Category: Higher Education/System

MATC’s district board announced the decision at its monthly meeting Wednesday night, with board chair Donald Dantzler saying in a statement that selecting the college’s next president is the “most significant responsibility” facing the board.

A Republican bill to ban race consideration for college financial aid has brought concern for how marginalized students will succeed in the Wisconsin higher education system.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents looked at expansions to cybersecurity insurance, new database projects and third-party data management procedures during Thursday meetings.

The Universities of Wisconsin want to make it easier for students seeking online degree programs.

And in turn, market those programs to prospective students across the country.

In a hearing from the Committee on Colleges and Universities, Republican lawmakers presented a bill to support free speech on UW System campuses.

Other universities that have implemented differential tuition have put the extra bucks toward similar goals. The University of Wisconsin at Madison began charging extra tuition to juniors and seniors studying business in 2007 and has since expanded the practice to engineering and nursing majors as well as underclassmen majoring in business.

At first glance, it looked like Richard Brunson had outrun his past.

The former professor resigned from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Marshfield in 2022 after an investigation found he had sexually harassed students. He landed a new teaching job at a school district less than an hour away and had moved on.

Firing a chancellor can be executed swiftly. In the case of former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow, it took just eight days from the time the UW System said it learned of his appearance in porn videos to the closed-door meeting when the UW Board of Regents ousted him as chancellor.

Firing a professor is much more laborious. Even so, the UW System is investigating whether to revoke Gow’s tenured faculty status as a communications professor, a position he announced in August he planned to return to next school year.

An overview of diversity, equity and inclusion related disputes after the UW System’s approval of a controversial deal which capped DEI positions for pay raises and building funds.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced yet another delay in the already-turbulent FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) timeline: The department says it won’t be sending students’ FAFSA data to schools until the first half of March. Previously, it had said it would start sending that data in late January.

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse officials really don’t want to talk about the scandal that engulfed the campus a month ago. But in their actions, they are being loud and clear.

Rep. Scott Johnson (R-Jefferson) and Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara (R-Appleton) proposed a bill that would give the Universities of Wisconsin $500,000 a year in funding for the Wisconsin Institute of Citizenship and Civil Dialogue. Conservative lawmakers said WICCD was not given sufficient funding when it was created. The WICCD does not currently have enough money for a full-time director, according to the co-sponsorship memorandum.

Beginning in summer 2024, an associate degree from four technical schools in eastern Wisconsin will guarantee a student’s admission to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is suspending in-person classes at its Marinette campus starting in the fall of 2024.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will suspend in-person classes at its Marinette County campus when the spring semester ends.

Chancellor Mike Alexander said the Marinette Campus will not close, but will move fully online in fall.

A swastika was projected on the outside of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater dorm Sunday night by a group of people chanting racist remarks, according to Chancellor Corey King.

A group of people, not affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, displayed a swastika and chanted racist words outside of a campus dorm Sunday night, chancellor Corey King said.

King asked everyone to reaffirm their commitment to UW-Whitewater’s core values and not let “the actions of an outside group that seeks to incite hate, division and fear take us off course.”

Video of the event emerged on social media late Sunday, and UW-Whitewater Chancellor Corey King acknowledged it in a letter to the campus community Monday.

Over 160,000 University of Wisconsin System records, some containing personal information, were stolen during a May cyberattack against the National Student Clearinghouse by a Russia-based cybercriminal organization.

University of Wisconsin-River Falls students are returning from winter break while the school grapples with how to address a mental health crisis on campus that’s mirrored across the country.

Firing a chancellor can be executed swiftly.

In the case of former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow, it took just eight days from the time the UW System said it learned of his appearance in porn videos to the closed-door meeting when the UW Board of Regents ousted him as chancellor.

Tuition at Marquette University now tops $50,000 per year.

Marquette announced the new rates for the 2024-25 school year this week. An online statement pointed to inflation, increasing energy and health care costs, and other economic pressures for the 5% increase, bringing undergraduate tuition to $50,070.

A third University of Wisconsin System campus will join two others already slated to end in-person instruction at the end of this school year.

UW-Green Bay will suspend face-to-face classes at its Marinette campus after the spring semester concludes, moving to an entirely online campus come fall. Chancellor Mike Alexander insists, however, this isn’t the end.

On Wednesday, Jan. 17 Interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan addressed a room of 600 University of Wisconsin-La Crosse staff and faculty in her opening remarks for the upcoming spring semester.

The “Joy Fest”, titled by Morgan, was held in the Bluffs Ballroom in the Student Union and offered standing room only as the event commenced with a performance from members of the UWL arts program.   

By comparison, the University of Wisconsin Madison’s undergraduate in-state tuition rate as of the fall of 2023 was $11,216 per year; at the University of Iowa, in-state undergraduates pay $10,964 a year; Indiana University in-state undergraduates pay $11,790 for tuition and fees at the Bloomington campus; and in-state freshmen and sophomores at the University of Michigan pay $17,228 per year in tuition and fees, while juniors and seniors pay $19,390.

About 5,000 students at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls will return to start the spring semester in a little over a week.

But junior Juliana Graff knows the campus is still hurting, especially after the death of Mason Crum. He was a junior studying finance. “I can’t really shake that feeling that this is going to continue, that there’s still going to be issues in this regard going forward, unless something changes,” said Graff.