Few state universities these days can afford to turn down additional tuition dollars, but the University of Illinois system is planning to do just that. Last week Timothy L. Killeen, president of the system, proposed extending for another year an in-state tuition freeze that has been in effect for the three-campus system since the fall of 2014.
All University of Wisconsin System four-year campuses will be able to offer online associate degrees under a proposal that members of the Board of Regents approved Wednesday.
Noted: The state’s justice department on Dec. 13 announced a program providing expanded access and affordability on University of Wisconsin-System campuses for Narcan, the antidote used in overdoses.
The university in Madison, Wisconsin, is among many that don’t formally track student suicides, but officials there say the new database will link local information with death data kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.University of Wisconsin epidemiologist Dr. Agustina Marconi says “our findings and the standards we create will benefit other universities moving forward.”
Just as many universities believed that the financial wreckage left by the 2008 recession was behind them, campuses across the country have been forced to make new rounds of cuts, this time brought on, in large part, by a loss of international students.
A controversial speech policy and a sweeping restructuring plan adopted in 2017 by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will affect the state’s institutions of higher education for years to come.
BOSTON — Nearly half of the largest U.S. public universities do not track suicides among their students, despite making investments in prevention at a time of surging demand for mental health services. UW is among the group that does not.
It’s been more than a year since investigators uncovered what they believe is evidence of contractor fraud involving the construction of dorms at two University of Wisconsin System campuses.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior Faculty Senate late Friday announced a majority of its members have voted “no confidence” in university administration, in the wake of a decision earlier this year to suspend more than two dozen academic programs.
Dozens more selective colleges and universities have joined a pact to recruit more students from low-to-moderate income families, nearly tripling the total that launched the effort a year ago. The group includes UW-Madison.
The University of Florida makes a promise to its applicants: All essays they submit will be read at least twice.
Wisconsin School of Business Dean Anne Massey will step down this month, after just one semester steering one of the country’s oldest business programs.
Anne Massey announced Monday that she would resign — after only one semester in office — as dean of the business school at the University of Wisconsin, The Wisconsin State Journal reported. In an email to faculty members, Massey said that her vision for the business school differed from that of Chancellor Rebecca Blank. In October, news leaked that the university was considering the elimination of its full-time M.B.A. program. But amid criticism of the plan, the university said it was halting discussion of the idea.
More than 3 years after imposing a moratorium on U.S. funding for certain studies with dangerous viruses, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, today lifted this so-called “pause” and announced a new plan for reviewing such research. But federal officials haven’t yet decided the fate of a handful of studies on influenza and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) that were put on hold in October 2014.
Faculty, alumni and students, even prospective students — more than a dozen of them — lined up behind University of Wisconsin-Superior Chancellor Renee Wachter to address the Superior City Council on Tuesday night.
Back in January, we reported on the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting a “Men’s Project” six-week project on “toxic masculinity” and trying to analyze masculinity. The project aimed to fight back against alleged harmful effects of masculine paradigms, among other claims.
UW-Madison Faculty Presses University To Take Climate Action Lauren Flum 11 Mins AgoFaculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are joining the fight to tackle climate change. They have adopted a resolution calling for the university to take action and adopt measures that would ensure an environmentally friendly campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison offered seats to its first batch of prospective freshmen over the weekend and plans to get financial aid offers to them this week — several weeks earlier than in past years for competitive reasons.
A pair of resolutions are under consideration by local government officials, challenging plans to suspend 25 University of Wisconsin-Superior programs and place 15 others on suspension warning.
Occasionally students push back. At first in 2010 students at the University of Wisconsin rejected a proposal for a new $223 million recreation center funded in part by fees. But in 2014, the plan was approved, adding more than $100 a year to each student’s bill. Only a third of students actually cast a ballot, and those for whom such fees are a burden are a minority.
Student scientists deal with data every day. But they may not be getting the most important information they need: how to start a career in the biomedical field.Now some research universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are working to be more upfront about job prospects, particularly in the academic arena.
More than half the state’s spending on contractors in 2016 came from just two agencies: the Department of Health Services and the University of Wisconsin System. Other top spending agencies include the Department of Corrections and the Department of Administration.
The Republican-backed tax overhaul is headed for final floor votes in Congress without some of the measures that would directly target higher education. Notably, a proposed tax on tuition waivers for graduate students and other college employees is no longer in the compromise legislation. But a high-profile tax on the investment earnings of some of the largest college endowments stayed in the bill.
A proposal to tax some large private college endowments made it into the final version of a tax reform bill agreed to by House and Senate negotiators last week. The provision matches the more modest proposal included in the Senate tax bill passed this month, rather than a House proposal that would have affected many more institutions. But many college leaders have said the tax is bad policy and sets a dangerous precedent.
Oprah Winfrey made an appearance at the commencement, celebrating her sister, Pat, according to Winfrey’s Instagram.
With biomedical scientists having a difficult time getting tenure-track positions at U.S. universities, UW-Madison is joining with nine other institutions to share data on career prospects for their life scientists.
Ten institutions on Thursday announced their commitment to providing life sciences Ph.D. students — current and future ones — transparent data on admissions, training opportunities and career outcomes. Most students aren’t going to end up in faculty jobs, and the founding members of the Coalition for Next Generation Life Science want potential trainees to know that up front.
In the Big Ten Conference, only one school (the University of Nebraska) charges out-of-state students less than the University of Minnesota. The average nonresident rate is $32,600 a year, according to data compiled by the University of Wisconsin.
“There’s something to be said for diversity in all sorts of ways, including diversity of how we deliver education,” says Julie Underwood, dean of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “My concern about private schools mainly is their constant need for public money and their unwillingness, for the most part, to comply with accountability measures.”
Last summer’s Pew Research Center and Gallup surveys showing sharply declining public support for colleges and universities — especially among Republicans — seriously rattled higher education leaders.
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, joined Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana to introduce legislation Wednesday aiming to help students understand the financial implications of their student loan debt.
The letter called on them to pass “a long-term legislative solution.”
Republican leaders in both the House and Senate announced Wednesday they had reached a preliminary agreement on their comprehensive tax overhaul, with final votes on the bill expected next week.
Also on Wednesday, the Building Commission approved two utility projects – one for nearly $17.2 million and the other for $32.7 million – at the UW-Madison campus.
University of Wisconsin schools are getting free Narcan to combat opiate overdoses on campus.
“I am deeply concerned that housing WPR and WPT in the Office of the President will inherently create a chilling effect of the free exchanges of ideas that we have come to expect in public broadcasting in Wisconsin,” Miller wrote to Cross in a Nov. 1 letter.
New bill will force graduate students to pay taxes which are higher than what students generally earn as income, students say.
WHITE: One of the people who might pay for those tax cuts for Komai’s business is Josephine Lukito. She’s a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin. In the House tax bill, there’s a provision to make grad students like Lukito pay taxes on the free tuition that’s part of their financial aid.
JOSEPHINE LUKITO: If I had to be taxed on that, my taxes would effectively triple.
For those who are not poor, remember that poverty and homelessness are not issues afflicting faceless people in some far-away place, but friends and classmates who we see every day. As a study from the Wisconsin HOPE Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison remarks, “Contrary to popular expectations, there appears to be very little geographic variation in hunger and homelessness among community college students. Basic needs insecurity does not seem to be restricted to community colleges in urban areas or to those with high proportions of Pell Grant recipients, and is prevalent in all regions of the country.”Homelessness is everywhere, and we as a community need better recognize the extent to which it affects students.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison plans to close 22 libraries and create six “hubs” designed to facilitate how students and scholars work today, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
“Every Wisconsinite should have access to education or training past high school … to be pursued at whatever point and pace makes sense for individual workers and industries,” wrote researchers at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) eight years ago.
The University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents last week adopted a policy calling for institutions to track faculty teaching loads, based on a Republican-backed state budget measure linking funding to instructional time. The controversial legislation, first proposed by Republican Governor Scott Walker, also requires institutions to reward those who teach more than a standard academic load. Regent Tony Evers, a Democrat who is running against Walker for governor next year, cast the only dissenting vote, according to the Associated Press.
Jeff Tischauser’s dream of a university teaching career seemed within reach in 2013, when he was accepted into UW-Madison’s doctoral program in journalism and mass communication.
A group of faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is pressing campus officials for clarity on students’ free speech rights under a new policy adopted by the UW System Board of Regents.
UW System schools now know the 16 metrics they will be graded on as the state looks to dish out $26.25 million in new state funding after a Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has tweaked a plan to restructure the UW System in order to maintain accreditation of online and competency-based degree programs. The plan to merge the system’s two-year colleges with its four-year universities would have put UW System Administration in charge of UW’s online associates degree program and its competency-based UW Flexible Option degree program. But UW System President Ray Cross says the Higher Learning Commission, which provides accreditation for UW said the online programs must be overseen by a four-year campus.
University of Wisconsin System leaders have approved President Ray Cross’ proposal to bring an associate degree program under control of a four-year institution rather than system administration.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross says two-year schools’ sports teams will continue after the institutions merge with four-year campuses.
Former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow says she’s resigning her position on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
The teaching workload of University of Wisconsin faculty and other instructional staff will be monitored starting in January, but no other parts of their jobs will see the same scrutiny, according to a proposal before the Board of Regents for approval Thursday.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross recently proposed a major restructuring of the system’s two-year colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
Less than a month after turning 83, former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow announced Thursday she will immediately retire from the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison overshot its freshman enrollment goal for Wisconsin residents this fall by more than 100 seats — good news for those who got in and for “academically prepared” high school seniors hoping to be admitted for next fall.
UW System Regent Margaret Farrow announced this afternoon she will be retiring early from her position on the Board of Regents.
Several higher-ranked universities, however, including the University of Texas at Austin, Purdue University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ohio State University, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have all managed to keep lower tuition rates. Tuition at the University of Florida, ranked number nine on the U.S. News 2018 Top Public Colleges and Universities list, charged $6,381 for resident undergraduate tuition this year. The UW, ranked number 18 on that list, charged $10,974. According to the OPB, the UW’s sticker price doesn’t nearly cover all of the costs associated with educating students either.
Eighteen more colleges have joined the initiative, bringing the total to 86. Together, they are pledging to increase the number of lower-income students at top colleges by 50,000 (or more than 10 percent) by 2025.The new members include the University of Delaware, Haverford, Case Western and five University of California campuses. I was pleased to see both the University of Wisconsin (one of the country’s least economically diverse public universities) and Washington & Lee University (one of the least diverse private colleges) on the list. Existing members of the initiative include 12 flagship state universities, the entire Ivy League, Stanford, Caltech and N.Y.U.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is poised to adopt a policy calling for tracking faculty teaching loads and rewarding staffers who spend more time in the classroom.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross wants to tweak his plan to merge the system’s two- and four-year schools to bring online degrees under the auspices of a four-year institution.
“This plan would completely devastate my finances,” one student told a room of students and community members concerned about the bill.
Panelists said tax plan would make graduate school unaffordable through taxation of tuition waivers.
