Following the resignation of a top UW System administrator, System officials continue to review other UW employees’ “concerns” about Jessica Tormey’s actions on Oct. 5, when police stopped her for drunken driving.
OSHKOSH – University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh leaders aim to fill a $9.5 million budget hole through a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases.
Religious colleges would be able to bar openly same-sex relationships without fear of repercussions.
An executive for the University of Wisconsin System arrested on a charge of first-offense drunken driving while out of town for a regents meeting in October has resigned.
Jessica Tormey, of Fitchburg, was vice president of university relations for the System and chief of staff to UW President Ray Cross. She had been one of Cross’ top lieutenants since he began leading the System in 2014.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee business school dean wants the state Claims Board to pay him nearly $800,000 because university officials broke employment promises.
MILWAUKEE – Foster children may soon be getting a free education thanks to the state of Wisconsin. A newly proposed bill is gaining bipartisan support in Madison.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross’s chief of staff and the vice president of university relations has resigned.
Students and staff across Wisconsin are accusing University of Wisconsin system teachers of sexual harassment.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s top administrator says details of the coming merger with the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County and the University of Wisconsin-Richland are still being worked out.
A bipartisan group of Wisconsin legislators has proposed waiving tuition and fees for foster children attending University of Wisconsin schools and state technical colleges, saying the children lack a permanent family when they age out of the foster system and need help to succeed.
The University of Wisconsin System has released new details on dozens of complaints of sexual harassment.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee is set discuss dismissing a UW-Whitewater faculty member.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Mackenzie Mrla brought spray paint, a blanket and green Michigan State mittens to ward off the biting cold. But someone had already repainted the university’s rock, a rough boulder by the river that is by turns a billboard, a rousing sideline cheer and a plaintive glimpse into the university’s collective soul.
MADISON, Wis. – Recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and their families are facing the reality that Congress might not ever agree on an immigration plan to replace the Obama-era program.
Newly released records show nearly a dozen sexual misconduct complaints in recent years have led to the firing or resignation of employees within the University of Wisconsin system.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee is set discuss dismissing a UW-Whitewater faculty member.
The University of Wisconsin System may still be on the hook for debts accrued by the UW Oshkosh Foundation. The non-profit foundation is filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy over several real estate deals gone bad.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay investigated allegations that an instructor forced students to wear two-piece swimsuits and that an assistant coach inappropriately texted a female student-athlete.
Laura Dunn, a victim of sexual assault while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is taking a strong stand to protect students who come forward to report their own experiences of sexual misconduct on campus.
Colleges should be doing more to deal with, and potentially punish, people who heckle campus speakers and shut down events, a top Justice Department official said in a speech on Thursday.
On Thursday, copies of Michigan State University’s campus newspaper sat in a stack atop the desk of Lorenzo Santavicca, the student-body president. He grabbed one and held it up. A teal banner under the nameplate read, in all caps: “Can you hear them now?”
Michigan State University and the National Collegiate Athletic Association are facing scrutiny not only over the actions of a doctor who abused scores of women, but over athletes alleged to have raped and assaulted others. The university and the NCAA are both being accused of effectively looking the other way.
Michigan State University was propelled on Thursday to the center of the sexual abuse scandal involving Dr. Lawrence G. Nassar, as state and federal agencies mounted investigations demanding to know what the college knew of his behavior and when.
The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee appeared Thursday to agree on a number of provisions they would like to see in a new bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, which would streamline student loans.
When the N.C.A.A. kicked off an investigation of Michigan State on Tuesday, it opened itself up to a brand of controversy not seen since the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State several years ago, with similar potential pitfalls but also a chance to reaffirm its relevance.
Lou Anna K. Simon, the president of Michigan State University, resigned under pressure Wednesday night over the way she handled a scandal involving a former university doctor accused of sexually abusing more than 150 young women.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater have talked with colleagues on other campuses who question whether it makes sense for students to help decide sexual-assault cases. But they’ve never considered removing students from their hearing panels.
Higher education: Walker has touted his tuition freezes for the University of Wisconsin System, and a recent boost in state funding for the system. In contrast, Kelda Helen Roys pointed out that under Walker, in 2011, Wisconsin for the first time spent “more on our prison system than we did” on the UW System. Our rating: Mostly True (the trend started before Walker took office).
Much work remains to be done, but if plans stay on track, UW-Rock County and UW-Whitewater officially will merge by July 1, UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper said Monday.
Following reports of sexual harassment by leading scientists at universities across the country, a congressional committee wants an investigation into what federal grant-funding agencies are doing about it.
Meanwhile, the University of Wisconsin Colleges and Extension’s early-college instructor requirements are similar to HLC’s. And the two-year system goes a step further by pairing dual-credit high school teachers with college faculty members, who work with them as mentors.
Second Amendment advocate Katie Pavlich spoke without incident at the University of Wisconsin, Madison shortly after the university regents adopted a two- and three-strikes discipline policy. The leader of the anti-Pavlich demonstrators acknowledged that they had decided on peaceful tactics instead of trying to shut Pavlich down, because of the new discipline policy.
A 2017 Pew poll regarding Americans’ views on higher education, specifically those of Republicans, should alarm educators and, indeed, all citizens.
In the 1960s college students demanded the right to talk about anything on campus, from civil rights to opposing the Vietnam War. All ideas seemed up for debate. But is that still true today?
Students receiving federal financial aid to attend area colleges and universities won’t be immediately impacted by the government shutdown, UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said.
State appropriations for higher education increased nominally over the last year, according to an annual survey. But the small rise and wide variations across the nation underscore why many public colleges still have reason to fret about their states’ economies.
States’ financial support for higher education grew only slightly between the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years, with more than a third of states decreasing their funding and another dozen increasing it only slightly, according to an annual survey released today.
A $2 million donation, the largest gift in the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s 108-year history, will have a major impact on environmental science education and research and will provide the name for the $82 million science building that will be ready for classes by next fall.
UW-Madison is moving to give faculty and staff a 4 percent pay increase in the next year, the university announced Thursday.
An interest in education issues could affect elections later this year in a state where public education advocates have accused the Walker administration of cutting K-12 funding (even though Walker says he is spending more than ever in the state), stripping teachers of collective bargaining rights and attempting to change the long-standing mission of the University of Wisconsin system.
But even with the tuition freeze, all three University of Illinois institutions post some of the highest rates for tuition and fees compared to schools of similar size and prestige. Urbana-Champaign’s rates for first-time, full-time undergraduates are the second highest among schools that include University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin and several schools in the University of California system, Wilson said.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had gathered last spring to consider a resolution calling on the university to divest in companies and countries that abuse human rights, profit from the “military-industrial complex” and promote fossil fuels when the debate jumped the rails.
The plan is a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin System, the state’s technical colleges and the state Department of Workforce Development.
The Kenneth G. Weckel Scholarship is named for a University of Wisconsin food science professor who contributed greatly to the advancement of vegetable and fruit processing through his research and teaching.
The Harvard Crimson last month reported that the institution has seen a 20 percent increase in sexual-harassment complaints since the allegations against Weinstein surfaced in October. Bill McCants, who oversees the office charged with handling claims of harassment at Harvard, attributed that rise at least in part to the #MeToo movement, citing conversations he had with students. Other schools’ Title IX officers, who are tasked with ensuring that colleges are in compliance with the federal law that’s used to address sexual harassment, alluded to similar trends on their respective campuses.
“Should universities allow controversial speakers to have a platform on campus?” asked Catherine J. Ross, a law professor at George Washington University specializing in constitutional law and the First Amendment. “Generally yes, because the university is uniquely devoted to truth finding, to testing and challenging orthodoxy in every field. There may be some limits — if physical safety is an issue and the risk is real and attributable to the speaker.”
When Agnes Scott College announced last week that Leocadia I. Zak would become its next president, the women’s college in Georgia did not insistently trumpet her experience with the federal government.
Rebecca Blank, acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2012 to 2013, became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in July 2013. That same year, the University of California system presidency was awarded to Janet Napolitano, a former Arizona governor who at the time was secretary of homeland security.
Seth Pollak, a distinguished professor of psychology and professor of anthropology, pediatrics, psychiatry and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who signed the open letter against advising students to work or study at Rochester, said Thursday that he hoped Seligman’s resignation was a step in the right direction for the campus. But the report itself was unsatisfying, he said, as Jaeger was found not to have harassed women to a “pervasive” or “severe” degree, even though multiple women testified about harassment.
Candidate Kelda Helen Roys used part of her time to attack Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who is running for a third term. Roys, a former state Assembly member from Madison, accused Walker of putting prisons ahead of the University of Wisconsin System, saying:I think in 2011, it was Walker’s first budget, and we had the dubious distinction of spending — for the first time in our state’s history — more on our prison system that we did on the entire UW System.
This is not the first time a professor has faced controversy because of their courses or lesson plans. In May, student protesters shut down a sociology class at Northwestern University after a professor invited both an Immigration and Customs Enforcement public relations officer and an undocumented immigrant to speak in back-to-back lessons. Last year, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison started teaching a course titled “The Problem of Whiteness,” prompting complaints from a Republican lawmaker in the state, who called on the university to discontinue the class. The school defended the course and is offering it again this semester.
There is no evidence that anyone attempted to access personally identifiable information on the servers.
While the number of international students enrolled at UWL has decreased over the past six years, the total number has actually increased throughout the entire UW System.
More than four decades ago, a crowd estimated at almost 3,000 packed the Stock Pavilion on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to listen to the wisdom of the most recent Nobel Peace laureate.
Team MacIver survived the bitter cold spell to bring you a report on the hotbed of hate pervading the UW-Madison student body – or at least, you might think that if you don’t take a closer look at the actual hate and bias reports filed by students. Hear that and Team Mac’s incredibly expert insight on a new problem at the Tomah VA, a dispatch from the front lines of the tax cut armageddon, the failure of ethanol, zombie regulations, and the latest at the state Capitol.
The dining hall in the Carson Gulley Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was dressed for dinner, complete with white tablecloths. Along with an Asian-inspired buffet, networking was on the menu.
Parkside draws much of its student population from regional school districts, Ducoffe said. The number of people graduating from high schools in Wisconsin has been relatively flat since at least 2012, according to the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison. The trend is projected to continue.
Noted: Cliff Robb, an associate professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studies how people make financial decisions and facilitates efforts on campus to talk to students about how they handle money.
A year after the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents adopted a policy prohibiting professors from entering into romantic or sexual relationships with their students, such relationships are still permitted at UW-Madison.
