This month the UW Board of Regents approved a resolution that allows UW students who have “dismiss[ed] the expressive rights of others” to be suspended after having done so twice, and expelled after having done so three times.
A new UW System report shows that since 2010, there have been $5.4 million in questionable transactions made between University of Wisconsin System schools and their private foundations.
When Richard Spencer stepped out on stage at the University of Florida Thursday, it was following weeks of preparation, hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on security, and repeated condemnations by administrators and professors who said they deplored Spencer’s brand of white supremacy but were constitutionally bound to let him speak.
In light of illegal financial deals at UW-Oshkosh, the University of Wisconsin System has released the results of an internal investigation into financial transactions between its colleges and their respective foundations. A reporter breaks down what the investigation found.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Richard Spencer came to the University of Florida hoping to spread his white nationalist ideas, but his speech was instead quickly drowned out by a hailstorm of chants, shouting and mockery.
UW-Madison joined 800 other universities Thursday in a letter calling upon key congressmen to advance legislation to protect Dreamers.
An internal investigation of payments between University of Wisconsin System institutions and the private foundations that support them uncovered a handful of transactions officials flagged as questionable in a report released Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin officials on Wednesday turned up questionable payments by campuses to foundations — including one worth more than $180,000 at UW-La Crosse — but found none like the allegedly illegal ones that rocked UW-Oshkosh.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System schools conducted about $5.4 million in questionable transactions with their private foundations between 2010 and 2017, according to a system report released Wednesday. None of the transactions were apparently illegal but they didn’t always follow best practices, the report said.
With police and barricades, road closures and warnings, the University of Florida braced for Thursday’s speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer.
A nearly $184,000 payment the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse provided its foundation is among $5.4 million questioned in a UW System audit of transactions between campuses and their private foundations since 2010.
University of Wisconsin officials released a report Wednesday that shows about $5.3 million in questionable transactions between campuses and their private foundations.
University of Wisconsin System officials say a review of transactions between campuses and their private foundations has found no other cases of illegal guarantees or loans being made.
They asked the governor to declare a state of emergency, an action usually reserved for approaching hurricanes. They prepared to suspend bus routes and seal off roads and parking lots. They expanded mental health counseling on campus. And they offered to excuse students and employees who don’t want to go to class or work on Thursday.
“Though we understand and welcome bold reform when needed, it is the duty of the University of Wisconsin System to address the immediate needs of institutions and communities directly affected by this proposal,” the release said. “Student participation will be key to an implementation that will have a positive effect on our institutions in the present as well as the future.”
In anticipation of an upcoming speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida-Gainesville, Gov. Rick Scott is declaring a state of emergency.
Student leaders at the University of Wisconsin’s 26 campuses are pressing regents to include their input on plans to merge two-year schools with four-year campuses.
Recent travels took me to the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County in Wausau, where local bright-eyed first- and second-year students were busy preparing for the future.
There are far too many unanswered questions for Regents’ approval in November and implementation in July 2018. Given the business background of the Regents, it would be astounding for them to approve this major change without having fiscal projections and understanding the consequences.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Student leaders at the University of Wisconsin’s 26 campuses are pressing regents to include their input on plans to merge two-year schools with four-year campuses.
At the end of September, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced a $200 million goal for its fund-raising campaign. That’s twice the size of the goal for its last campaign, which aimed for $100 million but ultimately raised $125 million in 2008. The private Colorado College on Saturday launched a $435 million fund-raising campaign that will be the largest in its 143-year history.
Noted: In fact, Hora pointed to the Wisconsin School of Business as an example of a school that has an excellent internship system because of the college’s strong coordination with employers. As the director of career services at the school’s undergraduate program, Jamie Marsh attributed their success to staff as well as size.
The University of Wisconsin System has not yet crunched the numbers on its plan to reorganize state college campuses, according to spokeswoman Stephanie Marquis.
Students representing the 180,000 attending a UW System institution are questioning the lack of communication regarding the proposed merger of UW Colleges with four-year UW institutions.
Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin two-year colleges are voicing concerns about the planned merger with the state’s four-year schools.
What kinds of free speech should be protected? Do some people, or some ideas, get more protection than others? How inviolable is our right to protest speech that we find offensive, or potentially an incitement to violence?
They always say that one is the loneliest number. As state superintendent for Wisconsin’s public schools and one of only two non-Scott Walker appointments on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, I know it all too well. 16-1.
A Northwoods legislator says the north was dealt out of the decision to merge the two-year state colleges and UW-Extension into the state’s four-year campuses.
The list of pressures facing public higher education in Wisconsin would be familiar to policy makers in many states: an aging population, declining enrollment, scarce public dollars, and growing demands from employers and lawmakers to meet work-force needs.
Plans to restructure the University of Wisconsin System and merge many of its institutions are generating controversy, with the system’s president saying they are necessary, faculty members worrying they are being rushed and one expert likening the proposal to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has proposed merging UW Colleges with four-year U-W institutions as part of a broader restructuring of UW Colleges and UW-Extension.
A “historical link” between the University of Wisconsin Stout and the two-year UW-Barron County campus could be in jeopardy under a planned reorganization of the state’s UW-System schools.
A restructuring plan could bring major changes to the UW System, having two-year schools like UW-Barron County become a part of 4-year schools like UW-Eau Claire.
County leaders say they didn’t know about plans at the University of Wisconsin-System to merge the state’s two-year colleges with its four-year universities.
The University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension is a natural fit with University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Wednesday about news that the agency would be absorbed by her campus as part of a sweeping reorganization of the UW System.
The wide-ranging restructuring plan System President Ray Cross announced Wednesday would also bring UW Extension programs under new administration.
New names will be the first of many changes affecting three two-year colleges in 2018 if University of Wisconsin system officials approve a merger between the schools and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
STEVENS POINT – The University of Wisconsin campuses in Wausau and Wood County would become satellite campuses of UW-Stevens Point under a proposal to restructure the state’s public universities.
A plan to merge the University of Wisconsin System’s 13 two-year colleges with the UW’s four-year institutions next summer has the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie concerned about losing prospective students.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System’s two-year schools would merge with its four-year campuses under a plan system President Ray Cross announced Wednesday in hopes of boosting flagging enrollment.
The hope is the policy change will curb the shout-downs and disruption of speakers — typically conservative or otherwise controversial speakers — whose messages are opposed by other student groups on state campuses.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is proposing merging the state’s two-year schools with its four-year campuses in effort to boost enrollment.
Unfortunately, the current UW Board of Regents — with the notable exception of state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers — no longer recognizes this essential premise of the University of Wisconsin. They have made clear their abandonment of a commitment to sifting and winnowing, and the Wisconsin Idea that extends from it, by voting to restrict First Amendment rights on UW campuses.
The University of Wisconsin System has been in the news recently for a newly adopted policy that allows for the expulsion of students who repeatedly disrupt freedom of expression on UW System campuses.
The University of Florida is bracing for a speech by the white nationalist Richard Spencer on campus later this month, coming after he led another torchlight rally in Charlottesville Saturday night with supporters chanting, “You will not replace us.”
Is there a difference between “real life” and the digital realm?
Something was different Friday when the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents took its latest action to fine-tune free speech policy to the times.
Tony Evers cast only dissenting vote.
The Board of Regents adopted the language on a voice vote during a meeting at UW-Stout in Menomonie.
Preliminary enrollment numbers are down by more than 2% this fall on more than half of University of Wisconsin System’s campuses, draining millions in tuition and fee revenue and challenging campuses to make up for demographic shifts in the state’s population.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Friday passed a policy pushed by Republican state lawmakers to punish students on UW campuses who repeatedly disrupt campus speakers with opposing views.
It has been more than six months since Betsy DeVos was confirmed as education secretary after one of the most contentious Cabinet nomination battles in memory, and so we thought it worth an update on her major moves so far — and the public response.
The University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents on Friday approved a policy that will compel campuses to suspend and, eventually, expel students who repeatedly disrupt controversial speakers and speech, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents passed a Republican-backed policy aimed at punishing students who disrupt campus speakers. Although the policy at the University of Wisconsin is aimed more at shielding outside speakers invited to campus, rather than university addresses, it’s an escalation in the students-versus-administration battles of free speech that have dominated media coverage of higher education for the last year.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has adopted a policy that would create penalties for students who repeatedly disrupt on-campus speakers.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted on several issues this week including a controversial provision that would allow schools to punish students if they protest or disrupt speakers on campus. We speak with WPR Reporter Rich Kremer about the meeting and what people on both sides of the issue had to say.
The next UW-Madison chancellor could come from the private sector, after the Board of Regents approved sweeping hiring policy changes requiring the UW System to also recruit potential hires from non-academic fields.
Students and state lawmakers are calling on the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents to reconsider plans to take up a resolution that would create new penalties for those who disrupt events on campus.
At about 3 p.m. on friday, February 3, Tim Piazza, a sophomore at Penn State University, arrived at Hershey Medical Center by helicopter. Eighteen hours earlier, he had been in the kind of raging good health that only teenagers enjoy.
The UW Board of Regents plans to vote on a rule that would expel students who continuously disrupt speakers on UW campuses across the state.
