Category: Higher Education/System

After a national search, the University of Wisconsin System chose a new president from inside, elevating Ray Cross to be the seventh person to lead the System in its history.

Robert King is out as a candidate for the job of president of the University of Wisconsin System, leaving Ray Cross and Peter Garland as the only known finalists.

The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System will meet Thursday to select and announce their next president, but now the question about diversity in the selection of candidates is being raised.

Kentucky?s Council on Postsecondary Education President Bob King will not be the next president of the University of Wisconsin System. King, who has led the CPE since 2009, has also been the Chancellor for the State University of New York (SUNY). King was also a state lawmaker in New York.

The wait to find out who the next University of Wisconsin System president will be is nearly over.

The three finalists for University of Wisconsin System president visited Madison on Monday and sounded the same themes over and over: rebuilding trust, reaching out across the state to politicians and the public and opening their financial books in a more transparent way. In computer terms, they suggested a total System reboot.

Three high-level academic executives in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Kentucky have emerged as finalists to become the UW System?s next president, system officials announced Thursday.

The University of Wisconsin System has announced three finalists in the search for its next president.

University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents president, Michael Falbo, announced Thursday morning the names of the three finalists to be considered for the System?s top post.

A chancellor in the University of Wisconsin System and two outsiders who have managed public university systems in New York and Pennsylvania were named Thursday as finalists for the position of UW System president ? the CEO of a nearly $6 billion enterprise with 40,000 employees and 181,000 students.

The backlash against the American Studies Association?s resolution endorsing the boycott of Israeli universities continued unabated through the holiday vacation, with scores of American college presidents condemning the action and the president of the American Council on Education joining the chorus of critics. At the same time that presidents are denouncing the boycott for reasons related to academic freedom, some faculty and students who back the ASA action have pushed back against the presidential reproofs, in one case arguing in an op-ed that ?the greatest threat to academic freedom related to the boycott resolution has come from U.S. university presidents? themselves.

We?ll find out on Thursday who?s still in the running to become the next president of the University of Wisconsin System.  

It?s been a high-profile year for Kevin Reilly, who will leave his job as president of the University of Wisconsin System on Dec. 31.

Tuition experts with the University of Wisconsin System have studied fixed-rate programs, also known as cohort tuition, but there are no immediate implementation plans, System spokesman David Giroux said.

A committee screening University of Wisconsin System president hopefuls is set to hand over finalists? names to a selection committee this week.

The WisTax study focused on the University of Wisconsin System. Among 2012 freshmen on the 13 UW-System campuses, about 18 percent were required to take remedial math and about 12 percent needed remedial English. Students who needed remedial math exceeded 40 percent at the Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Parkside and Superior campuses. Moving beyond the freshman year, the study examined retention rates. At the Madison, Eau Claire and La Crosse campuses, a combined 93 percent of new freshmen return for their second year. But at the other 10 campuses, a combined 80 percent return for a second year. However, that?s still higher than the national rate.

Even after three years of raises totaling more than $9 million, professors in the University of Wisconsin System still earn less than they could at comparable universities, according to a published report.

Wisconsin?s college savings plan, EdVest, is expanding its holiday marketing while banking on a law change to increase tax-deductible contributions and contributors.

UW-Madison students are usually above average in many areas, but are below average in one area that affects the pocketbook: student loans.

Four more Wisconsin universities have signed up to start offering certificates in the nascent flexible degree option program, designed to offer a more convenient route to a college degree for working adults and set to roll out with its first batch of five degree programs in January.

Gov. Scott Walker said he?s committed to giving state universities more flexibility in how they operate but said it will only come about with a more robust dedication to transparency and accountability by campus leaders.