Category: Higher Education/System

Jacob Schimmel worries a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents proposal on free speech won’t actually help discourse on campus.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents are set to consider two policy changes that mimic recent proposals put forth by Republican lawmakers.

If approved, the resolutions would alter how campus and system leadership is picked and open the door to expelling students who repeatedly disrupt freedom of expression.

State superintendent Tony Evers on Tuesday spoke out against a resolution pending at the University of Wisconsin that could lead to students being expelled for protesting at campus events and speeches.

UW System spokesperson Stephanie Marquis said that the proposed policy is meant to protect all students’ ability to express their views.However, not everyone agrees the new policy would be in students’ best interest.

Changes that Gov. Scott Walker made to the state budget before he signed it last week will require the University of Wisconsin System to double the number of courses offered through its online Flexible Option program over the next two years.

White supremacist propaganda and other racist messages flooded college and university campuses in the months following the election of Donald Trump. In the first comprehensive review of hate speech at higher education institutions since the 2016 election, BuzzFeed News has confirmed 154 total incidents at more than 120 campuses across the country. More than a third of the incidents cited Trump’s name or slogans; more than two-thirds promoted white supremacist groups or ideology.

A $1 million gift from Milwaukee entrepreneur and philanthropist Michael Cudahy will provide five full-ride scholarships for students attending Marquette University’s Opus College of Engineering, the university announced Tuesday.

This fall, the Cap Times is examining and explaining the student loan debt issue in a series of stories and a six-part podcast … looking at what lawmakers in Wisconsin and in Washington, D.C., are saying about it, how and why debt and tuition have increased so rapidly and how student debt has become the single largest asset on the federal government’s balance sheet, making the U.S. Department of Education equivalent to the fifth largest bank in the country.

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions dived into the debate over free speech on college campuses on Tuesday, inserting the Justice Department into a little-known lawsuit against a Georgia college and, in a speech that embraced First Amendment protections, comparing the tactics of one student group to the Ku Klux Klan.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions attacked American colleges and universities Tuesday for being “politically correct,” infringing on students’ free-speech rights and capitulating to the demands of loud protesters.

More than a hundred people gathered on the steps in front of the Georgetown Law Center here on Tuesday in anticipation of an appearance by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Inside, Mr. Sessions would be discussing one of today’s most pressing topics on college campuses: free speech. But outside, a group that included students and members of the law school faculty pointed to the irony that they had been denied access to the hall where the attorney general would speak — placing him in precisely the kind of safe space that he was there to criticize.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Monday publicly launched a $200 million private fundraising campaign to support student scholarships, research and community engagement.

Democratic state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, a farmer from western Wisconsin who has spent the last decade in the Legislature, launched her run for governor Monday, saying she wants to expand health care coverage, fix the school aid formula and make tuition free at all of the state’s technical and two-year colleges.

UW will wait for more information and guidance as process continues, Blank said.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Monday publicly launched a $200 million private fundraising campaign to support student scholarships, research and community engagement.

Noted: Natalie Weill, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was among those on Friday expressing dismay about Ms. DeVos’s move. She said that she had used the 2011 guidelines to convince the college that the student who attacked her should be expelled.

Ryan Ring has been involved in student government ever since seventh grade, and when he arrived at UW-Eau Claire in 2015 he settled into committees on the student government association before working his way to a student senate position.

Students graduating from UW-Superior this year will be leaving a far different school than the one they applied to.

In a typical year, the University of California, Berkeley, allocates around $200,000 to pay for security at campus protests. But since this past February, the school has spent some $1.5 million. That enormous sum excludes the $1 million the administration expected to spend this week on Milo Yiannopoulos’s chaotic and disorganized “Free Speech Week.”

This fall’s University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman class is the largest ever.

Practically speaking, federal guidance on campus sexual-assault policy has returned to the pre-2011 era. But colleges’ policies won’t. At least not right away.

Conservative writer Heather Mac Donald, invited to Claremont McKenna College by the College Republicans, addressed an auditorium of no one.

Universities around the country are learning this year that free speech is far from free.

The controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos and a student group accused the University of California at Berkeley on Monday of trying to cancel their plans for “Free Speech Week,” an event slated to feature Mr. Yiannopoulos, Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, and others.

A decline in enrollment at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has school officials looking for ways to cut back, and that could include cutting classes and programs.

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is reorganizing its Department of Geography and Geology as it works to cut $4.5 million from its budget over the next two years.

How did Elvis Kahoro, the son of a truck driver and a retirement home aide in Kennesaw, Ga., end up attending Pomona College, an elite liberal arts school over 2,000 miles from his hometown? The total cost of tuition, fees and room and board at Pomona, east of Los Angeles, runs over $67,000 per year. Fewer than 10 percent of applicants are admitted.

Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government rescinded a visiting fellowship offered to Chelsea Manning, the former military intelligence analyst who spent seven years in prison for leaking classified government secrets, after the university faced forceful backlash from CIA Director Mike Pompeo among others.

Students are making their voices heard about the future of their dollars after the Joint Finance Committee handed down an order to UW System schools in May, requiring them to have a uniform system of distributing segregated fees.

STEVENS POINT – Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point likely will have fewer academic programs to pick from in the coming years.

Hundreds of protesters swarmed UC Berkeley on Thursday evening as conservative writer Ben Shapiro spoke on campus, with law enforcement out in force to prevent a repeat of recent violent clashes between far-left and far-right agitators.

The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School announced Wednesday that Chelsea Manning would be one of its visiting fellows, but less than two days later, the school’s dean withdrew the invitation.