The kick-off event of a new publicly funded policy center at the University of Wisconsin has a bipartisan mix of speakers, including Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman and Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz.
The Wisconsin Legislature is tackling anti-abortion measures, but it’s unclear whether any of them have enough support among Republicans to pass.
Public universities in the Midwest have conducted some of the country’s most important research, leading to scientific and technological breakthroughs. And funding cuts to these universities can carry major economic impacts.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Competing proposals targeting fetal tissue research in Wisconsin are up for a public hearing in a state Senate committee.
Vos says there is also no agreement on another bill that would prohibit University of Wisconsin doctors from working at Planned Parenthood clinics where abortions are performed.
A legislative committee has approved a Republican bill barring University of Wisconsin doctors from performing abortions and training residents in how to perform abortions at Planned Parenthood.
Twenty Democratic legislators are asking University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross to delay implementation of a reorganization of the system’s campuses.
A group of Democratic lawmakers wants the University of Wisconsin System to put the brakes on its plan to merge two-year college campuses with four-year institutions.
A state Senate committee voted Thursday on party lines to advance a bill that would bar University of Wisconsin employees from performing or assisting with abortions under the scope of their employment.
Democrats are blasting a plan to merge the University of Wisconsin System’s schools.
Cathy Sandeen wasn’t given much notice that her job is about to change significantly, and might be eliminated outright.
Wisconsin lawmakers backing a set of bills that would ban research on aborted fetal tissue and regulate the disposition of fetal remains say they have the votes to pass them in the Assembly and they’re close in the Senate.
Our mission at the Thompson Center, on the UW-Madison campus, is to understand public leadership and apply leadership to contemporary problems. We will provide an environment to study, discuss and improve leadership objectively and professionally.
The main barrier to taking more is a lack of faculty to educate more students without diminishing the quality of the experience for all. Private gifts help, but the core funding for faculty hires comes from state government support and student tuition. Neither source has grown much for years.
Opponents to the plan say the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s OB-GYN training program would lose its accreditation if it were approved.
At a public hearing on the bill, Joseph Lalli, a medical school student, said he wouldn’t feel prepared to perform life-saving procedures for expectant mothers if he can’t get training on how to perform abortions.
Anti-abortion advocates, and a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, clashed with University of Wisconsin medical school leaders Tuesday over a proposal that would end an arrangement allowing UW doctors to perform abortions and train students at Planned Parenthood.
A bill that would bar University of Wisconsin employees from performing or assisting with abortions under the scope of their employment would prevent the UW School of Medicine from training ob-gyn students to perform the procedure.
A new bill in the Wisconsin Legislature proposes barring a partnership that allows University of Wisconsin employees to work at Planned Parenthood, the Associated Press reports.
The head of the University of Wisconsin’s medical school is speaking out against a bill that would ban UW employees from using private clinics to train medical residents or from performing abortions at non-hospital facilities.
Noted: This year she collaborated with an outside group for the first time, working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum to create a maze in the shape of a trilobite, the state fossil.
Noted: The Treinen Farm corn maze in Lodi, Wis., features Wisconsin’s state fossil, the trilobite. The idea behind the famous award-winning corn maze came from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum
Noted: Student journalists Sam Coutu and Julie Spitzer, and Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism staff members Cara Lombardo and Dee J. Hall contributed to this report. This story was produced as part of an investigative reporting class in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication under the direction of Hall, the Center’s managing editor
A Northwoods legislator says the north was dealt out of the decision to merge the two-year state colleges and UW-Extension into the state’s four-year campuses.
The list of pressures facing public higher education in Wisconsin would be familiar to policy makers in many states: an aging population, declining enrollment, scarce public dollars, and growing demands from employers and lawmakers to meet work-force needs.
Plans to restructure the University of Wisconsin System and merge many of its institutions are generating controversy, with the system’s president saying they are necessary, faculty members worrying they are being rushed and one expert likening the proposal to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has proposed merging UW Colleges with four-year U-W institutions as part of a broader restructuring of UW Colleges and UW-Extension.
A “historical link” between the University of Wisconsin Stout and the two-year UW-Barron County campus could be in jeopardy under a planned reorganization of the state’s UW-System schools.
County leaders say they didn’t know about plans at the University of Wisconsin-System to merge the state’s two-year colleges with its four-year universities.
The University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension is a natural fit with University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Wednesday about news that the agency would be absorbed by her campus as part of a sweeping reorganization of the UW System.
University of Wisconsin political science professors involved in the creation of a new publicly funded policy center expressed concern that there wasn’t enough balance between Democratic and Republican speakers at its first planned major event, newly released emails show.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System’s two-year schools would merge with its four-year campuses under a plan system President Ray Cross announced Wednesday in hopes of boosting flagging enrollment.
The Board of Regents adopted the language on a voice vote during a meeting at UW-Stout in Menomonie.
Under the plan, campuses can’t block people who lack terminal degrees and tenure from serving as System president, chancellors or vice chancellors. The System must look to recruit applicants from the private sector as well.
The position is the latest collaboration between the University of Wisconsin System and the state’s job-creation agency to address a growing worker shortage in the state, which the Wisconsin State Journal highlighted in its recent “Workers Wanted” series.
Although Gov. Walker signed the two-year state budget into law over a week ago, the UW System is still figuring out how the budget affects one of its programs targeted at non-traditional students.
The measures also will impact the University of Wisconsin, which, after years of Republican budget cuts and policies that some claim are anti-academic, is already having problems recruiting and retaining talented faculty.
Dr. Diego Calderon, a research fellow at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and an immigrant from Colombia, encouraged legislators to attend the upcoming World Dairy Expo in Madison and ask the farmers there how the bill would affect them.
Sigurd Olson – loyal guardian of northern lakes and waterways – has been selected to represent Ashland and Bayfield counties as part of an ad campaign launched by UW-Madison known as Project 72 with the new slogan, “Thank You!”
A study released Monday estimates 16,800 or more people in Dane and Milwaukee counties were deterred from casting ballots in November because of Wisconsin’s voter ID law.
Agritourism is pretty popular right now, with farmers trying to add a little extra cash to their corn cribs by inviting the public to the farm to hang out in pumpkin patches, take haunted hay rides, pick apples, pet goats and pig out on pizza. One of the most popular draws, however, are corn mazes, which seem to get more and more elaborate each year. This fall, one of the best is a stunning maze in Wisconsin that is a tribute to the science of geology, with a fossil trilobite as the centerpiece, reports Christine Mlot at Science.
Top Republicans in Wisconsin are backing a sweeping, final-hour effort to repeal Obamacare and hold down spending in other health care programs for the needy that existed prior to Obamacare.
Blank appeared on a recent segment of Sunday political talk show “UpFront with Mike Gousha” with UW Colleges and UW Extension Chancellor Cathy Sandeen. The pair weighed in on the budget, a new one-year free tuition program for first generation students and the proposed Foxconn plant, expressing optimism about all three.
Gov. Scott Walker signed the state budget on Thursday last week, securing an extra $100 million in funding for the University of Wisconsin System.
A new program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison promises to cover tuition and fees for first-generation college students from Wisconsin who transfer from one of the university system’s two-year colleges.
Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday signed the two-year, $76 billion budget, providing $600 million more for K-12 schools, cutting property taxes, keeping a freeze on instate University of Wisconsin System tuition and doubling fees on hybrid drivers.
A Republican state senator wants an investigation into a University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s video depicting actors wearing anti-police slogans decapitating a pig-like person wearing a police uniform.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is signing the nearly three-month late state budget into law, a move that will allow him to transition into re-election mode.
Gov. Scott Walker issued 99 partial vetoes of the state’s two-year budget on Wednesday, rejecting several highly-anticipated additions to the bill, which was written by the Republican-held Wisconsin Legislature.
Gov. Scott Walker issued 99 partial vetoes of the Wisconsin state budget on Wednesday.
Universities including UW-Madison are stressing entrepreneurial skills across campus, which will help young people move promising ideas into the marketplace. Technical colleges are partnering with employers on internships and incentives for targeted fields, and trying to eliminate waiting lists for popular programs. The University of Wisconsin System must redouble its efforts to connect graduates with businesses here. And the Legislature should consider financial incentives for students who stay.
In their latest attack on the eggheads, Wisconsin Republicans have revived Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to force the University of Wisconsin System to keep track of the time professors spend teaching and to reward those “who teach more than a standard academic load.”
Among the non-fiscal items the finance committee added to the budget are: Looser qualifications for UW System leaders; A mandate for UW to report and reward the time professors spend teaching.
The state budget is now back in the hands of Gov. Scott Walker. The state Senate passed the $76 billion spending plan on a vote of 19-14 on Friday night.
UW Madison’s world-famous Babcock Hall ice cream will be given out on Wausau’s 400 Block Friday during the kick-off of the Wisconsin Ginseng Festival.
Nass, Stroebel and Kapenga have given Fitzgerald a list of amendments they want, including expanding the state’s voucher school program, blocking the University of Wisconsin System from spending $4 million on diversity training and moving up repeal of prevailing wage laws from September 2018 to January.
Noted: Kapenga, Nass and Stroebel’s hoped-for changes include requiring a referendum before local governments can impose wheel taxes; allowing local governments to continue to regulate quarries; prohibiting diversity training for University of Wisconsin System students, and speeding up the repeal of the state’s prevailing wage law that determines the minimum pay for those working on publicly funded infrastructure projects.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is accusing some Senate Republicans of holding the state hostage with their opposition to the state budget.
Four Republican senators are holding up final approval of Wisconsin’s delayed state budget.
Noted: HIGHER EDUCATION: Tuition across the University of Wisconsin system would be frozen this year and next while increasing funding by $36 million, two years after their budget was cut by $250 million. UW would have to monitor teaching workloads and develop policies rewarding those who teach more than average. All UW campuses would be barred from requiring that only faculty members or those granted tenure be considered when hiring chancellors or president of the system.
Noted: Tuition at University of Wisconsin System schools will be frozen for another two years, but the budget will not include Walker’s proposal to cut tuition.
The UW budget also includes $26.3 million in performance-based funding to be tied to four goals for the UW System: student access, student progress and completion, contributions to the workforce and operational efficiency and effectiveness. The Board of Regents will be required to set metrics to measure schools’ progress toward those goals if they stay in the budget once it is formally adopted
