UW-Madison housing prohibits pets other than fish in a 20-gallon tank or smaller, according to university housing spokesman Brendon Dybdahl. Approved emotional support or service animals are also allowed.
Across the state and the nation, colleges and universities are trying a variety of ways to ease the burden of hunting for expensive books. Some have built up rental libraries; some have contracts with book companies; some offer reduced rates for access to online coursework.
President Trump has questioned the value of community colleges and suggested universities “restrict free thought.” Survey results in 2017 suggested typical conservatives have begun to share his dim view of higher ed. In a Pew survey, only 36 percent of Republican and GOP-leaning respondents said higher education had a positive effect on the direction of the country — a steep drop-off from responses only two years before.
The Marquette University Police Department will issue citations, with a fine of $86.20, for riding scooters on public sidewalks — enforcing an existing Milwaukee municipal ordinance.
Letter to the editor: A commonsense solution that may honor the intent of the authors of this legislation, while simultaneously guaranteeing complete participation by all students in campus referendums, would be to include a campus-wide balloting initiative as part of the required enrollment process for classes each semester.
Last year, Wisconsin’s flagship school, UW-Madison, announced the creation of Bucky’s Promise. The program guarantees free tuition to lower-income students. But one WUWM Beats Me listener wonders why Madison, and not other Wisconsin schools?
UW system student groups say bill is not necessary given pre-existing UW policy.
Foxconn announced a partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison last year, pledging to provide a matching gift of up to a $100 million to help fund a new building for the College of Engineering. It’s unclear if any progress has been made on that deal.
Student groups at University of Wisconsin schools say legislation protecting free speech isn’t needed because a 2017 Board of Regents policy already does that.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chancellor Gary Miller is leaving to take over as president at the University of Akron.
A few dozen people attended a hearing Tuesday afternoon on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that was intended as a place for people to share their thoughts on a proposed policy that would impose strict punishments, including expulsion and suspension, on people who disrupt others’ free speech.
The measure died in the Senate but UW regents adopted the sanctions as policy in October. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Sen. Chris Kapenga and Reps. Cody Horlacher and Dave Murphy re-introduced the bill Tuesday. Passage would cement the sanctions in statute.
Flanagan, 49, will remain president until the end of August, and will advise Edgewood College through the end of 2019 to help ensure a smooth transition. Mary Ellen Gevelinger, a tenured faculty member at Edgewood, will serve as interim president.
Republican legislators are re-introducing a bill that would punish students who interfere with campus speeches and presentations with suspension and expulsion.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is launching one of the country’s only online Jewish Studies curriculum — and the first at a public university — expanding the school’s remote education footprint and tapping into a niche international market for students.
Morrobel-Sosa is currently the president and founder of The Micaela Group, which assists universities in improving student success, closing achievement gaps, and strategic planning, including diversifying students and faculty in science, engineering, technology, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Over 32,600 students are enrolled at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where the annual tuition varies drastically for in-state versus out-of-state residents. Just under half of students (46%) take on loans, at an average of $5,446 per borrower.
The bill has yet to be proposed in the Legislature. Murphy’s office said the bill has gathered bipartisan support since it started circulating the Legislature for sponsorship, with Reps. Samantha Kerkman, R-Salem; Mary Felzkowski, R-Irma; Timothy Ramthun, R-Campbellsport; and Shannon Zimmerman, R-River Falls; and Sens. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee; and Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville signing on.
University of Wisconsin System officials are looking to funnel some $43 million to campuses based on how well they hit certain performance metrics, a funding plan that still needs approval from the Legislature’s budget committee before the money can be released.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced a $1 million gift Wednesday from former Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig and his wife, Sue, the latest of several high-profile investments by big names in UWM and the UW System.
It’s unclear how widespread the scheme reaches, but Pro Publica reported that students involved have been accepted to schools including the University of Missouri, the University of Wisconsin and Indiana University. Those schools said they’re looking into the issue.
A statement from the University of Wisconsin said it will review all cases of legal guardianship to verify “genuine financial need.”
A spokeswoman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison said the university may review and adjust its financial aid award at any point if evidence emerges that a student is actually receiving parental or other financial support not reported on the FAFSA.
They’re getting rid of traditional gender rules when pairing roommates and a new rainbow living community will debut.
Republican state legislators are recommending substantial changes to voting requirements for costly new facilities on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Democratic lawmakers on Friday released a package of University of Wisconsin System bills that reflect many of the same priorities of campus leaders.
Noted: First, she talks with professor Nicholas Hillman, an expert in higher education finance and a faculty affiliate of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education(WISCAPE), to get a full picture of the cost of attendance, the generational divide when it comes to college, proposed solutions at the university and federal levels, and the importance of higher education for aspiring students.
University of Wisconsin-Parkside and federal authorities continue to investigate a phishing scam that left the local campus defrauded of more than $300,000 last month.
Since 2013 freezing tuition at the University of Wisconsin has been in place, but two Republican lawmakers said instead they want the UW Board of Regents to increase tuition and cap it each year no greater than the rate of inflation.
Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, and Sen. André Jacque, R-De Pere, are working on a bill that would ban student fee-funded building projects from moving forward without a majority of all enrolled students on campus approving the project in two consecutive referendums.
Increases in how much students pay to attend University of Wisconsin campuses would be tied to the rate of inflation under a new bill that seeks to lay the groundwork for ending a near decade-long tuition freeze.
Meanwhile, Evers reiterated his support for some state-level issues, including allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses and making undocumented students eligible for in-state tuition to attend University of Wisconsin System schools. Both initiatives were in his budget proposal, though Republican lawmakers removed them.
Republican lawmakers are introducing a proposal that would put a cap on how much the University of Wisconsin System can raise tuition for students if the tuition freeze were lifted.
One Republican state representative is championing legislation that would set up a contingency plan if Wisconsin’s freeze on in-state undergraduate tuition goes away — a move he says could alter the discussion about lifting the freeze going forward.
Two Republican lawmakers aim to restrict how much the University of Wisconsin System can increase tuition if and when the undergraduate resident tuition freeze set to enter its seventh year is lifted.
The former student, identified as A.R. in court documents, sued in October alleging UW-Oshkosh failed to take action against former art professor Michael Beitz.
The University of Wisconsin System reached a $325,000 settlement with a former student who says UW-Oshkosh violated her rights and acted “with deliberate indifference” to the sexual harassment she faced from one of her professors.
The University of Wisconsin System agreed to pay $325,000 to a former UW-Oshkosh student who alleges she was sexually harassed for years by a former professor the university and UW System Board of Regents never disciplined.
Faculty in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s departments of dairy science and animal sciences are preparing a proposal to merge, a move that aims to reorganize and revitalize the university’s historic and internationally known research divisions.
Tuition fund balances at University of Wisconsin System campuses have been reduced by an average of 53 percent since 2013, when some lawmakers condemned the accounts as “slush funds.” For UW-Stevens Point the tuition balance has decreased enough to trigger a financial recovery plan recently approved by UW System President Ray Cross.
Tuition fund balances at University of Wisconsin System campuses have been reduced by an average of 53 percent since 2013, when some lawmakers condemned the accounts as “slush funds.” For UW-Stevens Point the tuition balance has decreased enough to trigger a financial recovery plan recently approved by UW System President Ray Cross.
Leaving home for the freshman year of college in a dorm can be daunting.
The UW System is Wisconsin’s economic driver, and the best investment our taxpayers can make. We are returning $23 for every dollar invested in us.
Weeks after the state’s financial claims board denied a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee business professor’s $1 million-plus compensation complaint, a senator has proposed a bill to pay him in full with money from the UW System.
Noted: Learning Arabic opens new career opportunities, said Katrina Daly Thompson, director of the program in African Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students who’ve graduated from UW-Madison’s African Language program have secured jobs in nonprofit and government work, said Thompson. The language is classified as a “critical need language” by the U.S. government, which means it has importance for U.S. national security.
Noted: In Wisconsin, the number of children with an ASD continues to increase each year, the agenda notes said. Currently, one in 71 children in Wisconsin has been diagnosed with an ASD, according to data cited in the notes from the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The center also called for planning for ASD services and training.
Mildred Fish Harnack was born in Milwaukee and studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she met her husband, Arvid, an economist born in Germany. The Harnacks moved to Berlin as the Great Depression took hold. Arvid took a job with the German government while Mildred taught and completed her doctorate.
The new president of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has announced an “aggressive” campaign to advocate for the 26 state-owned campuses.
The University of Wisconsin System regents have scheduled a public hearing on regulations enacting a policy that calls for suspending and expelling students who disrupt campus speeches and presentations.
Started in 2001 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Grandparents University was so successful it has since been licensed to universities including Purdue, Michigan State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, West Chester, Western Washington, Winona State and other branches of the University of Wisconsin.
The regents adopted the policy amid complaints from conservatives across the nation that right-leaning speakers aren’t given the same respect on campuses as liberal presenters.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is telling regents he’s disappointed with system funding in the state budget.
Students at UW-Madison will on average shell out an additional $428 in segregated fees, room and board — the highest increase for a University of Wisconsin campus in the coming school year.
The University of Wisconsin System regents have voted to increase student fees and room-and-board costs for the upcoming school year.
University of Wisconsin System officials plan to create workgroups to develop recommendations on how to better serve students with mental health needs.
Student fees would go up for every University of Wisconsin System campus under a 2019-2020 budget proposal set to be voted on by the UW Board of Regents Friday. Segregated student fees would increase by $36 dollars on average while room and board fees would increase by an average of $106 at four-year universities.
The University of Wisconsin System regents are set to increase student fees as well as room-and-board costs for the upcoming academic year.
The planned increases come as the UW System is about to enter the seventh year of a mandated tuition freeze for in-state undergraduates. Before the freeze began, student fees were about $1,100.
A UW-Platteville history project is uncovering details of Wisconsin’s history that many don’t know about.
The Board of Regents meets Thursday at UW-Madison where members will approve a budget that raises student fees an average of $36.
