Two of Dane County’s school systems will receive state funding for school safety programs, Wisconsin Attorney Brad Schimel announced Monday.
Eleven proposals to boost Dane County’s middle class have been selected as part of the Alliance for the American Dream Initiative: DreamUp Wisconsin.
Madison police arrested a 68-year-old Beloit man Saturday night for making sexually suggestive comments to several pedestrians in the downtown area. The man reportedly pulled over near a pair of female students walking on Mifflin Street and asked them if they would like to watch what he was doing in the car.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California stopped in Wisconsin on Sunday to endorse her colleague Tammy Baldwin for Senate, as well as support Tony Evers’ bid for the governorship.
Charlie Koczela, Executive Director of Slow Food UW, is hoping a new online free meal request platform launched last Tuesday will help build those alleyways, and that the expansion will make the Pay it Forward initiative more accessible for more people. Monday’s Family Dinner Night event will mark the first dinner where guests will be able to request free meals in advance.
As UW-Milwaukee celebrates recognition as a top research university, it continues to suffer a “brain drain” much like UW-Madison in recent years.
Our Lives, Our Vote — a nationwide initiative that aims to encourage voter registration among American youth — reached its program goal of registering 50,000 young Americans to vote, according to a statement released by the organization Thursday.
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.
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