The United States Supreme Court overturned the federal Defense of Marriage Act in one of two decisions regarding the rights of LGBT individuals to marry Wednesday, leaving the final decision on recognizing gay marriage, which Wisconsin currently does not, to the states.
The White House named the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a partner institution Monday in its Materials Genome Initiative for Global Competitiveness, an effort to maximize the speed with which the nation discovers, develops and produces new material resources that can solve problems in areas ranging from energy and national security to human health and wellness.
The Supreme Court’s ruling on the University of Texas-Austin’s affirmative action policy Monday will likely require no changes to the admissions process at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chancellor David Ward said in a statement.
The state Senate passed the biennial budget by one vote early Friday morning—which includes a provision that would force the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism off the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus—and moves the budget on to Gov. Scott Walker for final consideration.
The state Assembly passed the 2013-’15 budget in a near party-line vote Wednesday, sending the next major decision on issues ranging from private school vouchers to forcing out a nonprofit investigative journalism group from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to the state Senate Thursday.
One of Madison’s most familiar faces may be sticking around City Hall for a little longer. Mayor Paul Soglin, 68, confirmed Friday he will run for re-election in November 2015.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward delivered a letter to Wisconsin legislative leadership Friday encouraging the Joint Finance Committee to remove the amendment in the 2013-’15 state budget requiring the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism to leave its space on UW-Madison’s campus.
UPDATE 6/13/13 7:00 p.m.: Associated Students of Madison Chair David Gardner released a statement Thursday criticizing Gov. Scott Walker’s decision to withdraw his appointment of Joshua Inglett as a student regent.
A University of Wisconsin-Platteville student will fill the Board of Regents seat formerly held by a UW-Madison student, pending approval from the state Senate.
At a Board of Regents meeting held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Thursday, representatives discussed the controversy surrounding the UW System’s $648 million budget surplus, which many called a “teachable moment” in respect to the way the board communicates about finances with legislators and Wisconsin citizens.
The Joint Finance Committee concluded its consideration of the state’s biennial budget in a session that stretched from Tuesday into early Wednesday morning and included committee approvals for some of the most controversial budgetary motions, including those pertaining to declining federal Medicaid expansion money and the full expansion of a private school voucher program.
Wisconsin’s state finance committee voted early Wednesday in favor of ejecting an independent, non-profit investigative journalism organization from its current home on University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus, a decision UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Director Greg Downey said infringes on innovative professional research and academic freedom.
Economics Professor and Department Chair John Karl Scholz is set to be the next dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters & Science, according to a university news release.
UPDATE: 6/04/13 7:00 p.m. The University of Wisconsin-Madison dropped its lawsuit against adidas Monday, in which the university sought to determine if the apparel company had violated its contract with UW-Madison, following a settlement between the apparel company and a union of former workers.
Tuition within the University of Wisconsin System will likely be frozen for the next two years after the state’s Joint Finance Committee approved an omnibus motion May 23 relating to the UW System, but other portions of the approved motion have UW students, specifically those associated with United Council, worried.
A Wisconsin appeals court reversed a lower court’s ruling Thursday in a decision that found the state’s controversial voter ID law, which requires voters to show a photo ID before voting, to be constitutional.
A 20-year-old woman awoke to an intruder in her College Court residence early Sunday morning, according to a police report. The burglar allegedly “growled” at the woman before fleeing with her roommate’s laptop, the report said.
As the Joint Finance Committee debated and ultimately passed a budgetary motion to freeze tuition and reduce proposed funding for the University of Wisconsin System Thursday, it also passed a provision that could mean United Council, a representative body for students in the system’s universities, would have to operate under a much smaller budget.
Multiple streets that serve the downtown and campus area will be closed during the upcoming holiday weekend to accommodate runners participating in two races.
The Joint Finance Committee approved a two-year tuition freeze and several other funding decreases to the University of Wisconsin System Thursday as part of a change to Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget.
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