Gov. Scott Walker officially called for a tuition freeze and an overall decrease in funding for schools within the University of Wisconsin System Wednesday, after an April 19 audit memo reported the system holds approximately $1 billion in surplus revenue as of June 2012.
The Dalai Lama stopped into the Wisconsin state Assembly chambers Tuesday as part of his Change Your Mind Change The World tour to deliver an approximately 20-minute speech peppered with jokes and his distinctive chuckles, which hit on the need for unity and compassion among state legislators.
Nev Singh grew up in Winona, Minnesota, but when it came time to choose a college she knew the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities was not for her.
Wisconsin will likely have more spending money over the next three years, which could allow Gov. Scott Walker and state legislators to increase funding for education and other state initiatives, according to new estimates released from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau Thursday.
The Student Services Finance Committee elected representatives to three leadership positions, including Rep. David Vines as committee chair, in its first meeting of the twentieth session Thursday.
Associated Students of Madison Chair David Gardner released a statement Wednesday urging state legislators to vote down a bill he and other ASM members say will hurt communication between landlords and tenants.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council appointed Rep. Mia Akers to the position of vice chair Monday, ending a deadlock with Rep. Sarah Neibart, which carried over from the first meeting of the 20th session held last Wednesday.
The final Faculty Senate meeting of the academic year lasted over two hours Monday, resulting in discussions of the recent student sit-in in Chancellor David Ward’s office and increasing teaching assistant compensation, as well as extensive questioning of multiple annual committee reports, including transportation budgets and faculty compensation.
Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward provided clarification about the university’s recently discovered surplus funds in Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting, saying a majority of the balances will be used as financial aid resources.
1.UW Regents appoint Rebecca Blank as next UW-Madison chancellor
When Equinox first opened in August 2006, Madison Property Management rented out the entire building in one week. As of May 5, 2013, Equinox still has 28 units available for August 2013. Another MPM complex located at 420 West Gorham has 15 units remaining.
The low turnout and peaceful, law-abiding nature of 2013 Mifflin Street Block Party attendees allowed police to send officers home earlier than expected, lessening the cost to tax-payers and inspiring the city to look into decreasing patrol levels at future Mifflin Street Block Parties, according to Madison Police Department Lt. Dave McCaw.
University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Julia Sprangers is scheduled to appear on “Jeopardy!” Monday after she flew to the game show’s home in Los Angeles from Spain, where she is studying abroad for the semester, according to The Wisconsin State Journal.
Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget proposal to expand private school vouchers in the state has already sparked criticism among state legislators, but the expansion could have a more local effect given one of the proposed districts for expansion is Madison.
David Ward first arrived on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in the ’60s, and says he remembers fellow students taking on the civil rights movement and Vietnam War.
The Revelry Music and Arts Festival took place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Saturday and drew a large number of students, despite a rainy start to the day.
Studying abroad presents an opportunity for students to plant themselves in foreign countries among unfamiliar cultures to experience something new and gain perspective, and many students find that experience here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Despite their arrest at the 2012 Mifflin Street Block Party and the Madison Police Department’s promise of a stricter, zero tolerance policy, some of the 103 students arrested last year plan to celebrate all the same, if not with little more discretion.
Faced with declining levels of state funding and higher operating costs, universities across the country are increasing tuition to maintain sustainable operations. But another trend follows nationwide at colleges such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where some students rely on higher-interest private loans to fund their way through college because federal loans have not kept up with tuition hikes.
Harry Markopolos, the former securities industry executive who uncovered Bernie Madoff’s wealth-management business Ponzi scheme, visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spoke with students Thursday.
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