A 14-page report produced by the committee presents a set of recommendations, a history of the issues at UWSP and a summary of the criticisms levied against administrators and their proposal to cut 13 humanities and social science majors and expand degrees in 16 more-technical fields.
Protestors gathered to demand that administrators and elected officials start making decisions that strengthen the UW system.
heltering under tents and umbrellas, about 50 people called for legislators to better fund the University of Wisconsin System. This is one in a series of protests focused on funding cuts and tuition freezes at UW campuses across the state within the last several months.
Budget struggles at universities such as UW-Stevens Point have sparked worry in Smith and others across the state. UW-Stevens Point announced a proposal in early March that would eliminate 13 liberal arts majors. That institution is facing declining enrollment and a multimillion-dollar budget deficit, according to a 2017 state of the university address.
Evers made the remarks during a protest Wednesday over plans to cut 13 liberal arts majors at UW-Stevens Point and a $250 million cut the system took in the 2015-2017 state budget.
A University of Wisconsin System lobbyist got a severance payout of more than $48,000 to resign last week under unexplained circumstances — the second high-profile System employee to receive such a payout in about the last two months, newly released public records show.
After budget cuts to many University of Wisconsin campuses, UW System students and faculty are rallying at the Capitol.
The placement in government and public interest jobs is probably good, or bad, depending on perspectives.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will cover over two signs in its Memorial Union for areas named after alumni with affiliations to the Ku Klux Klan.
The Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin Madison will cover up the names of two rooms commemorating members of an organization affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.
Students and faculty from across the University of Wisconsin System plan to rally Wednesday in Madison to demand more funding for UW schools.
For example, the University of Wisconsin Madison forged an agreement with a nearby Walgreens that enabled students to purchase naloxone from the pharmacy, and the university has also hired two new substance abuse counselors in recent years. However, opioid misuse at the flagship university is exceptionally rare, said Angela Janis, director of psychiatry and co-director of mental health services at Madison
The controversy over the planned elimination of 13 humanities majors at UW-Stevens Point has become a “communication nightmare,” Regent Regina Millner said Thursday in Madison.
A University of California, Berkeley report on free speech questions the motives of controversial speakers who sparked violent campus clashes last year, saying they were part of a “coordinated campaign” to make college campuses appear intolerant of conservative views.
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) — A committee at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is asking for more time to plan about potential major cuts coming to the university.
If a student group wants to provoke a frenzy with an event at the University of California at Berkeley, it soon may have to tell the administration why, and provide volunteer monitors to deal with any resulting unruliness.
The University of Wisconsin System’s president and at least three regents praised UW-Stevens Point officials who were defending a proposal to eliminate several liberal arts majors on campus, newly released emails show.
A committee comprised of faculty and staff members at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has released a report responding to the administration’s plan to eliminate 13 academic majors in the humanities.
The Trump administration is considering restrictions that would bar Chinese citizens from engaging in sensitive research at American universities and research institutions because of concerns about them sharing technology or trade secrets with China, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie: In April, China is said to have tested an invisibility cloak that would allow ordinary fighter jets to suddenly vanish from radar screens.
A former top administrator for the University of Wisconsin System got a severance payout of nearly $54,000 through an agreement that called for her resignation, after an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against her proved inconclusive, newly released state records show.
Allegations of sexual harassment involving a subordinate were swirling in January when a top University of Wisconsin System administrator resigned several months after her arrest for drunken driving while out of town for a Board of Regents meeting.
Letter to the editor from state Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point.
wo former administrators at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh face felony charges after allegedly funneling millions in taxpayer money to building projects for a now-bankrupt private university foundation.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh last week joined a small club of universities around the country that nobody wants to be in: Those with former presidents or chancellors who have been charged with felony crimes for financial misconduct.
Columbus State Community College (17), University of Wisconsin-Madison (19), and the University of Minnesota (20) also appeared in the top 25.
Former Chancellor Richard Wells and former Vice Chancellor Tom Sonnleitner were charged Thursday in Winnebago County Circuit Court. It is the first time anyone has been criminally charged in connection to the situation that led to the bankruptcy of the university’s private foundation.
A special state prosecutor has charged two former UW-Oshkosh officials with felonies for their roles in alleged illegal deals to finance several real estate projects owned by the university’s foundation.
It will be a new 75-thousand square feet, state of the art campus. Now, it will all open a lot sooner than expected.
After the UW System received $4 million Friday, all 26 campuses will use that funding to support health care education delivery with beefed-up broadband internet and telecommunications services.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison program is focusing on giving adults a second chance at higher education, according to a news release from the school.
Letter to the editor: Once again, the issue of freedom of speech on college campuses is being debated, this time before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In a nutshell, a conservative student at Marquette University challenges a liberal grad student teaching assistant, teaching philosophy and clearly supporting gay marriage in class.
Jake Lubenow, who heads up one of the largest College Republicans chapters in the country, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says he regularly hears from prospective students and their parents who are worried about liberal indoctrination. He tells them that he and other Republicans on campus find being immersed in a liberal environment has taught them to better articulate their views.
UW-Madison announced a new program Tuesday that will allow those ages 25 and older who dropped out of college elsewhere to finish their degrees at the state’s flagship university if they can prove they can do the work.
High-achieving, low-income students make up just 3 percent of enrollment at elite colleges. This week, 100 top U.S. universities are vowing to do something about it. Chancellor Blank is interviewed.
A consultant will be paid up to $900,000 to conduct a two-year study at the University of Wisconsin to reclassify and set compensation for thousands of jobs.
University of Wisconsin Regent Bryan Steil on Sunday launched his campaign for House Speaker Paul Ryan’s congressional seat, touting himself as a “problem solver” who would take on the political establishment.
MADISON, Wis. — A former driver for House Speaker Paul Ryan who has been active in Wisconsin Republican politics for years announced Sunday that he is running to succeed Ryan in Congress.
UW-Madison and the UW System are working jointly to overhaul how their staff is classified and paid.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation’s ongoing lawsuit against the UW System will go to trial, a federal judge has ruled.
Suspended Marquette University political science professor John McAdams hopes the state Supreme Court will return him to the classroom and allow him to collect damages for being disciplined over a blog post.
Chief Kristen Roman with UW-Madison Police was one of 473 police officials who signed a letter to congressional leaders Thursday opposing the legislation.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students planned to occupy the UW System Board of Regents offices in Madison on Wednesday to protest the proposed elimination of 13 majors programs on their campus.
The state budget committee voted Wednesday to approve the formula for providing performance-based funding to University of Wisconsin System schools.
College access and affordability: It’s a common topic in higher education — because college is the one place that can really be a catapult when it comes to moving up the economic ladder. Interviewed: Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students and alumni from University of Wisconsin campuses held a sit-in at the UW Board of Regents office Wednesday. They read 26 letters to UW System administrators, calling for more funding and pushing back against planned program cuts.
A state legislative panel has approved a plan to divvy up about $26 million to University of Wisconsin System campuses based on metrics for student access, progress toward completion, “workforce contributions” and operating efficiencies.
Viterbo University plans to eliminate 10 major fields of study — including art education, environmental biology, chemistry and history, among others — because of low enrollments, although most of them will remain as minors, officials of the La Crosse school said Thursday.
Noted: The faculty contract promises academic freedom, which a University of Wisconsin-Madison expert witness hired by McAdams defines as “the freedom of scholars to pursue the truth in a manner consistent with professional standards of inquiry.”
MILWAUKEE — A dispute between a conservative professor and the university that fired him is going before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which will hear arguments this week on whether the firing was the result of a provocative blog post or his conduct.
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students marched through campus on Thursday to protest a proposal to cut 13 liberal arts majors.
Thursday, there was a second protest on the campus, as students and faculty marched around hoping to get their message heard. Students and staff don’t want those 13 majors to be cut from the university, saying the school is depriving future students of majors they may want.
In a couple of years, students who apply to the agriculture college at UW-Madison may see fewer majors and departments, while students applying to other UW System schools could see new options available to them.
Summers is provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.
As UW College administration grapples with “thousands” of decisions in merging the state’s two-year colleges with four-year schools, UW Colleges and Extension Chancellor Cathy Sandeen said this week she is pushing to help her students get the help they need during this turbulent time.
“Sadly, I am not surprised by the findings of this report,” says Erika Marín-Spiotta, a biogeochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who is leading a US$1.1-million US initiative to develop strategies to address sexual harassment in science settings.
The financial troubles that have landed the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation in Chapter 11 bankruptcy are leading to changes at similar nonprofit foundations associated with UW campuses.
There’s been plenty of backlash, some on a national scale, to the idea that the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point would cut 13 liberal arts majors like English and history in favor of technical studies and in-demand fields.
A plan to eliminate 13 liberal arts degrees in favor of tech studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, a small regional campus of the UW System, has gained national attention not so much for the fates of faculty and students who protested it last month, but as the latest sign of a changing attitude toward higher education.
