Even as their spending on instruction, research and public service declined or stayed flat, most colleges and universities rapidly increased their spending on sports, according to a report being released Monday by the American Association of University Professors.
At Monday?s inaugural Wisconsin Tech Summit in Waukesha, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mike Lovell will join MaryAnn Wright of Johnson Controls Inc. to talk about a battery research partnership that has allowed students, faculty and company scientists to work side-by-side in a world-class “dry lab” on campus.
Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have put aside their differences on military sexual assault reform to turn their attention to the issue of rape on college campuses. In a letter sent Friday, the pair requested an increase in funding at the U.S. Department of Education to improve enforcement of campus crime laws.
While universities often boost commerce in an area, having a concentrated, highly-educated workforce in a city can also cause stark economic segregation, an effect a recent study found shapes life in Madison.
Jim Villa, hired Wednesday for the new job of vice president of university relations at the University of Wisconsin System, left no doubt about his allegiances when applying for the job. His references: current Republican Gov. Scott Walker, former Republican governor Tommy Thompson and William J. McCoshen, managing partner of a Madison lobbying firm who served Thompson as campaign manager and secretary of commerce.
Jim Villa, a longtime friend and ally of Gov. Scott Walker, has been named vice president for university relations for the University of Wisconsin System.
Jim Villa is leaving his post as president of the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin after landing a job as vice president for university relations at the University of Wisconsin System.
This year, the University of Wisconsin launched its version of an all-you-can eat buffet.
The Madison School Board on Monday approved a $1.3 million partnership with the UW-Madison aimed at expanding training and improving diversity.
Around the country Thursday, coaches and administrators pondered the potential ramifications of the stunning decision by the National Labor Relations Board, which ruled the Northwestern football team ? up to now, referred to by the NCAA as student-athletes ? are actually university employees in everything but name. Therefore, they should be able to bargain collectively for their fair share of an industry worth billions.
A new state audit is questioning the handling of about $520,000 in federal aid received by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the state Department of Public Instruction.
The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse says a new report that ranks his school first in the country for alcohol arrests should send a message to students about the school?s tough stance against alcohol.
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside says the personal data of thousands of students may have been exposed due to a hacker attack on the schools server.
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside notified approximately 15,000 students on Thursday, March 27th of the potential exposure of personal data. University officials say the FBI is being called in to investigate.
Gov. Scott Walker announced the appointment of Nicolas Harsy as a non-traditional student representative on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents in a March 26 release.
Michael Lovell?s departure from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will leave yet another gap in leadership within the UW System, and launch yet another costly search for a chancellor.
In college, Scott Flanagan figured he?d end up coaching a basketball team through a March Madness tournament run each year. Instead, he now finds himself running a college, after being named the next president of Edgewood College on Tuesday as his old team, the University of Wisconsin, prepares for its Sweet 16 appearance in the NCAA tournament.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell is expected to be named the next president of Marquette University on Wednesday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Most of the nation?s elite colleges and universities fall short of a benchmark that Amherst College surpassed five years ago: More than one-fifth of its students come from families poor enough to qualify for federal Pell grants.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell is expected to be named the next president of Marquette University on Wednesday ? the first layman to be president in the Jesuit university?s 132-year history, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has learned.
Gov. Scott Walker announced the appointments of three new members to the Board of Regents, the governing body for all University of Wisconsin System schools, in a statement Friday.
Gov. Scott Walker on Friday named three people to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and one to the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
Colleges and the military have a problem in common.
One of the finalists for a top University of Wisconsin System post doesn?t have a college degree.
The Sunshine Week fortune cookies and their messages serve as a reminder to those elected or appointed to do the public?s business that they work for you ? the voting and taxpaying public. UW-Madison and the UW System did not always remember this wisdom.
While UW Oshkosh can continue to strive to be a greener campus, divestment from fossil fuels is still a complicated task and discussion, according to UW Oshkosh Foundation President Arthur Rathjen.
The students, most from Milwaukee or Racine, visited with legislators to lobby for support of a bill introduced by state Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, D-Milwaukee, to offer in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin System campuses to permanent legal residents of the United States who graduated from Wisconsin high schools and have lived in the state for at least three years.
The University of Wisconsin System named five finalists for the position of vice president for university relations, including the president of a Milwaukee real estate group who is closely allied with Gov. Scott Walker.
In-state tuition for undocumented students became available here in 2009, after years of organizing by immigrant youth. Unfortunately, in 2011 it was repealed by Governor Walker, who effectively shut the door to higher education for undocumented students (called “Dreamers”) in the state. It has been three years since then, and we believe it?s time this door is blown wide open again.
Changes to the SAT college entrance exam announced last week ignore the bigger picture, Michael Apple, a professor of curriculum and instruction and educational policy studies at UW-Madison, told Wisconsin Public Radio.
Twelve University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students will present their research at the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda to legislators Wednesday, according to a university press release.
An Academic Staff representative raised concerns at an assembly meeting Monday regarding a committee appointment made last month by the Academic Staff Executive Committee.
UW Oshkosh officials say one shot was fired inside Reeve Memorial Union Saturday night.
For much of the past century, public higher education in the United States has been governed by various forms of state university control. These ?systems? and their governing boards define and harmonize the educational interests and needs of their respective states with campus strategic plans, allocate state resources, oversee capital development, and try to buffer institutions from excessive intrusion by politicians and state agencies — important roles all.
In his first Board of Regents meeting as University of Wisconsin System president, Raymond Cross articulated what he feels the System needs to strive for in order to become a more successful structure.
Expect more details, more frequent reports and more questions about financial details regarding the massive University of Wisconsin System, new president Ray Cross told the Board of Regents Friday morning in his first speech to the board.
The Obama administration, constrained by spending caps imposed by Congress, suggested on Tuesday a federal budget for 2015 that would mean another year of cuts in the government?s spending on basic scientific research.
The man brought in to fix glitches in the deeply flawed payroll and benefits system used by about 75,000 employees in the University of Wisconsin System has stepped down from his job after two years, the UW System announced late Monday night.
The SSTI (State Science and Technology Institute) praised the UW-Madison?s investment in its ?Discovery to Product? initiative to help move good ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace. That?s an idea funded, in part, by the Legislature?s UW System Incentive Grants. Only this month, the UW System and WEDC announced creation of a $2 million fund to help transfer technology from other system campuses.
Recent audits detail troubles with a University of Wisconsin payroll computer system. More time should have been spent in planning.
A committee to select the next dean and campus executive officer of the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County met for the first time Thursday.
Last week, Nicholas Kristof revived the old canard that academics have removed themselves from the public sphere through obscure prose and interests. Among the problems we might identify in Kristof?s essay — there are, obviously, many — is the irony of a writer with the resources of The New York Times supporting him chiding the rest of us for not writing in outlets such as The New York Times.
The state Assembly has approved a bill that would allow University of Wisconsin institutions to perform classified national security research.
In a Wisconsin State Journal article published last Sunday, a reporter follows new University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross as he makes rounds of the Capitol saying hello to lawmakers, many of them the same legislators who voted to slash UW?s funding in 2011 and then made a scandal out of the system?s savings in 2013.
The University of Maryland said on Wednesday that more than 300,000 records for students, faculty and staff were stolen in a sophisticated cyberattack.
Edgewood College has narrowed its list of presidential candidates to three finalists.
As a young man, Ray Cross survived Vietnam. Now at the other end of his career, he figures he can handle the state Capitol in his new role as president of the University of Wisconsin System, which he officially starts this week.
Community College leaders are in Washington lobbying for more money and a bigger role in training Americans for the workforce. In most states though, community college funding has been slashed. It?s unclear if the schools can open their doors to more people or create new job-training programs.
The University of Wisconsin System is partnering with the state?s chief jobs agency to create a $2 million seed fund to help bring technology ideas developed at UW campuses to the marketplace.
Boosting Wisconsin?s economy will take more than just adding jobs ? it will require luring more young college graduates to move here, a UW-Madison expert told a conference in Madison on Wednesday .One way to do that could be to set up a two-tiered tuition system, with lower rates for those who promise to stay in Wisconsin after they earn their degrees, said Morris Davis, associate professor and academic director of the James Graaskamp Center for Real Estate.
A provision to exempt University of Wisconsin System research from open records requests was removed from a bill to allow classified research on campus Monday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank thinks the Board of Regents should consider raising tuition for out-of-state students.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank thinks the Board of Regents should consider raising tuition for out-of-state students.
The state Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities held a public hearing on two bills Monday that could affect research and scholarship funds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students may soon be seeing more incentives to stay in state for college with two bills proposed in the Legislature to help residents pay for the increasing costs of higher education.
Democratic authors of a bill that would create a new state authority to allow roughly 753,000 Wisconsin residents to refinance their federal student loans, were met with tough criticism and concerns Monday.
A bill that would allow University of Wisconsin System campuses to conduct classified research that would be exempt from state open records law was taken up in committee Monday.
University of Wisconsin System campuses are Nos. 1, 4, 10, 17, 19, 23, 30, 36, 39 and 41 in a national ranking of the most on-campus alcohol arrests per 1,000 students.
Students will vote in March on a referendum to increase a fee future Badgers pay for recreational sports facilities to pay for $223 million in renovations and expansions to the campus? aging fields, gyms, pools and tracks. The proposal was explained Thursday to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents capital planning and budget committee.
Rebecca Blank told the Regents to expect an aggressive push by her in coming years to raise UW-Madison tuition for those groups to the same or near what peers at other schools pay.
