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.
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.
