Several UW-Madison students sat down with U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., Sunday in Union South to plan how to best unite students for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election.
During the student lease turn-over process, residents on the UW-Madison campus may find themselves left with unwanted items as they move from one location to the next. An estimated 20,000 students will participate in the moving process over the next two weeks.
As she prepares to step into her new role as UW-Madison’s director of community relations, Leslie Orrantia is poised to send a message of collaboration between the university and all of Dane County.
The UW System will request a slight budget increase in the 2017-’19 state budget, according to a preliminary proposal released to reporters Tuesday. The proposal requests an addition $42.5 million in additional state aid, a step up from the last budget where state universities saw their budget reduced by $250 million. The UW System is also requesting an end to the in-state tuition freeze, which has kept tuition for Wisconsin residents at roughly $10,000 over the past four years.
GREEN BAY, Wis.—Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump officially endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan of Janesville Friday at a rally in Green Bay. After months of heavy contention between Trump and Ryan, the move suggests efforts to bring the party together.
Gov. Scott Walker has indicated a desire to continue a freeze on in-state tuition at UW System schools, according to a letter released to state agencies last month. In the document, Walker said his 2017-’19 biennium budget proposal would freeze tuition to help preserve the accessibility of higher education in the Badger State “To build on our commitment to student success, we must extend the tuition freeze,” Walker wrote in the July 25 letter.
UW-Madison students may need to re-register to vote in the Aug. 9 primary election, according to a UW-Madison news release. Students who were registered previously but have moved more than 28 days before Aug. 9 must re-register at their current address. Students who moved less than 28 days prior to Election Day may use their previous address.
PHILADELPHIA—In the most important speech of her long and decorated political life, Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for president Thursday night by attempting to offer the American public a more optimistic look at what she had in store for the country.
In his first solo appearance since he became the official running mate of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence assured a crowd at the Waukesha County Expo Center Wednesday that Trump “gets it.”
In a match entering its third round Wednesday night, the Democratic Party brought out its biggest names to highlight their reasons for backing presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
PHILADELPHIA—U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., reflected on her experience this week at the Democratic National Convention, where the party officially nominated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the country’s first female presidential nominee.
PHILADELPHIA—One hundred and nine nominees have been selected by their party to run for the nation’s highest office. And each and every one of them had been a man. Hillary Clinton changed that Tuesday evening.
PHILADELPHIA—A group of delegates to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders staged a walk-out at the Wells Fargo Center and held a sit-in at the media center next door. Police had to create a human wall around the pavilion in order to stop more protesters from going inside.
PHILADELPHIA—Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders addressed the Wisconsin delegation Monday morning, a day after he gave a speech attempting to rally his populist backers around presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention.
PHILADELPHIA—Despite a day of infighting, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders did his best to project an appearance of party unity at the Democratic National Convention, giving a full-throated endorsement of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a prime-time address.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has begun a fourth investigation to analyze UW-Madison’s handling of sexual assault cases.
François Ortalo-Magné, dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, will end his tenure at UW-Madison in the summer of 2017 to assume his new role as dean of the London Business School.
A Bassett Street resident called Madison police to report an intruder in their house early Monday morning—just blocks away from the Southeast part of UW-Madison’s campus.
Thousands of delegates, reporters and protesters are descending on Philadelphia for the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
The first of the 2016 nominating conventions is in the books and the attention of the political world now shifts to Philadelphia and the Democratic National Convention.
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