Category: Higher Education/System

The 2018 midterm election season has been variously described as the year of young women, the year of political upstarts and the year of antiestablishment, liberal insurgents.

As research and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math programs find their place across UW campuses, administrators and legislators remain hopeful for prosperous job opportunities following graduation.

Former Gov. Tommy Thompson will promote industry-student communication and job searching in his new role with the Wisconsin universities’ business council, UW System President Ray Cross announced Friday.

At least 40 other current state lawmakers — 23 Republicans and 17 Democrats — also earned degrees from UW System schools more than two decades ago, when tuition was thousands of dollars less and state taxes did more to subsidize instructional costs, according to a USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin analysis.

Noted: The students have to be eligible for Pell Grants, have at least a 3.0 GPA and a 19 ACT composite score, and be accepted by a university partnering with All-In: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Marquette, Alverno College, Carroll University or UW-Madison.

On the fifth year of a system-wide tuition freeze, the University of Wisconsin System has a greater tuition balance than it predicted just a year ago.

This contrast is vividly demonstrated in the recent science center developments of Amherst College and the University of Wisconsin. The former has begun a $625M capital campaign to maintain the institution’s high quality education, support students “regardless of means,” and, significantly,

STEVENS POINT – Cuts to academic majors and jobs at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point loom this fall as an advisory group irons out a plan to address ongoing budget issues.

The University of Wisconsin System plans to open another investigation into alleged sexual harassment at UW-Whitewater after another woman’s account of actions by the chancellor’s husband not included in a previous investigation that led to him being banned from campus.

An alderwoman says University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper’s husband groped her and that Kopper should resign because she either knows or should know that her husband sexually harasses women.

NBC15 has confirmed the UW System is opening another investigation following harassment allegations on the UW-Whitewater campus.

Whitewater Alderwoman Stephanie Vander Pass posted on Facebook on Sunday that Hill put his hand up her skirt, down the back of her skirt and then “to a place I can still feel that hand.”

A Whitewater Common Council member who says she was sexually harassed by the husband of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper while a student is calling for the chancellor to resign.

In a Facebook post published Sunday and first reported by the Janesville Gazette, councilwoman Stephanie Vander Pas suggested Chancellor Beverly Kopper shares some of the blame for exposing students to her husband’s alleged actions and called on her to resign.

The husband of Beverly A. Kopper, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, has been banned from the campus after an investigation found that he had sexually harassed women employed there, says a letter to the campus from Kopper.

Pete Hill, associate to the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, was removed from his position after an internal investigation determined that sexual harassment allegations against him were credible. Hill is the husband of Beverly Kopper, university chancellor, and served alongside her in an unpaid, advisory role for the university. Kopper addressed his removal on Friday in a message to the campus.

UW-Whitewater’s chancellor’s husband has been prohibited from returning to the campus and stripped of his unpaid position following sexual harassment allegations Friday.

College campuses could have been closed, throwing hundreds of University of Wisconsin employees out of jobs across the state. But the University of Wisconsin System threw a Hail Mary instead, merging two-year colleges with four-year universities to shore up two-year campuses that were in a financial tailspin from declining enrollments.

College campuses could have been closed, throwing hundreds of University of Wisconsin employees out of jobs across the state. But the University of Wisconsin System threw a Hail Mary instead, merging two-year colleges with four-year universities to shore up two-year campuses that were in a financial tailspin from declining enrollments.

University hospitals and clinics accounted for 3.5 billion dollars of total economic impact.

The Trump administration has made free speech on college campuses a signature issue. Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned last year that college campuses were becoming echo chambers “of political correctness and homogenous thought.”

Around the globe, more scholars are now threatened and displaced than since World War II began. In response, U.S. universities have sponsored endangered scholars and recently created a consortium that offers a broader academic community to refugee scholars threatened by war and authoritarian governments.

A broad-based new scholarship will help the majority of new first-year students who choose University of Wisconsin-Stout, Chancellor Bob Meyer announced Monday, Sept. 10.

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point may have to eliminate up to 70 full-time positions after another year of declining enrollment.

As Wisconsin struggles to retain young graduates, Gov. Scott Walker has proposed implementing a new tax credit for those who choose to work and live in the state after their in-state schooling comes to an end.

In a two page letter, Summers lays out the University’s financial picture, saying “despite cutting $2.5 million from our budget last year, our additional decline in enrollment has only increased our ongoing structural deficit.”

A graduate still $50,000 in debt. A junior with mounting bills after changing her major. An aspiring lawyer forced to take a semester off because she can’t access financial aid.

For years, critics of the college rankings of U.S. News & World Report have said that they reward prestige and wealth. The institutions that are always on the top of the rankings — places like Harvard, Princeton and Stanford Universities — enroll students who are destined to succeed, the critics say. It should be no surprise (and not worthy of praise) that the students then do well.

UW-Stevens Point does not believe low enrollment is a result of the proposal to cut 13 humanities majors, including English and Philosophy. For months, students have fought against the cuts as a last hope before the proposal is passed.

A year ago, President Donald Trump ended DACA. Today, it still exists.

After USDOE indicated last year it would revisit Title IX regulations, several dozen colleges and universities announced they would ignore the department’s changes and continue applying the Obama rules. These “resisters” included Yale and Stanford universities, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins. A survey from a consultant group found three-quarters of 100 responding university officials saying they would ignore the Trump regulation changes.

$100 million pledge to the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a new research institute at the College of Engineering, which will collaborate with the company’s factories in southeast Wisconsin. The pledge requires the university to raise matching gifts.

As universities have turned to private funding sources via huge fundraising campaigns, there’s been a surge in corporate-campus research partnerships, and companies sending large sums to private and public schools alike.

The Trump Administration’s new policies on college sexual misconduct, spearheaded by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, could drastically change how administrators handle sexual assault on campus.

Increased budget approved by Board of Regents would focus on timely completion of UW degrees.

A federal bankruptcy judge says the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh must pay $15 million to cover the debts of the school’s private foundation arising from a financial scandal involving five building projects.

A federal bankruptcy judge says the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh must pay $15 million to cover the debts of the school’s private foundation arising from a financial scandal involving five building projects.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department lent its support on Friday to students who are suing Harvard University over affirmative action policies that they claim discriminate against Asian-American applicants, in a case that could have far-reaching consequences for the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

University of North Carolina leaders resolved Tuesday to have in place by Nov. 15 a plan to protect a Confederate monument and public safety.

It’s college ranking list time again and everyone but those who make them will lament their effect on students and parents trying to make informed decisions about which colleges to apply to and attend. I’m one of those who don’t put much stock in rankings, no matter how “scientific” they are, since the imponderables of college are too great to measure meaningfully. And with students themselves being one of the top imponderables, no matter what the lists say, any indicators of “value” or “success” or “employability” will be strictly based on generalities, not realities. So, caveat emptor.

At a time when Democrats are having a splintering, soul-searching debate about the wisdom of replacing longtime leaders like Nancy Pelosi with a new generation, Donna Shalala’s campaign for an open House seat in the Miami area is as much about the Democratic Party’s future as it is about its past.

The Board of Regents approved new names for 11 two-year colleges in the University of Wisconsin System that became branch campuses of the System’s four-year schools July 1 as part of a restructuring project.

A merger of the UW-Systems two and four year campuses is bringing new names to the colleges.