A woman has filed a federal lawsuit against Lawrence University alleging the school failed to respond to reported sexual assaults on campus, making the plaintiff “more vulnerable to sexual assault.”
ric W. Kaler, the University of Minnesota’s president and leader of the university system, will resign in July 2019, at the end of his eighth year in office, he announced on Friday, and will then serve as president emeritus for a year to continue raising funds.
If you’ve heard it’s next to impossible for Wisconsin kids to get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison, here’s the scoop.
Three years ago, Rebecca M. Blank, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, wrote a blog post to the university community outlining, in detail, the workload of professors at a major research university.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation has asked a federal judge to decide whether taxpayers should cover $18.5 million in foundation loans and legal fees.
Two Houston men have been indicted on allegations that they stole textbooks from professors’ offices at several University of Wisconsin schools, then sold them to a business in Texas that sells college books.
Roksa and her co-author, Peter Kinsley, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin Madison, surveyed 728 students in their first year at a two- or four-year institution and who had applied for financial aid in Wisconsin. Roksa asked each student about the financial and emotional support they received from their families and how engaged they were on campus and collected information about their academic success to determine how the three measures were related. The results were recently published in Research in Higher Education. The abstract is available here.
In June during the University of Wisconsin Board of Reagents meeting, the board approved a resolution to “develop or modify certain human resources policies to ensure more robust hiring and reference check processes related to sexual harassment” for all University of Wisconsin colleges.
The University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County will go by a different name, offer several new degrees and waive application fees following its integration with the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
Annual listing of UW System salaries.
Noted: The tweet gained its own variety of responses, with some circling into a debate about whether Star Trekitself was progressive or racist — or both. Shatner continued to defend his position on Wilder while some academics criticized it. Among them were Brigitte Fielder, an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, an associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Meredith McGlone is a spokeswoman for UW Madison and says the school’s approach is consistent with the law and that it’s comprehensive, competitive, and selective for all levels of admission.
Noted: The bill was passed without ever assessing the cost: Currently, $2.26 billion in general fund dollars are allocated to the Department of Corrections over two years. Meanwhile, just $2.14 billion is allocated for the University of Wisconsin System. Hundreds of millions of that come just from the extra costs associated with the truth-in-sentencing law.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Marquette University shouldn’t have fired a conservative professor over his blog post criticizing a student instructor he believed shut down discussion about opposition to gay marriage.
The Trump administration’s call for race-blind college admissions won’t change practices at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Many conservatives argue universities should have more latitude to fire tenured faculty, but this case played out differently.
An obstacle that has kept dozens of students each year from finishing bachelor’s degrees in nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be removed this fall through a new partnership with Milwaukee Area Technical College.
Rep. Jim Jordan, the powerful Republican congressman from Ohio, is being accused by former wrestlers he coached more than two decades ago at Ohio State University of failing to stop the team doctor from molesting them and other students.
Monday’s move was to finalize the restructuring of UW-Barron County into the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire-Barron County.
Colleges are beginning to see gains from programs that centralize advising across campuses, as in the California system and at Virginia Tech, or ones that better coordinate efforts among career counselors, financial-aid officers, and advisers, such as at the University of Wisconsin.
Madison children starting school could have a college savings account opened for them, in their name, under a program the city is studying.
The University of Wisconsin System’s plan to merge its 13 two-year campuses with seven of its four-year colleges received approval from its accreditation agency Thursday, following the timeline officials first presented last fall in what will be the UW System’s biggest shift since its inception by the Legislature in 1971.
Many more colleges and universities have partial bans, that apply only indoors or to specific parts of the campus. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of them.
Noted: Colleges are beginning to see gains from programs that centralize advising across campuses, as in the California system and at Virginia Tech, or ones that better coordinate efforts among career counselors, financial-aid officers, and advisers, such as at the University of Wisconsin.
The Higher Learning Commission has approved University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross’ plan to merge the system’s two-year and four-year schools.
After the Higher Learning Commission approved a University of Wisconsin System restructuring proposal, Both the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh welcome new campus communities.
UW-Barron County faculty and staff were caught off guard last fall when it was announced that the Rice Lake campus might become part of UW-Eau Claire.
Wisconsin’s potential human resource shortage has been a topic of conversation even before Foxconn’s 2017 announcement that it would open the plant; it certainly seemed to be on Walker’s mind in 2015, when he attempted to change the University of Wisconsin system’s mission statement.
UM isn’t alone is seeking to attract more moderate and low-income students through targeted tuition programs. This year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Bucky’s Tuition Promise in February, guaranteeing free tuition for four years to in-state residents with family incomes below $56,000 and the University of Texas at Austin debuted the Texas Advance Commitment in April, offering free tuition to in-state students with family incomes below $30,000.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison is taking things further. Press releases about animal research at other universities usually skate over sensitive information, but UW’s describe injecting monkeys with Ebola virus and performing heart surgery on pigs, for example, and its web pages detail its animal research program. UW also posts its USDA inspection reports online, even after the agency began scrubbing them from its own website in a controversial move last year (Science, 26 May 2017, p. 790).
Ann Arbor — A year after unveiling the Go Blue Guarantee — four years of free tuition for students from in-state families making up to $65,000 a year – the University of Michigan is preparing to welcome its first new class of recipients this fall.
STEVENS POINT – A new report from University of Wisconsin System auditors called UW-Stevens Point’s bank management practices “unsatisfactory” for issues and failures dating back to 2012.
Another topic on which Justice Kennedy wrote a key decision on higher education involved student fees at public universities. He wrote the unanimous 2000 decision, in a case involving the University of Wisconsin at Madison, finding that public universities could charge mandatory student fees that support various organizations.
That means UW-Marathon County will soon become a UW-Stevens Point branch campus. Ahead of that, the Marathon County Extension, Education and Economic Development Committee met Tuesday night and decided to support a new name, UW-Stevens Point Wausau.
At least five sexual misconduct complaints against University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh employees alleged an inappropriate use of social media or texting to target students, according to an analysis of public records.
It would tentatively be UW-Stevens Point–Wausau.
UW-Stevens Point has received an “unsatisfactory” audit of its bank account management and oversight practices, according to a report presented to the audit committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents this month.
We have set an important and difficult goal: Create a unified four campus university where all students have access to all programs (associates through graduate degrees) no matter where they enter.
U.S. Department of Education and the Workforce? That’s what the Trump administration envisions in its new 132-page framework for merging the Education and Labor Departments, as part of a broader overhaul of the federal government.
The antiquated funding statutes of the tech college system, which date back to before the Vietnam War was over, is a prime example of the “sacred cow” of public higher education in this state.
A state appeals court says the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh must release records related to misconduct investigation involving a business professor.
Students studying science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) at a University of Wisconsin System two-year institution or Wisconsin technical college may have more help during the transfer to a four-year college thanks to a five-year, $1 million grant.
If the last week at Michigan State University has illuminated anything, it is just how political the fallout from the abuse scandal there has become.
As colleges and universities have confronted whether to let controversial figures on their campuses, the leader of a top free-speech group Tuesday argued that the speeches should be allowed even amid the threat of protests.
Noted: Wisconsin School of Business has yet to restart its search for a dean to replace Anne Massey, who resigned in December, after four tumultuous months on the job. It cost the school $188,000 to recruit Ms. Massey from a professorship at Indiana University last year, according to a spokesman.
A nearly $7 million marketing campaign has been launched to get alumni from Wisconsin colleges and universities to come back ‘home.’ It’s targeted to young professionals who left to work in other states.
Wisconsin, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee have all made policy moves in recent years that have sought to to weaken tenure, or that faculty members have interpreted as threats to it. Leaders of some private colleges who want to adapt more quickly to marketplace demands have invoked dire institutional finances as a reason to propose — if not always follow through on — cutting tenured faculty.
Noted: Steil, a University of Wisconsin Regent, launched his campaign for Ryan’s seat in April, soon after Ryan announced that he wasn’t seeking reelection.
Quoted: “It has this strong motivating factor when it appeals to the politics of resentment,” said Donald Moynihan, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who opposed the regents’ policy.
When UW-Stevens Point leaders announced a proposal March 5 to address fiscal challenges, the purpose was to invite dialogue to shape a plan for a sustainable future for our institution.
Foxconn Technology Group and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said they created an educational partnership that will enable UWM engineering students to study in Taiwan and work at a Foxconn facility there.
A $2.3 million solar panel project that is underway at Madison College is expected to be the largest rooftop solar project in Wisconsin once it’s complete.
Reports of sexual harassment in academe may be on the rise, but there’s no evidence to suggest that harassment itself is declining. To effect real change, colleges, universities and research centers must move beyond treating harassment like a legal problem and treat it like a cultural one — one with major implications for institutional and scientific excellence.
The geography professor at UW-Eau Claire is one of the editors of the recently released “Atlas of the 2016 Elections”, but, the recent case of realigning Wisconsin’s legislative districts has made him analyze how the state aligns its votes.
Two former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh top officials have pleaded not guilty to charges of misconduct in office in connection with a financial scandal involving some building projects.
Former University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells and Vice Chancellor Thomas Sonnleitner pleaded not guilty in Winnebago County Court Monday morning to all counts of misconduct in office.
The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced Monday it is investigating the University of Southern California’s handling of sexual harassment allegations against gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall. In a statement, the office said it will look into how USC handled “reports and complaints of sexual harassment during pelvic exams as early as 1990 that were not fully investigated by the University until spring 2016 and that the University did not disclose to OCR during an earlier investigation.”
Wait for it . . . The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire – Barron County.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents unanimously re-elected the president and vice president of the board Friday.
The University of Wisconsin System regents have approved a budget that will raise student fees as well as room-and-board costs.
