The University of Wisconsin System will not use taxpayer money to pay the debts of the troubled UW-Oshkosh Foundation, officials said Tuesday, and has backed out of talks with the nonprofit’s creditors about a potential settlement.
CHICAGO — Candice Jackson and Thomas E. Wheeler Jr. received modest applause when the head of the National Association of College and University Attorneys introduced them to the roughly 1,700 lawyers attending the group’s annual meeting here Tuesday afternoon.
No state dollars will be used to bail out the beleaguered University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation, the UW System announced in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.
The Supreme Court on Monday partially lifted the injunction on President Trump’s ban on entry for nationals of six Muslim-majority countries, allowing it to take effect except for in the cases of “foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”
MADISON — If organizers of the University of Wisconsin System’s first Wisconsin Idea Summit thought last week’s event focused on the dairy industry was going to solve all of the industry’s woes, then they probably went home from the summit disappointed.
In all, 3,981 workers outside the University of Wisconsin System moved on from their state jobs in 2016, which was nearly 11% more than in 2015 and more than twice as many as in 2010. Turnover is also up among UW professors.
The Wisconsin State Assembly passed the Campus Free Speech Act in the House, which would suspend or expel University of Wisconsin students who disrupt a campus speaker they disagree with.
(CNN)Under a new piece of legislation that passed through the Wisconsin State Assembly on Wednesday night, students who disrupt speeches on campus at University of Wisconsin schools could be suspended, or even expelled, for speaking out.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison named Mike Peters director of the agricultural research station network.
Democrats call bill ’too broad, unconstitutional.’
The state Assembly approved a Republican-backed bill late Wednesday night that aims to prevent disruptive protests on college campuses by requiring the University of Wisconsin System to suspend and expel students who repeatedly interrupt speakers.
n debate on the Assembly floor Thursday, Democratic opponents of a Wisconsin campus speech bill accused Republicans of hypocrisy in presenting themselves as champions of free speech while they routinely squelch protest in the Capitol and try to silence speech at the University of Wisconsin that they don’t like.
While many disruptive protest have been making headlines on campuses nationwide, many students at University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point said it’s a different story.
The battle for free speech continues to wage on college campuses.
Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy Analysis with the UW, said that this spring’s events, with Wisconsin dairy farmers being told there was no market for their milk, created shock waves through the industry here and across the country. Even overseas, dairy people were aware of what was going on here and were “keeping their eye on the situation.”
While there were hundreds of headlines about the dairy industry during that time, the whole problem was more complex, he said. “Regional milk production has been evolving and that was a big part of the story.”
Lawmakers late Wednesday voted to crack down on University of Wisconsin System students who disrupt other people’s speeches and events, pitting one set of free speech concerns against another.
The state Assembly approved a Republican-backed bill late Wednesday night that aims to prevent disruptive protests on college campuses by requiring the University of Wisconsin System to suspend and expel students who repeatedly interrupt speakers.
Conservative media commentator Ben Shapiro was just a few minutes into a lecture at the University of Wisconsin Madison last fall when more than a dozen student protesters rose from the audience and began chanting “shame!” and “safety!” in hopes of drowning him out.
University of Wisconsin students who repeatedly disrupt campus speakers or presentations could be suspended or expelled under a Republican-backed bill the state Assembly passed Wednesday.
The bill would set new rules for free speech and expression on system campuses. That includes penalties for people who disrupt free expression on campus by engaging in, “violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, obscene, unreasonably loud or other disorderly conduct.”
Opponents to the bill argue the changes would violate the free speech rights of students who want to protest campus speakers. Supporters say the changes would encourage a greater diversity of political viewpoints on campus.
As the Assembly takes up a bill Wednesday to require University of Wisconsin campuses to enforce free speech protections with the threat of expulsion, another debate is raging on the money behind conservative speakers and how well college students really understand the First Amendment.
Mike Knetter, president and chief executive of the UW Foundation, said the merger helped the campus better engage with alumni.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican-backed bill that would call for punishment of Wisconsin college students who disrupt campus speakers or presentations was set to clear a major legislative hurdle Wednesday.
Noted: Finally, Kremer is proposing to protect speakers on UW campuses by prohibiting students and faculty from protesting. In my opinion, every speaker should be heard respectfully, but responsible free speech by the audience should also not be curtailed. If, in rare instances, students or faculty see a speaker as lying, grossly misrepresenting the facts, or advocating discrimination, they should be allowed to protest, even if that means that views that Kremer might value are exposed to ridicule. That is democracy.
Every summer, about 60 graduate students with diverse backgrounds and interests come together at the UW-Madison School of Business for a week of intensive schooling about what it takes to start a tech-based company.
Noted: He plans to return next year to UW-Madison, where he got his bachelor’s degree, to do a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at UW Health. He will also pursue research on using stem cells to treat chronic pain.
Noted: Jordan Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of “How Not to Be Wrong.”
LAS VEGAS (AP) Few college-bound kids lose their shot, and their slot, at their dream school once they get in, but it happened at one of the world’s most elite institutions and for a reason that has, until recently, hardly registered in the university admissions process: social media.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed switch to a self-insurance plan for state workers was rejected Thursday in a rare bipartisan vote by the Wisconsin Legislature’s budget-writing committee, a defeat for the governor who had lobbied hard to make the change.
Amid an ongoing stalemate over transportation and education funding, the Legislature’s budget committee voted unanimously Thursday to give state employees a 4 percent raise over the next two years.
If federal funding for indirect costs tied to research were cut by Congress, as proposed by President Donald Trump, the University of Wisconsin-Madison could lose tens of millions of dollars annually and be forced to narrow the breadth of its research enterprise, Chancellor Rebecca Blank warned in a blog post Tuesday.
Outside of the political spotlight, the UW-Extension Division for Business and Entrepreneurship has worked for more than 50 years to bridge that divide and use the resources of the UW System to help Wisconsin businesses grow and flourish.
As more professors from University of Wisconsin system leave for other institutions, the UW Regents are calling on lawmakers to invest more funding into faculty pay raises and updating facilities slow the exodus.
First-year and transfer students may receive First Amendment training during a new freshman orientation that would explain the university’s free expression policies, as part of a bill gaining traction in the state’s Legislature.
The chancellors of several UW campuses, along with System President Ray Cross, asked legislators during a meeting of the Board of Regents at UW-Milwaukee to increase funding for building maintenance and construction in the 2017-19 budget, and to provide $78 million to boost compensation for workers.
The UW Board of Regents chose John Behling to be its new president Friday.
A few months ago, Patrick Colbeck, a Republican in Michigan’s State Senate, picked up George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. What he read sounded familiar: oppressive oversight, restricted speech, and twisted interpretations of reality. But the government isn’t creating this totalitarian atmosphere, he felt, colleges are.
Noted: Erica Kanesaka Kalnay is a former early childhood teacher. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English literary studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
UW-Madison is hard at work trying to whittle down the alarming cuts to higher education and research spending in President Donald Trump’s proposed $4.1 trillion 2018 budget, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a blog post Tuesday.
With 168 patents issued last year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison moved back into sixth place among 100 universities surveyed around the world last year, according to a news release from the school.
Members of the board that directs oversight of for-profit colleges in Wisconsin still have reservations about a provision in the state budget that would eliminate their office, but they said lawmakers improved the proposal by retaining the agency’s employees.
Critics of the bill object foremost to the Legislature’s incursion into such campus affairs as student discipline and speaker invitations and say it would stifle protest speech.
Only one program offered through the University of Wisconsin System’s Flexible Option program made money this year according to an update prepared for the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
Adam Kissel, a senior program officer at the Charles Koch Foundation, was tapped on Monday to serve as deputy assistant secretary for higher-education programs at the U.S. Department of Education.
A pre-college program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that partners with schools to help prepare minority and low-income students for college is narrowing its focus to Milwaukee and Madison public schools, the university announced Monday.
A popular UW-Madison outreach initiative will cut back programs that help disadvantaged students in the suburbs of Milwaukee and Madison prepare for college, while ramping up services for students within Wisconsin’s two largest cities, campus officials said Monday.
When students file a complaint that their institution mishandled or ignored claims of sexual assault or harassment, they can often expect to wait years for a resolution from the Department of Education. Those delays frustrate not only those bringing the complaints but colleges that remain under prolonged investigation as well.
Noted: The UW Board of Regents decided to sell the Mansion Hill property due to costly renovations. The UW-Madison Physical Plant estimated it would cost nearly $1.9 million to renovate the facility and make it compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, UW System Administration capital planning and budget representative Ellen Rosner said.
When hundreds of students entered College Library in December 2014 for a silent die-in protest, it not only brought the Black Lives Matter movement to the University of Wisconsin campus, it also informed an emerging “beyond neutral” practice at the library.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is receiving more applications from international students as nearly 40 percent of colleges across the country report receiving fewer such applications.
State Rep. Jesse Kremer (R-Kewaskum) says a bill he is pushing that would create stiff penalties for some student protesters in the University of Wisconsin System is aimed at protecting free speech on campus. That may be his intent, but the effect more likely will send a chill over the free speech of all students, faculty and staff.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is receiving more applications from international students as nearly 40 percent of colleges across the country report receiving fewer such applications.
Lurking inside the ivy-covered gothic towers and brutalist concrete blocks on college campuses are moldy ceilings, failing plumbing and antique boilers whose replacement parts are available only on eBay .
Pennsylvania State University leaders announced changes to Greek life Friday, including a takeover of the disciplinary proceedings for fraternities and sororities and zero tolerance for certain behaviors, in the wake of the hazing death of student Timothy Piazza this spring.
SOMERS — University of Wisconsin-Parkside officials are “cautiously optimistic” about the direction the state Legislature is moving in regarding state aid to the University of Wisconsin System, but there’s still a ways to go.
Wisconsin lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would require University of Wisconsin institutions to punish students who participate in disruptive or violent protests.
Changes to the legislation spelled out more specifically the types of disruptions that could lead to discipline for UW students and employees. They also toughened penalties for those who run afoul of the new rules by requiring universities to expel any student who violates the policy three times.
Legislative critics say a controversial campus free speech bill advanced by an Assembly committee Tuesday intrudes on the University of Wisconsin System’s authority to run its campuses.
The committee endorsed the bill after it was amended to diminish the UW System’s latitude on the punishment of students found to have interfered with the “expressive rights” of others.
Assembly Republicans moved closer to creating tougher penalties for University of Wisconsin student protesters Tuesday, advancing a bill that would suspend or expel students who disrupt speakers.
The Assembly’s higher education committee passed an amended version of a Republican-backed campus speech bill Tuesday that requires University of Wisconsin System institutions to punish students who take part in disruptive protests.
