University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced July 9 that the university’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Education Achievement will close.
Faculty members at most campuses across the University of Wisconsin system will soon have to teach at least eight courses per academic year.
In a campus-wide message posted Wednesday, Mnookin said a working group led by former Provost Charles Isbell completed a data review based on advancing student success, connecting students with proper support, ensuring pathways for student belonging, strategically organizing campus support, engaging in continuous assessment and improvement and stewarding school resources.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement (DDEEA) is coming to an end, UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said in an email Wednesday. However, many of its programs will not.
The UW system’s Board of Regents is set to vote on a proposal Thursday to increase tuition across Wisconsin’s 13 public universities next school year. Each school would increase resident undergraduate rates by 4%. All of the universities, except UW-Green Bay, also opted in to an additional 1%.
The University of Northern Iowa, which is located in Cedar Falls, about 190 miles southwest of Madison, will set in-state tuition rates of $10,201 for incoming students from Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota starting this fall.
Mnookin noted that DDEEA “has been the home for a set of scholarship-linked student support activities that serve approximately 5% of our student body.” She said those programs will be moved to the Division for Teaching and Learning. Employee support functions will move to the Office of Human Resources, and data collection activities will move to Data, Academic Planning and Institutional Research.
UW-Madison will sunset its Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced Tuesday.
It may soon cost more to send your student to a Universities of Wisconsin school, as the Board of Regents will vote Thursday on a 5% tuition increase for most of its universities.
DDEEA’s employee support functions will move to the Office of Human Resources, and their staff members focused on institutional data collection will join Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research. Scholarships and student support and cultural programs will continue to be supported by the university, Mnookin said.
When Shuntia Lucas told her 14-year-old son she was applying for a promotion — which would make her the first Black woman to hold the rank of sergeant at the Dane County Sheriff’s Office — he replied, “I guess you just break records, Mom.”
Exact Sciences, which is headquartered in the UW Research Park and has labs along the Beltline on Madison’s West Side, has announced that its Oncodetect molecular residual disease test has received approval through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Molecular Diagnostic Services Program.
Native Great Lakes wildlife is at risk of extinction due in part to climate change and pollution. Before species are lost, their DNA could be “banked” for future regeneration. We talk to UW-Madison genetic professor Francisco Pelegri about the effort he’s leading to do just that.
UW-Madison entomology professor Susan Paskewitz has a decade of mosquito data. As the director of the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, she studies mosquitoes, ticks and other nuisances and the diseases they may carry.
The Madison area experienced severe drought the last two years. “So the mosquitoes were incredibly low,” Paskewitz said.
He built a successful career in health and safety management at the University of Wisconsin, where his dedication and professionalism left a lasting impact.
