The University of Wisconsin-Madison now ranks sixth nationally for research ranking, according to the National Science Foundation’s annual rankings. Since 2018, it has ranked 8th out of 920 public and private universities.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison rose in national rankings on federal research activity after slipping for nearly a decade.
The university announced the ranking change Monday alongside an announcement that it had spent a record-breaking $1.7 billion on research for fiscal year 2023, a 13.7% increase over the prior year. UW-Madison’s growth outpaced the national increase of 11.2% spent on university research and development, bringing the national amount spent to $108.8 billion.
he average tenure of university presidents is on the decline.
Nine of the 13 Universities of Wisconsin chancellors assumed their post over the past four years. That tracks with data from The American Council on Education, showing the average tenure of college presidents is roughly six years, down from 8.5 years in 2022.
A new book by a former UW-Superior chancellor digs into why college leaders are vacating these powerful positions. The book profiles seven presidents who stayed at their institutions and brought them through difficult times.
University of Wisconsin chancellors are likely to earn bonuses this school year under a new system that could add more than $40,000 to most of their compensation packages.
Black student enrollment at the state’s flagship university has never surpassed 3 percent of the student body, according to data from the Universities of Wisconsin. In 2023, 1,327 students out of 50,335 identified as Black, about 2.6 percent.
This year, the percentage of underrepresented students of color in the freshman class dropped by 3.7 percentage points from last year to 14.3 percent, according to UW-Madison data.
The percentage of Black, Latino and Indigenous students in UW-Madison’s Class of 2028 has dropped, despite a record number of applications, following last year’s Supreme Court ruling that barred consideration of race in college applications.
A new Universities of Wisconsin policy requires statements in the name of UW institutions to avoid expressing a point of view on political or social controversies.
A racist social media video featuring a University of Wisconsin-Madison student consumed the campus in spring 2023. A Black student advocacy organization formed. Protests staged. A petition signed, to the tune of 67,000 signatures. And an ad-hoc group formed to study the Black experience on campus.
The Levy surname will grace a second UW-Madison building, as prolific Madison-area philanthropists Marv and Jeff Levy have pledged $75 million in support of the College of Engineering’s new building.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor hosted a media roundtable with student journalists Tuesday. Updates on campus initiatives, financial and housing needs and free expression were prominent in the discussion.
A lot has been on University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s plate since the spring.
Between a 12-day pro-Palestine encampment and juggling the university budget process, she’s had to carefully tread an upcoming election with a student body that has divided perspectives. Mnookin and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor sat down with campus media Tuesday to discuss free speech efforts, the affordable housing shortage and protest culture.
Dr. Gee has an in-depth conversation with University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin on what the university is doing to improve the sense of belonging for students of color. Their discussion covers Dr. Gee’s participation in a committee working to recognize the universities history with students of color and what can be done moving forward. The committee will be releasing a report soon with their findings and recommendations. Chancellor Mnookin shares about her plans and initiatives in this role at the university and how she sees that they are developing so far.Jennifer L. Mnookin is the 30th leader in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s 175-year history, and one of the nation’s top legal scholars.
Office of Student Assistance and Support to offer food access, housing, financial support.
“We are stronger when we create space to listen to each other across all kinds of differences,” Mnookin said.
Just days before the start of a new school year — and with it the likely resumption of pro-Palestinian protests on campus — UW-Madison has revised its rules on student protests, including several new restrictions on where and how loud demonstrations can be.
As first-year and transfer students start classes this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they must watch a new presentation about freedom of expression on campus.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone thought he’d be exhaling.
But the day after reaching a deal with student protesters, the campus crisis that consumed Mone in early May wasn’t over. In fact, it was intensifying.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved chancellor pay raises and bonuses for student retention in a closed session meeting Monday.
The new compensation plan will see UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s current $811,512 annual salary increased to $892,663. She will also receive a philanthropic bonus of $150,000 for staying at UW-Madison through mid-2025 and $50,000 for each year she stays afterward until June 2029.
Leaders of Wisconsin’s public universities got another pay raise this week and could receive bonuses worth tens of thousands of dollars in the coming years.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said it would “facilitate access to relevant decision makers” by July. The University of Washington said on Friday that the president and other officials “will meet in person with no more than five student representatives on the divestment request.”
On Friday, nearly two weeks after UW-Madison students pitched their tents on Library Mall, they reached an agreement with the university’s administration.
This afternoon, Dahlia Saba, a media liaison with Students for Justice in Palestine, told our News Producer Faye Parks that – while the agreement does signal a small step forward – it doesn’t address their primary demands.
A handful of students quietly protested the war in Gaza at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s commencement Saturday, but the annual graduation ceremony inside Camp Randall Stadium otherwise proceeded without disruption.
There’s nothing like the threat of a disrupted commencement ceremony to get a deal done.
With tens of thousands of visitors descending on Madison for graduation weekend and protester numbers uncertain for the summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the campus’ Students for Justice in Palestine chapter cut a dealFriday.
The tents are coming down at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The university said Friday afternoon it had reached an agreement with pro-Palestinian protesters who first pitched tents April 29. The compromise came hours before commencement weekend began, and the potential for a disrupted ceremony loomed large.
Pro-Palestinian student protesters at UW-Madison agreed Friday to dismantle their illegal encampment on Library Mall and refrain from disrupting this weekend’s commencement after campus officials agreed to several of their demands, including helping students present their concerns to decision-makers about how the university’s endowment is invested.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin released a statement shortly after the resolution was reached. She said, “one of the most fundamental missions of a university is and must be to foster engagement and dialogue across intractable differences.”
UW-Madison graduate student and Students for Justice in Palestine spokesperson Abbie Klein discusses demands campus protesters are making of the university and negotiations with its administration.
The administrations of UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee both released statements Wednesday updating their respective campus communities on the status of the pro-Palestine student encampments. Both encampments currently remain standing.
Communication between UW-Madison pro-Palestinian student protesters and campus administration seemed to have fallen apart on Wednesday after protesters requested more than the university leaders were willing to agree to.
Negotiations between leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and students involved in pro-Palestinian demonstrations have broken down.
The UW-Madison students who set up a pro-Palestine encampment on Library Mall last week issued a list of six demands of university leadership. As of Tuesday, the encampment was still in place and negotiations were ongoing, though Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin has pushed back against some of the students’ demands.
This afternoon, during the start of finals week at UW-Madison, several dozen faculty members and staff staged
UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee students’ pro-Palestinian encampment protests entered their second week Monday with communication continuing between students, staff and university administrators.
Several dozen faculty and staff members from the University of Wisconsin-Madison staged a walkout Monday in opposition to the university administration’s response to a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professors confronted Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin on Monday over a decision last week to send in police and break up a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus.
Negotiations are still in progress between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and UW-Madison administrators, but the parties remain at odds over many of the protesters’ demands, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said at a Faculty Senate meeting on Monday.
Ahead of a planned protest next week over the war in Gaza, officials at UW-Madison sent a letter to students Friday reminding them of the consequences of breaking the law and university policies regarding protests, including a long-held policy that bans camping on university property.
Academic year had ‘lots of accomplishments, some challenges,’ Mnookin says.
The timing of Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s yearly appearance in front of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board left the intersection of the transfer portal and name, image and likeness deals as a central theme.
The new policies give eligible employees six weeks of paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child. The change comes after UW-Madison faculty and staff lobbied administrators to implement such a policy.
“I’m really happy that we’re in a position to be able to announce this,” Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin told faculty at a meeting Monday. “This has been something I’ve wanted to bring to conclusion, and there’s been interest in this for a very long time.”
UW-Madison and the Universities of Wisconsin are each proposing a paid parental leave policy granting six weeks of leave for the birth or adoption of a child, following more than a decade of studying its feasibility and increasing pressure from faculty and staff.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said Monday that adding paid parental leave allows the university to stay competitive in recruiting graduate students and employees, and catch up to other local private businesses and governmental agencies that already offer it.
On Friday, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the launch of its Sustainability Research Hub.
In early Feb. 2024, UW-Madison chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced a new cross-campus initiative focused on environmental sustainability.
On Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers signed a measure that gives about $740 million in funding for capital investments to the Universities of Wisconsin, including funds for the new engineering building that rallied massive industry support.
The Legislature on Thursday approved about $740 million in capital investments across the Universities of Wisconsin, including a new engineering building at UW-Madison that rallied massive industry support.
UW-Madison’s new Sustainability Research Hub is scheduled to launch this spring – as part of a campus-wide initiative Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced earlier this month.
The initiative’s stated goals range from promoting collaborative research to achieving net-zero emissions by 2048. WORT News Producer Faye Parks spoke to Missy Nergard, UW-Madison’s director of sustainability, and Paul Robbins, dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, to learn more.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching an environmental sustainability initiative that will include carbon-reduction goals and a new research hub on campus.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin made the announcement during a recent UW Board of Regents meeting in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to recruit up to 150 new faculty members over the next three to five years for a research initiative focused on artificial intelligence.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is significantly staffing up.
Under a new hiring initiative, UW-Madison expects to recruit between 120 and 150 new faculty members over the next three to five years, in addition to regular hiring. The university hires an average of 130 new faculty annually.
The committee responsible for the report was co-chaired by University of Wisconsin Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and Robert E. Kahn professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University Edward W. Felten.
“It is crucial that governments make tackling these issues a priority,” said Jennifer Mnookin, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a co-chair on the committee that wrote the report, in a statement. Otherwise, she said Washington would “effectively cede” policy on a key public issue to private companies.
Republican lawmakers and UW System President Jay Rothman reached an agreement earlier this month to restructure diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) positions in exchange for pay raises and building projects.
Courts and Congress likely will have a say in the near future on whether NCAA athletes should be considered employees and whether they should get a share of expanding media rights revenues. The implications are “worrying” for UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin.
“Our student-athletes are also students; they’re primarily students,” Mnookin said in a September interview with BadgerExtra. “We’d actually like them to be students first and foremost. And I have a lot of unease about what the set of spiraling consequences could be if that were to transform.”
The school is also launching a five-year pilot program to cover in-state tuition and fees for students pursuing a law or medical degree who are from tribes in the state, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced Monday.
Dubbed the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise, the program launches next fall. Unlike the university’s other tuition promise program, this one isn’t based on financial need. All enrolled members of Wisconsin tribes qualify.
Starting next fall, UW-Madison will meet the full financial need — including tuition and fees, as well as housing, meals and books — for in-state undergraduates who are enrolled members of one of 11 federally recognized Wisconsin tribes.
UW-Madison will launch tuition assistance programs next fall for in-state students who are members of one of Wisconsin’s federally recognized tribes, part of the university’s efforts to acknowledge the Indigenous history of the land on which the university was built.
“Frankly, it just felt like the right thing to do,” said Mnookin. “As we look at ways to honor the history of this state and what happened before the state of Wisconsin was the state of Wisconsin, and as we think about trying to help the flourishing of Native students here, it just seems like the right approach.”
“It felt, as we look at ways to honor the history of this state and what happened before the state of Wisconsin was the state of Wisconsin, and as we think about trying to help the flourishing of Native students here, it just seemed like the right approach,” she said at a news conference in Madison.
Any enrolled member of one of the tribes will be eligible for the program and eligibility will not depend on a student’s financial need.
