Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit Tuesday against two colleges, accusing the schools of misleading criminal justice students about their ability to land a job in their field and transferring credits to other institutions.
PEOPLE ? its full name is another mouthful, Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence ? is dedicated to getting students on a path to college early by showcasing possibilities and providing support. ?PEOPLE is where the Wisconsin Idea happens,? says DeWalt, referring to the university?s mission of bringing its resources to the citizens of Wisconsin.
There are a lot of opinions about where you should go to college. A lot of those opinions are probably wrong — at least the ones based on myths about what makes a good school to get a degree from.
The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously that former University of Wisconsin System student Jeff Decker?s protests over fees clearly crossed the line into harassment but an injunction banning him from UW property or contacting UW personnel is too vague and must be rewritten.
Laura Dunn was a college freshman living on the University of Wisconsin?s pastoral campus in Madison when she was raped. Her assailants, she said, were two males from the crew team. She filed a complaint with the school and law enforcement. No one was charged, no one was even suspended.
MADISON ? A frequent University of Wisconsin System protester?s antics clearly crossed the line into harassment but an injunction banning him from UW property or contacting UW personnel is too broad and must be rewritten, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Indiana started sending letters to students detailing what their loan totals and eventual monthly payments would be after graduation. That led to a $31 million reduction in federal undergraduate Stafford loan disbursements at Indiana universities.
Activists working to put an end to sexual assault on campus want colleges to publicly release any surveys they conduct that gauge the scope of the problem at their schools.
In a long-running affirmative-action case, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld the University of Texas at Austin?s consideration of race as one of many factors in admissions.
UW-Madison paid out the most of any agency, approving 1,743 payments worth about $6 million. The average payment at UW-Madison represented about a 7.8 percent increase over the employee?s prior salary. Spokesman Bob Lavigna attributed the higher spending to the university?s large budget and said the school spent about the same percent of its budget on merit raises as Corrections did.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross calls it the ?broadband imperative.? He explains at a broadband symposium in Madison, ?Big transformation coming. Highly dependent on the ability to move data between different sources ? fast.?
The University of Wisconsin System cannot charge high school students taking courses offered in their schools for college credit, known as concurrent enrollment classes, the state?s attorney general says.
The state Department of Public Instruction ? and not the University of Wisconsin System ? should determine how much school districts pay for high school students to take UW System courses through a dual enrollment program, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said in an opinion released Thursday.
More than 40 percent of colleges have not conducted a single sexual-assault investigation in the past five years, according to the results of a national survey released on Wednesday by Sen. Claire McCaskill. The on-the-ground details of campus sexual assault and the capacity of officials there to respond to it should serve as a “wake-up call” for colleges, said Ms. McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who recently held three roundtable discussions on the issue.
WASHINGTON — More than a fifth of colleges nationwide allow their athletic departments to oversee sexual assault cases involving student-athletes, according to the results of a survey released Wednesday by Senator Claire McCaskill.
On July 1, Michael R. Lovell took office as Marquette University?s 24th president. He succeeds interim President Robert A. Wild, S.J., to become the first lay president in university history.
A member of the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee says there?s a real danger the University of Wisconsin System will follow UW-Superior?s lead and privatize services and even faculty.
As supporters of the University of Texas at Austin?s president, William C. Powers Jr., lined up to fight efforts to oust him this week, the best they can hope for is to allow him to leave on his own terms?at the end of the next academic year, instead of being forced out in October or even earlier.
For-profit colleges seek to fill their coffers with the benefits our veterans have earned from their service and sacrifice.
UW-Madison will add six free online classes starting in January, a follow-up to its initial rollout of four massive open online courses, or MOOCs, last school year. The new offerings, free to anyone with an Internet connection, will be led by 10 UW-Madison faculty and staff members joined by one faculty partner from the University of Colorado.
STEVENS POINT ? University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross on Monday praised the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus as “wonderful,” and as a place that fostered independent and problem-solving thought.
While the record $1.2 trillion in student loan debt has attracted election-year calls for reform in Madison and Washington, D.C., Wisconsin is ending a program that has helped students like Toshia Spindler go to UW-La Crosse.
The University of Wisconsin system has a new president and in his four short months in the role, he is wasting no time to start implementing the plans he had before he was even hired.
Dire warnings about student debt have become so common that many people may have a hard time believing that the problem is often exaggerated, as I wrote in my column Tuesday. Sure enough, readers raised several thoughtful questions about the research in the column, which found that large student debts are rarer than widely believed.
PLATTEVILLE ? The tornado that hit the University of Wisconsin-Platteville last week damaged at least four buildings and an athletic stadium, and the chancellor says repairs could cost more than $10 million.
The tornado that struck the University of Wisconsin-Platteville last week damaged at least four buildings and an athletic stadium, and the repairs could exceed $10 million, Chancellor Dennis J. Shields said Wednesday.
And UW-Madison?s Sara Goldrick-Rab is at the center of media skepticism about the coffee giant?s tuition reimbursement offer for classes taken online from Arizona State University.
A U.S. college degree is still worth the investment, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said.
University of Wisconsin ? Platteville officials said they will be able to repair the buildings damaged in last week?s storms, and a fund has been established to raise money for those repairs.
Two Senate Democrats who are working on legislation to combat campus sexual assault said Monday that they expect to introduce a bipartisan bill when Congress returns from its August recess.
We are three University of Wisconsin-Madison students soon to be graduating who face entering the workforce with negative worth. Collectively, we hold over $60,000 in student debt and we are currently without the ability to refinance our debt at lower interest rates.
The American Association of University Professors is calling on universities to uphold principles of academic freedom by either terminating or renegotiating the agreements that have brought nearly 100 Chinese government-backed cultural and language programs called Confucius Institutes to campuses across the United States and Canada.
WASHINGTON ? The U.S. Supreme Court?s decision last year to require a higher level of scrutiny for race-based affirmative action was a step toward destabilizing race-conscious admission plans, and universities must find new ways ? for now additional ones, but eventually substitute ones ? to ensure diversity.
Affirmative action as we know it is probably doomed.
America?s higher education institutions aren?t offering value for money. And that?s a problem that tinkering with the federal student loan program won?t solve.
An independent investigator has found that University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Chief Michael Marzion displayed “inappropriate and unprofessional” conduct when he traded Internet messages of a sexual nature with a student this spring.
There?s a reason the job descriptions for university presidents are painted with a wide brush.
While student loan debt has crossed the $1 trillion mark, legislation to address the issue continues to stall.
At the University of Tennessee this year, some fraternity pledges had hot sauce poured on their genitals. At Emory in Atlanta, pledges were required to consume items ?not typical for eating? and to engage in fistfights. And at Wesleyan in Connecticut, a few months after the university reached a settlement with a woman who said she was raped at a fraternity house, another woman said that she was raped at a different fraternity house.
More universities in Wisconsin are partnering up with car share companies to try to keep more cars off campus.
According to UW-Madison education professor Sara Goldrick-Rab, President Barack Obama?s prescription for student loan debt avoids the real issue confronting higher education: College ? not loan ? affordability. She urged Obama and Warren to focus on driving down the price of college and introducing a debt-free pathway to a two-year college degree.
A tuition freeze at a time when higher education is too costly is at best a Band-Aid, not a cure. If elected officials and UW System administrators are serious, they must address the onerous burden created by student loan debt, as President Obama and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., are attempting to do at the federal level.
The University of Wisconsin System appears to be prepared to extend the current tuition freeze, and rightly so.
After weeks of rumors, Colorado State University, Indiana University, the University of Florida and the University of Michigan on Wednesday unveiled Unizin, a consortium aimed at ?tipping the table in favor of the academy? on digital education.
In what legal observers and fair-use advocates are calling a victory for libraries, a federal appeals court has upheld most of a lower court?s 2012 ruling in favor of the HathiTrust Digital Library in a copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and other plaintiffs.
President Obama signs an executive order on Monday expanding the ?Pay As You Earn? program, increasing the number of student loan borrowers who are eligible to cap their payments at 10 percent of their monthly income. Also, under the plan, the balance of a loan would be forgiven after 20 years ? and just 10 years if the borrower works in public service. This move gives an additional 5 million students the same option others were given under earler changes.
Colleges have become more aggressive about punishing alcohol and drug offenses, even as the rate of serious crime on campuses has dropped, according to a government report released Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — Amid growing concern that outstanding student debt is hurting the economy, President Obama on Monday directed his administration to make an additional 5 million existing student loan borrowers eligible for the federal government?s most generous income-based repayment program.
Miss: The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents just can?t seem to get it right. After reluctantly being forced to accept a two-year tuition freeze imposed by a Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Scott Walker, regents last week approved higher fees for students in its latest budget proposal.
A possible change in funding and program control for Wisconsin?s technical colleges has been brought up in Madison, but the concept is getting no support in central Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin System will have 3.3% of its overall budget ? less than $200 million ? in true cash reserves a year from now to cover any unexpected expenses or shortfalls at its 26 campuses, UW System President Ray Cross said Thursday as the Board of Regents unanimously approved the system budget.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has approved a budget for this coming school year that freezes tuition but raises fees and room-and-board costs.
University of Wisconsin System students and their families won?t have to shell out any additional money for tuition next year, but they?ll face higher fees and room-and-board costs under a budget proposal system leaders approved Thursday.
The United States has a student debt problem. It?s a $1.2 trillion ? and growing ? problem, and its impact ripples far beyond the individuals paying back their loans. The burden of that debt on individual graduates and the U.S. economy has been the focus of legislation from both state and national Democrats, including a bill spearheaded by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.
The extended tuition freeze would mark another significant departure from recent practice at the System. Prior to the tuition freeze mandated by the Republican-controlled state Legislature starting with the 2013-2014 school year, the System had hiked tuition at four-year campuses 5.5 percent annually in each of the previous six years, the maximum annual increase allowed by law. System spokesman John Diamond said Wednesday that tuition now is viewed as ?a revenue source of last resort.?
Facing ongoing scrutiny of cash balances in tuition and other accounts not involving state or federal money, the University of Wisconsin System is poised to spend down about $112 million ? roughly 15% ? of those amounts through its 2014-?15 budget.
From Pennsylvania to Oregon, the number of top public universities bidding to shake off government control keeps growing.
Most states are moving away from allocating public colleges? money based entirely on enrollment and toward rewarding them according to benchmarks for access and completion. A proposal to do that in Iowa highlights the difficulties of creating new rewards for some institutions without punishing others.
Nearly every college president opposes allowing guns on campus, according to a new survey.
Gary Miller will start as the new chancellor at UW-Green Bay in August, leaving the same job at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington amid an urgent plea from some on that campus to stay put.
