Becky Jacobs

Big @UWMadison news: @uwchancellor Jennifer Mnookin is leaving to become the new president of Columbia University in New York. Read the details @CapTimes captimes.com/news/education…

For the first time in more than a decade, #UWMadison ranks among the top five universities in the U.S. for research expenditures in the @NSF’s latest HERD rankings. On, Wisconsin! news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-5th…

@CourtneyLTanner Thanks, friend! 🥰

Beautiful piece on Indigenous students and ribbon skirts from @ruthyjacobs.

State lawmakers approved the UW system's proposed changes to teaching workloads and how certain credits must transfer between campuses. Assembly Speaker Vos commended the system for "stepping up." My latest for @CapTimes captimes.com/news/education…

“It’s surprising to me every time because everybody always picks something that I don’t think I would, but it looks so good.” Wunk Sheek, a student org at UW-Madison, hosted a ribbon skirt workshop this month. See the photos and read the story @CapTimes captimes.com/news/education…

Why UW-Madison is creating a new college (for the first time in decades) that will be focused on AI. My latest for @CapTimes captimes.com/news/education…

@GretzingerErin Also, that is totally an unwritten rule 😅

@GretzingerErin @CapTimes

After 2 students with disabilities were cut from the West swim team, their parents, other families and advocates told @CapTimes the debacle raises doubts about how MMSD is ensuring access to athletics and supporting disabled students more broadly. captimes.com/news/education…

The leader of UW-Madison's Graduate School said he's expecting another "cautious" admissions cycle for students seeking to attend the university next fall amid ongoing uncertainty from the federal government. My latest for @CapTimes captimes.com/news/education…

Badger Recovery - a group that supports @UWMadison students in recovery from substance use, disordered eating & addictive behaviors - has seen a lot of growth in recent months. "We’re a community of people who get it." Learn more in my latest for @CapTimes captimes.com/news/education…

When Camp Randall Stadium started selling beer and wine last fall, UW-Madison said some of the revenue would go toward alcohol-free programming for students and other efforts on campus. Here's how $492K in alcohol sales was spent. My latest for @CapTimes captimes.com/news/education…

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“We're slowly chipping away at what truly makes being a person of color on this campus so manageable. Because I do think that being a person of color on this campus is just manageable.” Students decry UW-Madison’s recent DEI cuts. Read more @CapTimes. captimes.com/news/education…

And here: captimes.com/news/education…

To learn more about why faculty and staff pushed back on these changes, read our previous coverage here: captimes.com/news/education…

The UW system’s Board of Regents unanimously approved changes Thursday to how much faculty must teach and how certain credits must transfer between campuses. Learn more @CapTimes captimes.com/news/education…

UW system faculty balk at Legislature’s teaching workload requirements. The requirements could raise constitutional questions and inaccurately measure all the work educators put into their jobs, they argue. My latest for @CapTimes captimes.com/news/education…

MMSD spent $100k on a consulting firm to overhaul its branding, including a new logo. But MMSD ended up adopting a free logo created by an unnamed individual instead, records obtained by @CapTimes show. captimes.com/news/education…

Faculty and staff across the UW system are pushing back on proposed changes to how general education course credits transfer. "It's a clear overreach" and goes beyond what state law requires, one faculty member said. Learn more in my latest for @CapTimes captimes.com/news/education…

@CourtneyLTanner That gif 😂

@ruthyjacobs Forever grateful for that. 😘

I found this so fascinating (& well-covered by @ruthyjacobs). Sendhil Mullainathan talked about using AI for things humans can't do. Example: "Algorithms can compare the EKGs of people who had sudden cardiac death to those who didn’t to predict which people are likely to die."