“Your column is grumpy about the situation at the UW,” (Regent Whitburn) remarked. And while he admitted he didn’t “like the sniping that we face,” he made it clear there is still plenty to brag about the Madison campus
The Wisconsin Idea was born in 1905, when University of Wisconsin-Madison President Charles Van Hise said, “I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every family of the state.”
The next University of Wisconsin System president should have a background in academia. But some members of the UW Board of Regents, including Michael Grebe, who chairs the search committee for a new president, aren’t convinced such experience is important.
Data provided by UW-Madison earlier this month show the extent of the university’s rebound in faculty recruitment and retention in the three school years since 2015-16 when officials said budget cuts and controversial changes to tenure policies led to a decline in the number of new faculty hires and a spike in other institutions poaching UW-Madison professors.
Six years after public and political outcry over how much the University of Wisconsin System had on hand in unspent tuition money, a report released this fall shows the System has spent down more than half of its tuition balances.
Lawmakers approved a pay raise for state workers and University of Wisconsin System employees, though they again opted to scrap Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to implement a $15 minimum wage for Wisconsin employees during a Wednesday vote.
Lawmakers on a Republican-controlled legislative committee approved a state compensation plan Wednesday giving University of Wisconsin and state employees a 2% pay bump next year and in 2021.
A bipartisan legislative committee unanimously approved pay raises Wednesday for state and University of Wisconsin employees, but Republicans shot down Gov. Tony Evers’ request to raise the minimum wage for state workers to $15 an hour.
State lawmakers on Wednesday approved an $84 million compensation package that includes a 2% raise for all state employees, but a pay bump for state troopers was put off after Republicans said the raises would make the salaries unaffordable for taxpayers.
The University of Wisconsin System’s presidential search and screen committee launched an online feedback form for the public to share the qualities they’d like to see in the next UW System president. The form can be found on the System website.
Seven speakers testified Thursday at a public hearing on a Wisconsin Assembly bill that more strictly defines and sets mandatory punishments for free speech disruptions on the state’s college campuses.
The Coordinator of Student-Veteran and Military Services at UW-Whitewater has been placed on administrative leave following an altercation with a student, but the coordinator says the allegations against him are false and part of a pattern of racist and hostile behavior by students and staff.
Noted: Carl Hampton is Senior Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the University of Wisconsin System, based in Madison.
An attorney representing Joel Elgin, the former UW-La Crosse art professor accused of sexually assaulting a student, says he was ousted by that student and “her minions” despite “glowing reviews from his art students.”
Ten percent or more of registered voters in dozens of communities could be removed from the voter rolls if a lawsuit against the state succeeds.
An appellate court’s decision could minimize colleges and universities’ responsibility to provide remedies for victims of sexual misconduct on campus.
A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student who accused a professor of sexual harassment is speaking out about his recent retirement.
In hopes of reducing its 2021 budget by 7.5 percent, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh will offer financial incentives to encourage faculty and staff to retire early.
An attorney representing Joel Elgin, the former UW-La Crosse art professor accused of sexually assaulting a student, says he was ousted by that student and “her minions” despite “glowing reviews from his art students.”
On the last day of classes this semester, graduate students at Harvard University went on strike over pay, benefits and the handling of harassment and discrimination complaints.
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order focused on anti-Semitism on college campuses, drawing praise from some quarters and concerns from others about implications for free speech on campuses.
The University of Wisconsin System is expanding options for adult learners.
A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse professor who was being investigated amid sexual harassment allegations is leaving the school.
Staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison passed a resolution Monday objecting to the composition of the UW System president search and screen committee.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison receiving grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) filed more financial conflict of interest disclosures than any other institution, according to data published by the nonprofit news organization ProPublica.
The panel of legislative leaders is scheduled to meet Dec. 18 to act on the pay plans, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ office said Tuesday.
One job candidate was 53 with nearly three decades of marketing and communications experience with the University of Wisconsin System. Another was a 23-year-old college student with less than a year of experience and weeks to go before earning her degree.
Policy now requires UW to enroll minimum 5,200 in-state students.
This grant will go towards new initiatives including All Learning Counts, UW Extended Campus.
UW Madison Academic Staff Assembly Chair calls the move “short sighted.”
Chancellors across the University of Wisconsin System will each get 2% raises next year, totaling just over $73,800 across the 13 campus leaders.
State health officials are investigating an outbreak of a common respiratory virus that has appeared on three college campuses across Wisconsin.
Adenovirus, an infection that causes respiratory symptoms ranging from cold and flu-like symptoms to bronchitis and pneumonia, has been confirmed at the University of Wisconsin campuses in Madison, La Crosse and Oshkosh.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved 2% raises for all 13 system chancellors.
The University of Wisconsin System wants to make it easier for work, military and other life experiences to count as college credit as adult students work to earn degrees and other credentials. The hope is that crediting what the system calls “prior learning” can help with retention and completion, particularly for people of color.
Last week (former Lt. Gov.) Lawton was particularly upset — outraged would be a better word — over UW Regent President Drew Petersen’s refusal to include faculty, staff or students on the search committee for a new system president to replace outgoing president Ray Cross.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wants to revise an undergraduate admissions policy requiring the university to admit at least 3,600 Wisconsin residents in each freshman class, calling it “not a good indicator of our commitment to in-state students.”
Ladson-Billings was a faculty member on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for more than 26 years and held the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education.
Faculty at all 13 University of Wisconsin System campuses have called on the UW Board of Regents to expand its presidential search committee and include representation from the faculty, staff and students whom the next president will oversee.
UW–Eau Claire Chancellor James C. Schmidt told the Wisconsin Examiner in a telephone interview he is consulting with legal staff about sanctions and what can be disclosed because of federal laws governing student privacy.
Madison Area Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville formalized three agreements at a signing ceremony Thursday that will offer new, flexible options for engineering, biotechnology and veterinary technician students to earn four-year degrees.
School officials signed three agreements at the Truax campus in Madison Thursday, involving engineering, biotechnology and veterinary majors.
UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt says several students are suspended from the football team for their involvement in a racist Snapchat sent out this week.
Column by Kraus, chair of UW-River Falls’ political science department.
Quoted: “These are middle-class black kids being affected, too,” said Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and an authority on race and education.
On Nov. 1, a week to the day after Ray Cross, University of Wisconsin System president of five years, announced his intent to retire, faculty representatives from each of the 13 UW campuses sat in a meeting in Madison to discuss the upcoming search for his replacement.
Gow and some university students have been locked in a dispute over campus transparency since Joel Elgin, the former chair of the school’s art department, was publicly accused of coming on to a student during a private drawing lesson.
The 40-minute documentary, “Outsourced: The Wisconsin Idea,” debuted over the summer in the Superior-Duluth area and will be screened for the first time in Madison Tuesday evening on UW-Madison’s campus.
The University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC) have unveiled a new online tool to help small and medium-sized businesses recruit interns from UW campuses. The goal is to improve the student experience and keep skilled workers from leaving the state.
Noted: Milwaukee-Downer College and Lawrence College announced they would combine their two institutions in 1964, thereby creating what is now Lawrence University. Milwaukee-Downer’s campus developed in Milwaukee in 1895 after the merger of Milwaukee College and Downer College. In the 1964 merger, the Milwaukee campus was sold to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and students, faculty members and curriculum were transferred to the Lawrence College campus in Appleton, Wis. The combination of these institutions was precipitated by declining enrollment and growing budget deficits at Milwaukee-Downer College — a familiar impetus for merger talks today.
Small businesses and startups can now use a how-to guide for creating internships that was developed by the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation in an effort to train students who could become part of the state’s workforce.
Blank will also serve as board chair until 2022.
The committee searching for the next UW System president — a position overseeing 167,000 students — does not include any faculty or staff members, breaking a tradition that goes back to the 1990s.
Letter to the editor: Faculty in the University of Wisconsin System are many things — underpaid, undervalued, and working under former Gov. Scott Walker-era policies that continue to wreak havoc on universities across the state.
The head of the UW Board of Regents has broken decades of precedent by appointing a search committee for the next University of Wisconsin System president that does not include any faculty members or academic staff.
Four finalists have been named in the search for the next University of Wisconsin-Stout chancellor.
New data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows students at the state’s flagship campus are getting out faster than ever, in light of mounting national concerns and conversations about the rising cost of college.
Noted: Other schools across the state have instated similar programs. In February 2018, the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched a similar program known as Bucky’s Tuition Promise. Eleven technical colleges across the state, including Lakeshore Technical College, also have promise programs.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has received a $10 million donation toward construction of a new research vessel intended to help advance the scientific understanding of water and the Great Lakes.
The 10-member search and screen committee recommended the following candidates: Valparaiso University Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Mark Biermann; Central Washington University Vice President of Academic Innovation and professor of English Katherine Frank; Pacific Northwest College of Art Interim President Christopher Grant Maples; Potomac State College of West Virginia University Campus President Jennifer Orlikoff.
The N.I.H. and the F.B.I. have begun a vast effort to root out scientists who they say are stealing biomedical research for other countries from institutions across the United States.
