Faculty and some campus administrators in the University of Wisconsin System are pushing back against a plan outlined by system president Ray Cross for addressing budget cuts and revenue losses — pushback that has caused Cross to backtrack from his initial timeline for the proposal.
A single finalist has been named in the search to replace outgoing University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross. Jim Johnsen, who currently serves as president of the University of Alaska System is the only finalist that didn’t drop out of the search process.
Tuesday, the University of Wisconsin Presidential Search Committee announced their one finalist moving forward to the next phase of the selection process.
Officials named University of Alaska System President Jim Johnsen, 62, the sole finalist, saying several other candidates removed their names from consideration toward the end of the search process because they did not want to be publicly named.
Entering the next phase of a presidential search process marred by criticism and hindered by a global pandemic, the committee tasked with hiring a replacement for retiring-University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross named a single finalist Tuesday.
The University of Alaska System president will likely succeed Ray Cross to lead the University of Wisconsin System, as the one finalist moving forward in a months-long, controversial presidential search process.
Gov. Tony Evers announced three new appointees to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Monday, including a Madison lawyer who represented the women who accused former UW-Madison Badgers football player Quintez Cephus of sexual assault.
A Madison attorney who often represents sexual assault victims, the CEO of a Milwaukee startup and a UW-Whitewater student joined the state’s board overseeing public universities, Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday.
The regents are scheduled to vote Thursday on a 2020-21 operating budget that calls for increasing student fees an average of $30 across the system’s four-year schools. Room-and-board costs would go up an average of nearly $130 across the institutions.
A new University of Wisconsin study shows that its graduates earn a median salary of about $49,000 one year after earning a bachelor’s degree and those from Wisconsin are about six-times more likely to remain in the state than those who come to the school from elsewhere.
In one of three virtual System-wide listening sessions, campus representatives questioned the University of Wisconsin System’s commitment to shared governance in a recent COVID-19 blueprint, advocating for greater input from faculty, staff and students in its pandemic response.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has backed away from an “aggressive” timeline he announced earlier this month to reduce the number of academic programs on most UW campuses by fall 2021.
University of Wisconsin System graduates earn a median annual salary of just under $50,000 after receiving their bachelor’s degree, according to a first-of-its-kind System study released Sunday.
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater announced Friday residence halls will open for the fall semester and in-person classes will resume.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has announced the layoffs of dozens of employees working in the division known as UW-Shared Services due to financial challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than half of the $70 million in state agency spending cuts ordered by Gov. Tony Evers will be to University of Wisconsin campuses in the first move to stabilize state finances during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Tony Evers said last week he plans to appoint three new members to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents before its June meeting, weeks after two board members with expired terms voted on major policies and contracts.
Column by Petersen, president of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
If it wasn’t apparent earlier this spring, it should be clear by now that college presidents, chancellors and athletic directors are prepared to do all they can to play college football games in 2020.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a virtual town hall in March after racist graffiti was found written in chalk on campus.
Widespread testing and temperature checks. Socially distanced classes and labs. Isolation protocols. Contact tracing and cellphone tracking devices. Hybrid in-person and online classes. Modified academic calendars.
University of Wisconsin-River Falls Chancellor Dean Van Galen has been chosen as the new president of Missouri Southern State University, the two schools announced Monday.
In their final weeks of medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jandal and his peers had seen the world turned upside down.
Indeed, to date few state schools have died, but I think the pandemic may lead to a large number of institutions, especially branches of major flagship schools, to close (the University of Wisconsin is moving aggressively in that direction).
Closed-door decisions aren’t appropriate for public institutions. I look forward to open and honest collaboration in the coming weeks and months.
The biggest obstacle in the way is money.
Next week, more than 200 additional students will return to the main Madison College campus to complete their own classes, in person.
Cross says officials from across the UW System have already begun planning the reopen, from academic instruction to residence hall and dining service operations to athletics to academic counseling.
The method of reopening might depend on the System’s ability to test students and staff for COVID-19, Cross said, but already, officials with everything from dining, housing and athletics have started planning the reopening.
Cross stated officials from UW System have already started to prepare for a fall reopening, launching a new task force called “Plan Ahead Team” to review all available options. The task force will be composed of university officials and medical experts.
As the rate of positive COVID-19 tests begins to drop in Wisconsin, momentum is growing to reopen the state. Gov. Tony Evers has issued guidelines for businesses to reopen. The University of Wisconsin System announced plans to test all students, faculty and staff in hopes of reopening in the fall. Even the Green Bay Packers are preparing for what they hope will be a normal NFL season.
As nearly all US states ease coronavirus restrictions, university leaders struggling with when to reopen campuses are turning to federal officials for answers and reassurance on testing availability.
As most college students wrap up the semester remotely under Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home order, some Madison Area Technical College students will filter back to campus next week to complete hands-on coursework needed to graduate.
From Rebecca M. Blank is chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and chair of the Council of Presidents of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, a research, policy, and advocacy organization. Peter McPherson is president of APLU and former president of Michigan State University.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, which boasts an endowment of $3 billion, announced this week that it will accept $10 million in federal coronavirus relief. Wealthy universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have rejected millions of dollars in taxpayer funds in April after facing pressure from President Donald Trump and the public.
The University of Wisconsin Madison is sitting on an endowment worth $3 billion and also will receive nearly $10 million in federal aid to help with profit losses from coronavirus — but it’s still not enough to handle an estimated $120 million budget shortfall looming for the flagship state university.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross says campuses will provide extensive COVID-19 testing for students, faculty and staff in hopes that campuses can resume in-person classes this fall.
This was the weekend it begins: The celebratory season in which thousands of proud family members traditionally descend on campuses statewide to witness and revel in what for most is the academic accomplishment of a lifetime.
But this year, the campuses are largely empty.
In a special meeting Thursday of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, two board members whose terms expired on May 1 participated and voted in board proceedings.
Yogev Ben-Yitschak expected his Facebook feed to be filled with photos of friends’ final semester on UW-Madison’s campus and announcements about where they will spend the next chapter of their lives.
Graduating seniors said an abrupt and socially distanced goodbye to their campuses in March when classes moved online in a matter of days. The pandemic stripped much of the pomp and all of the in-person options from commencement ceremonies. And the graduates now enter a job market in which unemployment is the highest since the Great Depression.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Thursday held a special meeting Thursday, voting to waive test score requirements for incoming freshman, discussing campus reopening plans and providing an update to the search for the next UW System president.
Estimates from the University of Wisconsin System Administration Office show the state’s 13 universities and branch campuses are expecting more than $212 million in losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic through the summer semester. The numbers were described as “catastrophic” during a Thursday meeting of the UW Board of Regents.
Sometimes I tell friends here the university keeps us young. More so, these great institutions keep us hopeful. To watch young people come to a UW campus as nervous freshmen and grow into confident, well-educated leaders of the future is an honor of sorts.
In response to concerns that this may hurt potential UW-Madison applicants, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said the university is working one-on-one with “a very small number of people” who may not have had the opportunity to take the exams. She said the vast majority of applicants were able to do so before submitting applications, which were due Feb. 1.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are working on safety protocols that could enable students to return to campus if the coronavirus pandemic stretches into fall, system President Ray Cross told regents Thursday.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are working on safety protocols that could enable students to return to campus if the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into fall, System President Ray Cross told Regents Thursday.
Cross’ three-part plan entailed the consolidation and specialization of curriculum at individual campuses, the centralization of administrative services and increased usage of online classes.
The leader of the University of Wisconsin System will unveil Thursday a three-part plan that radically re-imagines the network of schools that has been in place for a half-century.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross sounded a warning Thursday about ending some academic programs and layoffs as campuses brace for coronavirus-related budget cuts in the coming years.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross directed campuses Thursday to quickly identify signature programs worthy of preservation and brace for layoffs as the coronavirus pandemic deepens the system’s financial losses.
Two months have passed since coronavirus first began major disruptions to American society, and the nation still lacks a clear timeline back to “normalcy.”
The COVID-19 financial pressures build at Wisconsin colleges with each passing week.
UW System President Ray Cross will ask the UW Board of Regents Thursday to temporarily suspend, for all campuses but UW-Madison, a Systemwide policy requiring applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores, according to board meeting materials. The suspension would be in place for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years.
University of Wisconsin System officials are looking at the possibility of temporarily suspending the ACT/SAT requirements in its Freshman Admissions Policy.
To most fairly assess a semester that has been far from normal, professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking liberties with final exams and projects.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Faculty Senate unanimously approved on Monday a proposal to change the university’s grade submission deadline, as well as two resolutions recommitting to its recognition of the Ho-Chunk nation and supporting the university’s DACA employees.
Schools already are facing staggering losses. They’ll have to refund $7.8 billion in room and board for the current school year, according to Hartle’s group, which made its estimate based on Department Education statistics. For the University of Wisconsin, which has 11 campuses, he says that will mean returning $78 million.
Quoted: UW-Madison anticipated a freshmen class of roughly 7,300 students, nearly 3,700 of those students would be in state.
André Phillips, director of admissions and recruitment at UW-Madison, said they should be able to surpass the 7,300 students anticipated by at least 100.
“We’ll likely have several hundred students that we’ll work with throughout the month of May leading up to the June 1 deadline, and that’s pretty significant,” Phillips said.
The system formed a Plan Ahead Team to review the best practices and criteria for a return to in-person instruction for the fall semester.
