Noted: Kathleen Bartzen Culver is the James E. Burgess Chair in journalism ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the university’s Center for Journalism Ethics. Erica Salkin is an associate professor of communication studies at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., and the author of the 2016 book Students’ Right to Speak: The First Amendment in Public Schools (McFarland).
Cris Peterson, a Grantsburg dairy farmer and nationally renowned children’s book author, has been appointed by Gov. Scott Walker to a seven-year term on tthe UW System Board of Regents. This is the first time a farmer has served on the board in more than a decade.
Over the last several years, UW Colleges has faced enrollment and financial challenges brought on by Wisconsin’s changing population demographics.
College students value a diverse and inclusive environment more than free speech rights, according to a new study on student attitudes on free expression.
A UW-Stevens Point plan to transform its academic offerings — axing liberal arts degrees while adding them in science, engineering, business and technology — has some wondering if other University of Wisconsin System campuses will follow suit.
In November, when I moderated a panel of campus leaders on this subject, including Carol Christ, the University of California at Berkeley’s chancellor, and Rebecca Blank, the University of Wisconsin at Madison chancellor, they were the biggest defenders of free expression on campus.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the vast majority of money allocated to student organizations goes to left-leaning groups, according to Campus Reform.
State Representative Katrina Shankland has announced that she will be holding a town hall meeting on the campus of UW-Stevens Point after the university announced it would be cutting some majors.
MANITOWOC – Even though the recent renovations for the University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc have updated many of the college’s major learning spaces, UW System President Ray Cross said it doesn’t hold a candle to the amazing interactions between students and teachers that occurs every day.
The phrase “too much of a good thing” may apply to cough drops. A University of Wisconsin-Madison study prompted by a Green Bay doctor shows excessive use of them could make a cough linger.
When a university spends a lot on research, ideas and technology leak out to surrounding businesses in myriad ways.
PHILADELPHIA — Many higher education professionals agree — the way to counter speech that students find repugnant (but is legally protected) is with sound policy, education and statements from administrators that both condemn offensive speech and defend the right to make it.
Initial findings of an ongoing study on faculty at Boise State University released in 2014 found that many professors reported working an average of 61 hours per week with a large portion of the time not spent teaching.
Assuming he is confirmed, Plante will join RegentsPresident John Behling of Eau Claire and UW-Eau Claire student Regent Ryan Ring on the board, giving the state’s eighth-largest city three of the 18 seats on the panel.
A state appeals court says University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials legally redacted student names from more than 2,000 pages of records.
OSHKOSH – Colleen McDermott knew she wanted to be a veterinarian since she was a little girl.
STEVENS POINT – A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point proposal to eliminate 13 majors caught at least one of the affected department chairs by complete surprise, he said Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point plans to address “fiscal challenges” by expanding some academic programs and discontinuing others, it announced Monday. Tenured faculty positions are at stake, with possible layoffs occurring by 2020.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Fights broke out between white supremacists and protesters Monday as anti-fascist activists, students and community members converged in and around Michigan State University to counter a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is planning a sweeping elimination of academic majors in order to address a $4.5 million dollar structural deficit.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point would eliminate more than a dozen majors including history, political science and geography under a proposal announced Monday.
Not many colleges, it seems, are willing to stand up for free speech on campus these days. Fortunately, the University of Wisconsin is one of them.
UW-Madison Faculty Senate passed legislation Monday calling on UW System President Ray Cross to reaffirm his commitment to shared governance.
Well-known children’s author and Burnett County dairy farmer Cris Peterson is among the newest appointees to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
State Sen. Steve Nass introduced legislation to regulate transactions between UW, private foundations.
University of Wisconsin System Administration needs to better oversee and monitor relationships with foundations and other nonprofit organizations formed to support state universities, the Legislative Audit Bureau said in a report released Friday.
The UW Board of Regents will welcome two new members this year, and one current Regent was reappointed to the board.
Today was supposed to be a last-ditch deadline for Congress to act if it wanted to keep the protections provided by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in place. Two nationwide court injunctions blocking the Trump administration from ending DACA are temporarily keeping much of the program alive, but with no legislative solution in sight, uncertainty about the long-term prospects for the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers who have benefited from the program continues.
The University of Wisconsin System projects 2,276 students will be enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha and the University of Wisconsin-Washington County in the fall of 2018, a decrease of more than 25 percent over the past decade.
UW-Barron County in Rice Lake was paired with UW-Eau Claire. Neither institution had a say in the pairing, so personnel from both institutions said the alignment was an “arranged marriage.”
The Legislative Audit Bureau looked at relationships between UW institutions and 25 primary fundraising foundations before the Board of Regents established a written policy governing those relationships, the state’s Joint Audit Committee announced Friday.
Noted: Also contributing essays to the volume are the two editors of the book, Gary Orfield, Distinguished Research Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning, and co-founder and co-director of the Civil Rights Project, at UCLA; and Nicholas Hillman, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Orfield and Hillman responded via email to questions about their new book.
A chorus of faculty demanding that University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross demonstrate respect for their role in governing the university is rising, as news of looming layoffs on one campus renews concerns over the way Cross is leading the institution.
A University of Wisconsin System attorney recommended UW-Superior leaders consult with faculty and staff over its plans to suspend 25 programs last fall, but the administration didn’t heed that advice.
Members of the University of Wisconsin-Superior faculty union say they have obtained emails from the school’s administration that show established rules weren’t followed when two-dozen academic programs were suspended in October.
Before administrators at the University of Wisconsin at Superior shocked faculty members by cutting more than two dozen academic programs, the campus’s top leaders discussed how much action they could take without soliciting faculty input.
When Charles W. Sorensen retired in August 2014, he said he couldn’t think of any other career that could have been more satisfying than serving as University of Wisconsin-Stout’s chancellor for 26 years.
Students who defy school efforts to limit participation in next month’s national walkout to protest gun violence won’t have to worry about it affecting their prospects for being admitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed the Trump administration a setback over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.
Two weeks ago, Zach Xu drove to his hometown of Parkland, Fla. Few had heard of the sunny suburb until Valentine’s Day, when 17 people were gunned down at Xu’s former high school.
The UW System Board of Regents Executive Committee approved a resolution Tuesday to return Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television to its administrative home at UW-Madison.
Oversight of Wisconsin Public Radio and TV will return to the University of Wisconsin–Madison July 1 as part of a reorganization of the statewide university system.
Newly released open records have revealed that there have been 96 formal investigations of employee sexual misconduct since 2014.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is looking at cutting academic majors and laying off faculty to deal with a $4.5 million structural deficit.
Pity Ray Cross. The formerly genial president of the University of Wisconsin System is trapped between an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)–fueled state government and Board of Regents, on the one hand, and the venerable, obstinately popular “Wisconsin Idea” of accessible public higher education, on the other. What’s an ambitious university administrator to do?
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is responding to criticism from faculty and students who say he failed to consult them on the plan to merge two-year campuses with four-year universities.
Faculty and students have criticized UW System President Ray Cross for not consulting with them in a plan to merge two-year campuses with four-year universities. However, Cross said Wednesday that system leaders had to act quickly to avoid the closure of several campuses.UW System President Ray Cross said he believes strongly in shared governance, but he feels the responsibilities for administration under that process and those of faculty, staff and students aren’t clearly understood.
In 2017, federal lawmakers did not renew the popular “tuition and fees” federal income tax deduction. But halfway through tax season, it’s back on the books, and if you’re paying for someone’s college expenses, you won’t want to miss out.
Lucas Graves, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and chair of the Shadid Award judging committee said of the Reuters entry: “This series involves a topic that is highly personal to the families of those who donated their bodies and important to everyone. Reporters and editors invested in telling this story as thoroughly as possible and dealt with some unexpected landmines in a thoughtful way.”
Cross says Wisconsin has to be the state everyone continues to come to for answers or solutions for agriculture, and particularly the dairy industry.
After reading the recent news, it’s clear we don’t all share the same understanding about shared governance in the university setting.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined the growing list of colleges that now offer free tuition to certain students. Called “Bucky’s Tuition Promise,” the program will cover four years of tuition and fees for in-state students whose family’s annual household adjusted gross income is $56,000 or less.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison investigative journalism class is examining the health of Wisconsin’s democracy and residents’ power to affect state policy at a time when major forces have changed the political landscape.
Known as Research in the Rotunda, the annual event invites exceptional student researchers from across the University of Wisconsin System to the Capitol, where they share their research on a wide range of topics with legislators, state leaders, UW alumni and other supporters.
IEEE’s The Institute posted a piece about the first computerized dating service last week, and critics soon said it did not sufficiently credit — by name or in terms of proper citations — the original research of Marie Hicks, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. IEEE first responded by adding Hicks’s name to its article and saying that the piece complied with its editorial policy. Allegations of plagiarism did not subside, however, and IEEE removed the piece over the weekend.
On college campuses across the country, free speech is one of hottest topics.
Conservative students and faculty say their First Amendment rights are threatened by a “politically correct” dominant campus culture that seeks to silence dissent, while others say the larger society’s embrace of “hate speech” is part of a system intended to subjugate people of color and other marginalized groups and that it shouldn’t be sanctioned on campus or anywhere else.
Universities such as Yale and MIT have no shortage of international applicants, but a STEM designation for an economics program unquestionably offers a recruiting edge. In a proposal to change the CIP code for its graduate economics program from the one for economics to the one for econometrics in 2016, the economics department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison cited competition from other programs that had the STEM designation. “This year, we have already had 6 instances of applicants to our terminal MS program declining our offer and accepting the offers [of] other terminal MS programs and the reason given is that the other programs offer a STEM designation,” says the proposal considered by the University Academic Planning Council in 2016.
A Department of Education reorganization plan whose broad themes were shared with employees last week would collapse multiple units with higher ed functions into one office whose leader would answer directly to the secretary.
When Dustin Gordon’s high school invited juniors and seniors to meet with recruiters from colleges and universities, a handful of students showed up.
The vote of no-confidence comes only two weeks after an email correspondence where Cross criticized shared governance was made public, which has frustrated many UW System faculty members and students.
