A University of Wisconsin computer technician who claimed she lost an opportunity for a permanent job for speaking out about conditions for limited-term employees (LTE) will receive $145,000 to settle her First Amendment lawsuit against the Board of Regents.
Assistant Attorney General Michael Bauer said Monday that instead of going to trial last week, the state reached a tentative agreement with Wanda Ashman, who has a permanent part-time job with the UW-Madison College of Letters and Sciences.
Dane County prosecutors said today they will retry Ralph Armstrong, whose conviction for the 1980 rape and murder of University of Wisconsin student Charise Kamps was overturned last year by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said today that “after analyzing all the evidence in the case,” he has decided to prosecute the case again. Under terms of the high court decision, the state had the choice of going to trial again or of dropping the case altogether.
Five hundred dollars doesn’t buy what it used to.
In fact, when dealing with the University of Wisconsin athletic department nowadays, $500 can get you virtually nothing.
Wisconsin has the lowest rates of HIV in the nation, but that shouldn’t lull us into a false sense of security about the virus and the disease it causes.
AIDS remains the world’s No. 1 infectious disease, killing 3.1 million people each year. By the beginning of this year, an estimated 38.6 million people in the world were living with HIV infections or were ill with AIDS.
Half a million Americans have died of AIDS since 1981. There’s no cure, and an effective vaccine is at least a decade or more away, say UW-Madison researchers. This makes it even more imperative that people adopt protective behaviors.
The collaborative approach to expanded educational offerings has become a model for Wisconsin educators who are considering launching a university center in Waukesha County.
Five Big Ten schools, including Purdue, are searching for chief information officers, a position one University official said is difficult to fill.
Steve Tally, spokesman for Information Technology at Purdue, said this position is fairly new and Purdue hired its first and current CIO, James Bottum, in 2001.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Resident students in the University of Wisconsin System would see a 6.8 percent tuition increase next fall under UW System recommendation released Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin System continues to struggle with its public image.
Personnel scandals have rocked the Madison and Whitewater campuses. The UW System Board of Regents has been unable to make peace with an angry gang of legislators who will declare war at the hint of any problem.
The line between persuasion and strong-arming might be a thin one, but it appears a couple of University of Wisconsin System officials were on the wrong side of it.
My 13-year-old daughter put it succinctly in regard to the University of Wisconsin System admitting students based on their ethnic background, not their academic expertise. (Second item.)
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.739-billion as of May 11 (increase of $9.6-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
Police are doubtful that five men arrested after allegedly battering a man leaving a bar early Sunday are the same people who carried out a string of downtown batteries in recent weeks.
“It’s a completely different MO (mode of operation) than the other incidents,” police spokesman Mike Hanson said.
The 21-year-old victim in Sunday’s incident told police he was leaving Brothers bar, 704 University Ave., at about 3:30 a.m. when several men in a car began yelling obscenities at him.
Since today is also a day to honor surviving veterans, it’s a good day to celebrate a bill that makes college education free for qualifying veterans in Wisconsin.
Senate Bill 613 expands the “Wisconsin G. I. Bill” program. Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to sign the bill, which overwhelmingly passed the state Legislature this spring.
Maybe it’s Bucky Badger or the lakes, State Street or Picnic Point.There’s something about Madison that brings people back here to live – or, at least, makes them think about it.
Different methods of tracking Gov. Jim Doyle’s effort to reduce the state’s work force by 10,000 employees over eight years have produced conflicting views of his progress.
Though the governor is less than halfway to his goal as he nears the four-year mark, Doyle administration officials say the state is on track to meet the Doyle campaign pledge and warn against reducing the work force too quickly.
An effort to make University of Wisconsin System campuses more accessible to low-income and minority students is in danger of becoming a political campaign issue.
The UW System’s goal is to increase diversity on their campuses by looking at non-academic factors like extra-curricular activities, economic background and race on a student’s application — not just grades and test scores
MADISON, Wis. – New University of Wisconsin campus admissions policies will put more emphasis on applicants’ personal essays as a way to give more weight to nonacademic factors such as race and life experience, admissions directors said Wednesday.
The leader of a task force studying higher education reform options in the region said Tuesday that the group would not recommend a hotly debated merger of the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha and UW-Milwaukee.
MADISON, Wis. — For years, the city has said there is a problem with violence and alcohol in downtown Madison.
In fact, violence at bar time has increased 24 percent since 1995, WISC-TV reported.
News 3 took an in depth look at the problem with a special team of police who are on the front lines every night.
MADISON, Wis. — Local authorities are getting high tech to catch underage drinkers before they make it to a bar.
Madison’s new bar czar has been working for months to develop a comprehensive plan to deal with the violence and alcohol problems that happen.
His first target is underage drinkers.
Nicole Belinda Franzen Reese, 23, of Jefferson, was chosen late Friday as the state’s 59th Alice in Dairyland. The program was held at the Country Inn & Suites.
Reese, who was raised on a mid-size dairy farm in her native Sheboygan Falls, graduated last weekend from UW-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural education.
The University of Virginia will announce a $3 billion fund-raising drive in the fall. New York University is in the middle of a $2.5 billion campaign. And officials at Columbia University say they are moving ahead with plans for the largest university campaign so far, a push to raise $4 billion over seven years.
Dear Editor: I do not know whether this has been proposed to head off many of the downtown/campus attacks, but restoring Women’s Transit Authority seems a fitting part of the solution.
WAUSAU, Wis. – University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly said Thursday that a personnel shake-up, including the replacement of his top lobbyist at the Capitol, was needed to improve communications with the Legislature and taxpayers.
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly disclosed plans on Wednesday for a personnel shake-up aimed at improving the system’s relationship with lawmakers and the public.
The University of Wisconsin System announced Wednesday the departure of three of its top communications officials, framing the shake-up as an opportunity to improve public relations.
The Alcohol License Review Committee voted unanimously to renew Club Majestic’s liquor license.
It’s a club that’s been taking the heat for crime near the Capitol.
Melany Stinson Newby, top lawyer to three University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellors, will depart at the end of the month.
Stephen Lund, associate director of human resources, confirmed this morning that Newby submitted her resignation on Thursday in order to retire on July 31. Her last day of work will be May 31, and she will be on unpaid leave until her retirement, said Amy Toburen, a university spokeswoman.
Charles Hoornstra, an assistant attorney general, will replace her on an interim basis.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced $5 million in private donations Tuesday from Harley-Davidson Inc., Marshall & Ilsley Corp., Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., Wisconsin Energy Corp. and the dean of the university’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare.
SCOTT HAROLD SOUTHWORTH: When Chancellor John Wiley of UW-Madison recently expressed his concern with the constitutionality of funding the Catholic student organization with student fees, he sparked an interesting debate.
As with most complex issues or organizations, it’s possible to look at the same facts and characterize them in dramatically different ways. It all depends on what you focus on and what you leave out.
A “new” technology that has actually been around for 60 years is being used for applications from airline baggage checks to food products to consumer goods and even human beings.
University of Wisconsin Madison Administrator Paul Barrows has been wrongly accused.
The University of Wisconsin System has put its conversion to a new payroll system on hold after suffering years of difficulties and spending $26-million on it.
The UW-Madison Odyssey Project will hold a fundraiser Thursday to celebrate its third year.
The program is an intensive, nine-month course in the humanities aimed at low-income Madison residents. Graduates of the two-semester course receive six UW-Madison credits and are encouraged to seek higher education.
There are five different reports of either robbery or battery in the last week.
All of them happened near the UW campus last Thursday and Friday nights and they’re all similar in nature.
Dear Editor: I applaud “Sara” and her family for speaking up (“Student slams UW handling of rape charges,” May 6). Acquaintance rape is all too common on college campuses. It is our responsibility to come up with better ways to handle relationship violence issues.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison had no right to deny administrator Paul Barrows a $150,000-per-year consultant job once he accepted it and turned down an outside offer, Barrows contends in a new claim for damages.According to the claim submitted Thursday with the Wisconsin Claims Board, Barrows says he turned down a position with Hunter College in New York paying $150,000 per year because Chancellor John Wiley offered him a consultant position at that same salary.
Starting July 1, Ken Davis Jr. will be the first dean at UW- Madison to have his entire salary paid by a private donation.
The largest single reduction of a property assessment sought this year in Madison comes from the UW Medical Foundation, which, according to records, wants to drop the appraisal of a clinic by $7.5 million.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police say they will step up patrols in downtown Madison starting Thursday night.
MADISON – On Christmas Eve 1996, Christopher Ochoa pressed a razor blade to his forearm inside his Texas prison cell.
Ochoa was serving life for a murder he didn’t commit and was ready to end it all.
A United Nations official and a local cooking legend will be the speakers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison commencement ceremonies this weekend.
Florence Chenoweth, director of the Food and Agriculture Organization liaison office to the United Nations, will speak at the Saturday ceremonies. Odessa Piper, former proprietor and chef of Madison’s L’Etoile restaurant, will speak at the two Sunday ceremonies. Both women are UW-Madison graduates and will receive honorary degrees at Friday’s ceremony.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are committed to ending a rash of violent muggings in the downtown area in recent weeks, analyzing the data that they’ve collected so far and stepping up their presence on city streets.
The Paul Barrows case has exposed problems with how the University of Wisconsin handles disciplinary matters, several educators and state leaders say.
An appeals committee on Monday slammed the UW-Madison for its handling of sexual harassment and sick leave abuse allegations against the former vice chancellor for student affairs.
James Klauser, who was a member of the Board of Regents until 2003, said in an interview today that the Barrows case has turned into a “imbroglio” that shows the university has no competent system for handling charges of misconduct.
An appeals committee slams the University of Wisconsin-Madison for its handling of sexual harassment and sick leave abuse allegations against a former top administrator.
The Academic Staff Appeals Committee today (Monday) released its report on the discipline late last year of Paul Barrows, the former vice chancellor for student affairs. The committee wrote that Peter Spear, who was provost at the time, should not have disciplined Barrows for allegedly sexually harassing two women, nor should he have been disciplined and for taking five months’ sick leave.
UW-Madison students are also bringing it up, said Lori Berquam, interim dean of students. A number of the victims have been university students.
She and her staff have been meeting with students in small groups – such as fraternities, service groups and government groups – to remind them to travel safely at night and to urge them to report the crimes.
After a yearlong search, U.S. postal officials have not yet come up with a place to house the University Station Post Office, which will close at the end of business Saturday.
That means those who use the University Station, in the soon-to-be-demolished University Square, will have to make the mile-long trek up State Street and across the Square to use the Capitol Station Post Office, located in the Madison Municipal Building at 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Some of UW-Madison’s most successful graduates were to be honored Friday by the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
The University of Wisconsin at Whitewater is under pressure from state Republican lawmakers who have demanded the dismissal of one of its former deans, the second prominent African-American official at the university to have been demoted in the past six months for allegedly misusing university funds for personal expenses.
If Wisconsin is to keep its university system affordable, the state must control not only tuition but also student fees.
The dedication of the Chemistry Research Tower on the UW-Madison campus today and Saturday is a fitting tribute to former chancellor Irving Shain.
Take a deep breath and meditate on this — you can learn to be happy.UW-Madison professor Richard Davidson came to this intriguing conclusion and others after years of study, including evaluating the effects of meditation on the brains of Tibetan monk
The department of chemistry is one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s jewels, and so it was fitting Friday that the new chemistry building on campus was dedicated in honor of the man who did so much to build the department Irving Shain.
Shain, who led the department in the late ’60s and then went on to become chancellor of the UW’s Madison campus from 1977 to 1986, was feted Friday not only by Gov. Jim Doyle, naming the shiny new tower at the corner of Johnson and Charter streets for him, but by a scholarly chemistry faculty symposium and a School of Music concert that thanked him for his support throughout his years on campus.
MADISON, Wis. — The University Square Mall has been a fixture on campus for years, but it’s scheduled to be demolished next month.
That offers both good news and bad news for students. The bad news is that this is the last weekend you can see a movie at University Square Theater — and you can only eat or have a drink at other popular restaurants for another week.
On the upside, the demolition will make room for
At age 22, Leslie Shear was petrified to tell her parents she was gay. After all, they hadn’t reacted well when her brother came out.
“First my parents denied. Then they cried. Then they pried,” the UW Law School assistant professor told a crowd of about 100 during a town hall meeting of Madison’s Jewish community Thursday night at Temple Beth El on the city’s near west side. Oh, and then they sent her to a psychiatrist.
Dear Editor: Why isn’t someone protesting the proposed demolition of the A.W. Peterson Building and Humanities Building on the UW campus? Why isn’t the campus itself, the American Institute of Architects, the Wisconsin Historic Preservation Committee, the city and state being thorough? I just learned about these proposed demolitions at the Triangle Badgers Founders Day Dinner recently….
Manisha Kapil
UW Class of 1983
Raleigh, N.C.
Take a deep breath and meditate on this — you can learn to be happy.
UW-Madison professor Richard Davidson came to this intriguing conclusion and others after years of study, including evaluating the effects of meditation on the brains of Tibetan monks.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Information technology managers in healthcare received a heavy dose of reality about IT integration in their field during the opening session of WTN Media’s Digital Healthcare Conference.
The conference, which is being held May 3 and 4 at the Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, featured an opening panel discussion in which there was very little self-congratulation about how far the industry has come with information systems.
