Kimberly Wethal
Higher Education Reporter at Wisconsin State Journal
Higher Education reporter for @WiStateJournal. Amateur pie baker. 🥧 Let’s chat: [email protected] or call/text (608) 695-1811
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3 days ago |
madison.com | Kimberly Wethal
The emails came late at night, after work hours or from people they didn’t know. In one, which arrived about 9:40 p.m. Feb. 12, UW-Madison special education department chair Kimber Wilkerson was told the School of Education’s teacher training grants had been terminated because it violated the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights law. The next week, on a Friday night, professor J.
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5 days ago |
madison.com | Kimberly Wethal
It’s a running joke among Wisconsin’s cottage bakers: If you melt marshmallows for Rice Krispies in the oven instead on the stove, the state might let you sell them. A coalition of home bakers highlighted that absurdity, among others, in a filing late last year with the state Supreme Court that seeks to toss out a ban on so-called cottage bakers from selling unbaked shelf-stable foods — like candies, roasted coffee beans, dried herbs and Rice Krispies treats.
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6 days ago |
madison.com | Mitchell Schmidt |Kimberly Wethal
As promised, Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee on Thursday struck hundreds of items from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed two-year spending plan as they begin crafting a new proposal in the weeks ahead. The committee voted 10-3, with three absences, with all Democratic members opposed, to pass an omnibus budget motion that effectively eliminates more than 600 items from the governor’s plan.
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1 week ago |
lakegenevanews.net | Kimberly Wethal
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1 week ago |
madison.com | Kimberly Wethal
Facing what they called "existential threats," UW-Madison faculty called on their leaders Monday to defend themselves against President Donald Trump's administration by joining forces with other Big Ten universities. In a largely symbolic vote, members of the UW-Madison Faculty Senate were nearly unanimous in asking Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin to join in a nonbinding “mutual defense compact” authored by faculty at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
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RT @CorriHess: Board of Regents after hours @KellyMeyerhofer @kimberly_wethal https://t.co/CDVyTbpZFi
While the council ultimately approved the rezone request, the alder representing much of the UW-Madison campus again voted no, saying he believed this is not the kind of housing students need. From @LucasWRobinson: https://t.co/oqvJkHfWmF
Republicans announced the $32 million cut by saying the UW System could instead put the money toward a workforce development plan. But now the Assembly leader says the System needs to do that AND eliminate DEI. From @AlexanderShur and me: https://t.co/KtsUXyNSwZ
