Category: Higher Education/System

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.

As part of the initiative, all UW campuses will begin using software called Navigate Student Success Collaborative that tracks class attendance, grades and financial factors that could impact student enrollment.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay plans to offer a new undergraduate degree in water science this fall in part to fill a worker shortage as the state invests more into water quality programs.

The Titan Advantage Program, launched that year was one of three recipients of the UW System’s 2019 Regents’ Diversity Award Feb. 4, the Oshkosh Northwestern reported.

The UW-Milwaukee professor who was charged for sexual assault last week emphasized his role in the student’s success at the university prior to assaulting her, according to a criminal complaint.

Every few years, typically four to six, Congress dusts off the federal law that governs higher education—there are no penalties, per se, if it doesn’t, but the law can quickly become outdated, and if lawmakers want to ensure that federal college programs run smoothly, they keep that schedule. At least that’s what is supposed to happen.

About half the money from Governor Tony Evers’ proposed building program would be spent on University of Wisconsin campuses.

Simon Goldberg received his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017.His PhD was one of 844 conferred that year, a number which made UW-Madison the top doctoral degree conferring institution in the U.S. in 2017. That’s according to the most recent data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates, which is conducted by a group of federal departments and organizations.

Group hosted Rep. Amanda Stuck, D-Appleton, who said she believes bipartisan cooperation is still possible.

UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer announced Monday he will be retiring in August. This makes him the second chancellor the UW System will need to find a replacement for after former UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper resigned following allegations of sexual harassment against her husband.

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank also applauded these changes saying, “This plan to reinvest recognizes the potential for our students, faculty, staff and alumni to positively impact our communities around the state.”

If I’m able to show that food insecurity exists at schools like Yale, Harvard, Penn and Princeton, how then do you think it manifests itself at the University of Wisconsin or at Texas Tech, or at the regional college?

A database created by USA Today now allows public view of 2017-’18 salaries of UW employees across the system.

The mammoth University of California (UC) system announced today it will stop paying to subscribe to journals published by Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publisher, headquartered in Amsterdam. Talks to renew a collective contract broke down, the university said, because Elsevier refused to strike a package deal that would provide a break on subscription fees and make all articles published by UC authors immediately free for readers worldwide.

Fifty-eight-year-old Anthony Azenabor is charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault and fourth-degree sexual assault. Azenabor made his initial appearance in court Sunday when cash bond was set at $7,500.

The charges were filed on Saturday, March 2 against 58-year-old Anthony Azenabor. He faces two felony counts of second degree sexual assault/use of force and a misdemeanor charge of fourth degree sexual assault.

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a statement that she applauds “the new investments in the UW System proposed by Governor Evers today and appreciate his strong commitment to giving us the tools needed to continue providing a high-quality, affordable education for Wisconsin students.”

Describing a UW System in transition with campuses facing falling enrollment and declining tuition dollars, its president, Ray Cross, said in a wide-ranging panel discussion Wednesday that the UW is not abandoning the humanities.

Next week, the campus will reveal their final decisions in response to Gov. Evers’ state budget approval, which included more support to the UW System schools and a continuation of the tuition freeze.