Just three months after announcing he would not run for re-election, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin declared his candidacy in a surprise move Friday morning. Soglin, who has served as mayor on three separate occasions, announced in July he would not seek another four-year term.
This generation of college graduates will include more borrowers than ever who may not be able to repay their student loans, according to a report by Bloomberg News Wednesday.
Concerns among local residents lingered in the weeks following the merging of UW-Milwaukee with two-year colleges. Since then, UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone has promised that Washington County students are “in good hands.”
UW-Madison will host a week-long VoteFest to encourage students to vote. The Morgridge Center for Public Services will hold VoteFest from Oct. 22-27 in an effort to encourage students to be civically involved and continue to be engaged after graduating.
Associated Students of Madison ignited concerns of their ability to maintain an active role on campus after passing a negligible amount of legislation after seven weeks in session.
Dane County’s Board of Supervisors will accept a $20,000 grant for criminal justice reform from the MacArthur Foundation. In a statement Thursday, the county said the funds would be used to create a data system for tracking race, gender, age and reason for arrest of those on trial.
More than one in three undergraduate students has transferred to a different college, according to the Transfer Transition Program website. In order to make transfer students feel more welcome, UW-Madison is celebrating National Transfer Student Week to spread positivity and inclusion to transfer students.
A sexual assault occurred on campus earlier this week, according to a crime warning UW-Madison students received via email Thursday. The assault happened on Oct.
Gordon Dining changes policies upon finding much of the leftover food was wasted.
Even though the school-age population has increased, the number of high school graduates has decreased over the past few years. UW System campuses are eager to combat this, but some feel that their efforts are not enough.
Over 100 community members crowded the Working Draft Beer Company to sip craft brews and chat with the Milwaukee author, whose book The Life and Death of the Great Lakes landed on the New York Times Best Sellers list and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize this year.
99.6 percent of applicants to a hopeful student loan forgiveness program were denied help, sparking questions from congress members.
UW-Madison’s National Organization for Women celebrated Love Your Body Day with campus activities, including a speaker who addressed self-love and feminism. For nearly 20 years, NOW has celebrated body positivity on Oct. 17.
After announcing the partnership with UW-Madison, Foxconn will provide an opportunity for students and faculty to engage with the company’s new technology and discuss job outlook.
Seats in the theater at Memorial Union filled up quickly as people waited for Dan Egan, this year’s Go Big Read author, to discuss his book about the ecological disasters of the Great Lakes.
Two of Madison’s top law enforcement officials traded public criticisms online Tuesday, chastising each other for their treatment of juvenile offenders. The dispute began when Madison Police Chief Mike Koval released his daily blog post, in which he expressed concern about the increasing frequency of “juveniles engaged in serious, illegal behavior[s].” Koval cast doubt on whether the "failing" juvenile justice system actually held offenders accountable for their actions.
Students and staff of UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine are determined to make sure a proposed remodel of the building is not pushed off to a later budget cycle by the state Legislature.
As Wisconsin’s justice department takes part in a Republican lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, Democratic candidate for governor Tony Evers placed doubt on state Republicans’ commitment to protecting patients with pre-existing conditions.
Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic governor candidate Tony Evers appeal to voters on the opposite side of their respective aisles.
Wunk Sheek requested a 20 percent increase in their budget for the upcoming fiscal year, although they had not spent the entirety of their budget from the previous year.
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