The FBI released two age-progressed photos of Leo Frederick Burt, who is a suspect in the Aug. 24, 1970, bombing that, at the time, was the largest act of domestic terrorism on U.S. soil. A 33-year-old researcher died in the blast and subsequent fire, and four more people were injured.
The FBI Milwaukee Field Office on Thursday released age-progressed photographs of Leo Frederick Burt, who is wanted for his alleged participation in the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Each of the University of Wisconsin campuses has detailed guidelines governing such situations, as do many corporations around the country, especially since the #MeToo movement brought to light the widespread abuses of power by those in leadership positions.
After 17 years, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow has announced he will step down. During his tenure, the campus has bucked declining enrollment trends and is now one of just three state colleges not running a budget deficit.
Joe Gow, the longest-serving current chancellor in the University of Wisconsin System, announced plans Wednesday to step down as leader of UW-La Crosse at the end of the 2023-24 school year.
UW-Milwaukee’s Washington County campus shouldn’t merge with the nearby technical college in West Bend, but the university can make some changes to make the satellite campus viable, a university-based task force recommended last week.
After a lull following the pandemic, more Wisconsin high school students are starting to take Advanced Placement courses and exams again.
But data shows students of color and lower socioeconomic backgrounds continue to fall behind in enrolling in the courses and taking the exams, which give kids the chance to earn college credits in high school.
After being told that they had paid in full, recent graduates of the UW-Oshkosh executive master’s in business administration program received surprise bills nearing $8,000 after the university claims it undercharged them as a result of billing mistakes.
Without any increase in state funding, the System is projected to reach a $60.1 million structural deficit by the end of 2023-24, according to System President Jay Rothman.
Sticker shock set in earlier this summer for a group of seven University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students who graduated this winter from an executive MBA program and received their diplomas this spring. Then they got a letter from the university’s billing office — in June — informing them of a “discrepancy.”
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Washington County should collaborate more closely with but not formally merge with a local technical college, a university work group recently proposed.
UW-Parkside and UW-Platteville are now among the eight other system campuses considering furloughs and layoffs to close budget gaps. The president of the University of Wisconsin System elaborates on the system’s fiscal situation.
The University of Wisconsin Madison will absorb the bulk of a state funding cut this year. And despite the first increase in tuition costs for Wisconsin undergraduates in more than a decade, most other campuses face budget deficits and will pull from reserves.
There’s been a flurry of headlines throughout the summer about the University of Wisconsin System’s finances. It culminated Tuesday with the UW Board of Regents unanimously approving a budget that has 10 of the 13 campuses projected to run deficits this school year.
Noted: In addition, Haley received the maximum donation of $6,600 from Continental Properties CEO James Schloemer and President Daniel Minahan. Former University of Wisconsin System Regent Scott Beightol also chipped in $3,300.
Only two of the System’s schools, UW-Madison and UW-Stout, are expected to operate without a structural deficit next year. UW-Stevens Point’s main campus anticipates being able to sustain itself, but its two branch campuses, in Marshfield and Wausau, are running $1 million short.
Two more University of Wisconsin System campuses are looking to furloughs, retirement incentives and layoffs to address combined budget deficits of around $15 million.
The latest announcements from UW-Parkside and UW-Platteville come just more than one month after Republican state lawmakers included a $32 million cut to the UW System in a state budget signed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
UW-Platteville and UW-Parkside are projecting structural deficits of $9.7 million and $4 million, respectively, the universities’ chancellors told employees in an email Monday. A structural deficit is when ongoing expenses exceed recurring revenue.
The number of University of Wisconsin System campuses considering furloughs and layoffs to close budget gaps this school year continues to grow.
Announced Monday in emails to staff, the universities could join UW-Oshkosh in furloughing its employees starting this fall, as the University of Wisconsin System sits a collective $33.4 million in debt as of June.
But all hope isn’t lost. After all, it’s the University of Wisconsin − not Harvard, Princeton or Yale − that boasts more current Fortune 500 CEOs than any other school in America. The world’s top companies don’t care where their CEOs went to school, and you shouldn’t either
Research that makes pathogens more dangerous or likely to spread would be banned at Wisconsin colleges and universities under a bill proposed by Republican state legislators, who point to incidents and controversy involving bird flu studies at UW-Madison.
The UW System Regents Business Partnership Award recognizes collaborations between businesses and universities. It also honors the impact these relationships have on campuses, communities and the state.
The Farming and Industry Short Course is moving to UW-River Falls after over a century at UW-Madison.
The Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI), Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP), and Savi are teaming up to host a free online student loan workshop Tuesday afternoon.
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.
The University of Wisconsin had 35 robots at its peak, including a few for off-campus neighborhoods that needed permitting from the city.
Notable UW-Madison projects approved include releasing funds for the construction of Levy Hall — the proposed new College of Letters and Science academic building — the Veterinary Medicine Addition and Renovation project and the Chemistry Buildings Addition and Renovation project.
Given current trends across the UW System, as well as other public and private colleges, UW-Oshkosh likely will not be alone in belt-tightening.
Evers on Tuesday proposed spending $197 million to build a new engineering building on UW-Madison’s campus. He also proposed spending $66 million for the UW System’s general operations.
The GOP-led Legislature rejected funding the engineering building earlier this year and reduced the UW System’s overall budget despite Evers’ calls to spend hundreds of millions more.
Evers’ $1 billion plan would allocate more than $365 million to child care programs, guarantee 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for Wisconsin workers, invest $66.4 million in UW System schools, award nearly $200 million for UW-Madison’s proposed engineering building and millions more for workforce education and grant programs.
UW-Madison computer sciences professor Jerry Zhu explained how AI language models work, illustrating the increasing complexity that chatbots are able to operate with. ChatGPT and others base their technology on “conditional probabilities” of what letter, word or punctuation is most likely to come after another based on its database of how language has been used.
Brian Schimming practically grew up on a college campus. His parents both worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lived on Lathrop Street for 37 years, less than a block from Camp Randall Stadium. He spent a lot of his time wandering the rolling hills and historic buildings on campus or trekking over to bustling downtown Madison.
Evers is again proposing spending for the University of Wisconsin System’s general operations and a new UW-Madison engineering building — both of which the Republican-authored state budget left out earlier this year. The governor’s plan includes $197 million for the engineering building, which UW-Madison previously specified as its top budget priority. The new building would replace the College of Engineering’s 83-year-old facility, adding over 1,000 engineering students per year.
Evers is also calling for $66 million in added funding for the UW System. He initially proposed a $305.9 million increase to the System’s budget over the next two years.
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.
This year, cost overruns have popped up all over the U.S. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, multiple projects have soared over budget, leading the UW Board of Regents to approve an extra $60 million for overages driven by inflation and supply chain issues. But in the case of two projects at UW Madison, state officials are mulling a possible lawsuit against contractors to recoup the overages.
Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced the cuts, which will include around 200 layoffs, in a statement Thursday morning.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh plan to lay off scores of employees, offer early retirement deals and impose furloughs as they grapple with a projected $18 million deficit, Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced Thursday.
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.
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh will cut over 200 non-faculty employees and administrators this fall — about 14% of its workforce — and furlough all others, President Jay Rothman told reporters Thursday.
UW-Oshkosh will lay off more than 200 staff, furlough others and consider ending some nonacademic programs as it seeks to close a projected $18 million deficit by the end of fiscal year 2024.
“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.
Madison Area Technical College is hoping facility renovations for programs that are already some of its fastest-growing will further drive enrollment and fill industry gaps.
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.
Officials at UW-Platteville think University of Wisconsin football players will be surprised to see what kind of facilities they’ll be using when they arrive for camp Tuesday.
The bill would provide $372,980 over the next two years for the Farm and Industry Short Course, which provides instruction for farmers outside of a traditional degree program. The program will now be hosted at UW-River Falls after UW-Madison stopped offering the residential program two years ago.
The bill, co-authored by Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, and Rep. Shae Shortwell, R-Two Rivers, would prohibit the UW Board of Regents and UW institutions from offering housing and meal plan contracts without a stipulation to refund students if university officials require them to leave campus. Students would not receive refunds if asked to leave campus for disciplinary or misconduct reasons.
Nearly one in four Wisconsin high schoolers earned college credit in the 2021-22 school year through a public university or technical college, according to a Wisconsin Policy Forum study released Wednesday.
About a quarter of Wisconsin’s high school students earn college credits during the school year. But participation in these programs varies widely across the state based on students’ access to participating schools, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
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.
Tomorrow is University of Wisconsin-Madison’s demisemiseptcentennial anniversary as the University of Wisconsin System’s flagship campus celebrates its 175th anniversary. To honor the milestone, the university will be holding a free celebration with music, fireworks, and of course, free ice cream.
Maddison Iwen beams when she talks about teaching fourth graders at Coloma Elementary School in the Central Wisconsin-based School District of Westfield.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, who will begin her fourth year heading a classroom this fall, says she was born to teach. But even with this enthusiasm, Iwen knows it might not be for everyone.
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Biden administration program for student loan relief, President Joe Biden is out with an alternative plan. The Department of Education is calling the Saving on Valuable Education plan the “most generous” repayment program of its kind. Nicholas Hillman, a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at UW-Madison, gives an update on federal student loan policy.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin Madison associate professor of political science and legal studies Howard Schweber said given the current state of politics, it’s not surprising that the state’s high court denied the DEI education request. But he called Bradley’s comments shocking.
“Whatever tattered shreds of civility were left within the legal profession have surely vanished when you have a Supreme Court justice saying about her own state’s bar that they are effectively in a conspiracy to take over America and to make an explicit Nazi reference in doing so,” Schweber said.
One of the measures put forth by Republicans sliced $32 million from the University of Wisconsin System budget in an attempt to eliminate nearly 200 DEI jobs on UW campuses.
Vos relabeled the DEI acronym “division, exclusion and indoctrination” and called diversity programming at Wisconsin’s public universities the “single most important issue” facing humanity last month at a Republican state party convention in La Crosse.
The University of California system, for example, has pledged to give free tuition to some Native American students amid a movement to reclaim tribal lands. The University of Wisconsin at Madison flew the flag of the Ho-Chunk Nation on campus for the first time in 2021 in an effort to acknowledge land taken from the tribe. And Cornell University launched a research project to account for all the land that it took from Native communities.
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.
