The longtime president of a university with the nation’s largest Catholic college for women has been tapped to become the eighth president of Alverno College.
Faculty members opposed to Texas’s new campus concealed carry law have argued that it will chill academic freedom and free speech. A set of recommendations from the University of Houston’s Faculty Senate on how to teach under campus carry is the new exhibit A in the case against the law for those concerned about its effects on academic freedom. Its advocates, meanwhile, say faculty fears are overblown. The debate is being renewed the same week Georgia’s House of Representatives passed similar legislation.
The Milwaukee Institute, a nonprofit provider of high-speed computing services, said it has partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s engineering school to expand the application of computational science and engineering in the region’s industrial companies.
Milwaukee lawyer Tracey Klein,a shareholder at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren who was just named to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents by Gov. Scott Walker,has been a frequent contributor to his campaign fund.
UW-Extension, which applies research and expertise across the state in myriad areas, has been forced to restructure due to a reduction of $3.6 million annually in state funding. It plans to cut $1.2 million from county-level programs, $1.7 million from campus programs and state specialists and $700,000 from administration, according to its chancellor, Cathy Sandeen. UW-Extension is a division of the UW System, which ordered the cuts after its state funding was reduced by $250 million.
Was it a racial slur or an innocent cosmetic facial posted on Facebook by two University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students?
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s lecture “The American Scholar,” which he delivered in 1837, implicitly raises radical questions about the nature of education, culture, and consciousness, and about their interactions. He urges his hearers to make the New World as new as it ought to be, urges his audience to outlive the constraints that colonial experience imposed on them and to create the culture that would arise from the full and honest use of their own intellects, minds, and senses.
The complete restructuring of the University of Wisconsin-Extension system announced last week is a “drastic” and “unjustifiable” reaction to a relatively small budget shortfall, La Crosse County officials said Thursday.
The state Assembly passed a package of college affordability bills backed by Gov. Scott Walker during a late-night legislative session on Tuesday.
Assembly Republicans have passed Gov. Scott Walker’s college affordability package despite Democrats’ warnings that the legislation does little to actually help students.
The bills include plans to lift the cap on tax-deductible student loan interest; boost grants for technical college and two-year students at University of Wisconsin Colleges to help them deal with emergencies; create internship coordinators; and require colleges to update students annually on how much debt they’ve accumulated.
The LAB identified “significant weaknesses” in information technology security policies, procedures and controls for several computer applications at several UW institutions, according to an audit report released Monday.
This semester, The Daily Cardinal is embarking on the second installment of the Action Project. In this three-part series, staff members will produce issues centered on one special topic not normally covered through day-to-day reporting. These issues focus on subjects we feel are relevant and important not only at a campus level, but city and nationwide. Read the stories from our first issue, focused on college accessibility, below.
Democrats have complained that the package amounts to crumbs for struggling students. Republicans have countered that they have frozen University of Wisconsin tuition for four years straight and some of the concepts in Walker’s package came from UW System officials themselves.
Gov. Scott Walker has appointed three new University of Wisconsin regents. The governor’s office announced Friday that he had appointed Tracey Klein, Bryan Steil and Lisa Erickson to the board.
Some members of the University of Minnesota governing board are challenging President Eric Kaler to lower tuition for Minnesotans, but others are questioning a key piece of his plan for controlling in-state tuition: a proposal to hike nonresident tuition significantly.
Margaret Spellings (right), former U.S. secretary of education, on Friday outlined her agenda for leading the University of North Carolina system, of which she becomes president March 1. In a speech to a retreat of the board, she invoked the UNC system’s history — twice invoking Bill Friday, the late legendary system president.
Gov. Scott Walker on Friday announced the appointment of three new members of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. Tracey Klein and Bryan Steil were appointed as citizen members. Lisa Erickson is a non-traditional student member.
Protesters agitating for a better climate on University of Wisconsin campuses for students of color have repeatedly asked to address the Board of Regents, but say they haven’t received a straight answer on why they have not been put on the agenda.
University of Wisconsin-Extension Chancellor Cathy Sandeen has announced a series of major changes to cooperative extension, with the change prompting some county officials and community members to worry about how a major consolidation will affect access to university resources.
University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Extension — the division that provides practical programming to farmers, families and youth in rural and urban areas across the state — estimates it will need to cut 80 positions to cover an annual $3.6 million cut in state funding.
Hundreds of demonstrators representing various causes converged Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus for the Democratic presidential debate.
A branch of University of Wisconsin Extension that provides services in areas such as agriculture, 4-H youth development and family living will cut an estimated 80 jobs — or about 10% of its workforce — starting late this year or in early 2017, it was announced Wednesday.
After enough time passes, there’s no limit to the things that cease to shock us. Take, for instance, parrots. I feel like a larger portion of our daily interactions should be dedicated to discussing the fact that there’s an animal that can talk. And yet there it sits, our unspoken secret, while we discuss less important things over coffee, such as religion and politics.
MILWAUKEE — Workers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Wednesday, February 10th were finishing up preparations for the Democratic presidential debate set for February 11th.
Officials are planning to eliminate about 80 University of Wisconsin System-Extension positions as part of a reorganization plan drafted to absorb a state budget cut, the head of extension said Wednesday.
Athletics, administration, academic programs — everything’s on the table. That’s what the University of California at Berkeley told professors and staff Wednesday in announcing it’s seeking a “new normal” in light of projected long-term budget deficits. While details of the structural overhaul are scant thus far, the news left many wondering if Berkeley can maintain its standing as one of the world’s leading research universities throughout the process. In essence, can Berkeley stay Berkeley?
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents handed out annual awards Friday for university people and programs that “foster access and success in university life for historically underrepresented populations.” You can see and hear about the recipients and the work they are doing on the archived video of the last week’s meeting posted on the Board of Regents website. What you won’t see or hear on the footage are the protests of students, organized through United Council of UW Students, who came to the regents meeting to shout about how they are not being heard by university leaders on the issue of climate for students of color on system campuses.
The college frenzy obsesses on key hurdles students must clear to snag a spot in a good college: taking tough courses and getting good grades, building an impressive list of extracurriculars, gathering the financial resources to pay the bills. But the simple fact of a student’s street address can be as big a hurdle as any.
If you are worried about the status of low-income students at the nation’s top public universities, recent news out of Madison, Wisconsin is disheartening.
Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling and other Democrats hosted a listening session on student loan debt at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Monday. Some at the meeting said both parties aren’t doing enough to solve the problem.
Noted: AB 808: Prevent law enforcement from issuing underage drinking tickets to sexual assault victims and those assisting them. It would also bar the University of Wisconsin System from suspending them or taking other actions against them.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee got a boost last week that could not have come at a better time as concerns about its research mission and gloom over budget cuts hang over campus.
The University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents are used to being greeted by protesters outside their monthly meetings. Campus groups often demonstrate by quietly holding signs or distributing flyers.
UW students protested on Friday at the UW system’s Board of Regents meeting. They say they’re tired of the regents declining to meet with them about tenure for faculty and racial justice for students.
The outcome of a highly charged debate over changes in faculty tenure protections within the University of Wisconsin System is a matter of opinion.
Members of the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin Higher Education Council gathered before the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting at Union South at UW-Madison in Madison. The rally aimed to draw attention to the need for a strong tenure policy and academic freedom in the UW System.
About 30 students stood up in the audience of a Union South meeting room chanting “Power!” Two protesters read demands over the voices of regents as they discussed an agenda that included progress on increasing diversity on UW system campuses.
Campus officials would have greater authority to fire professors under new tenure policies approved Friday by a committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross says the system must do more to acknowledge and understand students of color.
The bill, which would provide $450,000 for emergency loans to students in state technical and UW System colleges, is headed to the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, having been endorsed by Gov. Scott Walker in the State of the State address last month.
A controversial set of policies governing tenure at University of Wisconsin System schools that critics say threaten academic freedom were endorsed without debate Friday by a Board of Regents committee.
On Friday, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents agreed to move ahead with a controversial new tenure policy.
David Vanness is president of UW’s American Association of University Professors chapter. He said some people are concerned that using “financial considerations” to fire a tenured faculty member could impact high-quality academic programs. The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted on tenure changes Friday.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will receive about $50,000 to cover expenses, plus priceless global exposure, for hosting the Democratic presidential debate on campus next Thursday night, according to an agreement obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison spent $8 million the last six months of 2015 fending off attempts to raid some of its most productive and accomplished faculty after international attention over state budget cuts and possible changes to tenure protections created faculty unrest.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank said she spent $8 million in six months protecting top faculty from poaching by other universities.
UW-Madison has spent at least $8 million since last summer to retain top professors after state legislators cut higher education funding and changed faculty tenure policies, Chancellor Rebecca Blank told the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday.
Next week, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will both host a Democratic presidential debate and move a step closer to deciding tens of millions of dollars in budget cuts for next academic year.
Gov. Scott Walker says he thinks the state Legislature can afford to give the go-ahead to a few new programs during the spring legislative session, including elements of his college affordability plan.
Quoted: The zip code that a child is born into oftentimes determines their life chances,” said Nick Hillman, an author of the study and assistant professor of education leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Place matters because it reinforces existing inequalities.”
County officials voiced concerns Tuesday about the impact of a $3.6 million cut in funding for county programs provided by the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension.
While budget cuts are occurring on campuses across the University of Wisconsin System this year, the system’s own annual report released Monday said its financial standing “remained relatively strong” as of June 30, the end of the last fiscal year. That’s just a snapshot in time, UW System officials said, and it does not account for $250 million in state budget cuts that will come into play between this fiscal year and next.
The University of Wisconsin System said Monday that its net worth has increased to $6.68 billion, but school officials warned that the financial outlook is uncertain.
University of Wisconsin-Extension officials want to absorb Gov. Scott Walker’s budget cuts by reducing the number of agents and researchers helping people with everything from growing crops to family finances.
While much of the nation is steadily boosting state funding for higher education, several recent reports suggest the opposite is true in Wisconsin, though the governor’s office argues that’s not the full story.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has backed Gov. Walker’s plan as “a good first step,” and in an interview broadcast Sunday on “UpFront with Mike Gousha,” he addressed what he called a “delicate balance” between tackling debt and making college more affordable for future students.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — America’s most prominent public universities were founded to serve the people of their states, but they are enrolling record numbers of students from elsewhere to maximize tuition revenue as state support for higher education withers.
A Washington Post analysis of 100 prominent public universities finds that the in-state share of freshmen declined at more than 70 percent of the schools from 2004 to 2014. The shift helped many schools financially in an era of declining state support.
University of Wisconsin-Extension officials are mulling consolidating services across counties to absorb a budget hit.
The bulletin atop a University of Maryland news release was provocative: “Concussion-related measures improved in high school football players who drank new chocolate milk, U-Md. study shows.”
