University of Wisconsin system regents approve a plan to merge the system’s two-year schools with its four-year campuses Thursday. It’s a story we’ve been closely following since news of this proposed merger broke early October.
The Board of Regents has approved University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross’ plan to reorganize the UW Colleges and Extension. Cross said the change is driven by the financial and enrollment realities on the thirteen UW College campuses.
Noted: Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said at the meeting that openly debating the rule could “invite some unwanted attention” from the Trump administration and state legislators. “My overriding concern is that this discussion and any action in this area is going to trigger state legislation,” she told members of the National Academies’ committee on technology, policy, and law.
Noted: Ultimately, it’s likely that political or regulatory decisions will settle the matter before opposing parties agree, says Sainath Suryanarayanan, an entomologist and sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who has studied the bee-health issue. “It is a common pattern for highly contentious and polarized debates,” he says.
A new proposed bill in Wisconsin would lower the drinking age to 19.
Thursday the UW System Board of Regents votes on a proposal to merge UW colleges and UW extensions with its four-year schools.
On the eve of perhaps the most far-reaching decision in the University of Wisconsin System’s 46-year history, the architect of a proposed merger of two- and four-year campuses stood firm in his response to widespread calls to slow down.
The UW-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) this month hosted an all-day symposium about Kiley’s work and its continuing relevance. It was held in conjunction with the opening of the traveling exhibition, “The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley” curated by The Cultural Landscape Foundation based in Washington, D.C. Speakers included landscape architects from around the country, including keynoter Peter Ker Walker of Burlington, Vermont, Kiley’s former longtime professional partner.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will vote Thursday on a plan to restructure the state’s higher education system using a blueprint that was unveiled less than 30 days ago. UW System President Ray Cross said the plan is needed to stem declining enrollment at the state’s two-year colleges. But many in the system including high-ranking leadership said they weren’t included in the decision-making process.
I recently announced a proposal to join the UW Colleges with our four-year comprehensive and research institutions, as well as move University of Wisconsin-Extension divisions to UW-Madison and UW System administration. The Board of Regents will consider the proposal this week and will vote on whether we can proceed with planning.
The long-time federal Perkins Loan Program for college and university students expired at the end of September after a two-year extension in 2015. Higher education officials fear the end of the program could mean a gap in financial aid for low-income students.
University of Wisconsin-Superior students protested Monday on campus in response to the administration’s decision last week to suspend 25 programs.
Consuming alcoholic beverages, even in moderation, may increase your risk of developing certain cancers, according to a new statement released by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Ryan Sondrup swears he still has the notebook buried somewhere, the Magna Carta of Camp Randall cool. On it, the former Wisconsin tight end had scribbled down a list of popular songs that’d been brainstormed in the fall of 1998 with former Badgers football teammates during a free night at Wando’s, a local watering hole.
There’s nothing unusual about wanting to make a pivot in your professional life. But when an Olympic gold medalist feels compelled to make a career change while at the top of her game, it can come as a surprise.
Noted: Chiara Cirelli, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the paper, published work earlier this year suggesting that while we sleep, our brains tidy up and organize the different connections between their cells. This process, she told Quartz earlier this year, is essential for our neurons and memory formations.
Noted: “The fundamental conclusion is that there are probably quite a few of these in the universe,” said Ed Churchwell, emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They’re more common than we thought before.”
Noted: “I think one of Walker’s strengths in the past is that he was viewed as independent, separate from Washington, as a common sense guy,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The themes in his earlier campaigns were about the old Saturn he drove, eating a packed lunch, understanding an average Wisconsinite. It’s harder to sell that message if you’re visiting the White House a lot and allied with a controversial billionaire who’s now president.”
The American Society of Clinical Oncology, which represents many of the nation’s top cancer doctors, is calling attention to the ties between alcohol and cancer. In a statement published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the group cites evidence that even light drinking can slightly raise a woman’s risk of breast cancer and increase a common type of esophageal cancer.
Noted: As drivers interact with semiautonomous vehicles in the long run-up to Level 5, driver education and licensing, far from becoming obsolete, may become more important, argues John D. Lee, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Automation has a strong tendency to surprise people with unexpected behavior,” he says.
Noted: “If Michigan builds a cheese plant, it will have implications for Wisconsin because those cheese products will compete with Wisconsin cheese,” says Mark Stephenson, a dairy economist with the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: “There are no constitutional limits on what the convention could do, no matter what the states say going into it,” said David Schwartz, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor.
Ever sleep poorly and then walk out of the house without your keys? Or space out while driving to work and nearly hit a stalled car?
David Bordwell effectively argues that the change in the era of bold, different, sometimes difficult films from the ’40s made a permanent mark of cinematic storytelling that resonates to this day.
Long Valley, California, witnessed a ‘super-eruption’ about 765,000 years ago. This caused a pool of molten rock to explode into the sky causing a devastating pre-historic firework show. The eruption caused 650 cubic kilometers of lava and ash to spew out, which released enough sulfur gas to blanket our planet and cool it.
About 765,000 years ago, a pool of molten rock exploded into the sky, forming the Long Valley Caldera in California – a valley in eastern California adjacent to Mammoth Mountain.
Noted: “It would have completely wiped out everything within 50 kilometers of the caldera,” said Brad Singer, a geologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the study’s co-author. “All the vegetation and biota in that area would have been extinguished.”
University of Wisconsin-Superior students protested Monday on campus in response to the administration’s decision last week to suspend 25 programs.
Days after the University of Wisconsin-Superior announced it was suspending more than two dozen academic programs, students packed a room at the Yellowjacket Union on Friday to question administration about the decision.
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, associate professor of history, University of Wisconsin at Madison: The book I am most eagerly awaiting is Kieran Setiya’s Midlife: A Philosophical Guide (Princeton University Press).
MADISON, Wis. – A University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows improved balance and a decrease in falls among older adults who take yoga.
Alarm over the state of free speech and academic freedom on American campuses is nothing new under the collegiate sun. But it has reached fever pitch in the past few years.
The specter of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus as a liberal stronghold where students who hold conservative political views are intimidated from expressing them is not supported by a first of its kind survey of students released last week.
he results of surveys released by two major universities this week show signs that several groups of students there are not satisfied with the campus climate.
Noted: Simply providing consumers with good options doesn’t ensure that they will choose wisely. Three economists, Saurabh Bhargava and George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University and Justin Sydnor of the University of Wisconsin, examined the problem in a 2017 paper. They studied an anonymous, large company that gave employees many choices.
There are two very different pictures of the students roaming the hallways and labs at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.
President Trump may have lost the popular vote last November, but his campaign was clearly onto something powerful. The Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently commissioned a national survey to find out what it was.
Quoted: “As a scientist, I’m thrilled by this discovery,” says Graham Banes, a primatologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who was not involved in the rare find, described online this week in Current Biology. “As a human, I’m horrified that we might not have enough time to save the species.”
Former NFL running back Montee Ball said he’s been sober for over 450 days in his recovery from alcoholism and has returned to the University of Wisconsin to pursue a college degree.
The gales of November sweep across the University of Wisconsin-Superior campus with especial brutality this year. But Lake Superior isn’t the culprit. The school administration is.
I’m the first to admit that I’m biased. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1987 and bleed Badger red. I spent five years typing the play-by-play for the Badgers’ home football games while working for the Sports Information Department.
Wisconsin State Patrol and the Department of Natural Resources are learning on how to fly a drone.
A ton of students lined up to get free donuts from Google on Thursday outside the Engineering Building on the UW Campus.
MADISON, Wis. – A 70 percent approval rating is usually pretty good. That’s roughly the percentage of students on the UW-Madison campus who say they feel welcome and respected — and thus safe — on campus.
Noted: To help with other aspects of the cranberry industry while continuing to honor their son, the Kollers established a fellowship in the Horticultural Department of Agriculture and Life Sciences at UW-Madison for cranberry research and each year funded a medical research grant at the Lawton Center in Marshfield.”
Cherene Sherrard is a professor in the English department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her debut collection of poetry, “Vixen,” was published in September by Autumn House Press.
Speaking at a dinner of Fulbright Pakistan Seminar in the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, Consul General Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, urged Pakistani students to work hard in pursuing their studies here and take their expertise back home.
Noted: “There is quite a bit of discussion about mindfulness and mindfulness research these days,” Simon Goldberg told Newsweek. Goldberg is one of the authors of the PLoS One paper and conducted the study while a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds. (He’s since received his doctorate.) “Our hope ultimately is that the results from our study can help encourage researchers to implement some of these recommended practices in future studies.”
It’s been called a crisis on campus, a major uptick in the need for mental health services at universities.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin just began offering free tuition for first-gen transfer students, while Duke last year created one of the most generous, comprehensive programs of all.
The kick-off event of a new publicly funded policy center at the University of Wisconsin has a bipartisan mix of speakers, including Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman and Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz.
Elizabeth Pulvermacher usually walks home with friends after dark.
Business schools are facing a tough business problem. While graduate schools of management can make money for the institutions that house them, their M.B.A. programs sometimes bring in little more than prestige. (Subscription required.)
Even though the Wisconsin unemployment rate is very low, its economic growth rate is stuck in low gear. How to improve on that long-term pattern?
Quoted: “I would say that algorithms and mathematical modeling are fairly pervasive and ubiquitous, from the time someone wakes up in the morning until the end of the day,” said Anthony Gitter, an assistant professor in the department of biostatistics and medical informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Alexandra Witze welcomes a history of IceCube, an ambitious neutrino observatory.
Most people aren’t able to say that they work with data from the South Pole, but Justin Vandenbroucke is the exception.
Bail was set for a Monona man accused of kidnapping two women on the UW-Madison campus.
Minority students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison feel less welcome on campus than their white peers, according to results from the university’s first campus climate survey.
While a majority of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison feel welcome, safe and able to thrive on campus, worrisome disparities exist among students of color, and those with non-conforming gender identities or disabilities, according to results of a campus climate survey released Wednesday.
