Noted: In addition to setting spending levels, the budget includes a few key policy measures. It scraps the state’s prevailing wage requirement for workers on public construction projects and imposes a new, controversial requirement to track how much time professors in the University of Wisconsin System spend teaching.
WASHINGTON — President Trump said in a Twitter post on Thursday morning that no deal had been struck with Democrats on protections for young undocumented immigrants, contradicting what Democratic leaders had said after a dinner with the president on Wednesday night.
Leading Democrats say they struck a deal with President Trump Wednesday night to pass legislation to protect the about 800,000 DREAMers who could face deportation when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is scheduled to end in March.
Noted: U.S. News and World Report’s annual college rankings place UW-L fourth among Midwest public universities the ranking classifies as regional campuses with a score of 62 out of 100. This is the highest ranking in the UW System outside of the flagship Madison campus, which ranked 12th in the national public university category with a score of 64.
Noted: Wisconsin’s flagship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, dropped two spots from a year ago, tying for 12th among public institutions in the rankings.
“Controversies over freedom of speech on college campuses have existed as long as there have been college campuses. But the specific issues vary with each generation.”
Following controversy over the state Assembly’s recent passage of the “Campus Free Speech Act,” professor Howard Schweber, a First Amendment expert, led a discussion on the future of free speech on college campuses put on by the Political Science Department.
It’s no secret that engineering has been touted as one of the most in-demand fields. Now, engineering schools throughout the UW System have another reason to expand their programs—Foxconn.
In decades past, amid conservative calls for new laws to regulate “morality,” progressives frequently argued that our private bedrooms were no place for the government. Yet if you are a student on a college campus in modern America, if you ask someone over to “Netflix and chill,” you better make sure you make enough room on the couch for your second guest, the federal government.
The new program, Badger Promise, seeks to give first-generation in-state college students who transfer to UW-Madison a year of free tuition.
Betsy DeVos last week blasted guidance from the Obama administration on investigation of campus sexual assault for creating a failed system. What she didn’t note was that many of the provisions covered in the 2011 guidelines — which she has vowed to rescind and replace with new regulation — have since been enshrined in law. While DeVos has the power to repeal current guidelines, that won’t change many of the responsibilities for institutions already in place.
After a 15-year hiatus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching a hiring program to recruit clusters of faculty from different disciplines who will work together in emerging areas of research.
As the nation’s secretary of education announced plans to change the way colleges and universities handle allegations of sexual violence on campus, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Thursday defended practices on her campus.
Lawmakers on the state’s budget-writing committee have revived a controversial plan to track how much time professors in the University of Wisconsin System spend teaching — five months after they initially rejected the proposal.
UW System Regents donated 100 times more money to GOP candidates than Democrats from 2010-2016, according to a report released by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
Americans are losing faith in the value of a college degree, with majorities of young adults, men and rural residents saying college isn’t worth the cost, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey shows.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is alerting some patients that personal information was sent through the mail where it could be seen by others.
The Education Department will begin the process of replacing a signature Obama-era piece of guidance that laid out expectations for colleges from the federal government on protecting students from sexual violence, Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, announced on Thursday during a speech at George Mason University.
Wisconsin’s $76 billion state budget, which sends more money to K-12 schools but does not come up with a long-term funding solution for dilapidated roads, cleared a legislative committee more than two months late Wednesday night, setting the stage for swift passage in the Republican-controlled Legislature.
The US-Africa Energy Summit 2017, to be hosted by UW-Platteville and scheduled for Sept. 18-19 at Monona Terrace, was canceled after the Department of Homeland Security refused to issue visas to key presenters and attendees, professor and summit organizer John O. Ifediora said.
In this year’s omnibus motion, lawmakers adopted a Walker proposal to require the UW System to monitor teaching workloads and report that data to the governor and the Legislature; and to move up by a few months 2 percent raises for state employees.
University of Wisconsin schools would be required to monitor teaching workloads for faculty and other instructors under a budget provision passed Wednesday evening by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee.
n Wednesday, the U.S. Education Department confirmed that the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, would appear at George Mason University on Thursday to make a “major policy address on Title IX enforcement.” That announcement, previously reported by BuzzFeed News, heightened advocates’ fears that Ms. DeVos was poised to roll back the department’s efforts on mitigating campus sexual assault, a hallmark of the Obama years.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has gone up in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, according to a release.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, through which about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children have gained the right to work and temporary protection against the risk of deportation. The administration said it will phase out the program, which was established by President Obama in 2012, after a six-month period to give Congress a chance to act on legislation that could restore the program.
A program that has given some 800,000 undocumented immigrants a chance to attend college, work, and build lives in the United States without fear of immediate deportation will be phased out after a six-month delay to give Congress a chance to come up with a legislative fix, the U.S. attorney general, Jeff Sessions, announced on Tuesday.
By this fall, all employees at University of Wisconsin campuses — from custodians and residence hall staff members to professors and administrators — will have completed training on sexual violence and harassment as part of a new systemwide requirement.
The chairman of a panel of University of Wisconsin regents looking at ways to streamline the process of hiring chancellors and other top administrators was surprised to learn that typically it is five months after a search committee is named that a chancellor is hired.
President Trump is expected to announce today his decision on whether to eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was created by President Obama to give a temporary legal status to young people brought to the United States by their parents without legal documentation.
College and university leaders expressed deep concern Monday about what an imminent Trump administration policy shift on immigration could mean for students who were brought to the United States as undocumented immigrants when they were children.
President Trump is expected to announce on Tuesday that he will end a program that has allowed some 800,000 young immigrants to live, work, and study in the United States without fear of immediate deportation. His action may be delayed for six months to give Congress a chance to act, according to reports published over the weekend.
Rather than renovate the 60-year-old state office building that sits on the site Madison Area Technical College has identified as the future home of an expanded South Side campus, officials plan to demolish the facility and build one in its place.
The University of Wisconsin System got more than half the bonding authority it wanted for capital projects by the time the Legislature’s budget-writing committee finished its work Monday, and it also got money for major maintenance, repairs and renovations to aging buildings that had been cut from the state’s last biennial budget.
Noted: Marquette University came in second in salary potential ($54,300 early; $103,100 mid-career), followed by UW-Madison ($53,400 early; $98,400 mid-career), Lawrence University ($47,000 and $95,100); UW-Platteville ($53,600 and $92,800); St. Norbert ($47,800 and $90,400), UW-Eau Claire ($49,100 and $87,500) and UW-Milwaukee ($47,700 and $84,900).
Noted: All technical college boards and UW chancellors could authorize a charter school under the proposal. Now, only the chancellors of UW-Milwaukee and UW-Parkside and the boards of Milwaukee Area Technical College and Gateway Technical College in Kenosha can do so.
Noted: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights currently has 358 active investigations into sexual violence cases at 252 colleges, including the new case at UWM, four at UW-Madison, two at UW-Whitewater, two at Medical College of Wisconsin, and one at St. Norbert College.
Noted: After launching at Marquette, the site started hosting listings for housing near the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northern Illinois University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where about 80% of the 30,000 students live off campus.
Madison Area Technical College will buy the soon-to-be-vacated state office building at Park Street and Badger Road, officials announced Monday, and turn the site on the historically underserved South Side into a new campus.
Quoted: “What difference does having a major research university in a place like Wisconsin make?” said University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank. “It’s the future of the state.” If Blank is right, then current trends put that future in doubt for much of the Midwest. Many of these same universities have suffered some of the nation’s deepest cuts to public higher education. Illinois reduced per-student spending by an inflation-adjusted 54 percent between 2008 and last year, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The figure was 22 percent in Iowa and Missouri, 21 percent in Michigan, 15 percent in Minnesota and Ohio, and 6 percent in Indiana. While higher education funding increased last year in thirty-eight states, Scott Walker’s 2015–17 budget cut another $250 million from the University of Wisconsin system. The University of Iowa recently had its state appropriation cut by 6 percent, including an unexpected $9 million in the middle of the fiscal year.
Matt Kussow, director of Badger Advocates, a nonprofit group independent of UW-Madison that rallies state support for the university, said the cost of the Foxconn incentive deal is worrisome — in part because university funding often is targeted in a budget crunch.
Letter to the editor from Downs, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of political science and First Amendment scholar, and Underwood, a retired Madison attorney.
One of Anne Massey’s main areas of expertise during her more than 20 years at Indiana University-Bloomington was how technology impacted the performance of teams. Now she’s taken that knowledge to work for her new team: Massey assumed the role of dean at Wisconsin School of Business on August 7.
The organizers of an event meant to promote free speech at the University of California at Berkeley have their lips sealed about who will be speaking at the series.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire College Democrats had begun organizing a counter-protest to the event in that city advertised as an NSM barbecue meet-and-greet.
If you happened to be walking down State Street in Madison in May of 1920, you may have been confused about what you were witnessing. You may have seen more than a dozen young men wearing their finest suits and top hats while pushing baby carriages up and down the street.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said on Tuesday that it did not have the legal authority to remove a Confederate monument from its campus, despite guidance from Gov. Roy Cooper suggesting that administrators “take immediate measures” if they feel there is a risk to public safety.
Pennsylvania State University has denied a request by white nationalist Richard B. Spencer to speak on campus, the university announced Tuesday.
As an undergraduate nursing student at UW-Madison, Maichou Lor tried three ways of getting information about cancer screening from Hmong adults: using written surveys with true-false or check-box answers, and reading questions out loud.
UW-Madison does not require supervisors or human resources officials to keep records of anonymous sexual harassment complaints that are brought forward by students or employees, administrators say.
Duke University on Saturday announced that it had removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from the entrance to the university chapel. On Sunday night, the University of Texas at Austin announced it would remove statues of Lee and three other Confederate leaders from a prominent campus location. And Bowdoin College on Saturday said that it would take down a plaque honoring Jefferson Davis and college alumni who fought for the Confederacy.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh chancellor needs to find a new place to live.
The embattled UW-Oshkosh Foundation, whose top officials were sued by the UW System in January for mishandling funds and making illegal financial guarantees, will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The embattled UW-Oshkosh Foundation filed for bankruptcy Thursday, with leaders saying their hand was forced by a “flip flop and ill-advised political gamesmanship” from University of Wisconsin System officials who backed out of a potential settlement with the foundation’s creditors.
BOSTON (AP) — Nicholas Fuentes is dropping out of Boston University and heading south, pressing ahead with his right-wing politics despite receiving online death threats.
Michigan State University on Thursday became the third public institution of higher education this week to decline to host an event at which the white nationalist Richard Spencer presumably would have spoken, and the president of a fourth institution, Louisiana State University, said Mr. Spencer would not be welcome there.
After a planned speech in February by the right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos attracted demonstrators who started fires and shattered windows, the University of California, Berkeley realized it had a major hole in its event planning.
Not only do Republicans and Democrats have different levels of confidence in higher education, but they are coming at the issue by focusing on different issues, a new poll by Gallup shows. Republicans who distrust higher education focus on campus politics, while the smaller share of Democrats who distrust higher education tend to focus on rising college prices, the pollster found.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a computer science student named Daniel Dropik abandoned his effort to start a campus chapter of the American Freedom Party, a white nationalist group. Dropik, who served time in federal prison after being convicted of arson for setting fires at two predominantly black churches in 2005, faced pressure from the administration and student leaders to do so, although the university could not force him to halt the project.
Nearly every semester, there’s a textbook he can’t afford to buy, said University of Wisconsin-Madison student Zaakir Abdul-Wahi … One national study in 2013 found that 65 percent of students said they decided against buying a textbook because it was too expensive, even though nearly all of them worried it would hurt their grade.
The University of Wisconsin System is looking to “streamline” its process for filling top posts on campuses to speed up hiring and attract applicants from the private sector and government.
