Category: Higher Education/System

Wisconsin’s public universities and technical colleges have emergency plans that include how to respond to a campus shooting, officials with both systems say.

The University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents has approved a report detailing campuses reserves and balances at the close of the 2014-15 fiscal year.

The regents approved the report unanimously during a meeting Thursday at UW-Madison. The report now goes to the Legislature’s fiance and audit committees.

Madison Area Technical College officials are looking at taking another referendum to voters to develop a comprehensive campus in south Madison, even if they have money in hand for it from the sale of the MATC downtown campus.

Ken Nickerson could have retired from his job as a professor of biological sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 10 years ago, when he turned 62.

New data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Letters & Sciences released Wednesday suggests that 65% of its recent graduates who are working full time have jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree.

Flagship universities across the country for years have been backfilling lost state funding by boosting the number of higher paying students they accept — and aggressively recruit — from other states and countries.

UW-Madison’s student government and several professors are among those voicing their opposition to a plan that would lift the limits on how many out-of-state students can enroll in the university.

Associated Students of Madison, UW-Madison’s student group, said in a letter Tuesday to Chancellor Rebecca Blank and system President Ray Cross the school can’t accommodate a larger student population and predicted ballooning class sizes and reduced academic services.

There are now six confirmed cases of mumps at the UW-Whitewater campus.

The University of Wisconsin Colleges has named the four deans who will lead the 13-campus system’s transition to a slimmed-down administrative model in the wake of state budget cuts.

Following an exchange he acknowledged struck some recipients as offensive and creepy, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse residence hall director has been reprimanded for emailing several hundred students about the need for men to pay more attention to women’s orgasms.

MILWAUKEE — It’s a celebration that’s months overdue. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officially installs Mark Mone as its 9th chancellor. But the new guy in charge isn’t really all that new.

About 60 people shared their input on the future of Wisconsin, and in turn, the University of Wisconsin System, at a listening session hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Thursday, Oct, 1.

Noted: Wisconsin colleges and universities have produced 46 Rhodes Scholars since the program’s inception in 1903. Thirteen came from private colleges; 31 came from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Rhodes program usually draws students from private schools and big research institutions.

Donna Shalala, the former president of the University of Miami who was brought in to lead the Clinton Foundation this year, had a stroke shortly after the closing ceremonies of the organization’s major fall event early Tuesday evening, officials said.

A bill co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, a Madison-area Democrat, would extend funding for the need-based Perkins Loan Program for one year that is expected to be approved by the House, but it is uncertain whether the Senate would advance it, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

The gap in graduation rates between Pell grant recipients — students from low-income families — at UW-Madison and students not receiving the grant is 11 percent, significantly larger than the average gap at 1,149 colleges, according to a report by The Education Trust.

Eighty leading colleges and universities on Monday announced a plan to reverse a decades-long process by which colleges have — largely through the Common Application — made their applications increasingly similar.

A new report from The Education Trust shows private colleges in Wisconsin generally do a better job of graduating low-income students than public universities, but at a significantly higher net cost to students and their families.

With an average starting salary of $59,600, graduates of the Milwaukee School of Engineering earned the most among alums from 10 Wisconsin schools in a ranking by SmartAsset, a New York financial asset company. University of Wisconsin-Platteville, also known for its engineering program, ranked second with an average salary of $48,800; Viterbo University, a private Catholic school in LaCrosse with a strong nursing program, was third at $47,400; and UW-Madison came in fourth at $46,400.

We’re told to work hard and play hard in order to succeed. But earlier this year I almost learned the hard way that unbridled demands on my time and energy could have fatal consequences.

More than one in four college women say they are sexually assaulted by graduation, even higher than previous estimates, according to a survey released Monday that is one of the largest of its kind.

Nearly one in four female undergraduates responding to a survey conducted by the Association of American Universities said that they had been the victim of sexual assault or misconduct, according to eagerly anticipated findings released on Monday.

Fact checking statement by state Rep. Dale Kooyenga: He’s right when you consider employment within Wisconsin, which is the most obvious way to make such a comparison. By other measurements, such as annual revenue, there are many Wisconsin-based companies that are larger than UW. But that creates more of an apples-and-oranges comparison.

UW-Madison faculty members’ suspicions about a sociologist’s survey of their opinions on tenure doesn’t square with the ideal of academic freedom, says the president of the conservative think tank that funded the research.

Top educators from around the state shared their views about the future of learning at a forum hosted by the University of Wisconsin System on Tuesday.

UW-Madison’s secretary of the faculty says a newly drafted policy detailing when tenured professors can be fired puts the university in line with its peer institutions.