UW Campuses Begin Mandatory Criminal Background Checks

People with criminal pasts will be red-flagged if they’re applying for work on UW campuses. Mike Simonson reports from Superior.

When the Legislative Audit Bureau found that 40 convicted felons were working in the UW System in 2005—27 of them at UW-Madison—legislators decided that it was time for a change. A year after the UW Board of Regents approved giving virtually every new hire a background check, UW campuses are running background criminal checks of every new hire.