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.
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.
A group of a dozen Milwaukee community and business leaders, calling themselves Panther Promoters, are forming a new organization focused on advocating for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee receiving “the resources necessary” to be a “world-class urban university.”
A slate of Republican-authored changes to the state budget includes new rules to ensure University of Wisconsin System chancellors can come from non-academic backgrounds and a requirement that lawmakers weigh in before any taxpayer money can be sent to UW- Oshkosh’s troubled private foundation.
A Republican lawmaker wants to alter a contentious bill designed to clamp down on campus protesters by spelling out the behaviors that disrupt free speech and could lead to suspensions and expulsions.
As he gets ready to leave his home in the central India city of Nagpur to study at UW-Madison, incoming freshman Akshat Raika says he has heard from friends who are being treated differently in the United States since Donald Trump became president.
A slate of Republican-authored changes to the state budget includes new rules to ensure University of Wisconsin System chancellors can come from non-academic backgrounds and a requirement that lawmakers weigh in before any taxpayer money can be sent to UW- Oshkosh’s troubled private foundation.
UW System schools may have to change the way they use segregated fees after state lawmakers approved a measure Thursday requiring the Board of Regents to revise fee policies.
The Republican-controlled Legislature’s budget committee has rejected Gov. Scott Walker’s call to cut University of Wisconsin tuition by 5 percent.
Tuition at UW System schools will remain frozen for the next two years under a proposal approved by the state’s Joint Finance Committee setting the budget for the state’s public universities.
The Legislature’s budget-writing committee rejected Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed University of Wisconsin System tuition cut Thursday, choosing instead to keep rates frozen for another two years.
While things remain grim for many law schools, the one at the University of Wisconsin recently landed among the top 50 in a much-watched metric: the percentage of graduates who landed real lawyer jobs.
The Legislature’s budget committee on Thursday approved freezing resident tuition at University of Wisconsin schools for two more years, discarding Gov. Scott Walker’s plans to cut it.
Students in the University of Wisconsin System will not get the tuition cut Gov. Scott Walker proposed but will have flat tuition bills for the next two years under changes the state’s budget committee approved Thursday.
The Legislature’s budget-writing committee on Thursday rejected Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition at University of Wisconsin schools, opting instead to extend a tuition freeze for the next two years.
A UW-Madison research center named after Wisconsin’s longest-serving governor will be well worth its $3 million price tag if it improves the university’s frayed relationship with the Legislature.
The Legislature’s budget committee has rejected a plan to cut tuition on University of Wisconsin campuses, although a freeze on tuition increases will remain in place for another two years.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature’s budget-writing committee rejected Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed University of Wisconsin System tuition cut Thursday, choosing instead to keep rates frozen for another two years.
The comments come as Walker’s budget clashes with his GOP legislative colleagues are heating up. Another point of contention for the state’s next two-year budget is whether to cut tuition at UW System schools, as Walker proposes.
Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, said she and other Democrats will be advocating for some $500 million in additional investment and two years of free college education when the Joint Finance Committee takes up funding for the University of Wisconsin Thursday.
A new public policy center at University of Wisconsin-Madison named for former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is a great idea, said Donald Moynihan, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs on campus.
As talk of extreme budget-cutting is again in vogue in Washington, that argument appears to have resonance. But an attempt to reduce research overhead could pose the most serious threat not to well-endowed institutions like Harvard, but to state research universities and cash-strapped private colleges.
At issue are grant payments known as indirect-cost reimbursements. Those are the additional amounts that agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation provide to universities that win research grants, to help cover administrative and facilities costs.
Wisconsin lawmakers are deciding whether to reward UW System schools based on how they perform. And experts say the idea has its share of pros and cons.
Republicans who control the Legislature’s powerful finance committee are now saying they expect to vote on the University of Wisconsin System budget later this week.
The state’s Joint Finance Committee decided Tuesday to postpone a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget for the UW System, with Republicans in a disagreement over tuition rates.
In other words, funding models that encourage all universities to hit the same performance targets won’t be as successful. Rather, Snyder says, goals should be tailored to each individual school, because for instance, UW-Madison offers something different than UW-Milwaukee, than UW-Oshkosh.
The legislature’s Joint Finance Committee didn’t vote on the performance-based funding proposal as expected Tuesday, but it’s something they’ll need to address moving forward.
A leadership center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will carry the name of former Gov. Tommy Thompson, honoring the longest-serving head of the state on the 30th anniversary of his taking office.
Republicans who control the Legislature’s powerful finance committee are now saying they expect to vote on the University of Wisconsin System budget later this week.
A new leadership center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be named for Republican former Gov. Tommy Thompson, the longest serving governor in the state of Wisconsin.
Gov. Scott Walker and fellow Wisconsin Republicans on Tuesday announced the formation of a new public policy center at the state’s flagship university, which liberals said would be nothing more than a taxpayer-funded conservative think tank.
A proposed new research center at UW-Madison named for former Gov. Tommy Thompson would connect academic experts with lawmakers to improve public policy and inspire the next generation of political leaders, according to Republican and university leaders who announced the initiative Tuesday.
Assembly and Senate Republicans are clashing over whether to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition in the next biennial budget, though they said Tuesday there won’t be a tuition increase.
The Republican-led Joint Finance Committee will delay a scheduled vote on the University of Wisconsin System’s budget amid a disagreement over Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition by 5 percent.
Democrats on the Wisconsin Legislature’s budget committee on Tuesday reintroduced an oft-rejected proposal that would allow student loans to be refinanced at lower interest rates. It was met with resistance once again by the committee’s Republican majority.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature’s powerful finance committee postponed votes Tuesday on the University of Wisconsin System’s budget until later this week as Republican lawmakers quarreled behind closed doors over whether to adopt Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to reduce tuition.
Wisconsin’s Republican leaders intend to create a new leadership center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, announcing Tuesday they will seek $1.5 million in annual public funding for what they said will be a bipartisan center offsetting liberal thinking on campus.
Republicans who control the Legislature’s powerful finance committee are now saying they expect to vote on the University of Wisconsin System budget later this week.
The Trump administration released a 2018 budget proposal Tuesday that delivered on expectations for drastic cuts to student aid programs and university-based research while substantially reshaping federal student loan programs.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and other top Republicans have announced a new leadership center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that Vos said will “offset some of the liberal thinking” on campus.
Republicans who run state government revealed a new fissure over the state budget Tuesday, this one involving Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut tuition for in-state students at University of Wisconsin System campuses.
The Legislature’s budget committee is to decide Tuesday whether to go along with Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut college tuition – an idea key lawmakers have been reluctant to embrace.
University of Wisconsin System students would save hundreds of dollars on tuition and campuses would have to compete for additional state dollars under provisions in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget up for votes Tuesday in the Legislature’s powerful finance committee.
Madison Area Technical College will welcome hundreds of low-income students this fall in the inaugural class of a scholarship program that aims to give them the skills and money they need to succeed in higher education.
The Legislature’s finance committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on pieces of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget for the University of Wisconsin System, including his plan to cut tuition across all UW campuses.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System students would save hundreds of dollars on tuition and campuses would have to compete for additional state dollars under provisions in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget up for votes Tuesday in the Legislature’s powerful finance committee.
President Trump’s 2018 budget request to Congress seeks massive cuts in spending on health programs, including medical research, disease prevention programs and health insurance for children of the working poor.
Noted: Donald Downs, professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at UW-Madison, agreed that while the end goal is good, the bill clearly goes too far, and would not be held up by the courts as currently written. He also said, however, that if universities across the country “don’t get our own house in order, we’re opening the door to this.”
The White House’s 2018 budget for education — expected to be released next week as part of the administration’s full spending proposals — appears to double down on the eye-popping cuts to programs included in the Trump administration’s “skinny budget” released in March.
A new report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce has sparked a lively debate on the merits of class-based affirmative action in higher education.
Millions of taxpayer dollars could be used to finance the debts of the UW-Oshkosh foundation, a private nonprofit, if state officials and the foundation’s creditors reach a settlement.
The Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee ditched Gov. Scott Walker’s proposals to cut a century-old labor review commission and freeze technical college tuition.
State officials are considering a settlement with the creditors of the troubled UW-Oshkosh Foundation, in what one lawmaker described as a “bailout” that could use millions of taxpayer dollars to cover the private nonprofit’s debts.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed tuition freeze for technical college students was rejected on Thursday by the Legislature’s Republican-led budget committee.
The committee instead opted to set aside $5 million over the course of the two-year budget for the need-based Wisconsin Grants financial aid program.
The move frees up $2.5 million per year to be spent elsewhere in the budget.
University of Wisconsin System officials confirmed Thursday that they and the Department of Justice are in “preliminary discussions” on a settlement that Regent Michael Grebe said would protect the System’s assets if the UW-Oshkosh Foundation was not able to pay back its loans.
The University of Wisconsin System will host its first-ever Dairy Summit next month in Madison to bring industry leaders together with world-renowned UW researchers.
According to two sources within the NIH who were briefed on the issue, the administration may pursue a new strategy in its quest for cuts, by proposing a 10 percent cap on the NIH’s indirect costs—the money it gives to grantees to support administration, equipment, libraries, IT, lighting, heating, electricity, and other overhead.
Reports of sexual assault on college campuses have surged dramatically in the past 15 years, according to a new federal study, while all other reported on-campus crimes have decreased.
Over the past year, several colleges have improved access to menstrual products on their campuses, including in some men’s and gender-neutral restrooms. That last detail has prompted some conservative websites to take note.
A public hearing on a Republican bill to prevent students at University of Wisconsin campuses from disrupting controversial speakers wasn’t exactly a model of the pro-free speech sentiment espoused in the proposal, said some critics who waited hours to have their say.
