Category: Higher Education/System

Twelve UC Berkeley professors sent a letter to Chancellor Nicholas Dirks requesting that campus administration cancel Berkeley College Republican’s event for Milo Yiannopoulos.

The bills proposed include legislation relating to the University of Wisconsin System chartering a recovery school.

With just two weeks left in his tenure as vice president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday released a letter advising college leaders on how to combat sexual assault on their campuses. Mr. Biden, who has been an outspoken advocate of sexual-assault prevention throughout his career, also released a guide that lays out best practices for colleges on the issue.

Molly Corbett Broad, who in nine years as president of the American Council on Education has focused the college presidents’ association on driving technological and other change in higher education, will retire in October, ACE announced Tuesday.

o fully appreciate Freda Harris’ belief in access to college, consider that her late mother was a civil rights activist with a sixth-grade education who fought for a way out of poverty in the 1960s.

Tips from Gannett reporter and 2014 college grad.

Drexel University and one of its professors faced an onslaught of criticism for his Christmas Eve tweet that “all I want for Christmas is white genocide.” And on Christmas Day, Drexel issued a statement strongly condemning the tweet.

JEFFERSON — When the state’s 2015-17 biennial budget was approved in mid-2015, it brought with it a $3.6 million cut in funding to Cooperative Ex­tension, a division of the Uni­versity of Wisconsin-Extension.

The University of Wisconsin System provided roughly $3 million to the University of Wisconsin-Superior to offset budget cuts, tuition freezes and fewer students, but that assistance ended this year.

For some college graduates, commencement is a right of passage.

How would you feel if a speaker — a total stranger whom you’ve never met — came to your university and singled you out for harassment? How about if a video of that event were uploaded to YouTube, where more than 200,000 people could watch the speaker repeatedly bully you, all while the audience egged him on? And what if the campus knew that this was a possibility — given the speaker’s well-documented history of abuse — and did nothing about it?

Thousands of high school seniors are waiting for their college acceptance letters.Students who applied at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay might learn about their acceptance a little less traditionally.

A firebrand speaker who was permanently banned from Twitter for “inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others” blasted a transgender student by name at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, prompting the school’s chancellor to immediately condemn the speech in a campus-wide email.

A firebrand speaker who was permanently banned from Twitter for “inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others” blasted a transgender student by name at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, prompting the school’s chancellor to immediately condemn the speech in a campus-wide email.

With control of both chambers of the Minnesota Legislature shifting to Republicans, the University of Minnesota may have to change the way it lobbies the state for funds.

Five of the University of Wisconsin System’s longest-serving chancellors were awarded raises this week ranging from 4% to 6%, bringing their salaries to $220,000 to “help keep these leaders on par with their peers,” according to a UW System spokeswoman.

Ever since Donald Trump was elected to be our next president, Andreé Franco Vasquez has carried her passport around Harvard College, where she’s a student. If Trump does decide to deport all undocumented immigrants, as he’s said he would do, she doesn’t want to be sent to the wrong country.

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a plan to seek $78 million in new state funding for employee raises Thursday, though officials said workers might not receive across-the-board pay increases if lawmakers grant the request.

Top administrators at University of Wisconsin System campuses will conduct independent reviews of tenured faculty members and have the final say over whether they are meeting expectations under a policy change approved by UW’s Board of Regents on Thursday.

Out-of-state students at UW-Madison will face a $4,000 jump in tuition over the next two years after the UW System Board of Regents approved the increase during its meeting Thursday.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a policy change Thursday that increases the role of campus administrators in faculty performance evaluations, something critics say opens the process to political maneuvering.

Tuition is going up for thousands of students, faculty are unhappy about a perceived power shift on campuses, and the University of Wisconsin System will ask the state for $78 million to boost money available for pay raises by 2% each of the next two years.