An advocacy group opposed to race-conscious college-admissions policies is urging federal courts to end their use around the nation through lawsuits filed on Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A lawsuit filed against UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday seeks to end the university’s use of race in admissions, contending that “race is a dominant factor” in decisions “to the detriment of white and Asian-American applicants.”
WHITEWATER–UW-Whitewater Chancellor Richard Telfer will retire in June after 30 years of service to the university.
Madison Area Technical College will add a new $15.6 million culinary training center at its main Truax campus, allowing the school to increase enrollment in some degree-seeking programs and also expand offerings for other would-be gourmets, be they high school students or “Top Chef”-loving adults, college officials said.
Thumbs Down: To Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Burlington, for disparaging University of Wisconsin research.
Since taking over as UW-Madison chancellor in July 2013, Rebecca Blank has repeatedly stressed the need for significantly more money to attract and keep top professors and researchers. Saturday, the focus on faculty pay got a massive infusion of hope and dollars, with a $100 million gift announced from John and Tashia Morgridge.
The association representing the nation’s leading research universities said Friday that it planned to develop and administer a sexual assault climate survey for its members, in part to fend off efforts in Congress to mandate such surveys. The Association of American Universities said that it had hired a research firm to design a survey that its 60 U.S. member institutions may choose to have conducted on their campuses next April. The group plans to then publicly report the “cumulative results” from those surveys.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Closed for six years, the Harvard Art Museums reopen here Sunday after a radical overhaul by the architect Renzo Piano. He saved only the shell of the chaste, red-brick Fogg Museum and its interior courtyard, extending it upward in sheets of glass and elegant trusswork. Galleries wrap the new public space, but so do a materials lab, an art-conservation suite and a study center, where students, faculty and visitors can learn from the collection of 250,000 objects.
Diversity is good for business, which makes it an imperative for U.S. business schools, say Wisconsin School of Business administrators.
The Federal Perkins Student Loan Program is in peril.
That is nothing new, of course. Perkins, the nation’s longest-running student-loan program, has been in the cross hairs of budget-cutting and reform-minded presidents and lawmakers for decades. Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush tried to kill it; President Obama wants to overhaul it.
The UW-Stout Police Department, with support from the Menomonie Police Department and other law enforcement agencies, Wednesday executed a search warrant at an off-campus residence that resulted in the seizure of more than six pounds of marijuana, marijuana-based candy, other controlled substances and $5,200 in cash.
Noted: Of 13 programs evaluated in Wisconsin, four — Maranatha Baptist University in Watertown, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Stout — met the rigor standard.
Over a week after his reelection, the state is looking toward Gov. Scott Walker to see what actions he takes this term to address one of his campaign’s biggest issues: the job market.
Harvard University counts two of the most successful computer programmers in the world — William H. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, and Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive — as former students. But the university, one of the most respected overall in the world, has never quite made its way into the elite tier of computer science programs.
The University of Wisconsin Systems regents are planning to approve in-state tuition rates for non-resident veterans and their families.
The University of Wisconsin System’s regents are planning to approve in-state tuition rates for non-resident veterans and their families.
MADISON, Wisconsin — The University of Wisconsin System’s regents are planning to approve in-state tuition rates for non-resident veterans and their families.
MILWAUKEE – Wisconsin is struggling to keep young talent at home. Many college graduates seemingly view their diploma as a ticket to leave the state.
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh student was charged Monday in federal court with possessing the deadly toxin ricin.
As many as a quarter of low-income Wisconsin college students have trouble making the rent or paying utilities, but colleges across the country typically lack systematic programs to help students meet basic needs, a newly released study by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab found.
An Illinois native who says shes now a Wisconsinite for life has lost another round in her effort to pay in-state tuition for graduate school in Madison.
It may come as no surprise that state Republican leaders, in the flush of electoral victory, are targeting University of Wisconsin funding in the next legislative session. But the scorn for the university evident in Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ post-election remarks struck some observers.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank arrived in July 2013 amid an uproar at the Capitol over hundreds of millions in cash balances carried over by the state’s public universities without full disclosure, including sizable tuition balances that amassed alongside annual tuition hikes during a recession.
The UW System Board of Regents met Thursday to hone in on workforce demands statewide, as well as to hear a report detailing enrollment and tuition trends across the system.
Gov. Scott Walker is touring the state’s technical colleges rather than speak at a meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
The co-chairman of the Legislature’s powerful finance committee doesn’t sound too optimistic that the University of Wisconsin System will get the additional $95 million it wants in the next state budget.
Citizens against UW-Madison’s monkey experiments will hold a protest prior to the Board of Regents meeting Nov. 6 from 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. at the intersection of Johnson Street and Lake Street on the UW-Madison campus.
The co-chairman of the Legislatures powerful finance committee doesnt sound too optimistic that the University of Wisconsin System will get the additional $95 million it wants in the next state budget.
Gov. Scott Walker is touring the state’s technical colleges rather than speak at a meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Reports of forcible sex offenses at the flagship public universities of Virginia and Maryland doubled last year, according to new federal data.
UW-Madison is instituting a 2015 Campus Master Plan to update and evaluate previous campus development efforts.
The broad story of this year’s elections was the Republican wave that tipped control of the Senate. What does it all mean for academe? Here’s what you need to know about the results.
With victories in several key Senate races last night, Republicans will take control of both chambers of Congress heading into the final two years of the Obama presidency — a balance of power that sets up a much-changed dynamic for federal higher education policy making in the coming months.
Of the 36 gubernatorial elections being decided on Tuesday, three have special resonance for people in higher education.In each case, a Republican governor took a hard line on higher-ed spending; in each case, that governor now finds himself in electoral peril. Two high-profile incumbents, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, are fighting for re-election in races that are considered tossups.
Board of Regents President Emeritus Michael Spector passed away from complications with cancer Friday at the age of 74, according to UW System spokesperson Heather LaRoi.
Following the lead of attorneys general in different states, outgoing Wisconsin attorney general J.B. Van Hollen has sued a now-closed for-profit college in Milwaukee for misleading students about job placement rates and other outcomes. Also: UW-Madison English professor Emily Auerbach’s work with nontraditional students for more than three decades won her a distinguished service award from a division of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.
An emerging dilemma at UW-Madison involves the state government’s two-year ban on raising tuition, not only for in-state undergraduates, but for out-of-state students of all descriptions including professional school students in fields such as medicine, veterinary science, business and pharmacy.
Mike Knutson taught himself to play the harmonica as a child, and the 96-year-old sang with his family for most of his life. Even now, as he suffers from dementia, music is an important part of his life thanks to a study looking at the impact of a nationwide music program aimed at helping dementia patients.
When Sara Goldrick-Rab first began delving into college affordability for her graduate school research 15 years ago, she recalls, people said she was making too big a deal out of it. “I was told as an academic to pick a more important topic,” said Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. College affordability is a really big deal now.
Two University of Wisconsin-La Crosse employees have filed complaints against their employer alleging discrimination and retaliation.
The UW System Board of Regents on Monday approved the appointment of Cathy Sandeen.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has named Cathy Sandeen as the new chancellor of UW Colleges and the UW-Extension.
Noted: The Wisconsin System’s “Flexible Option” is the most extensive and established of the programs. Its five competency-based, online credentials, which range from a certificate to bachelor’s degrees, are designed mostly for adult students with some college credits but no degree. And they are offered by the system’s two-year institutions, its extension program, and the Milwaukee campus — not the Madison campus with the lake and the 80,000-seat Camp Randall Stadium.
OSHKOSH, Wis. AP — Administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh are urging students to travel in groups, be aware of their surroundings and walk in well-lighted areas at night after a fifth assault or robbery in the last month.
Chancellor Joe Gow said the university?s vice chancellor for administration and finance, Bob Hetzel, and registrar Christine Bakkum were walking to work when they were struck.
College affordability is in the news almost daily. We recently received facts and figures from the UW System budget office for fiscal 2012, which may be of interest to state residents.
Higher education: Walker takes pride in freezing tuition at the University of Wisconsin System for two years and plans to do so again. That no doubt plays well with university students and their parents, but the fact is that such a continued freeze could hurt the system?s ability to attract and retain faculty. UW schools are a bargain, with average costs, and quality doesn?t come cheap.
An academic-fraud scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took root under a departmental secretary and die-hard Tar Heel fan, who was egged on by athletics advisers to create no-show classes that would keep underprepared and unmotivated players eligible. Over nearly two decades, professors, coaches, and administrators either participated in the scheme or overlooked it, undercutting the core values of one of the nation?s premier public universities.
Among the Republicans? priorities are “course correction” for the state Government Accountability Board, providing funding for free GED testing, expanding public school open enrollment and voucher school programs, increasing access to classes through a state-funded digital learning program for rural schools and extending a tuition freeze for the University of Wisconsin system.
Many universities have begun to tighten restrictions on travel to the countries hit hardest by the Ebola epidemic, even for professors doing humanitarian work. But settling on a policy represents a delicate balance for administrators, especially at universities with graduate schools of public health and medicine.
Cornell University cut ties with backpack staple JanSport late last week over its parent company?s refusal to sign an agreement to improve working conditions at its factories in Bangladesh.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund is suing the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents for release of notes made during oversight committee deliberations on controversial experiments with baby monkeys at UW-Madison.
Also noted: Nicholas Lardy will return to UW-Madison this week to talk about his work as a China economist and his new book, ?Markets Over Mao.?
It took 105 days, 50 teleconferences, a team of UW administrators and one consultant to complete a fiscal year 2014 (FY14) financial report for the UW System, approved last week by the UW Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin – Superior has had some financial challenges lately, including cutting graduate programs this year due to budget constraints, but the UW system president says they?re working to turn that around.
Two UW-Madison initiatives will receive a total of $7.2 million from Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates to help disadvantaged students complete degrees and pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
In 2010, the corporate management of Knights Apparel Inc. and the activists behind the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) embarked on an experiment together. They wanted to see whether it was possible to run a viable apparel company while maintaining relatively high labor conditions for workers in the developing world. The result was the Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic, where all the workers are enrolled in a union and are paid more than three times the country?s legal minimum wage.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents signed off Thursday on a report detailing the systems program revenues and campus reserve funds.
The University of Wisconsin System?s regents have approved a new report detailing system campuses? reserves and balances.
Green Bay is within 100 miles of five American Indian reservations.
