The issue of food and housing insecurity on community college campuses across the country is now at the forefront of many discussions thanks in part to a report published by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As African-American students at UW-Madison join others at universities across the country in demanding inclusive campuses, the UW System Board of Regents developed a statement reaffirming its commitment to free expression that also sets limits on acceptable responses to offensive speech.
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.
The resolution comes after UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote a blog post last month saying that no one is entitled to express their beliefs in ways that diminish or devalue others. Blank wrote the post in the wake of protests at the University of Missouri over racial issues.
The Regents will take up a proposed resolution reaffirming the board’s commitment to academic freedom and free speech when its education committee meets Thursday in Madison. The move comes weeks after UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent students and faculty a controversial message about speech, which critics said was contrary to First Amendment principles, and as colleges across the country weigh how to handle sensitive debates on campus.
he Supreme Court’s proceedings resembled a debate over educational research more than a fight over constitutional principles as the justices heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a challenge to race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin.
In an effort to graduate more students in four years, reduce their debt and ensure they have what they need to be successful early in their careers, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire wants to offer a tuition discount incentive that would be a first in the UW System.
Nearly 75% of new graduates within the University of Wisconsin System left school in debt, according to a new report.
The report, prepared for regent review at their meeting Friday, found 74 percent of UW System in-state graduates in 2014-15 had an average debt of $30,650.
A new University of Wisconsin System report says nearly 75 percent of graduates during the last fiscal year left school in debt.
Citing what it sees as systematic abandonment of the state’s largest city, faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Monday called for an immediate change to the way state funding is divided among Wisconsin’s two research universities.
If UWM’s per-student funding from the UW System were increased to just half the level that UW-Madison receives, it would yield an additional $23.6 million and eliminate UWM’s structural budget deficit, according to the UWM chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
While UW-Madison receives more than $12,400 per student, UWM receives less than $5,200 per student — 40% of UW-Madison’s per-student allocation.
A new University of Wisconsin System report says nearly 75 percent of graduates during the last fiscal year left school in debt.
The report, prepared for regent review at their meeting Friday, found 74 percent of UW System in-state graduates in 2014-15 had an average debt of $30,650.
The Wisconsin Education Approval Board announced Monday that 933 adult students who enrolled at four EDMC institutions — the Art Institute of Wisconsin and online programs through Argosy University, South University and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh — will have more than $916,500 in loans from the institutions forgiven under the settlement.
The UW System is conducting an open online survey to gauge public opinion through Dec. 14. The five-minute survey touches on issues identified in a series of public listening sessions held around the state this fall.
Baldwin met with the University of Wisconsin System Task Force on Sexual Violence and Harassment for an hour on Friday. The discussion came as the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — of which Baldwin is a member — discusses changes to the Higher Education Act, a sweeping 1965 law that covers the federal financial aid system.
It’s been hard to pass a highway or a tollbooth in New Jersey over the last three years without a billboard declaring “Rutgers Is Big.”
The national nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust released a report Wednesday naming UW-Madison as a national leader in improving graduation rates for underrepresented and overall students.
In the report titled “Rising Tide: Do College Grad Rate Gains Benefit All Students?” the organization detailed the change in six-year graduation rates for first-time, full-time students at four-year public institutions across the past 10 years, according to a UW-Madison release.
The Supreme Court revisits affirmative action in college admissions Wednesday, the latest racially focused case to go before a court that has pared back government programs intended to benefit minorities. (Login may be required.)
The University of Wisconsin System is asking residents to participate in an online survey about the public university system’s priorities.
Column from Sara Goldrick-Rab and Katharine M. Broton, Wisconsin HOPE Lab: Three months after starting college, Brooke Evans found herself without a place to live. She was 19. She slept in libraries, bathrooms and her car. She sold plasma and skipped meals. It was hard to focus or participate in class, and when her grades fell, her financial aid did, too. Eventually, she left college and began sleeping on the street, in debt, without a degree.
It’s not clear how clearly University of Wisconsin System task force will define the future of tenure at the state’s public universities and colleges, but its members are hoping to have a draft copy to consider when they meet later this month.
For more than a century, the term “in loco parentis” (“in place of a parent”) was used to describe a university’s responsibility to care for and guide its students. In recent years, however, the Latin term “loco” (“place”) could be more adequately represented by the Spanish meaning of the word.
There also were notable advances for URM students at major public flagships such as Ohio State University (gap cut 8 points), University of Wisconsin (cut 7 points) and University of Maryland (cut 6 points).
Column from Caroline Levine, a professor and chair of the department of English at UW-Madison and co-chair of a UW committee on post-tenure review. “Tenure protects the independence of research. Rigorously peer-reviewed research helps us to make informed decisions about our world. It creates jobs and grows the economy. And one day it just might save your life.”
WASHINGTON — As student protests over racial injustice are exploding at campuses across the nation, the Supreme Court is preparing to hear a major case that could put an end to racial preferences in college admissions.
Iowa State University’s student government is pushing back against a proposal to raise tuition $1,500 per year for international students.
Proposed new University of Wisconsin System policies on the layoffs and termination of faculty don’t meet accepted standards and threaten academic freedom, say Wisconsin leaders of a national academic professional group.
Faculty leaders on three University of Wisconsin System campuses objected to proposed new tenure policies ahead of a systemwide task force meeting on the new guidelines Monday.
Faculty are again pushing back against proposals for new University of Wisconsin System tenure policies, saying rules laid out in draft documents last week would violate professors’ rights to due process and threaten academic freedom. The draft policies outline layoff protections for tenured faculty and the review process professors must go through after they have received tenure. They led to a lively discussion Monday at a meeting of the UW System Tenure Policy Task Force, the body charged with writing new faculty protections. The task force will meet again later this month before sending its recommendations for a new tenure policy to the UW System Board of Regents next year.
Policies on tenure protections and job reviews for University of Wisconsin System faculty that a special task force will consider Monday afternoon fail to meet nationally recognized professional standards for academia, according to faculty leaders from three UW campuses.
Noted: Christina Ewig is professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and vice president of the UW-Madison Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
The latest figures on academic research spending in the United States provide, on the surface, some reassuring news for Wisconsin. For starters, the University of Wisconsin-Madison held its position as the nation’s fourth-largest research and development powerhouse.
Race issues on U.S. college campuses continue to be contentious again after the appearance of Facebook pages (some apparently phony) for “white student union” groups founded to counter recent anti-racism protests.
Quoted: Research shows graduation rates fall for students of color when they’re forced to pursue their collegiate education in a hostile environment.
“That struggle has been true on every campus I’ve been on as a student and a professor,” said Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor in curriculum and education at UW-Madison, who has also been at the University of Washington, Stanford University, and Santa Clara University. “It’s not always overt racism, either. They tend to be what is identified now as ‘micro-aggression’ or what is called ‘1,000 tiny cuts.’ Constantly little things. It’s constantly seeing the inequitable ways things play out on campus. That’s a frustration the students are facing.”
“I just hate to see students come out of the university as survivors rather than thrivers,” she said. “But that is the reality.”
A $5.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will fund a collaboration between the state Department of Public Instruction and the University of Wisconsin-Madison aimed at helping schools narrow the achievement and opportunity gaps among Wisconsin students, the DPI and the university announced Tuesday.
Every university responds to student protests in its own way.
Protests over racial discrimination on college campuses are leading to some swift responses and pledges of reform by college administrators. Even as the protests themselves appear to be quieting down ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, activists are pledging a prolonged fight.
The emergence of “White Student Union” Facebook groups claiming links to more than 30 universities has caused alarm among students and education officials, although the authenticity of many of the pages is being questioned.
After four years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition, I graduated in the spring of 2015 with a degree in political science. Thankfully, I am debt-free and employed in a relevant field of work. However, a recent survey of University of Wisconsin-Madison liberal arts graduates shows that is not the case for more than one-third of them.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Association has sent an email to parents of current students telling them how to lobby on a bill allowing concealed weapons in campus buildings.
The email, sent Friday morning, tells parents about the bill and why UW System leaders oppose it. There’s no explicit request to lobby against the bill, but the email encourages families to discuss campus safety and the impact the legislation might have on learning.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni group has sent an email to parents of current students telling them how to lobby on a bill that would allow concealed weapons in campus building.
The UW Alumni Association sent the message Friday morning. The email tells parents about the bill and how UW System leaders oppose it. The message doesn’t explicitly ask parents to lobby against the measure but encourages families to discuss campus safety and the impact the legislation might have on learning.
The state’s two public doctoral research universities are stepping up efforts to more effectively compete for top graduate students who play key roles in research and teaching undergraduates.
In ways big and small, those who work and study at UW-Madison are feeling the sting of a 2015-17 state budget that reduced funding for the University of Wisconsin System by $250 million over two years, with $58.9 million of that cut falling on the flagship campus this year.
The alumni association sent an email to UW-Madison parents Friday morning encouraging them to “have a conversation in your family about campus safety and the impact this legislation might have on learning.” Although the email does not directly encourage parents to lobby against the proposal, it points them to an alumni association website that asks visitors to contact their state representatives and “express your concerns about the proposed concealed carry legislation.”
PRINCETON, N.J. — Few historical figures loom as large in the life of an Ivy League university as Woodrow Wilson does at Princeton.
A Portage County prosecutor on Thursday dismissed several charges against frequent University of Wisconsin protester Jeffrey Decker, who was prepared to defend himself at trial Friday.
What is the value of a university? With the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee facing a massive budget gap, its leaders should not be alone in asking that question.
Every chief of police in the University of Wisconsin System opposes a proposal in the Legislature to allow concealed carry permit holders to bring weapons into college and university buildings, the law enforcement officials said this week.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent an apology to her counterpart at UW-Milwaukee on Tuesday for a misstep she made during a Wisconsin Public Radio interview that sparked an unsettling rumor in Milwaukee.
The number of international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities jumped last year — in a big way. It’s up 10 percent, to roughly 975,000, according to a new report by the Institute of International Education and backed by the State Department.
Campus protests over racial issues continue to spread — and on Wednesday led to a revived debate at Princeton University over the legacy of Woodrow Wilson and the use of the word “master” to describe those who lead residential colleges.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone sent a campuswide email Tuesday to squelch a rumor that top-level discussions were underway to possibly drop research from the Milwaukee campus’ mission.
Students at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse marched across campus Monday to call attention to what they see as discrimination on campus.
The campus sent 2,276 Badgers abroad in the 2013-14 school year, the 10th-highest total of any American college or university, according to the Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. The number of students abroad was up 5 percent over the previous school year, UW officials said Monday.
Noted: Panelists included Madison Laning, ASM chair; Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy; Noel Radomski, director of Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE); and Scot Ross, director of One Wisconsin Now (non-UW).
The average college debt for students graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison rose 3.8 percent last year to $28,768, while debt for some graduate and professional school students rose more sharply, according to a new report.
One by one, colleges and universities across America, including in Wisconsin, took to social media to tweet the relief that all of their students studying in Paris were safe after Friday night’s terrorist attacks.
Grieving faculty, students and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater wore Warhawk purple Wednesday to honor the school’s respected dean of students, who died unexpectedly early Saturday with a shadow cast over her professional reputation.
With the average debt of Wisconsin college graduates at $28,810 last year — up 74 percent in a decade — and 70 percent of state graduates leaving college with debt, student loan debt is a hot issue.
A pair of journalism professors at University of Wisconsin-Madison joined a chorus of criticism of Melissa Click, the University of Missouri professor who blocked one student journalist from photographing protesters who forced the resignation of top university administrators, calling for “some muscle” to remove another.
Up to 20% of faculty in each unit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive merit- and market-based pay increases this academic year as part of an effort to retain and reward excellence, the university announced Wednesday.
