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.
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.
As a proposal to reorganize the University of Wisconsin System goes to the Board of Regents for approval Thursday, just a month after it was announced by system President Ray Cross, a former university official is wondering what Cross has done to resolve the issues he now cites as reasons to dismantle the system.
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.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology, which represents many of the nation’s top cancer doctors, is calling attention to the ties between alcohol and cancer. In a statement published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the group cites evidence that even light drinking can slightly raise a woman’s risk of breast cancer and increase a common type of esophageal cancer.
Improving the climate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for underrepresented and disadvantaged students is going to rely on efforts in departments, classrooms and social circles around campus, officials told a luncheon gathering Tuesday at the school’s 2017 Diversity Forum.
University of Wisconsin-Superior students protested Monday on campus in response to the administration’s decision last week to suspend 25 programs.
A planned reorganization of the University of Wisconsin System could dilute the link between counties and UW Colleges and strain financial investments made by counties in the schools, officials say.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents appears set to vote this week on a proposal to merge the state’s two-year colleges and several of its four-year institutions without a clear picture of how the plan could affect UW’s finances.
UW-Madison’s Department of Anesthesiology should recruit more female residents, examine salaries for gender equity and boost mentoring of leaders to improve a culture characterized by “male centrism,” a university report says.
The specter of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus as a liberal stronghold where students who hold conservative political views are intimidated from expressing them is not supported by a first of its kind survey of students released last week.
he results of surveys released by two major universities this week show signs that several groups of students there are not satisfied with the campus climate.
The Law Library at UW-Madison was evacuated Wednesday morning and students were sent an alert asking them to avoid the area, after police got a report of a man with an AK-47 rifle.
While a majority of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison feel welcome, safe and able to thrive on campus, worrisome disparities exist among students of color, and those with non-conforming gender identities or disabilities, according to results of a campus climate survey released Wednesday.
While a majority of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison feel welcome, safe and able to thrive on campus, worrisome disparities exist among students of color, and those with non-conforming gender identities or disabilities, according to results of a campus climate survey released Wednesday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Minority, disabled and gay students say they’re having a tougher time surviving on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus than most students, according to a survey the university released Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior is dropping a hefty chunk of its academic offerings as it moves to streamline its programming, it announced Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior announced Tuesday it’s suspending 25 programs, including 9 majors, 15 minors and one graduate program. The university has now suspended 40 programs since 2014. The announcement surprised faculty, some of whom said they were unaware their programs were at risk.
“A dictionary is never done,” said George Goebel, the third and, it turns out, final editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, also known as DARE.
Democrats are blasting a plan to merge the University of Wisconsin System’s schools.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is suspending the planned revamp of its master’s of business administration program after a backlash over an imminent cutback.
Cathy Sandeen wasn’t given much notice that her job is about to change significantly, and might be eliminated outright.
Wisconsin School of Business officials are reversing course on suspending the Master of Business Administration program for a year.
Just one week after news broke that the University of Wisconsin Business School was considering suspension of its full-time MBA program — and following a swift backlash among alumni and current students — the school is backpedaling.
UW-Madison went Hollywood for Winter Commencement, getting help from the Evil Queen from ABC’s “Once Upon a Time” to announce this year’s speakers.
The number of attempts by other universities to recruit professors away from UW-Madison declined in the last academic year, after a spike in the previous year officials attributed to budget cuts and controversial changes to tenure policies.
Wisconsin School of Business leaders say they are no longer pursuing a proposal that would have suspended the school’s full-time Master of Business Administration program for a year, and could have led to the program’s closure.
Cathy Sandeen wasn’t given much notice that her job is about to change significantly, and might be eliminated outright.
Master’s students in the department will work with UW alumnus and certified planner Mark Roffers, who serves as planner for the village of Prairie du Sac and a consultant for Sauk City at times. The students work to fulfill a degree requirement and gain practical knowledge and experience in planning.
In turn the villages will receive a visioning document with guidance on the latest in planning thought and practice, with emphasis on making Sauk Prairie a better place to live and work while furthering a high quality of life.
A lead contamination scare on the UW-Madison campus is over.
UW-Madison faculty are reviewing a proposal that calls for the Wisconsin School of Business to suspend admissions into its full-time Master of Business Administration program for one year while leaders undertake a long-term review of program offerings, officials said Monday.
The Wisconsin School of Business is considering shutting down its full-time Master of Business Administration program, officials say, in a move that would make UW-Madison the latest university to stop offering a traditional MBA.
On Saturday, the Kellners added to their legacy of giving at UW-Madison, committing $25 million as part of the university’s $3.2 billion All Ways Forward comprehensive campaign.
As a special Homecoming weekend gift, two UW-Madison alumni donated $25 million to the school’s fundraising campaign, the university announced Saturday.
Over the last three weeks, the University of Wisconsin System’s leaders have adopted new policies to curb disruptive protests, largely mirroring a controversial Republican bill. They have given members of the Board of Regents more power in picking campus leaders.
The admiring crowd swirling around the guest of honor last Thursday night at the Pyle Center’s Alumni Lounge was so thick that I could only get within a few feet of her as she stood near the entrance and surveyed the room.
She was the daughter of a New York cement salesman. He was the son of a legendary Wisconsin track star and Milwaukee-area businessman.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is considering changes to its master’s of business administration program that could include a greater focus on older, part-time students.
Public health officials have been worried about H7N9’s potential to eventually trigger a pandemic, or global outbreak.A new study could add to those concerns. Researchers at UW–Madison found that samples of H7N9 were easily transmitted among ferrets — an animal “model” that is considered the best proxy for human flu infection. And those infections were often lethal.
It’s the vandalism we’ve seen all too often around Madison. Spray painted swastikas on a memorial next to a Jewish synagogue in September. Then, this month swastikas were scratched into the hoods of several new vehicles in an east side dealership. Not to mention, there have been multiple instances of swastikas and other hateful messages that have popped up on the UW-Madison campus over the past few years.
In a study published in Cell Host & Microbe, flu expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin and colleagues tested a version of the new H7N9 strain taken from a person who died from the infection last spring.They found that the virus replicated efficiently in mice, ferrets and non-human primates, and that it caused even more severe disease in mice and ferrets than a low pathogenic version of the same virus that does not cause illness in birds.
In one year, H7N9 influenza’s highly pathogenic (“high-path”) strains have caused as many human infections as the previous four epidemics put together. As of September 20, there have been 1,589 laboratory-confirmed cases, and 39 percent of those people have died. “It was a matter of time,” says the flu expert Yoshihiro Kawaoka, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It wasn’t surprising to see this change.”
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has awarded over $80 million to UW-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research for the 2017-2018 school year, so researchers can continue to “dream big.”
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System schools conducted about $5.4 million in questionable transactions with their private foundations between 2010 and 2017, according to a system report released Wednesday. None of the transactions were apparently illegal but they didn’t always follow best practices, the report said.
A nearly $184,000 payment the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse provided its foundation is among $5.4 million questioned in a UW System audit of transactions between campuses and their private foundations since 2010.
University of Wisconsin officials released a report Wednesday that shows about $5.3 million in questionable transactions between campuses and their private foundations.
University of Wisconsin System officials say a review of transactions between campuses and their private foundations has found no other cases of illegal guarantees or loans being made.
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.
From his office above the seating bowl, Barry Alvarez can point to the areas where the second century of progress in Camp Randall Stadium are likely to be shaped.
The need for registered nurses continues to grow in Wisconsin. That’s prompted the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing to launch a program that allows people who already hold a bachelor’s degree in a different subject to get a nursing degree with one additional, full year of intense instruction. The needs of Wisconsin’s aging population and the changing demands of the health care system are driving the new program, according to Nursing School Dean Linda Scott.
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.
The students were selected to receive the federally funded Fulbright-Hays-Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award that will allow them to do research on three different continents for a year. The funds are provided from the U.S. Department of Education.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Student leaders at the University of Wisconsin’s 26 campuses are pressing regents to include their input on plans to merge two-year schools with four-year campuses.
The University of Wisconsin System has not yet crunched the numbers on its plan to reorganize state college campuses, according to spokeswoman Stephanie Marquis.
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.
