Students discussed legislation regarding the Finance Committee at the Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council meeting Wednesday.
UW-Madison professor Sara Goldrick-Rab announced Monday she will be leaving the university, pointedly criticizing recent changes in tenure and academic freedoms for faculty. Goldrick-Rab said although her extensive research and questions surrounding public higher education were initially welcomed by UW-Madison leadership, the university has quickly become a place where faculty members are chastised for speaking out. “Leadership continues to assert its commitments to tolerance,” Goldrick-Rab wrote in a post for the online forum Medium.
Candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court JoAnne Kloppenburg and Rebecca Bradley met Wednesday at the Milwaukee Bar Association’s Supreme Court Judicial Forum to promote their campaigns before the April 5 election.
Davonte King, 21, turned himself in Tuesday after the Madison Police Department had spent a month looking for a suspect related to shots fired Feb.
With mental health care costs expected to soar in coming decades, world leaders in science and health looked for ways to improve global happiness and well-being at a Wednesday panel discussion featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Tuesday that would remove requirements for hiring vocational teachers, despite arguments by critics that the legislation waters down the quality of teaching. The legislation, authored by state Sen.
UW-Madison has increased its available summer scholarships from $25,000 to $250,000 as an incentive for students to enroll in the summer term, according to a university news release.
UW-Madison alumni Ricky and Mara Sandler donated $1.5 million to the university’s Educational Innovation Initiative’s REACH project, according to a university news release.
The Wisconsin-based grassroots organization Better With Bernie invited the public to celebrate the opening of its Madison office Tuesday afternoon after Sanders shocked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by narrowly winning the Michigan primary.
An Illinois developer is planning a proposal for a new 4-6 story apartment building on the northwest corner of Broom Street and West Washington Avenue.
Madison police arrested Darrick R. Thompson, 21, for shooting a 20-year-old man in the leg Monday, according to an incident report. The Violent Crimes Unit investigated the south-side shooting after shots were reported and the victim showed up at the hospital with a gun wound around 12:30 p.m.
UW-Madison announced Tuesday UW-Madison junior Alexander Fish died unexpectedly over the weekend while studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain.
Charming a sold-out crowd of more than 1,000 people with a charismatic, joyful attitude, His Holiness the Dalai Lama emphasized a need for religious coexistence and strengthening Tibetan identity Tuesday at the Madison Masonic Center. His remarks are part of a string of public appearances in Madison this week as part of during the religious leader’s 10th visit to the area. “We should make this a century of love, a century of compassionate love,” he said.
The City of Madison Forestry Section has confirmed multiple new cases of emerald ash borer, according to a release.
The UW Foundation announced Friday that the Great People Scholarship has raised $44 million to provide aid for low-income UW-Madison students since the gift matching initiative began. More than 21,000 alumni have donated to the Great People Scholarship since the UW Foundation Board of Regents allocated $20 million to match gifts for need-based scholarships in 2008, according to a university release.
UW-Madison spin-off company WeightUp Solutions has developed computerized monitors to track weightlifting, a system that is currently being used by the UW-Oshkosh football team.
State Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley came under fire Monday after a liberal advocacy group released an editorial penned by the justice in which she described the actions of gay members within her college community as “immoral.” One Wisconsin Now released the letter to the editor that Bradley wrote as a college student at Marquette University 24 years ago.
A man was hospitalized after his arm was slashed with a box cutter early Sunday morning during a disturbance at a bar on Madison’s west side, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
Before an upcoming Board of Regents meeting concerning tenure policies, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute released a report providing various recommendations for revised measures surrounding tenure.
MTV’s “Real World” is coming to UW-Madison Wednesday for an open casting call Wednesday to potentially find strangers to be featured on the 32nd season of the hit reality TV show. The show, which is the longest-running program in MTV history, has often been cited as the show that kick-started modern reality TV.
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