University of Wisconsin-Madison officials defended academic standards for athletes following questions about whether they may have had something to do with the exit of head football coach Gary Andersen.
Wisconsin has the 17th best college football team in the nation, according to the latest Associated Press poll.
The number of underage drinking tickets given out by UW-Madison police rose about 50 percent this fall, officials say, driven by an effort from the department to crack down on dangerous drinking habits.
Barry Alvarez said Wednesday he was “very surprised” that football coach Gary Andersen had abruptly fled Wisconsin for Oregon State.
For just the second time in the last three years, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez will spend the holiday season looking for a new head football coach. He must also consider whether he’ll accept the seniors invitation to coach the Badgers in the New Years Day Outback Bowl after Gary Andersen said he’s leaving Wisconsin after just two seasons on the job.
For the second time in less than three years, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez is faced with finding a new head football coach and deciding whether to take on the role of interim head coach for a bowl game.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross said it’s time for a fresh look at how the statewide system does business, calling for an array of measures that would cut costs and could affect campus life.
A new UW-Madison performance center planned for the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue will be named in honor of alumnus George Hamel and his wife, Pamela Hamel.
University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross is proposing changes in three main areas in an effort to enhance quality and affordability.
A hotline could soon be in place to report waste, fraud or abuse by University of Wisconsin System employees or schools, separate from an existing hotline run by the state audit bureau.
A new anti-bullying policy at UW-Madison, the genesis for which was reported Monday by the Capital Times, is getting good reviews, according to a new post in Inside Higher Ed.
Hard data on bullying in academe are scant, especially in comparison to the robust research on the subject within the business world. But anecdotal data suggest bullying by academics is a problem; everyone seems to have a bullying story, or several, and a blog post on faculty jerks from an Australian academic went viral last year. At the same time, administrators’ attempts at making policies about or even encouraging civility are historically controversial. Most recently, Nicholas Dirks, chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, faced harsh faculty criticism over a memo on the importance of civility.
Derogatory remarks. Unwarranted physical contact. Sabotage of a colleague’s work. Use of threats or retaliation in the exercise of authority. Sounds like seriously bad behavior in the workplace, especially for faculty at Wisconsin’s flagship university. But Soyeon Shim, dean of the School of Human Ecology, says she has heard of many incidents fitting one or all of those behaviors at UW-Madison.
Neil Damron, a political science and economics major from Syracuse, New York, was a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship, and Rachel Dvorak, a biochemistry major from Rice Lake, was a finalist for the Marshall scholarship.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism student died over the weekend, the Daily Cardinal is reporting.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison vice chancellor says the university needs to do a better job of explaining how academic research benefits the state after the state Assembly speaker suggested changes might be needed.
Before there was “Jump Around,” there was “You’ve Said It All.”
That’s a sizable hole for Walker, who is contemplating a 2016 presidential run, to climb out of as he crafts his budget proposal due out early next year. Achieving a balanced budget will require scaling back program requests, especially if he wants to cut taxes further.
Budget requests from Wisconsin government agencies exceed expected state revenues in the next two-year budget cycle. Those numbers will be a starting point for Republican Governor Scott Walker and GOP legislators as they begin the task of putting together a state budget – one they hope will include a tax cut.
According to budget numbers released by the Walker administration on Thursday, the next state budget faces a $2.2 billion shortfall between what agencies want to spend and what the state is expected to generate in tax revenue.
It may be the timeliest — and most troubling — idea in climate science. Back in 2012, two researchers with a particular interest in the Arctic, Rutgers’ Jennifer Francis and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Stephen Vavrus, published a paper called “Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes.”
The donation of $100 million to support development of UW-Madison faculty was big, blazon-it-on-the-Camp-Randall-scoreboard news. But its long-term impact will be even bigger, say University of Wisconsin-Madison deans.
A gunman was fatally shot by police after opening fire in a library at Florida State University early Thursday, sending hundreds of students who’d been studying for final exams running for their lives and cowering behind bookshelves. Three students were found suffering gunshot wounds at the scene.
A group of Harvard students, frustrated by the university’s refusal to shed fossil fuel stocks from its investment portfolios, is looking beyond protests and resolutions to a new form of pressure: the courts.
Capitalism has created tremendous wealth and opportunity, but markets alone can’t solve social problems, says Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and former acting U.S. secretary of commerce. Here Blank makes the case that strong institutions can improve the functioning of markets and protect social goods.
In a word: Wow!
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received its largest ever gift from a single contribution. UW officials announced over the weekend that alumni John and Tashia Morgridge have agreed to donate $100 million to the state’s flagship campus.
UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank used the word “transformative” to describe the $100 Million gift to the University John and Tashia Morgridge made last week.
After a record-breaking weekend, Chancellor Rebecca Blank expressed excitement over both Melvin Gordon’s performance Saturday and the announcement of a $100 million donation to the university.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates have given the school $100 million, the largest gift from individual donors in the schools history.
After four consecutive bowl losses, including three in the Rose Bowl, a disappointing finish to Gary Andersens first season as Wisconsins coach and an ugly meltdown in the 2014 opener against LSU, UW fans pined for a signature victory.
This is why Melvin Gordon put the National Football League on hold and returned to Wisconsin for one final season.
Anyone interested (in) the use of animals in research at UW-Madison can now go to its animal research page and read about incidents involving the escape of 36 primates, deaths of three monkeys and burning of another that brought four citations this fall for failing to comply with USDA standards. But that’s only because of the work of an Ohio-based animal rights group with tactics that Eric Sandgren, director of UW’s Research Animal Resources Center, says are “inappropriate.”
University of Wisconsin tailback Melvin Gordon set a Football Bowl Subdivision single-game rushing record Saturday, rushing for 410 yards and four touchdowns in just his first three quarters of work as the Badgers jumped out to a 52-17 lead on Nebraska at Camp Randall Stadium.
Since taking over as UW-Madison chancellor in July 2013, Rebecca Blank has repeatedly stressed the need for significantly more money to attract and keep top professors and researchers. Saturday, the focus on faculty pay got a massive infusion of hope and dollars, with a $100 million gift announced from John and Tashia Morgridge.
The Wisconsin Badgers are in the driver’s seat and control their own destiny for a spot in the Big Ten title game and running back Melvin Gordon put himself in serious consideration for the Heisman Trophy.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $100 million donation, the largest single contribution in the university’s history.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Saturday a $100 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge, the largest single contribution from individual donors in the flagship’s history.
Philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge have given $100-million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, they announced Saturday.
Philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge have given $100-million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, they announced Saturday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Saturday a $100 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge, the largest single contribution from individual donors in the flagship’s history.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank doesn’t have much patience for talk about any academic rivalries between UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee. “We have to get past this whole discussion about competition between these two cities,” she said during a panel discussion at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, held Wednesday and Thursday at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin System’s regents are planning to approve in-state tuition rates for non-resident veterans and their families.
The day after last Tuesday’s election didn’t exactly inspire confidence for backers of the University of Wisconsin System and its request for a funding boost of $95 million in the next two-year cycle. Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, who’s co-chairman of the state’s budget committee, called the request a “tough sell. ”At the same news conference, Nygren’s colleague Robin Vos, R-Rochester, who’s speaker of the Assembly, said faculty should focus on research that would benefit the state’s economy, not the “ancient mating habits of whatever.” The remark was seen as condescending by many at UW-Madison, a research giant that brings $1.2 billion a year in federal funding to the state. The same day, a different effort got no headlines but could be significant: UW-Madison emailed all of its in-state alumni with a plea. “Right now, UW-Madison needs your voice more than ever,” the email said.
It may come as no surprise that state Republican leaders, in the flush of electoral victory, are targeting University of Wisconsin funding in the next legislative session. But the scorn for the university evident in Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ post-election remarks struck some observers.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank arrived in July 2013 amid an uproar at the Capitol over hundreds of millions in cash balances carried over by the state’s public universities without full disclosure, including sizable tuition balances that amassed alongside annual tuition hikes during a recession.
ROCKFORD — SwedishAmerican CEO, Doctor Bill Gorski is confident a new partnership with the University of Wisconsin Health Center will enhance his hospital’s ability to treat patients.
SwedishAmerican Health System based in Rockford, Ill. and UW Health based in Madison, Wis., have signed a definitive agreement to merge the organizations and make SwedishAmerican an integral part of UW Health.
ROCKFORD — SwedishAmerican Health System and UW Health have signed a merger agreement.
John Karl Scholz, dean of the College of Letters & Science, is launching a large new program to improve career planning and job outcomes for students in his college, by far the largest at the university with more than 16,000 undergraduates in 39 departments.
UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka has once again halted controversial flu research, this time in response to a White House request that researchers stop such work during a federal review of the risks and benefits.
The co-chairman of the Legislature’s powerful finance committee doesn’t sound too optimistic that the University of Wisconsin System will get the additional $95 million it wants in the next state budget.
Gov. Scott Walker is touring the state’s technical colleges rather than speak at a meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Gov. Scott Walker won his third governor’s race in four years Tuesday, giving him a second term to overhaul state government with fellow Republicans — and setting the stage for a possible presidential run.
The broad story of this year’s elections was the Republican wave that tipped control of the Senate. What does it all mean for academe? Here’s what you need to know about the results.
With victories in several key Senate races last night, Republicans will take control of both chambers of Congress heading into the final two years of the Obama presidency — a balance of power that sets up a much-changed dynamic for federal higher education policy making in the coming months.
Of the 36 gubernatorial elections being decided on Tuesday, three have special resonance for people in higher education.In each case, a Republican governor took a hard line on higher-ed spending; in each case, that governor now finds himself in electoral peril. Two high-profile incumbents, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, are fighting for re-election in races that are considered tossups.
Tree and grass will take precedence over bricks and mortar in the new master plan for the UW-Madison campus. Work is starting on the 2015 campus master plan, updating the 2005 plan in a once-every-decade project to guide future development on the 936-acre main campus.
Campus police issued 29 underage drinking citations over the weekend. They transported 13 people to detox facilities and took numerous others to area hospitals because the Tellurian Detoxification Center was full by early Saturday evening, said Marc Lovicott, a spokesman for UW police.
Lèse-majesté isn’t a concept that many Americans can pronounce, much less explain, but it’s a significant part of what brought Yukti Mukdawijitra back to the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a refugee scholar seven years after he earned his Ph.D. in anthropology there.
