This is especially true for Wisconsin’s neighbor and football rival to the west, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. The University of Minnesota Board of Regents followed suit with other midwestern schools when the body voted to raise the undergraduate tuition on all of its campuses at a special meeting last week.
Dozens of people crowded around a single refrigerator loaded with an assortment of vegetables on the third floor of the Student Activity Center Friday for the grand opening of the UW Food Shed.
UW-Madison faculty and staff will receive a 2 percent increase in wage compensation for the next two years, which UW System Ray Cross said “represents the largest investment the State has made in UW employees in more than a decade.”
Sarah Van Orman, director of University Health Services, will leave the university this week after 10 years of service, UW-Madison announced Tuesday.
After hours of waiting and technical difficulties, UW-Madison announced Monday that undergraduate student football tickets have sold out for the 25th consecutive season.
The letter encouraged taking the lives of “rioters,” urging citizens to put “holes in the bodies of such thugs.”
In February 2015, Gov. Scott Walker proposed a revision of the Wisconsin Idea, the 110-year-old guiding principle of the UW System, that would have emphasized career preparation over academic pursuits.
A student government disbandment hasn’t happened since 1993 when the Wisconsin Student Association—UW-Madison’s previous student governance group—dissolved.
The inevitable closure of the Southeast Recreational Facility—commonly known as the SERF—is quickly approaching. The UW-Madison Division of Recreational Sports announced Friday that the popular facility will officially close Aug. 18.
The Board of Regents’ leadership has turned over with former Vice President John Behling replacing former President Regina Millner as head of the governing body for the UW System.
An appeal against the expulsion of Alec Cook—a former UW-Madison student currently facing 21 criminal charges after 10 women came forward to report sexual assault or harassment—has been denied, and a second appeal is pending.
In a controversial decision that sparked national protests, President Donald Trump officially withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord Wednesday. The decision comes months after working to dismantle multiple Obama administration climate change efforts including the Clean Power Plan and other EPA regulations on coal and oil.
A person was struck and killed by a boat while windsurfing on Lake Mendota Wednesday evening.
A UW-Madison student suffered “significant injuries” in a hit-and-run Friday morning, according to the Madison Police Department.
UW System schools may have to change the way they use segregated fees after state lawmakers approved a measure Thursday requiring the Board of Regents to revise fee policies.
A former UW-Madison running back and first-round NFL draft pick has been sentenced to five years in California prison after pleading no contest to multiple felonies including identity theft and burglary.
Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Tommy Thompson’s inauguration, state government leaders and UW-Madison officials announced plans Tuesday to open a leadership center on campus named after the former Wisconsin governor.
The state’s Joint Finance Committee decided Tuesday to postpone a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget for the UW System, with Republicans in a disagreement over tuition rates.
An attempted sexual assault allegedly occurred Thursday in a university building on the west side of campus, according to a crime warning from the UW-Madison Police Department.
UW-Madison’s official Twitter account is the latest account to fall victim to hackers, as everal obscenity-riddled tweets were issued from the university’s account early this morning. “[The hack] looks like it happened about 6:30 this morning central time,” UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith McGlone said.
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