UW-Madison Police Department Chief Susan Riesling addressed issues of campus sexual assault at the semester’s first Associated Students of Madison Student Council meeting Wednesday.
With the Economic Policy Institute reporting that chief executive officers of companies earn on average three times more than they did 20 years ago and 303 times more than their employees, the American wealth gap is growing.
UW-Madison students flooded Badger Volunteers registration this weekend, with more than 500 students signing up within the first 24 hours.
Funding for fully-endowed professorships, chairs and distinguished chairs at UW-Madison has reached nearly $250 million following John and Tashia Morgridge’s donation challenge to alumni last November, according to a Tuesday press release.
All I wanted was a bunch of cheap tacos. That’s why I went to Chaser’s that night. Not to get drunk, not even to have fun, just for mildly good, cheap food. And up until right before I walked out I was successful in that endeavor. But then he did it. Some guy who I will never know, never be able to confront, never be able to pick out of a crowd, grabbed my girlfriend’s butt. I became immediately anxious, confused and enraged, unsure of where my emotions were or where they were taking me. I looked to her and yelled, “Who did this?” The bar, however, was too crowded for even her to identify the man who had violated her. Probably prompted by the look of shock on my face, she leaned in and said, over the noise, “this kind of stuff happens all the time.”
As the UW-Madison community settles back into campus life for another school year, thousands of students are facing the possible elimination of one of the oldest federal loan programs in the country. UW-Madison is one of approximately 1,700 public and private U.S.
The UW-Madison Police Department sent a crime notice Sunday alerting students to a sexual assault on campus. The reported assault occurred early Sunday morning in a university residence hall.
As classes began Wednesday, more than 2,000 undergraduate students filed into crowded lecture sections of Chemistry 103, one of the largest courses at UW-Madison. Making classes like these feel smaller is the goal of a new campus-wide initiative aimed at enriching student learning.
UW-Madison professor Ned Kalin will be accepting an award in Amsterdam this week for his work with anxiety and depression, according to a university statement released Wednesday.
The UW-Madison campus, spanning more than 930 acres of land and several zip codes, is home to many places that act as epicenters of campus life while drawing students together with the local community. Between the two student unions, more than 40 libraries and countless other popular spots, student life centers around the signature places that make up campus.
UW System professors no longer have tenure defined by state statutes as a result of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-’17 budget, which has left some worrying that university faculty and researchers will leave to find more secure jobs elsewhere.
Gov. Scott Walker signed the biennial state budget in Waukesha July 12, revealing the exact effects it will have on the UW-Madison community.
A currently unidentified individual called Dane County Dispatch around 7 p.m. Saturday saying he has a gun inside UW-Madison’s Helen C. White Library.
The Dane County Sheriff’s Department found the body of a missing man Monday morning in Lake Mendota, according to a university release.
The UW System Board of Regents centered Thursday meeting discussion around a recent update to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget, which included a detailed description of a multiple-request motion passed during the May 29 Joint Finance Committee meeting.
The state Joint Finance Committee supported changes to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget Friday, through a GOP budget motion that restores $50 million from initial proposals back into the UW System.
Camp Randall Stadium swelled with anticipation as watchful eyes turned to the intimidating cloud coverage Saturday morning and soon-to-be graduates compulsively checked the weather forecast.
UW-Madison Police Department officers tasered and arrested a man on the Memorial Union Terrace Wednesday afternoon.
The Associated Students of Madison University Affairs Committee was successful in its final campaign of the semester, expanding language certificates to include Russian, Italian and East Central European Languages.
Patrick Sims has been chosen as the new vice provost and chief diversity officer of UW-Madison Wednesday, after holding the interim position since 2013, according to a university release.
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