Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin- Madison have received a four-year, $5.5 million grant to better understand how communication between parts of the brain changes as the result of normal aging or of dementia.
On Tuesday, Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, defended Cross and the Regents, described the changes to tenure as “minor” and criticized faculty for bringing the no confidence vote.
A state legislative leader is critical of UW-Madison faculty members who want a vote of no confidence on UW System leadership. “This faculty group seems to be having a hissy fit over some pretty minor charges, which bring us in line with most of the nation’s universities, and do very little to chang the overall idea of tenure,” said Assembly Majority Leader, Representative Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna)
The UW-Madison campus is divided over a proposed ’no-confidence’ vote led by university professors. The resolution was written to speak out against UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents.
UW-Madison leaders met with community members Monday night at the Urban League of Greater Madison on Park Street. The goal of this community Q&A session was to address recent hate and bias incidents at UW-Madison and to also come up with ways to improve the racial climate on campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison campus leaders responded to community concerns at a forum Monday night following incidents of racial discrimination culminating in campus protests over the past few months.
It seems to be happening more and more lately: we put an issue on our editorial agenda for the year and the issue takes an unexpected turn before the year is half over.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate is preparing to take a no-confidence vote on UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents for changing the school’s tenure policy.
After a push from Associate Students of Madison leaders to increase administration cultural competency, Chancellor Rebecca Blank agreed to begin administration training which will address unconscious biases.
The governing body for UW-Madison faculty is moving forward with a vote of no confidence on University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross and the System’s Board of Regents — despite a warning from Chancellor Rebecca Blank that approving the resolution could prompt a backlash from state lawmakers.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling and others faced tough questions and listened to recommendations about improving the campus’ climate at a community meeting at the Urban League of Greater Madison on the South Side.
The final numbers on the University of Wisconsin athletic department’s apparel contract with Under Armour were staggering when released in October. The 10-year deal worth as much as $96 million was Under Armour’s largest ever given to a university’s athletic department. At minimum, UW will receive five times as much cash per year as in its current deal with Adidas.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank is inviting members of the community to talk with her Monday about needed changes to the climate for minority students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Blank, along with UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling, chief diversity officer Patrick Sims and director of community relations Everett Mitchell, will host a discussion from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the Urban League of Greater Madison, 2222 S. Park St.
The stress level is running high at UW-Eau Claire this month.Not because of final exams. That traditional source of college anxiety remains three weeks away.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Faculty Senate will vote on a resolution expressing no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the system’s Board of Regents on May 2. Among numerous alleged missteps by Cross and the board, the resolution criticizes them for supporting a new systemwide layoff policy for tenured professors that many faculty members said fell short of providing real tenure protections in the event of program closures for budgetary and academic concerns. The board also approved changes to a Madison-specific policy that many professors said watered down tenure protections. The new policies stem from the Wisconsin Legislature’s elimination of tenure from state statute last year.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, joined by a handful of faculty members, occupied a campus library Thursday to disrupt its studious atmosphere in protest of a graffiti-related arrest.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students marched through campus Thursday, chanting “education, not incarceration,” to protest the arrest of a student for his alleged role in spraypainting graffiti art around campus.
UW-Madison junior Deshawn McKinney has been selected to receive the prestigious national Truman Scholarship. The Harry S. Truman Scholarship, created by Congress in 1975 as a memorial to the former president, is intended to support the next generation of public service leaders.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine have found a way to simulate the Zika virus in mice, a step that should help researchers better understand the disease and even gain a foothold in the effort to develop vaccines and antivirals.
Stories of racist incidents on campus have been shared using the Twitter hashtag #TheRealUW for much of the past month … #TheRealUW has allowed students of color to vent their anger and frustration about incidents of racism on campus. It has been exhausting to read and draining to live, they said. #TheRealUW has pushed race incidents into the public sphere, past the bounds of confidentiality or denial that typically protect targets and transgressors alike. Nobody now can claim that they have not heard the stories.
Prompting widespread anger from faculty and students, University of Wisconsin at Madison police on Thursday pulled a black student from class and arrested him for allegedly spray-painting anti-racist messages across campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief issued an apology on Friday after campus officers interrupted a class to arrest a student earlier this week.
In early January, UW-Madison economists Steven Deller and Tessa Conroy released a study on Wisconsin job creation that sank beneath the waves with barely a ripple, despite its insight into the Badger State’s sluggish economy.
University of Wisconsin – Madison officials say budgets cuts brought upon by the $250-million deficit facing the entire UW System will lead to cuts in the number of work hours for student employees. The students use the income from these jobs to pay for tuition, room and board.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to award a graduate student who died last year a rare posthumous degree. The State Journal reports 30-year-old Craig Schuff died in October. Schuff had already earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering and was preparing to defend his thesis to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering.
Summaries outlining the impact of state funding cuts to higher education say University of Wisconsin System campuses have laid off employees, consolidated administration, reduced advising services and cut course offerings over the past year.
Student employment hours have been drastically cut back because of state funding cuts, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials reported last week to UW System administrators. Those cuts came in addition to paring of undergraduate advising services and reductions in information technology services to students, according to a campus budget impact statement that was to have been presented to the Board of Regents when it met last week in Green Bay.
Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings, cuts to academic advising, potentially increasing how long it takes to finish a degree, loss of student jobs on campus, inability to grow high-demand programs, and outdated academic facilities that aren’t being maintained.
Institutions across the University of Wisconsin System have laid off employees, consolidated administration, reduced advising services and cut course offerings over the past year, according to documents released Monday summarizing the impact of state cuts to higher education funding.
Campuses across the UW System are cutting dozens of positions and resorting to larger class sizes to deal with state budget cuts, according to a new UW System report.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank in a blog post Friday addressed new campus-specific policy written by faculty but edited by the Board of Regents, saying it is “workable, consistent with our peers, and provides tenure protections that should reassure our faculty.”
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank said Friday that the university won’t lay off tenured faculty so long as it remains a leading research school.“Top-ranked universities always take care of their tenured faculty,” Blank said in a blog post. “As long as this university is a top-ranked institution we will behave like other top-ranked universities. That means we don’t layoff tenured faculty. Period.”
The First Folio, a printed collection of William Shakespeare’s plays that dates back to 1623, is scheduled to arrive in November. Shipped under conditions of top security and high-tech climate control, the book will be on display for nearly six weeks at the Chazen Museum of Art, with UW-Madison Libraries and UW Arts Institute as co-presenters.
The University of Wisconsin System will create a task force to study the experiences of minority students and make recommendations to improve the racial climate on UW campuses, officials announced Friday.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said the university’s new tenure policy approved by the UW System Board of Regents Friday is “workable” and should reassure faculty, according to a post on her online blog.
When he died last October at age 30, Craig Schuff, a quadriplegic, was just a few neutrons short of completing his doctorate in electrical engineering at UW-Madison. He had already earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering, already passed a qualifying examination and prelims, and had already begun preparing to defend his thesis. He had interrupted his graduate studies in the College of Engineering once before, in 2011, when a Lake Monona diving accident damaged his spinal cord and left him motionless, but no less motivated. Now, in death, Schuff rejoins the elite: In May at UW-Madison graduation ceremonies, his parents will accept for him a posthumous doctorate in electrical engineering.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved UW-Madison’s new tenure policy
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved a plan to raise nonresident and graduate tuition at five campuses.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved UW-Madison’s new tenure policy.
A new UW-Madison tenure policy written by faculty members is poised to pass the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents after a series of changes that make it compatible with a System policy governing all state campuses.
After nearly a year of turmoil over weakening faculty tenure protections, it took nine minutes for a committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents to give preliminary approval Thursday to the first campus-specific policies that will put changes into place.
A group of Democratic state lawmakers are slamming a decision to scrap a presentation on how budget cut are affecting University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Former UW-Madison chancellor Donna Shalala will be keynote speaker at a global summit for women at the university.
MADISON — The huge voter turnout in the Wisconsin primary could have been even higher without the state’s new photo identification requirement, voter advocacy groups said Wednesday.
Patrick Sims, vice provost for diversity and climate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, decided last week that he had had enough.When he received a picture of a racial slur, scrawled on notebook paper, that had reportedly been slipped under a freshman’s dorm-room door, Mr. Sims did something unusual for a campus administrator. He recorded a video.
In spite of Tuesday’s record turnout, the wait to vote at UW-Madison polling locations remained manageable, officials there said.University officials stressed that delays for the campus locations didn’t hit the one and two hour waits seen at UW-Green Bay and Marquette University at some points Tuesday.“The city clerk’s office tells us the max wait time was about 15 minutes,” spokeswoman Meredith McGlone said.
University of Wisconsin—Madison’s engineering school misreported data for the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate School” rankings for 2017, self-reported the discrepancies before the data was released to the public, and lost its tie for a No. 14 ranking.
U.S. News and World Report has stripped UW-Madison’s graduate engineering program of its top-15 national ranking after learning the university submitted incorrect figures for its acceptance rate that made the program seem more selective than it actually was.
When Barry Alvarez began his search for the successor to Mike Eaves as University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach, his short list consisted of three names.
Wednesday afternoon one name not on that list, Tony Granato, was officially introduced as the fifth head coach in the program’s modern history.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist says much work is ahead for the UW’s neutrino project at the South Pole now that it’s won a $35 million grant to continue detecting high-energy cosmic particles.
Chill the champagne, IceCube will stay frozen for another five years.
At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, infectious disease researcher David O’Connor — who described the reaction among scientists when Zika first made news as, “Oh my gosh, we know nothing about this” — started infecting macaques last month and has been sharing his data online as it arrives.
Noted: During a speech Monday afternoon on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Clinton took aim at Republicans who have erected a blockade against President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Clinton singled out GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin for his part in preventing the confirmation of Merrick Garland.
The furor from the Planned Parenthood sting videos is driving a tide of bills, which range from outright bans on research using aborted tissue to prohibitions on donating the tissue. Story quotes UW-Madison’s Alta Charo and Robert Golden.
Facing a room full of students the day after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, professor James Baughman distilled decades of studying the history of mass communications into one assignment: Write about it, he told the class. Like Ernie Pyle writing about the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. Or CBS News radio correspondent Edward Murrow reporting from London as the Nazis’ bombs fell. Baughman “just came in and scrapped everything and said this is what you’re doing,” recalled Jason Stein, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter who took one of Baughman’s classes as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gov. Scott Walker has had a bigger impact on Wisconsin’s public universities than any governor in decades, and he is among the most aggressive governors in the country in reshaping higher education, experts say.
Scholars are expressing concern about government and other third-party inquiries targeting researchers working in controversial fields. The alarm grew on Thursday with the disclosure that a special House committee investigation is seeking the names of researchers and graduate students working with fetal tissue — including that obtained via abortions.
Erik Iverson, president of business and operations for the Infectious Disease Research Institute in Seattle, has been hired to head the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Iverson will succeed Carl E. Gulbrandsen, who since 2000 has been managing director of WARF, the licensing and patenting organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He will start July 1, following Gulbrandsen’s retirement on June 30.
The WARF board of trustees announced the appointment Wednesday, to take effect July 1. Iverson’s salary was not disclosed. He will succeed Carl Gulbrandsen, who has led WARF since 2000 and plans to retire on June 30.
Following Tuesday’s deadly explosions in Brussels, major American universities with study abroad programs scrambled to locate students who are currently in Europe.
