Another offering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this one on masculinity, is drawing fire from conservatives as an example of ideological excesses at the school.
Today, the UW’s flagship school in Madison has a $15 billion annual impact on Wisconsin’s economy and brings in $1 billion in research funding. Then as now, I was proud to carry on the tradition started more than a century ago by Van Hise and La Follette — that the university is intricately tied to the state. While today’s challenges differ in some ways from those that we tackled in my time as governor, I believe strongly that this collaborative approach remains the most effective way to solve them and ensure prosperity and health for the people of our state.
MADISON — A UW-Madison program that explores masculinity amounts to a declaration of war on men and the university should be punished in upcoming budget deliberations, a Republican legislator said Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin funding: (Gov.) Walker has said his budget will not cut UW funding, and has suggested the UW System could see an increase tied to performance-based metrics. (Senate Majority Leader) Fitzgerald said each two-year budget cycle should be reviewed independently. Campus carry: Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, has said he plans to reintroduce legislation to allow concealed weapons to be carried on college campuses. University of Wisconsin-Madison students opposed to the idea have promised to protest it by carrying sex toys on campus. “That’s a good example of a bill that probably, you may have to make changes to it to get the support, but certainly I think we’ll take a look at that and probably tackle it earlier rather than later if we look at that,” Fitzgerald said.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald outlined their priorities for the upcoming 2017-18 session … The GOP now controls the executive and legislative branches of state and federal government for the first time in nearly five decades, and Republicans now hold near-unprecedented majorities in the Capitol, with a 64-35 seat majority in the Assembly — the largest since 1957 — and 20-13 in the Senate — the biggest since 1971 … But the two also were notably apart on key issues like how to fund school districts and the University of Wisconsin System for the two years starting July 1 and the possibility of medical marijuana being legalized in Wisconsin … Vos’ pledge for more transparency and to find broad public support for legislation came when asked by reporters on Tuesday whether he supports controversial legislation that would allow concealed carry permit holders to bring weapons to college campuses. “I think it’s incumbent upon the legislators who have an idea to spread across the state, find people to support it, get groundswells of support to bring an idea here, not just convince a bunch of people in our caucus to pass a bill without making sure the public is where we are,” said Vos on Tuesday. Fitzgerald said GOP senators would “take a look at” campus carry legislation but was noncommittal about its odds of passage. Vos said he’s open to the idea, but that the caucus hasn’t discussed it.
The leader of the Wisconsin State Assembly is temporarily pumping the brakes on a proposal that would allow people to carry guns on on college campuses in the state.
Capio Biosciences has developed technology that can identify cancer cells in the bloodstream, said co-founder and president Seungpyo Hong … Hong joined the UW-Madison faculty this week as a professor of pharmaceutical sciences; he had been at the University of Illinois-Chicago campus.
There’s nothing unusual about a planned UW-Madison class, “The Problem with Whiteness,” that so offended Republican lawmakers that they want the class cancelled, said the editor of a national higher education news website.
Megan Casey, 19, was traveling home on a private, two-engine plane following a Cleveland Cavaliers basketball game, according to a UW-Madison news release. The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for the plane, which is suspected to have crashed shortly after takeoff.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman and her father were among six people aboard a plane that disappeared over Lake Erie as the group was returning from a Cleveland Cavaliers game, the school said Monday as search crews continue to hunt for the aircraft.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman is one of the six people missing after a private plane crashed in Lake Erie near Cleveland last week, according to a release from UW.
Former UWPD chief Susan Riseling ordered the review after the April 14th arrest of Denzel McDonald. McDonald was arrested on 11 criminal counts of graffiti and one count of disorderly conduct for threatening a bystander.
Hanns Kuttner loves “It’s a Small World stories, and last September he shared one with Madison philanthropist Jerry Frautschi.
“The concern was that the excavation may have compromised the structure of the holy place,” said Dante Fratta, the UW-Madison associate engineering professor who joined a team to help maintain the site.
UW-Madison police will not participate in federal immigration operations, campus officials told students, as they look to reassure those who are concerned that the election of Donald Trump could lead to the wave of deportations he promised during the presidential campaign.
Late next month, the brainchild of a team of UW-Madison students will be loaded into a trailer and driven across country to a site south of Los Angeles, home to the headquarters of tech titan Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX.
Nine years ago this month, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was awarded its largest single federal grant ever: $125 million to launch a bioenergy research center. Now, bioenergy researchers at UW and their partners at Michigan State University are watching closely to see what the future holds for them under President-elect Donald Trump and his nominee for Energy secretary, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which tracks campus speech policies at colleges and universities across the country and criticizes efforts to limit First Amendment rights, said the statements this week from state Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, and Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, threaten academic freedom.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, long one of the nation’s most highly regarded research institutions, is a little less well-regarded these days. For the first time in 44 years, UW-Madison fell out of the top five U.S. research universities.
Turning up the heat on the long-smoldering relationship between state lawmakers and the University of Wisconsin System, leading Republicans are threatening to pull any hope of more state funding unless a new course at UW-Madison called “The Problem of Whiteness” is canceled.
Walker also said he won’t cut funding to the University of Wisconsin System in his next budget, but he may try to reduce tuition. And he rejected a Republican lawmaker’s suggestion that the state withhold funding from UW-Madison if it doesn’t drop a course on race relations called “The Problem of Whiteness.”
Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that a University of Wisconsin-Madison class titled “The Problem is Whiteness” is “goofy” and “unusual,” but he stopped short of saying offering it should put UW’s funding in jeopardy.
The University of Wisconsin Madison is being called on by two state lawmakers to cancel a course planned for next semester titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”
State legislators are taking issue with a new race relations course called “The Problem of Whiteness” being offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison next semester.
Wisconsin legislators have come out strongly against a UW-Madison class called “The Problem of Whiteness,” suggesting it may impact the university’s upcoming budget if administrators don’t take action.
A Republican lawmaker called for UW-Madison to cancel a planned course on racism and fire its professor for posting tweets the legislator said condoned violence against police officers, warning Tuesday that the class could affect the university’s funding in the next state budget.
Two Wisconsin Republican legislators have threatened to withhold state funds from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in relation to a planned course on racism called The Problem of Whiteness. State Representative Dave Murphy has also called on the university to fire the professor in charge of the course over his tweets, saying that some condone violence against police officers.
Even as it was losing its stature as one of America’s top five research schools, the University of Wisconsin-Madison had begun lobbying aggressively for state funding to attract more of the kind of high-caliber faculty who drive the nation’s greatest research institutions.
A retired astronaut famous for his role in the 1970 Apollo 13 mission headlined UW-Madison’s winter commencement ceremony for graduates Sunday morning.
Astronaut James Lovell returns to Madison to speak at UW-Madison’s winter commencement.
UW Madison students are looking ahead to a new chapter, after getting their diplomas Sunday. More than 1,000 students gathered at the Kohl Center bright and early for winter commencement, receiving their diplomas, and getting the once in a lifetime opportunity to hear Wisconsin astronaut and UW Madison Alum, James Lovell speak.
Jim Lovell brought a love of model rocketry, the rank of Eagle Scout, few finances and hopes of becoming a pilot when he came to UW-Madison in the fall of 1946 for the start of his freshman year.
A $100 million vision that nationally known Milwaukee money manager Albert “Ab” Nicholas and his college sweetheart wife Nancy put forward more than a year ago has been realized four months after his death.
UW-Madison ranked third in the nation in 2015 for the number of Ph.D. degrees awarded, according to a federal survey.
Investment in the University of Wisconsin is paramount for the state’s institutions of higher learning maintain their quality of education, the chancellor of the state’s flagship university told a lunch-time gathering in Wisconsin Dells Tuesday.
In an effort to address alarming statistics both nationwide and across state campuses, the University of Wisconsin System will soon offer sexual violence training for all employees and students.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System officials Thursday approved raising tuition for out-of-state, graduate and professional school students by hundreds of dollars at more than a half-dozen campuses as they grapple with a Republican-imposed freeze on in-state undergraduate tuition.
University of Wisconsin System leaders have approved asking legislators for an additional $78 million to bulk up employee raises over the next two years.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday will consider adding stronger language to a policy that faculty members already believe takes power out of their hands, and concentrates it in the hands of campus administrators.
Maybe you’ve heard someone say, “My wife has cancer, and her treatment isn’t working.” Or, “I need equipment that performs better in my plant and saves me time and money.” “My child has autism, and I need better ways to help him.”
Earlier this year a prominent Republican business executive said to me that even as a conservative he recognized it was time to once again invest in the University of Wisconsin.
Earlier this year, the Badgerloop team, a group of more than 100 undergrad students at UW Madison, won third place in the world, beating out nearly 1,200 other teams, in a design competition put on by SpaceX. The technology company asked students around the world to bring their Hyperloop travel concept to life.
Six University of Wisconsin campuses — including UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee — will seek permission Thursday from the Board of Regents to raise tuition for nonresident undergraduates and some graduate and professional programs.
Anyone interested in catching a glimpse of what entrepreneurs say could be the future of mass transportation should head over to the Discovery Building at 330 N. Orchard St. tonight.
Employees and new students throughout the University of Wisconsin System will soon have to take part in mandatory training on preventing sexual assault and harassment.
UW-Madison student activist Deshawn McKinney has been named a winner of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, awarded to 40 American students each year to attend graduate school in any field in the United Kingdom.
University of Wisconsin System officials are poised to raise out-of-state and graduate tuition rates again to help offset Gov. Scott Walker’s resident undergraduate tuition freeze and give their employees raises for the next two years.
University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will consider two years of 2 percent raises for UW System employees at its meeting Thursday. The increases are an effort reduce the faculty turnover rate.
University of Wisconsin System became among the first in the nation to recommend a systemwide sexual violence and harassment training for all employees and students Monday.
During the last school year, student activists calling for changes to improve the experiences of minorities at UW-Madison disrupted the University of Wisconsin System’s governing board to get their message out and covered the statue of Abraham Lincoln on Bascom Hill with a list of demands for change.
Out-of-state students at UW-Madison would see their tuition bills rise by $4,000 over the next two years, while costs for the university’s business, medical and other professional schools could rise by about 10 percent or more annually, under a plan officials announced Monday.
Jo Handelsman describes herself as a “changemaker.” Judging from her dossier, the incoming director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is not wrong.
The simmering frustration from in both rural and urban areas has boiled over. This turbulence, whether evident through community demonstrations or election results, conveys an urgent message of discontent rooted in social and economic inequities that result in health disparities.
Leaders of two U-W System schools, including U-W Oshkosh, hope lawmakers will consider the benefits of increased funding for the system. Last budget cycle, the U-W System had to cut spending by $250-million. U-W-O Chancellor Andrew Leavitt and U-W Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank say they’ve made the cutbacks work. But they say the time has come to look at state funding of higher education as an investment for the state.
Near the edge of the Standing Rock camp in North Dakota, about 50 yards from a tributary of the Missouri River, there’s a basketball hoop. It’s one of those worn-out outdoor hoops that leans forward a little bit, almost as if the wind had bent it.
UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and UW Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt met with officials and alumni on Wednesday to discuss the Wisconsin state budget and its role in public higher education.
Chancellors within the UW System are expressing concerns over the upcoming budget. They’re asking state legislators for more money after years of seeing cuts.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross made the case Tuesday for more funding at a higher education forum on the UW-La Crosse campus.
For the first time since records have been kept, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has fallen out of the nation’s top five universities in terms of dollars spent on research and development.
The news that the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s ranking for research activity dropped from fourth to sixth in the nation is just jaw-dropping.
