Category: Higher Education/System

UW-La Crosse got national attention late last year, after the Board of Regents discovered that former Chancellor Joe Gow was posting adult content online. He was promptly fired.

The University of Wisconsin System is no longer reporting enrollment by campus, making it more difficult for the public to know where their local branch campus stands financially.

Enrollment at the Universities of Wisconsin grew by over 1,000 students overall this fall , UWs President Jay Rothman announced Monday, with UW-Madison seeing record enrollment.

Less than 10% of Silverstein’s clients are exposed, he said, but forcing them to face the worst-case scenario helps them understand the stakes. He then walks them through real-life examples of outed adult content creators, including a name now familiar to many in Wisconsin: former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow.

Universities of Wisconsin leaders must limit their public statements to matters that affect school operations and maintain neutral viewpoints under a new policy that system administrators released Friday.

School is back in session for UW-Madison students in the capitol city, but many college classrooms around the state are permanently closing their doors.

University to only make public position statements on matters directly affecting campus.

Under the policy, university leaders, faculty and staff will “generally refrain” from issuing statements in their capacity as university employees, but personal statements are allowed if they can’t be “reasonably perceived” to represent the univeristy.

The Fall semester at Northland College in Ashland is underway after the small college faced closure last spring.

In March administrators announced the spring semester would be its last unless they could raise $12 million in a matter of weeks. Though the college didn’t get the amount hoped for, it did see a successful fundraising campaign, enough to keep the doors open at the school that has gained a national reputation for its environmental education programs.

UW-Madison will conduct its official student census on the tenth day of classes. Roughly 8,400 first-year students and another 1,400 transfer students are expected to enroll this fall, the university estimated in late August. Over 70,000 applicants sought a spot in the incoming class.

In less than nine months, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh will close its Fox Cities branch, leaving an unknown future for its campus facilities.

The leader of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s faculty senate told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” that the chancellor’s plan to lay off 32 tenured faculty members was financially necessary.

Caution tape surrounded a portion of concrete sidewalk leading into the main entrance of what used to be the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh’s two-year campus in Fond du Lac, which closed at the end of June.

A legislative committee making recommendations on the future of the state’s public university system is considering whether to call for spinning off the flagship university.

Schweber said the university limiting “expressive activity” within 25 feet of building entrances is “extremely problematic, clearly unconstitutional” and “begging to invite some judge to strike them down.”

Universities of Wisconsin regents voted to lay off 32 tenured University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors on Thursday.

It was moving day at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The excitement and nerves were palpable. So was the sweat.

The stress-less 38 are scattered across the country, from New York to Georgia to Utah to California, and include big, public research universities like the University of Wisconsin-Madison and small, private colleges like Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

The former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee police chief was under investigation for inappropriate and insensitive comments including mocking a female crime victim and making homophobic remarks, according to newly released records.

Eight unions representing faculty and staff across the UW System urged the Regents to support their “meet and confer” campaign and reject faculty layoff plans.

UW system President Jay Rothman has promised he won’t seek to raise tuition during the life of the two-year spending plan if the system gets the money.

The three demands are priorities for the rally’s organizer, the American Federation of Teachers’ Wisconsin chapter: protecting the jobs of around 30 tenured staff of UW-Milwaukee, supporting Gov. Tony Evers’ intentions to ask for the largest ever budget increase to Universities of Wisconsin, and beginning Meet-and-Confer.

Budgets invest in AI research, career advising, mental health, $293.4 million new residence hall.

Employees across the Universities of Wisconsin would receive a 5% pay increase in July next year and another 3% raise in July 2026 under the budget proposal. This boost would help wages keep up with inflation, the system said.

Nearly three dozen faculty at UW-Milwaukee’s branch campuses will lose their jobs after the UW Board of Regents voted Thursday to use for the first time a decade-old policy allowing universities to lay off faculty members.