In a vote that puts University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty at odds with their chancellor, the Faculty Senate rejected a proposal to lay off nearly three dozen tenured professors from the institution’s two branch campuses next year.
Layla Merrifield, the executive director of the Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association, is leveling up to become president of the state’s largest public higher education system. Her appointment was announced Thursday.
The Universities of Wisconsin will ask, for a third consecutive biennium, for the state Legislature to fund the tuition waiver program the system cites as the reason for a boost in freshman enrollment last fall.
In a largely symbolic gesture, UW-Milwaukee faculty have voted against a plan that would lay off three dozen faculty from the Waukesha and Washington County branch campuses.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman says he’s hopeful a college tuition promise program, direct admissions and increased state support will reverse an ongoing decline in college participation in the state.
Rothman appeared in front of the Legislative Council Study Committee on the future of the University of Wisconsin System. Lawmakers questioned what students and families are getting out of the money the state spends to fund the schools.
The event starts at the Memorial Union on campus, with the half marathon stepping off at 7 a.m. and the 5K at 7:15 a.m. The route for the first is roughly around Lake Wingra and through the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. Among the streets it includes are Langdon and Regent.
Written by Christine Durrance ,a professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies health economics and policy, with particular interests in risky behavior, including substance use and the opioid crisis; maternal, infant, and reproductive health; child maltreatment and domestic violence; and competition in health care markets.
On the health care page, Hovde doesn’t explicitly say he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, rather that the health care system is “deeply flawed and in need of reform.”
The webpage “has many inaccurate statements and misrepresentations of data,” said Donna Friedsam, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies health care policy and reform.
A group of doctors at UW Health are trying out a tool that uses artificial intelligence to take notes on their visits, allowing them to focus more on patients and less on screens. Proponents say the approach could not only improve patient experience but also reduce burnout among overworked physicians.
A long line of University of Wisconsin football players formed at the Mongolian Grill station Tuesday awaiting their freshly-made lunch, but the Badgers were still on the field when UW-Platteville’s diligent dining staff started preparation for this large meal.
The development’s financing includes $4.9 million Meta House received from the state’s share of a 2022 opioid lawsuit settlement; a $775,000 grant from University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health via federal American Rescue Plan Act funds, and private philanthropy.
