Forty-five scholars have been chosen as 2018-19 ACE fellows of the American Council on Education. They will receive leadership training, including on-the-job experience at another institution.
Lori M Berquam, vice provost for student life at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The leader of the University of Wisconsin System’s two-year schools says a merger with the system’s four-year schools won’t be complete until the end of 2019.
To allow for greater discussion among the campus community, UW System President Ray Cross said Thursday that conversation on UW-Stevens Point’s controversial proposal to chop 13 humanities majors will continue next fall to allow for full shared governance engagement.
University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson told the regents in Madison Thursday they envision one single institution in central Wisconsin because together, they’re stronger.
The stakes are high. Surveys of Black and Latino students as well as non-white faculty reveal the impact of such broad regimes of whiteness. One need only consider recent climate studies at universities such as the University of Michigan, Northwestern, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to see the impact of stymied efforts at limiting the reign of whiteness in the academy. While things have changed to a considerable degree these studies reveal many of the very same concerns that animated a previous generation.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross says discussions about cutting more than a dozen liberal arts majors at UW-Stevens Point could extend into the fall.
Students who graduate from two-year University of Wisconsin campuses starting in December will have a different name on their diplomas, but what that name will be is yet to be decided.
Thomas Edison relied on a simple philosophy to guide research that led to world-changing inventions such as the first practical light bulb, the motion picture camera and an early version of the phonograph.
The University of Wisconsin is completing the transfer of its half-billion dollar trust funds to the highly rated State of Wisconsin Investment Board for management.
The sweeping reorganization of the University of Wisconsin System that will merge two-year campuses with four-year institutions will be utilizing a “transition year,” the Board of Regents heard Thursday.
During her junior year at the National Institute of Technology in Tiruchirappalli, India, Soundarya Balasubramani, an Indian national, spent 10 summer weeks in an internship at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Clark says there wasn’t much of a tuition difference between her two top choices: the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities and the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Ultimately, she chose to attend UM—Twin Cities because the school guaranteed her entry into its undergraduate nursing program as long as she maintained a 3.0 in prerequisite courses. UW requires students to apply to its nursing school later in their college careers.
The University of Wisconsin La Crosse hosted a forum concerning the state of the UW system as a whole Wednesday.
UW-La Crosse hosted a ‘State of the System’ forum Wednesday to start a conversation about concerns at the UW System. Students, staff, and state legislators talked about the System’s declining budget, tuition, accessibility, and how chancellors are hired for campuses in the future.
The nonprofit University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation is in the throes of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Two former officials, Chancellor Richard Wells and Vice Chancellor Thomas Sonnleitner, are also being sued in civil court by the University of Wisconsin System.
Timely text messages in the summer about key dates and must-do tasks help ensure more high school graduates make it to their chosen colleges in the fall, the Madison School District has learned in a three-year study funded by a Madison-based nonprofit here and in two other cities.
UW-Stevens Point Provost Greg Summers said a committee of the university’s common council has agreed to come up with a budget reduction approach in line with the students’ request.
The in-state/out-of-state question is a huge issue for universities. For hundreds of thousands of college-bound students nationwide, their home-state flagship is either their top choice or one of them. A Washington Post analysis of the latest available federal data found that at 11 flagships in 2016, more than half of the incoming freshman classes were from out of state.
University of Wisconsin at Madison: 57 percent (-3)
A group of faculty, students and staffers at UW-Stevens Point is crafting a counterproposal to a controversial restructuring plan that would eliminate 13 degrees in the liberal arts.
For the first time, students in more than half of all U.S. states are paying more in tuition to attend public colleges or universities than the government contributes.
Abrianna Barca, an IT supervisor at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, takes classes in the university’s lockstep program two evenings a week. When she graduates in spring 2018, she will have spent three years with her 55-person cohort, including a two-week intensive course in Hong Kong, China and Vietnam.
Similarly, in the University of Wisconsin’s Flexible Option program, “there are no courses, credit hours or semesters,” says Aaron Brower, provost and vice chancellor University of Wisconsin-Extension. Rather than enroll in courses worth a certain number of credit hours, students pass assessments showing mastery of key skills or competencies.
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.” I’m reminded of this quote from Mark Twain (New York Journal, 1897) as responses come to UW-Stevens Point’s proposal to discontinue some majors.
As hundreds of demonstrators occupied the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point administration building this week to protest proposed cuts to liberal arts programs, a state legislator called for a blue ribbon panel to help set the future direction of the UW System.
I would like everyone to know that students majoring in accounting cannot become successful in any career (including accounting) unless they also study the humanities in college. Without English, history, psychology and all of the other fields, students won’t develop as thinkers, communicators and worthwhile citizens.
In spite of the University of Wisconsin System budget crisis, UW-Green Bay announces it is accepting applications for the first-ever doctorate program in education. The degree is specific to indigenous communities of northeast Wisconsin.
State Rep. Katrina Shankland of Stevens Point proposed Thursday that the Legislature create a commission to address challenges facing Wisconsin’s public universities, in the wake of a contentious proposal to eliminate 13 liberal arts majors at UW-Stevens Point.
The school is one of 11 comprehensive campuses in the University of Wisconsin system, long seen as one of the country’s great public institutions of higher education. Stevens Point has seen declining enrollment in recent years as well as shrinking tuition revenue and funding from the state.
Is free speech in a state of crisis on college campuses? Those with a strong opinion say it’s either a dire concern, citing disrupted speeches, or blown way out of proportion in response to cherry-picked incidents. Many conservatives will argue the former, but you can apparently count President Trump as one of the skeptics.
Dozens of students at UW Stevens Point marched through campus Wednesday to protest changes to their education. Earlier this month the university released a proposal to cut 13 humanities majors at the school.
University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point: Here’s the takeaway: If you are a working-class student, a first-generation college student, someone without the means to get you to a private college or to a public research university, then you should be channeled into job training.
A campus at the University of Wisconsin is planning to ditch 13 majors including English, philosophy and history. The Stevens Point campus is understood to be shifting its focus towards programs with ’clear career pathways’.
The University of Wisconsin System’s Colleges and Extension chancellor named a finalist for the top higher education job in Louisiana Tuesday has withdrawn her name from consideration.
Hundreds of demonstrators occupied the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s administration building on Wednesday, the first protest of its kind on the campus since the Vietnam War era.
Several hundred students, faculty, alumni and others demonstrated at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus over a proposed realignment to the school’s majors.
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students will be less prepared for their future careers if campus officials change programming to focus on training them for specific jobs at the expense of humanities and social science education, said members of 20 scholarly associations.
The University of Wisconsin System’s Colleges and Extension chancellor has been named a finalist for the top Louisiana Higher Education post.
Students are planning a sit-in at the campus administration building on Wednesday in a demonstration called Save Our Majors. The Stevens Point Journal said students will then deliver a list of demands and requests to school officials. The school is one of 11 comprehensive campuses in the University of Wisconsin system.
The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point has proposed dropping more than a dozen majors currently offered through its humanities and social sciences departments. The university would instead offer programs with “clear career pathways,” according to The Washington Post.
The UW-Madison School of Education is tied for second in the country in U.S. News and World Report’s 2019 rankings of the best education graduate schools in the nation.
The plan needs to be approved by a campus governance committee and the University of Wisconsin system’s chancellor and Board of Regents for it to take effect, according to the Post.
The student-led and -organized protest is in support of the 13 humanities and social science majors that the university is considering cutting in its proposal.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, founded 123 years ago and the pride of this community, has been taking heat in recent days for unveiling a proposal to scale back its majors in some areas while increasing emphasis in others. In particular, attention has focused on the proposal’s impact on humanities programs like English, history and political science.
What’s missing in the UW-Stevens Point conversation, which has attracted notice nationwide, is an honest assessment of what employers expect from college graduates they hire. Do they want an emphasis on STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and math — or a liberal arts background that may be more adaptable?
More than two dozen professional organizations are urging UW-Stevens Point administrators to roll back a proposal to cut 13 humanities majors.
In a nutshell, the Wisconsin Idea, having emanated from the Madison campus, provides “a learning environment in which faculty, staff and students can discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help ensure the survival of this and future generations and improve the quality of life for all. The university seeks to help students to develop an understanding and appreciation for the complex cultural and physical worlds in which they live and to realize their highest potential of intellectual, physical and human development.”
After faculty spoke out in opposition to a UW-Stevens Point’s proposal that would cut 13 humanities majors in order to expand or add 16 STEM programs, over 20 national societies have penned a letter in opposition.
For decades, students planning to major in English, history or philosophy have been needled by parents and other concerned elders about how they plan to make use of their degree.
Some 20 professional organizations, from the American Anthropological Association to the Society of Biblical Literature, on Thursday issued a joint statement opposing the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point’s plan to cut 13 majors — including those in English, history, political science, sociology and all three of the foreign languages offered. The plan has attracted widespread criticism in Wisconsin and outside the state, as the humanities-heavy cuts are linked to program expansions in what the university has described as more in-demand fields. They include business, chemical engineering, computer information systems, conservation law enforcement, fire science and graphic design. Stevens Point’s initiative, which will likely involved tenured faculty layoffs, is also shaping up to be the first application of controversial changes to state tenure law and University of Wisconsin System policies making it easier to terminate tenured professors.
UW-Parkside became the second UW System school to declare no confidence in System President Ray Cross, following controversial comments he made in the wake of a decision to merge the state’s two-year and four-year schools.
Two major news organizations are reporting that the Trump administration is considering restrictions on visas for Chinese citizens, including students, as part of a forthcoming package of tariffs and investment restrictions against China.
It’s good to read that, at least for now, they’re not doing away with the “university” concept altogether.
University of Wisconsin Madison students took to the state capitol to protest, screaming for gun control and to raise the age to purchase a gun.
Community members, faculty and students at a public forum Tuesday voiced displeasure and anger at a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point proposal to cut 13 majors and shift resources toward 16 others.
Pushback continued Tuesday after UW-Stevens Point announced a proposal to cut 13 humanities majors while adding or expanding 16 STEM programs last week, even as Chancellor Bernie Patterson wrote a piece in the Stevens Point Journal to justify the university’s proposed cuts.
People got to voice their opinions during a round table at UW-Stevens Point on Tuesday about the potential cuts to many of the programs at the university.
cross the country, scientists are watching with dismay as the months tick by without any appointment of a White House science adviser.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s appearance on 60 Minutes Sunday was widely panned, with special scrutiny for her one foray into higher education policy, in which DeVos said she didn’t know which was greater — the number of false accusations of sexual assault on campus or the number of campus rapes.
In a statement, the UWSP College Republicans encouraged the university, Board of Regents and Chancellor Bernie Patterson to take “necessary actions to maintain the reputation of this great University.”
Many professors in Wisconsin saw their fears of a 2015 change to state tenure law realized last week. That’s when the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point announced its plan to cut 13 majors — including those in anchor humanities departments such as English and history and all three of the foreign languages offered — and, with them, faculty jobs. Tenured professors may well lose their positions.
