Student government representatives from UW-Madison are backing a bill they say will give students more control over who represents them on the University?s Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will host a conference next week aimed at improving university relations with state lawmakers, which frayed publicly during the recent state budget discussions.
A search committee has been created to find the next president of the University of Wisconsin System.
Having heard that I was leaving the University of Wisconsin at Madison for my current position at Fordham University, a colleague at Wisconsin declared, “I was really surprised. We all voted for a strong counteroffer, so of course I presumed you?d stay.” Whereas the higher prestige UW-Madison enjoys in certain rankings might contribute to a response like this, my department had been informed about the many professional and personal attractions of the proposed move, including my longstanding hope of returning to my native city.
In announcing the system, the president lauded specific programs throughout the country for cutting students? time to graduation and introducing innovative ways to deliver classes, including the flexible degree option being rolled out this year by the University of Wisconsin System to help adult students earn degrees with a ?show what you know? competency-based approach.
President Obama continues his three-campus “college cost” bus tour on Friday, promoting his plans to make college more affordable through a mix of carrots and sticks.
Noted: Some administrators indicated the speech could help sway those who may have been on the fence about the new programs. Kevin P. Reilly, president of the University of Wisconsin System, said he believes the executive shout-out will lead to more interest from potential students and faculty members in the institution?s competency-based degrees, approved last month.
BUFFALO ? President Obama deplored the rising costs of college on Thursday as he tried to shame universities into holding down prices. He held out the prospect of more federal student aid if they did.
Let?s stipulate that what former Madison Area Technical College President Bettsey Barhorst will make to serve as an on-call consultant to new president Jack E. Daniels amounts to about 0.058 percent ? or $88,000 ? of the college?s 2013-14 operating budget.
On relations with UW-Madison and the UW System: ?I have to get a clearer understanding of what actually is our relationship with UW first and then how can we enhance that relationship. What I?d like to do is be able to enhance any relationship that gives other opportunities for our students. What will that look like? I don?t know at this point. I understand that the chancellor is new as well, so I think there are opportunities for collaboration.?
Wisconsin students? average ACT scores were unchanged this year compared with 2012, and they remain above the national average.
In a speech at Knox College last month, President Obama said he would “shake up higher education” with an “aggressive strategy” aimed at making college more affordable.
You may notice a foul smell in the air at University of Wisconsin-River Falls this week.
Beloit College?s “Mindset List” has become a rite of fall. Each list (such as the one being released today) offers examples of things that an 18-year-old arriving on campus would and would not have experienced. Names of some people who were significant to their parents? generation (this year Dean Martin and Jerry Garcia, among others) have “always been dead.” In theory, professors and administrators get a reminder not to assume that the new students on campus share their cultural and historic signposts.
Gov. Scott Walker appointed a new student regent to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Friday after a controversial decision in June to reverse his original appointment.
A University of Wisconsin-Platteville student majoring in Animal Science has been appointed to the UW System Board of Regents. Governor Scott Walker announced Friday that he has selected Chad Landes to fill the post after Katie Pointer?s term expired in May.
Legislation designed to encourage underage drinkers to call for help for dangerously intoxicated friends received a public hearing at the Capitol on Thursday. The proposal mirrors a policy already in place at UW-Eau Claire and UW-Madison, across the Big 10, and in at least 17 states. Basically, a ticket for underage drinking would be off the table, for anyone under age 21 who calls for help for another underage drinker is in trouble.
At least two University of Wisconsin campuses are working to boost the number of students graduating within four years, in part by limiting the number of credits required for degrees.
Jeffrey Decker won?t leave campus.University of Wisconsin System officials have suspended him, banned him from all UW System property, had him arrested and pursued a court injunction against him
State Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, whose district includes much of the UW-Madison campus, is tired of the university system getting pushed around.
Bolstered by social media and a sense of injustice, hundreds of students and activists nationwide have formed a movement to force colleges to change how they handle reports of rape. The long-simmering issue has reached a boil: Organizers, who say they are angry with their colleges for turning a blind eye to sexual violence and for failing to help prevent it, are now filing federal complaints against their colleges. The government, already having pushed institutions to do more on sexual assault, is taking a heightened interest, too.
MADISON ? Sure, officials with the state Department of Instruction met with higher education stakeholders in crafting programs for college and career readiness as part of Common Core State Standards, but is that spectrum wide enough?
Think about the nation?s biggest party schools and some of the country?s largest institutions of higher learning immediately come to mind.
When University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly departs at the end of the year, he?ll be just the latest top administrator in Madison higher education to hop off the carousel. Of the six top jobs in this higher education mecca, four will have turned over in about a year, making way for new blood but also raising concerns the exodus holds ominous signs.
They haven?t formed a search committee yet to replace Kevin Reilly as president of the UW System, but already there are calls to hire someone with private sector credibility who can work with a Republican-controlled statehouse.
University of Wisconsin Board of Regents President Mike Falbo says UW System officials need to improve relations with legislators following a tense budget session.
The pendulum has fallen off its pin and is stuck in the mud. We must find ways to stimulate and scale change across institutions?as well as to sustain those changes?if we are to create models that can serve the expanding needs of our learners.
The Associated Press reported that the Universityof Wisconsin Board of Regents recently met with General Electric Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Immelt, who spoke with the board about the future of business and its role in growing the economy.
You had to reach the 19th and final paragraph, but there it was ? the last words in an online story about Kevin Reilly?s upcoming departure after nine years as president of the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly prioritized and boosted the number of college graduates across Wisconsin.
UW System President Kevin Reilly will leave his position at UW to advise the American Council on Education (ACE) in January 2014 and return to teaching.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is leaving his job after nine years defined by soaring enrollment gains, steep cuts in state funding, large tuition hikes and fierce political battles. He?ll leave at the end of the year to advise the American Council on Education and return to teaching.
Five weeks ago, I groused in a column that Kevin Reilly, president of the UW System, had failed to stand tall against overblown attacks by Republicans who control Wisconsin?s government.
Just months after being lambasted by the Legislature, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced Tuesday that he will leave his job at the end of the year.
Kevin P. Reilly, whose presidency of the University of Wisconsin system has coincided with some of the state?s most contentious debates about the role of the flagship campus and the future of collective bargaining, will resign from his position in January after more than nine years at the helm, university officials announced on Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin System will need to find a skilled leader to replace outgoing President Kevin P. Reilly, area advocates said Tuesday following news of Reilly?s planned departure.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced his resignation on Tuesday, following a tumultuous six months that saw an angry backlash from the Republican-controlled Legislature over how the university was handling its money.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly will announce his departure from the job this week, an announcement that could occur as soon as Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
What is surprising: the University of Wisconsin System?s ranking in both categories. It?s a behemoth in getting money, ranking ninth nationally in 2011 with $594 million in federal money. But it?s a relative pipsqueak in shelling out the cash its peers do to win influence and feed the D.C.-to-Madison pipeline. — Also: With Rebecca Blank starting as UW-Madison chancellor, it?s time to announce awards to her fellow finalists for the job, who made high-profile visits to campus in the spring:
Are you gay? A small but growing number of colleges want to know.
Interim UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward prioritized this (customized learning via technology) effort. That?s something new Chancellor Rebecca Blank must continue.
The American Historical Association last week issued a statement calling on universities to allow newly minted Ph.D.s to ?embargo? their dissertations for up to six years ? that is, keep them from being circulated online.
The long enrollment boom that swelled American colleges ? and helped drive up their prices ? is over, with grim implications for many schools.
When classes begin at Florida Atlantic University in the fall, Jeffrey L. Buller will mark his 15th year as a dean. After serving as a dean for roughly half of his career in higher education, Mr. Buller has had plenty of practice in creating workplace environments that help department chairs and faculty shine on the job. And when academic departments run smoothly, with professors who have the support they need to excel at teaching, research, and other parts of faculty life, Mr. Buller knows he?s on the right track.
Two months ago, in settling a high-profile investigation, federal officials told the University of Montana at Missoula how to protect students from rape.
With Republicans voting overwhelmingly in favor, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved legislation to link interest rates on student loans to the market, which would cut rates in the short term but potentially allow them to rise significantly within a few years.
President Obama vowed Wednesday that he would soon unveil a plan to promote significant reform in higher education — with an emphasis on controlling what colleges charge students and families.
For more than 150 years, Wisconsin taxpayers have invested in our public colleges and universities, producing an enduring resource that benefits every Wisconsin family and the whole state economy. Today, that cherished resource faces critical challenges and change.
America?s research universities, among the most open and robust centers of information exchange in the world, are increasingly coming under cyberattack, most of it thought to be from China, with millions of hacking attempts weekly ? including thousands a day at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
The University of Wisconsin System?s new flexible degree option for working adults has earned approval from an accrediting agency, clearing the way for the first degree programs to enroll students later this year.
After the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s football team beat its visiting rivals in 1993, about 12,000 fans rushed toward the field, crushing people in the front rows against a railing. Seventy people were hospitalized.
Two institutions at the University of Wisconsin System have gotten approval to begin offering working adults the option to finish college degrees under the new Flexible Option program.
Next time you?re watching a college graduation, as you look out over the sea of caps and gowns, make sure you notice the ball and chain most graduates are wearing as they march onstage to receive their diplomas. That?s student loan debt, which at over $1 trillion tops credit card debt in the U.S. today. The average burden is $28,000, but add in their credit cards and they?re graduating with an average of $35,000 in debt. It?s no wonder that people who?ve paid off their student loan debt are 36 percent more likely to own homes than those who haven?t, according to new research by the One Wisconsin Now Institute and Progress Now.
Research by UW-Madison’s Dominique Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele and Sara Yeo shows that scientists who interact more frequently with journalists on Twitter have higher academic impact (using h-index) than peers, as do scientists whose work was mentioned on Twitter.
Noted: ?Prior to this particular ruling, every university in the country was already thinking about all of the alternatives, depending on the outcome of the case, and about how to prove whether a policy is working,? said Joanne E. Berg, vice provost for enrollment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?I don?t think that should change, and I don?t think it will.?
The U.S. Supreme Court?s ruling on Monday in a lawsuit challenging race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin does not substantially alter the legal landscape for colleges, but it does put them under more pressure to justify such affirmative-action policies than they had been under before.
WASHINGTON — In the initial flurry of e-mails and Twitter comments about the Supreme Court?s ruling Monday on affirmative action, the metaphor of choice was football. The Supreme Court had punted, the comments said, by sending the case back to a federal appeals court for further review.
Aracelis Upia Montero bounds through the front door of her wood and cinderblock house, calling out for her children. The bubbly 41-year-old Montero ? whom everyone calls Kuki ? proudly shows guests around her cramped single-story home in Villa Altagracia in the Dominican Republic.
A new report argues that humanities and social sciences are as essential to the country?s economic and civic future as science and technology. The study by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences was commissioned in 2010 by a bipartisan group of members of Congress. It comes at a time when the value of the liberal arts is being challenged by economic and political forces.ShareFacebookTwitterGoogle+Email1Comment
