Acommittee of UW-Milwaukee faculty is endorsing the university’s plan to lay off about three dozen faculty members from its two-year branch campuses next summer.
After 12 years serving as president and 26 years working for Wisconsin technical colleges, Foy is set to retire Sept. 7.
A legislative study group has been formed to discuss the future of the Universities of Wisconsin. We talk to two committee members, a state senator and a UW-Green Bay professor, about what’s at stake for higher education in Wisconsin.
Universities of Wisconsin schools will soon be offering admission to tens of thousands of Wisconsin high school seniors without receiving applications.
The state Legislature has formed a study committee to discuss possible reforms and restructuring of the Universities of Wisconsin.
Incoming high school seniors, check your inboxes: You may have just gotten into college without even applying.
Ten of the state’s public universities will send acceptance letters starting next week through a new “direct admissions” program. Eligible students at participating schools will be automatically admitted to universities based on their grades and coursework at the end of their junior year, essentially bypassing the traditional application process.
In a news conference Wednesday, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said students should check their high school email addresses for the notifications.
Starting next week, tens of thousands of high school students across Wisconsin will be offered admission to a Universities of Wisconsin campus for the 2025-2026 school year — without applying.
Most of the UW schools are participating in the program with the exception of some of the largest campuses in the system- UW-Madison, UW-Eau Claire and UW-La Crosse.
Football fans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon be allowed to buy alcohol throughout the stadium.
Co-authored by Morgan Edwards, an assistant professor with the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison. She also leads the Climate Action Lab and holds an affiliation with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Zachary Thomas is a graduate student in UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and member of the Climate Action Lab.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Student Success Through Applied Research lab, which has focused on rural college access since 2020, has expanded its work since joining the STARS network, Betley said. The lab has produced an interactive mapping tool and report to document which rural areas have access to postsecondary programs and provide new insights into rural college enrollment trends. The findings even helped the university identify districts where students can use support and launch a statewide college-access program called College for Rural Wisconsin.
Richland Center has a big problem. The local Universities of Wisconsin branch closed one year ago, due to declining enrollment and UW’s system-wide budget shortfalls that are also forcing other branch closings.
Now, for the first time, the UW system is turning to a decade-old faculty layoff policy that expands the circumstances under which tenured faculty can be laid off and outlines the process for doing it. With Milwaukee’s branch campuses closing, the UW system is eliminating the College of General Studies and putting Decker and about three dozen UW-Milwaukee tenured faculty at risk of being laid off.
The decision comes almost one month after the committee and Gow battled over three charges in a public hearing: unethical conduct, lack of cooperation with a university investigation and misuse of campus technology.
The closure of six Universities of Wisconsin branch campuses has left their counties with an extensive, and expensive, problem: Finding a purpose for the buildings and land the UW system left behind.
Despite recent reports of the problematic rollout of the 2024-25 Free Application for Student Financial Aid, commonly known as FAFSA, the revised form does have some good news for low-income students.
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.
A committee convened by the state Legislature met Thursday to set the scope of its work evaluating changes to be made to the Universities of Wisconsin.
The Study Committee on the Future of the University of Wisconsin System is a bipartisan group of legislators, business representatives, educators and government officials. They represent a cross section of the state stakeholders in public campuses.
A study committee made up of lawmakers and members of the public will spend the next few months discussing the future of the University of Wisconsin system and solutions for ongoing concerns, which appeared to be wide ranging during the panel’s first meeting on Thursday.
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.
Following December’s deal between the University of Wisconsin System and the Republican-controlled budget-writing committee, a new committee will recommend legislation to address future plans for the UW System.
Communities that have lost a two-year Universities of Wisconsin branch campus will be eligible for up to $2 million in grants.
The state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved releasing $20 million to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation for a grant program to assist communities in redeveloping shuttered campuses.
The state budget committee on Tuesday approved the release of $27 million for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to cover grants aimed at creating a regional tech hub and to help communities affected by UW shutdowns. The committee also approved money for the Department of Corrections to cover the costs of youth who are serving adult sentences.
The University of Wisconsin system is removing race as a factor in more than 160 scholarships, grants, fellowships, study abroad and hiring programs, according to the system’s director of media relations, Mark Pitsch. Individual universities, he said, are also discussing scholarship criteria with donors who funded specific awards to ensure they comply with the court’s ruling.
The new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse says he’s focused on “turning the page” after a tumultuous six months for the university.
Chancellors in the Universities of Wisconsin system can receive up to 15 percent raises annually, based on a performance metric, according to a new proposal approved by the Board of Regents Monday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor will earn more than $1 million by the end of this coming school year.
The UW Board of Regents created a retention bonus system for its chancellors in a closed-door meeting Monday with no public discussion or vote. The board also approved pay boosts for eight of the 13 chancellors to bring their compensation closer to peer universities.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders approved pay raises Monday for more than half of the system’s chancellors, annual bonuses for chancellors that retain freshmen students and six-figure payouts to UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin every year she stays at the flagship university.
The UW Board of Regents, in a closed session meeting Monday, approved a new program that rewards chancellors for retaining students.
Charlie Pietz, a 2024 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate joined the Student Seats team as Chief Marketing Officer two years ago. He helped Student Seats grow to over 5,000 users in Wisconsin with his work on campus and social media.
Following a showdown between the Legislature and Universities of Wisconsin over funding last winter, a new group will study the future of the state’s public universities and issue recommendations.
Sixty students can’t sustain a college campus. That’s the hard truth that ended classes at the Universities of Wisconsin’s two-year campus in Richland Center a year ago. The closure is sad and difficult, yet justified.
UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone is stepping down from the chancellorship of the Universities of Wisconsin’s second-largest school at the end of the upcoming academic year, continuing a years-long string of turnover in top leadership across the UW system.
Mone will have served as chancellor for 11 years, a tenure he noted exceeded any of UWM’s past chancellors, with the exception of its founder. Mone will return to teaching at the Lubar College of Business, effective July 1, 2025.
Pocan is proposing to double the size of need-based Pell Grants, a federal assistance program that began in the 1970s. Pocan received Pell Grants himself when he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Wisconsin hub focuses on personalized medicine, or tailoring treatments to a patient’s genetic makeup or other individual characteristics. Along with UW-Madison and Madison Area Technical College, partners include Madison companies Accuray and Exact Sciences, GE Healthcare and Rockwell Automation in the Milwaukee area and Neenah-based manufacturer Plexus.
All three of the Universities of Wisconsin’s vice presidents will be serving in interim status come September.
The Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub Consortium members include the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), the University of Wisconsin System Administration, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, GE HealthCare, Rockwell Automation, Exact Sciences Corporation, BioForward Wisconsin, Employ Milwaukee, Accuray, Plexus, WRTP Big Step, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Madison Area Technical College, the Madison Regional Economic Partnership (MadREP), and Milwaukee7.
Leaders of Wisconsin’s state universities are weighing whether to update policies on political campaigning in residence halls for the first time since 1988.
College students who earn two-year degrees in certain programs at Moraine Park Technical College can transfer 60 credits, or half of a four-year degree, to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee under a new articulation agreement between the two schools.
Wisconsin colleges have a well-documented demographics problem. Smaller and smaller graduating high school classes have left colleges scrambling to fill seats, squeezing budgets and making painful cuts.
Donald Downs, the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and one of the principles’ developers, said Bobo’s op-ed is “the opposite of everything we stand for.” Downs said the principles—like the more well-known free speech statements—say academic freedom should extend to professors speaking about their own university. He argued university professors are in positions to know more about what’s going on inside their institutions.
Charter schools can be run either by public school districts or independently. Independent charter schools can be authorized by the Milwaukee Common Council, the chancellor of any Universities of Wisconsin (UW System) institution, each technical college district board, the Waukesha County Executive, College of Menominee Nation, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University, and the UW Office of Educational Opportunity, according to the DPI.
Sex historian and journalist Hallie Lieberman, who received her doctorate from UW-Madison, has been following the story closely. She worries if Gow is dismissed for sexual activities he pursued in his free time, it will set a dangerous precedent to fire professors for saying and doing things the public doesn’t like.
“When they go after porn and sex, it’s low-hanging fruit. What comes next?” she said. “Freedom of speech is for the speech we hate, it’s for the thought we hate.”
Here’s what guests on the June 21, 2024 episode said about the closing of two-year Universities of Wisconsin campuses, the financial scandal at Milwaukee Public Schools and the past and present of Donald Trump campaigns in Wisconsin.
The Richland campus will officially close at the end of June, since UW system leadership has ended negotiations with Richland County officials over the future of the campus. The real death of the campus came a year ago, when classes ended.
Former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow pushed back on claims that he used university computers to visit pornography websites during a hearing on whether the university has grounds to dismiss him from faculty.
After two days of fiery exchanges at the Omni Center, former Chancellor Joe Gow and UW-La Crosse officials concluded their arguments Thursday about whether Gow should be allowed to keep his tenured faculty position.
For UW-La Crosse, the hearing is the first step in a two-part process to finally purge Gow from its payroll and move on from what many see as an embarrassing chapter that damaged the university’s reputation.
Former UW-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow and his former colleagues engaged in a harsh battle of words over Gow’s disputed faculty position Wednesday afternoon.
In Wisconsin, rather than push back against the austerity imposed by the Legislature, the UW System has acquiesced to its own defunding, a pattern that’s led to the closure of several two year campuses, including the recent announcement of the closure of the UW-Oshkosh, Fox Cities campus on June 30, 2025.
Joe Gow was removed as University of Wisconsin-La Crosse chancellor for creating sex videos posted on porn websites. Should he also be fired from his faculty position?
That’s the question facing a group of Gow’s colleagues this week. They will hear Gow and the university administration make their case in a two-day public hearing that will closely resemble a trial with witnesses, cross-examinations and closing statements.
Amid a statewide wave of branch campus shut downs, the Menasha-based campus will close June 2025 due to low enrollment rates.
Murv Seymour talks with Courtney Bell at the Wisconsin Historical Society about leading the Wisconsin Center for Education Research in its work on classroom innovations, challenges and inequities.
New federal funding will help place more OBGYNs in training in Wisconsin’s rural communities.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health will receive a $750,000 grant over the next three years to expand their rural OBGYN residency track.
The UW-L faculty hearing committee will hear arguments from interim chancellor Betsy Morgan and Gow about his tenured faculty role.
UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt and UW system President Jay Rothman will shut down UW-Oshkosh’s two-year branch campus in Menasha at the end of the spring 2025 semester. WLUK-TV was the first to report the news Thursday morning.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded $750,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, directed toward the establishment of new residency programs in rural communities.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh at Fox Cities will shutter at the end of next school year, according to Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson.
It’s the sixth UW campus to close because of budget problems and declining enrollment.
