Category: Higher Education/System

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be extending its spring break by one week after an employee was tested for a possible case of coronavirus.

Closing of branch schools could disproportionately affect rural counties in state, merge with larger four-year campuses.

’With the health and well-being of our campus communities being paramount, we are taking quick and decisive steps as a safeguard,’ email statement says.

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In June, the UW System will end its statewide contract to provide coal for campuses. Stout, Oshkosh, Platteville, Stevens Point and Superior campuses have upgraded their remaining coal-fired boilers to run mainly on natural gas with a fuel oil backup.

The Public Summit of the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education will be hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Oct. 19 and 20.

Evers announced Thursday that he has selected Hector Colon, president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, to replace Gerald Whitburn.

The percentage of students graduating from Wisconsin colleges within six years has improved. While the state fared better than most other states, administrators at public and private universities in Wisconsin say they are rolling out new initiatives to further boost graduation rates and shrink disparities between students of color and their white counterparts.

Citing enrollment declines, UWM Chancellor Mark Mone this week became the latest Wisconsin university leader to send a now-familiar message: The university workforce needs to get smaller.

Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday named Héctor Colón, president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, the newest member of the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents.

The percentage of students graduating from Wisconsin colleges within six years has improved. While the state fared better than most other states, administrators at public and private universities in Wisconsin say they are rolling out new initiatives to further boost graduation rates and shrink disparities between students of color and their white counterparts.

The plan came in response to projected decline in traditionally-aged UW undergraduates.

UW-Stout Chancellor Katherine Frank was unanimously approved as the eighth chancellor of the university Nov. 26. Frank took over the position from Bob Meyer, the former chancellor of five years.

Patterson announced Monday that he’ll step down in December . Patterson has served as chancellor at the school since July 2010. He drew intense criticism from faculty and students in 2018 after administrators proposed eliminating 13 programs to help cope with a $4.5 million deficit.

Chancellor Bernie Patterson will retire in December, giving the University of Wisconsin System time to search for his successor. He announced his departure Monday in an email to students, staff and faculty.

Patterson, who began serving as chancellor in 2010, will officially step down in December to allow time for the UW System to find a replacement.

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has asked two students studying abroad in South Korea to return to the U.S. as a precaution due to the coronavirus outbreak there.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Friday waived the last of a former student’s debt and announced plans to add staff training on how to help students with residency issues.

And last year, to address the Varsity Blues scandal, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote on her blog that the state’s elite flagship university didn’t consider legacy preference in admission.

The University of Wisconsin System restructured its branch campuses — its small universities that attract a large share of the state’s nontraditional students — to avoid the closures that threaten other small institutions because of enrollment decline.

The UW System’s 12 other branch campuses face a similar storm of challenges: rising costs, repeated budget cuts and a tuition freeze for 12 of the past 14 years. Mostly, though, the problem centers on enrollment, which is what Poole spent his 42-year career on campus worrying about before retiring in 2013.

Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian law firm, sent UW-River Falls a letter on Feb. 10, notifying the university freshman Sofie Salmon had obtained the legal counsel of the firm due to an incident on campus in  fall 2019.

Two other bills would require the University of Wisconsin System to study the current problems facing farmers and evaluate how the university, through existing curriculum and programs, supports the industry, and require UW-Madison to conduct a research study on developing a science and technology program specific to agriculture.

That reality is very different about 90 minutes to the west, at the state’s flagship school, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The college, its academics and athletics ranked high nationally, is the dream school for many in Wisconsin – considered a place for high-achieving students from inside and outside the state. And for those who enroll, UW-Madison can be relatively affordable. The college gives out $71 million in grants to students with need — more than 10 times what UW-Milwaukee is able to provide.

’A lot going on outside the schools sets the stage for what we see inside the schools,’ UW expert says.

A former student of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee says the school inaccurately listed her as an out-of-state student, a decision that has crushed her financially and emotionally, and all but ended her goal of getting a degree.

Quoted: Among those who spoke was Mark Eppli, director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

When Eppli came to Marquette, he had dinner with Daniels, then a professor in the economics department. Their friendship blossomed from there.

As interim dean from 2012-’15, Eppli used Daniels as an assistant dean. He described Daniels as “extraordinarily thoughtful.”

“As an economist, he was always thinking of the unintended consequence of an action,” Eppli said. “He was a perfect person to be the dean. He was a servant leader looking to take care of others first.”

The University of Wisconsin at Madison has announced a $70 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge, two alumni, to support faculty recruitment and retention. The funds will match gifts from others to support the endowing of chairs for faculty members.

Undergraduate tuition rates for students from Wisconsin have been frozen for seven years through a combination of regent action and state legislation. But the board overseeing the state’s University of Wisconsin System has raised tuition for students in master’s degree programs. Last year, regents increased graduate tuition slightly at campuses in Eau Claire, Green Bay, La Crosse, Oshkosh, Parkside, Stevens Point, Stout and Whitewater.

Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire say classes will continue Monday despite a weekend fire that did extensive damage to a second-floor student research lab in Phillips Hall.

The regents on Friday unanimously approved a plan to use gifts, additional borrowing and cash from UW-Madison to cover the shortfalls.

As of 2018, the UW System accommodated 37,735 students from outside of Wisconsin. The increase in time for voting eligibility poses a conflict for the upcoming August primary as a significant amount of college students that do not live in-state could become ineligible to vote, creating a domino effect leading up to the general election, according to Heck.

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The students were living in a residence hall, but were not put under quarantine or isolation.

The UW System is joining a growing trend of reforming entry level math classes, this on the heels of an increasing number of students enrolled in the classes.

The regents’ business committee is set to vote Thursday on whether to raise the rates between 1.5% and 25% at Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Platteville, River Falls, Stevens Point and Whitewater beginning this fall.

Nineteen percent of the UW System’s fall 2017 incoming freshman class were required to take remedial math courses. Broken down by race and ethnicity, African-American, Hispanic or American-Indian students had the highest percentages of required remedial math classes, according to a System report.

A recent study released last Friday from the Wisconsin Policy Forum suggested less than half of Wisconsin’s high school juniors meet the ACT score benchmark to show their preparedness for college.

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is looking at potential layoffs in the wake of a “drastic” decline in enrollment this fall that resulted in almost 500 fewer students than the fall of the year before.