Category: Higher Education/System

The longest serving chancellor in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Stout plans to retire.

A new report shows the University of Wisconsin System lost 1,182 faculty members during the 2011-13 biennium.

This database contains payments made to the staff of Madison Area Technical College in the 2012-13 school year, including summer and interim sessions.

An estimated 20 percent of working age adults in the state have earned at least some credit towards a college degree. Officials with the University of Wisconsin System and UW Extension want to help them finish their higher education, with a new program called the UW Flexible Option.

Aaron Apel dropped out of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville halfway through his second year, got a factory job, married his college sweetheart and later completed an associate?s degree to become a computer specialist.

Prospective college students can start signing up for the University of Wisconsin Systems new flexible degree program.

New rules that restrict public comments on personnel and contracts before the Madison Area Technical College district board have drawn a furious response from some college staffers and a former board member who say they unfairly limit free speech at the publicly funded college.

University of California President Janet Napolitano on Wednesday proposed freezing tuition system-wide for the third year in a row and called for a policy that would ensure low tuition rates with predictable annual increases in future years.

Are you fit to be flexed? Let the University of Wisconsin help you find out.

At a time of dwindling federal budgets, the National Institutes of Health is considering one sure-fire way to raise record-low grant-approval rates: Have researchers apply for fewer grants.

WASHINGTON — The automatic federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, that took effect in March have forced universities to lay off research-related personnel, delay projects and admit fewer graduate students, according to a new survey released Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are flocking to U.S. colleges and universities, helping to drive the number of international students studying in America to record levels.

A University of Wisconsin program directed at non-traditional adult students will begin accepting applications in a few weeks.

The irony is hard to miss as regards the departing president of the University of Wisconsin System.

The University of Wisconsin System is investing $22.5 million over the next two years in projects at campuses across the state designed to fuel enconomic growth in Wisconsin.

More than half of the faculty and professional academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh are getting raises averaging about $2,600.

OSHKOSH, Wis. ? More than half of the faculty and professional academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh are getting raises averaging about $2,600.

OSHKOSH – Some UW-Oshkosh faculty members are getting a pay raise.It?s true on other campuses including Green Bay and something many haven?t seen in several years.

TAMPA ? Robinson High School senior John Lennon has spent every weekend for the past month filling out applications for a different college or university.

Looking out over the quadrangle before him as students dashed from one class to the next, James Muyskens was feeling proud one recent afternoon, and why not?

After a two-month listening tour to start his tenure, Madison Area Technical College president Jack Daniels has started the process of forming a new strategic plan and working with employees on a new handbook, he told the State Journal editorial board.

As the popularity of electronic cigarettes continues to grow, University of Wisconsin System schools are beginning to consider including rules on e-cigarettes in university tobacco policies.

While University of California students have settled into this academic year following a budget deal that held tuition steady for 2013-14, Robert Birgeneau, the former UC Berkeley chancellor, warns that the system?s financial troubles are far from over.

College campuses across Wisconsin are grappling with electronic cigarettes, a relatively new product that more young people are trying and using.

Rachel Slocum, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, was stunned earlier this month when what she thought was an innocuous if impetuous e-mail to students about why they couldn?t access census data to complete an important course assignment became national news.

Jack E. Daniels, the new president of Madison Area Technical College, is straightforward about his challenges and priorities.

The University of Wisconsin-Stout plans to unveil a memorial to its 40 faculty members, staff and students who have died during military service.

he Wisconsin Senate is scheduled to vote on a bipartisan bill that would give veterans priority over other students when they register for University of Wisconsin System and state technical college classes.

The University of Wisconsin System received a $1.2 million grant from a private foundation to expand a program to increase the number of Wisconsin adults with college degrees, although that expansion will not include UW-Madison in the near future.

Patrick G. Boyle, a former chancellor of UW-Extension and UW System regent, died Oct. 10. He was 85.

The annual University of Wisconsin System Accountability Report shows four-year graduation rates in the UW System are lower than the national average, a UW System representative said at a Board of Regents meeting Thursday.

Ten of the 14 University of Wisconsin System?s chancellors will get pay raises of between $6,000 and $10,500 a year under salary adjustments approved by the UW Board of Regents in a closed session Thursday at UW-Parkside.

The University of Wisconsin?s new flexible degree option for working adults has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from a national higher-education nonprofit group dedicated to improving access and success for students post-high school.