The University of Wisconsin System finished the first three quarters of fiscal year 2013-14 with more than $1.7 billion on hand and should finish the year with about $1.1 billion left over, according to data released Thursday.
Gov. Scott Walker dodged questions Wednesday about whether he would need a college degree if he were to run for president but said he would like to finish his studies one day through the flexible degree option now available through the University of Wisconsin System.
Wisconsin just jumped from fourth worst to sixth best in the nation for letting the public peruse its checkbook.
Noted: Chiapete got a business degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987 and his law degree from Marquette University in 1991.
Jim Villa, hired Wednesday for the new job of vice president of university relations at the University of Wisconsin System, left no doubt about his allegiances when applying for the job. His references: current Republican Gov. Scott Walker, former Republican governor Tommy Thompson and William J. McCoshen, managing partner of a Madison lobbying firm who served Thompson as campaign manager and secretary of commerce.
Jim Villa, a longtime friend and ally of Gov. Scott Walker, has been named vice president for university relations for the University of Wisconsin System.
Jim Villa is leaving his post as president of the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin after landing a job as vice president for university relations at the University of Wisconsin System.
Gov. Scott Walker?s former chief of staff at the county level has been selected for a new high profile job at the University of Wisconsin System.
As part of a new program to connect professional journalists with University of Wisconsin students, Joel Christopher of Gannett Wisconsin Media has been named the campus? first Journalist in Residence.
The state Senate is set to vote on a bill that would allow University of Wisconsin institutions to conduct classified national security research.
The state Senate is set to vote on a bill that would allow University of Wisconsin institutions to conduct classified national security research.
The peer-reviewed study, released March 21 and published online in PLOS ONE, was led by Christopher S. Jennelle, Ph.D., and Professor Michael D. Samuel at UW.
A new state audit is questioning the handling of about $520,000 in federal aid received by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the state Department of Public Instruction.
Truth is, says UW professor emeritus Andrew Reschovsky, Burke?s plan is long on feel-good lingo and short on substance.
But UW-Madison political science professor emeritus Dennis Dresang argued that Republicans prioritizing local control is a fallacy dating back to “day two” of the party ? that is, the iteration following the abolition of slavery. From that point in the party?s history, Dresang said, it has been dominated by moneyed interests as opposed to those espousing small government philosophy.
Gov. Scott Walker announced the appointment of Nicolas Harsy as a non-traditional student representative on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents in a March 26 release.
Photo caption: State workers wash windows at Helen C. White Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell is expected to be named the next president of Marquette University on Wednesday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Gov. Scott Walker announced the appointments of three new members to the Board of Regents, the governing body for all University of Wisconsin System schools, in a statement Friday.
Noted: Despite the higher prices, farmers appear to be reluctant to expand production, according to the Dairy Situation and Outlook report issued by the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week.
The Sunshine Week fortune cookies and their messages serve as a reminder to those elected or appointed to do the public?s business that they work for you ? the voting and taxpaying public. UW-Madison and the UW System did not always remember this wisdom.
Noted: Bob Aschenbrock, chief judge of the competition, said the success by Wisconsin cheesemakers goes back to the quality of the milk produced by the state?s farmers and the work of the state agriculture officials and the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison.
Both Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke picked No. 2 seed Wisconsin to win the college men’s basketball national championship, which kicks into high gear Thursday.
The students, most from Milwaukee or Racine, visited with legislators to lobby for support of a bill introduced by state Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, D-Milwaukee, to offer in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin System campuses to permanent legal residents of the United States who graduated from Wisconsin high schools and have lived in the state for at least three years.
The University of Wisconsin System named five finalists for the position of vice president for university relations, including the president of a Milwaukee real estate group who is closely allied with Gov. Scott Walker.
Gov. Scott Walker is predicting big things for the Badgers in the NCAA tournament.
Noted: Paula Mohan, lecturer at the UW-Madison invites participants to be a part of a peaceful presence to call attention to the harm that race-based mascots can cause to native students throughout the state.
Carolyn Kelley, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at UW-Madison, said she?s not aware of any consensus among researchers on what kind of school calendar best meets children?s educational needs.But she doubted that adding a few minutes to each class period would spur changes in teaching methods enough to cover more content. She also pointed to the well-established finding that ?longer breaks are worse for kids,? especially poor or other ?at-risk? students.
Noted: The plan would cover much more of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but UW officials said they have no problem with it. Three UW buildings that are already above the height restriction would be grandfathered in.
Expect more details, more frequent reports and more questions about financial details regarding the massive University of Wisconsin System, new president Ray Cross told the Board of Regents Friday morning in his first speech to the board.
Instead, Grothman commented on the high-level economic courses Rickman said he had taken while earning a UW-Madison degree by making disparaging comments about the university, which Grothman also attended. ?I took a few classes in economics at UW,? Grothman said. ?And I?d almost consider that a minus.?
The man brought in to fix glitches in the deeply flawed payroll and benefits system used by about 75,000 employees in the University of Wisconsin System has stepped down from his job after two years, the UW System announced late Monday night.
Income inequality in Wisconsin is increasing at a faster rate than the nation as a whole, a trend that authors of a new report (from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy and Wisconsin Budget Project) warn is causing social upheaval and straining government services.
Most Wisconsin farmers remain skeptical about climate change, although data show they have already begun adapting to shifts in weather patterns. Quoted: Paul Mitchell, associate professor of agricultural and applied economics; and Chris Kucharik, assistant professor of agronomy and Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
The SSTI (State Science and Technology Institute) praised the UW-Madison?s investment in its ?Discovery to Product? initiative to help move good ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace. That?s an idea funded, in part, by the Legislature?s UW System Incentive Grants. Only this month, the UW System and WEDC announced creation of a $2 million fund to help transfer technology from other system campuses.
When State Sen. Ernest Keppler, R-Sheboygan, the Republican majority leader in the Senate, spoke at the Wausau Area Taxpayers League annual meeting recently, he shed some new light on the high cost of non-resident students enrolled in the University of Wisconsin.
A shortage of future nurses has prompted four University of Wisconsin campuses to seek instructors.
After five years of decline, retired public employees in Wisconsin will see their monthly pension payments increase starting in May.
Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign team is learning which supporters it should hype on its website.On Wednesday, the campaign website featured a tweet from David Hookstead, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who caused a major stir with his opinion piece in November suggesting some women “feel the need to exploit anything that may be rape for publicity.”
Gov. Scott Walker?s campaign team is learning which supporters it should hype on its website. On Wednesday, the campaign website featured a tweet from David Hookstead, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who caused a major stir with his opinion piece in November suggesting some women “feel the need to exploit anything that may be rape for publicity.”
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin already has a nursing shortage, at a time when more nurses than ever will be needed to attend to an aging population. Another part of the problem is a shortage of nursing educators. Half to three-quarters of qualified students who apply to nursing schools at four University of Wisconsin (UW) System schools are denied admission because of insufficient qualified nursing faculty to teach them.
More than half a million Wisconsin workers ? or, one of every five in the state ? would get bigger paychecks if Wisconsin increases the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from the current $7.25 an hour, according to a report released Monday by the UW-Madison?s Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS).
The state Assembly has approved a bill that would allow University of Wisconsin institutions to perform classified national security research.
The state Assembly is set to take up a bill that allow University of Wisconsin institutions to perform classified national security research.
Richard Monette, a University of Wisconsin Law School professor of law, is one of the top experts on tribal law and the legal relationship between Native American tribes and government.
As a young man, Ray Cross survived Vietnam. Now at the other end of his career, he figures he can handle the state Capitol in his new role as president of the University of Wisconsin System, which he officially starts this week.
Madison ? While Wisconsin?s constitutional ban on gay marriage faces a legal challenge in federal court, two Milwaukee lawmakers are launching an effort to get the Legislature to end the state?s 7-year-old amendment.
Boosting Wisconsin?s economy will take more than just adding jobs ? it will require luring more young college graduates to move here, a UW-Madison expert told a conference in Madison on Wednesday .One way to do that could be to set up a two-tiered tuition system, with lower rates for those who promise to stay in Wisconsin after they earn their degrees, said Morris Davis, associate professor and academic director of the James Graaskamp Center for Real Estate.
Richard Brown, a UW-Madison medical professor who specializes in substance abuse, does not believe that pot-smoking is more dangerous than drinking and says the theory that weed is a ?gateway? to more perilous poison has been discredited.
The state Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities held a public hearing on two bills Monday that could affect research and scholarship funds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students may soon be seeing more incentives to stay in state for college with two bills proposed in the Legislature to help residents pay for the increasing costs of higher education.
Democratic authors of a bill that would create a new state authority to allow roughly 753,000 Wisconsin residents to refinance their federal student loans, were met with tough criticism and concerns Monday.
Iowa?s system avoids gerrymandering and fat legal fees while encouraging more competition for seats and cooperation from leaders, said UW-Madison political science professors Ken Mayer and David Canon. The two redistricting experts insisted Iowa?s process would not undermine the Wisconsin Legislature?s constitutional authority, as GOP leaders here have suggested. Wisconsin?s current way is ?divisive, polarizing, expensive, litigious and undermines basic notions of representation,? Mayer said.
A controversial measure to shield University of Wisconsin research from public records requests died a sudden death Monday morning before its first scheduled legislative hearing.
Scientific research at University of Wisconsin campuses would be shielded from public records requests until it?s published or patented under a controversial bill scheduled for a first hearing on Monday before the state Assembly?s higher education committee.
Clad in limestone, brick and stucco with a pitched tile roof, the elegant new Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house on historic Langdon Street catches the eye.
Students will vote in March on a referendum to increase a fee future Badgers pay for recreational sports facilities to pay for $223 million in renovations and expansions to the campus? aging fields, gyms, pools and tracks. The proposal was explained Thursday to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents capital planning and budget committee.
Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, said about 763,000 Wisconsin residents are burdened by student loan debt. Passing the legislation, which he called the first of its kind nationally, would provide an incentive for graduates of state colleges to remain in Wisconsin after graduation.
A bill that supporters say would provide student debt relief for Wisconsin residents is under consideration by the state Senate.
Both Apple and Julie Underwood, dean of the School of Education at UW-Madison, share Slekar?s concern over the systematic privatization of education and recognize a role for scholars in the public debate about it.
