Black bear research conducted in Wisconsin by UW-Stevens Point faculty and students will stretch into perpetuity thanks to a $1 million endowment.
During a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Washington County orientation at the start of the semester, an administrator fielded questions from panicked parents who had read headlines about the small campus’ uncertain future and a potential merger with the local technical college.
“There was a general feeling nationally that incarceration needed to be about punishment and deterrence, and that was going to be ultimately the key to reducing incarcerated populations in the country,” said Peter Moreno, director of UW-Madison’s Odyssey Beyond Bars and the Prison Education Initiative. “In the past 20, 30 years, people were coming to prison and many, many of them were returning to prison after they had left because they weren’t prepared for success when they got out.”
UW-Oshkosh laid off 140 staff, 76 more chose to take voluntary retirement, and others on contract found that the university would not renew their employment agreements. In total, the losses account for over 20 percent of UW-Oshkosh’s workforce.
The ASM Sustainability chair and co-coordinators represented UW-Madison at the UW System Sustainability Annual Meeting Oct. 12 and 13.
UW–Milwaukee at Washington County enrollment fell by 55% in past five years according to spokesperson.
Non-graduating students at two University of Wisconsin System two-year campuses will transfer or shift to virtual learning after UW-Oshkosh, Fond du Lac and UW-Milwaukee at Washington County end in-person learning in June 2024.
This is the third 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.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chancellor Michael Alexander is trying to alleviate concerns among UWGB staff after Republican lawmakers in Madison excluded the University of Wisconsin System employees from a two-year pay raise.
Starting next year, there will be no more classes at UW Milwaukee-Washington County and UW Oshkosh-Fond du Lac. The news comes amid the layoffs of 20 percent of employees at UW Oshkosh’s main campus and Republicans in the state house blocking pay raises across all UW campuses. A reporter explains.
Jon Shelton, a political science professor at UW-Green Bay, says he always knew it would be a possibility that UW employees across the state would feel the side effects of the tension between the legislature and the Universities of Wisconsin.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who co-chairs the Legislature’s employment relations committee, has promised to block pay raises for UW employees until the school system cuts its so-called DEI spending by $32 million.
Rothman told reporters during a conference call that he has decided to shutter UW-Milwaukee’s Washington County campus and UW-Oshkosh’s Fond du Lac campus. He said that in-person instruction at the two schools will end by June 2024. Enrollment at both schools as well as three other two-year campus has ticked upward this fall, but it’s not enough to offset more than a decade of decreasing enrollment.
Enrollment at Fond du Lac and Washington County campuses this year was expected to be 243 students and 276 students, respectively.
ARepublican-controlled legislative committee on Tuesday approved 6% pay raises over the next two years for most state employees, but withheld any increase for Universities of Wisconsin staff unless the UW system eliminates its diversity, equity and inclusion positions.
President Jay Rothman has ordered chancellors to cease in-person instruction at UW-Milwaukee at Washington County, located in West Bend, and UW Oshkosh at Fond du Lac. UW-Platteville’s Richland Center campus will also officially close after receiving a similar directive as the other two schools last year.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s Richland campus is being closed, Universities of Wisconsin president Jay Rothman announced Tuesday.
Half of state workers, about 34,000 people, will not be getting pay raises included in the state budget, as a Republican-controlled committee on Tuesday approved a 6 percent raise over two years for all but those who work for the University of Wisconsin System.
In Madison, AVID/TOPS is a partnership between the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) and Boys and Girls Clubs of Dane County (BGCDC). It began in 2007. It functions as an elective class students have every day.
A new evaluation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative found that the program is working.
In an ongoing battle between Republican legislative leaders and the state’s public university system, GOP lawmakers on Tuesday approved a two-year pay increase for state workers but left out the 41,000 people who work for the University of Wisconsin System.
The University of Wisconsin system is shutting down in-person instruction at two campuses and closing one campus at the end of the school year, officials announced Tuesday.
Two more University of Wisconsin system campuses will end in-person instruction by the end of this school year, potentially spelling the end of existence for UW-Milwaukee at Washington County and UW-Oshkosh Fond du Lac.
UW-Platteville Richland is closing, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, UW-Milwaukee at Washington County and UW-Oshkosh, Fond du Lac campus will be stopping in-person instruction by June 2024.
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.
