As tuition rise at UW campuses in recent years, UW-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward says it?s important to realize times are changing. He tells regents this morning, when coming to Wisconsin in 1960, students covered 10 percent of the costs of their education. Today?s freshmen at UW System campuses can expect to pick up 50 percent.
The regents of the University of Wisconsin System will be considering a proposal to admit a higher percentage of out-of-state students.
After a long recommendations process, the proposal to redesign the University of Wisconsin?s human resources setup is beginning to make its way through the administrative approval process.
The University of Wisconsin?s Faculty Senate voted to accept the resolution for the Human Resources Design framework in a meeting Monday, meaning the HR restructuring plan will now move on to be addressed by the Board of Regents.
Dear Editor: My Lemond was stolen downtown and posted two days later on Craigslist. With the help of the police, I was able to get it back and get a few other bikes returned to their owners as well. I thought I?d add some details to Bill Novak?s story on bike theft since I think it is a story that is really relevant to a bike city like Madison. I?ve had lots of friends with bikes stolen, and this information ahead of time would probably have been helpful. My bike was stolen in the middle of the day, on campus near Humanities.
MADISON (WKOW) — The death of a pedestrian in a collision with a Madison Metro bus has spurred Metro officials to equip half a dozen buses with left-turn alarms, with plans to outfit Metro?s entire two hundred bus fleet with alarms, if the pilot project demonstrates more safety. In June 2011, UW-Madison librarian Maureen Grant was killed when hit by a bus turning left onto University Avenue as Grant legally entered a crosswalk. Officials determined the bus driver failed to compensate for a blind spot on the bus affecting left turns, and Grant did not see the turning bus in time.
Re ?How to Cut Prison Costs? (editorial, Nov. 10): I was taught in law school that prison sentences have two purposes: to ensure public safety and to punish the offender. For the past few decades, meeting those goals has meant long prison terms even for nonviolent offenders, leading to soaring incarceration rates.
MADISON, Wis.- Police want more information in an armed robbery on Langdon Street Monday that apparently happened inside someone?s apartment. The incident happened around 7:15 p.m. Monday in the 200 block of Langdon Street. According to police, officers responded to the apartment after a man and a woman inside the apartment said they were held at gunpoint by three men.
As Badger fans during the Thanksgiving season, let?s ask UW-Madison to give thanks for having Mike Leckrone for nearly 44 years as UW band director.
The Business Journal Top 25 lists this week include two that focus on education. The first is the largest in-state four-year colleges and universities, and this year we are also highlighting the largest two-year colleges based in this area. Based on enrollment going back to fall 2011 (the more recent fall semester is not always available for all institutions when the list is published), the No. 1 four-year institution in the state is the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A moped fire outside a residence near the UW-Madison campus is being investigated as an arson, the Madison Fire Department reported.
The old Gordon Commons has given way to the new, and a city street will need to be closed to bring the old eatery down. The old dining hall for UW-Madison dorm students on the southeast side of campus is being torn down, resulting in the closing of one side of the 200 block of North Lake Street from Nov. 19 through Dec. 14.
Charles Franklin conducted his first poll as a high school student in his hometown of Union Springs, Ala., studying the cartoon preferences of second-, fourth- and sixth-graders.
“I did discover that interviewing second-graders is harder than it seems,” he says of the long-ago science project.
Franklin, a UW-Madison political scientist, has sure come a long way in the polling business.
President Obama?s visit to the University of Wisconsin last month could prove costly.
The new Speaker of the State Assembly says UW?s decision to cancel classes for the President?s visit is something he will remember when they submit their budget request next year.
A free, widely available online math course being developed by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse could dramatically reduce the need for students to take remedial math when they start college and put them on a faster, less expensive track to graduation, the UW System announced this week.
A UW-Madison student group set up to support atheists and other nonbelievers stands poised to get more than $67,000 in funding next year, as reported today by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It would be the largest funding level for any such group nationally, according to the story.The group, Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics, or AHA, breaks down how the money would be spent in a Nov. 8 blog post. The biggest chunk, $30,000, would go toward salaries of eight paid staffers.
Four years ago, Chris Calvey arrived to his first meeting of a UW-Madison atheists group to find only a select few nonbelievers. “It was a very small, weak group,” he said of the Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics, or AHA. Calvey knew the numbers suggesting that up to 9,000 Badgers were in his camp and set about finding ways to bring them together. Now, the UW-Madison student group attracts more than 100 to its annual start-of-school meeting, has an email list of 1,500 and stands poised to become by far the best funded group of nonbelievers on any U.S. campus, Calvey said.
A former plant researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is accused of growing marijuana in a university lab.
A UW-Platteville student was arrested Saturday, accused of making methamphetamine that sparked a fire in a campus dormitory hall.
Madison Metro bus drivers will begin checking school identification cards to avoid the spread of a bus pass black market.
On this Veterans Day 2012, members of ?Team Rubicon? are on the east coast, helping victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Higher education systems are easy targets. Flagships say that they don?t get enough autonomy in them. Regional publics say the flagships get all the money and attention. Frugal lawmakers denigrate systems as offices full of bureaucrats. Legislators constantly think of ways to redesign them.
The regents of the University of Wisconsin System met Thursday to discuss issues likely to come before the board in the future, including a rise in the number of student veterans and a need to produce students who can transition quickly into the workforce with only minimal job training.
University of Wisconsin?s Faculty Senate voted to postpone a motion that would accept the Human Resources Design Project and send it to the Board of Regents in a meeting Monday.
Associated Students of Madison?s Legislative Affairs Committee addressed student advocacy and lobbying for the state biennial budget in a meeting Monday.
Jacob Wood graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2005 with a double major in business and physical science. The former UW football player and U.S. Marine Corps veteran is the founder of a disaster relief veterans? service organization, Team Rubicon, which applies the military experience of veterans to fast-response disaster relief.
With debates over the new proposed human resources plan for the University of Wisconsin underway, the Faculty Senate will take the next step in the process of developing the plan by voting on the proposal Nov. 5.
Madison police said theyve arrested a man after he was seen breaking into apartments near the University of Wisconsin early Friday morning.
Thanks to an alert neighbor, a man suspected of breaking into an apartment near the UW-Madison campus was arrested early Friday morning, Madison police reported. Jai Patterson, 26, was arrested on tentative charges of burglary, possession of heroin, felony bail jumping and on an outstanding warrant, according to a police news release.
You may know him as number 78 or Badger Jake, but one University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate founded an organization that?s helping folks outside the borders of our state.
MADISON, Wis. – Madison police said two friends were beaten by the same person as they walked near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus early Saturday morning. Police said the victims, a 20-year-old Madison man and a 20-year-old Monroe man, reported the attacks around 2:20 a.m. but said the attacks actually occurred an hour earlier. One victim said he tried to ignore a group of four men who were on the sidewalk, yelling, in the 1700 block Madison Street.
You may know him as number 78 or Badger Jake, but one University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate founded an organization that?s helping folks outside the borders of our state.
With less than a week until Election Day, former President Bill Clinton is playing a major role in speaking to Wisconsin voters on behalf of President Barack Obama.
MADISON, Wis. – One man was beaten to unconsciousness and another man suffered cuts to his face and hands after others broke windows at a campus-area house party near Camp Randall Stadium, Madison police said. The incidents occurred at a house party in the 100 block of North Breese Terrace early Saturday morning, according to Madison Police Department incident reports.
MADISON, Wis. -One man was beaten to unconsciousness and another man suffered cuts to his face and hands after others broke windows at a campus-area house party near Camp Randall Stadium, Madison police said. The incidents occurred at a house party in the 100 block of North Breese Terrace early Saturday morning, according to Madison Police Department incident reports. A battery victim contacted Madison police Sunday evening wanting to report what happened to him early Saturday morning, around 12:18 a.m.
In a celebration taking place Tuesday evening, the Wisconsin Historical Society announced its Forward Campaign raised $77.6 million toward its cause, exceeding the original goal to earn $77 million.
MADISON, Wis. – Two Madison men were attacked after accidentally bumping into two other men as they walked out of a bar Saturday morning, according to police. The victims, both 21, said they didn?t want trouble after bumping into the two men outside a bar at 1421 Regent Street at 2:32 a.m., but they were punched in the head and knocked to the ground, according to police. Witnesses and the victims provided police with a description of the attackers.
UW Homecoming weekend, an experience for all things cardinal and white. It brings thousands of alumni back to the UW campus. One grad traveled a long way just to see this game.
Although the number of female faculty on University of Wisconsin campuses still hangs below the national average, their presence has been on the rise over the past several years, according to this year?s UW System Fact Book.
Five downtown and campus Metro Transit bus routes will be detoured Friday because of the UW-Madison Homecoming parade. Routes 81 and 82 on the UW-Madison campus will detour from Langdon Street and Lake Street from the start of service on Friday to 9 p.m. Passengers are asked to board buses on those two routes on University Avenue.
Tuesday, the Memorial Union?s Great Hall filled with University of Wisconsin employees who debated the Human Resources Design Project?s recommendations.
University police say they?ve arrested a researcher at UW-Madison for growing marijuana in a campus building.
A University of Wisconsin researcher was arrested Oct. 16 after police said they found marijuana plants being grown in the Biochemistry Building.
Police arrested University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry researcher Christopher Schwartz Monday days after discovering he was growing between 200 and 1,000 grams of marijuana in the university Biochemistry building. The UW-Madison Police Department has charged Schwartz with the felony of Manufacturing and Delivering THC, the active chemical in marijuana, according to UWPD Sgt. Aaron Chapin. The charge applies to anyone who is ?either growing or selling an illegal substance,? Chapin said.
When Laura Whitmore joined the City of Madison Parks Division back in 1995, she had no idea where the job would lead. Whitmore was fresh out of the Peace Corps ? with a degree in International relations from UW-Madison ? and was happy just to tell her parents back in Neenah that she was gainfully employed.
MADISON, Wis. – A University of Wisconsin researcher was arrested Oct. 16 after police said they found marijuana plants being grown in the Biochemistry Building. Christopher Schwartz, 45, was arrested on suspicion of manufacturing and delivering marijuana.
Still trying to figure out which candidates have the best vision for America?s economic future? Two heavyweights in the world of economics with political connections will be on the UW-Madison campus Thursday to talk about issues pertinent to the November election.
A male victim suffered injuries to the face after being attacked by four male suspects on University Avenue early Saturday morning.
A: Police staffing for the motorcade is determined by where the president?s event is held, according to Madison police Central District Capt. Carl Gloede. For the president?s Oct. 4 visit to UW-Madison, Gloede said Madison police coordinated the motorcade route and staffing. The department?s assistant chief of operations selected the command staff for the event, who in turn coordinated with other law enforcement agencies to fill positions along the route and within the motorcade.
On October 15th, 2012 William Lynch of Lyndon Station, pled guilty to identity theft, burglary, and forgery stemming from several cases investigated by University Police detectives throughout the past year.
Vice President Joe Biden will again take the Obama campaign to a university campus in Wisconsin.
Biden will appear at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Friday. The Obama campaign says doors at the Cartwright Center open at 11:30 a.m. The vice presidents wife, Jill Biden, will introduce her husband.
Mayor Paul Soglin on Thursday named veteran government official Jim O?Keefe as Madison?s next director of community development. O?Keefe was administrator for the Division of Housing and Community Development in the state Department of Commerce under former Gov. Jim Doyle, and remained with the agency under the Walker administration to assist with its transition to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., where he was hired as a policy analyst. He also served as the city?s government relations officer under Soglin and former Mayor Sue Bauman from 1990 to 2003.
The late foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, a University of Wisconsin — Madison graduate, is among the National Book Award finalists announced Wednesday in New York.
Got a corner of the city you just love? Or know a place that?s a jumble or ugly or kind of scary? How about Union Terrace, the lakefront patio of UW-Madison?s Memorial Union? That was one Madisonian?s rave for a list of favorite and least favorite places being collected by the city of Madison in preparation for the Mayor?s Neighborhood Conference 2012: Great Neighborhoods ? Great Places, to be held 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Monona Terrace Convention Center.
Metro Transit says it’s raising bus fares to close a hole created by the 5 percent tax levy reduction asked for by Mayor Paul Soglin. The proposed fare increase was discussed as part of a budget hearing Tuesday at the Board of Estimates. “The mayor asked every department for a 5 percent tax levy reduction,” said Chuck Kamp, transit general manager. “We were allowed, when we looked at that tax levy reduction, to either reduce expenses or add revenue. “With our ridership growing to record levels, with overcrowding on buses, we did not want to cut services, so we looked at revenues.”
Reflecting what the UW System president calls a “cultural evolution” that has transformed universities into drivers of local economies, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and his family will soon move to a stone Tudor mansion bought last week by the school?s private foundation.
A two-alarm fire caused extensive damage to the UW-Madison Memorial Union Theater Monday morning, fire officials said, although construction work at the building was expected to resume soon after the blaze. According to a news release from the Madison Fire Department, the fire started near the Union Theater’s ground level, before flames spread up into a “large attic space above the theater.”
The University of Wisconsin released the rental agreement signed by President Barack Obama?s campaign for his campus visit last Thursday, which highlighted the costs and post-event arrangements associated with hosting a crowd of 30,000 on Bascom Hill.
Madison firefighters were called to the UW-Madison Memorial Union Monday morning to fight a smoky fire that was reported at about 7:35 a.m. Madison Fire Department spokesman Eric Dahl told Madison.com the fire appeared to be on the roof over the theater section of the union.
New numbers show fewer students are heading to classes on UW-campuses.
