University of Wisconsin – Madison officials say budgets cuts brought upon by the $250-million deficit facing the entire UW System will lead to cuts in the number of work hours for student employees. The students use the income from these jobs to pay for tuition, room and board.
Jonathan Barry, who has served on the Wisconsin Technical College System board and the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents … has joined with former UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley in calling for the college to instead stay in the Downtown campus, make a smaller expansion on the South Side and more thoroughly study its space needs.
Financially troubled UC Berkeley will eliminate 500 staff jobs over two years to help balance its budget by 2019-20, The Chronicle has learned.
The University of Wisconsin released new information Tuesday about how the loss of $250 million in state funding will affect each college campus.
The University of Wisconsin System has released details of how all of the state’s campuses are managing the $250 million reduction to their state funding in the current budget. The documents were first published by the Wisconsin State Journal.
Summaries outlining the impact of state funding cuts to higher education say University of Wisconsin System campuses have laid off employees, consolidated administration, reduced advising services and cut course offerings over the past year.
Student employment hours have been drastically cut back because of state funding cuts, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials reported last week to UW System administrators. Those cuts came in addition to paring of undergraduate advising services and reductions in information technology services to students, according to a campus budget impact statement that was to have been presented to the Board of Regents when it met last week in Green Bay.
Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings, cuts to academic advising, potentially increasing how long it takes to finish a degree, loss of student jobs on campus, inability to grow high-demand programs, and outdated academic facilities that aren’t being maintained.
Institutions across the University of Wisconsin System have laid off employees, consolidated administration, reduced advising services and cut course offerings over the past year, according to documents released Monday summarizing the impact of state cuts to higher education funding.
Campuses across the UW System are cutting dozens of positions and resorting to larger class sizes to deal with state budget cuts, according to a new UW System report.
As nearly a hundred faculty and staff members voluntarily leave UW-Eau Claire the school says those early retirements have helped lessen the negative impact of budget cuts on students.
A panel of students from schools across the UW System sat down with the Board of Regents Friday to detail experiences of marginalized student groups and propose recommendations for an improved atmosphere of understanding and inclusion on campus. Five students from schools including UW-Madison, UW-Stout, UW-Green Bay, UW-Parkside and UW-Whitewater participated in the panel.
Long lines at polling places on several college campuses during last week’s primary election had at least one thing in common: students who waited until the last minute to register to vote.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank in a blog post Friday addressed new campus-specific policy written by faculty but edited by the Board of Regents, saying it is “workable, consistent with our peers, and provides tenure protections that should reassure our faculty.”
Between 1972 and 2007, the share of applicants to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the bottom fifth of the income distribution stayed roughly the same at less than 5%, according to a study published last week in the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. During the same period, the share of applicants from the second-lowest income quintile declined from at least 20% or more to just 11.5% in 2007. But the share of applicants from the top two highest income levels grew from 42.6% to 64.1%.
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank said Friday that the university won’t lay off tenured faculty so long as it remains a leading research school.“Top-ranked universities always take care of their tenured faculty,” Blank said in a blog post. “As long as this university is a top-ranked institution we will behave like other top-ranked universities. That means we don’t layoff tenured faculty. Period.”
UW-La Crosse, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Platteville, UW-Stout and UW-Whitewater asked the regents for permission to raise their nonresident or graduate tuition rates or both for the upcoming academic year. The Board of Regents adopted the increases on a unanimous voice vote during a meeting April 8 at UW-Green Bay. There was no discussion.
The University of Wisconsin System will create a task force to study the experiences of minority students and make recommendations to improve the racial climate on UW campuses, officials announced Friday.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said the university’s new tenure policy approved by the UW System Board of Regents Friday is “workable” and should reassure faculty, according to a post on her online blog.
The Board of Regents for the University of Wisconsin System on Friday unanimously approved a set of amendments to a layoff policy for the Madison campus that many faculty members opposed. The changes — such as the elimination of guaranteed severance and the stipulation that the university will “consider” alternative appointments faculty members pegged for layoffs for budgetary or educational reasons rather than “pursue” them — were previously approved by the board’s Education Committee.
Some UW students could find their tuition bill climbing this fall. The UW Board of Regents approved tuition increases for certain students at their monthly meeting Friday.
Public higher education is often thought of as a way to help level the playing field between Americans of all stripes, but there’s evidence that flagship public colleges aren’t the engines of mobility we think.
Last spring, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt got word that, as part of $250 million in GOP-backed cuts to the UW System, his campus would be hit by a 16 percent reduction in state aid. It was the third-largest cut of all UW schools.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved UW-Madison’s new tenure policy
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved a plan to raise nonresident and graduate tuition at five campuses.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved UW-Madison’s new tenure policy.
A new UW-Madison tenure policy written by faculty members is poised to pass the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents after a series of changes that make it compatible with a System policy governing all state campuses.
Chancellors of five University of Wisconsin System campuses are seeking permission from the UW Board of Regents to raise tuition for nonresident and graduate students in select programs effective this fall.
Two Democratic lawmakers are calling for a public hearing before the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities for chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System to describe how their campuses are absorbing their share of a $250 million biennial budget cut.
After nearly a year of turmoil over weakening faculty tenure protections, it took nine minutes for a committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents to give preliminary approval Thursday to the first campus-specific policies that will put changes into place.
The University of Wisconsin System regents moved closer Thursday toward raising graduate tuition at five campuses and out-of-state undergraduate rates at three locations, pushing the plan through a committee and on to the full board.
Chancellors at UW-Eau Claire and UW-Stout in Menomonie made their cases to the UW System Board of Regents on Thursday, explaining how budget cuts have hurt their campuses this year and how they could have long-lasting impacts.
The Faculty Senate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has been largely thwarted in its effort to restore at the campus level many of the faculty powers and job protections that were stripped out of the university system’s policies last month.
University of Wisconsin System leaders have quietly canceled a series of presentations on how Republican budget cuts have affected system schools.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents knows that the first of two academic years under deep state budget cuts is drawing to a close.
Concerned about a “two-hour drumbeat” from chancellors over $250 million in budget cuts, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross scrapped a plan for campus leaders to tell Regents this week about the cuts’ impacts, Cross said.
Chancellors of five University of Wisconsin System campuses are seeking permission from the UW Board of Regents to raise tuition for nonresident and graduate students in select programs effective this fall.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross unexpectedly pulled the plug on plans for chancellors to describe the consequences, campus-by-campus, of $250 million in biennial state funding cuts during a Board of Regents meeting in Green Bay on Thursday.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee is set to vote on a plan to raise nonresident and graduate tuition at five campuses.
A month ago, Duke University’s student newspaper surprised many by publishing an article revealing a parking attendant had accused Tallman Trask, the university’s executive vice president, of hitting her with his car and using a racial slur. Many students newspaper articles are quickly forgotten. Not this one.
When the Wisconsin Legislature removed tenure from state statute last year, leaving the Board of Regents for the University of Wisconsin System to create a new tenure policy compliant with the new law, the Madison campus moved to protect tenure as it knew it with its own set of guidelines.
As the Democratic presidential candidates vied for votes in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary and other upcoming contests, Hillary Clinton has trumpeted a new line of attack against Bernie Sanders’s plan for tuition-free college. But her college funding plan may be vulnerable to the same critique.
Noted: Author Sara Goldrick-Rab is professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American dream” coming in September from University of Chicago.
The UW Board of Regents decided not to make time at its upcoming meeting for a presentation from UW chancellors about how state funding cuts have been felt on their campuses. Officials instead plan to release summaries later this week of the ways each UW institution has dealt with the 2015-17 state budget’s $250 million cut from the UW System’s funding.
While the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee rolled out the red carpet in February to host a Democratic presidential debate — noting it would give the campus valuable national exposure — several faculty members are upset that UWM is renting space to Fox News for a Donald Trump town hall event Sunday afternoon.
Jonathan Barry, a former president of the Wisconsin Technical College System, and John Wiley, former chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison, met with MATC president Jack Daniels and raised concerns about the wisdom of selling the facility at 112 N. Carroll St.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison’s graduate program in engineering submitted incorrect data to U.S. News & World Report — and as a result had its No. 14 spot stripped Wednesday. The graduate engineering program is now unranked.
On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin met with a group of UW-Madison students to discuss the student loan debt crisis and reform legislation introduced earlier this month. The bill will allow student loan borrowers to refinance outstanding debt at lower rates and increase grants to keep up with the rising cost of tuition. Students shared their stories about being in debt from student loans and the impact the plans can have.
For most of her hourlong meeting with UW-Madison students Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin listened.
In the minimum wage battle going on across U.S. cities and states, New York’s Columbia University is the latest to take a stand on the issue.
The four bills increase grants for technical college students; create grants to help two-year students deal with financial emergencies; require the Department of Workforce Development to coordinate internships with colleges and employers; and require colleges to provide students annual information about their debt levels.
Gov. Scott Walker on Monday announced the appointment of an information technology specialist to the newly created position of student loan debt specialist as part of an effort to help students and parents make informed decisions about paying for college.
Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin have agreed to form a joint department for biomedical engineering and committed to hiring a total of 10 additional faculty members in the discipline.
Last week’s flood of anti-Semitic fliers printed at colleges across the U.S. is a “wake-up call” to college and university IT security offices about the risk that Internet-connected devices pose to their networks, experts say.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was all business Monday, signing a student internship bill into law in La Crosse, one of several pieces of legislation designed to increase college affordability.
Gov. Scott Walker has had a bigger impact on Wisconsin’s public universities than any governor in decades, and he is among the most aggressive governors in the country in reshaping higher education, experts say.
Several colleges across the country are investigating after a rash of anti-Semitic fliers began printing from their network-connected printers or fax machines.
A new documentary took the SXSW festival by storm in Austin, Texas titled: Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America’s Public Universities. No film better exposes the coordinated assault on public higher education that is going on right now across the country.
ALBANY — As the April 1 deadline for the state budget approaches, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo appears close to victories on raising the minimum wage and instituting paid family leave across New York, achievements that would cement his carefully cultivated reputation for progressive leadership.
Jesse Stommel was born in Madison, just a mile from the UW campus. Working there had always been his dream job.
