The state Senate has voted to give state workers, including University of Wisconsin System workers, across-the-board 2-percent pay increases in each of the next two years.
The pay raises for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus marks the first time since 2015 that employees there have gotten across-the-board raises.
Wisconsin Department of Administration secretary Scott Neitzel, who played a lead role in recruiting Foxconn Technology Group, will leave Gov. Scott Walker’s cabinet on March 2 and be replaced by Public Service Commission of Wisconsin chair Ellen Nowak.
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections’ supervision of Montee Ball following his conviction for domestic violence was called an abject failure by a Dane County judge who denied its request for a hearing to extend the probation of the former University of Wisconsin and NFL running back.
With the intention of streamlining approval of cutting-edge research projects, the state Legislature is considering a pair of bills named in honor of a deceased UW-Madison professor.
Legislators hope to convince out-of-state students to remain in Wisconsin after graduation by offering them some of their tuition money back, in an attempt to bolster the state’s struggling workforce numbers.
Foster children would not have to pay tuition at University of Wisconsin schools or state technical colleges under a bill approved by the state Assembly.
Foster children could attend University of Wisconsin schools for free under legislation that the Assembly is scheduled to take up Tuesday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison program, Bucky’s Tuition Promise, will cover four years of tuition and segregated fees for incoming Wisconsin resident students whose families make $56,000 or less per year. We talk with the school’s director of Financial Aid to learn more.
Cities, like Milwaukee, a one-time brewing capital that now features microbrews and galleries in some downtown neighborhoods, and Madison, the state capital and home to the main campus of the University of Wisconsin, are also making their own case. They are pitching Wisconsin living through social-media campaigns on YouTube, Facebook , Instagram and LinkedIn. Businesses are also partnering with local universities by offering more internships in hopes of convincing young people to stay and work in Wisconsin after they graduate.
A bipartisan group of Wisconsin legislators has proposed waiving tuition and fees for foster children attending University of Wisconsin schools and state technical colleges, saying the children lack a permanent family when they age out of the foster system and need help to succeed.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction wants to simplify the teacher hiring process, but some teachers worry proposed new rules will dilute subject-matter expertise.
College tuition could become free for foster children throughout the state under a new bill, as legislators argue that those who age out of the system receive far too little social support.
Walker also announced creation of a $200,000 scholarship fund to encourage students to take agriculture courses at a state technical college or the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture.
A new bill could revitalize a dormant program from last century to create environmental conservation jobs for some of the nearly 70 percent of young people struggling with higher education costs and student debt in the state.
UW-Madison is moving to give faculty and staff a 4 percent pay increase in the next year, the university announced Thursday.
When teenagers in foster care grow out of the system, they’re faced with big decisions like whether or not they can afford college. However, lawmakers want to make that decision even easier with a bill that would give tuition grants to help more teens get into higher education.
One video from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. shows UW-Madison’s Camp Randall and Bascom Hall. Another targeting millennials contrasts long commutes in Chicago with leisurely kayaking on Lake Monona and young people sipping drinks al fresco at a high-rise Downtown.
Candidate Kelda Helen Roys used part of her time to attack Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who is running for a third term. Roys, a former state Assembly member from Madison, accused Walker of putting prisons ahead of the University of Wisconsin System, saying:I think in 2011, it was Walker’s first budget, and we had the dubious distinction of spending — for the first time in our state’s history — more on our prison system that we did on the entire UW System.
But Madison, the home of state government and the University of Wisconsin flagship campus, is also an economic driver for the state, with a 2 percent unemployment rate in November that was far below the state average of 3.2 percent. (Carried on washingtonpost.com)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has released its final report of a two-year study on young adults in Wisconsin communities.
Noted: “Wisconsin is part of the pattern of the Upper Midwest,” said Egan-Robertson. “The states in this area are generally growing quite slowly. A lot of that is due to migration in the country; its been a long-term pattern for decades. There tends to be more movement out of the Midwest and northeast states into the south and western states.”
Wausau,Wis.(WSAW)– While gun deaths continue to rise in Wisconsin a new Study by researchers at UW Madison show nearly three of four gun deaths are suicide by white men ages 45 and older in rural parts of the state.
Noted: The Applied Population Laboratory is a group of researchers and outreach professionals within the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which provides enrollment projections. Many factors go into student population counts, according to Kemp, but births and migration — families moving from one district to another — are the two main ones.
One bill would ban the use of aborted fetal tissue for research or any other purpose. A coalition supporting that proposal includes the Wisconsin Catholic Conference, Wisconsin Family Action, Wisconsin Right to Life and Pro-Life Wisconsin. UW-Madison has opposed the measure.
The federal government announced on Tuesday that it is lifting a three-year moratorium on funding controversial research that involves genetically altering viruses in ways that could make them more contagious, more deadly, or both — and that critics say risks triggering a catastrophic pandemic.
More than half the state’s spending on contractors in 2016 came from just two agencies: the Department of Health Services and the University of Wisconsin System. Other top spending agencies include the Department of Corrections and the Department of Administration.
University of Wisconsin schools are getting free Narcan to combat opiate overdoses on campus.
“I am deeply concerned that housing WPR and WPT in the Office of the President will inherently create a chilling effect of the free exchanges of ideas that we have come to expect in public broadcasting in Wisconsin,” Miller wrote to Cross in a Nov. 1 letter.
With the cost of student loans rising, state lawmakers said they’re trying to make college more affordable.
A bill scheduled to be discussed at the Capitol on Tuesday would establish a legal clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to help local crime victims.
Rick Smirl, a partner and chief operating officer at William Blair Investment Management in Chicago, will be the new executive director of the State of Wisconsin Investment Board.
WEDC has been planning to launch in January a marketing campaign focused on young workers in the Midwest, alumni from the University of Wisconsin and other Wisconsin colleges. The campaign plans to highlight the state’s lower cost of living and shorter commute times than in big cities such as Chicago.
Marinas and related industries and services contribute more than $2.7 billion to Wisconsin’s economy.
The Wisconsin Clean Marina Program is administered by the WMA with assistance from the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program and Wisconsin Sea Grant.
The bills would create grants to provide incentives for serving as foster parents and give foster children free tuition within the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technical College System.
Republican and Democratic legislators are backing a bill designed to make it easier for University of Wisconsin employees to privately fund and commercialize their research.
Gov. Scott Walker’s most recent budget is projected to have one of the largest spending imbalances of the past decade, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance.
Student representatives of the UW System are reaching out to President Ray Cross regarding the plan to merge the system’s two year-schools with its four-year campuses.
Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz, an Oshkosh Democrat, still is opposed to the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at University of Wisconsin-Madison. But Hintz will participate in a center conference Friday.
As the aging population continues to rise, the demand for doctors goes up along with it. Smaller areas around the country are most effected by the doctor shortage.
Protests, teach-ins and rallies have been held on the University of Wisconsin-Superior campus since university officials made the announcement on Halloween that it would suspend 25 programs.
Sen. Taylor said changing the federal holiday will ‘correct history.’
The reports came in at an alarming pace. A student at a middle school near Milwaukee drew a stick figure with a swastika on its face. The image held a gun pointed at another stick figure, which had the name of the student’s Jewish teacher on it.
GREEN BAY (WLUK) — A day after the UW Board of Regents voted to restructure UW campuses, employees and students across the state are still trying to figure out how they might be affected.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a sweeping restructure plan to merge the system’s two-year colleges with its four-year universities and make changes to UW-Extension.
University of Wisconsin system regents approve a plan to merge the system’s two-year schools with its four-year campuses Thursday. It’s a story we’ve been closely following since news of this proposed merger broke early October.
The University of Wisconsin System regents approved a plan to merge the system’s two-year schools with its four-year campuses.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents passed a resolution Thursday that will merge 13 two-year colleges with four-year institutions.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents by a split vote moved Thursday to merge financially struggling two-year campuses across the state with nearby four-year campuses to avoid forced closures down the road.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a plan Thursday to merge the system’s two-year schools with its four-year campuses, brushing aside opponents’ complaints that faculty and students weren’t consulted and the proposal is too vague.
The UW System will move forward with its “most significant re-organization” in over 45 years — a sweeping merge of the system’s two-year and four-year colleges — even though many questions remain unanswered.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a sweeping restructure plan to merge the system’s two-year colleges with its four-year universities and make changes to UW-Extension.
Do not forget to put students first as University of Wisconsin two-year schools are merged with four-year campuses, university chancellors and faculty urged Thursday, as the system’s governing board approved the reorganization.
Wisconsin’s two-year UW Colleges are set to become branch campuses of nearby four-year universities by the start of the 2018 school year after the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a sweeping and controversial reorganization of the schools Thursday.
The Board of Regents has approved University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross’ plan to reorganize the UW Colleges and Extension. Cross said the change is driven by the financial and enrollment realities on the thirteen UW College campuses.
A new proposed bill in Wisconsin would lower the drinking age to 19.
Thursday the UW System Board of Regents votes on a proposal to merge UW colleges and UW extensions with its four-year schools.
On the eve of perhaps the most far-reaching decision in the University of Wisconsin System’s 46-year history, the architect of a proposed merger of two- and four-year campuses stood firm in his response to widespread calls to slow down.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will vote Thursday on a plan to restructure the state’s higher education system using a blueprint that was unveiled less than 30 days ago. UW System President Ray Cross said the plan is needed to stem declining enrollment at the state’s two-year colleges. But many in the system including high-ranking leadership said they weren’t included in the decision-making process.
Noted: A coalition opposing restrictions on fetal tissue research called Cures for Tomorrow includes BioForward, representing the state’s bioscience industry, the Medical College of Wisconsin, UW-Madison, UW Health and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
