Three state universities in southeastern Wisconsin are aggressively turning their attention south to pull more students — and tuition revenue — from the Land of Lincoln.
The dean of the Wisconsin School of Business will leave UW-Madison next summer to lead a business school in London.
François Ortalo-Magné, dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, will end his tenure at UW-Madison in the summer of 2017 to assume his new role as dean of the London Business School.
W-Madison gaming pioneers Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire are headed to University of California-Irvine’s Informatics Department.
Akerman Hall is a gateway to the complex that houses the University of Minnesota’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. But wandering through it is more like an experience in archeology.
UW-Madison’s medical school became a victim of its own popularity this year, officials say.
New federal legislation rooted in research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was proposed this week to simplify the Free Application for Student Aid (FAFSA) for low-income students by eliminating the need for Pell Grant recipients to refile applications for subsequent grants after receiving their first one.
University of Wisconsin-Madison retained its No. 25 ranking in the world in the latest Center for World University Rankings.
Wisconsin’s open records law requires the release of public documents “as soon as practicable and without delay.”
Noted: And there also are plenty of schools where MBA debt is a mere fraction of the totals at the elite business schools. At the University of Wisconsin’s Business School in Madison, the average debt burden for graduating MBAs was a mere $15,481–$106,889 less than Wharton’s average–while the first-year median comp package was $114,694–just $31,609 below the median pay for a Wharton grad.
I’m a true-blue Madison guy of many decades, so I have a deep appreciation of what a world-class university means for a successful Madtown.
Classes typically offered at Madison Area Technical College’s campus on the city’s west side will be scattered among other facilities this fall while a new facility is prepared for occupancy in spring, staff members say.
Wisconsin’s government transparency laws don’t require public bodies such as the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents to immediately disclose the documents that their members plan to discuss at upcoming meetings, a Justice Department official said Thursday.
SACRAMENTO — Over three generations, the Michael family forged a deep bond with the University of California, dating back nearly 50 years to when Jay Dee Michael Sr. was the university system’s vice president and chief lobbyist.
Noted: The class that starts this fall at the Consortium’s 18 schools — expanded from the original three, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Washington University in St. Louis, and Indiana University-Bloomington — will be a record 490 students strong, up from those original 21, says Consortium Executive Director and CEO Peter Aranda. Thirteen members of that first class graduated with their MBA; this year the number was 411.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced a proposal on Wednesday to eliminate tuition at in-state public colleges and universities for families with annual incomes up to $125,000 — largely embracing a core position of Senator Bernie Sanders, who had pledged to make tuition at public institutions free for all students.
The recent death of Beau Solomon has sparked fear in some planning to study abroad. As a result, campuses throughout the UW System are preparing students to travel abroad, while reiterating the importance of safety
Before leaving the University of Wisconsin-Madison in March, Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for finance and administration, was able to secure $1.9 million in university funds to move forward on 24 projects.
Wisconsin’s public university system has wasted more than $100,000 on airline tickets in recent years that ultimately were never used and allowed to expire.
The University of Wisconsin System announced Wednesday that Stephanie Marquis — a familiar face in state government — will become its new spokesperson. She will start next week in an interim strategic communications role.
UW System President Ray Cross says he and other higher ed leaders need to do a better job partnering with industry to build support for the state’s colleges.
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday proposed opening up federal financial aid to alternative education providers, softening student loan repayment requirements for entrepreneurs and granting green cards to STEM students as part of wide-ranging tech and innovation agenda.
UW-Madison will not have to change its affirmative action policies after the Supreme Court last week rejected a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, officials said.
Letter to the editor from Rep. Daniel Riemer: The UW is one of the best deals in the United States. UW-Madison’s in-state tuition is the third lowest of the top 50 universities in the U.S. Meanwhile, according to the Goldwater Institute, UW-Milwaukee, now a Carnegie top-ranked Research One (R1) university, has among the lowest costs to educate per student of any R1 or R2 university in the country. In short, both research universities are low-cost models for the nation, especially UW-Milwaukee. Both of these great research universities now also get less than 20 percent of their funding from the state budget.
Letter to the editor from Taggert Brooks, a professor of economics, and John Nunley, an associate professor of economics at UW-La Crosse.
Universities across the country have closely watched the Supreme Court affirmative action case as pressure builds on campuses to nurture diversity, both for the benefit of underrepresented minority students and for white students who will live and work in a diverse world.
The cost in salary and research funding increases this year to keep University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty is nearing $16 million, says provost Sarah Mangelsdorf.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s practices are consistent with a Supreme Court ruling Thursday that narrowly upheld the use of race in admissions, campus officials say.
UW-Madison will not have to change its affirmative action policies after the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, officials said.
The nation’s colleges and universities have been on pins and needles waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether race can be a factor in their admissions policies.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions. Some parts of the decision in the case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, related to features unique to that university.
UW-Madison hopes to get approval from the Board of Regents on a couple of projects later this week.
Fewer than two-thirds of students graduate within six years from 17 of Wisconsin’s 22 private, nonprofit colleges and universities, a new study says.
State budget crunches and political turmoil have set off rumblings about a mass faculty exodus from public colleges in some states. High-profile defections stoke the rumors. But have professors really fled in droves?
It’s one thing to attend to due diligence, double-check your numbers and make sure final budget documents are correct before releasing them.
Last year, The Gazette’s editorial board criticized Janesville City Manager Mark Freitag for refusing to give the media copies of his budget he had passed to council members four days before his presentation.
Long-time University of Wisconsin System Regent Charles Pruitt’s call to colleagues to set aside political allegiances for the good of the university last week rang with passion, but a look at state campaign finance records shows many of the group’s members are reliable partisan supporters.
It took years of hard work to achieve, but now, newly tenured faculty members in the University of Wisconsin System aren’t exactly sure what they have earned.
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student has filed a lawsuit alleging a school committee violated the state’s open meetings law when it closed disciplinary hearings involving him.
Former Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton tells the story of how she attended a recent gathering at which one of Gov. Scott Walker’s appointees regaled a group of young people about the give and take that is so much the bedrock of American democracy.
Open Government 101 is now in session. UW System officials — including the Board of Regents — please be seated.
The University of Wisconsin System will increase student fees and continue tapping controversial reserve funds under a $6.2 billion operating budget that UW’s governing Board of Regents approved Thursday afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a $6.2 billion operating budget that hikes student services and housing fees without debate and only a smattering of questions Thursday, thanks to a series of private briefings.
University of Wisconsin System regents have approved a plan to allow their adult education arm to offer a business administration bachelor’s degree online.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents allocated an additional $4 million Friday for Memorial Union renovations after unforeseen problems for the project.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has granted UW-Madison’s chancellor permission to spend an $800,000 donation as she sees fit to help the school’s budget crunch.
The annual budget University of Wisconsin System officials withheld from the public this week on grounds it wasn’t completed had actually been finished and sent to members of the System’s governing board several days earlier.
A Wisconsin regent is questioning whether it’s worth continuing athletics at UW-Milwaukee.
University of Wisconsin System leaders have approved a plan to raise prospective students’ application fees.
Noted: Since being elected governor of Wisconsin in 2010, Scott Walker has made repeated cuts to that state’s system of 13 universities; $250 million in cuts are included in the 2015–17 state budget. “It all trickles down,” University of Wisconsin Press director Dennis Lloyd admitted, disclosing that the state previously funded about 10% of the press’s $3.6 million budget, but cut that sum by 2% in 2015–17. “It could have been better; it could have been worse,” Lloyd observed.
Campus sexual assaults are getting focused attention this week with news that a Stanford student received only a six-month jail sentence for committing sexual assault, considered by many to be too lenient.
PALO ALTO, Calif. — It could have been mistaken for any other late afternoon in the expectant days before graduation. Seniors shuttled four years of possessions from the Kappa Alpha fraternity into waiting U-Hauls that would carry them away from Stanford for the last time.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System students will spend more on fees, housing and food this fall under a new annual budget that regents approved Thursday as they grapple with ways to raise money in the face of a tuition freeze and deep state cutbacks.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents have unanimously approved a 2016-17 totaling $6.2 billion.
The University of Wisconsin System regents have approved a new budget that raises students’ fees and charges them more for housing and food.
Walker said since 1978, college “tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation.” Average tuition prices from the National Center for Education Statistics and inflation rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics back up his point. We rate the claim True.
Nearly 100 colleges and universities had at least 10 reports of rape on their main campuses in 2014, according to federal campus safety data, with Brown University and the University of Connecticut tied for the highest annual total — 43 each.
The regents are set to vote on the 2016-17 budget during a meeting Thursday. They have not released the spending plan, but Julie Laundrie, an aide to state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, said Wednesday that their office learned through a conversation with system State Relations Director Jeff Buhrandt the budget will include the higher fees.
University of Wisconsin System officials are refusing to release the details of their proposed operating budget for the coming fiscal year, saying they will only publicly disclose what’s in their budget just before the UW Board of Regents plans to vote on it Thursday afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin System is holding back from the public details of its proposed annual operating budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 until the budget and related student fee increases are presented to the Board of Regents for a vote Thursday.
