Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism checks at the UW System?s 13 four-year campuses turned up two additional sites ? UW-Stout and UW-Eau Claire ? at which officials also acknowledge using students arrested for drug activities to make controlled buys.
When Rebecca Blank moved into her corner Bascom Hall office last summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor also stepped into a state political environment rife with ill feelings and mistrust that, in recent years, had washed over onto campus affairs.
Noted: Lutz filed for duty disability in 2006, saying he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his physical injuries and past media coverage of his actions. In 2010, he got his law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and now does primarily criminal defense work. On his firm?s website, he notes that he worked in Chisholm?s office before going into private practice.
The researchers were led by Adrian Treves, a UW-Madison environmental studies associate professor who studies the interactions between humans and carnivores.
La Crosse, WI (WXOW) – Governor Scott Walker met with students today at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse to highlight the two year tuition freeze.
Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday promised to continue a tuition freeze at University of Wisconsin campuses and asked students to vote for him in the upcoming November election.
The state faces a nearly $1.8 billion structural deficit heading into the next biennial budget cycle, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Monday.
Declining state revenues are expected to push the state?s structural deficit to almost $1.8 billion for the 2015-17 biennium, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Monday.
Their views on education reveal deeper philosophical divides about the role of government, said Michael Apple, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studies educational policies. Walker strongly advocates for increasing funding for private education, such as schools in the voucher program, which is consistent with his belief in the need to limit the size and roll of government, Apple said. That approach worries public schools, Apple said … Burke?s proposed policies would be more favorable for public schools and the University of Wisconsin System, but she needs to do more to get the message out to voters, Apple said.
It took seven years but the national labor market is finally back to pre-recession employment levels of 2007, a UW-Madison nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank says. Wisconsin, though, has not kept up, says the UW-Madison Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS).
Wisconsin consumer protection officials are advising college students to be especially vigilant about protecting their private identity information.
Wisconsin tax collections for the past year came in 2 percent short of estimates, the state Department of Revenue reported Thursday, news that won?t require immediate emergency action by the Legislature but that puts the state?s budget on track to be out of balance next year.
MGE Energy has entered into a joint venture with Wisconsin Energy, Milwaukee, to consider bidding on power plant assets owned by the state. That could include the UW-Madison?s West Campus cogeneration plant, on Walnut Street, according to a document filed by the Madison utility company with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Democrats see problems for Governor Walker in the latest state revenue estimates. Revenues are off by $281 million for 2014, according to tax collection numbers released by the state Department of Revenue.
The latest numbers from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue show tax revenues lagged expectations by $281 million last fiscal year, sending the state?s two-year budget into a projected shortfall.
Noted: Officials confirmed the states first case of the worm last fall in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. Its been in the East and Southeast U.S. for 50 years.
The University of Wisconsin System?s Board of Regents has approved asking Gov. Scott Walker for $95 million in additional tax dollars in the next state budget.
The University of Wisconsin System?s Board of Regents has approved asking Gov. Scott Walker for $95 million in additional tax dollars in the next state budget.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? The University of Wisconsin System?s regents on Thursday approved asking Gov. Scott Walker for $95 million in additional tax dollars in the state?s next two-year budget after system President Ray Cross assured them the money would help boost the state?s economy.
MADISON (AP) ? The University of Wisconsin System?s regents on Thursday approved asking Gov. Scott Walker for $95 million in additional tax dollars in the state?s next two-year budget after system President Ray Cross assured them the money would help boost the state?s economy.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross says more resources are needed to transform the state?s higher education system into a bigger driver of the state?s economy, a request that comes at a time when Gov. Scott Walker says no new revenues will be available.
University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approves a request for an additional $95 million in the next two-year state budget.
New University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross plans to ask lawmakers for a $95 million funding increase in the next two-year budget cycle to pay for some new initiatives and continue others that he said will help power up the statewide system?s economic development engine.
The University of Wisconsin System would seek a $95.2 million boost in state funding for a new initiative to more closely align education and research with the economic needs of the state, under a biennial budget proposal from UW System President Ray Cross.
University of Wisconsin System officials want Gov. Scott Walker to give them an additional $95 million in tax dollars in the next state budget to fund a new plan to create jobs, boost graduation numbers and deal with a tuition freeze.
The UW Board of Regents could decide today whether to ask for another $95 million in the next two-year state budget.
Wisconsin retains its number two spot among states on the ACT college entrance exam.
Noted: In the GOP primary for the 43rd Assembly District, Leon Hebert trumped Herschel Brodkey, a 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student, by 46 votes.
Noted: Grothman, first elected to the Assembly in 1993 and the Senate in 2004, said he has been a productive member of the Legislature authoring numerous important bills. The University of Wisconsin Law School graduate stressed he would go to Congress seeking changes in entitlement eligibility he believes work against having strong, two-parent families and subsidize a certain kind of lifestyle.
Though local UW schools received fewer applications than last year, representatives of UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stout and UW-River Falls said those schools are on track to meet this year?s admissions goals.
Construction of two new dormitories at UW campuses in Eau Claire and Whitewater was scheduled to be done this year but hasn?t started, and a state representative is asking questions.
The legislation introduced Tuesday has support from the Medical College of Wisconsin and the medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The commercial will be directed by David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams.
The Wisconsin Hospital Association’s Nov. 2011 report, ?100 New Physicians a Year: An Imperative for Wisconsin,” called on the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin to graduate 100 more physicians each year, especially in primary care and in rural areas of Wisconsin.
The state Department of Tourism is going to be filming a commercial with University of Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan.
In Madison earlier this summer, the UW-Madison College of Engineering announced creation of a $25 million Grainger Institute for Engineering to attract clusters of top engineering faculty to define new research directions.
University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Steven Durlauf says the data are no surprise and confirm what unemployment and other figures have already shown — Wisconsin is recovering slower than its neighbors.
Lower government spending reduces demand for goods and services and can add to unemployment, said Steven Durlauf, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist.
Shortfalls in state funding meant that more than 41,000 Wisconsin students did not receive need-based financial aid for which they were eligible, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau reports.
The three candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin?s attorney general debated at the University of Wisconsin Law School on Tuesday.
Total applications for incoming freshmen increased by about 400 for Wisconsin residents from the previous year, the university announced Tuesday. In-state freshman enrollment is expected to hit about 3,700, down slightly from last year but still the second-highest it?s been since 2005. Total freshman enrollment won?t be released by the school until after classes begin.
The three candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in the race for attorney general meet for a debate in Madison. State Representative Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee), Jefferson County District Attorney Susan Happ, and Dane County D.A. Ismael Ozanne appeared Tuesday afternoon at the UW-Madison Law School, for a debate sponsored by Wispolitics.com and Madison radio station WORT.
Jefferson County District Attorney Susan Happ, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne and state Rep. Jon Richards of Milwaukee are scheduled to meet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s law school on Tuesday (at noon).
Noted: Dee had been an assistant district attorney for 14 years, concentratiing on child protection cases, according to his appointment announcment. He had also been an assistant city attorney in Kenosha and Madison, and worked in private practice. He obtained both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
No one knows yet how Walker?s administration will react to the court?s order, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and expert in voter ID laws who testified at the federal trial.
At UW-Madison, there are 21 full-time staff in the University Communications office, according to news and media relations director John Lucas, although they perform duties in addition to media relations, such as ?creating news stories about campus for internal and external audiences. ?I think there are generally more outreach roles on campus than there were a decade ago,? he said.
Sadly, as I enter my senior of college, I?m watching my current school, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, become Whitefish Bay High ? a great public school that promises success after graduation but whose access is determined less and less by a student?s hard work and innate ability and more than ever before by a student?s capacity to pay for school.
Two former UW Foundation executives are leading a new effort to create an osteopathic medical school in Jefferson after a separate group?s proposal fizzled.
As people age out of the workforce, state job growth will depend in part on young educated professionals staying in Wisconsin. However, many young graduates are leaving, joining a trend commonly referred to as the ?brain drain.?
MADISON ? A frequent University of Wisconsin System protester?s antics clearly crossed the line into harassment but an injunction banning him from UW property or contacting UW personnel is too broad and must be rewritten, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
UW-Madison paid out the most of any agency, approving 1,743 payments worth about $6 million. The average payment at UW-Madison represented about a 7.8 percent increase over the employee?s prior salary. Spokesman Bob Lavigna attributed the higher spending to the university?s large budget and said the school spent about the same percent of its budget on merit raises as Corrections did.
Noted: The three are identified as Alison Alter of Austin, Texas, her son Zack Suri, and a relative, Thomas Alter of Highland Park, Illinois. Alter is a former Madison resident whose husband, Jeremi Suri, was a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving to Austin. Alter had worked at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters as well as at the UW-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE).
The University of Wisconsin System cannot charge high school students taking courses offered in their schools for college credit, known as concurrent enrollment classes, the state?s attorney general says.
More controversial will be the possible sale of 32 heating and cooling plants, an idea that was previously debated and dropped. One of the plants is UW-Madison?s Charter Street facility. Is selling the plants and contracting for their operation a good deal for taxpayers in the long run? That will require more convincing.
Latino youth activists from around Wisconsin have re-launched their campaign for what they call ?tuition equity? in Wisconsin.
When Burke unveiled her jobs plan in March she made a point of saying that she would veto any legislation banning stem cell research ? which is vitally important at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the state Department of Natural Resources have started updating the state?s land cover map.
Madison ? Former Gov. Jim Doyle is teaching Harvard students this fall and may teach graduate students at Wisconsin?s flagship university next spring, his latest steps to ease back into public life.
The Walker administration has released a list of state assets it might consider selling, including state-owned power plants throughout Wisconsin.
While the record $1.2 trillion in student loan debt has attracted election-year calls for reform in Madison and Washington, D.C., Wisconsin is ending a program that has helped students like Toshia Spindler go to UW-La Crosse.
