Many of the top 10 cities that received A-minus to A-plus grades were also home to sizable colleges, such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, North Carolina State University and Texas Tech University.
The correctional pay raise includes the 2 percent increases that would also be awarded to other state workers, as well as UW System employees. Those payments would be doled out on Jan. 1, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2021.
Theater student Chasten Buttigieg grew accustomed to being in the spotlight as a regular performer in plays at UW-Eau Claire. But the audience size has increased exponentially for his latest role. Chasten, the husband of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, is hoping to break ground by becoming the nation’s inaugural first gentleman.
Advocates for K-12 schools and the University of Wisconsin System were optimistic Tuesday that Republicans will spend more money on education, but they don’t know how much to expect other than something less than what Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proposed.
Republicans on the state’s budget-writing committee approved a 2% annual wage increase for most state employees Tuesday, plus a 14% boost to the minimum wage for state prison employees.
A Republican bill introduced in the Legislature last month is looking to offer financial incentives to out-of-state University of Wisconsin System graduates who stick around for at least two years following graduation.
UW System officials announced Thursday that Slippery Rock University Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Philip Way has withdrawn from consideration.
The 63-year-old was tracked down using the Milwaukee Police Department’s CyberTip, which discovered that an IP address, which eventually traced back to Dobberke’s computer, had viewed child pornography on Feb. 13, the complaint said.
State auditors released new data examining tuition revenue within the UW System. It revealed in-state student enrollment has dropped significantly over the past nine years. System President Ray Cross details what’s driving the decline and how out-of-state students are making up the difference.
As a walk-on football player at UW-Madison who became a star defensive lineman and now plays for the Houston Texans, J.J. Watt offered lessons on pursuing dreams at the university’s spring commencement Saturday.
A discussion about higher education and the challenges that come along with overseeing 26 campuses and extensions, 170,000 students and a million Wisconsin citizens. President Ray Cross shares his vision.
Wisconsin public universities are relying more on out-of-state students — and the higher tuition they pay — to bring in revenue as the number of high school graduates in the state keeps dropping.
Students at UW Whitewater are getting the chance to learn from the elderly through a program at their college. Fairhaven Senior Services has partnered their residents with UW Whitewater students to make dog biscuits for nearly five years.
UW System president’s column: An investment in UW System will help us continue these successes and generate more graduates — especially in high-need areas such as nursing, engineering, business, computer science, information technology and data science. Across the System, our campuses have plans to expand these vital areas through our 2019-21 state budget capacity-building initiatives.
One of the four finalists to become University of Wisconsin Whitewater’s next chancellor, Guiyou Huang, has withdrawn his application.
A Wisconsin circuit court ruled in favor of releasing to the Wisconsin State Journal records relating to an investigation of alleged plagiarism by a UW-Oshkosh professor who sued to block release of the records.
My campus, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has had a tumultuous year of dealing with a projected budget deficit of $8 million over the next three years. It started as an announced administrative “document/plan” to cut 13 liberal arts majors, followed by a “reduced plan” to cut six majors and tenured faculty, and then ultimately a “pulled-back plan” to not cut those majors or lay off tenured faculty.
The University of Wisconsin System’s in-state student enrollment has dropped sharply over the past nine years, reflecting declining regional populations and System efforts to get students to graduation faster, according to a report state auditors released Monday.
The University of Wisconsin System’s in-state student enrollment has dropped sharply over the last nine years, reflecting declining regional populations and system efforts to get students to graduation faster, according to a report state auditors released Monday.
The University of Wisconsin System’s in-state student enrollment has dropped sharply over the last nine years, reflecting declining regional populations and system efforts to get students to graduation faster, according to a report state auditors released Monday.
The report from the Legislative Audit Bureau found tuition revenue grew from $933.4 million in fiscal year 2008-09 to $1.3 billion in fiscal year 2017-18. Resident tuition grew from $125.4 million to $276.3 million. Nonresident tuition increased from $808 million to $1.04 billion.
A new audit says tuition revenue at University of Wisconsin System schools grew $336.6 million over the last decade.
All public events related to Louisiana State University of Alexandria Chancellor Guiyou Huang’s visit are canceled, said mark Pitsch, the Public Information Officer with the University of Wisconsin System.
After years of having plenty of students, colleges and universities across the country now have the opposite problem — dwindling enrollment leading to cost-cutting measures like buyouts and other changes.
The college will cut about 30 full-time positions, or about 5% of its 600-person employee base, at the end of the spring semester. It also plans to increase its student-to-instructor ratio from 9:1 to 15:1 over the next several years by eliminating about 10% of course sections offered.
Dairy Innovation Hubs to be established at three UW schools.
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Two Republican legislators want to spend nearly $8 million annually to create dairy research programs at three University of Wisconsin System schools.
Two Republican legislators want to spend nearly $8 million annually to create dairy research programs at three University of Wisconsin System schools.
Noted: Cliché as it sounds, I knew I wanted to go to Wisconsin-Madison within about 20 minutes of my being on campus. Prior to visiting, it had checked all of my boxes: it was a big school with great game days and school spirit, it had an extremely impressive dairy science program (arguably the best in the nation), and the location wasn’t too close to home while still having all of the seasons. But my love for the school grew exponentially while I was on campus.
Gov. Tony Evers made two appointments to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Monday — his first to the university system oversight panel on which he served until his election in November.
Sen. Howard Marklein and Rep. Travis Tranel are sponsoring a bill that would give the University of Wisconsin System $7.9 million fund annually to create and fund the UW Dairy Innovation Hub at UW-Madison, UW-Platteville and UW-River Falls.
The system announced Tuesday that a special regent committee has picked Interim UW-Whitewater Chancellor Cheryl Green; Louisiana State University of Alexandria Chancellor Guiyou Huang; Southwest Minnesota State University Provost and Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Dwight Watson; and Slippery Rock University Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Philip Way as finalists.Advertisement (1 of 1): 0:15
“The problem is, for the last five years, our farmers haven’t been able to pay their bills,” said state Rep. Travis Tranel.
College and university students aim to get educations to improve their lot in life. But a survey released Tuesday found that while they’re enrolled, about half of them have trouble putting food on the table and finding a stable place to live.
Two Republican legislators want to spend nearly $8 million annually to create dairy research programs at three University of Wisconsin System schools.
The system announced Tuesday that a special regent committee has picked Interim UW-Whitewater Chancellor Cheryl Green; Louisiana State University of Alexandria Chancellor Guiyou Huang; Southwest Minnesota State University Provost and Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Dwight Watson; and Slippery Rock University Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Philip Way as finalists.
With the end of the 2018-19 school year approaching, The Badger Herald interviewed University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank on a range of issues, including higher education funding, the campus climate and UW mental health services.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s chemistry department has provided paid parental leave for graduate students and postdocs since 2008. Birth mothers receive six weeks paid maternity leave, and any new parent, including birth mothers, partners and adoptive parents, receives another six weeks of paid leave. University gift funds support the periods of leave, and a 12-week combined leave taken by a birth mother costs about $10,000, says chemist Robert Hamers, who was department chair when the policy was formally adopted. “We don’t want women students or postdocs to drop out,” he says. And, he adds, it makes financial sense to ensure that students complete their PhDs.
Evers announced Monday that he has appointed Karen Walsh of Madison, Edumund Moneydeeds III of Eau Claire and Olivia Woodmansee, a UW-La Crosse student to the board.
The appointments include Karen Walsh, of Madison, and Edmund Manydeeds III, of Eau Claire, both of whom will serve seven-year terms that begin May 2 and run through 2026. Evers also announced the appointment of a UW-La Crosse student.
Experts say state revenue drops during Great Recession result in decrease in higher education funding.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for instance, the number of students graduating with humanities degrees fell from 1,830 in 2008 to 1,025 in 2016. Nationwide, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, English departments have lost some 20% of their majors over the last 10 years. Meanwhile, students are flocking to STEM subjects: At the University of Pennsylvania, the number of students majoring in biology went up 25% between 2005 and 2014.
Noted: Madison listed as No. 1: Home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its more than 40,000 students, Madison has a thriving nightlife and music scene, a surprisingly strong job market, and a reasonable cost of living.
“To anyone who brings hate into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh community, I invite you to leave,” Chancellor Andrew Leavitt wrote in a campuswide email that was also posted to the university’s social media pages Friday.
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh officials are investigating racist images circulating on social media involving students
A set of three photos, which surfaced overnight on Twitter and later spread to other social media platforms, depict a whiteboard with the message “No Liberals, Jews, Muslims, Queers, or Hmongs” written on it. A second image shows a room with a large banner containing a hand-painted white swastika.
A University of Wisconsin System search committee looking to replace UW-Whitewater’s chancellor will conduct interviews this weekend in Chicago.
Like many other schools, the UW System has recently installed more measures to prevent sexual assault and harassment. But the System’s move to join a national coalition of colleges fighting these issues sparked both praise and criticism from faculty and students alike.
A University of Wisconsin System search committee looking to replace UW-Whitewater’s chancellor will conduct interviews this weekend in Chicago.
The report comes at a time of guarded optimism for the University of Wisconsin System and its campuses. The election of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is seen by higher education advocates as a way to offset some of the cuts imposed by his predecessor, Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Dr. LaVar J. Charleston, an alumnus of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been tapped to serve as the school’s first associate dean for diversity and inclusion. He will begin in his new post on June 16, 2019.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the UW-System announced that they’re teaming up with Noodles & Company founder Aaron Kennedy to be the Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, an educator and theorist whose work focuses on educating African-American students, will be Towson University’s spring commencement speaker.
The professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is also president of the National Academy of Education, will speak at the College of Education’s commencement ceremony on May 22, according to university spokesman Sean Welsh.
Quoted: Stephen Kantrowitz, a history professor, was on a task force charged with considering the history of the Ku Klux Klan at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said delving into an archive can be complex.
“Anybody is free to go into an archive and explore, and many people are good at it,” he said, but historians are trained to assess what they find in relationship to other archives and to what other scholars have found. They can sometimes see things others wouldn’t, he said.
“It’s rarely the case that a single document tells you something so dramatically new that it upends everything else that you already knew,” he said.
A liberal advocacy group is suing Wisconsin elections officials in federal court over requirements for college students to prove their identity in order to vote.
An independent investigation commissioned by the University of Wisconsin System into how administrators responded to sexual harassment allegations against Pete Hill, husband of former UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper, found “Hill’s behavior was a blind spot for the Chancellor,” according to documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel.
In the report, investigators conclude there is credible evidence that Hill sexually harassed both employees and students, and that the incidents occurred mainly on campus or UWW-related properties like the chancellor’s home.
The investigation revealed her husband, Alan “Pete” Hill’s, behavior toward women to be “pervasive and well-known,” leading university employees to take “steps to protect one another” from him, the report read.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s prohibition on plastic straws has reduced the school’s waste output and pushed the campus to be more environmentally conscious, student leaders say.
