State Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa is trying to revive three measures that she says would help Hispanic and Latino residents in Wisconsin and improve community safety.
A new state audit shows there are still concerns about the security of the University of Wisconsin?s payroll and benefits system. The report from the Legislative Audit Bureau says the system implemented in 2011 remains at risk for security breaches, which could result in unauthorized payments being made.
MADISON, Wisconsin ? The University of Wisconsin System hasn?t done enough to improve security for its payroll and benefits system, putting it at risk for breaches that could lead to unauthorized payments being made, an audit released Tuesday said.
Supporters, including UW-Madison students who have long pushed for the ?good Samaritan? legislation, say it will make young people more likely to call 911 for someone who needs medical care, rather than avoiding authorities because they fear costly underage drinking tickets.
In January, the state of Wisconsin launched a new website with a searchable database that lets the public see what state government spends on goods, services and other operating costs.
Giancarlo Tello paid $14,000 more than other New Jersey high school graduates to attend Rutgers University, the state?s flagship public college. Why the difference? Tello spent much of his childhood in the U.S. without legal permission after his parents moved from Peru when he was 6.
Wisconsin is inching forward to provide a unique solution to its roughly 753,000 graduates who come out of college with a degree and thousands of dollars in student loan debt.
Last year, when the tuition freeze was announced by Gov. Scott Walker in La Crosse, like most students, I was excited. … But diving deeper into the numbers, students have to take this freeze with a grain of salt.
Three existing UW-Madison buildings that would violate height restrictions in the expanded zone ? Van Hise Hall, the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science Building, and the Engineering Research Building ? would be grandfathered under the proposal.
The new formula still uses the achievement and achievement gap score categories. But it would use a method of calculating student growth developed at UW-Madison, known as ?value-added,? which seeks to evaluate school performance while accounting for student demographics.
?Research suggests that supply-side economics ? where a tax cut actually generates more revenue ? doesn?t really hold true,? said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
One accomplishment Gov. Scott Walker claimed Jan. 22, 2014 in his State of the State speech is of particular interest to students attending college in the University of Wisconsin System.
Wisconsin farmers earned an estimated $3.75 billion last year, their second most profitable ever, thanks in large part to strong dairy and livestock sales, University of Wisconsin economists reported Wednesday.
New leadership in the University of Wisconsin System ? UW Colleges and Extension Chancellor Ray Cross recently was named system president ? brings with it an opportunity to forge a new relationship with not only the state Legislature but the people of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin farmers earned about $3.75 billion in profit last year, coming close to the record $3.8 billion earned in 2011.
Wisconsin?s finances are more than $900 million stronger through mid-2015 than previously expected, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Thursday.
In one program for aspiring Wisconsin criminologists at an Indianapolis-based online college, 16 students started classes in 2012. A year later, just one was still enrolled. A program for would-be Wisconsin chefs hosted by a Minnesota online college began with 34 students. A year later, it had dwindled to a class of four.
Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, reintroduced a bill this month to remove the prayer exception. That would help clarify that the state won?t permit parents to let children die through faith healing, said Alta Charo, a UW-Madison bioethicist.
There is an opening on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents for a non-traditional student representative.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has persuaded the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Madison to remove Gideon Bibles from its 137 guest rooms.
The new president of the University of Wisconsin system discuss his priorities for the job, and the challenges he expects to face.
Strong returns for the Wisconsin Retirement System trust funds mean retired public employees will finally get an increase in their pensions, for the first time in six years for many.
Its a sign of the times that the first stop for the new University of Wisconsin System president after a news conference Friday was the state Capitol to meet with lawmakers.
Ray Cross, the incoming president of the University of Wisconsin System, used his introductory press conference to challenge the UW to listen more.
New UW System President Raymond Cross began his work at a place laden with political land mines in the past for some top university educators: the State Capitol.
Ray Cross, who will ascend to the post of UW System president in February, was a newcomer to Wisconsin when he arrived here in 2011 to head up the UW Colleges, which share an administration with the UW-Extension, the network of county-level offices that provide agricultural and other community programs. He struck many people in the state as hard-working, and he developed a reputation for being hands-on.
When Rebecca Blank arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison last summer, she became chancellor of one of the largest academic research universities in the world, but one that has an uneven track record for commercializing that work.
Charter school advocates are pushing for a major change to Wisconsin?s education laws, with a plan aimed at helping charter schools expand statewide.
MADISON ? Ray Cross, the only internal candidate out of three finalists, was chosen Thursday to lead the University of Wisconsin System.
The finalists vying to become the University of Wisconsin System?s next president made their final hiring pitches to faculty Monday, pledging to try to repair the system?s tattered relationship with Republican lawmakers who hold the system?s state purse-strings.
Two issues shadow the process of choosing who will next lead the University of Wisconsin System ? a process that reaches its crescendo this week. The first is how partisan politics increasingly seeps into statewide decisions that until now were fairly apolitical. The second is the degree of openness in the selection process, and whether it helps or hurts.
The state has launched a website that makes it easier to see where government agencies are spending money, though it?s not without holes.
Quoted: “It has no taste. It?s only purpose is to impair people quickly,” said Julia Sherman, coordinator of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “We don?t need it on the shelves.”
State employees have been awarded nearly $14 million in bonuses and merit raises this year, more than twice what they got last year.
Transparency. It?s a word Republican legislators in Madison used often and at high volume earlier this year when criticizing the University of Wisconsin System because of its reserve funds.
Administrators of Edvest, Wisconsin?s college savings program, are reminding parents of the end-of-year deadline to contribute to their children?s accounts.
A bill in the legislature would change how UW campuses buy food, putting more emphasis on price and increasing flexibility to buy from local vendors.
Five groups of unionized state workers that negotiated their pay raises with Gov. Scott Walker?s administration are poised to receive the same 1 percent raise that non-union workers got in July.
A Verona woman has appealed a Dane County judge?s ruling upholding a $250,000 malpractice cap against UW-Madison doctors in a case the judge urged the state Supreme Court to take.
Devinder Sandhu, an associate professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, gets a steady stream of job offers for at least $25,000 more in salary, and some of his peers are paid nearly double what he is.
The forum will include testimony from a number of experts, including two UW-Madison climate scientists ? Dan Vimont and Galen McKinley ? and other environmental experts, such as Michelle Miller, associate director of the UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, and David Liebel, a UW engineering professor who specializes in storm water systems.
Wisconsin farms this year generated the largest volume of manure spills since 2007, including an accident by the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s flagship research farm in Columbia County that produced a mile-long trail of animal waste.
Kevin Reilly, the outgoing president of the University of Wisconsin System, bid farewell to the UW Board of Regents on Friday morning.
Gov. Scott Walker encouraged efforts to increase University of Wisconsin System transparency Thursday, saying those initiatives would help the UW mend fences with the Legislature before the next budget cycle.
Top professors in the state?s two public doctoral universities are attracting significantly more job offers than a decade ago, and those universities are scrambling to pony up “market pay” to keep them from leaving and taking federal research dollars with them.
At 7 p.m., Tuesday, Wisconsin Environment, Family Farm Defenders, UW-Madison?s Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, the Madison Information Shop and the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project will host ?When a factory farm comes to town: The environmental and social costs of factory farming in Wisconsin.?
Since Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican Legislature enacted sweeping changes to collective bargaining and teacher compensation, the number of junior and senior undergraduates enrolled in state teacher-training programs appears to have dropped, state data show.
At the end of a long novel lies a special trip to UW-Madison for 11 Osseo-Fairchild High School seniors who will have an opportunity to meet the 2006 Nobel Prize-winning author who penned the book they have studied for the past three months.
When Natalie Hunt was a little girl, deer hunting was something the men did. Now 32, the UW-Madison Ph.D. candidate was preparing for her sixth deer hunt when the firearms season started Saturday. And this year she was going to bring along one of her roommates, Kelly Maynard, also 32, for her second foray.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature?s Audit Committee wants more information from the University of Wisconsin System before it will vote on its plan for how much money it will keep in reserves.
?This bill reforms government for the 21st century by providing a market-driven solution in helping startups raise the capital they need to grow and create jobs,? said Walker during the bill signing ceremony at University Research Park.
MADISON ? University of Wisconsin System officials planned to spend a large chunk of their 2012 reserves on several items including scholarships, construction projects and staff salaries, according to a state report.
It?s a common question, often voiced inside the Capitol and within Wisconsin?s business community: How can the University of Wisconsin System better align itself with the state?s economic future?
A geologist with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey who found himself in the middle of a controversy over a proposed open-pit mine in the north woods says he?s resigning after enduring weeks of on-the-job pressure over a rock containing asbestos-like material found at the mine site.
Investments made by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. in Rock County have resulted in 278 new jobs and the retention of nearly 1,200 others in the last two years. That?s according to a new, interactive map online developed in partnership with the UW-Whitewater and UW-Madison.
Nicolet College transfer students to UW-Madison will now have a way to finish their Nicolet Associate Degree.
Rebecca Blank, the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, isn?t afraid to concede that her institution hasn?t done a very good job of educating the people of our state about the positive impact of its flagship university.
It will be interesting to watch how legislative Republicans react to a recently introduced bill aimed at providing some relief to Wisconsin students saddled with large debt.
UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky also said that in Madison, more than a third of the break would go to owners of non-residential property. Weathy homeowners and those with vacation property also would benefit, he said.
Attorneys with the Criminal Appeals Project of the University of Wisconsin Law School argued in December that Forbes? conviction should be overturned or that he should get a new trial, saying in part that Forbes was not able to present a full defense.
