A year of deep cuts has significantly lowered the Universities of Wisconsin’s total debt, but it’s still projected to be $17.4 million in the red through 2025, according to information shared during the UW Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
Smith’s resignation comes after a tumultuous year where diversity, equity and inclusion were repeatedly assailed by Republican lawmakers and the subject of a six-month budget standoff. During the standoff, instigated by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, about 35,000 UW System employees saw their pay raises put on pause.
One university has completely depleted its unrestricted reserves — a first in UW System history — that will require the UW System to step in and loan some of its own reserves. And some of the universities projecting to close their deficits in the coming year still need to make “substantial” cuts to achieve that goal, UW officials told the UW Board of Regents at a Thursday meeting on the UW-Milwaukee campus.
The University of Wisconsin System’s chief diversity officer has resigned after a year on the job and amid Republicans’ targeting of campus diversity efforts.
Officers arrested and cited seven people with disorderly conduct, according to UW-Milwaukee spokesperson Angelica Duria. Non-students were banned from the student union through the end of this month.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman is warning that while it’s not precisely clear how delays in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and reduced completions this year will impact student enrollment this fall, one thing is certain: It won’t be good.
UW-Milwaukee said during a Business and Finance Committee meeting with the Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents at the UWM Student Union, a handful of protesters “interrupted” the meeting and were exhibiting “disruptive behavior.”
Fall enrollment at the Universities of Wisconsin will likely be negatively impacted by the delayed rollout of a federal financial aid form, according to Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman.
Marcelle Haddix, who has held various leadership positions at Syracuse University, will take the helm of one of the nations highest-ranked education schools.
Incoming Dean Haddix plans to incorporate more interdisciplinary education.
Dr. Marcelle Haddix was announced as the school’s new dean on Thursday. Haddix is currently the associate provost for strategic initiatives at Syracuse University and was previously chair of the Reading and Language Arts department at Syracuse’s School of Education.
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Forecasted rainfall is expected to be “on the high side” in the next few weeks, according to Ken Potter, a UW professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering who focuses on water management and flood risk mitigation.
To use in a sentence: The University of Wisconsin has “displaced’’ season ticket holders at the Kohl Center. They were forced out and uprooted from their seats. They are disturbed.
P.J. Liesch, director of UW Insect Diagnostic Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained that the fungus does “really interesting things” to the cicadas it infects. “The fungus can do some nefarious things,” he told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. “It can produce some amphetamine-like compounds, which end up affecting the behavior of these infected cicadas.”
