Category: Higher Education/System

On a late-autumn Sunday, a bus pulled out of El Paso at 3 a.m. carrying 52 sleepy students and parents from western Texas and New Mexico. A few had already driven several hours to get to El Paso. The bus arrived at Texas A&M 12 hours later, in time for a walking tour and dinner. After “Aggieland” information sessions, including a student panel and classroom visits, a stop at the Bonfire Memorial and an all-night drive, they arrived back in El Paso at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

University of Wisconsin System officials on Monday responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting travel from certain countries and how it related to international students and faculty members.

Some students at UW-Stevens Point are voicing their concerns about President Donald Trump’s executive order that bans travel from 7 Middle-East and African countries.

Saira Rafiee boarded a plane in Tehran this weekend on her way to New York. She had been visiting family in Iran and needed to get back to the U.S. in time for classes at City University of New York’s Graduate Center, where she is a Ph.D. student in political science. But, as a result of President Trump’s executive order restricting the travel of citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Iran, Rafiee says she was detained in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and, after nearly 18 hours, sent back to Tehran.

s reports of the impact of the Trump administration’s travel restrictions emerge, one population in higher education seems disproportionately affected: Iranian academics and students.

When Robby Abrahamian stepped onto the UW-Stevens Point campus as a freshman in 2013, he immediately began passing petitions, dropping banners, and asking the student government to take an initiative in divesting from fossil fuels. At that time the movement was only a few years old, but interest in clean energy had already spread to college campuses and other institutions across the country.

Filing for bankruptcy protection may be the next step for UW-Oshkosh’s private foundation state Rep. Amanda Stuck, D-Appleton, told the Journal Sentinel Thursday. The foundation is struggling to repay the $14.5 million it illegally transferred from the university to finance and back loans on several private development projects.

More than 200 colleges and universities are under investigation by the federal government for their handling of sexual violence complaints, the Office of Civil Rights in the Education Department announced Thursday.

University of Wisconsin-Oskosh’s private foundation is considering bankruptcy to cover $14.5 million in debt to cover real estate projects.

On the same day that President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would make many, if not most, unauthorized immigrants living in the United States priorities for deportation, he took pains to reassure one group of unauthorized immigrants: unauthorized immigrants who’ve been protected from deportation by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program created by President Obama.

Tom Lechnir, former UW-Oshkosh baseball coach, asked the courts to reopen his 2014 lawsuits against former UW-Oshkosh officials following a lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin Department of Justice against those officials for mishandling funds.

A series of directives from the Trump administration to key agencies involved in science and research have fanned fears that the new president may muzzle government employees. But it’s not clear how far the guidelines go in restricting the speech of those employed at the agencies.

MADISON – As University of Wisconsin System leaders seek more state aid in 2017 for need-based student grants, their pitch to lawmakers will follow a bizarre year in which $2.7 million in grant funding wasn’t awarded.

Asked on Fox News Sunday whether President Trump plans to sign an executive order undoing President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program this week, Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, refused to make any commitments either way but said the president would be working with legislative leaders “to get a long-term solution on that issue.”

Violence at University of Washington appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos followed protests that prevented a speech at UC Davis — as tensions grow over Breitbart writer known for insults against feminists, minority groups and others.

The president of the Faculty Senate at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is voicing support for the school’s current chancellor.

What happened at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh couldn’t happen at UW-La Crosse, administrators say.

Former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells is accused of overseeing the illegal transfer of more than $11 million in university funds to support five Oshkosh-area building projects.

The University of Wisconsin System filed a lawsuit Wednesday against its Oshkosh campus’s former chancellor and chief business officer, charging that they oversaw illegal financial transfers and university guarantees supporting five foundation-backed real estate projects.

The confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary underscored the likelihood of a significant shift in federal policy on sexual assault in college.

The Obama administration sent shock waves through higher education in 2014 when it released a list of 55 schools that faced civil rights investigations related to their handling of sexual violence reports.

The University of Wisconsin System regents have filed a lawsuit against the UW-Oshkosh’s former chancellor and chief business officer over alleged improper financial transactions with the school’s foundation.

The education-secretary nominee avoided specifics as senators pressed for her positions on issues including student debt, regulations on for-profit-colleges, and Title IX.

An hour into Tuesday’s confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, a clear pattern had emerged. Democrats on the Senate education committee sought to nail down answers from Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary on a series of specific questions — but they received few or no specific answers.

Noted: So much has been donated recently, including all of the memorabilia from UW-Madison’s School of Nursing, that the museum is doubling its exhibit space this year. Architects are working on plans to turn adjacent offices into another room of the museum which will be used to expand displays on Florence Nightingale, World War II nurses, local nursing schools that have closed and public health nurses.

A Minnesota man with a string of domestic violence convictions was charged in the death of a Saudi Arabian college student stemming from a confrontation in northwestern Wisconsin last year, prosecutors said Friday.

Prosecutors have charged a Minneapolis man with murder and battery in the fatal beating of a Saudi college student last Halloween, a crime that gained international attention.

Lawmakers in two US states have introduced legislation that would eliminate tenure for public college and university professors.

As Gov. Walker, the legislature and the University of Wisconsin Regents address the 2017-2019 budget for the state, they need to be mindful that the Milwaukee was one of three metropolitan areas out of 51 with a population over one million people that lost jobs in 2016. The four-county area lost about 2000 jobs.

A college campus event hosting Milo Yiannopoulos and Martin Shkreli, two controversial and polarizing figures who have both been banned on Twitter, was canceled because of heated protests Friday night.