Category: Higher Education/System

At UW-Madison, campus wards swung 14 points to the right.

Marquette University faculty members will vote next week on whether they have confidence in university leadership.

If passed, the Academic Senate’s vote against acting President Kimo Ah Yun and chief operating officer Joel Pogodzinski could send a message of disapproval in the current administration as a search for the next president is underway.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has lost a federal trademark fight against a Texas economist who filed for ownership of the words “buckynomics” and “buckymarkets.”

For five years, Grant Gosizk has taught Marquette University undergrads to think about how literature and pop culture shape attitudes toward addiction.

Non-tenure-track, or NTT, faculty like Gosizk teach many of Marquette’s core curriculum classes. Every year, individual instructors sign new 10-month contracts with the university, earning $43,000 a year. Gosizk calls the arrangement “precarious.”

The University of Wisconsin-Superior is one of the most affordable universities in the U.S. for international students for the 20242-2025 academic year, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Jordan L. Siegler has been named Interim Executive Director of Wisconsin Public Media (WPM), the division at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that oversees PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR). Siegler currently serves as Associate Director of WPM. The announcement follows the recent death of Executive Director Heather L. Reese.

Four Wisconsin universities have been ranked among the top 300 universities in the U.S., according to a recent study by personal finance website WalletHub.

A new behavioral health program at Carroll University in Waukesha is successfully helping students treat anxiety and homesickness, according to the program’s founders.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s new Center for Equity Practice and Planning Justice wants to “deconstruct and mitigate” the remnants of those policies that still shape and hyper-segregate Milwaukee today.

The investigation into Truss and her coworkers’ experience took over a year, records show. MATC ultimately gave Busalacchi a three-week suspension.

The college — one of Wisconsin’s most diverse — has faced years of concerns about its racial climate for employees of color.

The state Legislature could consider several proposals to revamp the Universities of Wisconsin system, including spinning off the University of Wisconsin-Madison and increasing tuition.

Since July, a legislative committee has been meeting to look at the future of the state’s public university system.

Committee member Robert Venable, a 1986 UW-Madison graduate and CEO of the Chicago-based company Miami Corporation Management, said disruption to the UW system is happening.

“Some of these changes, it feels disruptive, but I think we’re past that point,” Venable said. “We can wish it was the same, but we need to adapt and get in front of this stuff so the state gets the best it can out of our higher ed system and its students.”

Documents obtained by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression show the Universities of Wisconsin paid law firm Husch Blackwell $135,000 to investigate Joe Gow’s conduct while serving as UW-La Crosse’s chancellor.

After a nearly yearlong delay, the University of Wisconsin System is inching closer to an updated hiring policy that will minimize the chance of employees who engage in misconduct at one campus from being hired by another.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has sold it oldest, smallest residence hall as a cost-saving measure.

The 17-unit Purin Hall, 2600 E. Kenwood Blvd., was sold for $2.15 million to three Milwaukee investment groups: 2600 S LLC, 2600 S 1 LLC and 2600 H LLC, according to a deed posted online by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.

Vice President Kamala Harris met with University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students Thursday during a campaign event at the university that, at the last minute, was closed to the news media.

The former home of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chancellor recently sold for $1 million, according to state property records.

More than a year after the school’s current president announced his retirement, Madison College is starting over in a search for its next leader.

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced Wednesday that he will step down next year, becoming the 4th chancellor in the Universities of Wisconsin system to either announce plans to resign or be fired since December 2023.

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt is stepping down at the end of the school year to return to teaching after a decade at the helm of the Fox Valley institution.

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris will be at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Thursday for a “meet and greet,” according to student media.

Meanwhile, college students in Wisconsin, another swing state, allegedly received mass texts last week that advocates say could dissuade them from voting. The claim came in a Tuesday letter from a free-speech-advocacy group writing on behalf of Wisconsin’s chapter of the League of Women Voters, which supports expanding voting access but does not endorse specific candidates.

The announcements feature former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle and former Republican Gov. Scott McCallum, as well as Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator Meagan Wolfe and former leaders of the Universities of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Technical College System.

A Sept. 26 legislative committee meeting highlighted the problems smaller University of Wisconsin System campuses face as a new budget season looms.

A little over 11,900 students are attending classes, an increase from about 11,300 at the same time last year and roughly 10,700 students in fall 2022, said Tim Casper, executive vice president of student affairs.

Earlier this month, Layla Merrifield formally began her role as the new president of the Wisconsin Technical College System. She replaces Morna Foy, who retired after 12 years on the job. We speak with the new president about her priorities and how the state can improve its technical colleges.

Wisconsin’s technical colleges are expecting to hand out 200 more dental credentials every year thanks to new state funding and a recent donation from the Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation, the new leader of the state’s tech college system said recently.

‘It is really important to recognize the ways that we differ, but that we can do that within the system,’ Chancellor Mnookin says

U.S. News and World Report recently released its much-anticipated college rankings for 2025, and 10 Wisconsin colleges and universities made the national lists.