The Board of Regents unanimously passed a 2027-2033 budget plan and biennial 2027-2029 budget request Aug. 20, requesting funding for a new University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall and a two-year tuition freeze for in-state students across the UW System.
The Board of Regents unanimously approved a 2027-29 biennial budget request which included a University of Wisconsin-Madison demolition plan for the Mosse Humanities Building with a proposed budget of $463.5 million.
The Universities of Wisconsin are proposing a two-year tuition freeze beginning in 2027 if state lawmakers approve a $190 million increase on top of the UW System’s $730 million budget request.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville is asking students to voluntarily submit their vaccination status as the number of measles cases continues to rise in southwestern Wisconsin.
UW-Whitewater is now open and classes are back in session, after campus police sent a shelter-in-place active-threat alert to students and employees on Wednesday morning.
UW-La Crosse Chancellor James Beeby said Wednesday that raising staff wages and investing in healthcare program expansions are a top priority for the university’s future.
Artificial intelligence and sports management are just a few of the new major offerings across the Universities of Wisconsin that students can enroll in this fall.
Classes for the 2026-27 academic year kick off at all but two of the UW system’s13 schools this week. Some students will be part of the inaugural classes in new majors, such as UW-Madison’s public policy undergraduate major, or UW-Green Bay’s reduced-credit computer science degree, which students will complete in under four years.
Applications and enrollment of international students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are down significantly for 2026, the schools said in court filings, as the Trump administration makes it harder to study in the U.S. and stay in the country after college for work.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would receive an additional $260 million in state funding, and in-state students would experience a tuition freeze if state lawmakers greenlight the UW system’s budget plans for the next two years.
“After careful consideration, I have made the difficult decision to withdraw from the program and not proceed with my plan to study in the United States,” one student who had committed to the University of Wisconsin–Madison wrote to the institution, per the court document. “A significant factor in my decision was the recently published DHS final rule … after weighing these circumstances carefully, I do not feel that I can proceed with my studies in the United States as originally planned and I won’t come to United States this academic year.”
The UW Board of Regents approved the Universities of Wisconsin’s operating and capital budget requests Thursday, which include plans to freeze tuition for two years, raze a prominent UW-Madison building and get the campus its first new dorm in more than a decade.
Homestead High School in Mequon hosts a college admissions presentation every year, offering families general advice about the application process.
This year’s presentation, however, was much more specific: How to get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders on Monday announced the system will freeze tuition for two years, starting in fall 2027, provided the state “invests $190 million to support the cost of the freeze and other operating needs that preserve educational quality,” according to a news release.
The Universities of Wisconsin Regent President Kyle Weatherly and UWs President Renee Wachter announced Monday that the Universities of Wisconsin will propose to freeze tuition rates for 2027-2029.
The pledge, called the 4-Year Tuition Pledge, is a main focus of the UW’s 2027-2029 budget proposal.
The Pledge proposes freezing tuition for the 2027-2029 biennium, provided the state invests $190 million to support the cost of the freeze and other operating needs that preserve educational quality, officials said.
The University of Wisconsin System is asking state lawmakers for $190 million in additional funding in order to freeze tuition for two years and cap the increase at the rate of inflation for the two next years.
The proposal is part of the university system’s biennial budget request from state lawmakers. UW leadership recently asked for an additional $90 million of funding to use toward training 35,000 new healthcare professionals over a 10-year span.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders announced a proposal Monday, Aug. 17, to freeze tuition through the 2027-29 budget cycle, provided the state invests $190 million to cover the cost of the freeze and other operating needs.
Under the plan, called the 4-Year Tuition Pledge, the university system would also commit to keeping tuition increases at or below the rate of inflation for the following two years.
Wisconsin’s public university system is emphasizing affordability, access and forward motion in its 2027-29 budget request, seeking a $730 million increase in funding from the state Legislature and governor ahead of November elections.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders are proposing to seek an additional $730 million in aid over the next two years with an offer to freeze tuition over that period — if the state comes up with the money to cover the lost revenue.
UW Board of Regents President Kyle Weatherly and interim system President Renee Wachter said yesterday if state lawmakers take them up on the offer for $190 million to fund the freeze, the system would also keep tuition increases at or under the rate of inflation for the 2029-31 biennium.
The Universities of Wisconsin is pledging to freeze tuition for two years and create thousands more workers as part of a $730 million two-year budget request it plans to submit to the state Legislature.
The request, released Monday, seeks to “address the state’s needs,” UW system Interim President Renée Wachter said.
Over the last few budget cycles, the UW system’s budget efforts have had mixed success, sometimes leading to significant increases in state funding and at other times resulting in hard-fought negotiations that yielded little.
We discuss the Universities of Wiscoinsin’s latest budget proposals. Then, we hear from researchers about a study into people with dementia experiencing moments of lucidity. And we talk to the 17-year-old Wisconsin resident representing Team USA in the Pan-American Championship for MMA fighting.
This week, the Universities of Wisconsin announced a slate of budget proposals aimed at boosting the state’s workforce, economy and access to healthcare.
The university system is seeking $240 million for programs that it says would train 300,000 workers and create 2,500 new businesses. Another $90 millionwould go to expand programs for healthcare professionals.
The end of summer is approaching and in the coming weeks, students will begin returning to colleges all across Wisconsin.
Niche, a school rankings website, compiled a list of the top-ranked universities in Wisconsin by analyzing academic, admissions, financial and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education, along with “millions of reviews from students and alumni.
The Universities of Wisconsin unveiled two initiatives Wednesday it says would prepare 300,000 workers for careers, give more than a million workers new skills for better jobs, and create 2,500 new businesses.
Tech for Tomorrow would help universities move new technologies from the research lab to commercialization faster. Accelerate Wisconsin would help entrepreneurs launch businesses and develop new products.
The Universities of Wisconsin wants to train 35,000 new health care professionals over the next decade.
The $90 million proposal will be included in the 2027-29 budget that is presented to the Wisconsin state Legislature and governor in the fall.
The total budget proposal for the state’s public university system will be released next week prior to the Board of Regents meeting, said spokesperson Mark Pitsch.
This back-to-school season, the cost and value of higher education are top of mind.
In a time when going to college can put you in hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and as more tech moguls share that they skipped university altogether, it could be worth considering a public school.
A U.S. District Court judge granted a temporary restraining order last week that blocks the U.S. Department of Education from unlawfully terminating congressionally approved school-based mental health grants.
The order in the case joined by the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) and a coalition of 14 state attorneys general came just days before the Department of Education would have begun terminating several grants designed to provide critical mental health services to Wisconsin public school students at the end of July. Terminating the grants would have resulted in the projected loss of $12.5 million to the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Aliya Maly had her heart set on attending the University of Portland for a degree in elementary education — until she learned the price tag.
The university had offered on its website to help students cover tuition. But on a campus tour, Maly recalled learning the cost would be $20,000 more than she thought.
Her next choice was the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but she missed a deadline to accept admission. So Maly enrolled at Edgewood University, which offered a better financial aid package with a refund every semester.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison defended its partnership with an organization that encourages people of color to pursue graduate degrees but still canceled it after the Trump administration launched an investigation, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found in recently released records.
Five top administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are named in a lawsuit involving former Gov. Scott Walker targeting race-based scholarships.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Walker’s organization — Young America’s Foundation — and Citizens Defending Liberty filed the suit Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court.
A conservative legal group celebrated last month when the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled a state grant program aimed at helping students of color attend college was unconstitutional. Now, the group is targeting a similar program for Universities of Wisconsin students.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Waukesha County Circuit Court against five administrators at UW-Madison, including interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots and Provost John Zumbrunnen.
Dr. Michelle Kelly, a pediatric hospitalist at UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison, was disappointed, but not surprised, when she received a notice last week spelling the end of a five-year, roughly $2 million grant from the agency.
The number of Wisconsinites many months behind on student loan bills has risen by nearly 50% since last fall.
That’s according to federal data analyzed by the Associated Press, which found that more than 108,000 people in Wisconsin haven’t made payments on their loans in more than 360 days.
Federal research funding cuts are having “unacceptable” impacts on scientific progress, according to the vice chancellor for research at UW-Madison.
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska spoke yesterday on a panel in Milwaukee organized by the Wisconsin Technology Council, focused on how shifting federal priorities are impacting innovation in the state.
Proposed changes to how the federal government awards research grants are raising concerns among scientists across the country, including researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who say the changes could affect how medical discoveries are funded for years to come.
The Office of Management and Budget is proposing revisions to the federal rules that govern research grants, a move that has prompted more than 400,000 public comments from researchers, universities, patients and advocacy groups.
UW-Madison researchers are calling the Trump administration’s plan to rewrite the rules for awarding and managing federal grants “catastrophic” and “a dagger to the heart of science.”
Those are among a flood of nearly 500,000 public comments from researchers and higher education groups over the last few months, overwhelmingly opposing the Office of Management and Budget’s proposal released in late May.
UW-Madison’s June water main break that continues to disrupt campus air conditioning has prompted broader concerns from the UW Board of Regents about the aging infrastructure at the state’s 13 public universities.
Several Regents at a virtual meeting Thursday said the Universities of Wisconsin needs to plan for fixing other potentially failing campus infrastructure.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today that international students will now only be allowed to stay in the United States for four years under their visa.
The new ruling will officially be published in the Federal Register tomorrow, July 17. The ruling guts a 1978 policy, known as ‘duration of status,’ that allowed international college and university students to stay in the U.S. until their program ended.
UW Board of Regents members shared grievances about now-ousted Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman in text messages and emails in the months leading up to his firing, according to recently released records.
The Regents fired Rothman on April 7 over a loss of confidence in his leadership. The clashes first became public after someone leaked a March 26 letter to The Associated Press that Rothman wrote to Regents leaders, in which he said board leadership told him he had to retire or resign, or they would fire him.
Many University of Wisconsin Board of Regents members privately complained to each other in text messages about UW system president Jay Rothman in the months leading up to his ouster, according to newly released records.
Board President Amy Bogost and board member Timothy Nixon described some of the problems the board had with Rothman during a legislative hearing in April, but the nearly 500 pages of records recently obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveal a much deeper divide between Rothman and the board than was previously known.
UW Board of Regents member Jack Salzwedel has stepped down from the board, five years before his term ends, citing family medical issues.
Molly Reinhard, director of UW-Madison’s center that advises students aspiring to work in health and law professions, said the changes will affect students through their school selection decisions, career progression and housing.
After UW-Madison named a new athletic director on Wednesday, all eyes are turning to the university’s other vacant leadership position: chancellor.
More than 20 buildings on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are locked on Tuesday as crews work to address air conditioning issues caused by a broken chilled water line.
Meanwhile, university records are raising new questions about the state of UW-Madison’s infrastructure.
Employees at Wisconsin’s public universities will get a 2% increase in their wages starting this month, and thousands of faculty members in high-demand fields have received salary raises.
The Madison Metropolitan School District is celebrating its inaugural Grow Your Own to Teacher Program.
The initiative inaugural cohort completes associate degrees at Madison College and prepares to continue towards teacher licenses through the UW-Madison School of Education.
Katie Aglione, 22, just finished her first year of UW-Madison’s two-year nursing program. This follows two years of prerequisite classes that studentshave to complete before spending the second half of their bachelor’s program focused on clinical skills and hands-on training.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison law school made misleading statements to The College Fix about its plans to remove a racially discriminatory fellowship description.
As previously reported, a third-party database advertised a law school faculty fellowship as targeted for “candidates of color.” After being pressed for answers, Associate Director of Communications Jennie Broecker told The Fix on May 15 she would ask ProFellow to update the listing.
The Universities of Wisconsin’s search for UW-Madison’s next chancellor is kicking off with public input sessions starting next week.
The 23-member committee leading the search to identify former Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s successor will gather feedback from the faculty, staff, students and the public on Monday and June 22 at two listening sessions, the university announced Tuesday.
Here is what Milwaukee community members said as a statewide listening tour kicked off at UWM.
Aid for childcare providers is expiring, the Universities of Wisconsin raises tuition, and the state reaches a $10 million PFAS settlement — Inside Wisconsin Politics reviews a busy start to summer.
A new report from the University of Wisconsin says tuition in the state is actually too low.
UW regents last week voted for a 2% tuition increase across the UW System, but the report from the university’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy said that tuition increase is modest at best.
The University of Wisconsin board has approved a tuition increase of 2% for the 2026-2027 academic year. That decision has some lawmakers in disagreement.
UW-Madison’s new chancellor will be stepping onto campus within the next year.
The search is underway after Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin left UW-Madison in May to lead Columbia University, closing a four-year tenure marked by the growth of the university’s research enterprise, historic enrollment, federal policy changes and several controversial high-profile decisions.
The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a proposal to increase resident undergraduate tuition by 2 percent for the 2026–27 academic year.
“This 2 percent tuition increase represents a balanced and measured approach to addressing the rising costs our UW universities face,” said Regent President Amy B. Bogost.
The decision, by a vote of 15-1, comes after several years of significant financial restructuring across UW universities, including reductions in structural deficits, operational changes, and campus-level cost containment efforts designed to strengthen long-term financial stability.
In-state students will once again pay a higher tuition rate to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison — but their cost remains lower than at peer schools.
On Thursday, the UW system’s Board of Regents approved a 2% tuition increase for resident undergraduates next school year. Tim Nixon was the only regent to vote against the measure.
“We’ve increased tuition four years in a row. I personally have not been provided with sufficient information to believe it is again necessary. No matter how reasonable the increase, the burden on students, parents and the public is real,” Nixon said at the board’s meeting at UW-Milwaukee.
Several Republican lawmakers are upset with the University of Wisconsin System’s proposal to increase tuition by 2% a year after a 5% increase.
Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, went as far as saying that a pair of trustees “lied to all our faces” in committee testimony when they said that tuition would not be raised again this soon.
“Unfortunately, students and their families are the ones who will be paying the price for this dishonesty,” Testin said in a statement. “At least we now know that we can no longer take the UW Board of Regents at their word.
Students, faculty and staff could learn by fall who will become the next leader of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“We hope to have a new chancellor named … by the end of the calendar year, at the latest,” Jason Beier, who oversees human resources for the broader UW system, recently told a group tasked with finding Jennifer Mnookin’s replacement.
Tuition for in-state students on Universities of Wisconsin campuses may increase again this fall.
The UW Board of Regents will vote Thursday on whether to raise tuition for in-state undergraduate students by 2% for the 2026-27 academic year.
If the plan is approved, in-state students at UW-Madison will pay $210 more next fall, or $10,716 total, and out-of-state students will see a 4% tuition increase, or about $1,701, raising the total to $44,232.
Within just the past two years, two-thirds of the universities in the Big Ten Conference have had a change in presidential leadership. Counting system heads and the leaders of flagship campuses, 12 of the 18 member institutions have seen turnover at the top since the start of 2025.
