The UW-Platteville Richland campus will close next year, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced Tuesday amid continued financial pressures.
When cuts started coming at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Richland, its sister campus in Baraboo absorbed some of the impact. But Tuesday’s announcement from Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman has some on and around the campus concerned about whether they could be next.Rothman announced Tuesday that the UW-Platteville Richland campus will close next year amid continued financial pressures.
The decisions to shut down Richland and spur the other changes announced Tuesday are not meant to save money, Rothman said. Instead, he attributed them to the students. He pointed to students wanting to go straight to four-year schools, where enrollment has been rising, rather than the two-year schools. He added that online instruction has also been climbing.
At least two University of Wisconsin system schools have modified diversity offices or programming amid Republican lawmakers seeking to shut down DEI initiatives statewide.
UW-Oshkosh is eliminating about a sixth of its overall workforce, as 140 people received layoff notices Monday, another 110 positions will disappear due to retirements or vacancies and a still-unknown number of contract-based adjunct professors and lecturers will not be renewed for this spring.
The decision to participate was left up to each university. Of the 13 UW System campuses, only UW-Madison, UW-La Crosse and UW-Eau Claire have opted out of the program.
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) also opposes the ban on transgender girls and women from competing in sports designated for women. And University of Wisconsin-Madison officials previously warned that the university’s teams would be out of compliance with NCAA policies if the legislation is enacted.
Despite Wisconsin having a record budget surplus, state Republicans voted to cut $32 million from the University of Wisconsin System ostensibly because of diversity, equity and inclusion programs. But to make matters far worse, the UW System has prioritized the elimination of what are being called “structural deficits” on our campuses. They sound dreadful, don’t they?
Letter to the editor: With similar practical reasoning, can the System please rescind the unwieldy renaming of the state’s two-year campuses? Does anyone really aspire to attend the “University of Wisconsin-Whitewater — Rock County”?
Madison, the capital city of Wisconsin, brings a lot to the table in terms of education. Home to University of Wisconsin Madison, this city has one of the country’s lowest high school dropout rates—just 4.56%—and more than a quarter of its residents hold graduate degrees. Madison also boasts the lowest racial gap in education on our top-five list: a 4.33% disparity when comparing degree completion rates among white students versus all students.
Nationwide, big-name retailers and small community pharmacies are struggling to find pharmacists. The challenge to recruit more is magnified in rural areas.
UW-Madison is offering a new program to help build a pharmacy workforce in Wisconsin. It’s called the PharmD Early Assurance Program.
The bill reintroduces funding for programs that Evers had written into his budget proposal that were later removed by the Legislature’s Republican-led budget writing committee. It would extend a pandemic-era child care subsidy, establish a paid family and medical leave system and provide grants for the University of Wisconsin System and workforce development programs.
The president of Wisconsin’s university system defended a decision to spend nearly half a million dollars on a rebranding effort that changed the name and look of the state’s public universities.
The universities are also working to address structural deficits, solve the problems facing branch campuses and address diversity, equity and inclusion to prepare students for an “increasingly multicultural workplace.”
Letter to the editor: So if the University of Wisconsin System is now called the “Universities of Wisconsin,” does that mean Viterbo University, Marquette University, Lawrence University, Marian University, Mount Mary University, Carroll University and Lakeland University are all part of it, too?
Column by Universities of Wisconsin president Jay Rothman. “The goal is to shift the emphasis from our System to our universities, which create opportunities for students and improve communities all across the state. It’s an exciting change that I’m confident the people of Wisconsin will embrace with pride.”
The name change is intended to broaden awareness of “the constellation of Wisconsin’s 13 public universities,” President Jay Rothman said. He called the new identity “more relatable for students, families and employers.”
The University of Wisconsin System is being renamed as the Universities of Wisconsin.
It may take some getting used to but the state’s public university system will now be the “Universities of Wisconsin.”
Tommy Thompson was a cabinet secretary during 9/11. He took what he learned and used a ‘War Room’ to guide University of Wisconsin during COVID-19.
Two bills that never got a vote in the State Senate in 2021 were reintroduced and are now up for a vote in the Legislature that would ban transgender girls and women from competing in sports designed for women at publicly funded K-12 schools, University of Wisconsin System campuses and state technical colleges.
Editor’s note: This is the second chapter of a 5-part series in which former University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson and Vice President Jim Langdon reflect on their experience guiding the system though the COVID-19 pandemic. After making a controversial decision to return to in-person classes in the fall of 2020, they discuss the innovative testing program that helped limit the spread of COVID at colleges and the communities they serve.
The University of Wisconsin system is changing its name and branding to the Universities of Wisconsin, system president Jay Rothman announced Tuesday, though the system’s legal name will remain the same, because changing that would require an act of legislation.
Formerly known as the University of Wisconsin System, the collective identity of the state’s 13 public universities is now called Universities of Wisconsin, UW President Jay Rothman announced.
The University of Wisconsin System plans to change its name to The Universities of Wisconsin by early next year, system President Jay Rothman announced Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin System will rebrand itself over the coming months to “Universities of Wisconsin” as it looks to strengthen the “UW” reputation across all 13 schools, not just UW-Madison.
Call it the University of Wisconsin System no more — the system is getting a new name.
State’s public universities will take on new name and identity in coming months.
UW System President Jay Rothman announced the new name and identity for the UW System as campuses face budget cuts.
Enrollment decline is affecting four-year colleges across the country.
Fortunately for the University of Wisconsin System, there is good news for the first time since 2014. To begin fall semester, estimated enrollment is up by 540 students systemwide.
The survey included respondents from five schools: Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Harvard University, New York University, and University of Central Florida. A majority (58%) reported working or receiving grants to help cover the cost of living during school. Fourteen percent of respondents reported both receiving financial aid and experiencing period poverty.
The decision to change the programs has troubled university staff and students, several of whom spoke to 27 News on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal by campus administration.
When you’re unclear about the responsibilities expected of you as a graduate student advisee or research assistant, or if you aren’t sure what you can expect from a faculty mentor, consider drafting together a mentee-mentor agreement. (Examples include Mentoring Compacts/Contracts Examples at UW-Madison.)
“This administration has definitely done pretty much whatever they can think of to be more pro-borrower,” said Benjamin Lee, a chairperson of the Wisconsin Coalition on Student Debt. “But recall that everyone is still just taking out student loans as they always have, so these aren’t necessarily permanent fixes.”
Helen Faith, the financial aid director at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is usually busy this time of year.
Under the program, Wisconsin high school students would be able to sidestep the traditional college application process and instead be automatically admitted to one or more System schools for which they qualify. Qualification would be based on academic performance, taking aspects such as grade-point average and class rank into consideration.
Education researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have secured a federal contract to open and operate a national center to combat growing mental health concerns in K-12 schools.
Republican lawmakers again held hearings on two bills that would ban transgender girls and women attending publicly-funded K-12 schools, University of Wisconsin System campuses and state technical colleges from competing in sports designated for women.
Daniels made the announcement at Madison College’s District Board meeting Wednesday. He’s led MATC, also known as Madison College, since 2013, when he succeeded Bettsey Barhorst. Daniels came to Wisconsin at a time when four other prominent higher education roles, including UW-Madison’s chancellor and the Wisconsin Technical College System president, were also amid turnover, prompting concerns about the stability of the state’s higher education systems.
Daniels made the announcement at the Madison College District Board of Trustees meeting at the Goodman South Campus, perhaps the crowning achievement of his 10-year tenure. He said he informed the board of the decision a month ago.
Daniels is in his eleventh year of the position, and his service will end in June of 2024.
When Jeffrey Pickron moved to Wisconsin 20 years ago to join his wife at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, he says the school told him he would have a secure job as a lecturer for years to come.
Incoming University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students who come from households earning less than $62,000 will have their tuition and fees completely covered under a new tuition promise program launching next fall.
This is the first installment of a 5-part series in which former University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson and Vice President Jim Langdon reflect on their experience guiding the system though the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chants of “Save our staff!” and “Education over administration!” echoed across the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh on Tuesday as protesters took aim at campus plans to eliminate more than 200 jobs.
Other employees across the System’s 13 four-year and 12 two-year branch campuses are feeling the same concerns. They’ve seen colleagues furloughed, class offerings dwindle, department budgets slashed, new buildings denied funding and college become increasingly more expensive for students.
Americans view college campuses as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech, with adults across the political spectrum seeing less tolerance for those on the right, according to a new poll.
About 150 people at UW-Oshkosh and a few dozen elsewhere across the University of Wisconsin System participated in walkouts Tuesday in protest of the university’s layoff plans, which staff there say have been developed with minimal academic staff input and risk damaging the educational experience.
As most state universities in Wisconsin continue to deal with declining enrollment, the University of Wisconsin-Madison received a record 63,537 applications for just 7,996 open slots in the fall 2023 freshman class.
Wisconsin’s system of 16 technical colleges has mostly recouped students it lost as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing in about the same number of students last fall as in 2019.
In a fashion only fitting for the Dairy State, Wisconsin’s flagship university is celebrating its 175th birthday with a new ice cream flavor.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison created four new flavor ideas and is asking the public to vote for its favorite by Friday. The winner will be available at campus Babcock Dairy stores in early 2024.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student body is now the 13th largest city in the state, surpassing Sheboygan, Wauwatosa and Fond du Lac. It could potentially pass La Crosse in population size next year.
The official count, based on enrollment on the 10th day of classes, puts UW-Madison at 50,662, a few hundred more than the University of Wisconsin System projected a few weeks ago. Of those, nearly 9,100 are new to campus as freshman or transfer students and just under half are Wisconsin residents.
Even with a reduced freshman class this year, total campus enrollment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is now the largest in the campus’ history.
Two years ago, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction allocated $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to the University of Wisconsin System to analyze and improve literacy instruction programs, but the money went unused.
359 institutions, including UW-Madison, UW-Madison, UW-Green Bay and UW-River Falls, have agreed to standardize financial aid offers to undergraduates, a step towards transparency in a process that is often opaque and confusing for students. Karla Weber, communications manager for the Office of Student Financial Aid at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains.
An administrator from a Minnesota university will take charge of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, officials announced Tuesday.
Lynn Akey has served as vice president for student success, analytics and integrated planning at Minnesota State University, Mankato since 2019. The UW Board of Regents unanimously approved her hire in a closed-door meeting Tuesday.
The regents tapped Lynn Akey on Tuesday to serve as the seventh chancellor at Parkside, located in Kenosha. She replaces Debbie Ford, who left the school earlier this year to serve as chancellor at Indiana University Southeast.
Access gaps, economic adversity and school segregation in Wisconsin lead to racial disparities in educational outcomes, with efforts growing to expand learning options for diverse groups of students.
After the University of Wisconsin-Parkside concluded that one of its tenured professors had “engaged in fraudulent grading” within a six-year time span, she quietly resigned at the end of the spring semester.
