Close to 70 percent of UW-Eau Claire faculty, or 227 staff members, voted in favor of a resolution saying they have no confidence in UW-System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
The Century Foundation on Wednesday published a report that is critical of state policies that link funding of public colleges with measures of their performance, such as graduation rates and degree production numbers. The new report’s author, Nicholas Hillman, an assistant professor of education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has studied such state-based formulas, argues that performance-based funding is rarely effective.
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, who served as Indiana’s governor from 2005 to 2013, just launched “Back a Boiler,” which is accepting applications for the fall semester in West Lafayette. The innovative program lets students avoid borrowing tens of thousands of dollars in loans — debt that forces many young people to put off buying homes and getting married.
The 2015-’16 academic year ended with pomp, circumstance — and skirmishes between Gov. Scott Walker and professors in the University of Wisconsin System.
Hundreds of low-income high school students across south-central Wisconsin could attend Madison Area Technical College without paying for tuition under a new program that officials hope will help more young people see that college is open to them.
Votes of no confidence by faculty at several University of Wisconsin campuses were “a big mistake,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said earlier this month.
Faculty from the University of Wisconsin System’s two-year colleges joined their peers at several four-year campuses Friday by approving a resolution declaring they have no confidence in the System’s president and Regents.
Every Wednesday, the teachers and staff at Lanier High School wear college T-shirts and sweatshirts to work. Lanier is in Austin, Texas, so there’s a lot of burnt orange – for the University of Texas.
Democrats have spent recent weeks drawing attention to budget cuts that have led to reduced services and layoffs on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Political storm clouds are forming over how much state aid the UW System will get in the next two-year budget. And, if Republicans keep control of the Legislature in November elections, those clouds could easily turn into a red-flag storm warning.
Officials with the University of Wisconsin-Superior recently released findings from its campus climate survey, with faculty and staff expressed concerns over compensation, transparency and diversity.
After four years at Marquette University, Molly Mead is graduating Sunday with a bachelor’s degree in women and gender studies and history — and student loan debt totaling more than $28,000. In the fall, she plans to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where she expects to borrow another $20,000 as she pursues a master’s in social work.
Boston — When colleges pick their graduation speakers, many strive to put a celebrity behind the podium. It can bring prestige. It can bring publicity. And it can bring a steep bill.
Noted: At the level of state government alone, the nonpartisan Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau found that nearly 2,000 employees would be affected by the changes, increasing costs for state taxpayers by as much as $13.7 million per year. That estimate didn’t include potential costs for local governments or schools, the UW System, the Legislature or the state courts system.
In a letter to U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, UW System President Ray Cross said the rules would affect more than 5,000 UW employees in jobs such as student life, development, administration and academic affairs.
The adversarial relationship between the University of Wisconsin and Gov. Scott Walker is perilous, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Tuesday.
Tommy Thompson still knows how to work a room. The former Wisconsin governor thanked faculty members during a graduation ceremony last week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calling them “some of the greatest professors in the United States of America.”
In the wake of budget cuts and sparring between the legislature and UW faculty and staff, faculty retention has become an issue at UW-Madison. We hear from the chair of UW-Madison’s English department about her choice to leave and why she says the UW is expected to run like a business but isn’t allowed to do the things that businesses have the freedom to do.
A week after nearly 300 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty members passed a symbolic “no confidence” vote in UW system leaders, academic staff members followed suit.
Reductions in public funding for higher education will negatively impact Wisconsin’s economy, according to a report released today by the Wisconsin Technology Council.
A new Wisconsin Technology Council report warns further state budget cuts to higher education “will prove costly over time.”
MENOMONIE — UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer said Tuesday he understands the no confidence vote in UW System leaders approved by the university’s Faculty Senate, but he doesn’t agree with it.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, in a far-reaching effort to improve the lot of workers that has ignited criticism from business groups, announced on Tuesday that it was making millions more employees eligible for overtime pay.
Obama administration releases final rules to require new payments for many employees. Regulations make clear that higher ed employees considered teachers will continue to be exempt. Postdoc pay could be key issue going forward.
At a time when many highly selective colleges are looking for ways to enroll more low-income students, Amherst College President Carolyn (Biddy) Martin often finds herself discussing the issues that can stem from diversity on the campus of an elite higher education institution.
Continuing to cut higher education funding will hurt Wisconsin’s economy by reducing research and innovation on college campuses, according to a new report from the state organization that advises lawmakers on science and technology.
Questions, concerns and disappointment filled a meeting at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Monday night.
Another group of professors declared they don’t have confidence in the leaders of the University of Wisconsin System on Monday, as UW-Stout faculty members became the latest to rebuke the state’s top public higher education officials.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson showered UW-Madison professors with praise at a graduation ceremony last week, striking a different tone from the sharp criticism of faculty members fellow Republican Gov. Scott Walker has leveled in recent days.
Noted: Gov. Scott Walker is taking swipes at University of Wisconsin faculty who have recently been passing no-confidence resolutions targeting the Board of Regents and system president Ray Cross.
Walker said Saturday at the state party convention that faculty are upset because changes to the law affecting tenure took away what he calls “job for life” protections. The faculty argue that’s a mischaracterization of tenure and that the law changes make it too easy to fire someone without justification.
Walker is also saying he “gets a kick” out of Democrats who talk about student loan debt. Walker asks why they didn’t support his tuition freeze at UW which has been in place for four years.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross said in a TV interview that a “war of words” between faculty and state lawmakers “is not advancing the university.” Cross, who has been the subject of no-confidence votes by faculty at five UW System schools, said on a Sunday broadcast of “UpFront with Mike Gousha” that the divisiveness can be damaging.
Imagine being a featured speaker at a celebration of historic significance, but most of the guests mingling in the room took a vote before the party and announced to the world they have no confidence in your ability to lead them.
It’s not only this weekend’s graduates who are saying goodbye to UW-Madison. Budget cuts and politics have combined to convince faculty — some who thought they would retire at the campus — to accept offers of the kind they’ve declined in the past and take their expertise and grant funding elsewhere.
UW System President Ray Cross says he accepts the criticism after faculty at five UW campuses declare they have no confidence in him.
Not to get all inside-baseball, but news releases issued by Gov. Scott Walker are usually pretty plain, like the white chalk lines that meet at home plate.
SOMERS — University of Wisconsin-Parkside faculty and staff voiced their frustrations with the leaders of Wisconsin’s public university system on Friday.
On Saturday, Jessica Furrer was the first in her family to graduate from college — with $45,000 in student loan debt.
Too often, service learning prioritizes students over the people with whom they work, Randy Stoecker argues in a new book.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay became the fifth campus in the UW System where faculty voted to declare no confidence in President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
Author William P. Jones is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and recently accepted a position at the University of Minnesota.
Just because University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s faculty and staff didn’t vote on a resolution to express a lack of confidence in UW System leaders on Tuesday doesn’t mean the vote won’t take place in the fall and pass then, a political science professor said Wednesday.
Gov. Scott Walker echoed University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross’ criticism of tenure as a “job for life” as faculty at UW-Milwaukee unanimously declared no confidence in Cross’ leadership Tuesday.
Faculty members at UW-Green Bay became the latest group of professors to declare they have no confidence in the leaders of the University of Wisconsin System on Wednesday.
GREEN BAY, Wis — – Faculty across the UW System have taken a stand against the actions of system leaders with a symbolic no confidence vote.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Faculty Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution expressing no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
Nearly 300 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty members packed a classroom to overflowing Tuesday, and quickly and unanimously passed a symbolic vote of no confidence in UW System leaders when the chancellor suggested moving to a larger room because they were violating fire safety codes.
Nearly 300 faculty members packed a classroom at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where they unanimously passed a resolution expressing no confidence in the UW System leaders.
UW-Milwaukee became the fourth University of Wisconsin System campus to see professors declare they have no confidence in UW’s leaders Tuesday, in a vote that prompted Gov. Scott Walker to weigh in with sharp criticism of the faculty.
The University Senate at UW-Eau Claire has tabled the discussion on whether it should make a vote of no confidence against UW System leaders.
UW-Green Bay faculty plan to take a “no-confidence” vote Wednesday afternoon in UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents, while Gov. Scott Walker says university faculty “fail to grasp reality.”
t’s not often that a college student publicly accuses professors of immaturity and poor judgment. Yet Jacob W. Wrasse, a senior who this week finished his term as president of the student body at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, has done just that as his campus’s University Senate considers whether to rebuke top university-system officials for failing to better shield professors’ tenure protections from a legislative assault.
Fearing that staff at UW-Eau Claire would appear to support sustained budget cuts and changes to the Wisconsin Idea, some members of the university’s Senate called for opposing them through a resolution that didn’t make it to the floor for a vote.
Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, wrote in a March email to the vice president of the system’s Board of Regents, who was chairing a task force on controversial changes to layoff policies concerning tenured faculty members, that tenure should not mean “a job for life,” according to public records first obtained by the The Cap Times. “That is a ‘union’ argument,” Cross wrote to Regent John Behling, comparing faculty members to railroad brakemen whom he said were kept on the job for years after they were no longer needed.
A newly released email from the University of Wisconsin System president praised the decision to remove faculty tenure protections from state law.
A top student who came to Edgewood College from another hemisphere will address her classmates at the school’s commencement this weekend, while Madison Area Technical College’s graduates will hear from their retiring provost.
A student government leader at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is blasting faculty and staff for their naiveté and “child-like petulance” in considering a vote of no confidence against the UW System Board of Regents and President Ray Cross.
The head of the University of Wisconsin System praised the decision to remove faculty tenure protections from state law in an email this spring that now threatens to further widen divisions between professors and top administrators.
Next week, the University of Wisconsin-Extension will start planning to absorb $3.6 million in budget cuts to the agency’s county and university educational services.
Noted: Gousha also asked Vos about the impact of “no confidence” votes faculty members at UW-Madison and other UW campuses have taken in recent days. Vos said he thought the impact would be “minimal.”Some UW faculty opposed to budget cuts and changes to tenure have taken votes of “no confidence” in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.”It’s not about the faculty,” Vos said. “When I look at the UW System, I look at the students who are there, the economic engine that happens across the state, quite frankly, and every campus.”
Letter to the editor from Michael Poliakoff, vice president, policy, at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, in Washington, D.C.
An unprecedented gathering of the full faculty at UW-Milwaukee is scheduled Tuesday to consider a no-confidence vote in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents, similar to one passed by UW-Madison’s Faculty Senate on Monday. No-confidence resolutions are also planned at UW-Green Bay and UW-Eau Claire.
