Tuition and fees this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would top $10,000 for in-state students, and UW-Milwaukee would be close behind, if a recommended tuition increase of 5.5% is approved by the Board of Regents this week.
Wisconsin sports teams spend plenty of time practicing in the Kohl Center, and on Monday a special group of Madison firemen will do the same. Instead of training on a court or rink, though, they will use ropes courses to practice some of the more complicated rescues Dane County needs. The Madison Fire Department?s Heavy Urban Rescue Team, which a city news release said uses “complex rescue techniques” to respond to emergencies like building collapses anywhere in the county, will train at the UW-Madison arena Tuesday afternoon.
The books have been put away, the jackhammers are primed, let the road construction season at UW-Madison begin. Road work this week is mainly around the Charter Street Heating Plant and on Observatory Drive, according to a news release from the UW-Madison news service. Rail lines near the heating plant are being removed because there is no longer a need for coal to be delivered to the plant.
Race officials say they don’t know how much blame to place on a controversy involving Planned Parenthood, noting that a difficult economy has hurt many fundraising efforts. Gloria Ladson-Billings, a UW-Madison professor who describes her views on abortion as somewhat conflicted, said she had some initial concerns with Komen?s handling of the Planned Parenthood issue but has decided to continue participating in the race.
“It became clear to me that the local chapter wasn?t linked to any of this, and in the end, I feel the race is so important it outweighs some of the other stuff.” Ladson-Billings, a breast cancer survivor, organizes a team of more than 100 people through Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Madison.
To the surprise of no one, the Chicago Blackhawks officially consider the pictures from Patrick Kane?s weekend adventure in Wisconsin to be bad publicity.
This week the News Republic examined the educational paths charted by three students through the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County and the impact they have had on the Baraboo community.
Madison police have identified a 20-year-old Fitchburg man as a suspect in the shootings that wounded at least three people early Saturday on University Avenue. Darrion D. Brown, who is being sought on a tentative charge of attempted homicide, should be considered armed and dangerous, said police spokesman Joel DeSpain. “Anyone seeing him should call 911,” DeSpain said. Brown could be driving a gold-colored 2001 Mercury Sable four-door car with Wisconsin license plate number 969-TLW, police said.
Three short streets near the UW-Madison campus will be closed for most of the summer so they can be rebuilt. The Madison Traffic Engineering Division said in a news release on Monday that stretches of North Orchard Street, Spring Street and Capitol Court will be closed to through traffic beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday, May 24.
More than one shooter is believed to have fired into a crowd of young bar goers early Saturday morning on University Avenue, Madison police say. Spokesman Joel DeSpain told Madison.com the shooting incident in which three people were injured wasn?t random. “It?s an ongoing dispute between many individuals,” DeSpain said. “There were multiple guns used and more than one shooter.”
Police are also looking to see if the incident is possibly connected to other incidents of gun violence in the city. Anyone with information about the shootings, or about the unidentified injured man who left the scene, should call Crime Stoppers, 266-6014.
An early-morning shooting just off the UW-Madison campus has officials again searching for solutions to the city?s growing problem with gun violence….The incident was something of a black eye for a city hosting UW-Madison graduation ceremonies this weekend. Area business owners said Saturday the problem has been growing since last summer. In fact, the owners of Johnny O?s and Wando?s Bar, also located in the 600 block of University Avenue, met with Mayor Paul Soglin on Wednesday to discuss the violence outside of their clubs. Ald. Mike Verveer, 4th District, attended the meeting. He said the men felt helpless to stop ?thuggish? people loitering on the streets near the bars.
The former chief executive of Yahoo, a UW-Madison alum, advised new graduates Sunday to look past the headlines that warn about the lackluster economy and the bleak jobs picture. ?Don?t believe that the events of today are the only ones that are going to shape your future,? Carol Bartz, 63, said in one of the university?s four graduation ceremonies at the Kohl Center.
?Your work life is very long. In fact, you are the first generation that?s preparing for a 50-year career,? she said to nervous laughter from graduates and their family members.
After many years without permanent artistic leadership at Milwaukee?s most important contemporary arts venue, Inova will soon have a new director.
Sara Krajewski, curator at the Henry Art Gallery, a contemporary art center at the University of Washington in Seattle, will become the director at Inova, or the Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Krajewski, who got her bachelor?s degree in art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has commented on the controversy surrounding her replacement Scott Thompson, who was found to have falsely claimed that he earned a computer science degree and is now facing calls for his ouster.
A 21-year-old woman living near the UW-Madison campus called police after hearing a man whispering lewd remarks to her through the bedroom window. The incident happened on May 1 at about 9:20 p.m. in the 400 block of West Dayton Street, according to a Madison police news release.
With chancellors leaving Wisconsin?s public campuses for jobs that pay tens – perhaps hundreds – of thousands more annually, university leaders are looking at whether private foundations could provide extra money to help retain them.
Members of the UW-Madison Faculty Senate had many questions for members of the human resources redesign team following a presentation Monday.
A 19-year-old Illinois man was hospitalized early Saturday morning after a fight between two groups of men near the UW-Madison campus, Madison police reported. The victim, from Elmhurst, Ill., was knocked unconscious during the fight, which was reported at 1:08 a.m. Saturday on College Court, police said in a news release. Witnesses said the two groups of men had been involved in a dispute which escalated.
The City of Madison was still standing Sunday morning in the wake of the Mifflin Street Block Party, which brought fewer attendees but also less violence to the capstone drinking event at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison professor Dave Brown and his wife Rachel Brown beat out ten other pairs to win the 20th season of CBS? ?The Amazing Race,? claiming the contest?s $1 million prize.
In the 1960s, social change and student activism ? both violent and non-violent ? defined the University of Wisconsin campus, and now that history echoes weakly as attendance dwindled at the Mifflin Street Block Party this weekend.
It figures that, in the midst of the tropical splendor of Hawaii, the final episode of “The Amazing Race” would come down to two very Wisconsin skills ? sledding and bowling. And it was enough to give Madison?s Dave and Rachel Brown the edge ? and the million dollars ? as they won “Amazing Race 20,” the season finale aired Sunday on CBS. It was a commanding win ? the Army helicopter pilot and his wife, who works at Epic Systems in Verona, won eight legs of the race, a series record.
A Madison couple who appeared on the CBS show “The Amazing Race” has outlasted 10 other couples to win the $1 million grand prize.
A change in name and venue this year promises to bolster an event aimed at bringing the joy of gardening to families. UW Family Gardening Day is planned for Saturday on the UW-Madison campus. In the past, the event was held at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station on Mineral Point Road and was called Family Horticulture Day. ?If you?ve been before and seen the same things every year, this is definitely something different,? said Johanna Oosterwyk, research program manager in UW-Madison?s Department of Horticulture and organizer of Family Gardening Day.
Sunday was a million-dollar day for a Madison couple. Well, to be accurate, that winning day was sometime in December, but Madison?s contestants in the CBS show ?The Amazing Race? were officially revealed as the winners when the season finale aired Sunday night. On their way to victory, Dave and Rachel Brown scaled skyscrapers in Honolulu and paddled their way twice across a pond while standing on a surfboard-like raft. The couple won eight legs in all, making them the most successful team in ?The Amazing Race?s? 20-season history.
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is working to get campus buildings back to normal after heavy rains caused flooding.
If you?re driving on the Beltline near the Arboretum Tuesday afternoon, there?s no need to call 911 if you see a field on fire. A controlled burn is scheduled to begin at noon on Tuesday in the Curtis Prairie portion of the UW-Madison Arboretum, an area of the grounds that?s right up against the northern edge of the Beltline just west of the Todd Drive on ramp.
Carol Bartz, the former CEO of Yahoo! and a graduate of UW-Madison, will speak at her alma mater?s four commencement ceremonies on May 19-20 at the Kohl Center.
The former chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is now the chief academic officer the University of Wisconsin System. Mark Nook has been named the system?s senior vice president for academic and student affairs. He has held the position on an interim basis since last summer.
Noted: Kevin P. Reilly, president of the University of Wisconsin system and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, said he saw the pledge as an opportunity to emulate some of his higher-education heroes. Leaders like the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, former president of Notre Dame, were involved in matters of social import, such as the civil-rights movement, in a way that Mr. Reilly sees few college presidents engaged today.
Like the blue M&Ms introduced in 1995, blue chairs have joined the famous traditional orange, green and yellow seats on the Memorial Union Terrace. But unlike the popular candy, the 300 “Mendota Blue” terrace chairs will be in use for only a limited time. The new chairs are part of the public fundraising phase of the Wisconsin Union?s capital campaign, “A Blueprint for the Next 100 Years,” which seeks to raise $25 million by the end of 2015, Union Director Mark Guthier said.
The three newest regents for the University of Wisconsin System are getting set to begin their terms.
An identity theft investigation that stretched back almost five years on the UW-Madison campus ended with the conviction of a Chicago woman already spending time in prison. Katelin Nading, 24, was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday by Dane County Circuit Judge William Hanrahan after she pleaded guilty to three counts of misappropriating ID information to get money.
The three newest regents for the University of Wisconsin System are getting set to begin their terms.
The three newest regents for the University of Wisconsin System are getting set to begin their terms.
While terrace chairs in their usual colors are a sign of spring, the blue chairs that appeared at Memorial Union yesterday are a sign of ongoing fundraising for renovations to the building.
As part of the Human Resources Design project, a work team will focus on recommendations to improve the workplace climate and increase diversity for University of Wisconsin faculty and staff
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board approved one-year extensions for UW coaches Friday, including men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan, as well as deliberated on developing new standards for institutional control of athletics.
Wisconsins dairy industry leaders are raising millions of dollars to renovate the aging dairy plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Wisconsins dairy industry leaders are raising millions of dollars to renovate the aging dairy plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The Memorial Union Terrace has a new addition: ?Mendota Blue? terrace chairs.
In the sea of Daily Cardinal alumni who gathered in Madison for the newspaper?s 120th anniversary last weekend, a small group of two dozen, reconnected by hope, comforted each other in a time of tragedy. A group of approximately 50 alumni created the ?Shadid Brigade? on Facebook last spring, after their friend, former Cardinal colleague and The New York Times Foreign Correspondent Anthony Shadid was kidnapped in Libya. But tragedy soon struck when Shadid passed away in February from an asthma attack in Syria.
Five red-tailed hawks in Wisconsin have become worldwide reality stars. Two parents and three chicks live in a nest on a ledge at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two red-tailed hawks are keeping a watchful eye over their three recently hatched chicks on a ledge outside Weeks Hall, 1215 W. Dayton St., and a webcam is keeping an eye on them. “The chicks didn’t hatch until the last week or so, and the popularity has boomed from there,” said John Lalande of UW-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center.
Nine properties, some publicly owned, will be honored by the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation on May 3. The awards honor building or design that maintain the historic character of a property or rehabilitate them for contemporary use. Among the honorees are North and South Halls and the Chazen Museum of Art.
Madison police found an out-of-state college student who was beaten and bleeding near North Lake and Langdon streets early Saturday morning.
In Madison, Rising Sun is one of the last remnants of the once-thriving massage parlor scene, which appears to have started in the 1970s and once numbered in the dozens. The Downtown parlors drew heavy scrutiny during the 1980 murder trial of Barbara Hoffman, a former UW-Madison student and prostitute ? she worked part time at Rising Sun ? who was charged with poisoning two former customers at another Downtown massage parlor, causing their deaths. She was convicted in one of the murders and remains in state prison today.
Remember guerrilla cookies, a staple on the UW-Madison campus during those halcyon days of the late ?60s and early ?70s? This weekend, they will return.
On Wednesday, the hottest social media ticket was the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin System appointed the University of Wisconsin-Madison dean of international studies to serve as interim chancellor at UW-Eau Claire Wednesday, effective following the departure of the current chancellor next month.
What?s the appeal of international students? Colleges say they want to increase the diversity of their campuses to help all students. While UW-Madison may be well-known enough to not need recruiting help, that?s not the case for, say, UW-Superior. But the motive isn?t all about diversity. It?s also about money. International students pay out-of-state tuition, which is significantly higher than in-state tuition. Again, colleges will say the more out-of-state students they get, the lower tuition costs in-state students. The ethics behind commission-based recruiting are cloudy.
The city?s sixth police district would encompass an area south and slightly west of Lake Mendota roughly bordered by Park, Regent and Monroe streets to the east and Whitney Way, Mineral Point Road and Gammon Road to the west, including city property adjacent to UW-Madison.
UW-Madison?s Center on Journalism Ethics concluded its fourth annual conference by awarding the first ever Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics Friday.
In narrowing down the search for the next second-in-command for the University of Wisconsin System, four finalists have been chosen to vie for the Vice President position.
In his first year in office after 14 years away, Paul Soglin has been active and bold, controversial and full of stamina ? like he was as mayor for 14 years in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
Nobel Prize winners have walked the hallowed halls of UW-Madison, pondering the big questions of the universe. What to use to dry your hands probably never entered their minds. In an effort to cut costs and promote sustainability, UW-Madison is surveying faculty, staff and students on two major fronts: do you prefer hand towels or blowers to dry your hands in restrooms, and how much of a problem would it be if desk-side trash cans were removed?
If you want to learn more about the issue, you can attend an Occupy Madison Teach-In Saturday at the UW-Madison Humanities Building, 455 N. Park, Room 1651, where at 1 p.m. a workshop on The Occupy Movement and the Homeless will be offered. A full schedule of the teach-in is available here.
The Post-Crescents March 22 editorial raised an alarm about student loan debt. The article stated that “student loan debt at graduation in the UW System has increased from $5,000 in 1982 to $27,000 in 2011.”
Former University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point interim chancellor and provost Mark Nook on Tuesday was named one of four finalists for senior vice president for academic and student affairs for the UW System. Aaron Brower, vice provost for teaching & learning at UW-Madison is also a finalist.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig visited UW-Madison Tuesday, where he discussed media?s role in today?s sports and some of the major public relations challenges he has faced as commissioner.
Drawing on his experiences as Major League Baseball commissioner, a University of Wisconsin alumnus came to campus yesterday to address the connection between baseball and today?s changing media.
