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Joe Gow isn’t alone. As industry booms, adult content creators fear being outed and fired

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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.

Wisconsin students failing reading exams, and so are future teachers

The Capital Times

In 2020, UW-Madison and the Madison Metropolitan School District created a task force to study effective ways to teach literacy. Around that time, test scores showed about 80% of the school district’s students were failing to read proficiently.

Beverly Trezek, a UW-Madison professor who specializes in reading, said university administrators used the research to adjust courses. They added more instruction on topics like spelling and writing, and added opportunities for prospective special education teachers to teach reading in schools, she said.

UW-Madison students show gratitude for program that expands study abroad access

Wisconsin Public Radio

During the 2022-23 school year, more than 2,500 UW-Madison students participated in a study abroad program, according to the university’s International Academic Programs annual report for that year.

“We really see it as an opportunity for growth,” said Dan Gold of UW-Madison’s study abroad office. “When you look at it conceptually, basically it’s just: What can you do that’s not on campus that will help your academic goals?”

Affirmative action ruling, FAFSA mess add tension to UW student count

The Capital Times

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.

“This is the largest applicant pool in the university’s history and a 3.6% increase over last year’s record number of applicants,” according to Kelly Tyrrell, a campus spokesperson.

Northland College back for fall semester — though with fewer offerings and students

Wisconsin Public Radio

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 tuition promise programs finding success, but need funding

Wisconsin Public Radio

For years, national surveys of students and families have shown the cost to attend college heavily influences where high school students choose to enroll. Educators in Wisconsin have taken that seriously.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison launched Bucky’s Tuition Promise in 2018. The program covers a student’s tuition for four years if the family has a household income of $65,000 or less.

Ph.D.s are next in fight over affirmative action

The Wall Street Journal

The McNair program’s racial eligibility criteria violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the U.S. Department of Education by Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative legal organization, on behalf of a national student group called Young America’s Foundation and two of its student members.

How Black women In higher ed support each other with Rachelle Winkle-Wagner

WORT FM

Host Karma Chávez returns to chat with Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about her new book, The Chosen We: Black Women’s Empowerment in Higher Education. They talk about how, as a white woman, Winkle-Wagner built trust with the Black women she interviewed for the book, and how her relationship to Black feminist theory–especially the idea of collective liberation–developed over the years.

New biohealth workforce training program aims to be ‘major catalyst’ for Wisconsin economic growth

Wisconsin Public Radio

A new workforce development program in Wisconsin will train 2,000 workers over the next five years in a growing sector of the health care industry.

The Actualizing Biohealth Career Pathways project is a partnership between Wisconsin technical colleges, universities and employers that want to keep up with anticipated demand in the field.

After declaring financial emergency, Alverno College lands $10 million gift

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

John Morgridge is the former chairman of Cisco Systems, and Tashia Morgridge is a retired special education teacher. They have a long history of donating to Wisconsin colleges and universities. Both of them graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and have given hundreds of millions of dollars to their alma mater for various causes, such as faculty recruitment and a new computer and data sciences building. They have also given money to Cardinal Stritch University — where Tashia earned a doctorate of education — before the university closed in 2023.

UW System funding ranks 43rd nationally. A big budget request would move it to middle of pack

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The state public university system is leaning heavily on a low national ranking in a bid seeking $855 million from the Legislature.

Wisconsin ranks 43rd among 50 states in funding its public four-year universities, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. The advocacy group represents the UW System, as well as other state university systems.

Universities of Wisconsin president proposes $855 million budget to avoid tuition increases

WKOW – Channel 27

Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman proposed a 2025-2027 budget request that he believes would allow the state’s public universities to climb the ranks in public funding and reach the national median. Wisconsin currently ranks 43rd out of the 50 states. For comparison, Illinois ranks first, Michigan third, Iowa ninth and Minnesota tenth.