Tuition increases for all UW System schools would be capped at 3 percent in a new proposal introduced by Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, and Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
In the current budget, which expires June 30, tuition has increased 36 percent. This means a tuition increase of about $700 per year at UW-Madison.
The Board of Regents used tuition increases to offset the record $250 million cuts the System absorbed in the current budget.
Kreibich is the same representative who earlier made headlines for proposing to merge the system's two-year schools with the 13 four-year universities.
Tim Tyson, a UW-Madison Afro-American studies professor, has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, according to The Capital Times.
Tyson's book, \Blood Done Sign My Name,"" is a first-person account of a racially motivated murder of a black man in Oxford, N.C., the town where Tyson grew up.
""It's a dream come true, to be in the conversation with a news generation of North Carolinians,"" Tyson said.
Tyson has received awards from professional historian groups for his three previous books.
This is also the first time one of Tyson's books was published by a large commercial publisher.
Former Secretary of Health and Human Services and Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson said he has not ruled out once again running for governor in 2006, according to WisPolitics.com.
""It's way too early to say,"" Thompson told a crowd of 100 newspaper executives at a conference in Appleton last week. ""I won't say it, because a year from now or 15 months from now, it may be something I want to do.""
Rumors have also circulated that Thompson might run against U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., in 2006. Even while serving in President Bush's cabinet, Thompson acknowledged he knew of rumors concerning his possible return to Wisconsin politics.
UW-Madison may soon begin offering a master's program in women's and gender studies. The two-year, 24-credit program would add to the current undergraduate women's studies major and doctoral minor at UW-Madison, according to The Capital Times.
The interdisciplinary program will focus on work, social movements, education, family, sexuality and health, immigration, militarism and government.
The program will also require aptitude in a language other than English, and will add two or three new students each year.
