Last summer Madison College (Madison Area Technical College or MATC) welcomed a new president, Jack Daniels, to lead the community of 40,000 students after the retirement of former president Bettsey Barhorst.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives early Friday morning approved an increase in overall funding for research at the National Science Foundation but also endorsed an effort to pare social science studies that the agency funds.
The report is based on a survey of 530 college students from 11 UW campuses, Milwaukee Area Technical College and Marquette and Cardinal Stritch universities. The most striking finding is that 84 percent of the respondents said it was ?very important? or ?somewhat important? to have transportation options other than a car.
Robert M. Meyer was named the school?s next chancellor Tuesday. Meyer currently is president of Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in Shell Lake.
MARSHFIELD ? On the heels of a two-year tuition freeze and state budget cuts, the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County has been forced to reduce staff.
Some newly minted college graduates struggle to find work. Others accept jobs for which they feel overqualified. Student debt, meanwhile, has topped $1 trillion.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior is cutting nearly half of its graduate programs as it deals with a looming deficit.
MADISON ? University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is proposing a one-year plan to cover tuition costs of high school students who take UW classes offered in their schools for college credit.
SUPERIOR – The University of Wisconsin-Superior has unveiled plans to make $4.5 million in budget cuts over the next five years.
A University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor has filed a lawsuit accusing her former graduate student of posting defamatory comments about her online.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is proposing a one-year plan to cover tuition costs of high school students who take UW classes offered in their schools for college credit.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross on Thursday proposed a one-year plan to cover tuition for students in Wisconsin public high schools who take UW courses through a dual enrollment program aimed at jump-starting their college careers.
The new president of the University of Wisconsin System says the possibility of another tuition freeze could provide an opportunity to start a new discussion about the costs of higher education.
A task force established by the Environmental Protection Agency to curtail farmland pollution that flows into the Mississippi River has reached an agreement with 12 universities, including UW-Madison.
Noted: Lucey was credited with pushing to merge the University of Wisconsin in Madison with the state college system, a fierce battle that created today?s system of 13 four-year state colleges. He also was responsible for breaking the all-male dominance of the state?s high court when he appointed now-Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson to it in 1976.
At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of part-time adjunct faculty grew far faster than at the average state university from 2005 to 2012, according to a new study by the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning Washington research group.
The CEO of a Madison-based economic consulting and research firm will become interim senior vice president for academic and student affairs for the University of Wisconsin System, UW System President Ray Cross announced Friday.
According to a report from the American Academy of Family Physicians over a three-year period, one in six UW medical grads ? roughly 16 percent – entered family practice.
University of Wisconsin-Superior has given its entire custodial and grounds crew staff ?at risk? letters, saying they may be laid off and have their jobs outsourced.
The center consists of business offices and specially designed spaces for use by federal and state officials, employers, and other agencies to assist student veterans, active duty students and more. Campus officials say there are around 600 prior-service veterans and current military members enrolled during a typical semester.
Forget about their students not making it to graduation. Now colleges have to wonder whether their speakers will.
Gov. Scott Walker will be giving his first commencement address when he addresses graduate students at Concordia University in Mequon.
A senior vice president of the University of Wisconsin System is leaving to become the chancellor of Montana State University Billings.
As the college class of 2014 prepares to receive its diplomas, NPR took a look at the national mix of bachelor?s degrees awarded over four decades and graphed them.
MILWAUKEE (WITI) ? The average college student in Wisconsin graduates with $30,000 in loans! Help may be on the way ? but the idea is controversial.
MADISON, Wis. — A newly hired top-level communications director for the University of Wisconsin System was fired last year as University of Arkansas spokesman following a disagreement over that school?s handling of an open records request filed by a newspaper.
A newly hired top-level communications director for the University of Wisconsin System was fired last year as University of Arkansas spokesman following a disagreement with that schools president over an open records request filed by a newspaper.
All University of Wisconsin two-year campuses and one four-year campus, UW-Superior, are outsourcing their bookstores to the Nebraska Book Company (NEEBO).
In Wisconsin, he will perhaps be remembered most for pushing to merge the University of Wisconsin in Madison with the state college system, a fierce battle that created today?s system of 13 four-year state colleges.
A search committee has selected five finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chancellor position.
The Associated Students of Madison approved an appeal Wednesday directed at the Board of Regents, regarding Chancellor Rebecca Blank?s decision to overturn the budget-freeze from earlier in the semester.
In an effort to improve financial transparency and management, the Legislature?s Joint Finance Committee unanimously approved the University of Wisconsin System?s proposed financial reporting policy.
The state would better track surplus money at Wisconsin universities, pay off salt charges from a brutal winter and move forward with a $25 million venture capital program, under proposals coming before the Legislature?s powerful budget committee Tuesday.
The Legislature?s finance committee approved a new policy governing University of Wisconsin System surpluses on Tuesday, wrapping up a nasty clash between Republicans and UW officials over the system?s massive balances.
The Legislature?s Joint Finance Committee on Tuesday approved a revised policy for dealing with budget surpluses within the University of Wisconsin System. The change requires UW campuses to report to the Board of Regents anytime their surpluses climb above 12 percent, while also reducing the minimum cash reserves campuses must have from 10 percent of their budget to zero.
Stanford University announced Tuesday that it would divest its $18.7 billion endowment of stock in coal-mining companies, becoming the first major university to lend support to a nationwide campaign to purge endowments and pension funds of fossil fuel investments.
Members of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents were uneasy about the hiring of a top ally to Gov. Scott Walker for a high ranking communications job, emails obtained by the Associated Press show.
MADISON ? The University of Wisconsin System?s decision to hire a confidant of Gov. Scott Walker to a newly created, high-paying job raised concerns among at least two members of the Board of Regents, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press under the state?s open records law.
The University of Wisconsin System?s decision to hire a confidant of Gov. Scott Walker to a newly created, high-paying job raised concerns among at least two members of the Board of Regents, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press under the state?s open records law.
Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that the University of Wisconsin Systems decision to hire a close confidant of Gov. Scott Walker raised concerns among at least two members of the Board of Regents.
n Wisconsin, campuses have become increasingly lonely for American Indians. In the last half-decade, other minority groups have seen an increase in enrollment. American Indians, meanwhile, have declined across the University of Wisconsin System four-year campuses, from 982 students in 2009-2010 to 743 students in the 2013-2014 school year. That?s a drop of 24 percent. At the flagship UW-Madison, their numbers have dropped by nearly half, from 206 to 112.
The Legislatures finance committee is set to vote on the University of Wisconsin Systems new policy for reporting surpluses.
UW-Whitewater is one of 55 colleges and universities under federal investigation for their handling of sexual assault and harassment complaints under Title IX.
The Legislature?s finance committee is set to vote on the University of Wisconsin System?s new policy for reporting surpluses.
WASHINGTON — From huge state universities to small colleges and the Ivy League, 55 schools across America are facing federal investigation for the way they handle sexual abuse allegations by their students.
Federal investigators are checking whether 55 colleges and universities illegally handled sexual violence and harassment complaints, the U.S. Department of Education said Thursday. UW-Whitewater is among them.
With one in five women sexually assaulted while in college, the White House has rolled out a new package of recommendations entitled ?Not Alone,? which includes guidelines for campuses on how to handle sexual assault cases.
Chris Hayes talks to Laura Dunn, who became an activist after she was sexually assaulted at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Who should be the focus of effective communication and education about the risks of sexual assault on campus is a question many colleges are struggling to answer. Kelly Andersen, executive director of Dane County Rape Crisis Center in Madison, Wisc. ? home of the University of Wisconsin?s main campus — says universities need to address the issue from two angles: risk reduction and prevention.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Biden said on Tuesday that the USA?s colleges and universities have a moral responsibility to “step up” efforts to prevent sexual assault on campuses.
Twenty thousand dollars a year for college tuition, room and board, books and fees, that?s the in-state price tag you are seeing if you attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As the White House pushes its campus sexual assault prevention efforts this week, colleges and universities once again find themselves in the crosshairs of an administration that has sought time and again to hold institutions more accountable.
In efforts to end sexual violence on university and college campuses, a White House task force issued a number of recommendations for schools on Tuesday.
The phone at the Rape Crisis Center in Madison rings about 2,000 times a year from victims seeking help. Kelly Anderson, the center?s director, knows there are many victims out there who never call.
WASHINGTON ? Reacting to a series of highly publicized rapes on college campuses, the White House on Monday released guidelines that increase the pressure on universities to more aggressively combat sexual assaults on campus.
Tuition at UW-Madison is the topic of much scrutiny and debate, as the news of a second year of $1 billion fund reserves prompted Gov. Scott Walker to call for a second tuition freeze.
At the memory unit in St. Mary?s Care Center in Madison, everyone has a Grandpa Dave.
Affirmative action in America appears to be dying by degrees.
Should those who apply for college be required to reveal their race on their college application? Affirmative action has been banned in Michigan ? meaning race cannot be taken into consideration when deciding college admissions. The Supreme Court says affirmative action is constitutional, so what could that mean for racial minorities applying to college in Wisconsin?
Statewide, students are leaving college with much more than a diploma; they?re racking up debt. On average, Wisconsin graduates leave school with nearly $28,000 in debt. It?s a trend U.S. Rep. Ron Kind plans to address. He revealed new legislation on the UW-Eau Claire campus Thursday to fight back against student debt.
