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.
From Matthew T. Hora, assistant professor of adult and higher education: As a researcher engaged in a national study of internships and their relationship to student success, I’ve come to the conclusion that we need to proceed with caution when advocating for the widespread adoption of internships
A group of lawmakers is introducing a bill that would allow American Indians from anywhere in the United States to pay resident tuition at University of Wisconsin System schools.
UW-Oshkosh will end its partnership with Reach Counseling — the service that has provided the campus with sexual violence and assault support for more than 15 years.
UWL Chancellor Joe Gow announced the $2.1 million gift from the Menard family at the Community Council meeting.
“This kind of racist slur is simply antithetical to who we are as a university that values equity, diversity, and inclusion.”
Madison College won’t know until later in the autumn what the most accurate enrollment numbers are. But Ahedo said they estimated and planned for enrollment to be around 1,500 students, but early estimates show the campus is surpassing that number significantly.
About 80 miles separate Wisconsin’s two public research universities, but the background and prospects of students at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee present one of the starkest disparities in the country, according to a new report.
When Lori Reesor started in the summer of 2018 as the University of Wisconsin’s new vice chancellor for student affairs, she wasted no time re-evaluating the campus’s relationship with Greek Life.The weekend before her first day, a video showing a television dropped from the Kappa Sigma house and barely missing a female student went viral. Not even one week in and Reesor had her first fraternity scandal.
A legislative proposal pending in the Wisconsin Legislature is far from a light touch. It requires University of Wisconsin system colleges to adopt certain rules on free speech, including suspending for at least a semester students who have twice been found responsible for “interfering with the expressive rights of others.” Students who violate free speech policies three times must be expelled.
Meanwhile, bills are proliferating across Republican-controlled states such as Wisconsin requiring universities to expel students engaging in “disruptive” protests, which could potentially include anything from loud clapping to walkouts, according to the ACLU. Also in Wisconsin, a Republican lawmaker threatened to cut the University of Wisconsin’s budget over an “obscene” reading assignment aimed at exploring how sexual preferences can lead to racial segregation in the gay community.
A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse professor has been placed on leave and removed for now as a department chair in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations from a student.
The number of administrators working within the University of Wisconsin System grew between 2014 and 2017 amid a statewide decline in the number of faculty.
What’s clear is that Americans are wrong about student debt—both in how much students borrow and how large the cumulative, outstanding portfolio of student loans is.
It’s 1 p.m. and students gather in long lines as they wait to enter the lecture hall, a spacious wood-adorned auditorium at the top of Henry Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It’s a charismatic octagonal space that is 116 years old and the largest lecture hall on campus.
A new report says the University of Wisconsin’s flagship Madison campus is among the most affordable public universities in the country. We’ll talk to a reporter about the report and what it says about the UW system.
A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student Wednesday accused an unidentified art professor at the school of inappropriate conduct while she was a freshman in a public Facebook postmaking its way around the social media site.
The bump in rank comes after several years of slight drops. The university fell out of the top 10 public schools two years ago to No. 12 and dropped down to the No. 15 spot last year.
Guest column: Gov. Evers has done an about-face by reestablishing the Educational Approval Board. Prior to Walker’s administration, Wisconsin had been a national model for regulating predator colleges.
Kopper’s Dec. 31 resignation from the chancellor position occurred months after her husband, Alan “Pete” Hill, was barred from campus following sexual harassment allegations.
A new study of public state flagship universities shows that the University of Wisconsin-Madison is among the top of its peers in terms of affordability but enrolls fewer students receiving low-income federal grants than most others.
Beverly Kopper resigned Dec. 31 after allegations of her husband’s sexual harassment surfaced last fall. The University of Wisconsin System agreed to pay Kopper at her chancellor’s salary over an eight-month period this year — about $162,000 — as she prepared to return to a full teaching schedule this semester at a reduced salary.
Two top administrators with the University of Wisconsin-Platteville will accompany Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on his first-ever international trade mission trip to Japan.
n November 2016, around 15 students protested conservative media personality Ben Shapiro’s on-campus lecture. Now, the UW System policy that states students who disrupt campus speech three times will be expelled could become state law.
Ultimately, the UW Board of Regents deserves great credit for crafting this campus free speech policy and taking, head-on, the unique and growing threats to civil discourse on today’s college campuses. With the above modifications, Wisconsin students and taxpayers can be assured that UW campuses will remain incubators of ideas, forums for debate, and truly “safe” for speakers of all points of view.
The system announced Thursday that Cross picked Sheryl Van Gruensven as interim chancellor. Van Gruensven currently serves as UW-Green Bay’s vice chancellor for business and finance. She’s also the co-founder and co-leader of UW-Green Bay’s Women’s Leadership group.
She will replace Chancellor Gary Miller effective Oct. 1. Miller is resigning to become president of the University of Akron in Ohio.
Following public outcry, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee has removed an advertisement featuring an African American woman with crime-scene tape wrapped around her neck.
Quoted: “Each institution determines minimum full-time enrollment requirements. This is what is also known as a full course load requirement for international students,” says Roopa Rawjee, international student services director and assistant dean of students at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
While UW-Madison’s teacher education program has a large market share among the state’s preparatory programs due to its size, the number of students earning teaching degrees declined by 25 percent between 2010 and 2016, according to data compiled in a 2018 paper by researchers at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has apologized for an ad that depicts a black criminal justice student with crime scene tape wrapped around her neck.
Noted: A coastal economic specialist, Harrison has worked at other universities that have paid parental leave programs, including The Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Other elements of the campaign include specific outreach to University of Wisconsin System schools alumni and military veterans. Those initiatives, which include print advertising in alumni magazines and face-to-face outreach at military bases, are also expected to continue.
Noted: Friday’s announcement included the creation of a “PFAS Coordinating Council” that officials say will allow the DNR to target high-priority problem areas and better collaborate with other agencies such as the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and the University of Wisconsin System.
