Whitaker, an assistant professor at Colorado College, said—in her lecture titled “Teaching to and through Social Justice”—she realized early in her teaching career that the experiences her students had outside of the classroom greatly impacted the manner in which they absorbed new information.
Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal includes a 5 percent tuition cut for all in-state undergraduates in the UW System and $42.5 million more in funding that is tied to performance. The tuition cut would take place during the 2018-’19 academic school year, while the in-state tuition freeze continues for the first year of the new biennial budget.
Experts discussed Islamophobia, which they noted has been apparent in the media following President Donald Trump’s inauguration. However, Director of the cosponsor UW-Madison Middle East Studies Program Névine El-Nossery said in her introduction that the term is not new.
Wendt told the committee that the most significant change to the UW System gave greater authority to administration in the review process. Under the Board’s policy, findings from a review by other faculty members would be given to the Dean of the department who would have final say.
St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison is among 21 Wisconsin health centers fined in recent years for failing to comply with a state law requiring facilities to offer emergency contraceptives to rape victims. A state law put into effect in 2008 requires hospital staff to provide victims with information about emergency contraceptives, let them know the drugs are available within the facility and dispense them upon request.
Democratic lawmakers seized the opportunity to move toward the legalization of medical marijuana in Wisconsin after a prominent state Republican expressed openness to the legislation.
A UW-Madison student reported that a man touched and tried to kiss her without her consent in Grainger Hall Monday, according to a UW-Madison Police Department crime alert. The student said an unknown man approached her at approximately 3 p.m. and began touching her back. He then attempted to kiss her, after which she left the room and then the man eventually left the area.
Daniel Dropik, a computer science student, originally sparked outrage when he handed out flyers advertising the group and urging students to “fight anti-white racism.”
The UW-Stout representatives said they hoped to purchase green energy but were told that they could not use segregated fees to purchase energy generated outside of the University.
Three days before his official budget address, Gov. Scott Walker boasted Sunday that his 2017-’19 budget will invest more money into K-12 education than any other budget in Wisconsin history.
Republican legislators recently reintroduced three bills to enforce harsher penalties for repeat drunk driving offenders, among others to make Wisconsin’s roads safer. The bills, introduced by Rep.
Echoing the concerns of Mayor Paul Soglin, a Madison city attorney cautioned against the adoption of a resolution labeling part of the City-County Building a “safe space.”
One hundred sixty-eight years ago, the inaugural group of Badgers sat down for the first classes at UW-Madison.
JANESVILLE, Wis.—In a demonstration that Janesville police said dwarfed any they’d seen, residents of south-central Wisconsin and beyond marched to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s constituent office Saturday to protest his stance on President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. About 1,000 people—most residents from the area but some coming from as far as Chicago and Eau Claire—convened at 12 p.m.
UW-Madison students can reduce the environmental footprint of buildings on campus with the help of $50,000 of funding from the Office of Sustainability’s Green Fund. The application for the first year of the UW Green Fund, which will support student-initiated projects, opened Jan..
Braving frigid February temperatures, UW-Madison students rallied Friday morning against President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policies.
While national rates of smoking are steadily declining, a study released Thursday says the number of nicotine sales to minors in Madison is the highest since 2015. Almost one out of five Madison tobacco retailers willingly sold nicotine products to minors, according to the study, which was conducted by the Public Health Madison & Dane County and the Wisconsin Wins tobacco prevention program. Out of 208 tobacco retailers in Dane County given unannounced compliance checks by PHMDC, 19 percent of the establishments sold tobacco to underage volunteers who attempted to solicit illegal nicotine products, including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, loose tobacco and electronic cigarettes.
Jeff Block, head coach and one of the founding member of the club baseball team, published a petition online early this week calling on Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez to reinstate baseball as a varsity sport. After four days of being live the petition already has more than 1,000 signatures.
Shortly after taking a defiant stance toward a series of immigration-related executive orders signed last week, Mayor Paul Soglin is offering a more cautious tone on related funding threats to Madison posed by state legislators.
Following last week’s announcement of a pay increase, graduate student assistants met and discussed proposals for restructuring their stipend rates Thursday night, during a teach-in panel discussion organized by Teaching Assistants’ Association.
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