Despite drops in voter turnout, UW-Madison students and faculty are taking steps to get more people to the polls this November.
With the recent restructuring of the UW System and decrease in enrollment at UW Colleges, there has been turmoil regarding the effect of higher education on the state’s economy and its role going forward.
A new initiative meant to enhance the faculty recruitment process by attracting staff from underrepresented populations was introduced at the Faculty of Color reception Tuesday.
UW-Milwaukee has officially welcomed UW-Waukesha and UW-Washington County as satellite campuses as a result of the extensive UW System restructuring adopted in July.
Many UW-Madison students, faculty and staff are in support of a tobacco-free campus, according to a recent survey. A Tobacco-Free Columbia-Dane County Coalition survey distributed in October 2017, in partnership with Public Health Madison and Dane County and the UW-Madison SPARK organization, found that 81 percent of student respondents support the campus going tobacco-free.
UW-Madison celebrated a 3.8 percent increase in enrollment in the largest class the university has ever seen.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank may be recalled to testify in a National Collegiate Athletic Association antitrust trial after her testimony and a university statement conflicted. Last week, Blank was a witness in a case brought against the NCAA by Division I student-athletes to determine whether the NCAA can limit compensation for athletes to the full cost of their attendance fees.
Three grants that could forward research in quantum physics and technology at UW-Madison were secured by university researchers, the National Science Foundation announced today.
Student employees of the Wisconsin Union were ecstatic upon news of a pay raise, only to be let down when they were informed that certain units wouldn’t receive the raise.
UW-Eau Claire Student Senate drafted their support for the Public Excessive Intoxication Ordinance that could bring awareness toward extreme alcohol abuse.
For students with special learning needs, a new online portal has replaced — and, coordinators say, hopefully streamlined — the in-paper accommodations McBurney request process.
More than 50 students and community members’ bodies lay crumpled across the Capitol rotunda Sunday during a die-in held in protest of last week’s gun violence nationwide.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson will promote industry-student communication and job searching in his new role with the Wisconsin universities’ business council, UW System President Ray Cross announced Friday.
As research and Science,Technology, Engineering and Math programs find their place across UW campuses, administrators and legislators remain hopeful for prosperous job opportunities following graduation.
As students break in the new academic year and legislation gains momentum, concern to remain neutral is always in the back of Student Services Finance Committee representatives’ minds.
The fate of the Black Lives Matter sign that hung in the Associated Students of Madison office window until last summer is uncertain as the council debates its suitability on the prominent location.
For some Badgers fans, a surprise loss to Brigham Young University was made worse by an emergency stint in an onsite medical cooling facility, after they spent an afternoon watching the second hottest game ever played at Camp Randall Stadium.
Women in the workplace still contend with unwanted advances from male colleagues, which hits close to home as the UW System opens a third investigation into a sexual harassment case at UW-Whitewater.
UW-Madison engineering students are continuing to help the women of a Kenyan village, with an invention they initially developed last year that allows the women to carry water on their backs.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health have partnered with Facebook in a $1 million study on the correlation between social media use and mental health in teenagers.
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