Editorial: [T]he impact of UW research and teaching on the state’s economy cannot be overstated. But it all requires resources and investment. Let’s not put UW’s best at unnecessary risk.
With the cost of college increasing by 300 percent over the past 30 years, students have frequently had to grapple with loan debt. A bill introduced Tuesday would allow students to refinance their federal loans whenever a lower interest rate is available.
Students at UW-Marshfield/Wood County and those at our 12 other campuses in the state want a smaller, more personal educational environment to start, with University of Wisconsin coursework taught by University of Wisconsin teachers. Some want to get acclimated to college and learn better study habits. Some want to get more hands-on help to ensure success in their careers. Others want the reassurance of an environment where they won’t get lost.
University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Robert Hamers has a jam-packed day ahead: an hourlong lecture, a conference call with colleagues about nanotechnology, meetings and plans to check on students in the lab.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Robert Hamers has a jam-packed day ahead: an hourlong lecture, a conference call with colleagues about nanotechnology, meetings and plans to check on students in the lab.
Deep spending cuts in President Donald Trump’s budget proposal could threaten the federal funding UW-Madison researchers rely on to investigate Alzheimer’s disease, asthma and other ailments, and slash support for programs that help low-income students afford college, according to scientists and campus officials.
Searchable database lists salary details for all employees of the University of Wisconsin in the 2015 and 2016 fiscal years.
New details came out this weekend about the firing of a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse police dispatcher.
The police dispatcher fired last week from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse wants the Board of Regents to analyze workplace guidelines before she accepts a reinstatement.
Harry L. Williams had no doubt he was going to college, even though his parents never attended and could offer no guidance on applying or enrolling. He cleared the first hurdle by being accepted to Appalachian State University in 1982 on a track and field scholarship, but once he started school it was all a little overwhelming.
Football coach Paul Chryst topped the Business Journal’s list of 22 UW employees with base salaries of more than $350,000, at $2.57 million. Ray Cross, president of the UW System, led the six university administrators included on the list. With a salary of $512,064, he is the only one of the top-earning UW administrators not working at the flagship campus, UW-Madison.
A Wisconsin HOPE Lab report released Wednesday argues technical colleges should invest in efforts to assess and address students’ basic needs in food and housing in light of a survey that found an estimated one-third are hungry and 14 percent are homeless.
Before he became president, Donald J. Trump called climate change a hoax, questioned the safety of vaccines and mocked renewable energy as a plaything of “tree-huggers.”
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is offering a dispatcher that was fired earlier this week her job back.
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse police dispatcher says she was fired for supporting President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
College athletics rake in the big bucks so it’s no surprise that, for 2016, the upper echelon of the University of Wisconsin System’s top paid employees worked in the athletic department.
In an attempt to address the cost of higher education, Wisconsin legislators have reintroduced a “Higher Ed, Lower Debt” bill to help students alleviate their debt.
Arizona State University’s president is warning University of Wisconsin System regents that they must offer a college education on a scale never seen before.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to increase funding for the University of Wisconsin System is the best budget news UW has heard in a long time, System President Ray Cross said Thursday.
Dr. Carlo Croce, a prolific cancer researcher at Ohio State University, has repeatedly been accused of scientific misconduct. New York Times reporters went to Ohio State and inquired about scientific practices there and about who was in the best position to police scientific standards, and acquired troves of public records. The university has since taken a fresh look at allegations made against one of its biggest rainmakers, and organized an independent, external review. Rarely do reporters encounter as few obstacles as they did in this case. The story, one of the reporters says, is a reminder of the importance of keeping public information where it belongs, open and accessible to the public.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is offering high praise for the governor’s state budget proposal.
The president of Arizona State University said the University of Wisconsin System needs to expand its access to higher education to adapt to a changing economy.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Arizona State University’s president is warning University of Wisconsin System regents that they must offer a college education on a scale never seen before.
Findings of fraud in biomedical research have surged in recent years, whether from an actual increase in misconduct or from heightened caution inspired in part by an internet-age phenomenon: “digital vigilantes” who post critiques of scientific papers on anonymous websites. Yet the primary burden for investigating and punishing misconduct falls to inherently conflicted arbiters: universities like Ohio State that stand to reap millions of dollars from the federal grants won by star researchers like Dr. Croce.
The commission also approved placing $361.3 million in a fund that could be tapped for projects not specifically enumerated. That could include many across the University of Wisconsin System that were not approved. The university asked for nearly $795 million but was approved for only $128 million.
The event, “Who Needs College?” moderated by Michel Martin, weekend host of “All Things Considered,” brought together a varied group of panelists including University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty, alumni, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a lawmaker.
University of Wisconsin-Madison would win big, and UW-Milwaukee and UW-Parkside would be the biggest losers, if performance measures proposed by Gov. Scott Walker to divvy up $42.5 million in new state funding over the next biennium are approved by the Legislature, according to a new analysis.
Amid uncertainty of the level of support Gov. Scott Walker has in the state Legislature for his budget proposal, state Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, supported the tuition cut and increased UW System funding in a speech to UW-Madison’s College Republicans.
In the midst of midterms, college students may be asking “Why college?” National Public Radio’s Michel Martin asked panelists, which included four UW-Madison students, this question, and what purpose they think higher education serves.
As President Trump moves to rein in federal efforts to slow warming, his administration is also mulling cost-saving measures that would leave coastal Americans more vulnerable to rising seas, heavier deluges, acidifying waters and other effects of climate change.
The Faculty Senate weighed risk versus “preserving some faculty shared governance” while debating a revised proposal for post-tenure review policy Monday.
The debate over three-year versus four-year bachelor degree programs is taking center stage following Gov. Scott Walker’s 2017-’19 budget proposal. An aspect of this requires the UW System to establish pathways to a three-year degree for 10 percent of programs by Jan.1, 2018 and 60 percent of programs by June 2020.
The green energy economy may play a part in a financial scandal at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
University leaders greeted President Trump’s revised executive order on immigration with a mix of relief and deep concern Monday — relief that some provisions were eased from his January order, which had been frozen by the courts, and concern that its overall impact will damage the country’s longtime status as a destination for the world’s top scholars.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he’s worried about relationships between University of Wisconsin System schools and their private foundations.
More than $4 million in university funds that were used to convert livestock waste into electricity play a key role in exposing the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation to potential bankruptcy as rapidly changing markets have dulled the allure for some sectors of renewable power.
NPR, in cooperation with Wisconsin Public Radio, will host a panel discussion on the question, 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, at Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison.
New funding for higher education in Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal would reverse years of cuts and boost University of Wisconsin System schools that have been slashing costs in recent years.But experts say two changes that System leaders and state lawmakers are considering this year could shrink the share of new funding that winds up at UW-Madison, and instead send more of that money to the System’s other campuses.
Governor Walker has proposed a modest increase in state support to the UW System in the 2017-19 budget period, with the additional resources to be distributed among campuses based on how well they score on a certain set of criteria. Those measures could penalize institutions that have been most effective in enrolling underrepresented students and provide a disincentive for campuses to admit low-income students, first-generation students, or other students who may take longer to graduate.
Farmers could get a break on their student loans under a new plan at the capitol. The new measure would create a loan-forgiveness program for farmers who commit to staying in the state after they finish a tech college, short course or university degree.
Annika Collier took more classes about Swedish than she did in computer science while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the seven years she’s worked at Epic Systems, the giant Verona-based company that specializes in complex medical software, that’s never been an issue, she told a small room of UW students at the Union South.
A new report praised UW-Madison for improving graduation rates for students of color as well as overall, while singling out UW-Milwaukee as a school that must “get far more serious about success rates for their black students.”
For 43 years, I have been a proud alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., introduced a bill in La Crosse Wednesday to funnel any profit made from federal loan programs back to Wisconsin students and families by directing those profits into federal Pell Grants.
The University of Wisconsin System is supposed to be one of the state’s most effective paths to helping children of lower- and working-class households join the middle class. Unfortunately, it’s not working out that way.
Just 21 percent of African-American students graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee within six years of enrollment, that’s less than half the proportion of white students who graduate from the campus within six years, according to a new report.
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – UW-La Crosse may be forced to make some cuts after seeing a decline in enrollment from one specific group of students.
A report released Wednesday ranks the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee among 21 four-year colleges and universities across the country that need to “get far more serious about success rates for their black students,” based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
With the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in turmoil over allegations that a former chancellor broke the law and covered his tracks to get high-profile building projects done, attention has turned to funding of projects going on at the same time at other campuses.
Three Wisconsin subcontractors seeking payment for work done on a Baraboo campus dorm have asked a judge to intervene on their behalf.
When news broke last week that President Trump’s plan to accelerate the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants would leave so-called Dreamers untouched, it gave some such students a reason to remain hopeful.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s latest two-year budget proposal has been received relatively warmly by higher education leaders, considering it calls for continuing to freeze tuition and then cutting it.
A well-known Republican state legislator and possible 2018 Senate candidate expressed opposition to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition across the UW System, instead suggesting tuition increases.
A key Republican legislator says Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition would force taxpayers to pay more and lawmakers should instead consider tuition increases based on inflation or increases in family income.
Partnering with other researchers, UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs professor Timothy Smeeding created a national plan to reconfigure the aid given to children in poverty, expanding opportunities for low-income children to attend college and pursue advanced degrees.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A key Republican legislator says Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition would force taxpayers to pay more and lawmakers should instead consider tuition increases based on inflation or increases in family income.
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s sympathetic remarks about the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers — “these incredible kids,” he has called them — were a surprising turn for a man who had vowed during the campaign to “immediately terminate” their protections from deportation.
Nicholas Hillman, an associate professor of education at UW-Madison, says the data on classroom hours, already duly posted by the UW System on its Accountability Dashboard, don’t tell the whole story.
Lynn Rosenthal used to leave the White House gates every day thinking it was her last and that she would be fired. Little did she know that her work would spur the national campaign “It’s on Us.”
Under Walker’s budget, college students would receive more need-based financial aid and those attending technical schools would have their tuition frozen. Ballweg said Thursday that only half the students who attend a Wisconsin Technical College and qualify for financial aid actually receive it.
