The Student Services Finance Committee approved the eligibility of an organization that helps students develop leadership skills on campus, opening up the opportunity for the group to fund future programs. The Student Leadership Program focuses on helping students with professional and leadership development.
In an effort to register millennials to vote before the upcoming election in November, Rock the Vote visited campus as part of their cross country tour. Rock the Vote, a non-profit, non-partisan organization, is the largest national voter drive group specifically helping millennials to register and get to the polls.
UW-Madison prides itself for being one of the premier state schools in the nation. Data released by the university Friday, however, highlights just how much support the school needs from students outside of Wisconsin. Of the 7,521 new freshman and transfer students on campus this fall, more than 32 percent are from states other than Wisconsin or Minnesota, or from outside the country.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday to end the controversy surrounding the John Doe saga, opting not to hear a legal challenge to extend the investigation of Governor.
A 35-year-old man was taken into protective custody at the Copps Food Center Oct. 2 by police after a report that a man was feeling suicidal.
Democrat Russ Feingold got a boost Monday in his bid to oust U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., after a national group supporting Johnson said they would pull most of their TV ads in the state. The National Republican Senatorial Committee announced they would cancel more than $800,000 in ads.
Two groups of men had a loud argument early Sunday morning that led to one man pulling a knife and making threatening statements outside of the 415 Lake St. parking garage.
One of the first discoveries of solar energy was made in a UW-Madison lab and sketched to artistically explain the concept.
UW-Madison students could be grabbing their Amazon packages from Sellery Residence Hall, Memorial Library or the University Bookstore, among other new options, for the corporation’s on-campus pickup point, student leader Omer Arain said Sunday.
Within the past year, protesters at UW-Madison have struggled to achieve change. Actually providing the change they strive for on campus can prove to be a similarly frustrating pursuit for administrators. The person whose job entails fighting for diversity and inclusion-related activities at the university is Patrick Sims, the chief diversity officer at UW-Madison. In an article titled “What is a Chief Diversity Officer?” Damon Williams, a prominent researcher on the position, describes it as someone who always treats diversity as a top priority, “where others [in administration] work on issues of diversity as a matter of second or third priority.” The equity and inclusion committee chair for Associated Students of Madison during the 2015-’16 academic year, Mariam Coker, said many students do not realize the dynamic between Sims and the rest of senior administration on issues of diversity. “Something that students need to realize with Patrick Sims’ position is that he is the only person at the admin level dealing with these types of issues,” Coker said in an April 10 interview with The Daily Cardinal.
UW System students will have the chance to attend one of the world’s most innovative campuses, as the system ranked 13th in Reuters’ 2016 list of top 100 innovative universities.
A federal judge ordered an investigation calling into question a possible state violation after a homeless man received voter ID misinformation at the Madison Division of Motor Vehicles. Zack Moore, 34, recently relocated to Madison and went to the DMV Sept.
Madison Police Department officers received information Friday regarding several “persons of interest” that led to multiple people being taken into custody. Officers were told Friday several people were in the area of Hanson Road and Portage Road. “When officers stopped the vehicle multiple subjects fled into the nearby wooded area.
The 400 block of West Mifflin Street, which sits between North Broom Street and North Bassett Street, will close Tuesday for utility work. Corex, the company that will be doing the utility work, expects the closure to last from 8:30 a.m.
A Honda Civic struck a pole head-first on the corner of University Avenue and Whitney Way early Saturday morning, sending the driver to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
UW-Madison Police Department held its first Active Shooter Response training session Wednesday that taught students, faculty and staff what to do if a mass shooting were to occur on campus.
The UW-Madison Campus Women’s Center obtained its eligibility to be funded by student segregated fees after pitching its programs and goals for the upcoming school year.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced his nearly $584 million 2017 budget Thursday, highlighting initiatives to combat homelessness, opiate use and mental health. Parisi created an initiative in his 2014 budget that brought mental health crisis teams to local schools to work with kids, parents and teachers.
The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute released a report Thursday that calls for a restructuring of the entire UW System, citing delayed graduation and high transfer and dropout rates among students as reason for this reform.
Assembly Democrats announced Thursday they would urge Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne to investigate campaign finance violations by Gov.
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