A legislative committee making recommendations on the future of the state’s public university system is considering whether to call for spinning off the flagship university.
Just days before the start of a new school year — and with it the likely resumption of pro-Palestinian protests on campus — UW-Madison has revised its rules on student protests, including several new restrictions on where and how loud demonstrations can be.
Schweber said the university limiting “expressive activity” within 25 feet of building entrances is “extremely problematic, clearly unconstitutional” and “begging to invite some judge to strike them down.”
The University of Wisconsin’s bid for a new trial was rebuffed by a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday in a long-running dispute between the school and Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab over computer processor technology that previously led to a $506 million victory for the university.
The McNair program’s racial eligibility criteria violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the U.S. Department of Education by Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative legal organization, on behalf of a national student group called Young America’s Foundation and two of its student members.
The plaintiffs include two white students, Avery Durfee of the University of North Dakota and Benjamin Rothove of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who said they were ready and able to apply but were ineligible due to their race.
As first-year and transfer students start classes this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they must watch a new presentation about freedom of expression on campus.
La Crosse County voted blue in 2020, with about 56% of the vote going to Biden and 42% to Trump. Eau Claire County is the only other county in that part of the state that voted blue in the last election. Both are home to University of Wisconsin campuses.
A new study commissioned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the City of Madison found that UW-Madison students face some of the highest off-campus rent prices in the Big Ten Conference.
The lawsuit filed by the conservative legal center Tuesday claimed the U.S. Department of Education’s $60 million McNair Program excludes students on the basis of race.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman is defending a leadership decision to lay off tenured faculty as a necessary response to declining enrollment and lagging state aid.
Universities of Wisconsin regents voted to lay off 32 tenured University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors on Thursday.
Host Karma Chávez returns to chat with Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about her new book, The Chosen We: Black Women’s Empowerment in Higher Education. They talk about how, as a white woman, Winkle-Wagner built trust with the Black women she interviewed for the book, and how her relationship to Black feminist theory–especially the idea of collective liberation–developed over the years.
It was moving day at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The excitement and nerves were palpable. So was the sweat.
The stress-less 38 are scattered across the country, from New York to Georgia to Utah to California, and include big, public research universities like the University of Wisconsin-Madison and small, private colleges like Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
The Universities of Wisconsin last week listed the demolition and replacement of the Humanities Building as one of its top priorities for the next state budget. The UW Board of Regents approved the request. Now Gov. Tony Evers should include it in his budget request to the Legislature next year.
The former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee police chief was under investigation for inappropriate and insensitive comments including mocking a female crime victim and making homophobic remarks, according to newly released records.
Achieving the designation is only half the battle, said Anthony Hernandez, educational policy studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The other half is competing against a pool of more than 500 other Hispanic-serving institutions for federal funding.
Tuition and student fees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the system’s flagship campus, now total $11,606 a year for in-state undergraduates. The total cost to attend the university for a year is about $30,000 when factoring in room and board, educational supplies and other costs.
Eight unions representing faculty and staff across the UW System urged the Regents to support their “meet and confer” campaign and reject faculty layoff plans.
With only one dissent, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a plan Thursday from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that will include the layoff of 35 tenured faculty members.
The board overseeing Wisconsin public universities voted to lay off 32 tenured University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors, marking the first large-scale application of a Republican policy put in place nearly a decade ago.
UW system President Jay Rothman has promised he won’t seek to raise tuition during the life of the two-year spending plan if the system gets the money.
The three demands are priorities for the rally’s organizer, the American Federation of Teachers’ Wisconsin chapter: protecting the jobs of around 30 tenured staff of UW-Milwaukee, supporting Gov. Tony Evers’ intentions to ask for the largest ever budget increase to Universities of Wisconsin, and beginning Meet-and-Confer.
Budgets invest in AI research, career advising, mental health, $293.4 million new residence hall.
Employees across the Universities of Wisconsin would receive a 5% pay increase in July next year and another 3% raise in July 2026 under the budget proposal. This boost would help wages keep up with inflation, the system said.
Nearly three dozen faculty at UW-Milwaukee’s branch campuses will lose their jobs after the UW Board of Regents voted Thursday to use for the first time a decade-old policy allowing universities to lay off faculty members.
A new workforce development program in Wisconsin will train 2,000 workers over the next five years in a growing sector of the health care industry.
The Actualizing Biohealth Career Pathways project is a partnership between Wisconsin technical colleges, universities and employers that want to keep up with anticipated demand in the field.
John Morgridge is the former chairman of Cisco Systems, and Tashia Morgridge is a retired special education teacher. They have a long history of donating to Wisconsin colleges and universities. Both of them graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and have given hundreds of millions of dollars to their alma mater for various causes, such as faculty recruitment and a new computer and data sciences building. They have also given money to Cardinal Stritch University — where Tashia earned a doctorate of education — before the university closed in 2023.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a program called Bucky’s Tuition Promise, which covers tuition and fees for lower-income students for four years, also includes two years of aid for transfer students.
The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents will decide this week if they’ll ask the state Legislature for an $855 million budget increase in the next two-year budget.
The state public university system is leaning heavily on a low national ranking in a bid seeking $855 million from the Legislature.
Wisconsin ranks 43rd among 50 states in funding its public four-year universities, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. The advocacy group represents the UW System, as well as other state university systems.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman proposed a 2025-2027 budget request that he believes would allow the state’s public universities to climb the ranks in public funding and reach the national median. Wisconsin currently ranks 43rd out of the 50 states. For comparison, Illinois ranks first, Michigan third, Iowa ninth and Minnesota tenth.
Rothman announced that his budget request, if approved, would effectively fund the preservation of branch campuses in the system, and could mean higher wages for staff. He said that proper pay is one way to maintain qualified staff.
President Jay Rothman said during a brief Zoom news conference Monday that his administration plans to ask regents on Thursday to approve asking for the money as part of the 2025-27 state budget. The request is only the first step in a long, winding budget-making process.
Universities of Wisconsin schools would keep in-state undergraduate tuition steady for the next two academic years if lawmakers hike state aid by $855 million of state dollars as part of the upcoming budget cycle, UW system President Jay Rothman said in a budget request Monday.
The Universities of Wisconsin’s top priorities in its next capital budget are tearing down and replacing two failing 1960s-era monstrosities: Cowley Hall at UW-La Crosse, and the towering concrete fortress known as Mosse Humanities building at UW-Madison.
The Universities of Wisconsin have continued cost-cutting measures that includes lay-offs and the closure of two-year campuses, and former UW Regent Bob Atwell said the system should stop closures without a clear plan.
Wisconsin Department of Transportation Secretary Craig Thompson is leaving his position next month for a position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, marking the end of nearly five years as the head of the agency.
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee investigation into Margaret Noodin, a professor accused of misleading people about her Indigenous identity, eventually cleared her of wrongdoing after she objected to the investigation’s initial findings, according to newly released records.
The UW-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County campus will consolidate its operations from five buildings to one, leaving the four remaining buildings for other uses, in an attempt to remain viable as other Universities of Wisconsin branch campuses close.
Letter to the editor: As the retired, long-time campus executive of the Fox Cities (Menasha) campus, the Cap Times editorial on branch campus closings (“Stop closing Universities of Wisconsin campuses,” Aug. 14) could not be more timely. I and another campus retirees are organizing our community to deal with our campus’ impending closure.
The Universities of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents will soon decide whether to lay off more than three dozen tenured professors at UW-Milwaukee.
Summer is wrapping up in Milwaukee, and tens of thousands of students will soon return to the area’s numerous colleges and universities for the fall 2024 semester.
The final decision is up to the UW Board of Regents. This will be the first time the Regents will consider using a decade-old policy that allows universities to lay off faculty members whose program has been eliminated or because of financial difficulty, a policy made possible by the elimination of tenure protections from state law.
In 2017–18, the University of Wisconsin System consolidated its 13 two-year college campuses into seven of its comprehensive universities. UW Platteville, UW Milwaukee at Washington County, UW Oshkosh at Fond du Lac, UW Green Bay at Marinette, UW Milwaukee at Waukesha, and UW Oshkosh at Fox Cities have all effectively closed over the past couple years—even though they don’t count in official statistics, as this Inside Higher Ed piece makes clear. More consolidation conversations are taking place in the state.
Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates loved much of her time as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She loved the city, the water and the student union.
But she has written that her campus years in Wisconsin were in some ways a “lost time” for her. She found much of the older, male-dominated faculty — and their old-school teaching methods — to be dull. And her time featured a turning point that could have led her down a path away from her future accolades, which include a National Book Award, the National Humanities Medal and several Pulitzer Prize nominations.
Weeks before a deadline to submit budget requests to Gov. Tony Evers, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman provided a glimpse of his ambitions for increased state funding of higher education.
UW-Stevens Point leadership is warning that its two branch campuses in Marshfield and Wausau can’t survive unless enrollment increases.
The Republican-led effort is primed to double down on the austerity logic behind the UW’s problems.
The disastrous rollout of a new federal financial aid form has led to fewer Wisconsin high school students filling it out, causing concern about some students potentially forgoing higher education and creating enrollment uncertainty for colleges.
In a vote that puts University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty at odds with their chancellor, the Faculty Senate rejected a proposal to lay off nearly three dozen tenured professors from the institution’s two branch campuses next year.
Layla Merrifield, the executive director of the Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association, is leveling up to become president of the state’s largest public higher education system. Her appointment was announced Thursday.
The Universities of Wisconsin will ask, for a third consecutive biennium, for the state Legislature to fund the tuition waiver program the system cites as the reason for a boost in freshman enrollment last fall.
In a largely symbolic gesture, UW-Milwaukee faculty have voted against a plan that would lay off three dozen faculty from the Waukesha and Washington County branch campuses.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman says he’s hopeful a college tuition promise program, direct admissions and increased state support will reverse an ongoing decline in college participation in the state.
Rothman appeared in front of the Legislative Council Study Committee on the future of the University of Wisconsin System. Lawmakers questioned what students and families are getting out of the money the state spends to fund the schools.
Almost 90% of Wisconsin residents with a bachelor’s degree from the Universities of Wisconsin were still living in the state five years after graduation.
One such proposal will come from the WiSys, a nonprofit supporting organization of the Universities of Wisconsin. It is the technology transfer office for 11 public universities, meaning it protects the intellectual property of academic inventors and aims to move such discoveries into the marketplace. The WiSys proposal, which got a Phase 1 nod from NSF, seeks to make Wisconsin a global leader in sustainable agriculture and involves about 30 partners.
The Universities of Wisconsin’s tuition-waiver program that erases any remaining tuition fees for lower-income students has been revived after receiving millions in grant funding.
