At a last-minute press conference Monday, Mayor Paul Soglin introduced a set of substitute amendments to both the proposed 2013 operating and capital budgets, one of which would increase how much funding the city will allocate to the Overture Center for the Arts.
The Academic Staff Assembly voted Monday to support the implementation of the Human Resources redesign, becoming the first campus governing body to formally accept the plan thus far.
A joint city and campus area planning committee met Monday to review construction and renovation projects around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
As part of the Associated Students of Madison’s Shared Governance Week of Action, a panel of University of Wisconsin-Madison campus leaders addressed diversity and climate issues Monday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was named among the top 10 universities in the nation Monday for the number of students studying abroad for 2010-’11 academic year, according to the 2012 Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange.
Madison police arrested a Madison man for beating another man on the 400 block of West Gilman Street early Sunday morning.
The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives and First Wave dedicated their eighth-annual “Passing the Mic” showcase to the late First Wave performer John “Vietnam” Nguyen, who drowned in Lake Mendota in August.
The Badger Herald will discontinue printing Friday issues of its newspaper beginning this week.
Tuesday night’s election results were a ringing reminder for the Republican Party that it has had a difficult time finding an appealing message for young voters since the late 1980s, as exit polls showed President Barack Obama won the 18-to-29-year-old demographic.
Madison’s city Council will deliberate and vote on Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed operating and capital budgets for 2013, including a set of amendments packaged together, during three upcoming meetings this week.
University officials have begun work on a new diversity plan they hope to finish by the end of the Spring 2013 semester.
After the city of Madison issued an eviction notice for Occupy Madison members to vacate a site on East Washington Avenue Wednesday, the group set up camp at a county park Saturday.
As renting season nears for students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, the Associated Students of Madison and the university’s Campus Area Housing program are collaborating to host the 2012 Student Housing Fair Monday from 3 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. in Union South’s Varsity Hall.
Over the next week the Associated Students of Madison student government will host four public forums to solicit student input on campus issues.
A county court charged a former University of Wisconsin-Madison plant researcher Friday with two felonies for allegedly growing marijuana in a university lab.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Professor Scott Straus created and coordinated a workshop in October to help agencies within the U.S. government better understand the causes of genocide and ways to suppress it.
Local music artists expressed concern with Mayor Paul Soglin’s plan to implement a free city-wide music festival in 2013 at a town hall meeting Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents discussed Thursday the national and state higher education climate in relation to economic development—a topic that Board of Regents President Brent Smith said will be brought up in many upcoming board meetings.
Construction on the renovation of the 100 block of State Street began Thursday and is expected to be completed in the the spring of 2014, according to the Block 100 Foundation.
Following President Barack Obama’s re-election Tuesday night, Gov. Scott Walker now faces a political challenge he has avoided addressing: implementing the Affordable Care Act in Wisconsin.
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