University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents will meet Thursday at UW-Platteville, and through Zoom. On the table are a number of controversial topics including a four percent tuition increase, paid parental leave, and whether University land can be sold.
Current policy lacks parental leave, new proposal offers six weeks.
Most UW System employees will receive six weeks of paid family leave beginning in July following an advocacy campaign from campus unions and department chairs.
This year, the U.S. Department of Education revised their Free Application for Federal Student Aid – or FAFSA. They say that the new application is more user friendly and could broaden eligibility for federal aid by more than 600,000 students.
Concordia University Wisconsin will lay off 24 employees at its Mequon campus, according to a federal WARN Notice filed with the state Department of Workforce Development.
Up to 20% of students applying for federal financial aid may have to wait even longer to be awarded financial assistance, forcing many to hold off deciding where to attend college next year until they know which schools they can afford.
The new policies give eligible employees six weeks of paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child. The change comes after UW-Madison faculty and staff lobbied administrators to implement such a policy.
“I’m really happy that we’re in a position to be able to announce this,” Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin told faculty at a meeting Monday. “This has been something I’ve wanted to bring to conclusion, and there’s been interest in this for a very long time.”
UW-Madison and the Universities of Wisconsin are each proposing a paid parental leave policy granting six weeks of leave for the birth or adoption of a child, following more than a decade of studying its feasibility and increasing pressure from faculty and staff.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said Monday that adding paid parental leave allows the university to stay competitive in recruiting graduate students and employees, and catch up to other local private businesses and governmental agencies that already offer it.
Under their proposals, eligible employees would have six weeks of paid leave available to them within a 12-month period for the birth or adoption of a child. The UW Board of Regents will review the policies at its meeting this week.
Members of American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls led the March 25 town hall.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has signed the GOP-authored bill into law. It will help cities and counties transition their former two-year campus sites for new purposes.
Over a single week, the UW Board of Regents faced unprecedented pressure from all sides, according to interviews and nearly 1,500 pages of emails and text messages the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel received under the state’s public records law. The records showed deep fissures among board members, and UW System President Jay Rothman questioning his ability to continue leading.
With just days to go before its self-imposed deadline to raise $12 million, the Northland College Board of Trustees said the coming week will be “critical” to the survival of the small liberal arts college in Ashland.
Resident undergraduate tuition rates would rise 3.75% for the 2024-25 academic year, without including fees or room and board. Seven universities in the UW system are proposing even higher increases on top of the 3.75%, Rothman told reporters Thursday morning.
The Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced his proposal to increase tuition for undergraduates, aligning with recent inflation rates on Thursday. This comes after a 2022 affordability review which found that Wisconsin’s public universities were among the most affordable in the Midwest.
UW System President Jay Rothman announced a proposed 3.75% tuition hike, which would take effect in the fall 2024 semester.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman on Thursday announced the intent to raise tuition by 3.75%, saying the increase is in line with inflation and is necessary to maintain the UW system’s educational quality.
Wisconsin’s in-state undergraduate students will see a tuition hike of 3.75 percent in the fall, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced Thursday.
The closure of two University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee branch campuses will lead to the layoffs of tenured faculty members under a policy that’s previously been applied just once.
The University of Wisconsin System wants to increase tuition for in-state undergraduates by 3.75% next school year, UW System President Jay Rothman said Thursday.
If approved, it would be the second consecutive increase for resident students after a decade of seeing their base tuition rate frozen. Tuition increased by an average of 5% this school year.
Leaders in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison are crafting an undergraduate major in public policy due to increasing student interest, at a time when the general public is polarized or largely turned off by the tenor of politics and government.
The former home of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chancellor is on the market for nearly $1.3 million.
The university announced in January it hoped to sell the house as part of an effort to cut costs. In February, the Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved the university’s request.
UWM is selling the former home of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chancellor on Milwaukee’s east side. Here is a look inside the residence at 3435 N. Lake Drive, listed for $1,295,000. The stone Tudor mansion has six bedrooms, four baths and close to 5,000 square feet. It was built in 1926, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society. The listing states the home was designed by architect Charles Valentine.
A controversial state budget deal hammered out last year for the University of Wisconsin system stoked criticism from all sides — from its original proposal, initial rejection, and eventual passage — according to nearly 1,000 pages of emails, text messages, and other communications The Chronicle received in response to an open-records request.
The former home of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chancellor is for sale on Milwaukee’s east side.
UWM announced in January that it planned to seek permission from the UW Board of Regents to sell the residence at 3435 N. Lake Drive. The UW Board of Regents approved the sale last month. It was listed on Friday for $1,295,000.
Wisconsin state agencies could consider offloading even more office space than previously planned, according to an audit presented to state lawmakers this week.
Spring break started this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the state’s largest campus, and several Milwaukee-area school districts also start their breaks on Monday, March 25.
At least one administrator doesn’t think the Universities of Wisconsin system has “sold out” its students of color.
Even after the Board of Regents accepted a deal that restructured 43 diversity positions, UW Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt believes the campuses are still catering to all of their diverse student groups.
Get your brackets ready. Four Wisconsin teams are headed to college basketball’s ultimate arena, the NCAA Tournament.
The Marquette and Wisconsin Badgers men’s teams and the Marquette and UW-Green Bay women’s teams are each vying to win it all.
The School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently facing a $15 million budget shortage for construction of its new building, set to open in 2025.
Months after a controversial deal which exchanged funds for capped diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) positions, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking for ways to protect itself and fight against a nationwide anti-DEI movement.
“Computing was going to be a big deal,” says Charles Isbell, a former dean of Georgia Tech’s college of computing and now the provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Emancipating the field from its prior home within the college of engineering gave it room to grow, he told me.
Marquette University announced it’s planning for budget cuts. Although the specifics are unknown, the university plans to cut the annual operating budget by $31 million in six years.
Multiple universities in Wisconsin have announced staff reductions over the last year, from public universities like UW-Oshkosh and UW-Green Bay to private colleges like Concordia University and St. Norbert College. And several Universities of Wisconsin System schools have announced plans to stop in-person classes at their two-year branch campuses.
Marquette University is planning $31 million in budget cuts over the next seven years, campus officials said in a message Monday. That represents about 7% of its current operating budget.
Meanwhile, Wisconsin lawmakers are considering legislation that would eliminate race-based criteria in scholarship, grant, and loan programs. A University of Wisconsin system spokesperson told the news site WisPolitics that its campuses would remove race as a factor in most scholarships by the end of the academic year, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
Another bill that took months to take shape was a deal between Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and the Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents. Vos wanted to do away with positions related to DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion. In exchange, he agreed to approve UW staff raises and building projects that were included in the state budget.
Evers, who was critical of the deal, eventually signed off on multiple components, including $700 million for building projects like a new engineering building at UW-Madison and guaranteed admission to the UW for the top-performing students in each graduating class across the state.
On Friday, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the launch of its Sustainability Research Hub.
In early Feb. 2024, UW-Madison chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced a new cross-campus initiative focused on environmental sustainability.
Contradicting advice from the Department of City Development, a Milwaukee zoning committee on Thursday voted to effectively deny a request to allow the Arizona College of Nursing, a for-profit out-of-state school, to operate out of a building in the city.
The Arizona College of Nursing has already taken several steps to open a school at 9000 W. Chester St. in western Milwaukee. Because college or university isn’t listed among the “permitted uses” for the building, the college has been following a three-step city approval process so it can begin holding classes.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Department is investigating property damage and vandalism over the weekend at Golda Meir Library, named for an Israeli prime minister and that has been at the center of student protests.
Former state representative Dana Wachs had been serving on the Board of Regents since 2022, and his term doesn’t expire for another few years. But the Senate voted to reject his confirmation.
From the UW Board of Regents to the Legislature and governor, those chargedg with the care and preservation of the public’s investment in higher education watch idly by while UW system President Jay Rothman wields his ax to make the system’s budgetary ends meet.
Raising the money by the board’s April 3 deadline would give leadership the fiscal stability for the 2024-25 school year to reimagine a “new” Northland with a yet-to-be-seen sustainable model. Without the infusion of cash, the 132-year-old college will be forced to close at the end of the year, displacing hundreds of students and dozens of faculty and staff.
The UW Board of Regents announced Wednesday that James Beeby will assume the post July 1. He’ll be the first new UW-La Crosse chancellor in 17 years. Gow was chancellor from 2007 to 2023.
James Beeby, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Keene State College in New Hampshire, has been named the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
James Beeby, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Keene State College in New Hampshire, has been named chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
The UW Board of Regents filled a position left open by former UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow by unanimously appointing James Beeby to the position.
James Beeby was named the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, taking over for a leader fired late last year after his production of porn videos was publicly revealed.
Enrollment, retention and campus services are key concerns for campus community members as the University of Wisconsin-River Falls deliberates how to confront its structural deficit.
Republicans fired eight of Evers’ appointees to various state boards Tuesday, including the the first Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents members to be rejected by the Senate since 1991.
The GOP-controlled state Senate fired eight Democratic appointees Tuesday, including two members of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents who voted against a controversial deal limiting campus diversity positions in exchange for state funding.
Lawmakers rejected two of Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Tuesday after the regents voted against a deal to freeze positions related to diversity, equity and inclusion in exchange for funding for the UW.
The Senate also for the first time passed Assembly Joint Resolution 109, a constitutional amendment that’s Wisconsin Republicans’ latest step in their fight against government-run diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Republican lawmakers last year struck a deal requiring the Universities of Wisconsin to restructure its DEI programs, and GOP legislative leaders have said they plan to scrutinize similar programs in state agencies.
Republicans who control the state Senate fired eight more of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees Tuesday, including two Universities of Wisconsin regents who voted against a deal that limited campus diversity and four judicial watchdogs who wouldn’t commit to punishing liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday fired eight of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees, including two on the UW Board of Regents whose rejection came after they voted last year against a divisive deal that gives the UW system additional state funding in exchange for scaling back diversity efforts.
Republican lawmakers voted to pass a proposal prohibiting the Universities of Wisconsin System and technical colleges across Wisconsin from using institutional or loyalty pledges that can influence how students are admitted to its universities and faculty is hired.
The two fired Regents, John Miller and Dana Wachs, are among 22 of Gov. Evers’ appointees to state offices that have been fired during his two terms.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will close its two-year campus in Waukesha, the fifth UW branch in less than two years to announce it would shutter its doors or move to an online model.
The Senate appears likely to fire John Miller and Dana Wachs, two of the six regents to vote late last year against a sprawling, controversial deal struck by UW system President Jay Rothman and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, that gives about $800 million in funding to the UW system in exchange for changes to the public university system’s diversity programming.
UW-Milwaukee announced the closure Monday, saying it would instead shift to a university center model at Waukesha County Technical College, where UW-Milwaukee will eventually have a physical space on the WCTC campus. UW-Milwaukee will also stop offering associate degrees and end its College of General Studies, the academic department that oversaw both the Waukesha and Washington County campuses.
