On Aug. 22 the Group Insurance Board voted 5-4 to cover gender-affirming surgery for state employees. Wren Logan, a transgender woman and psychiatry resident at UW Health, who lobbied hard for the change, was there for the vote.
MADISON — For those keeping score, the only votes Thursday against budget requests the University of Wisconsin System will send to the state came from a Democrat and a Republican member of the Board of Regents running for high-profile political offices.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a pair of budget requests to state lawmakers, including a $1.9 billion capital budget request for building and renovation projects around the state.
The regents approved the request 16-1 on Thursday. The request seeks an additional $82.5 million in tax dollars to meet performance-based goals Republican legislators have imposed on the system.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a $1.96 billion construction and maintenance budget request.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved the System’s 2019-21 proposed operating and capital budgets on Thursday, with the only two dissenting votes coming from the two Regents running for political office.
Four projects would be funded by increases in student fees, including a new field house and soccer facility at UW-La Crosse; a new UW-Madison natatorium and recreational center; and a new UW-Stevens Point student health center.
“I’ve been waiting so long,” said Rowan Calyx, 46, a transgender man who works at UW-Madison and has an appointment with a UW doctor soon to discuss surgery. “Now that this is actually approved, I can go ahead and feel like this is going to go somewhere, instead of continuing to get disappointed over and over.”
WAUSAU – In the early 1970s, they were two long-haired guys with hippie tendencies and a shared craze for bikes.
State lawmakers are clashing in the wake of the new University of Wisconsin System budget proposal, disagreeing over the fundamental role of the university system.
The University of Wisconsin System will ask for a $107.5 million increase in state funding over the next two years, a sizable jump from its last funding request in 2016.
The request the UW System will put forward for $107.5 million in new state funding over the next two years — $82.5 million in “outcomes-based” funding and $25 million to expand programs mostly in STEM and high-demand fields — is framed around “university and statutorily required goals.”
System leaders released their 2019-2021 budget request Monday. The Board of Regents is scheduled to vote on the request Thursday during a meeting at UW-Madison. Approval would send the request on to Gov. Scott Walker’s office for consideration as he begins work on his executive budget.
The University of Wisconsin System is asking for $107 million more in state money, three-quarters of which would be outcome-based, rewarding or punishing campuses based on how well they meet performance metrics such as student access, progress toward degree completion, “workforce contributions” and operating efficiencies.
Quoted: “For us, that does create some challenges as far as how we pay for what we do,” Gow said. “We do have inflationary cost increases. I don’t know how realistic it is to continue that forever.”
UW System leaders won’t seek any tuition or student fee increases in the next state budget but will consider asking Gov. Scott Walker for an additional $107 million in state aid to help meet Republican-imposed performance goals and increase access to high-demand programs.
Quoted: “I think it’s a symptom of the legislative process becoming less participatory,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center. “We see more examples . of bills being sprung very quickly without members knowing they’re coming, without the public knowing, and hearings being announced very quickly without lots of notice.”
This month, chancellors at UW-Madison and five other UW campuses asked the board to restore the coverage, saying four Big Ten campuses offer it.
It has been nearly a decade since Governor Scott Walker—who grew up near Darien—and his fellow-Republicans began implementing their vision of conservative austerity and privatization in Wisconsin. The result has been a state more attractive to corporations, with a smaller middle class and deteriorating public infrastructure and institutions—from roads to the University of Wisconsin system to public schools.
The governor is calling for a new $5,000 credit over five years for college graduates who live and work in Wisconsin as a way to reduce college loan debt. He’s already called for extending a University of Wisconsin tuition freeze for four more years.
Evers, 66, has deep ties to the state. Born in the tiny town of Plymouth, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as a teacher, elementary and high school principal, superintendent and regional administrator before joining the state education department in 2001. He’s been state superintendent, an elected position, since 2009.
On Friday, OutReach — the organization putting on the Pride Parade — released a statement rescinding the invitation previously extended to the Madison Police Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department and Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney.
And Walker plans to continue the UW System tuition freeze for four more years. Evers, a member of the UW Board of Regents, said he would extend the freeze in his first budget if elected and cut two-year UW college tuition in half.
On the Republican side, Ryan has endorsed Bryan Steil, a former Ryan aide and University of Wisconsin regent. But Steil faces four other opponents for the seat, including Paul Nehlan — Ryan’s 2016 primary challenger, who has made a series of racist and anti-Semitic comments.
Steil is an attorney who has worked for a variety of manufacturers in the district. Since 2016, he’s also served as a member of the University of Wisconsin board of trustees, appointed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Democratic candidates for governor say millennials are critical in Tuesday’s election, but with many college-age voters’ leases ending the same day — candidates are working overtime to get students to the polls.
James Tinjum’s hands ache with blisters. His arms have peculiar tanlines.
Freezing tuition for in-state students at public colleges and universities is welcome help for Wisconsin families. But state leaders need to be realistic. Unless the state can provide better funding, too, the freeze will continue to harm schools.
Gov. Scott Walker says if re-elected to a third term, he’ll seek to extend the existing University of Wisconsin System tuition freeze for in-state undergraduate students for another four years.
Noted: Anti-abortion groups in Wisconsin and across the country were greatly aided in their efforts to chip away at access by the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, says Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at UW-Madison … Mike Wagner, a journalism professor at UW-Madison, might not go so far as to call it a mistake. But he does question whether ringing “a five-alarm bell about Roe v. Wade” is the Dems’ “best strategy.”
The University of Wisconsin at Madison is the largest and best known of Wisconsin’s 13 public universities, but over the past decade it has earned a reputation among some Wisconsinites for being expensive, liberal and hard to get into. The Wisconsin Alumni Association, equipped with a refurbished dairy van and gallons of ice cream, is trying to change that.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Wisconsin’s Amish and Old Order Mennonite, collectively known as Plain sect communities.
If you’ve heard it’s next to impossible for Wisconsin kids to get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison, here’s the scoop.
Three years ago, Rebecca M. Blank, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, wrote a blog post to the university community outlining, in detail, the workload of professors at a major research university.
If you’ve heard it’s next to impossible for Wisconsin kids to get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison, here’s the scoop.
Noted: The book, a blend of deep research and original reporting, is about Act 10 and right-to-work and legislative redistricting and voter ID. It’s about groups including the Koch Brothers, Bradley Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and the opportunistic politicians, including Scott Walker and Paul Ryan, who have done their bidding. It’s about how Wisconsin has led the nation in shedding members of the middle class, with its poverty rate reaching a 30-year high, its roads rated second-worst in the nation, and its flagship academy, the UW–Madison, falling from the list of the country’s top five research schools.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is one of nine Wisconsin campuses teaming up with the state’s top economic development agency to lure recent graduates back to Wisconsin.
Reisem is one of more than 500 cancer patients from Wisconsin who have had newly available genetic testing done on their tumors, which can lead doctors to use therapies that target specific mutations instead of standard chemotherapy. The initiative, started at the UW Carbone Cancer Center in 2015, is supported by $1 million in the current state budget.
