Application fees for two-year University of Wisconsin schools will be waived through Sept. 7, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross announced Thursday.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and elevated allegations of sexual harassment at campuses across the state, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a resolution Thursday to review human resources policies to prevent harassment.
University of Wisconsin System regents have decided to allow schools to share personnel files of employees looking to change institutions to ensure sexual misconduct allegations are disclosed.
System President Ray Cross told regents during a meeting Thursday at UW-Milwaukee that the move is designed to reassure students who may be uncertain about applying to a two-year school as the system merges those campuses with its four-year institutions.
The University of Wisconsin System is waiving application fees to its two-year schools for the fall semester.
State colleges must record sexual misconduct allegations in employee personnel files and share the details if a worker is up for a job at another institution or a state agency, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents decided Thursday.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross told the Board of Regents on Thursday that the fast-approaching merger of its two- and four-year campuses is “on track” for a July 1 start.
University of Wisconsin System Regents are moving to require campuses to strengthen reference checks on employees who seek jobs elsewhere in the System — a move to help ensure they know if an employee was accused of, or investigated for, sexual misconduct or harassment.
In the summer of 2016, University of Wisconsin administrators met with urban- and regional-planning professor Harvey Jacobs to discuss his alleged behavior, according to a letter they sent to Dr. Jacobs in April 2017 that was reviewed by the Journal. (Subscription required)
If you’re a student in the University of Wisconsin System, you can can expect fees and room and board costs to go up.
In the summer of 2016, University of Wisconsin administrators met with urban- and regional-planning professor Harvey Jacobs to discuss his alleged behavior, according to a letter they sent to Dr. Jacobs in April 2017 that was reviewed by the Journal.
The regents are scheduled to approve the 2018-19 budget Friday at UW-Milwaukee. The spending plan calls for raising student fees at four-year schools an average of $33 per student. Room and board would increase an average of $118.
Sexual harassment of students, long carried on behind closed doors and in late night phone calls, is now seeping into Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, texting and dating apps like Grindr, where students stay connected or hang out.
As Wisconsin works hard to keep young professionals in the badger state, many graduates said choosing to stay in Wisconsin was an easy decision.
The University of Wisconsin System could start sharing information about employees accused of sexual harassment with new employers.
The UW System will look into reforming their hiring processes and reference checks in order to prevent prospective candidates with a history of sexual harassment from being considered during the hiring process.
Noted: Terry Taylor wasn’t alone in bringing out the very best in his students. Head to the University of Wisconsin’s School of Business and you’ll hear Jan Heide’s name come up often. A charismatic force who teaches Introductory Marketing, Heide was more than a professor whose door was always open to students like Linda Liu.
The University of Wisconsin System scrambled to get ahead of developing news stories Wednesday in announcing it would review hiring practices and reference checks to weed out prospective employees with a history of sexual harassment and tighten documentation.
Three researchers share the neuroscience prize for studying how we hear: A. James Hudspeth of the Rockefeller University in New York, Robert Fettiplace of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Christine Petit of the College of France and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. They provided insights into how cells of the inner ear transform sound into electrical signals the brain can interpret.
This year’s Kavli Prize for neuroscience was shared by James Hudspeth of the Rockefeller University, Robert Fettiplace of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Christine Petit of the Pasteur Institute in France. Hudspeth and Fettiplace made independent, complementary discoveries about how our sense of hearing arises from the conversion of vibrations of the tiny hair cells in the inner ear into nerve signals.
The neuroscience award went to geneticist Christine Petit of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and neuroscientists Robert Fettiplace at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and James Hudspeth at the Rockefeller University in New York City, “for their pioneering work on the molecular and neural mechanisms of hearing”.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Stevens Point Journal, and Oshkosh Northwestern have been delving into cases of UW employees moving from campus to campus — with their misconduct undisclosed — and documents about allegations and investigations missing from personnel files.
Chancellor of UW Colleges and UW Extension Cathy Sandeen was named chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage on Wednesday, as the UW System prepares for the merger of its two-year colleges and four-year universities.
Sandeen is chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
The University of Wisconsin System will consider tightening its hiring processes and reference checks, after a news report that a UW-Stevens Point administrator resigned while under investigation for sexual harassment and landed the same job at UW-Eau Claire.
At the request of Gov. Scott Walker, the University of Wisconsin System next week will consider tightening its hiring processes and reference checks to keep potential employees with a history of sexual harassment from slipping through the cracks.
University of Wisconsin Colleges and UW-Extension Chancellor Cathy Sandeen has been named chancellor for the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Proposals include requiring all UW schools to share personnel files of current or former employees with other schools and state agencies as part of a hiring review.
A 2014 essay for Inside Higher Ed noted that University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Oregon both unsuccessfully tried to break from their school systems in 2011. The Oregon University System eventually dissolved after a 2013 state law allowed public universities to establish their own institutional boards. All seven schools in that group took advantage and were operating independently by summer of 2015.
“The chances their parents can pick up the bill are not as high,” says Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and founder of the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, a research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s not for lack of families wanting to; they don’t have it.”
Public education has been one of our greatest success stories as a nation.Our country pioneered in making public elementary and high schools available to all children and created land-grant public universities that made college possible for citizens from all backgrounds.
Middle school teacher Daisy Linville wouldn’t have gone back to school to get a master’s degree in educational administration at the University of Wisconsin–Superior if the courses hadn’t been available online.
The president of the University of Southern California agreed to step down, the school’s board of trustees announced Friday night, amid growing outrage over allegations that the school’s former gynecologist had molested students for many years.
We’re almost five weeks away from the official merging of UW-System schools and local universities say they’re right on track for the July 1st deadline.
We’re almost five weeks away from the official merging of UW-System schools and local universities say they’re right on track for the July 1st deadline. But there were a few challenges facing the UW-Eau Claire and UW-Barron County transformation.
A number of colleges and universities banned faculty-undergraduate dating or otherwise shored up their consensual relationship policies after the Education Department published a reminder letter about sexual harassment liability, in 2011. Other institutions had adopted such policies earlier.
Penny S. Pritzker ’81, former U.S. secretary of Commerce and past Harvard Overseer, and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin, president of Amherst College and former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will become the newest members of the Harvard Corporation in July.
When Michigan State University announced a $500 million settlement last week with victims of convicted sports medicine doctor Larry Nassar, officials didn’t say how they would pay for it. Interim President John Engler told Michigan Radio that insurance will cover some of the cost. The university may have to borrow some money or dip into reserves.
As many as one in four students at some elite U.S. colleges are now classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues, entitling them to a widening array of special accommodations like longer time to take exams.
College graduations are going on around the country, after which most graduates face the job market for the first time. And with unemployment at 3.9 percent and employers complaining of labor shortages across professions and regions, this is one of the best job markets in decades for new college graduates.
Governor Scott Walker is calling for answers from the University of Wisconsin system after records were released showing it could have mishandled sexual misconduct complaints against a former assistant dean.
A UW-Stevens Point official who handled sexual misconduct complaints, and resigned when he was accused of sexually harassing a woman on campus in 2015, went on to hold positions handling similar complaints at two other universities, according to newly released documents.
Records show a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point official who handled sexual misconduct complaints and resigned when he was accused of sexually harassing a woman on campus in 2015, went on to hold similar positions at other universities.
STEVENS POINT – A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point official who handled sexual misconduct complaints resigned after he was accused of sexually harassing a woman on campus in 2015, then went on to hold identical jobs at other universities, including at another UW school, according to newly-released records.
1300 hundred University of Wisconsin Stevens Point graduates walked across the stage with their diploma in hand Saturday.
Seth Hoffmeister, a UW-Stevens Point alumni and former student government president, noted that Wisconsin has been long recognized as a leader in higher education. It has helped this state thrive, so why dismantle it? “What we propose is NOT radical,” Hoffmeister said. He invoked the Wisconsin Idea, the notion that the entire state could benefit from the knowledge and learning generated at University of Wisconsin System’s twenty-six campuses.
FOND DU LAC – Three University of Wisconsin campuses merging into one to serve the Lake Winnebago region will retain their own names, for the time being.
Michigan State University will pay half a billion dollars to the survivors of abuse by a disgraced former professor and doctor at the institution, Larry Nassar, who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting hundreds of women.
Casual observers of the 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial race may have been surprised when state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers announced last week that he can’t wait to replace members of the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents.
Column by Tom Loftus, a former member of the UW Board of Regents and speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly.
Under pressure from the faculty, the University of Wyoming’s Board of Trustees this month postponed a possible vote on changes to institutional regulations giving the body sweeping new authority. Such changes would make it much easier to end academic programs and terminate tenured faculty members.While the Wyoming board insists that the revisions are an attempt to sync institutional policies with what’s already in the state’s constitution, some professors see it as a power grab that could damage Wyoming’s only four-year public university. Critics have compared the proposed changes to those seen within the University of Wisconsin System, starting in 2015.
Ideally, when police arrive after this type of phone call, they would “as expeditiously as possible” ask for identification and wrap up a misunderstanding, said Sue Riseling, executive director of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA). The first layer of scrutiny can start with the dispatcher on the other end, asking detailed questions about what the issue is beyond merely a person’s presence, Riseling said.
More recently there was the disclosure that UWS had hired a for-profit company to help boost online enrollment for some graduate education programs, an increasingly common but controversial partnership in the world of higher education.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents — with 18 members, 16 appointed by Walker — preempted AB 299 in October with its own policy. It kept the sanctions that had made Democratic legislators nervous and only took formal input from one student, who was not de la Cruz or anyone else who organized the Shapiro protest.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior shocked students, employees and alumni last fall with the suspension of more than two dozen academic programs.
CLINTON, N.Y. — In the days after her son Graham hanged himself in his dormitory room at Hamilton College, Gina Burton went about settling his affairs in a blur of efficiency, her grief tinged with a nagging sense that something did not add up.
College students across the state are taking their final exams as the campuses of the UW System wrap up another academic year. As essays are hurriedly scribbled in Blue Books and dorm mates bid a tearful goodbye, there’s an undercurrent of undergraduate unrest as changes at UW-Stevens Point bode an ominous future for the UW System.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is weighing whether a name change is appropriate as it merges with two UW colleges.
When Angeline Mboutngam first attended Madison Area Technical College in fall 2012, she was enrolled in a math class that covered basic concepts such as 1 + 1 = 2. She went on to conquer calculus.On Thursday afternoon, Mboutngam settled into a desk on the third floor of UW-Madison’s College Library to study for the last exam of her undergraduate career — organic chemistry.At 45, Mboutngam, who received no formal education growing up in the Central African nation of Cameroon, will walk across the stage Saturday at Camp Randall to receive her bachelor’s degree from one of the top-ranked public universities in the United States.
The Women’s Philanthropy Council at the University of Wisconsin may deserve much of the credit. The self-proclaimed pioneer in “the national women’s philanthropy movement” was founded in 1988.
