A nine-member search and screen committee plans to meet in December to begin the nationwide search for the University of Wisconsin System’s eighth president.
Regent President Andrew Petersen said Friday that board Vice President Michael Grebe will chair the committee. Other members include Petersen, regents Mike Jones, Edmund Manydeeds and Torrey Tiedeman, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, UW-La Crosse Provost Betsy Morgan, UW-Superior Chancellor Renee Wachter and former regent Regina Millner.
Noted: Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin system since 2014, plans to retire.
A teacher’s estate has given the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point the largest donation in its 125-year history.
UW-Eau Claire released a plan Monday to increase enrollment through adding three sports, expanding the marching band, creating new majors and funding additional faculty and staff.
Quoted: “It is always challenging for universities from countries such as the UK, US and Australia to open campuses overseas, particularly in countries with more authoritarian systems,” said Kris Olds, an expert in the globalisation of higher education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is leaving his job after five years overseeing public universities and colleges across the state — stepping away from a career in education spanning more than four decades.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has announced his retirement as head of the state’s colleges and universities. Cross said he’ll stay on until a new UW president is chosen by the Board of Regents.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross announced Friday his intention to retire from his position overseeing the state’s public universities and colleges.
UW-System President Ray Cross, who’s held the position since 2014, talks about his retirement and his vision for the future.
Blank calls Cross a “standard bearer for the Wisconsin Idea.”
Cross, 71, will continue to serve as president until the Board of Regents finds a replacement following a national search.
Noted: Since these programs often don’t pay much (or sometimes at all), many low-income students cannot afford to take an internship, said Matthew Hora, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When the results of a survey of 180,000 students were published last week, a troubling statistic was circulated: Despite years of effort to stop sexual assault on campuses, more than one in four undergraduate women experience a form of nonconsensual sexual contact while they’re in college, according to the survey, conducted by the Association of American Universities. The results are similar to the last time the AAU studied this problem, in 2015.
Someone intentionally spun their tires on the crosswalk, doing burnouts, leaving black streaks over the rainbow stripes, the Stevens Point Journal reported. There were two incidents of vandalism Wednesday, one at 6:30 p.m. and one at 11:30 p.m.
Many University of Wisconsin System campuses are struggling to enroll students amid a downward trend in the number of high school graduates.
Noted: In Wisconsin, for example, where the bill stalled in the state Senate, the University of Wisconsin board of regents nonetheless approved its own Goldwateresque policies that mandate that students who disrupt speakers twice be suspended and those who disrupt three times be expelled. The US House and Senate have also introduced similar bills, which would apply to all public universities and colleges.
Noted: The state could focus on attracting more people from other states or countries. Our research has shown more people have moved away from Wisconsin than into the state every year for more than a decade. One option to try to reverse this trend would be for the University of Wisconsin System to continue to increase enrollment of non-resident students at its institutions, which it has already been doing in recent years.
UW-Stevens Point hosted its first-ever Indigenous Peoples’ Day event with a procession of the flags of the 12 tribes of Wisconsin, which will be displayed permanently in the Dreyfus University Center.
Conservative leaning organizations are taking issue with a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents policy proposal mandating suspension and expulsion for students who repeatedly disrupt free speech on campus. The groups say the punishments will likely create a chilling effect on campus speech.
Rates of sexual assault at 33 leading research institutions slightly increased during the past four years, according to the findings of a new survey report released today. But the people most likely to be victims of such assaults are more aware of how to report them and how to access help than they were four years ago.
University of Wisconsin officials said the survey showed the share of undergraduate women who experienced sexual assault at the flagship Madison campus was about the same as the average for other schools. The university also found that awareness of the issue has grown since 2015.
For the past five weeks, UW-La Crosse senior Kendra Whelan has been out in front of the Hoeschler Tower around noon, holding a sign that reads “UWL protects predatory professors.”
Fund balances tied to donations at University of Wisconsin System campuses have increased by nearly 132 percent since state lawmakers first criticized the UW for holding what some called “slush funds.”
Surging student demand for data science skills and an abundant supply of jobs for people with related expertise have led UW-Madison to create a new school, add an academic program and hire more faculty focused on data science.
“UWL protects predatory professors.” That’s what’s written on the sign Kendra Whelan has been holding every day for a month at UW-La Crosse’s Hoeschler Tower — something she plans to do until Chancellor Joe Gow schedules a public forum addressing sexual misconduct on campus.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted Friday in favor of amending administrative policy to require punishments for students who disrupt others’ speech.
With money now released by the Legislature, three University of Wisconsin System schools are launching the Dairy Innovation Hub to help tackle issues facing the state’s best-known industry.With money now released by the Legislature, three University of Wisconsin System schools are launching the Dairy Innovation Hub to help tackle issues facing the state’s best-known industry.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will kill a contentious plan to punish students who disrupt free speech on University of Wisconsin System campuses, his spokeswoman said Friday as system regents took another step toward implementing the policy.
To promote the commercialization of those businesses, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and University of Wisconsin System awarded eight of those companies further funding through its SBIR Advance fund to help them bring products to market.
The few hundred unionized trades employees tending to University of Wisconsin System campuses are still waiting for a legislative committee to consider raises the UW System Board of Regents approved six months ago.
The UW System Board of Regents approved a scope statement on controversial punishments for students who disrupted the free speech of others Friday — a step in the direction of amending System administrative rules. The rules mandate suspension after two disruptions and expulsion after a third.
The University of Wisconsin could soon impose mandatory punishments for students who disrupt speakers or prevent other people from exercising their free-speech rights — a step further than most states and colleges have taken in their efforts to protect expression on campuses.
Fund balances tied to donations at University of Wisconsin System campuses have increased by nearly 132 percent since state lawmakers first criticized the UW for holding what some called “slush funds.”
Under the bill, Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin System would also be required to meet the standard. Coverage would last until spouses turn 65 years old and children turn 26.
Quoted: Dr. Jerlando F.L. Jackson, Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Department Chair and Director & Chief Research Scientist in the University of Wisconsin’s Equity & Inclusion Laboratory says that he is watching closely to see the impact of the legislation.
“If other states follow, it does address one of the chief issues in the pay to play dynamic,’’ Jackson says. “That dynamic is student athlete will own their likeness, their name and the ability to put that in the market for themselves. That is probably our best pathway forward to recognizing their contributions.’’
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will vote on highly criticized changes to its student misconduct policies Friday, potentially codifying mandatory punishments for students disrupting free speech into official administrative policy.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will vote on highly criticized changes to its student misconduct policies Friday, potentially codifying mandatory punishments for students disrupting free speech into official administrative policy.
Foxconn pledged $50 million to Illinois’ flagship university just weeks after UW-Madison reported receiving less than 1% of the company’s $100 million commitment in the first year of their five-year agreement.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents are poised to approve draft rules Friday that would mandate suspension for students who disrupt the free speech rights of students or invited speakers on two occasions. The rule would require expulsion if a student is found to violate the policy on three occasions.
The regents in 2017 adopted a policy declaring students who twice disrupt others’ free speech would be suspended for at least one semester. A third offense would mean expulsion. The policy hasn’t taken effect, however, because the UW System’s administrative rules haven’t been amended to include it.
Student loan debt is a national crisis, but it is also a crisis that hits Wisconsin students and graduates particularly hard. Nationally, student loan debt has ballooned to $1.6 trillion, and borrowers graduate with an average debt of $28,565 — which is up $277 from last year.
Most University of Wisconsin System campuses ban e-cigarettes in and near campus buildings, but university officials say enforcement of anti-smoking policies is relatively lax.
In her inaugural address Friday, newly installed University of Rochester President Sarah Mangelsdorf embraced the school’s role as a community partner and economic force while promising to be attentive to issues of equity and inclusion.
Marquette University accepted $65,000 in donations from the family that owns a pharmaceutical company being sued for playing a role in the nation’s opioid epidemic, according to an Associated Press investigation.
Catherine Emmanuelle is the vice president of the Eau Claire City Council, the area extension director for Chippewa, Eau Claire and Dunn counties and is a member of the University of Wisconsin-Extension’s Latino Task Force.
The Joint Finance Committee voted to release $45 million over two years in performance-based funding to the UW System, along with nearly $9 million for dairy research on three campuses Wednesday.
Other items: Members of the committee also voted unanimously to release $1 million this year and nearly $8 million next year provided in the state budget for a UW System Dairy Innovation Hub housed at UW-Madison, UW-Platteville and UW-River Falls. Committee members also voted to release $22.5 million annually in performance-based funding to the UW System.
Noted: An earlier pledged contribution by Foxconn of up to $100 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been slow to develop.
Across the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, simple, yet powerful symbols of hope and help can be found. They’re in dining halls and dorms, classrooms and labs, sports facilities and student unions.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin, Madison reported official enrollment of 45,319, an increase of 2% over 2018. Its entering first-year class grew by 10%.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is defending a 2015 policy that lifted a cap on out-of-state students attending UW-Madison, calling it a “double win” for the state.
I was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969 when black students launched protests about a list of problems when it came to being African American and a UW student. The strike they called grew quickly to involve thousands of students and days of marches and rallies. The National Guard and police officers from around the state were called in.
This year, the share of Wisconsin residents enrolled as freshmen at UW-Madison declined to its lowest level in at least 25 years. UW-System President Ray Cross helps us make sense of the data. We also look at the system’s drop in statewide faculty and discuss its “All In Wisconsin” effort.
The university demoted English professor Christine Roth in 2017 following an internal investigation prompted by a whistleblower complaint alleging a long pattern of plagiarism extending beyond her early career.
In response to the story in Wednesday’s State Journal “Wisconsin students make up smallest share of UW-Madison freshman class in at least 25 years,” we want to challenge the focus of the article and reiterate that our commitment to Wisconsin students and families has never been stronger. Moreover, we believe the coverage should have reflected that this class is actually a winner for the university, the state and its economy.
Another proposal would require public schools, the University of Wisconsin System, technical colleges and private colleges to include the number for a suicide prevention hotline on student ID cards.
Proposed bills in the report include: Require state educational entities, including public and private schools and the University of Wisconsin System, to include suicide prevention information on student identification cards.
At UW-Madison, 7,550 freshmen are enrolled, up 10 percent from last year’s total of 6,862 students. The university selected these students out of a record-setting 43,921 applicants, 3 percent more than last year.
Wisconsin residents make up a bare majority of freshmen at UW-Madison this year, the smallest percentage of in-state students the university has enrolled in at least 25 years.
