Several universities on Wednesday began distributing a survey to measure rates of sexual violence on college and university campuses, developed by the Association of American Universities.
University of Wisconsin officials are caught between different constituencies: communicating to legislators, students, faculty and the public. This week’s cover story explores the balancing act of campaigning for the best possible outcome while preparing for the deepest possible cuts and endeavoring to protect core academic offerings.
Column contrasting UW, KU athletically and academically. Snippet: As a reporter in Kentucky, I often heard from higher education leaders and politicians that they wished UK had paid less attention to basketball over the last several decades and more attention to academics. At the time, UK was just exploring creating a university research park like the one UW-Madison launched three decades ago.”
As the University of Wisconsin System seeks to pare back its spending wherever possible, one means of mitigating the cuts is likely off the table: the often-floated possibility of merging the two-year UW-Waukesha and four-year UW-Milwaukee campuses.
The rally, and statewide letter writing campaign against the cuts, has been organized by a student group called UW Students Against Education Cuts.
A spokesperson for Blank said Thursday that there a no plans to change the operating model of the golf course.“The university is exploring numerous avenues to mitigate the proposed budget cuts, including suggestions on costs savings and efficiencies received from faculty, staff and the public,” John Lucas, executive director of university communications, said in an email.
WAUSAU – If Nathan Fetting and his coworkers at Greenheck do their job right, the fans and vents they develop should fade into the background, unremarkable to the people breathing the air recirculated by the company’s products.
Cross said at a forum on Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget Wednesday at UW-Eau Claire that the review system for tenured professors should include probation if warranted, and dismissal if gaps in performance are not addressed, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.
With the need to balance budgets and an aversion to increasing taxes, several states, including our own, are looking to cut back on spending for public universities. The time is right for a thoughtful discussion about the costs associated with higher education. It’s too bad we have near hysteria, instead.
UW System President Ray Cross remains hopeful state lawmakers will reduce the proposed $300 million budget cut to Wisconsin public universities after negotiations between “two extremes.”
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross called for changes in how campuses handle tenured faculty on Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is being hit particularly hard by the governor’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System. School officials point to the elimination of entrepreneurial research in so-called segregated programs as one of the toughest hurdles.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students — angered by proposed university system spending cuts — invited other UW students from throughout the state to participate in a rally Thursday in Madison.
Gov. Scott Walker proposed a biennial state budget in early February that called for large cuts to education. So what does that mean for Madison College and our students?
UW-Oshkosh officials hope an early retirement option will help the school deal with Governor Scott Walker’s proposed funding cuts.
Two campuses within the University of Wisconsin System announced Tuesday they are offering employees a voluntary retirement buyout with a one-time payout equal to 50% of an employees annual base salary.
Four University of Wisconsin System schools (Oshkosh, Eau Claire, Superior and Green Bay) are offering employees buyouts to help absorb their shares of a $300 million system-wide cut in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
Wisconsin has an exceptional system of technical schools that do just what he proposes. One of the advantages of an education provided by a university such as UW-Madison is the critical thinking skills students hopefully develop — skills that Johnson apparently lacks. If he had such skills, he’d easily recognize how UW is an economic boon to the state because of its work.
The proposal to eliminate the Educational Approval Board is part of Walker’s proposed 2015-17 budget. Since its unveiling in February, the board’s Executive Secretary David Dies has been trying to persuade state lawmakers to reject the idea.
English professor Richard Grusin says he never expected UW System President Ray Cross to give him such a straight answer when he asked Cross in a public forum this week whether he would resign if he doesn’t manage to ease the pain of Scott Walker’s budget on the university.
I don’t usually feel bad for highly placed, well-paid officials, but I felt bad for System President Ray Cross when a UW-Milwaukee English professor was able to extract the resignation promise during his Wednesday Q & A.
Column by Givnish, the Henry Allan Gleason professor of botany and environmental studies.
In all of the debate over the cuts to the University of Wisconsin System in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plan, the group that has the most at stake is the most often overlooked:
It can be statistically proven that the wealth of nations lies not with the oil and minerals in their lands, their strategic locations or the prominence of their armed forces, but rather in the level of education that their citizens have achieved. I will testify that I have found the pathway to happiness and success through education.
Thousands of University of Wisconsin System advocates put together 12,000 pages of petition signatures and public comments that were submitted to a legislative finance committee considering massive cuts to the system, a group of system supporters said Thursday.
In their matching gray #SaveOurUW T-shirts, members of the Associated Students of Madison traveled to the Joint Finance Committee hearing Thursday to vocalize their concerns over Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget.
The state Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill that would order the UW System Board of Regents to require all Wisconsin students taking a UW System placement test in English or mathematics to disclose their high school. The bill is waiting for approval from the state Senate. … But James Wollack, director of UW-Madison’s Office of Testing and Evaluation Services, said problems with remedial courses might not exist.
Like it or not, professors have been thrown into the “deep end of the pool” of politics, state Rep. Terese Berceau told a group of academics at UW-Madison Wednesday.
When Gov. Scott Walker proposed a $300 million cut to the state’s university system over two years, Democrats called it a “massive” and “destructive” blow.
Former Regent and Ambassador Loftus letter to the editor: Speaker Robin Vos and other legislators are right to question handing over control of the University of Wisconsin System to a quasi-public authority as called for in the proposed state budget. The danger is all too real that such a move would undermine the Wisconsin Idea by reducing public input into the university and the number of Wisconsin students who could attend. And that would fly in the face of the university’s underpinnings as developed by UW’s fifth president, John Bascom, the true founder of the Wisconsin Idea.
The Univeristy of Wisconsin-Superior this week became the second UW System campus to offer a voluntary separation incentive program to encourage older employees to leave in exchange for a one-time payout of half their base salary.
Letter to the editor from faculty member Daniel Greenspan: I strongly believe that the possible granting of public authority status to the University of Wisconsin System is an important opportunity.
Ray Cross pledged Wednesday to resign as president of the University of Wisconsin System if he fails to secure a substantial reduction in proposed state budget cuts and is unable to protect tenure, shared governance and academic freedom for UW campuses.
Cross, facing withering criticism, told a UW-Milwaukee gathering of employees and students that he’d resign if he can’t substantially reduce the $300 million cut and preserve cherished employee protections including shared governance, tenure and academic freedom. He stood by his answer later, saying in an interview that “I don’t believe any higher education leader wants to be any part of an institution that doesn’t have tenure or shared governance.”
The smallest four-year campus among 13 in the University of Wisconsin System has offered buyouts to older employees, becoming the second university to do so in the face of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut funding to the universities by $300 million the next two years, the steepest drop in history
American universities are enrolling unprecedented numbers of foreign students, prompted by the rise of an affluent class in China and generous scholarships offered by oil-rich Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia. (Subscription required.)
The University of Wisconsin-Superior will join UW-Eau Claire in offering buyouts to staff who voluntarily leave the university.
PROFS, a lobbying organization for UW-Madison faculty, will zero in on Scott Walker’s game-changing budget plans for the UW System at a free public forum Wednesday.
Why hasn’t there been more transparency by University of Wisconsin officials in the planning of a proposed public authority model? asks Noel Radomski, an education policy analyst at UW-Madison.
For UW System President Ray Cross, March will be filled not only with basketball, but visits to various state colleges and universities for conversations about Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget.
On college campuses nationwide, the intertwined problems of sexual assault and alcohol are under intense scrutiny as students increasingly speak up and the federal government cracks down. Pushed to a collective moment of reckoning, colleges and universities are trying a slew of solutions focused on education, environment and enforcement.
A leading Democrat predicts devastation if Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut over two years to the University of Wisconsin System is adopted.
Cash-strapped Wisconsin school districts next year will have to cover costs of high school courses that earn students college credit after the University of Wisconsin System decided it could not continue to pay for them.
I recently learned that when the semester ends in May, nearly half of my immediate co-workers, maybe more, will be out of a job. Of course, adjuncts like me are often “out of a job,” since our contracts go only from semester to semester. But because I’m an adjunct in the University of Wisconsin system — the one that’s made headlines thanks to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300-million budget cuts over the next two years — this time it feels different.
CONCORD, N.H. AP — On college campuses nationwide, the intertwined problems of sexual assault and alcohol are under intense scrutiny as students increasingly speak up and the federal government cracks down. Pushed to a collective moment of reckoning, colleges and universities are trying a slew of solutions focused on education, environment and enforcement.
As the state Legislature debates Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed funding cuts and structural changes to the University of Wisconsin System, a UW-Madison professor is asking lawmakers not to do away with the shared governance model currently in place.
The plan from Rep. John Nygren, the Joint Finance Committee co-chair, and Rep. Dean Knudson, R-Hudson, would still grant more autonomy to the system — and it would seek to reduce the proposed $300 million in cuts.
Quoted: an Robertson, dean of UW-Madison’s College of Engineering, supported the bill in a letter to Baldwin’s office. “We at UW-Madison, College of Engineering, have remained international leaders in advanced manufacturing research and have recently launched initiatives in this research area,” Robertson wrote. “This bill provides important new incentives that could allow us to expand and strengthen those initiatives for our students and industry partners.”
Employees recognized as Classified Staff will be known as University Staff starting July 1 partly because human resource policies will soon be handled solely by UW-Madison, according to a UW-Madison release.
The Retirees Association of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, a 200-plus-member organization of retired faculty and staff, has grave concerns about the devastating cuts in Gov. Walker’s proposed budget for the UW System. Collectively, we have experienced much smaller cuts in the past and are aware of the negative impacts cuts have on student educational experiences and opportunities.
New data shows sex assault consultations at Meriter Hospital reached an all-time high in 2014, but more people are opting not to report the incident to police.
Through her research, teaching, and mentoring of grad students at the School of Library and Information Studies SLIS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison UW-M, Rebekah Willett works to narrow the gulf between the often enclosed academic arena and the outside world. “By offering students [opportunities] in ‘real world’ situations, I aim to connect their experiences to theories and ideas we’re covering in class,” deepening both, she says.
University of Wisconsin System officials aren’t saying much now as Republican legislative leaders signal that they don’t want the public authority for UW that Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposes. But in the months leading up to the budget’s release, UW administrators worked early, long and diligently to craft a legal restructuring that would bring them more autonomy and less bureaucracy.
Fraternities are in the hot seat again this week as authorities investigate the photos of unconscious nude women on a private Facebook page at Pennsylvania State University, as well as hazing allegations at the University of Houston and the University of Wisconsin.
If we want to ensure UW is efficient and cost-effective for students, any potential changes need to mind the importance of tenure and shared governance. That’s according to our guest’s recent opinion piece weighing in on the governor’s proposed budget cuts to the UW-Madison.
A proposed $300 million, two-year cut to the University of Wisconsin System may get drawn down, but autonomy pitched to offset those losses could be axed.
Two key Wisconsin lawmakers are proposing changes to Governor Scott Walker’s plans for the University of Wisconsin System. Joint Finance Committee co-chair, Representative John Nygren R-Marinette and committee member Representative Dean Knudson R-Hudson announced plans on Wednesday that include a smaller, more manageable cut, instead of the $300 million cut proposed in the governor’s budget.
The Republican co-chair of the Legislature’s budget committee says he’s working on a plan to remove the proposed public authority from Gov. Scott Walker’s University of Wisconsin budget.
A new legal entity to give the University of Wisconsin System autonomy from cumbersome state rules is appearing less likely by the day, and two more key lawmakers went on record Wednesday as supporting a smaller budget cut than the $300 million over two years proposed by Gov. Scott Walker.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is among 20 universities on record as supporting the bill. Being listed as a supporter doesn’t mean UW-Madison automatically would be among the 25 manufacturing universities, according to Baldwin.
