The panel, organized by two University of Wisconsin-Madison staff and faculty lobbying organizations, took place just hours after committee Republicans voted Tuesday in one sweeping motion to strip more than 500 items from Evers’ budget. Among those provisions were 14 UW System initiatives, including funding for programs that would make college more affordable for students.
As Wisconsin lawmakers weigh their funding goals for higher education, two campuses are winding down due to declining enrollment and financial woes. We hear from Washington County officials aiming to save a struggling two-year college. Then, an education reporter brings us the latest news in Wisconsin higher education.
UW System President Jay Rothman has called for hiring more politically diverse professors to address the perceived liberal bias on college campuses. A researcher explains how that perception of liberal bias came about — and how true it is to reality.
Ph.D. in counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Incoming Ph.D. students at the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin—Madison are guaranteed full funding for the duration of the time that they are expected on campus, according to the university’s department of counseling psychology website. Doctoral students also receive a benefits package that includes health insurance. Funding may come from financial aid, fellowships, assistantships and/or traineeships.
Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday tapped two new members to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents — a former Kenosha County executive and a UW-Green Bay student.
Joining the board will be former Kenosha County Executive and former state Rep. Jim Kreuser, who will fill former Regent Scott Beightol’s seat; UW-Green Bay mathematics and First Nations student Evan Brenkus, who will get a two-year, traditional student seat; and Joan Prince, a former honorary U.N. ambassador and UW-Milwaukee vice chancellor of global inclusion and engagement, who was appointed to fulfill former Regent Tracey Klein’s term.
Jim Kreuser and Evan Brenkus are set to fill two vacancies that were created by outgoing regents on Monday. Joan Prince was reappointed after taking over for Tracey Klein in February.
The state’s top Republican wants to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion offices at public universities and hinted at potential budget cuts if the University of Wisconsin System fails to make a good-faith effort on his request.
James Kreuser and Evan Brenkus will fill in seats formerly held by Regents Scott Beightol and Brianna Tucker while Regent Joan Prince was reappointed.
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman said Monday the perceived liberal bias on college campuses won’t be solved by asking professors their political affiliation. Instead, he wants to focus future hiring on a more diverse applicant pool.
If a divorce is in the cards for UW-Milwaukee’s Washington County campus and the University of Wisconsin System, County Executive Josh Schoemann hopes it’s amicable.
A federal judge has thrown out a Title IX discrimination lawsuit stemming from repeated sexual harassment by a former University of Wisconsin System chancellor’s husband.
U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller tossed the case late last month after the plaintiff, a former student, and her lawyer repeatedly failed to preserve, and in some cases withheld, records that UW officials requested during the discovery process.
“As a first-generation college graduate having built a career focused on students and around rural communities, this opportunity is especially important to me personally,” Evetovich said in a statement.
UW-Platteville has picked Tammy Evetovich to be its permanent chancellor, after she’s served as interim chancellor for nearly a year.
In partnership with the Wisconsin Aviation Flight School, Madison College will offer students a fast-track to a flying career through its new professional aeronautics certificate. After two years of ground courses and flight training, students will become certified as private pilots and flight instructors.
The number of Wisconsinites who have left college without finishing their degree or certificate programs has grown to more than 746,000, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
There’s just one problem with the dystopian fantasy that our Republican friends are perpetuating: It neglects the reality on campuses across the state.Anyone who pays attention to the discourse at the state’s colleges and universities knows that differences of opinions are frequently aired. Students and faculty members of varying political and ideological stripes are heard on a wide range of issues. And event planners welcome right-wing commentators such as Matt Walsh, who appeared on the UW-Madison campus last fall.
Public and private universities in Wisconsin and beyond are vying to recruit students impacted by the upcoming closure of Milwaukee’s Cardinal Stritch University.
It’s been just more than two weeks since Cardinal Stritch President Dan Scholz announced the university will permanently close its doors next month. The university, which enrolled 1,365 students in the fall of 2021 according to federal data, said it was pursuing agreements with area universities to help students with unfinished degrees transfer to other schools.
A job working at Madison-based UW Health while attending nursing school at Madison College. Full-time benefits and salaries. Paid time-off to attend classes. Free college tuition, books and supplies.
That’s the offer on the table for those aspiring to earn a nursing degree through a recently announced, first-of-its-kind apprenticeship program in Wisconsin launching this fall. The program is designed specifically to address staffing shortages in Wisconsin that Rudy Jackson, UW Health’s chief nurse executive, said have reached “crisis levels.”
If state lawmakers want to survey University of Wisconsin System faculty and administrators on free speech, they need to do something they didn’t do for a similar survey of students last fall, the student survey’s producer said Thursday.
While public funding for the state’s technical colleges is one of the highest in the nation, the University of Wisconsin System is among the lowest funded, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum.
The report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum showed Wisconsin lagged behind the national average, and well behind its Midwest neighbors in tax funding and net tuition revenue per full-time equivalent student in 2021.
A board member of the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation recently told top Republican donors that conservatives need to curtail college voting, singling out Wisconsin among four other states.
As a former two-year state college prepares for its final classes, University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman is asking chancellors to assess the financial viability of the state’s 12 other branch campuses. The directive comes amid steep enrollment declines at nearly all of the two-year schools and hesitancy by some counties to make large investments in branch campus buildings without renewed commitments the schools won’t close.
Funding for Wisconsin’s public higher education systems is a tale of two stories, one that is funded eighth worst in the country and another that is fifth best, according to a new report.
The report found that the University of Wisconsin System ranked 43rd nationally for per-pupil funding in 2021. Conversely, only four other states funded their two-year community or technical colleges better than Wisconsin.
Public funding for the University of Wisconsin System ranks as one of the lowest in the nation, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
As a former two-year state college prepares for its final classes, University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman is asking chancellors to assess the financial viability of the state’s 12 other branch campuses. The directive comes amid steep enrollment declines at nearly all of the two-year schools and hesitancy by some counties to make large investments in branch campus buildings without renewed commitments the schools won’t close.
Earlier this year, the University of Wisconsin two-year college in Richland Center announced that it was closing the campus due to low enrollment. Now the two-year UW campus in Washington County is considering a merger with a nearby tech school.
In a statement, University of Wisconsin spokesperson Greg Bump told Insider that the school’s “Division of University Housing is a 100% self-funded auxiliary and does not receive taxpayer funds,” and that its room and board price increases “are necessary to keep pace with cost inflation, to provide funding for building maintenance and projects, and to provide student employees with fair wages.”
University of Wisconsin System chancellors are being told to audit the viability of their branch campuses as headcounts at most of the System’s two-year schools continue to rapidly decline.
Noted: He’d been moved by the images of the chaotic evacuation in Kabul. One day, he was having dinner with Héctor Colón, the president and chief executive of Lutheran Social Services in Milwaukee. The two are on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents together.
Glass will serve in the position while current Vice Chancellor for Finance & Administration Scott Menke serves as the interim chancellor of the university. Menke replaces Debbie Ford, who will become the chancellor of Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Ind. She has been at UW-Parkside for over 13 years.
John Karl Scholz, provost and Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been selected as president of the University of Oregon.
Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development announced the University of Wisconsin System was awarded $1.1 million through the Wisconsin Fast Forward Program.
The abrupt closure of Cardinal Stritch University at the end of this semester has left hundreds of students and employees with questions about what their future may hold.
The line to vote last Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire stretched on and on … and on some more.
The corner of a lunch room designated as the campus polling place for sleepy spring elections simply wasn’t enough in this year’s state Supreme Court race. UW-Eau Claire students cast ballots at a level close to last November and even higher than in the 2020 election, big races where the city clerk’s office relies on a university ballroom to meet voter demand.
Universities across the state are beginning the process of embedding their school psychology graduate students into local public schools. That’s the case for UW-Madison, which is using a new $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to recruit and train 24 new school psychology graduate students, with an emphasis on students of color, into Madison’s public schools over the course of five years.
A recent forum at UW-Eau Claire, one of the region’s leading universities when it comes to getting undergraduate students internships and other career experiences, highlighted some antidotes to the enrollment slump. It also spoke to how colleges can help local economies by keeping talent close to home.
Cardinal Stritch University, a Catholic liberal arts college, is closing, a year after celebrating its 85th anniversary.
Tuition at former University of Wisconsin System colleges in Marinette, Manitowoc and Sheboygan will increase by around $1,300 over four years as part of UW-Green Bay’s “One University, Four Locations” strategy.
If Washington County Executive Josh Schoemann had his way, his county would have one college campus.
Students currently have two local options: the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Washington County or the West Bend campus of Moraine Park Technical College.
Other studies yield similar results. At the University of Wisconsin system, “students reported substantially more frequent encouragement than discouragement of exploring a variety of viewpoints.” While a little over one third indicated they ever felt pressure “by an instructor to agree with a specific view,” only one third in that cohort said they felt such pressure often.”
The UW System Board of Regents voted last week to raise tuition prices by an average of 4.9% (or $404) across all 13 universities and 26 campuses in Wisconsin. Room and board rates will increase too, by an average of 3.5%, resulting in an overall 4.2% (or $706) increase for all in-state students.
The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities held a more than four hour meeting on Thursday in an attempt to find ways the Legislature can facilitate free expression on the state’s public university campuses.
Republican state lawmakers questioning whether a lack of political diversity on college campuses is hurting education discussed possible fixes — like considering political affiliation when hiring professors — during a legislative hearing Thursday. The meeting follows a University of Wisconsin System student free speech survey that found a majority of conservative respondents reported self-censoring views in class.
An hour before the polls closed on Tuesday, Teddy Landis was standing outside a freshman dining hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, trying to encourage students who hadn’t voted yet to cast their ballots.
Thursday’s hearing was the first formal legislative discussion since the results of the UW System’s controversial free speech survey were released earlier this year. The survey focused on how much students self-censor or decline to share opinions in class. Republicans often accuse colleges of suppressing conservative views in classrooms and in who is invited to speak on campus.
Letter to the editor: How much will be saved in the System budget by closing the UW-Platteville Richland campus? How much will be lost to Richland County and the region? What is lost economically and socially if would-be-first-generation college students from rural areas and small towns opt out of higher education altogether?
Menke, who is currently vice chancellor for finance and administration, will begin the new role June 9.
Tuition, segregated fees to increase under March 30 Board of Regents decision.
Authorities at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville said Monday night they are investigating an “alleged threat” to the campus, specifically Doudna Hall.
In one case, UW-Platteville used about $23,500 in federal funds to create online tours to provide an alternative way for prospective students to view the campus during the pandemic. However, the bureau found the tour content to be “predominately marketing because it included encouragement for viewers to enroll at UW-Platteville.”
In-state undergraduate students in the University of Wisconsin System will see the first tuition hike since Republican state lawmakers instituted a tuition freeze a decade ago.
The UW System Board of Regents on Thursday approved the tuition hike with 16 members voting in favor and one voting against. Regents Héctor Colón and Jennifer Staton were not present. The average increase of 5 percent comes as a GOP bill aims to limit the board’s tuition setting authority once again.
The board overseeing Wisconsin’s public university system voted Thursday to increase tuition for in-state undergraduates.
It’s the first rate increase since 2012, a move craved by University of Wisconsin System campuses that have operated under financial strain for years and opposed by students who already take out tens of thousands of dollars to earn their degrees.
Quoted: On the other side of the debate is Mark Seidenberg, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the leading scientists cited by advocates for the science of reading. Seidenberg said there is a large volume of research that sheds light on how children learn to read and that supports the science of reading approach.
Can using such approaches raise the overall success of kids in becoming readers? “I think it’s huge,” Seidenberg said in an interview.
Segregated fees, housing expenses and out-of-state undergraduate tuition rates for UW-Madison students will also see a slight increase ahead of the fall 2023 semester.
Out-of-state tuition, segregated fees to rise by 3%.
The Board of Regents voted to approve the tuition increase Thursday in a meeting at UW-Stout. Resident undergraduate tuition and fees will be an extra $323 to $468 — a 5% average of $414 among the 13 universities — according to the UW System. Housing and meal plan rates will also go up by an average of $294, or 3.5%.
University of Wisconsin System students will have to pay hundreds of dollars more to attend classes next year under a plan system officials overwhelmingly approved Thursday.
