The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee balanced its budget at the cost of trimming down faculty and adjusting academic programs.
In an effort to further support community-engaged scholarship, the Morgridge Center for Public Service hired 10 faculty members as “Morgridge Fellows.” Fellows were selected through a juried process. They will participate in a year-long learning community with the goals of participating in “teaching, research, and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, mutually beneficial collaboration with communities to fulfill campus and community objectives,” the Morgridge Center said in a statement. In the upcoming year, with a focus on developing community-based learning courses and research, the fellows will be able to build a unique interdisciplinary team of mentors and peers from the teaching and learning community. Michael Maguire, one of the fellows selected for the program, said the fellows present their professional and personal life experiences in order to collaborate on the Community-Engaged Scholarship. “At monthly meetings, fellows will share dialogue and resources related to their role at UW-Madison, contributing to the robust body of knowledge and inquiry about what contributes to excellence in CES,” Maguire said. In addition to discussing personal experiences related to the scholarship, fellows collaborate in an effort to make positive changes to CES. Maguire said the fellows analyze CES during monthly meetings by “identifying past and current CES assets, and areas for expanding or making a positive change to CES on our campus and in the communities we serve.”
UW-Madison’s new Contemporary Social Problems Initiative was granted over $1 million for research on social, economic and health problems among middle-class families by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduation Education. The two-year grants are intended for research on societal issues such as improving health care, economic conditions and psychological states.
Conservative students on campus oppose the ice cream legislation, but they say it’s not for the reasons Palin suggests. Instead of saying the bill represents political correctness gone too far, they argued instead that it is an irresponsible use of ASM resources, which is something they feel Palin’s article misrepresented.
For the second time in six months, Madison’s city council voted to remove the Confederate memorial in Forest Hill Cemetery.
New results from the Department of Public Instruction’s Forward Exam show that more than half of students in the state did not score proficient or better in language arts, math and science.
Student Judiciary heard the discrimination case Sophia Alzaidi, a former Student Services Finance Committee member, brought against the Nominations Board when she was not selected to be on the committee this session.
Former President Barack Obama’s newest list of endorsed candidates includes Democrats in tight races around Wisconsin.
The suspect in Saturday’s murder-suicide had a history of domestic abuse charges dating back to 2009, according to court records. The Dane County Medical Examiner identified the deceased as 39-year-old James Sykes and 34-year-old Sherry Waller.
Madison Alder Matt Phair, District 20, announced Monday he would not seek a fifth term on the city council in the upcoming spring 2019 election.
In light of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing that gained national attention last week, UW-Madison student organization Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment released a statement regarding the current campus climate for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
The Hoofer Marina Project is now underway, set to remodel the Memorial Union lakefront marina funded by nearly $2 million in donations.
In addition to worries over facility security, students and staff also expressed concern about student athletes’ access to health care, including mental health care, and reporting protocol. The results, which were gathered by Assistant Athletic Director Walter Dickey per the request of UW Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez, will help the department prioritize programming improvements in coming years.
More than four months ago, the Student Services Finance Committee announced their nominations without a spot for Sophia Alzaidi, a member in the previous session.
Madison police said two people died on the East Side following an apparent murder-suicide Saturday afternoon. Police were called to a townhouse shortly after noon and forced entry after talking to concerned family members.
After the Senate judiciary committee voted to advance Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, advocates around the state are raising alarms around what they see as the dismissal of sexual assault survivors’ experiences.
The Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention was awarded a renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health. The five year, $19 million grant will fund in-depth tests for biomarkers that serve as signals of potential future disease.
In 1896, the first women earned undergraduate degrees from UW-Madison. Now, 150 years later, Inside UW is celebrating the anniversary with a series that promotes the accomplishments of women associated with the university.
It is not clear at this point if the remaining 167 people ICE did not arrest remain targets of a future raid, according to Ron Bohmer, a spokesperson for Rep Pocan. Bohmer said that it is unclear why ICE only arrested a third of the people on its list, and he wasn’t sure if that means those people are no longer in the state, or if another enforcement surge could be pending.
As tuition prices increase and job outlooks waver, UW System students have begun favoring two-year degree programs more than four-year universities.
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