Tuition within the University of Wisconsin System will likely be frozen for the next two years after the state’s Joint Finance Committee approved an omnibus motion May 23 relating to the UW System, but other portions of the approved motion have UW students, specifically those associated with United Council, worried.
A Wisconsin appeals court reversed a lower court’s ruling Thursday in a decision that found the state’s controversial voter ID law, which requires voters to show a photo ID before voting, to be constitutional.
A 20-year-old woman awoke to an intruder in her College Court residence early Sunday morning, according to a police report. The burglar allegedly “growled” at the woman before fleeing with her roommate’s laptop, the report said.
As the Joint Finance Committee debated and ultimately passed a budgetary motion to freeze tuition and reduce proposed funding for the University of Wisconsin System Thursday, it also passed a provision that could mean United Council, a representative body for students in the system’s universities, would have to operate under a much smaller budget.
Multiple streets that serve the downtown and campus area will be closed during the upcoming holiday weekend to accommodate runners participating in two races.
The Joint Finance Committee approved a two-year tuition freeze and several other funding decreases to the University of Wisconsin System Thursday as part of a change to Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police arrested a 19-year-old UW-Madison student Saturday after the student set fire to a bulletin board in Sellery Hall, according to UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott.
Star of the cult hit comedy “Workaholics” and 2003 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate Anders Holm did not stray from his hallmark brand of getting-as-close-to-the-line-without-crossing-it humor as he delivered a pop culture-soaked and heartfelt commencement speech to UW-Madison’s class of 2013 at the Kohl Center Saturday.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, spoke at the Overture Center for the Arts during part of his two-day visit to Madison. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center along with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute sponsored the Dalai Lama’s Overture panel as a part of the Change Your Mind, Change The World tour, focused on a message that people’s minds can be trained just like muscles.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, spoke at the Overture Center for the Arts during part of his two-day visit to Madison. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center along with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute sponsored the Dalai Lama’s Overture panel as a part of the Change Your Mind, Change The World tour, focused on a message that people’s minds and brains can be trained just like muscles.
Gov. Scott Walker officially called for a tuition freeze and an overall decrease in funding for schools within the University of Wisconsin System Wednesday, after an April 19 audit memo reported the system holds approximately $1 billion in surplus revenue as of June 2012.
The Dalai Lama stopped into the Wisconsin state Assembly chambers Tuesday as part of his Change Your Mind Change The World tour to deliver an approximately 20-minute speech peppered with jokes and his distinctive chuckles, which hit on the need for unity and compassion among state legislators.
Nev Singh grew up in Winona, Minnesota, but when it came time to choose a college she knew the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities was not for her.
Wisconsin will likely have more spending money over the next three years, which could allow Gov. Scott Walker and state legislators to increase funding for education and other state initiatives, according to new estimates released from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau Thursday.
The Student Services Finance Committee elected representatives to three leadership positions, including Rep. David Vines as committee chair, in its first meeting of the twentieth session Thursday.
Associated Students of Madison Chair David Gardner released a statement Wednesday urging state legislators to vote down a bill he and other ASM members say will hurt communication between landlords and tenants.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council appointed Rep. Mia Akers to the position of vice chair Monday, ending a deadlock with Rep. Sarah Neibart, which carried over from the first meeting of the 20th session held last Wednesday.
The final Faculty Senate meeting of the academic year lasted over two hours Monday, resulting in discussions of the recent student sit-in in Chancellor David Ward’s office and increasing teaching assistant compensation, as well as extensive questioning of multiple annual committee reports, including transportation budgets and faculty compensation.
Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward provided clarification about the university’s recently discovered surplus funds in Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting, saying a majority of the balances will be used as financial aid resources.
1.UW Regents appoint Rebecca Blank as next UW-Madison chancellor
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