Plans to restructure the University of Wisconsin System and merge many of its institutions are generating controversy, with the system’s president saying they are necessary, faculty members worrying they are being rushed and one expert likening the proposal to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has proposed merging UW Colleges with four-year U-W institutions as part of a broader restructuring of UW Colleges and UW-Extension.
A “historical link” between the University of Wisconsin Stout and the two-year UW-Barron County campus could be in jeopardy under a planned reorganization of the state’s UW-System schools.
UW-Rock County turned 50 years old this year, though news of a proposed merger with UW-Whitewater dampened the celebration Wednesday.
A restructuring plan could bring major changes to the UW System, having two-year schools like UW-Barron County become a part of 4-year schools like UW-Eau Claire.
County leaders say they didn’t know about plans at the University of Wisconsin-System to merge the state’s two-year colleges with its four-year universities.
Noted: Preparing children for the democratic society that they will inherit is an important role of schools, says Paula McAvoy, program director for the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of a book that explores how politics are taught in the classroom.
New names will be the first of many changes affecting three two-year colleges in 2018 if University of Wisconsin system officials approve a merger between the schools and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
University of Wisconsin political science professors involved in the creation of a new publicly funded policy center expressed concern that there wasn’t enough balance between Democratic and Republican speakers at its first planned major event, newly released emails show.
STEVENS POINT – The University of Wisconsin campuses in Wausau and Wood County would become satellite campuses of UW-Stevens Point under a proposal to restructure the state’s public universities.
A plan to merge the University of Wisconsin System’s 13 two-year colleges with the UW’s four-year institutions next summer has the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie concerned about losing prospective students.
Noted: Development in wildland-urban interfaces increases frequency of fires and contributes to the ferocity of a fire, said Volker Radeloff, a forest and wildlife ecology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System’s two-year schools would merge with its four-year campuses under a plan system President Ray Cross announced Wednesday in hopes of boosting flagging enrollment.
Quoted: “Most wildland firefighters are not trained in structural protection, but the urban fire departments are not trained to deal with dozens or hundreds of houses burning at the same time,” says Volker Radeloff, a forestry researcher at the University of Wisconsin. “When these areas with lots of houses burn, the fires become very unpredictable.”
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is proposing merging the state’s two-year schools with its four-year campuses in effort to boost enrollment.
Noted: Each week, the group learns new skills that range from painting to writing raps to cooking food. The kids meet partner instructors that include students and faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and local artists, they learn that art isn’t limited to just visual art. Last month, they learned how to make pizza.
The University of Wisconsin System has been in the news recently for a newly adopted policy that allows for the expulsion of students who repeatedly disrupt freedom of expression on UW System campuses.
Odin, a McFarland canine and member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department, died Oct. 3. Odin, who had been with the UWPD since June 2010, lived with his handler, Lt. Brent Plisch.
The University of Florida is bracing for a speech by the white nationalist Richard Spencer on campus later this month, coming after he led another torchlight rally in Charlottesville Saturday night with supporters chanting, “You will not replace us.”
Sara and Charles Rippey first locked eyes at their elementary school in tiny Hartford, Wis., close to 90 years ago. “They’ve basically been together ever since,” said one of their sons, Mike Rippey. The couple, who were 98 and 100 years old, died together on Sunday in Napa, Calif., when a fast-moving wildfire whipped into their house and they were unable to escape. Both were UW alums.
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State and coach Gary Andersen have mutually agreed to part ways, effective immediately, with the Beavers off to a 1-5 start.
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators are defending their decision Monday to keep a teaching assistant out of the classroom after racist social media and blog posts surfaced.
Noted: Manipulating a map to move around Wisconsin Democrats also means manipulating a map to move around Wisconsin voters who are not white, said Malia Jones, an applied demographer at The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Peter Fox, 21, of Brookfield, Wisconsin, passed away unexpectedly and found peace on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017.
Noted: There’s also the issue of false positives, which plague any prediction model aimed at identifying a minority group, said William T.L. Cox, a psychologist who studies stereotypes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Is there a difference between “real life” and the digital realm?
Noted: One key reason, say Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, authors of the book We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, is the role technology played in getting the music to the battlefield. Between radio, portable record players, early cassette players and live bands coming to Vietnam, soldiers in that war had far more access to music than their forebears.
Doug Bradley is a veteran of the Vietnam War. But his view of the United States’ most contentious military conflict is different than many of those who saw combat.
Eric Wilcots wanted to be an astronomer since he was a kid growing up in Philadelphia and watched the Voyager space probe images of Jupiter on television.
Noted: Genetically, corn is a “highly variable species” and one that is “relatively easy to manipulate,” said Bill Tracy, an agronomy professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Navy has awarded a team of computer science researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over $6 million to work on developing technology for better performance, management and security of container software.
Noted: Self-help enthusiasts do buy an awful lot of books. A third to one-half of all Americans will buy a self-help title in their lifetimes, said Christine Whelan, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, adding that at any given time there are more than 45,000 titles in print.
It has been more than six months since Betsy DeVos was confirmed as education secretary after one of the most contentious Cabinet nomination battles in memory, and so we thought it worth an update on her major moves so far — and the public response.
The University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents on Friday approved a policy that will compel campuses to suspend and, eventually, expel students who repeatedly disrupt controversial speakers and speech, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents passed a Republican-backed policy aimed at punishing students who disrupt campus speakers. Although the policy at the University of Wisconsin is aimed more at shielding outside speakers invited to campus, rather than university addresses, it’s an escalation in the students-versus-administration battles of free speech that have dominated media coverage of higher education for the last year.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has adopted a policy that would create penalties for students who repeatedly disrupt on-campus speakers.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted on several issues this week including a controversial provision that would allow schools to punish students if they protest or disrupt speakers on campus. We speak with WPR Reporter Rich Kremer about the meeting and what people on both sides of the issue had to say.
Quoted: “It’s not any single gene that makes a huge difference … It’s not like morning people have one thing and evening people have another,” says anthropologist John Hawks, of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “It’s many genes. Each of them has some small effect. This study is pointing out that, hey, there’s one of these [genes] that has a small effect coming from Neanderthals.”
Noted: The sequencing of this new genome also represents “a real technical advance,” says anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin. Until now, the only high-quality Neanderthal DNA has come from a cave in Denisova in Siberia, where DNA is well-preserved because of the freezing temperatures year-round, Hawks explains. But the new genome came from bones found in a more temperate cave, where DNA preservation is suboptimal.
UW-Stevens Point has a 123-year history of change. Evolution has been a constant since we opened our doors in 1894 as a State Normal School.
MADISON, Wis. — About as many Democrats live in Wisconsin as Republicans do. But you wouldn’t know it from the Wisconsin State Assembly, where Republicans hold 65 percent of the seats, a bigger majority than Republican legislators enjoy in conservative states like Texas and Kentucky.
MADISON, Wis. — About as many Democrats live in Wisconsin as Republicans do. But you wouldn’t know it from the Wisconsin State Assembly, where Republicans hold 65 percent of the seats, a bigger majority than Republican legislators enjoy in conservative states like Texas and Kentucky.
MADISON, Wis. – Robin Douthitt has reserved the renovated attic of her garage for women. In the space she calls the “She Shed”, she spends most of her time painting.
As a longtime professor of Wisconsin constitutional law and government, I have been lamenting that Wisconsin’s constitution and institutions have been largely absent from the Wisconsin redistricting case just argued in the U.S. Supreme Court. Simply put, the case should have gone through the state court system using state constitutional arguments.
At about 3 p.m. on friday, February 3, Tim Piazza, a sophomore at Penn State University, arrived at Hershey Medical Center by helicopter. Eighteen hours earlier, he had been in the kind of raging good health that only teenagers enjoy.
The UW Board of Regents plans to vote on a rule that would expel students who continuously disrupt speakers on UW campuses across the state.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System regents are set to vote on a policy that calls for suspending and expelling students who disrupt campus speeches and presentations.
University of Wisconsin System regents adopted sweeping hiring policy changes Thursday that clear the way for non-academics to lead the state’s colleges.
APPLETON – Basketball has taken Brian Butch all around the world, and now the game he loves is bringing him home.
Social Security numbers serve as sort of a national ID for American citizens, but it wasn’t always that way. When economist Edwin Witte helped develop the Social Security Act of 1935, the numbers were solely a way to keep track of the new retirement payment system.
Danez Smith, St. Paul native and poet published by Minneapolis-based Graywolf Press, was announced Wednesday as one of five finalists for the National Book Award in poetry.
Jacob Schimmel worries a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents proposal on free speech won’t actually help discourse on campus.
Noted: But the hiring of Chris Murdoch as a special advisor marks the first state resident hired by the company. Murdoch brings an unusual background to the job as a Navy pilot who until last month ran the Naval ROTC program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. – Potential exposure to lead at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is more widespread than previously reported. Last week UW officials said there might be lead contamination at Agricultural Hall. Now, Bascom Hall is being looked at too.
Noted: Congress usually reauthorizes the program’s funding with broad bipartisan support, said Dipesh Navsaria, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and vice president of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Quoted: The “stark reality” of lower academic achievement transcends borders and calls for shared strategies between countries, says Jerlando Jackson, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and chair of the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education.
Researchers have discovered that good fathers make for healthier kids – at least among marmosets.
Noted: The U.S. system may have been based on a delegate model, but it evolved into something more individualistic, closer to a trustee relationship. By the 1970s, any form of independent voting had succumbed to a party-bloc voting model, something closer to the British Parliament, according to Barry Burden, professor of political science and director of the election research center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee say they’re excited about this year’s Nobel Prize in physics being awarded Tuesday to two researchers from California, Barry Barish and Kip S. Thorne, and Massachusetts scientist Rainer Weiss. The Milwaukee campus helped the award-winners with a major breakthrough.
Noted: If the Supreme Court does rule that the Wisconsin map is unconstitutional, it could invalidate district maps in 20 other states, Barry C. Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the Times. According to the paper, a dozen or so Congressional districts could also be challenged.
