Category: Higher Education/System

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a 23% increase in the pay scale for the System president, Ray Cross, effective July 1.

A growing number of students in the University of Wisconsin System say they are struggling with anxiety and depression while counseling services have increased on campuses but they haven’t kept pace with demand.

Two University of Wisconsin System regents whom Democratic Gov. Tony Evers fired last month following a court ruling returned to work Thursday, openly defying the governor and brushing aside arguments that he had legally stripped them of their jobs.

The regent Business and Finance Committee voted unanimously Thursday to set the minimum salary at $489,334 and the maximum salary at $734,000. The current minimum salary is $399,000 and the maximum is $598,500.

University of Wisconsin System Regent Scott Beightol is attending a meeting even though Gov. Tony Evers fired him last month.

The regent Business and Finance Committee voted unanimously Thursday to set the minimum salary at $489,334 and the maximum salary at $734,000. The current minimum salary is $399,000 and the maximum is $598,500.

University of Wisconsin System Regent Scott Beightol attended a meeting Thursday even though Gov. Tony Evers fired him last month.

When the State Building Commission did not recommend a single project of the 80 outlined in Gov. Tony Evers’ budget, the public asked what the future of education would look like.

Major UW System projects include a new UW-Milwaukee chemistry building, phase two of a construction project on a UW-La Crosse science center and System-wide renovations and technology upgrades as well as utility improvements.

The UW Board of Regents says it plans to seat a pair of Walker appointees, despite the fact that Governor Evers fired them.

System officials are proposing setting the minimum salary at $489,334 and the maximum salary at $734,000. The current minimum salary is $399,000 and the maximum is $598,500.

In a raucous performance-inspired protest, students at Beloit College on Wednesday shut down a planned speech by Erik Prince, an associate of President Trump and the controversial founder of the security company Blackwater.

However, 15 people were not reappointed, including Scott Beightol, former Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s pick for the UW System Board of Regents.

The University of Wisconsin System announced an expansion in student advising services to ensure student success for underrepresented students of color, first-generation students and low-income students.

But each location brings different issues. Katherine Bowie, another past president and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, raised the question of whether AAS will need to warn members planning on participating in the Bangkok conference that they cannot criticize the monarchy, which is a criminal offense in Thailand punishable by jail time.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on last Thursday, aiming to enforce the right of free speech and “free inquiry” across campuses nationwide. … Since its signing, the order has prompted UW System administration to have discussions about the government’s role in policing speech on campuses.

A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee lecturer and researcher is facing child pornography charges.

Evers told the state Senate Friday he has withdrawn those appointments and will fill them with his own picks. The posts include a University of Wisconsin System Regent, Scott Beightol, and commissioner of the state Public Service Commission, Ellen Nowak.

Dr. Marilyn Tufte started her career as an instructor at UW Platteville in the late 1960s after receiving her master’s degree from UW Madison.

Zeidler’s bread-and-butter achievements breathed new life into Milwaukee, expanding the city’s geographic base from 46 square miles to 98. He established the Milwaukee branch of the University of Wisconsin System, completed the construction of a civic center, paved hundreds of miles of streets and added dozens of miles of street lighting, gutters, curbs and sidewalks.

Annual roundup of University of Wisconsin system employees salaries.

For example, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tuition for a non-U.S. citizen would drop from $36,805 for non-residents to $10,555 for the current school year.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a Dec. 1 priority deadline, while the University of Maryland’s priority date is Jan. 1. Texas public universities moved up their priority deadline by two months this year, to Jan. 15.

U.W. Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson says the restructuring of the Stevens Point, Wausau, and Marshfield campuses has been going well; and that a ‘just released’ economic impact report highlights the university’s economic benefit to Central Wisconsin.

The company’s student-centered advising software, called Navigate Student Success Collaborative, is part of the System-wide priorities for the educational pipeline of Wisconsin. “360 Advising” is one priority that seeks to increase student capacity and retention, as well as decrease graduation time and opportunity gaps.

The federal case announced this week charging parents with buying their kids admission to top universities is shining a light on the admissions process. Every year, U.S. colleges and universities are tasked with sorting through a mountain of applications. Some of the most selective schools, like Harvard, can get upwards of 40,000. So how do officials know if the information in all of that paperwork is truthful?

An associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison is speaking out after Secretary of Education Betsy Devos says the department is looking into a recent college bribery scandal that violated federal education rules.