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Five out of the 37 county board elections are contested, three of which will have a primary on Feb. 20.
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Dane County Elections Forum: Major takeaways and impact for students

By Max Bayer | Jan. 25, 2018

Sixteen candidates for Dane County’s Board of Supervisors participated in a forum Thursday night hosted by Our Wisconsin Revolution to promote policy priorities and goals for the county. All 37 seats on the board are up for election on April 3 but only five districts have contested races, three of which — Districts 6, 11 and 15 — will have primaries on Feb.

NEWS

A new survey shows UW-Madison students are happy. But the Campus Climate Survey tells a different story

By Luisa de Vogel | Jan. 24, 2018

UW-Madison seniors reported having less interactions with students of backgrounds different from their own compared to seniors at peer institutions, according to the 2017 National Survey of Student Engagement. This data comes after recent debates over race and inclusivity on campus following the release of the 2017 AAU campus climate survey. About half of UW-Madison freshman and seniors reported in the NSSE results that they felt the university has a commitment to including diverse perspectives in the classroom.

Chancellor Blank created a working group to improve the university’s research and education in computer science.
NEWS

UW-Madison invests in computer science opportunities, department

By Bremen Keasey | Jan. 24, 2018

UW-Madison’s announced Tuesday that the Computer Science department is slated for review to keep up with demand and continue the growth of the major. Chancellor Rebecca Blank created a working group Tuesday “charged with assessing options to enhance computing education and research on campus,” according to a statement.

The causes of death for one-third of UW-Madison students who died between 1998 and 2017 remain unknown. With hopes of identifying trends in order to coordinate prevention services on campus, University Health Services staff are working through a process to obtain these students’ death certificates and fill in these blanks.
IN-DEPTH

UHS resurrects two decades of missing student death data

By Sammy Gibbons | Jan. 23, 2018

Of 192 students that died from 1998 to 2017 while enrolled at UW-Madison, one-third did not have causes of death recorded in data collected by University Health Services. Now, UHS staff is in the process of obtaining formal documents to reveal these missing causes. Adequate data will allow them to identify trends and determine if actions can be taken to prevent numbers of certain causes from rising.

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