The UW Board of Regents on Thursday approved a 4.5% in-state tuition base increase. Proposed by System President Jay Rothman to lawmakers earlier this month, tuition for in-state undergraduates will increase by $372 at UW-Madison, $364 at UW-Milwaukee, $283 at other System four-year schools and about $214 at most branch campuses.
Republicans on the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities announced on Tuesday they’d be holding a series of hearings about free speech and “intellectual diversity” on Wisconsin’s public university campuses.
A Republican legislator who has accused colleges of “indoctrinating students” will hold hearings next month on whether a lack of what he calls “intellectual diversity” at UW System campuses is hurting the quality of education. The push follows a campus free speech survey that found some conservative students reported self-censoring views in class.
Noted: Students should also be prepared for the possibility of deferment, especially at early action colleges, as some schools are experiencing record application volume and are deferring a larger number of students than usual. For example, University of Wisconsin-Madison deferred 17,000 of its 45,000 early action applicants, while Clemson University delivered deferment messages to 15,000 of its 26,000 early applicants.
Republican lawmakers said Tuesday they plan to hold a pair of hearings related to a recent free speech survey on University of Wisconsin System campuses as well as protests of a conservative speaker at UW-Madison last year.
Richland County officials would like to see the UW-Platteville-Richland campus revived to meet workforce needs in the county, including providing a bachelor’s of nursing degree and a teaching certificate, according to a proposal submitted to the University of Wisconsin System on Monday.
Quoted: Nick Hillman, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education, said he thinks Biden’s forgiveness program would be a net positive.
“Our student loan repayment system has been shut off for three years and it’s already a pretty rusty machine in the first place,” Hillman said.
Once we resume those payments, it’ll leave many people worse off, he explained.
“So cancellation would help in that transition period,” he added.
Noted: Cao, 54, a research scientist at the University of Kansas, graduated from medical school in China and practiced internal medicine for a decade before immigrating to the U.S. with her family in 2006. Meanwhile, Liu, 26, is a current student at the Medical College of Wisconsin and is expected to graduate this May.
Last week, Cao learned she would be headed to the clinical pathology residency program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison while Liu learned he had matched with the radiation oncology residency program at the University of Pennsylvania in his hometown of Philadelphia.
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Noted: Before cross-country runner Sarah Shulze, 21, died by suicide at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April 2022, the athletics department was expanding its professional mental health support from two staffers to six to help the school’s approximately 800 student-athletes, said David Lacocque, the department’s director of mental health and sport psychology. The department, known until eight months ago as “clinical & sport psychology,” changed its name in part because student-athletes were asking for mental health support.
In addition to scheduled appointments, the sports liaisons attend practices, team meetings, training sessions, and competitions to help normalize mental health concerns.
“Gone are the days when we sit in our office and wait for people to knock on the door and talk to us,” Lacocque said.
Republicans on Wisconsin’s State Building Commission have rejected every recommendation in Gov. Tony Ever’s $3.8 billion capital budget request, which includes nearly $2 billion for University of Wisconsin System projects.
Noted: Nearly half of the money in Evers’ plan would be spent on University of Wisconsin System campuses. The $1.8 billion would help fund a new engineering building at UW-Madison, expansion and renovation of two dorms at UW-Oshkosh and completion of a science center at UW-La Crosse.
Madison Area Technical College is searching for a new academic leader as Provost Turina Bakken plans to retire after a 25-year career with the school.
Republican lawmakers on the State Building Commission have rejected Gov. Tony Evers’ capital budget proposal for 2023-25 — including a new engineering building at UW-Madison — again ceding power over approving state construction projects to the Legislature’s budget committee.
The Florida effort became the second major institution-specific survey of free expression on college campuses, joining a project in the University of North Carolina system that began in 2019. Next to arrive on the scene was the University of Wisconsin, which released results from its own survey in January.
At UW-Madison, the 2023-24 academic year tuition and fees for undergraduates are proposed to increase by 3.9%, from $10,798 to $11,125.
As Wisconsin school districts struggle with an ongoing teacher shortage, a privately funded effort at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to recruit more instructors and keep them in Wisconsin is being extended.
UW System President Jay Rothman on Thursday announced three finalists to become the 15th chancellor at UW-Platteville, including interim Chancellor Tammy K. Evetovich.
UW-Madison’s resident undergraduate students would see a $419 increase in tuition and fees for the next academic year under a proposal unveiled by UW System President Jay Rothman.
The 25-year-old man was seen loading the gun in Golda Meir Library on Thursday afternoon, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on Friday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison landed 45,000 early applications, a 10 percent increase over last year.
The University of Wisconsin joins several universities in banning TikTok on system devices. Students quickly figure out loopholes, using their phones’ data plans rather than school WiFi to access the video app.
The UW System is funding the first year of the Wisconsin Tuition Promise program, which launches next fall and provides full tuition coverage for new, in-state freshmen and transfer students whose families earn $62,000 or less. The program is open to students attending any UW campus except UW-Madison, which already offers its own tuition promise program that isn’t funded with taxpayer money.
The recent decision by the UW System president to end in-person instruction at UW-Richland should concern every Wisconsinite. Not specifically because of its impact on the Richland Center community, but because of the way decisions are being made about our taxpayer-funded universities without public input.
After six months of searching, the University of Oregon has found its new president.
John Karl Scholz, an economist, professor and provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was hired by the UO Board of Trustees in a unanimous vote Monday morning.
County boards overseeing some two-year University of Wisconsin schools are delaying maintenance and upgrades until they get commitments that the university system won’t close those campuses.
The uncertainty around local campuses comes three months after the UW System announced it would stop offering classes at UW-Platteville Richland. It’s the first time the UW System has planned for instruction to cease at a campus in more than four decades.
Evers wants to provide the University of Wisconsin System with a funding increase of $305 million. Republicans are unlikely to go along with an increase as large as what Evers is seeking.
A 130-year-old program created to connect Wisconsin farmers with university research is getting a second chance at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
UW-Madison announced last year that the Farm and Industry Short Course would move from a 16-week, on-campus certificate program to a non-credit format that would use online learning. Officials said the change was due to a significant decline in enrollment, with less than 100 students each year over the last decade. With only 20 students projected to enroll in the program for 2022, officials said it no longer had enough students to run the self-funded program.
The Wisconsin Technical College System is considering raising tuition by 1.9% for occupational degree programs for the 2023-24 academic year.
“It is the very essence of the Wisconsin Idea, which holds that the university — and its people — are committed to helping the state find solutions to its most pressing challenges, whether they’re big or small,” said UW System President Jay Rothman in remarks at Research in the Rotunda.
UW students and their faculty advisers will display and explain their research findings in the Capitol’s Rotunda.
More than 100 undergraduate student researchers from UW System schools showed off their work at the Capitol Wednesday as part of the annual Research in the Rotunda.
Students from around the Wisconsin gathered Wednesday at the State Capitol to show off their work during the UW System’s 19th annual Research in the Rotunda event.
Over 100 undergraduate students from across the University of Wisconsin System will showcase their research at the State Capitol for the UW System’s 19th annual Research in the Rotunda on Wednesday, March 8.
The body of a missing 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student was pulled from the Wisconsin River Sunday, according to the Stevens Point Police Department.
Rep. David Murphy (R-Greenville) and Sen. André Jacque (R-De Pere) proposed a bill on Tuesday that would limit the increase in University of Wisconsin System tuition to no more than the rate of inflation.
University of Wisconsin System students would face a 5% tuition increase next year under a plan the system’s president, Jay Rothman, unveiled Thursday.
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman says there will be a 5% tuition increase for system schools starting next school year, saying the system needed the increase in addition to its state budget request to ensure it could remain “financially sustainable” into the future.
Just after UW System president Jay Rothman announced he will be asking the Board of Regents for a 5% tuition increase, two state lawmakers released a bill hoping to cap hikes in tuition.
The University of Wisconsin System wants to increase tuition for in-state undergraduates by about 5% next school year, UW System President Jay Rothman said Thursday.
After a young Iranian woman was arrested and died in custody this past September, Parya — a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student — was devastated.
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman will propose a 5% tuition increase for the next academic year, he told the state Assembly’s higher education committee Thursday.
University of Wisconsin System students would face a 5% tuition increase next year under a plan the system’s president, Jay Rothman, unveiled Thursday.
University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman is proposing a 5% in-state tuition increase for the 2023-24 academic year, the first for the System in a decade.
Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, and Sen. Andre Jacque, R-De Pere, introduced the bill earlier this week to protect Wisconsin students from the possibility of soaring tuition rates when the current freeze ends. Their research found that tuition increased 27% after a single-year freeze in 1967 and 8% after a 1999 freeze.
The Republican head of the state Assembly’s higher education committee wants to limit future University of Wisconsin tuition increases to no more than the rate of inflation, an idea unveiled Tuesday that comes after a decade of frozen tuitions.
About $1.8 billion would go to the UW System for brick-and-mortar building projects. Other big-ticket items include $41 million for fiberoptic upgrades to the state Capitol to improve cellular service, an additional $60 million for the new Wisconsin History Museum to offset rising construction costs and $190 million for juvenile corrections facilities that would eventually lead to closing the state’s long-troubled Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake youth prisons.
Under Evers’ proposal, released Tuesday, nearly $1.8 billion would go to the UW System — about three-quarters of the System’s requested $2.4 billion. In his previous budget two years ago, Evers proposed $1.1 billion for the UW System, with Republicans ultimately approving $629 million.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday proposed spending $3.8 billion on building projects in 28 counties around the state, with nearly half directed toward work across the University of Wisconsin System.
“We thank Governor Evers for prioritizing this critical project,” UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said in a statement. “I look forward to continuing to work with lawmakers to share the tremendous value of an engineering facility, both to grow our number of engineering graduates and for our world-changing research in areas ranging from clean energy to semiconductors to transportation, areas that are critical to the economic development of the state.”
Wisconsin is a hub of innovation where vitamins A and B were discovered. Wisconsin is also known for its embryonic stem cell research. Few college events are as unified as “Jump Around” at Wisconsin football games.
Cultivating an inclusive environment while balancing free speech protections on campuses can be tricky — but it’s important for administrators and faculty, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber said at a forum Wednesday.
In an email to students, the University of Wisconsin announced its plan to comply with the UW System’s direction to remove TikTok from all university-owned devices, including Macs, iOS and tablets.
Gov. Tony Evers announced a significant funding increase for higher education in his much anticipated 2023-25 biennial budget address last Wednesday.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers unveiled his proposed biennial budget proposal for the 2023-2025 fiscal period Feb. 15. Included in his proposal was a $305 million increase in funding for the University of Wisconsin System, according to the Office of the Governor.
Nineteen University of Wisconsin students attended UW Lobbying Day 2023 to persuade Wisconsin legislators on the importance of a focus on mental health and housing crisis in the state budget, according to UW-Madison Legislative Affairs Committee Chair MGR Govindarajan.
The University of Wisconsin System released the results of the “UW System Student Views on Freedom of Speech” Feb. 1, which was sent out at the end of 2022 to more than 83,000 UW System students, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison news.
Evers’ state budget, announced Wednesday night, would increase the University of Wisconsin System’s budget by $305.9 million over the biennium. But even as the state finds itself in an unprecedented financial position, with a projected $7.1 billion surplus, the number is nearly $130 million less than the UW System’s request of $435.6 million, according to figures from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
The long-term prospect of a tuition promise program for low-income University of Wisconsin System students is in jeopardy after a top lawmaker said the Republican-controlled Legislature is unlikely to fund it.
Wisconsin’s state universities would see a significant funding boost under Gov. Tony Evers’ state budget proposal, with a portion of the money helping pay for a tuition waiver program aimed at students from lower income households. But if past budget battles with the Republican-controlled state Legislature are any guide, the final number for the system is unlikely to match the governor’s wishes.
