MADISON — For those keeping score, the only votes Thursday against budget requests the University of Wisconsin System will send to the state came from a Democrat and a Republican member of the Board of Regents running for high-profile political offices.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a pair of budget requests to state lawmakers, including a $1.9 billion capital budget request for building and renovation projects around the state.
The regents approved the request 16-1 on Thursday. The request seeks an additional $82.5 million in tax dollars to meet performance-based goals Republican legislators have imposed on the system.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a $1.96 billion construction and maintenance budget request.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved the System’s 2019-21 proposed operating and capital budgets on Thursday, with the only two dissenting votes coming from the two Regents running for political office.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a $1.96 billion construction and maintenance budget request.
A top state lawmaker is questioning how a new proposal for a science building at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire vaulted over high-priority building projects that have waited in line for years.
UW-Platteville Chancellor Dennis Shields updated the Sauk County Board on Tuesday about the campuses’ ongoing integration. He said the partnership could bring collaborative programs in agriculture, hospitality and business to the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County.
A proposed project would mean the end for the current science building, Phillips Hall, which is more than 50 years old. Assistant Chancellor for Facilities Mike Rindo told News 18 a study was done that showed it wasn’t feasible functionally or structurally to renovate the current Phillips Hall.
Plans for a new academic and research chemistry and biochemistry building are among the UW System’s capital project requests in its 2019-21 biennial budget.
A proposed project would mean the end for the current science building, Phillips Hall, which is more than 50 years old. Assistant Chancellor for Facilities Mike Rindo told News 18 a study was done that showed it wasn’t feasible functionally or structurally to renovate the current Phillips Hall.
Earlier this month, the Common Application decided to “ban the box” starting next year — so the million-plus students who use the online form to apply to some 800 colleges nationwide won’t have to disclose whether they have ever been convicted of a crime.
In an effort to avoid another instance of sexual misconduct, schools within the UW System could soon have stricter rules about what goes in to an employee’s personnel files.
The University of Wisconsin system board is receiving proposals this week designed to avoid the long-standing practice in higher education of “passing the harasser,” in which employees known to harass others are encouraged to take jobs at other institutions.
The University of Wisconsin System will require the documentation of sexual harassment allegations and investigations in personnel files as soon as January 2019, according to a policy draft that will be presented to the UW Board of Regents later this week.
University of Wisconsin System officials are preparing to present a draft policy on employee sexual misconduct to regents.
University of Wisconsin System officials are preparing to present a draft policy on employee sexual misconduct to the regents. The Board of Regents in June mandated employee personnel files include documentation of sexual misconduct allegations or investigations.
State lawmakers are clashing in the wake of the new University of Wisconsin System budget proposal, disagreeing over the fundamental role of the university system.
Talia Trackim loves Thursdays. It’s the day when the Syracuse University dining hall she frequents serves chicken tenders with macaroni and cheese.
The University of Wisconsin System will ask for a $107.5 million increase in state funding over the next two years, a sizable jump from its last funding request in 2016.
While the top private schools list is dominated by northeast schools, the top public schools come from all different regions: eight from the South, eight from the West, four from the Midwest and five from the Northeast. Hailing from the South is the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (No. 9), the University of Florida (No. 13), the University of Texas, Austin (No.16), Georgia Institute of Technology (No. 20), and the University of Georgia (No. 23). The Midwest is represented by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (No. 11) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (No. 17).
The request the UW System will put forward for $107.5 million in new state funding over the next two years — $82.5 million in “outcomes-based” funding and $25 million to expand programs mostly in STEM and high-demand fields — is framed around “university and statutorily required goals.”
System leaders released their 2019-2021 budget request Monday. The Board of Regents is scheduled to vote on the request Thursday during a meeting at UW-Madison. Approval would send the request on to Gov. Scott Walker’s office for consideration as he begins work on his executive budget.
The University of Wisconsin System is asking for $107 million more in state money, three-quarters of which would be outcome-based, rewarding or punishing campuses based on how well they meet performance metrics such as student access, progress toward degree completion, “workforce contributions” and operating efficiencies.
Quoted: “They are part of us now, so we need to figure out which of those degrees we roll out first and other things we have to do to become a real partner in this community,” Miller added.
Quoted: “For us, that does create some challenges as far as how we pay for what we do,” Gow said. “We do have inflationary cost increases. I don’t know how realistic it is to continue that forever.”
UW System leaders won’t seek any tuition or student fee increases in the next state budget but will consider asking Gov. Scott Walker for an additional $107 million in state aid to help meet Republican-imposed performance goals and increase access to high-demand programs.
This month, chancellors at UW-Madison and five other UW campuses asked the board to restore the coverage, saying four Big Ten campuses offer it.
It surprises me that the UW-Oshkosh Foundation would sue the UW System and its Regents for a poor business decision that the foundation itself had made.
Activities by UW System campuses and organizations create or support about 167,000 jobs each year, or one out of every 20 worker in the state, the report shows. And UW System’s economic activity brings in $1.1 billion in state and local taxes every year.
It has been nearly a decade since Governor Scott Walker—who grew up near Darien—and his fellow-Republicans began implementing their vision of conservative austerity and privatization in Wisconsin. The result has been a state more attractive to corporations, with a smaller middle class and deteriorating public infrastructure and institutions—from roads to the University of Wisconsin system to public schools.
For any incoming college freshman, stumbling onto campus the first day has to be a disorienting experience. There’s so much you don’t know, ranging from where to eat to where your classes are to why your roommate insists on only changing his socks every three days.
And Walker plans to continue the UW System tuition freeze for four more years. Evers, a member of the UW Board of Regents, said he would extend the freeze in his first budget if elected and cut two-year UW college tuition in half.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation will auction off one of two biodigesters this month to pay off creditors as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
According to the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Other parts of the cost of attendance, including living costs, transportation, books and supplies, and personal expenses make up between 50 percent and 80 percent of sticker price. As a result, low-income students can be faced with making difficult financial choices. For example, tight finances among low-income students can lead them to sacrifice food and housing to stay in school.”
Chancellor Beverly Kopper wrote a letter to the broadcast team who provided play-by-play and color commentary during last Thursday’s preseason between the Packers and the Tennessee Titans, blasting them for describing schools like UW-Whitewater as “nowhere schools.”
Robin Schaad sat down to break the disappointing news. Even after receiving an appeal for more money, her daughter’s top-choice college — a well-regarded engineering school — hadn’t offered enough financial aid.
Edgewood College has landed one of the largest donations in its 90-year history, receiving an anonymous $7 million donation that will boost its endowment nearly 18 percent.
With a new academic year on the horizon, returning and incoming students from two-year colleges will play a key role in determining the success of the integration of two-year and four-year institutions during a transition year.
As the Department of Education refines the next phase of its higher education agenda, the White House is apparently weighing in on the new policy direction.
Wisconsin ranked No. 33 nationally, with a $29,569 average — down slightly (1.18%) from the state’s Class of 2016 debt. Sixty-five percent of the Class of 2017 across all Wisconsin colleges and universities left school with loan debt.
The Trump administration plunged thousands of migrant children into a frantic limbo this summer when it separated them from their parents in a bid to deter illegal immigration on the southwest border, igniting weeks of protest and litigation.
President Trump characterized the vast majority of Chinese students in the U.S. as spies during a dinner Tuesday night with CEOs at his private golf club in New Jersey, according to a report in Politico.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is removing plastic straws from campus dining locations.
A committee of faculty, students, and staff at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point has submitted a document with several ideas to help save some or all of the 13 programs that were proposed to be cut as part of a curriculum re-structuring proposal released in March.
Freezing tuition for in-state students at public colleges and universities is welcome help for Wisconsin families. But state leaders need to be realistic. Unless the state can provide better funding, too, the freeze will continue to harm schools.
The UW System has until the end of August to submit plans to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee on ways to improve security.
A committee of faculty, students, and staff at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point has submitted a document with several ideas to help save some or all of the 13 programs that were proposed to be cut as part of a curriculum re-structuring proposal released in March.
Majors may not be completely cut at UW-Stevens Point. In March, UWSP officials said they were looking at cutting 13 majors and adding to several other programs instead.
They are, of course, super connected. But on their terms. Which is why college-bound iGens (Gen Zers, if you prefer) present a challenge to the grown-ups on campus eager to reach and teach them.
President Trump will nominate a University of Oklahoma meteorologist and administrator as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Foxconn executive Alan Yeung is slated to provide details of the company’s Smart Cities, Smart Futures competition, which was announced at UW-Parkside in May. The competition gives college and university students around Wisconsin the opportunity to submit new ideas for using technology.
The Marinette County Board of Supervisors by a 29-0 margin approved a recommendation from its Executive Committee and a working group on merging UW-Green Bay with three UW Colleges, UW-Marinette, UW-Manitowoc and UW-Sheboygan.
Gov. Scott Walker says if re-elected to a third term, he’ll seek to extend the existing University of Wisconsin System tuition freeze for in-state undergraduate students for another four years.
The nonprofit foundation has filed an $18.5 million claim against the UW System and its Board of Regents over a set of failed development projects that they financed for the school.
A gap is growing between how much money University of Wisconsin System campuses collect in tuition and how much they budget for costs directly tied to educating students, such as faculty pay and advising.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison is the largest and best known of Wisconsin’s 13 public universities, but over the past decade it has earned a reputation among some Wisconsinites for being expensive, liberal and hard to get into. The Wisconsin Alumni Association, equipped with a refurbished dairy van and gallons of ice cream, is trying to change that.
No one likes getting a parking ticket, and now it may feel even worse for those at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
The University of California opened its doors to a record number of Californians for fall 2018, led by growth in transfer students from across the state, according to preliminary data released Wednesday.
Most political discussion of higher education these days focuses on the return on investment to individuals, rather than on the contributions that colleges and universities make to society broadly. So it wouldn’t be surprising to find that many Americans don’t put much stock in the “public good” arguments on which much government funding of higher education was premised.
