After lawmakers finished grilling members of the Walker administration over the details of a proposed incentive package to bring Foxconn Technology Group to Wisconsin, the mood in Thursday’s public hearing audibly changed.
University of Wisconsin System campuses should beef up their engineering programs to train workers at a planned Foxconn facility in southeastern Wisconsin by cutting funding for less popular programs — not by asking the state for more money — a Republican senator said Monday.
On Tuesday, Organic Valley will celebrate its participation in the University of Wisconsin’s Project 72 Campaign, which celebrates the state’s 72 counties with stories and events. The project features a 1957 International Harvester delivery truck handing out ice cream treats to residents as a token of gratitude to them for helping make UW a world-class institution. The truck will be at Organic Valley’s Cashton location from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday to distribute treats to employees and others who attend.
A University of Wisconsin System group is expected to recommend changes later this year that would overhaul how UW chancellors are hired and aim to recruit more leaders from outside of higher education, officials said Monday.
The University of Wisconsin System regents have formed a new panel to work on increasing the number of job applicants with non-academic backgrounds.
The University of Wisconsin System regents have formed a new panel to work on increasing the number of job applications with non-academic backgrounds.
The University of Wisconsin System says with more state money, it can boost engineering enrollments and training for other workers needed by a Taiwanese electronics company that has big plans to build a factory in southeastern Wisconsin.
More than two years after it was created as part of the state’s 2015-’17 budget, the University of Wisconsin System’s Office of Educational Opportunity is taking steps to authorize its first charter schools.
Just a year ago, after the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the University of Texas at Austin’s admissions program by a single swing vote, the question seemed to be edging, at last, toward an answer: Colleges could, the justices ruled, consider race when deciding whom to let through their gates.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross also told lawmakers he believes the Foxconn project would be “transformative” for the state and would “catapult” the state university system into a “position of global prominence.”
Betsy DeVos, who plans to put her stamp on federal policy governing campus responses to sexual harassment and assault, is in the midst of an extended period of deliberation and gathering input on potential changes.
A state request for proposals was published Tuesday that lays out a clear and detailed process for getting an independent charter school open for students to attend in Madison or Milwaukee as early as fall 2018 or fall 2019.
President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is looking at suing colleges and universities whose affirmative action programs violate the U.S. Constitution by discriminating against white students.
Specifically, Foxconn would need 1,600 process equipment engineers, 463 integration engineers and 300 computer-integrated manufacturing engineers. Ian Roberston, the dean at the College of Engineering at UW-Madison, said he believes that UW System, along with other schools in the area, would be able to address Foxconn’s workforce needs — as well as those of other companies in the state — but it would require growing the number of engineering students enrolled at undergraduate institutions.
Over the past few years, UW-Madison’s engineering school has completed a series of renovation projects on its laboratory and facilities, Robertson said, and it has the capacity to handle an additional 500 to 600 students.
What it doesn’t have is the necessary faculty and staff numbers to handle an influx of students that large, he said.
“I’m confident that we can increase our capacity, with an appropriate investment, in order to meet that demand,” he said.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — John Behling doesn’t have to look far to see the transformative power of a degree from the University of Wisconsin system.
Noted: All of the estimated 75 students in the program will also be enrolled in a pre-college enrichment program operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the university, the Milwaukee Police Department and the group Community Advocates will be partners in the program.
The new Recovery High School would be a public charter school solely for teens battling addiction. It would be a four-year pilot program that will be led by UW System.
Colleges across the country are giving students common reading assignments. Some campuses go against the liberal trend. At least four schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have chosen a best seller written by a young conservative: J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” which explores issues of social breakdown among working-class whites, such as drug use and child neglect.
Hiring chancellors for University of Wisconsin System campuses with non-academic backgrounds appears to be a priority for John Behling, the new president of the UW Board of Regents.
More than two years after his office was created within the University of Wisconsin System and more than a year after he was hired, the czar has yet to authorize a single charter school. His office doesn’t even have a website. Education reformers can have some confidence he hasn’t just been loafing around these last 16 months, even as state education data suggest the popularity of charters could be waning.
It can be easy to forget about the “charter czar.” More than two years after his office was created within the University of Wisconsin System and more than a year after he was hired, the czar has yet to authorize a single charter school. His office doesn’t even have a website.
Student aid advocates didn’t find much to like in a House education appropriations bill released last week — lawmakers removed billions from the Pell Grant surplus while taking no significant steps to improve college access. But educators could at least find consolation in the fact that the committee didn’t follow through on the drastic cuts to many aid programs proposed in the White House budget in May.
House Republicans issued a 2018 budget bill Tuesday afternoon that rejects several higher education cuts proposed by President Trump but upholds plans to pull billions of dollars in reserves out of the Pell Grant program for needy college students.
The responsibility for paying for college has gradually shifted over the past decade, and now parents and students typically share the cost equally, a new national study suggests.
In contrast, the University of Wisconsin in Madison offers a website with a long, easy reading list of its animal research highlights. It includes scores of findings with relevance to human or animal health, including the 2012 discovery in a rat model showing that iron deficiency worsens fetal alcohol syndrome, and the use of pigs to learn that Tasers can send the heart into an often-fatal abnormal rhythm.
A push from state lawmakers and a top University of Wisconsin System official to recruit campus leaders from outside academia would add UW institutions to a growing number of colleges that are searching for chancellors and presidents who don’t have Ph.D.s or tenure, experts say.
Think the cost of a University of Wisconsin education has been frozen for the past four years? Think again: that’s just tuition.
An estimate from the University of Wisconsin System said it cannot predict the bill’s impact on the System’s budget.
Letter to the editor: Given the high status and high salaries of many of these positions, the new preferred hiring pool would likely be heads of major corporations, who would expect CEO-type salaries when they become provosts and chancellors. This is a dangerous path.
WASHINGTON — The letters have come in to her office by the hundreds, heartfelt missives from college students, mostly men, who had been accused of rape or sexual assault. Some had lost scholarships. Some had been expelled. A mother stumbled upon her son trying to take his own life, recalled Candice E. Jackson, the top civil rights official at the Department of Education.
The Department of Education will host a closed-door summit on sexual assault today, featuring giving sexual assault victims, due process advocates and campus leaders the chance to speak directly to Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Money magazine has ranked UW-Madison 45th out of 711 total schools nationwide in its annual list of best colleges for your money survey.
Leaders at UW System schools could be recruited outside of academia if language in the 2017-2019 biennial budget remains, granting new Board of Regents President John Behling’s wish of recruiting leaders from the private sector.
A majority of Republicans and right-leaning independents think higher education has a negative effect on the country, according to a new study released by the Pew Research Center on Monday. The same study has found a consistent increase in distrust of colleges and universities since 2010, when negative perceptions among Republicans was measured at 32 percent. That number now stands at 58 percent.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday unanimously adopted a “guidepost” on free speech protections that does not impose the penalties some GOP lawmakers are demanding for students who disrupt controversial speakers.
The new head of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents wants UW institutions to recruit leaders from the private sector, and said Friday that the System is launching a new effort to “streamline” its process for hiring chancellors and other top officials.
While lawmakers in the state Capitol debate legislation that would punish University of Wisconsin students who interrupt campus speeches, the UW Board of Regents quickly and unanimously approved a resolution Friday affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
Over a year after University of Wisconsin-Madison students of color protested at a Board of Regents meeting and demanded that the university address what they saw as its institutional racism, the task force formed to hear them out affirmed that the system needs to do more for marginalized students.
John Behling, the new president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, said Friday that he wants institutions to recruit leaders from the private sector and otherwise “streamline” the process for hiring chancellors and other top administrators. In so doing, he might have shed light on why a state budget proposal includes language — opposed by faculty members — that would ban the regents from ever considering only academics as top administrators.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously approved a resolution at its meeting Friday affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
Despite a boost in state funding for the UW System in the upcoming biennium, UW-Madison will receive less than its usual share as system officials look to direct it elsewhere.
The University of Wisconsin System regents plan to vote on a resolution affirming their commitment to free speech as legislators consider a bill that would punish UW students who disrupt campus speakers.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced Thursday it received accreditation for its public health program, making it the first in the state.
The University of Wisconsin System Regents on Thursday approved a budget that will freeze resident undergraduate tuition for a fifth straight year but increase student fees and housing costs on all campuses.
UW-Madison did not have to make the deep staff and program reductions other University of Wisconsin System institutions faced through years of state budget cuts, supporters of those campuses say.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will draw down its reserve of tuition funds under an operating budget passed Thursday by the UW System Board of Regents.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System regents plan to vote on a resolution affirming their commitment to free speech as legislators consider a bill that would punish UW students who disrupt campus speakers.
A lobbying group made up of UW-Madison alumni and donors is criticizing the University of Wisconsin System’s plan to pull $6.5 million of new funding from the flagship campus and distribute it among smaller institutions.
University of Wisconsin System students wouldn’t face any tuition increases for another year but most would have to shell out more for fees and housing under a budget plan the Board of Regents is poised to vote on this week.
University of Wisconsin System officials are planning to give UW-Madison a smaller share of new state funding under an operating budget proposal released this week.
The regents are scheduled to vote on the system’s 2017-18 budget on Thursday during a meeting at UW-Madison.
The man charged with kidnapping a Chinese scholar who authorities now believe to be dead is a graduate student in physics at the University of Illinois. His LinkedIn profile also states he graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2013.
A visiting scholar from China who has been missing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for three weeks is believed to be dead, said law-enforcement authorities on Friday as they announced the arrest of a suspect in the scholar’s disappearance, according to The News-Gazette, a local newspaper. The suspect is a UW graduate.
Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison want to kill a state budget proposal that would ban the university system’s Board of Regents from requiring the system president and campus chancellors and vice chancellors be academics themselves.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty want the state Legislature’s budget-writing committee to rework the leadership structure for the newly proposed Tommy Thompson Center, a conservative think tank on the campus.
A faculty group wants lawmakers to remove language from the state budget prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System regents from imposing strict qualifications for top administrative positions.
Language quietly slipped into the proposed state budget would allow someone from outside academia to become the University of Wisconsin System’s next president or a campus chancellor, potentially moving politics and business interests squarely into future searches for top university leaders.
Thieves appear to be targeting offices in academic buildings in a string of textbooks thefts on multiple UW System campuses, according to an email from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater officials.
The Twin Cities campus will have the greatest tuition increase compared to other system campuses, with a two percent hike for incoming state residents and Wisconsinites as well as a 12.5 percent increase for out-of-state residents who don’t have reciprocity.
A University of Wisconsin Board of Regents member says taxpayer money will not be tapped to cover debts of the financial troubled UW-Oshkosh Foundation.
