The other papers look at innovative policies that two institutions adopted to fight higher education’s “pass-the-harasser” problem. Those latter papers look at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Wisconsin system. (The Wisconsin system adopted information sharing between campuses and state agencies on potential hires in 2018.)
In June 2020, Jim Johnsen—then president of the University of Alaska system—was named the sole finalist for the University of Wisconsin system presidency. But Johnsen withdrew after less than two weeks amid fierce criticism of his leadership in Alaska. The UW system then appointed Tommy Thompson, a former governor of the state, as interim president in July 2020. The Board of Regents dropped the interim tag in February.
In the last few years, northeastern Wisconsin workers and companies have told us they want education targeted for today’s students, employees, and parents. They want education that leads directly to good jobs. We agree. On April 11, our two campuses, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, announced a plan to meet their needs.
Tommy Thompson has decided not to launch a fifth campaign for governor.
Thompson — who was elected governor of Wisconsin four times, served as President George W. Bush’s health secretary, and led the state’s system of universities through a pandemic — said Monday he has decided against a new run for his old job but believes he would have been a formidable candidate.
Other efforts include a Wisconsin bill that would bar employees of the University of Wisconsin and its hospitals from participating in abortions, including training. It failed to advance in March but its sponsor plans to reintroduce the measure. Similar proposals target public universities in Missouri and Ohio.
There is a growing movement of climate change activists on university campuses pressuring their schools to divest from the oil and gas industries. But is fossil fuel divestment effective or a distraction? We talk to the moderator of an upcoming UW-Madison panel discussion of the issue.
Letter to the editor: The proposed University of Wisconsin System free speech survey, which has already caused a UW-Whitewater administrator to resign, will likely be asking the wrong questions. Do we really want absolute free speech in the classroom?
The amount of tuition costs at Wisconsin colleges covered by state and federal financial aid for students has shrunk over the last two decades, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
The average amount of federal Pell grants and state Wisconsin grants together covered 91.4 percent of tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002, for example, but only 69 percent in 2021.
We hear from one of the professors behind the UW system’s planned free speech survey on its campuses. Later, we talk about the career of Wisconsin actor Frederic March and the removal of his name from a campus theater at UW-Madison. Plus, a Milwaukee filmmaker talks about his new documentary about the architecture of sacred buildings.
Wisconsin’s stagnant — and in some cases declining — investment in state financial aid has led to college students and their families having to pay for a larger portion of the cost of a degree, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
The policy forum’s report, issued Tuesday, is the latest in a series of analyses by the forum that have sought to dive into the challenges the state’s colleges and universities face in preparing the workforce of tomorrow amid declining taxpayer support and, in many cases, declining enrollment trends.
The nonpartisan research center found that state lawmakers have not prioritized financial aid in recent state budgets. Instead — in the University of Wisconsin System’s case — they took the approach of freezing tuition for in-state undergraduates for nearly a decade.
In the last decade, total state financial aid to Wisconsin’s college students has declined, causing the state to fall further behind other states in financial aid levels, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum.
Wisconsin’s financial aid funding hasn’t kept pace with inflation or the rising cost of college over the past decade, a new report found, raising questions about the state’s ability to enroll and graduate enough students to meet long-term workforce needs.
Organizers cited an “avalanche of questions arising” about the survey and its intentions as the reason for its delay in a statement Thursday.
“We had very very little heads up,” said MGR Govindarajan, legislative affairs chair for Associated Students of Madison. “The UW system didn’t communicate to us about it, it told people and we found out through a middleman basically.”
Students at the La Crosse-based Western Technical College and seven other technical colleges in the state will be able to transfer credits to UW System universities, the UW System Board of Regents decided.
Changes to UW System admissions processes, including lifting standardized test requirements for applicants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led to more submissions, but preliminary research suggests going “test-optional” hasn’t increased the diversity of the applicant pool.
Noted: Evers vetoed five higher education bills, several of which were a reflection of major cultural and political debates of the time.
Among those was Assembly Bill 884, which would have required the University of Wisconsin System to accept a course on the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights to satisfy the diversity or ethnic studies requirement in place for core general education requirements.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved three raises above the standard 2% for chancellors on Thursday.
UW-Milwaukee’s Mark Mone, UW-La Crosse’s Joe Gow and UW-Stevens Point’s Thomas Gibson all received slightly larger than normal increases.
Evers also vetoed AB 885, which Republican legislators said would allow students to sue University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Technical College System employees for violating students’ First Amendment rights. UW-Madison in a statement said the measure was “unnecessary and could be problematic in application and employee retention.”
Ten of the University of Wisconsin System’s 13 chancellors on Thursday received raises ranging from 2% to 7.5%, salary boosts that come after earning 2% raises at the start of this year. The UW Board of Regents approved $91,695 in leadership pay increases during a closed-door meeting Thursday.
The early findings, based on data from the first year the university’s test-optional policy was in place, offer few clues as to whether the University of Wisconsin System will permanently join the test-optional movement or revert back to its pre-pandemic policy of requiring exam scores from all applicants.
A University of Wisconsin System survey of students on the highly-politicized topic of free speech on campus has been delayed following weeks of fallout and the resignation of a chancellor.
Tim Shiell, director of UW-Stout’s Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation, sent an email Wednesday to UW System’s interim president, Michael Falbo, to say the survey would be delayed until fall 2022. UW System officials released the email to reporters Thursday.
University of Wisconsin-Platteville Chancellor Dennis Shields will leave the university on June 1 to take on a new role as the next president of the Southern University System and chancellor of Southern University and A&M College.
Acontroversial survey asking University of Wisconsin System students about free speech rights that prompted the resignation of a chancellor earlier this week and was slated to be launched Thursday has been postponed until the fall semester.
The University of Wisconsin System’s free speech survey, which was set to go out Thursday to all undergraduates, has since been pushed back to fall 2022.
A University of Wisconsin-Stout professor has decided to delay sending a survey to UW System students about their thoughts on free speech until fall after an interim chancellor resigned over the questionnaire.
UW-Madison investigated at least nine employees over the past six years for “hostile and intimidating” academic bullying, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. We talk with a State Journal higher education reporter about their investigation
A delegation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison paid a visit to the nation’s capital on Wednesday to talk about the impact of federal funding on the university and its programs.
Setting Up Relationships for Success: Mentoring CompactsSeveral graduate programs, such as the one at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, have created a mentoring compact template for their faculty and graduate students to complete annually and submit to the program chair. Mentoring compacts explicitly outline expectations for communication and meetings, work hours and projects, research milestones, and career exploration. By collecting mentoring compacts from faculty and graduate students, graduate programs ensure those conversations happen and continue to occur annually as the relationship evolves.
Former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater interim Chancellor Jim Henderson says his sudden resignation Monday was due to a lack of support from UW System administration and not about issues on campus. Henderson says he wouldn’t encourage anyone to apply for a UW System chancellorship.
The University of Wisconsin System will survey students over the next month about whether they feel campuses support freedom of speech and freedom of expression. The survey is being funded by a donation to UW-Stout’s Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovations.
A battle over a free speech survey that has pitted the short-tenured interim president of the University of Wisconsin System against UW universities’ chancellors has culminated in the resignation of the top leader at UW-Whitewater.
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s former interim chancellor said he resigned over the UW System leader’s decision to query students about free speech rights.
UW-Whitewater’s interim chancellor resigned earlier this week because the University of Wisconsin System moved forward with a survey that will ask students about free speech rights despite his and other chancellors’ objections.
Students at the 13 University of Wisconsin System schools will soon be able to take part in a survey to gauge their perceptions of free speech on their respective campuses. In a news release Tuesday, the UW System said the Student Perceptions of Campus Free Speech Survey will launch Thursday.
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater interim Chancellor Jim Henderson has abruptly resigned from his position as head of the school.
In a brief message posted on the campus website, Henderson said that one of his three goals as interim chancellor has been to “help this campus hire the best chancellor possible who will be here for the long term.”
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s plans to demolish the century-old Columbia Hospital building in order to reduce costs are being delayed — and could be blocked permanently.
The city Historic Preservation Commission on Monday recommended permanent historic designation for the former hospital building, 3321 N. Maryland Ave.
Jim Henderson, who took over as leader of the 11,500-student university last July, said in a statement that one of his goals as interim chancellor was to help hire the best chancellor for the long-term success of UW-Whitewater.
Students share their opinions on issues such as mental health resources, shared governance at first UW Lobby Day in eight years.
One City Schools also plans to partner with Madison Area Technical College, UW-Oshkosh and UW-Madison’s School of Education to offer higher education opportunities to its high school students.
As of this writing, 39 institutions have adopted the resolutions. They range from Big Ten universities like Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison to such red-state universities as those of Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas. (Resolutions against laws/bills that would prevent teachers from dealing with racism and other politically charged subjects.)
The option is thanks to new transfer agreements that guarantee admission into select online programs with the Wisconsin School of Business.
UW and Madison College signed new transfer agreements that guarantee admission into select Wisconsin School of Business online programs for students who meet the requirements.
Aside from the babble of Brush Creek and an occasional car pulling up to the small cluster of brick buildings capped with sloping metal roofs, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Richland in rural Richland Center is mostly quiet on a February morning.
Enrollment at UW-Platteville Richland has fallen by nearly 87 percent, from a peak of 567 students in 2014 to 75 students in fall 2021. It’s the sharpest decline of any UW campus. Still, UW-Platteville officials have said there are no plans to shut the campus down.
A dozen of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the boards overseeing Wisconsin’s higher education systems remain unconfirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, a status unlikely to change this year now that the legislative session has ended.
A new transfer agreement will guarantee admission into some online programs in the Wisconsin School of Business for Madison College students who meet requirements.
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For the most part, Ivy League colleges chose one another as peers, although Columbia and Princeton Universities didn’t choose any colleges at all. When they ventured outside their ranks, Ivy League colleges selected institutions like Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago. Cornell University chose a handful of public colleges among those in its group, most of them flagships: the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The University of Wisconsin System will now automatically share information about sexual harassment findings against employees when contacted for a reference check by another system campus or state agency. The system also requires that references and final candidates answer certain questions.
Friday marked one of the biggest days in the careers of hundreds of aspiring doctors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Around 200 fourth-year graduating students learned where they will complete their clinical residency programs on what is known as Match Day.
There’s a phenomenon in academia known as “pass-the-harasser,” where someone commits sexual misconduct, quietly resigns and lands a job at a different institution. The University of Wisconsin System portrays itself as a leader in tackling the problem with a policy passed in the wake of the #MeToo movement that has received national attention.
A $1.5 trillion federal spending plan has been signed into law by President Joe Biden, appropriating over $80 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Tommy Thompson is set to leave the University of Wisconsin System on Friday, closing a 20-month presidential tenure in which he brought stability and some momentum at a time of internal and external challenges.
As he wraps up his term as president of the University of Wisconsin System, Tommy Thompson told reporters Thursday he wants to better gauge perceptions students’ freedom of expression on the state’s campuses. Thompson, whose final day as system president is Friday, said he wanted buy-in from campus leaders on a survey of all students and faculty across the system’s 13 campuses.
Tommy Thompson, the former Republican governor whose time leading the University of Wisconsin System is coming to a close, has not ruled out running for his old job. Speaking to reporters Thursday morning, Thompson said he has not made a decision about whether he will run for governor again this cycle but that he plans to look at his options next month.
Sasānēhsaeh Pyawasay is the University of Wisconsin’s first Native American student success coordinator, where she advocates on behalf of Native students at all of the UW System colleges and universities.
When I left my parents’ farm in Elroy to attend UW-Madison, we were so poor that I carried my belongings in a paper bag instead of a suitcase. I went on to earn a law degree, serve in the Legislature, get elected to four terms as governor, lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as its secretary, and become president of the University of Wisconsin System.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is trying to get in touch with students who were unable to attend in-person graduation ceremonies over the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At a recognition event in April, those former students will have the chance to walk across the stage.
Quoted: The Journal Sentinel talked with financial aid experts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ascendium Education Group about the top questions borrowers have asked about the changes.
“This is huge and it’s well worth (borrowers) time to look into this,” said Emma Crawford, director of financial wellness and financial aid advising at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine & Public Health.
University of Wisconsin- Madison outlined how part of the $1.5 trillion appropriations package passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night will benefit school program
