For both groups, the number of salaried weeks was decreased from 33 weeks to 30 for the duration of the school year, and their summer hours were decreased from 12 hours to 10 hours a week as well.
A long-planned Madison Public Market has shifted locations, reverting the project's status back to renovation rather than new construction. Previously, the city placed a bid to construct the market along East Washington Avenue, though it that bid is being dropped, according to Anne Reynolds, chair of Madison's Public Market Development Committee. The new site is situated on the corner of North First and East Johnson Streets, across from the previous location.
As the holiday season continues, the reality of food insecurity in Madison is more prevalent than ever.
UW-Madison will work to boost accessibility and eliminate the achievement gap — which are often attributed to race and socioeconomic status — in a new initiative led by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. The effort, which is known as Powered by Publics: Scaling Student Success is the largest collaborative effort in the country garnered toward improving college access and equity, as well as the number of degrees awarded each year. The participating institutions will break down into “clusters” ranging from four to 12 universities to discuss and implement practices that will encourage success for students pursuing a degree.
Dozens of people fled after gunshots rang out in front of a downtown bar early Sunday morning, Madison police said. The shots were fired around 2 a.m.
A federal district court has mandated that the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the university’s licensing and patenting arm, pay Washington University in St. Louis $31.6 million dollars for breaching a royalties contract related to selling a kidney disease drug.
As part of an extraordinary session while Gov. Scott Walker remains in office, GOP leaders aim to pass a series of reforms this week to significantly disempower newly-elected state Democrats as well as boost their electoral chances down the road.
On Friday, the chapter renounced their student organization status in a letter to Chancellor Rebecca Blank. This comes after nearly a year of investigation into the fraternity following multiple allegations of misconduct.
Dane County will continue efforts to provide more affordable housing by granting more than $400,000 to help develop a housing project in east Madison, County Executive Joe Parisi announced Thursday. The project, which has been partially paid for using the city of Madison’s affordable housing funds and low-income housing tax credits from the state, aims to create 68 units of affordable housing, with 16 of those being reserved for homeless families and veterans.
The UW-Madison Student Pre-Health Committee held a Health Disparities Lecture that was open to the public on Thursday night in Grainger Hall.
A team at UW-Madison has recently developed a wound-dressing that could speed up the healing process of injuries, both temporary and chronic. The bandage was created by UW-Madison materials science and engineering professor Xudong Wang along with his team of researchers.
In the wake of a recent report which warned that the effects of climate change are already being felt across the U.S., State Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., called for a wider acknowledgement of the problem and stronger political response to it.
About 53,000 Wisconsin children, or 3.9 percent, did not have health coverage in 2017, a slight increase from the previous year, according to the report.
The City of Madison is initiating an effort to clean up the city’s water supply after two wells tested positive for small amounts of contamination. Both contaminated wells contained small amounts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), man-made chemicals used in textile manufacturing and firefighting foams.
For inviting a porn star as a college speaker on campus, UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow received a reprimand letter from UW System President Ray Cross earlier this month. Gow invited Nina Hartley, a 59-year-old former porn actress, to speak about female empowerment and consent, as well as the distinction between porn and reality.
Few band directors get the chance to teach the children of former students. Even fewer directors have conducted their students’ grandchildren, maintaining leadership long enough to influence decades of performers.
On Nov. 12, UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson released a proposal that would eliminate six humanities majors. Two weeks later, faculty have propelled a movement calling for his resignation.
With a large number of the most hostile and unequal cities in the country for black residents, experts in Wisconsin look for answers in history and solutions in policy.
Ald. David Ahrens announced Tuesday he would not be running for re-election this spring. Ahrens has represented District 15 since 2013.
The plan will require faculty to disclose employees’ sexual misconduct histories to future employers during reference checks, share information across campuses and make sexual misconduct investigations part of their own hiring process, in an effort to end the phenomenon that some have called “passing the harasser.”
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