Governor Scott Walker has released dozens of documents that detail staff discussions about changes to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, just hours after a judge ordered them to be made public.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will likely be the last campus this spring to hold a vote of no-confidence in the Board of Regents and UW System President Ray Cross.
Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still explains how budget cuts will continue to affect the University of Wisconsin System’s ability to contribute to economic growth in Wisconsin. Still says a bipartisan effort is necessary in order for both the state economy and UW System to thrive.
Amid budget cuts, weakened tenure protections, and a chilly atmosphere between UW faculty and staff and Governor Walker, some of the UW System’s faculty have been looking for jobs elsewhere or receiving offers from other universities. We hear from a professor and department chair who makes the case for staying at the UW.
Column by Gov. Walker: As the parent of a junior at UW-Madison, I want my son to have a great education for a reasonable price. As governor, I want that for every college student in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire faculty by a split vote this week passed a resolution that included language of no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
Close to 70 percent of UW-Eau Claire faculty, or 227 staff members, voted in favor of a resolution saying they have no confidence in UW-System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
Twenty years after UW-Madison scientist Jamie Thomson began work to isolate human embryonic stems, research has advanced so far that the field is now poised to boom and create Wisconsin companies that could rival Epic, the Verona-based electronic healthcare records company with more than 9,000 employees.
Twenty years after UW-Madison scientist Jamie Thomson began work to isolate human embryonic stems, research has advanced so far that the field is now poised to boom and create Wisconsin companies that could rival Epic, the Verona-based electronic healthcare records company with more than 9,000 employees.That was the optimistic forecast by three panelists who spoke Tuesday at a Wisconsin Innovation Network luncheon in Madison.
A powerful and inexpensive technique for rewriting snippets of DNA — known as CRISPR-Cas9 — has two research institutions locked in a bitter patent battle. On one side is UC Berkeley, where faculty first reported using the gene-editing technology in 2012, on the other, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where faculty won a special expedited patent for the technique in 2014.
Wisconsin coach Greg Gard has reeled in a key recruit for the 2016-’17 season.
Two UW-Madison students have created a new fitness tracker that’s quickly being adopted by local football coaches.
Votes of no confidence by faculty at several University of Wisconsin campuses were “a big mistake,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said earlier this month.
The development by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka follows research he did last year suggesting another way to improve flu shots: manufacturing them with dog or monkey cells instead of the current, lengthy process using chicken eggs.
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Department of Natural Resources researchers hope to place as many as 6,000 motion-activated trail cameras across the state. Photos will be uploaded to a crowd-sourcing website; viewers will be asked to view them and try to identify the animals in them. The project, dubbed Snapshot Wisconsin, should provide the best idea yet of the size of animal populations and their movements, said Phil Townsend, a UW-Madison forestry professor and one of the project leaders.
Democrats have spent recent weeks drawing attention to budget cuts that have led to reduced services and layoffs on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Members of a fraternity that was suspended at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week for race discrimination told a campus investigator that they did not use the word “nigga” in a derogatory way, but as slang or a term of endearment, according to records released by campus officials.
Political storm clouds are forming over how much state aid the UW System will get in the next two-year budget. And, if Republicans keep control of the Legislature in November elections, those clouds could easily turn into a red-flag storm warning.
More than 100 proposals for how to improve campus climate poured in from students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after Chancellor Rebecca Blank called for an all-hands-on-deck approach this spring to curb hate and bias incidents.
Offering mandatory courses in cultural studies, improving campus housing security and formally addressing the larger community about bias incidents are a few of the ideas put forth for improving the climate on the UW-Madison campus, according to proposals released Thursday by university officials.
Department of Health Services officials announced Wednesday a Wisconsin resident has a confirmed case of Zika virus infection. DHS has been working on this issue with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local health departments, health care professionals, the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Entomology Department, according to the release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison has suspended the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity through Nov. 1 after an investigation found chapter members repeatedly used racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs, and then ostracized a black member who told them to stop, according to documents released by the university.
The adversarial relationship between the University of Wisconsin and Gov. Scott Walker is perilous, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Tuesday.
Health officials are collaborating with the a state university after learning that a Wisconsin woman contracted the Zika virus.
Tommy Thompson still knows how to work a room. The former Wisconsin governor thanked faculty members during a graduation ceremony last week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calling them “some of the greatest professors in the United States of America.”
The University of Wisconsin has suspended the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at its flagship campus after finding that members of the fraternity repeatedly used racist and bigoted slurs and ostracized a black member who tried to stop it.
Reductions in public funding for higher education will negatively impact Wisconsin’s economy, according to a report released today by the Wisconsin Technology Council.
A new Wisconsin Technology Council report warns further state budget cuts to higher education “will prove costly over time.”
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, in a far-reaching effort to improve the lot of workers that has ignited criticism from business groups, announced on Tuesday that it was making millions more employees eligible for overtime pay.
Obama administration releases final rules to require new payments for many employees. Regulations make clear that higher ed employees considered teachers will continue to be exempt. Postdoc pay could be key issue going forward.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson showered UW-Madison professors with praise at a graduation ceremony last week, striking a different tone from the sharp criticism of faculty members fellow Republican Gov. Scott Walker has leveled in recent days.
Former Wisconsin Badgers quarterback Russell Wilson headlined UW-Madison’s spring commencement Saturday, speaking to more than 5,500 new graduates.
Despite overcast skies, chilly temperatures and an occasional raindrop, thousands of UW-Madison students celebrated their hard work and efforts Saturday.
Imagine being a featured speaker at a celebration of historic significance, but most of the guests mingling in the room took a vote before the party and announced to the world they have no confidence in your ability to lead them.
On graduation day, 101 years after Milton Pettit Griswold entered UW-Madison, his family will accept his engineering degree, posthumously.
While Seahawk quarterback Russell Wilson’s commencement speech Saturday at the University of Wisconsin drew the expected enthusiastic response from its intended audience, it’s been met with some tilted eyebrows from some at his first school, North Carolina State.
Never far from his mind. Super Bowl winner Russell Wilson gave a shout out to his fiancée, Ciara, when he delivered the commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday, May 14.
MADISON, WI — Seahawks’ quarterback Russell Wilson told students to stay ready and keep things in perspective “when life tells you ’no’” at a University of Wisconsin–Madison graduation ceremony Saturday.
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson delivered the commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday.
U.S. Senator Russell Wilson delivered a great commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday.
Russell Wilson had some sage advice off his own experience for his fellow Badgers: try not to blow the Super Bowl. The Seahawks quarterback delivered the commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday.
Not to get all inside-baseball, but news releases issued by Gov. Scott Walker are usually pretty plain, like the white chalk lines that meet at home plate.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay became the fifth campus in the UW System where faculty voted to declare no confidence in President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
When Wisconsin lawmakers considered a bill last year to allow deer hunters to wear fluorescent pink for safety, in addition to blaze orange, their deliberations were informed by University of Wisconsin-Madison research.
Patricia Flatley Brennan, a professor of nursing and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the new director of the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest biomedical library.
Gov. Scott Walker echoed University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross’ criticism of tenure as a “job for life” as faculty at UW-Milwaukee unanimously declared no confidence in Cross’ leadership Tuesday.
Faculty members at UW-Green Bay became the latest group of professors to declare they have no confidence in the leaders of the University of Wisconsin System on Wednesday.
Twelve stories above State Street, a half-moon-shaped infinity pool circulates crystal-clear water over the vanishing edge of a rooftop deck with a panoramic view of downtown Madison and Lake Mendota. Sunbathers recline on poolside lounge chairs, basking in the unseasonably warm spring sunshine. Some are relaxing, but others glance at computer screens and note cards — it’s almost finals week, after all.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Faculty Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution expressing no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
Nearly 300 faculty members packed a classroom at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where they unanimously passed a resolution expressing no confidence in the UW System leaders.
UW-Milwaukee became the fourth University of Wisconsin System campus to see professors declare they have no confidence in UW’s leaders Tuesday, in a vote that prompted Gov. Scott Walker to weigh in with sharp criticism of the faculty.
UW-Green Bay faculty plan to take a “no-confidence” vote Wednesday afternoon in UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents, while Gov. Scott Walker says university faculty “fail to grasp reality.”
t’s not often that a college student publicly accuses professors of immaturity and poor judgment. Yet Jacob W. Wrasse, a senior who this week finished his term as president of the student body at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, has done just that as his campus’s University Senate considers whether to rebuke top university-system officials for failing to better shield professors’ tenure protections from a legislative assault.
Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, wrote in a March email to the vice president of the system’s Board of Regents, who was chairing a task force on controversial changes to layoff policies concerning tenured faculty members, that tenure should not mean “a job for life,” according to public records first obtained by the The Cap Times. “That is a ‘union’ argument,” Cross wrote to Regent John Behling, comparing faculty members to railroad brakemen whom he said were kept on the job for years after they were no longer needed.
A newly released email from the University of Wisconsin System president praised the decision to remove faculty tenure protections from state law.
So much for the notion Barry Alvarez was indifferent about the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey and women’s basketball programs. The UW athletic director put any such contentions to rest by opening up the checkbook with the hirings of Tony Granato to lead the hockey program and Jonathan Tsipis to take over the women’s basketball program.
The head of the University of Wisconsin System praised the decision to remove faculty tenure protections from state law in an email this spring that now threatens to further widen divisions between professors and top administrators.
Next week, the University of Wisconsin-Extension will start planning to absorb $3.6 million in budget cuts to the agency’s county and university educational services.
UW-Madison researchers are joining scientists around the world in using a powerful gene editing tool that is transforming biology and could improve human health as much as anything since the first successful isolation of human embryonic stem cells, at UW-Madison, in 1998.
Scientists have gotten to the root of the carrot, genetically speaking. Researchers, including lead scientist, University of Wisconsin horticulture professor and geneticist Phil Simon, said on Monday they have sequenced the genome of the carrot, an increasingly important root crop worldwide, identifying genes responsible for traits including the vegetable’s abundance of vitamin A, an important nutrient for vision.
