Kedra Ishop got results. A year after Dr. Ishop began her new job here as enrollment manager at the University of Michigan — responsible for shaping the makeup of incoming classes — the university increased the number of minority students in the 2015 freshman class by almost 20 percent, to the highest percentage since 2005.
The op-ed piece, “Tenure reforms needed,” by John Behling, vice president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents was unconvincing.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents can’t have it both ways when it comes to tenure, says UW-Madison professor Chad Goldberg.
The University of Wisconsin System is a world-class educational organization that plays a critical role in our state’s economy and society. As the needs of the workforce change, our campuses must have the flexibility to reallocate resources and staff when necessary.
A bill that would allow concealed carry permit holders to bring guns into college and university buildings probably won’t come up for a vote during this session of the state Legislature, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Tuesday.
A University of Wisconsin System task force has finalized new tenure rules. The Wisconsin State Journal reported Thursday that the task force wrapped up work Wednesday. The task force is expected to forward the policy to the Board of Regents’ education committee by February. The full board is expected to vote on the plan in March.
Professors from across the UW System got to make their final pleas Wednesday on what two new policies concerning faculty layoffs and tenure review might look like.
A contentious rewrite of tenure rules for the state’s public university faculty has advanced to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, months after lawmakers stripped tenure protections from state law.
A task force charged with recommending a UW System policy to replace tenure provisions wiped from state law in Gov. Scott Walker’s latest budget wrapped up their work Wednesday uncertain if they had restored protections to academic freedom.
The UW System Tenure Policy Task Force, the body charged with writing new faculty protections, plans to meet Wednesday afternoon to review draft policies that outline layoff protections for tenured faculty and the review process professors must go through after they have received tenure.
Proposed policies expected to clear a major hurdle Wednesday will pave the way for something that has never been done in the University of Wisconsin System’s 44-year existence. One would allow tenured and tenure-track faculty to be laid off if academic programs are discontinued for “educational considerations,” including financial or strategic planning reasons tied to “long-term student and market demand and societal needs.” The other, if adopted, would strengthen procedures for evaluating faculty performance at least once every five years after they have achieved tenure.
Op-ed from John Behling, vice president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and chair of its Tenure Policy Task Force.
Representatives Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton) and Terese Berceau (D-Madison) held a news conference on Monday to announce a proposed piece of legislation that would bring back shared governance to the University of Wisconsin System. This proposed bill aims to improve the status of faculty, staff, and students within the UW System. If passed it would mean a return to students, faculty, and staff being decision makers on campus, not simply advisers to campus chancellors, as is now the case.
Shared governance in the UW System was removed by Wisconsin state legislators during the last passed budget.
The bill will bring statutory language back to what it was before it was changed in Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-2017 budget to downgrade the role of faculty, staff and students from “active participants” to advisory.
In a wide-ranging interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, President Obama had some advice for college protesters across the country.
Two federal court decisions reached this week could have sweepimg impact on Wisconsin’s voters and elections, according to a University of California law professor.
UW System President Ray Cross and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank shared their support in a joint statement for the two-year extension of the Federal Perkins Loan Program, passed in the U.S. Congress Wednesday.
Caroline Russell is one of roughly 16-thousand students enrolled at UW system campuses benefiting from the Federal Perkins Loan Program.
“It’s very, very difficult to pay for college,” Russell said. “With the exception of one semester, I’ve worked about 20 hours a week for the duration of my college career to pay for food, to go towards my housing and things like that.”
A long-awaited bipartisan compromise to extend the federal Perkins Loan Program for two years is on its way to President Barack Obama’s desk for his signature after sailing through both houses of Congress this week.
In response to a list of demands from a student organization, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone said this week that it would be impossible to exclude academic programs from looming budget cuts.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s remarks in a college admissions case that students of color may not be able to compete at selective universities are “just nonsense,” says UW-Platteville Chancellor Dennis Shields. “Justice Scalia is wholly uninformed about the amount of talent that has flowed through elite universities that included people of color who went on to have distinguished careers,” Shields said Monday.
University of Wisconsin System faculty who responded to a controversial survey about tenure overwhelmingly supported the policy, with nearly 90 percent of them saying they would consider leaving Wisconsin if the state moved them from a tenure system to one based on contracts.
A two-year extension of the Federal Perkins Loan Program is heading to the U.S. House of Representatives. The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved the measure, which passed with support from both members of Wisconsin’s delegation.
Leaders at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have come to terms with a paradigm they find a little unpalatable: the institution needs to up its non-need-based aid if it’s going to be competitive with its peers, they say.
Nearly 90 percent of professors at U of Wisconsin System would consider leaving state if tenure were abolished, and majority say it would limit scholarly inquiry, according the results of controversial survey.
A two-year extension of the Federal Perkins Loan Program is heading to the U.S. House of Representatives. The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved the measure, which passed with support from both members of Wisconsin’s delegation.
More than two months after the U.S. Senate blocked an effort to extend the life of the Perkins loan program, lawmakers struck a deal on Wednesday that could revive the program that provides need-based, low-interest loans to low-income college students. Leading the push was Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat.
A University of Chicago professor who fanned a firestorm over tenure with a recent survey of University of Wisconsin System faculty members revealed his results Wednesday, including responses to his hot-button question about how much money it would take for faculty to give up their tenure protections.
Despite seeing some numbers favorable to the cause of preserving tenure at the University of Wisconsin, David Vanness says he doesn’t have confidence in the results of a controversial survey unveiled Wednesday in Madison. “I would love to have confidence in some of the results,” Vanness, an associate professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health, said after University of Chicago professor William Howell released the numbers at a media event at the Madison Club.
William Howell, the University of Chicago researcher behind a controversial survey of University of Wisconsin faculty’s views on tenure, is hosting a media event at the Madison Club Wednesday to release his findings.
Assembly Democrats are calling for the state to study how to help Wisconsin college students graduate debt-free.
Gov. Scott Walker is on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2015 “Influence List,” one of 10 who “shook up higher education in the classroom, on campus, and beyond,” according to the publication.
Dozens of students and community members gathered at the Board of Regents meeting Friday morning to declare their demands to make the University of Wisconsin System better for students of color.
Participants in the event wore all black and held signs to represent the discrimination they experience in classrooms and through university policies.
A meeting between UW System officials and students concerned about diversity and inclusion was canceled Friday, after disagreement over whether or not that meeting should be public.
Friday, The Board of Regents passed a resolution that states the university should not shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome. In a statement, the regents said that, while the university greatly values mutual respect, it cannot be used as a justification for closing off a discussion of ideas, however offensive or disagreeable.
University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross is slated to meet with about students who are demanding more measures to recognize diversity on campus.
About 20 students waited for Cross to finish a Board of Regents meeting on the UW-Madison campus Friday. The students held signs that read “Our president is black, so there’s no reason to talk about race, right?” and “Black and brown lives matter.” As the meeting wound down they silently stood up from their front row seats.
A meeting between University of Wisconsin leaders and a student group demanding more efforts to recognize diversity on campus has fallen through.
UW System President Ray Cross and regents President Regina Millner were slated to meet with about 20 students after a regents meeting Friday morning to discuss demands for a diversity task force, more mental health professionals of color on campus and mandatory racial awareness training.
Freedom of expression at the University of Wisconsin does not need to be protected from black student movements and a free speech resolution before the UW Board of Regents should not be weighed as such, says the head of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has given the system’s adult education arm the authority to grant business degrees.
About 30 University of Wisconsin students and allies staged a silent protest after they were refused a chance to speak Friday at a meeting where the UW System Board of Regents adopted a resolution supporting free speech.
At least a handful of UW System Regents were confused about what was behind a resolution committing to free speech on system campuses that was fast-tracked through the body’s approval process and adopted Friday.
Noted: The UW System anticipates that its inspector general office might cost as much as $3 million if it rings in at the size of its existing internal audit office. But Craig and Mikalsen said the inspectors general could save the state money in the long run by ferreting out fraud and waste.
A committee of the UW Board of Regents reaffirmed its support for free speech Thursday by unanimously approving a resolution inspired by debates over how colleges should handle sensitive or divisive subjects.
UW-Madison student demonstrators Friday released a list of demands aimed at making the University of Wisconsin System more inclusive, adding UW to a growing group of institutions across the country where black students have sought changes from administrators to improve their experiences on predominantly white campuses.
Ideas that are unpopular or even offensive should not be shut out of debates over controversial topics at University of Wisconsin System schools, the System’s Board of Regents affirmed Friday, when its members passed a resolution restating their commitment to free speech.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a UW-Eau Claire plan to offer discounted tuition for students that graduate within four years if they want to further their educations.
Just in time for Saturday’s match-up with the Marquette Golden Eagles, there’s something new for Badger fans at the Kohl Center in Madison. It’s a new concession stand based on a state icon – the supper club.
The UW System’s Board of Regents has approved a resolution aimed renewing a commitment to free speech and academic freedom on its campuses.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin has become the latest university system to officially affirm the right to free speech and academic freedom for all students amid concerns that academia is trying to protect students from being offended by classroom lectures and discussions.
Prestige isn’t the only prize on the line for UW-Whitewater as it competes Saturday for a third consecutive trip to the NCAA’s Division III football championship.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday is expected to approve a statement reiterating its commitment to academic freedom and freedom of expression, while students plan to show up at the meeting dressed in black to deliver a list of demands to make the UW System better for students of color.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved a resolution affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
The regents’ education committee voted unanimously to adopt the resolution Thursday afternoon during a meeting on the UW-Madison campus. Approval would send the resolution on to the full board of regents for consideration on Friday.
The regents’ education committee unanimously approved changes to UW-Extension’s mission statement on Thursday allowing it to grant business certificates, associate degrees and bachelor’s degrees in businesses through the UW System’s Flex Option program.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee unanimously approved a resolution Thursday affirming a commitment to free speech, following the lead of schools around the country that have faced protests over racial tensions and other social issues.
Freedom of expression at the University of Wisconsin does not need to be protected from black student movements and a free speech resolution before the UW Board of Regents should not be weighed as such, says the head of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The resolution, which was written by a group of Regents with help from some UW-Madison professors, states that the university may not suppress the free exchange of ideas, even if some on campus find those ideas “offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed.”
After years with the lowest rates in the Big Ten, the University of Minnesota is considering raising tuition for nonresident students by $12,800, more than 60 percent, by the end of the decade.
In an awkward exchange in Wednesday’s potentially game-changing Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action, Justice Antonin Scalia hesitantly asked whether it might be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school where they do well” than to go to a highly selective college, like the University of Texas, through some form of racial preference.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee unanimously approved a resolution Thursday affirming a commitment to free speech, following the lead of schools around the country that have faced protests over racial tensions and other social issues.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee is set to consider a resolution affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
The regents’ education committee is expected to vote on the resolution Thursday afternoon during a meeting on the UW-Madison campus. Approval would send the resolution on to the full board of regents for consideration on Friday.
