“We thank the federal government for their confidence in us, and we’re pleased that our university sites can continue to be used in the fight against this insidious disease,” Thompson said. “Where there’s a problem, I want the UW System here to help.”
UW System President Tommy Thompson and Regent President Andrew Petersen announced Delgado’s passing in a statement Monday.
Interim System President Tommy Thompson and board president Drew Petersen announced Monday that Regent José Delgado died Sunday. Former Republican Gov. Scott Walker appointed Delgado to the 18-member board in 2014. His term was set to expire in May.
“It is with great sadness that we learned our friend and colleague José Delgado passed away yesterday.”
COVID-19 surge testing sites at University of Wisconsin System campuses will be extended, UW System President Tommy Thompson announced Monday.
Fewer Wisconsin high school students are filing for federal financial aid this school year in what education experts fear is a sign that some students are putting college plans for fall on hold, or abandoning those dreams altogether.
Guard members, along with pharmacy or nursing student volunteers through the University of Wisconsin System, will staff the mobile teams. UW System announced Friday it is expanding a $500 tuition credit for students who volunteer to administer vaccinations.
UW students who volunteer to help administer vaccinations will be eligible to receive a $500 tuition credit.
The University of Wisconsin System has also extended a $500 tuition credit to its pharmacy and nursing students who participate in this program, with System President Tommy Thompson saying they can provide critical help to the vaccination effort.
With the conclusion of the fall 2020 semester, the University of Wisconsin Madison closes out one of the more tense semesters in campus history, and conflicts between administration and black students activists currently remain unresolved.
The national cyberattack that targeted the SolarWinds computer network monitoring software could have impacted some University of Wisconsin System campuses that use it.
“The University of Wisconsin System strives to be a national leader in combating COVID-19 and our robust testing strategy is one of our most effective means to do it,” said Tommy Thompson, president, University of Wisconsin System. “We will continue to be aggressive in acquiring and implementing tests at our universities and our partnership with Abbott is key to making this happen.”
A new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study has found that the quick test used by UW campuses to regularly test students missed about 1 in 5 positive cases for people who have symptoms.
Interim UW System President Tommy Thompson says the school system could help with the state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Thompson told WKOW’s Milwaukee affiliate WISN 12 the schools could help administer the vaccine to all Wisconsin residents.
In possibly the most Wisconsin contest you’ll ever see, Tommy Thompson challenged comedian Charlie Berens, creator of the “Manitowoc Minute,” to a “smash off” in his latest video to encourage Wisconsinites to get tested for COVID-19.
University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson and Wisconsin comedian Charlie Berens of The Manitowoc Minute are urging state residents to obtain a free COVID-19 test at one of the state’s rapid-results “surge testing” sites.
University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson and Wisconsin comedian Charlie Berens of the Manitowoc Minute are encouraging state residents to obtain free COVID-19 tests at one of the state’s rapid-result “surge testing” sites and “keep ‘er movin’” through the testing lines.
A study released by the CDC on Thursday indicates that a form of rapid COVID-19 testing would work successfully in university residence halls, UW System President Tommy Thompson announced.
A memorial on the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus now marks the land as a gravesite for Native Americans buried there in 1863.
Edgewood College’s newest coach, Luis Puesan, is busy filling out the roster for his teams next school year. But his players won’t be kicking soccer balls or whacking tennis balls.
Noted: In this week’s episode of “Pitchfork Economics,” Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein spoke with Fenaba Addo, an associate professor at University of Wisconsin Madison whose research focuses on racial disparities and student debt.
Addo points out that “approximately 45 million borrowers” owe more than $1.5 trillion in college loans. And while a few disingenuous pundits would like to claim that figure is largely made up of people spending above their means to attend overpriced elite institutions, the truth is that only six percent of student loan borrowers owe more than $100,000.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison, like others, has had a record number of medical school applicants. Dr. Mary McSweeney, assistant dean of the medical school, attributed the increase to a national sense of purpose.
“After 9/11 there was a huge increase in the number of young people going into the military. And now, we see a physician, Fauci nationally, and [Dr. Jeff] Pothof more locally, two physicians who are inspiring the next generation of young people to come and be part of the solution,” she told Channel 3000, a CBS affiliate in Madison.
The university’s medical school has received 6,400 applications for 176 spots this year, Dr. Sweeney said.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison hasn’t been as fortunate.
Unlike most public universities, the flagship can’t issue debt of its own because of state statutes. It instead participates in the state’s issuance and refinancing of tax-exempt general obligation bonds. Campus administrators have been citing the pandemic in discussions with lawmakers this fall to press for the ability to issue bonds, said Laurent Heller, the school’s vice chancellor for finance and administration.
Among other pressures, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been hit by lost revenue related to room and board and its athletics program, whose 80,000-seat football stadium has been sitting empty since March. It has furloughed staff and made other cost cuts but still expects to have a significant budget shortfall in the fiscal year ending in June, he said.
Michael Backman was 16 years old when he went to prison.
At the time, he could barely read or write, barely understand all the legalese floating around him as he dealt with the repercussions of the day in September 1991 when he drunkenly burglarized a home and killed a man.
A$125,000 contract with former University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross required him to provide a written report on how to increase diversity of students and staff at each UW campus, but nearly three months after his contract ended, no such report exists.
UW System President Tommy Thompson thanked the federal government Tuesday for funding that will come from stimulus dollars, however it isn’t clear how much the university will receive.
Colleges and universities in Wisconsin are still evaluating how $23 billion in aid included in the latest federal COVID-19 stimulus package might help them deal with hundreds of millions of dollars in unexpected costs incurred during the pandemic. Higher education leaders and advocates say the federal funds will help, but more is needed.
Op-ed by UW System President Tommy Thompson about the importance of improving prison education.
A new report shows the University of Wisconsin System paid out nearly $70 million in coronavirus-related refunds to students last year.
The University of Wisconsin System and UW-Madison have not kept pace with their peers nationally in key funding areas due to the state’s tuition freeze, stagnant funding and declining enrollments over the past decade, according to a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report.
Noted: Also Monday, Andrew Petersen, president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the system is having conversations with the federal government about how it can help distribute the vaccine.
The success campuses have had in partnering with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide rapid-result testing to Wisconsinites was an example of how UW’s reach could help with the vaccination effort, he said.
“We’re doing tests in 13 of our communities where we have campuses and physical assets. We’re not only testing our students that live in residence halls, but also off campus. But we’re also testing the community, which we think is a tremendous community service,” says Drew Petersen, UW System Regent President.
Atop University of Wisconsin System official said Monday that students will be allowed to return to campus for the spring semester and take more in-person courses, hoping that more robust COVID-19 testing will help stave off the outbreaks that forced the system to turn to online-only instruction a few weeks into the fall semester.
UW Board of Regents President Drew Petersen said the idea is under discussion with the federal government, given how well he said the System rolled out free COVID-19 testing to the community through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
At the end of one of the most tumultuous semesters in the history of the University of Wisconsin System, Board of Regents President Drew Petersen says he “couldn’t be happier” with the performance of the system’s colleges amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
UW System President Tommy Thompson says surge testing on system campuses is helping the entire state of Wisconsin.
Since 2013, tuition for in-state undergraduate students at UW campuses has been frozen.It’s helped protect students from the rising costs of college tuition, but a new report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum found this incentive for students is threatening the UW’s ability to be competitive against other universities. “The tuition freeze is a clear part of that, but you also see stagnant state funding, enrollment declines that are greater than other states nationally … all things that were adding up before COVID-19,” said Jason Stein, Research Director for the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
College administrators have pointed to declining birth rates in Wisconsin and the Midwest overall as one driver in current and projected enrollment declines. UW-Madison Applied Population Laboratory researcher Sarah Kemp said while high school enrollment data from the 2019-2020 school year shows an average decline of 3 percent the number of 12th grade students was relatively unchanged compared with the previous school year.
Freezing tuition at the University of Wisconsin without adding more state funding to offset the loss has contributed to the system falling behind its peers and hurting its competitiveness, according to a report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum released Tuesday.
Some of the causes of the revenue declines, according to the Wisconsin Policy Forum, include shifts in how Wisconsin funds the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS).
The University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson announced additional details today about incentives to UW students with nursing skills and other health backgrounds to work on the front lines of Wisconsin’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. These include qualifying criteria, deadlines and how students can apply.
According to a news release, the program is open to all students who are currently employed or become employed in a Wisconsin clinical or health care setting.
Few states controlled tuition at their public universities as tightly as Wisconsin has done in recent years and the handful that did offset the squeeze with some additional state money, according to a new report released Tuesday.
A new report on the financial health of Wisconsin’s state universities and technical colleges found lagging state investment, enrollment challenges and — for University of Wisconsin schools — an ongoing tuition freeze as some of several factors threatening their competitiveness.
The University of Wisconsin System announced Friday that its campuses would expand COVID-19 testing for the spring semester, including new requirements for students who live off campus, faculty and staff.
A majority of University of Wisconsin campuses hope a decision to waive application fees for the next two years will open doors for lower-income students and fill seats at a time when many universities are struggling to increase enrollment.
UW System residential undergraduate students will be tested for COVID-19 at least once per week during the spring 2021 semester, UW System President Tommy Thompson announced Friday.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved 2% raises across the board for campus chancellors during a closed session Thursday afternoon.
On Dec. 10, the UW System Board of Regents will meet to vote on an employee compensation increase proposed by UW System officials. The payment plan directly targets two upcoming fiscal years, during which salaries will be raised by 2 and 2.5 percent if the plan successfully passes through the legislative process.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents unanimously voted Thursday to approve its 2021-2023 pay plan request, asking Governor Tony Evers to fully fund pay increases for System employees.
As University of Wisconsin campuses face steep budget shortfalls caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UW Board of Regents approved 2% raises for chancellors in a closed-door meeting on Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is requesting that the Board of Regents approve increased tuition plans for some graduate and professional programs, a process that has taken place every two years since December 2014.
University of Wisconsin System employees would receive 2% and 2.5% pay increases over the next two fiscal years under a plan officials released Monday, but the annual raises require legislative approval and COVID-19 complicates the state budget picture.
The University of Wisconsin System COVID-19 surge testing sites will operate at least until Christmas, System President Tommy Thompson announced Monday.
University of Wisconsin System Interim President Tommy Thompson says he wants to transform one of the state’s prisons into a college for inmates.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s children’s hospital was the site of the first bone marrow transplant in 1968. Twenty alumni have won a Nobel prize. Novelist Joyce Carol Oates, progressive politician Robert M. La Follette, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright are among the school’s alumni.
A growing number of University of Wisconsin System campuses are canceling spring break in hopes of preventing outbreaks of COVID-19. While most UW System schools are keeping spring break plans in place, administrators say that could change.
As COVID cases continue to overwhelm our hospitals, UW System Interim President Tommy Thompson said, “We have a terrible situation in Wisconsin.”
UW System President Tommy Thompson announced the new initiative Tuesday. The system’s roughly 4,000 nursing students will be able to receive a $500 tuition credit for working in hospitals and other health care settings over the winter break, along with helping to administer potential vaccines for COVID-19.
The UW System is giving nursing students an incentive to help our health care facilities. They can earn a $500 tuition credit for agreeing to work in hospitals and to help administer vaccines through the winter break. System President Tommy Thompson says this proposal is another example of the Wisconsin Idea in action.
