Category: Higher Education/System

UW-Madison announced in 2022 that it was ending the 16-week on-campus certificate program, with plans to transition to a mix of online and in-person trainings. University officials said enrollment had been declining over the last decade, and the smaller classes weren’t enough to support operation of the revenue-generating course.

In Wisconsin, few colleges and universities consider “legacy” status in admissions decisions, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel review. And because most Wisconsin schools accept far more students than they reject, it’s likely many legacy students would have gotten in regardless of their family’s history of attendance.

Former Richland campus student Jackson Kinney says he was disappointed to hear the campus was closing.”My grandparents attended college here and so did my dad, and so it’s kind of a family thing,” Kinney said.

Richland County has sold one of the buildings at the former University of Wisconsin-Platteville Richland campus to a nearby school district. It’s the first repurposing plan for campus facilities since UW System President Jay Rothman announced college classes would cease July 1 after enrollment fell to just 60 students.

Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced the cuts, which will include around 200 layoffs, in a statement Thursday morning.

UW-Oshkosh plans to cut about 200 non-faculty staff and administrators this fall, while furloughing others, UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt said Thursday, as the university faces an unprecedented $18 million budget shortfall. The cuts amount to about 20% of university employees.

“There are some students who have really robust financial aid offers or really large scholarships, where that need figure is met, and then something needs to be reduced,” said Lo Klink, associate director for special awards and student engagement in the Office of Student Financial Aid at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh will launch a new automation engineering degree program in response to demand from local manufacturers.

It’s the first program of its kind in the UW System, after it received approval from the Board of Regents earlier this month. Classes will begin in the fall with the official program launch in 2024.

The Superior Entrepreneurship Center will be joined soon by the latest branch of the WiSys “VentureHome” project, a University of Wisconsin System initiative to combine statewide and local resources to help launch and grow young companies — often building off campus-based technology.

The study analyzed data from the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS), finding that the majority of students participate in dual enrollment at their high schools and learn from high school teachers who are approved by colleges. Most of the students earn the credit through WTCS, though the UW System also offers dual enrollment.

For another example, consider how Springfield College, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, and University of Wisconsin advised students to remove the terms mother and father from their vocabularies. The presumptive reason for the change is to make sure that people raised without a mother or father don’t feel “marginalized.” But the policy actually works to erase the different, essential ways that men and women help in successfully raising a child.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the flagship of the UW system, proudly operates the so-called Target of Opportunity Program (TOP). It allows academic departments to obtain waivers from the requirement to post job positions publicly and instead hire “diverse” candidates directly. The university provides the irresistible incentive of salary funding for approved hires. Public records of internal TOP requests obtained by my group, the Institute for Reforming Government, show blatant, widespread and pernicious racial classification of faculty applicants that is difficult to reconcile with the Supreme Court’s recent decision.