Category: Higher Education/System

University of Wisconsin System leaders moved a step closer Thursday to allowing student applicants to forego sending in ACT and SAT test scores for another two years.

University of Wisconsin System leaders signed off Thursday on tuition increases for out-of-state undergraduates and graduate students at seven campuses.

Renee Pfeifer-Luckett, director of learning technology development for the University of Wisconsin system’s Office of Learning and Information Technology Services, points out that googling is an important workplace soft skill, particularly because of the need to confirm the accuracy of information. Pfeifer-Luckett, who has presented on learning tech tools used to ensure academic honesty, adds, “That’s a skill I use thousands of times a week.”

The University of Wisconsin System is moving forward with plans to give people in state prisons a chance to earn a UW Bachelors degree while incarcerated, after receiving funding to develop a pilot program.

UW representatives feel confident about firm’s abilities.

hy are so many academic workers in the UAW to begin with? Tracing this history leads us back to the 1970s, the dawn of academic-worker organizing. Back then, the first successful attempts at forming academic-worker unions, at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, found homes in the American Federation of Teachers — a logical choice for workers in the education sector.

The scholarship recipients span 11 campuses in the UW System where the vaccination rate reached above 70% by the end of October. Only one campus, UW-Platteville, did not meet Thompson’s goal set this summer.

Tommy Thompson has achieved many milestones in his long public service journey, and he’s about to hit another one. Wisconsin’s longest serving governor is about to turn 80-years-old.

From the office space overseeing his Alma mater in Madison, UW System’s interim President Tommy Thompson is ready to take on the day and another decade!

70 students are awarded a $7,000 scholarship after the UW System completed its “Vax Up! 70 for 70″ campaign.

’Updating job titles and pay ranges is a good business practice that is long overdue at the UW System,’ UW System President says.

Eleven of 12 UW System schools participating in the “Vax Up! 70 for 70” COVID-19 vaccination campaign reached the target of having 70% of their student body vaccinated.

Enrollment at several two-year University of Wisconsin System campuses fell by more than 20 percent this fall compared to numbers from 2020. UW-Platteville Richland saw the steepest decline, with just 75 students counted this September.

Board of Regents President Edmund Manydeeds III, who will be the chair of the Special Regent Committee, announced seven regents of the 18-regent board will participate in the committee.

ASM passed the legislation through the Wisconsin State Statute with the goal of providing legal grounds for academic staff, faculty and students’ involvement in the decision-making process throughout the University of Wisconsin System, creating a new statewide body intended to pass legislation and organize systemwide campaigns and efforts.

Running up to this week’s deadline, other colleges came around to Biden’s order, including the University of Wisconsin system, whose leader had said it was unclear whether the mandate would apply to universities. On Wednesday the Wisconsin system’s interim president, Tommy Thompson, said it could not afford to potentially lose federal-contract funding, and so would comply with the executive order.

About 1,000 miles away in Dane County, the capitol of Wisconsin and home of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the electorate is anchored by young liberals who are thinking big about climate change, gun control and racial justice.

In a statement from former Republican Wisconsin governor and current UW System President Tommy Thompson, he said the university has to follow Biden’s executive order to receive federal funds. “We cannot afford to jeopardize millions of dollars in federal contracts, which are integral to our academic and research missions,” said Thompson. “Therefore, we intend to be in compliance with the federal executive order on vaccine mandates.”

Founded in 1848, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a top research school that spends $1.2 billion annually on new projects. An enormous number, the research expenditure is a small portion of the university’s overall budget, a significant chunk of which is sunk into funding the school’s 9,000 individual courses, 232 undergraduate majors, and both need- and merit-based financial aid, which 59% of students receive.

UW System President Tommy Thompson visited UW-Whitewater Wednesday to promote his new 70-for-70 vaccine initiative.

The University of Wisconsin System announced Wednesday that it will comply with President Joe Biden’s vaccine order mandating that all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Likewise, highly selective public institutions saw a freshman enrollment increase of 1.2 percent this fall, compared with a 5.6 percent decline last fall. Some public institutions are seeing record enrollments despite the pandemic. The University of Utah, for example, announced Monday that its fall enrollment of 34,424 shattered previous records. The University of Wisconsin at Madison also welcomed its largest-ever freshman class this fall, enrolling 8,465 first-year students.

Noted: Gateway officials announced plans to introduce the pair of university-friendly programs at the beginning of the year, and multiple steps had to take place, including approvals from the local District Board, as well as state-level approvals from officials within the Wisconsin Technical College System and the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.

Noted: Critics of tenure have long argued that it enables subpar teaching, makes it difficult to fire predatory professors and hinders efforts to diversify faculty. Efforts to reform tenure policies have followed. In 2016, the University of Wisconsin system changed tenure policies to allow faculty to be fired due to poor performance or cuts to academic programs. Earlier this year, Republican lawmakers in Iowa proposed legislation that would have banned tenure at public universities in the state, though it did not progress through the legislature.

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire announced Thursday that it received a record-setting $10 million gift to invest in developing a reputation for its work in supporting and advancing health and human well-being.

29. Madison, WisconsinColleges: Edgewood College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Herzing University-Madison

All of that adds up to friction between faculty members and their top bosses. The University of Wisconsin system is a case in point, Tiede, the AAUP’s director of research, said. The system did not name any members of the faculty or academic staff to a 2019 committee charged with finding its new president, a move that drew criticism at the time. Only one finalist for the post was named, and he withdrew his candidacy because of “process issues.” The system restarted its search this past summer.

UW System President Tommy Thompson reminisced on the history of the education system. “For 50 years, the University of Wisconsin System has been our state’s greatest asset other than its people,” Thompson said. “We have educated millions of our residents, improving the quality of life for individuals, families, and communities.”