UW-Stevens Point proposed Monday to cut 13 humanities majors and possibly cut faculty positions while adding or expanding 16 other programs to address their $4.5 million dollar deficit.
The Dane County Regional Airport released Monday seeking proposals for a new solar development plan which, when implemented, will be the second largest in the state. The development will include 41 acres of land and will have the ability to generate 8 megawatts of power, about three times the power of the largest solar plant in the region: a 2.25 megawatt facility in Beloit. “Given its role in sustaining and growing our local economy, we think the Dane County Regional Airport is a perfect fit for this bold project,” Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said in a release. This will be the fourteenth Dane County solar installation and the county hopes it will help the region remain a leader in sustainable energy. “Dane County has been leading the state in generating cleaner renewable homegrown energy,” Parisi said. The facility is still seeking approval from the Federal Aviation Administration and will be the third installation on the Dane County Airport campus, although the new development will be 80 times larger than the existing installations. The expansion of the airports solar installations is the latest in the county’s effort to expand renewable energy.
The city of Madison Common Council approved last week the Madison Art Commission's choice of Roy Chi’s proposal for a new piece of art in Pennsylvania Park, located on East Johnson Street. “The People’s Pronouns,” will be composed of two sculptures at opposite ends of the park.
UW-Madison Faculty Senate passed legislation Monday calling on UW System President Ray Cross to reaffirm his commitment to shared governance.
As the election to fill a vacant state Supreme Court seat quickly approaches, judges Rebecca Dallet and Michael Screnock juggled their own partisan ties in the officially nonpartisan race.
Both Vice Chief Justice Ben Smith and General Counsel Jacob Gardner announced their resignations from Student Judiciary — the Associated Students of Madison’s judicial branch — this week.
Local chefs and foodies alike met Sunday to kick off Madison Chef Week, a week-long event put on by the Madison Area Chefs Network that showcases the food from a variety of restaurants around the city.
Tiana Clark, the Jay C. and Ruth Halls poetry fellow at UW-Madison’s Institute of Creative Writing, won the 2017 Anges Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her collection, “I Can’t Talk about the Trees without the Blood.” “For me, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung.”
As part of an effort to update voter information, the state elections commission may have improperly kicked voters off registration lists.
After a nonpartisan analysis of the UW system’s relationships with affiliated organizations, some lawmakers are calling for stricter legislative oversight when it comes to university relations with private foundations.
Gov. Scott Walker reappointed UW System Regent Gerald Whitburn and added two new people to the Board of Regents Friday.
22-year-old Nehemiah Siyoum was reported for "profane music at a volume that made officers first think it was from the coffee shop's amplification system," Lt. Brian Austin said in a statement obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.
Four UW-Madison deans will stick around following their successful comprehensive reviews, which assesses their leadership and performance every five years.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but how many would it be for a meme? Answer: a lot if you follow the UW-Madison Memes for Milk-Chugging Teens. A frenzy of memes popped up in the satirical Facebook group, at the Associated Students of Madison’s opposition to the controversial dining plan and what some students call high segregated fees first surfaced Wednesday night.
This Tuesday, a Madison landlord applied for the allocation of $355,000 to rehabilitate 48 rental units leased to qualified low-to-moderate-income renters.
Just under four months after its grand opening, UW-Madison’s Alumni Park is already getting recognition. SmithGroupJJR — the design firm that served as the lead park designer for Alumni Park — received an award Thursday from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for the planning and design of the new park space.
As a bill that would provide money for schools to hire armed security personnel makes its way through the Legislature, some worry that the primary effect would not be student safety.
Members of the city’s Vending Oversight Committee were met with harsh reactions Wednesday night when they took up a proposal to phase out late night food carts. Opponents of the proposal argue food carts are consistently and unfairly the targets of reforms that are rooted in overconsumption of alcohol. Mario Armenta, one of the four current late night vendors, doesn’t know what would happen if the vendors were forced to shut down.
UHS plans to move to an informed consent model of transgender health care, a shift LGBT Campus Center Assistant Director Charek Briggs said gives patients agency in their own medical care. Informed consent allows patients to make decisions about their own health care after being fully informed of benefits and consequences by their medical provider.
Seven Dane County projects that will encourage development of housing for low-income individuals and families received millions in state tax credits this week. The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, which awarded a total of $13.4 million to projects across the state, announced Tuesday that it will give $3.4 million in low-income housing tax credits for these projects.
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