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The UW-Milwaukee provost will not pursue a hiring freeze in Academic Affairs right now, as university officials continue to wrestle with Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cut for the UW System. The news comes from Provost Johannes Britz. His office provides academic leadership to the University. Among other things, the provost’s office handles faculty and […]

UW-Milwaukee students are worried about the costs of college. Very worried. A team of student journalists from a university reporting class was assigned to randomly ask UWM students what they think about Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut for the UW System. Many students told the student journalists they are already struggling to […]

UW-Milwaukee is considering strategic budget cuts as opposed to a systemic cut to the entire institution, the provost told the Faculty Senate Thursday. And the UWM chancellor announced a plan to try to meet with 32 legislators in the next month, as well as a planned lunch with the lieutenant governor, as administrators try to counter […]

The allegations of date-rape drugging surrounding the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity last fall were not the first. Through police reports and interviews, a team of Media Milwaukee journalists has unearthed new information about previous date-rape drug and sexual assault allegations made against a TKE member a year before the  fraternity made the news. According to an incident report provided […]

UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone said late Wednesday afternoon that he had not heard Gov. Scott Walker’s comments earlier that day on faculty workload but stressed that he’s “never met a harder working faculty and staff than at UWM.” Listen to the Mone audio here: Asked about Walker’s comments that faculty should teach more, he added, […]

If the budget proposal put forth by Gov. Scott Walker to cut $300 million from the UW System passes, three months from now, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could face layoffs, building closures, a hiring freeze, or a slowdown on the admission of the new freshman class, according to the powerful UWM University Committee. Committee members […]

The UW System could face a budget cut resulting in $300 million in lost revenue – although the number is still uncertain – as well as sweeping changes that might imperil the engrained traditions of shared governance and tenure. In addition, there are moves to make the UW a “public authority” – more autonomous from […]

UW-Milwaukee is shielding information from the public in a manner that is out of step with a sweeping new agreement hashed out this summer by the state’s top newspaper association and the organization that represents Wisconsin municipalities. Furthermore, UWM’s open records custodian has cited federal privacy laws as one reason for blacking out information in […]

 This is third part of a series exploring issues behind the headlines of the TKE scandal. You can read parts 1 and 2 here. Although the TKE fraternity at UW-Milwaukee was embroiled in scandal this fall, Greek life at UWM is actually slightly on the rise- although it’s still a very small portion of the […]

Twelve teams brought everything they had to the floor. UW-Milwaukee’s Hype Team hosted the dance presentation. Brooke Dowden reports.

Jeff Jara talks folk art at the UWM Art History Gallery: How people engage with it, and how they think about it. Jara is skilled in the field of “self-taught art.” Madeline Power-Luetscher reports.

UW-Milwaukee has three art galleries. One of them recently highlighted the tradition of folk art. Helen Koth reports.