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An enrollment decline at the two-year colleges University of Wisconsin-Waukesha and University of Wisconsin-Washington County has reached the mid-to-high 20 percent range, Chancellor Mark Mone announced at the bi-weekly Academic Staff Committee meeting on Monday. Mone said that the original numbers he had received were around the 7-9 percent mark, but new information shows the […]

Tony Mitchler, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, remembers making the decision to enroll at UWM after a life-changing event. “After serving in the Army, I returned to my hometown of Waukesha,” said Mitchler. “I knew that the next step in my life was to attend college.” Mitchler is just one of 1,459 students […]

UW-Milwaukee students won nine first-place awards in the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence contest, more than any other university in a four-state region. The winners go on to the national SPJ competition. In addition, UWM students won three honors in the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association Eric Sevareid competition. The awards were announced at the […]

Who is the face in the crowd behind the maintenance of a local bowling alley?  

Student journalists with Media Milwaukee, UW-Milwaukee’s student news site in the Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies Department, won 14 Wisconsin College Media Association awards, including multiple awards for two major journalism immersion projects on the presidential election and water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Two talented UWM students – Sabrina Johnkins and Nyesha Stone – were […]

Eric Bledsoe’s first triple-double as a Buck helped boost Milwaukee past the Orlando Magic and into the sixth seed, in the final regular season game at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. The Milwaukee Bucks wrapped up the last regular season game at the BMO and took care of business without having Giannis Antetokounmpo in the […]

The University Committee at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee held a meeting this week to discuss the university’s upcoming merger with UW-Waukesha and UW-Washington County; it quickly became evident that several issues and deadlines are plaguing the merger. “I’m really concerned about where we are,” said UWM Provost Johannes Britz. On top of everything, Britz pointed out that […]

UW- Milwaukee students gathered in UWM’s Gasthaus Monday night for a night of food, fun and Panther basketball.  “More people are at the games now that we are better,” Trista Deuster, a member of the Panther Pit crew, said. “A lot of students are more enthusiastic, and I’m seeing new faces at games.” School pride […]

World Socialist Web Site reporter Andre Damon explained to an audience at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  about why people read “fake news” and gave insight into why he believes censorship is taking over a lot of media’s content. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality, also known as IYSSE, held the public event in the UW-Milwaukee West Ballroom. […]

The UW-Milwaukee Physical Environment Committee will be forming a sub-committee to update the campus smoking policy to fully ban smoking on campus property, according to David Heathcote, chair of the Physical Environment Committee. “The Student Association has really been the driving force behind the smoking ban,” said UWM Chancellor Mark Mone.   On Nov. 19, […]

Hugs from behind. A female student being called a “sexual animal.” Breast-groping. References to pole dancing and “sugar daddies.” An alleged sexual assault. Those are just a few of the accusations uncovered in a revealing set of documents released by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. UW-Madison paid out more than $500,000 to settle sexual harassment and […]