by Bill Scott | Apr 17, 2019
The University of Wisconsin last played host to a NCAA men’s hockey regional at the Kohl Center in 2008. The fact that the Kohl Center isn’t a neutral site and is closer to an Olympic size rink, than the preferred NHL-size rink has kept them from hosting...
by Bill Scott | Aug 2, 2016
The Milwaukee Bucks announced on Tuesday that they are returning to Madison for a second straight year and will hold the first week of training camp on the UW campus from Sept. 27-30. The Bucks are also scheduled to play an exhibition game at the Kohl Center on...
by Bill Scott | Nov 16, 2012
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) and the University of Wisconsin agreed to a seven-year contract extension that grants the WIAA availability to campus facilities for hosting high school State championships in boys basketball, football, golf,...
by Bill Scott | Apr 24, 2012
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) is expected to announce today where the state boys and girls basketball tournaments will be held. The WIAA’s Board of Control will hold its meeting at 1pm in Stevens Point and then vote on the...
by Bob Hague | Oct 4, 2011
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is extending UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward’s interim appointment to two years. Ward agreed in June to a one year term as UW’s interim Chancellor following the departure of Chancellor Biddy Martin. He...
by Bob Hague | Sep 20, 2011
All the campuses in the University of Wisconsin System will be banning concealed weapons. “It’s long been effectively state law, that people were not allowed to carry any kind of weapon, a firearm or anything else, on any part of the university’s...
by Bob Hague | Sep 19, 2011
A UW Madison professor has tackled the issue of costly textbooks head-on. Dr. Dr. Timothy Paustian is a UW professor who faced a dilemma — more and more students who could not afford textbooks costing hundreds of dollars. Paustian’s solution was to write...
by Bob Hague | Sep 16, 2011
A ‘rebellion’ against costly college textbooks made a stop Thursday in Madison. UW professor, Dr. Timothy Paustian, said textbooks are being priced out of the reach of many students. “When I was a student, textbooks were 30 or 50 dollars. That seemed...
by Bob Hague | Sep 13, 2011
A report from a conservative think tank criticizes the admissions policies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the group’s press conference at an off-campus hotel on Tuesday drew a crowd of protesters. The Center for Equal Opportunity report claims black...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 8, 2011
The head of the state Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee says officials at UW-Green Bay could be breaking the law. Representative Steve Nass has canceled an Assembly committee public hearing after hearing of a UW-Green Bay vice-chancellor receiving both a...
by Bob Hague | Jul 16, 2011
There’s partisan feuding over everything it seems these days, including the cost of a UW education. Some members of the UW Board of Regents are “crying wolf” about the impact of cuts under the Republican state budget. So says GOP Representative Steve Nass...
by WRN Contributor | Jul 15, 2011
Tuition will go up five-and-a-half percent at University of Wisconsin system campuses this fall, under a budget approved by the Board of Regents Thursday. The vote was 11-4, with John Drew of Milwaukee in opposition. “I have supported similar tuition increases...
by WRN Contributor | Jul 14, 2011
UW System Regents are expected to approve a 5.5 percent tuition hike today. But they won’t be doing so willingly, according to Regent Tom Loftus. “We’ve got no choice,” he said. “Really, the budget is quite a disastrous cut to the...
by Bob Hague | Jun 29, 2011
A former UW Madison chancellor will serve in that post until a replacement is found for Biddy Martin. UW System President Kevin Reilly announced that Chancellor Emeritus David Ward has agreed to serve as UW-Madison’s interim chancellor following the departure of...
by Bob Hague | Jun 20, 2011
The University of Wisconsin System has gotten some of what it wanted from the state budget. The Madison campus will not be spun off, although the issue will be studied. Michael Spector, President of the UW System Board of Regents, said the campuses will have some long...
by Jackie Johnson | Jun 15, 2011
U-W Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is leaving Wisconsin to become the president of Amherst College in Massachusetts. She wasn’t looking, she says. “I was approached by Amherst this spring and I was a reluctant invitee into the process.” Martin...
by Bob Hague | Apr 28, 2011
Kevin Reilly brought his opposition to a controversial proposal, which would separate the University of Wisconsin Madison campus from the system he oversees, before an audience of Madison movers and shakers on Wednesday. The UW System President told members of the...
by Jackie Johnson | Apr 27, 2011
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health completes its review of UW physicians who gave medical-excuse notes to protesters at the State Capitol during a huge rally. It was widely reported that several doctors provided a sick note for a...
by Bob Hague | Apr 21, 2011
The chancellor of UW Madison believes a plan for the university’s future will be adopted. Biddy Martin told the Madison Rotary Club that she’s committed to seeing through the adoption of the controversial New Badger Partnership, which among other things...
by Bob Hague | Apr 1, 2011
Biddy Martin explained her plans to split the Madison campus from the UW System to state lawmakers at the Capitol on Thursday. The UW Madison chancellor made the pitch for her Badger Partnership plan to members of the legislature’s Joint Finance Committee....
