Category: Higher Education/System

Caitlin Yang, 18, sat in freshman orientation at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, absorbing instructions from the academic adviser.

The System announced Tuesday the launch of a “15 to Finish” campaign encouraging students to take 15 credits each semester, or 30 credits each academic year.

About a third of Wisconsin’s private colleges and universities do not require standardized test scores to gain admission to their institutions, many of which dropped the requirement in recent years.

What’s most important is that we demonstrate that a four-year degree adds to your earning potential.

People associated with the University of Wisconsin System, Madison Area Technical College and Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, including former UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley and former UW System President Kevin Reilly, are on the group’s advisory board.

Judith Bursytn, the chair of UW-Madison’s chemistry department and a former president of the non-profit faculty group PROFS, said universities currently face problems recruiting and retaining faculty members because their salaries aren’t competitive.

“When I think about student success, I think about undergraduate research,” said Petersen. “We’ve been a leader but we know that when students have practical experience in their field of study, they’re career ready.”

Noted: Universities across the University of Wisconsin System do still require an SAT or ACT score, according to the UW admissions website, though admissions policies can vary from campus to campus.

For example, only four UW campuses — UW-Eau Claire, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse and UW-Madison — require the scores come directly from the test agency. Also, some students can receive waivers if they are older than the average age or have other unusual circumstances.

Presenters will include the Department of Public Instruction, the Office of Children’s Mental Health and the UW System.

Some provisions in the working group’s wide-ranging plan, which it presented at a meeting of the NIH’s Advisory Committee to the Director in Bethesda, Maryland, are already proving controversial. For example, the panel recommends asking grant recipients about their conduct over the previous seven years. But panel members “weren’t able to answer how or why” they settled on a seven-year window, says Juan Pablo Ruiz, a stem-cell biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

In the battle over the 2019-’21 state budget, faculty salaries for the University of Wisconsin System have made for their own skirmish.

The Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee on Tuesday voted to approve about $1.9 billion for state building projects, with about half earmarked for upgrades and renovations at University of Wisconsin System buildings, many of which have gone without repairs for years.

Evers’ state budget called for spending $2.5 billion on building projects, including $1.1 billion for the University of Wisconsin System.

The only instructional buildings listed in the budget not specifically used for STEM fields are Graff Main Hall at UW-La Crosse and Winther Hall at UW-Whitewater, prioritized 12th and 25th out of 25, respectively.

University of Wisconsin Regent Drew Petersen has been elected to serve as president of the board.

Joel Berkowitz was outraged when a University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee student held a sign bearing a swastika and a hateful message directed at students celebrating Israel’s independence: “Gas,” the sign said.

University of Wisconsin officials are imploring Republicans to spend more than a billion dollars on building projects across the UW System.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the American Chemical Society are teaming up to train underrepresented minority students in chemical research to increase their numbers in chemistry doctoral programs.

A tuition freeze for the University of Wisconsin System will continue for two more years under a GOP plan adopted Tuesday, but the schools won’t get as much taxpayer funding as they say they need.

Former Gov. Scott Walker touted how a new education payment option could help get more students into skills-based training during an appearance at a Milwaukee coding school Tuesday.

This spring I interviewed Harry Brighouse, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, about his ideas for improving undergraduate teaching at research universities

The Houston Texans defensive end spoke at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, telling students in the crowd at Camp Randall football stadium on May 11 to follow their dreams, regardless of what others tell them to do.

Before the adjustments, the Board of Regents required Search and Screen Committees to have a faculty majority, whereas the current policy reduces the number of faculty members to two out of 10 or 11 — the others being comprised of one staff representative, one student, one community and/or alumni member and five Regents, the policy said.

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents today unanimously approved Watson’s appointment, following the recommendation made by a selection committee. Watson will step into the leadership post on Aug. 1, 2019.

Watson served four years as the provost at Southwest Minnesota State University, which includes about 7,300 students as part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System.

The University of Wisconsin System named Dwight Watson as the next chancellor of UW-Whitewater, the first chancellor selected under a new policy that ceded majority control away from the faculty he will now lead.

Twenty-two-year-old Mitchel Halberg of Winona died of a head injury after falling while climbing in Poudre Canyon near Fort Collins, Colorado on Saturday. Halberg was a student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.