The University of Wisconsin-Madison will close its dairy sheep research program and disperse the flock of about 300 ewes in the fall, as the university rethinks how it serves the state’s broad agricultural sectors in light of state budget cuts.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to end its dairy sheep research program and get rid of hundreds of ewes in northwestern Wisconsin.
James P. Henderson was named Monday as the system’s chief academic officer, overseeing academic programs, diversity planning and faculty and staff development, among other responsibilities, officials said.
The No. 2 administrator for the largest campus in the University of Louisiana System has been tapped to be the top academic officer for the University of Wisconsin System.
Jake Wood was fresh out of the U.S. Marines and weighing business school when a deadly earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010. He rallied some fellow military veterans and medical personnel, flew to the Dominican Republic, and rented trucks. The group made its way into Port-au-Prince, where for 20 days they provided emergency relief and treated people who had what Mr. Wood describes as “horrific wounds.”
An anti-abortion group has started airing a television commercial calling on Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to hold a vote on a bill that would prohibit research using tissue taken from aborted fetuses.
MADISON –Wisconsin lawmakers, back in Madison for a brief session before focusing on their own jobs for the rest of 2016, will consider one bill making it easier to hire and fire state workers and another banning the use of fetal tissue from abortions.
Changes to Wisconsin gun laws are unlikely to happen during the spring legislative session, according to a top Republican in the state Legislature.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says a bill allowing concealed weapons in college buildings probably won’t get a vote before the legislative session ends early next year.
Twenty years ago, a friend approached me about a problem. Many of the youths in the small community were in a cycle of trouble: incarceration, release and repeat. Concerned parents, clergy and others came together to seek solutions. They felt as if they were spinning their wheels and getting nowhere.
A University of Wisconsin System task force has finalized new tenure rules. The Wisconsin State Journal reported Thursday that the task force wrapped up work Wednesday. The task force is expected to forward the policy to the Board of Regents’ education committee by February. The full board is expected to vote on the plan in March.
Professors from across the UW System got to make their final pleas Wednesday on what two new policies concerning faculty layoffs and tenure review might look like.
A contentious rewrite of tenure rules for the state’s public university faculty has advanced to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, months after lawmakers stripped tenure protections from state law.
UW-Madison officials say the campus has seen an increase in the number of professors entertaining job offers from competing universities.
The UW System Tenure Policy Task Force, the body charged with writing new faculty protections, plans to meet Wednesday afternoon to review draft policies that outline layoff protections for tenured faculty and the review process professors must go through after they have received tenure.
Proposed policies expected to clear a major hurdle Wednesday will pave the way for something that has never been done in the University of Wisconsin System’s 44-year existence. One would allow tenured and tenure-track faculty to be laid off if academic programs are discontinued for “educational considerations,” including financial or strategic planning reasons tied to “long-term student and market demand and societal needs.” The other, if adopted, would strengthen procedures for evaluating faculty performance at least once every five years after they have achieved tenure.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation plans to give $3.5 million to keep the Wisconsin Energy Institute operating for a year. It’s a stopgap move after state lawmakers passed a budget in July that removed $8.1 million in funding over two years for the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s police chief is taking a Republican state representative to task after the lawmaker called for more citizens to become armed with guns and to end gun-free zones.
Featured: Prof. Craig Werner, lecturer Doug Bradley and alumnus Charles L. Hughes
The year’s best music reads included open books on a roots-rocker, a dance icon, a punk poet and a rap pioneer; not to mention deep looks at everything from the Vietnam war to the current EDM explosion.
Representatives Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton) and Terese Berceau (D-Madison) held a news conference on Monday to announce a proposed piece of legislation that would bring back shared governance to the University of Wisconsin System. This proposed bill aims to improve the status of faculty, staff, and students within the UW System. If passed it would mean a return to students, faculty, and staff being decision makers on campus, not simply advisers to campus chancellors, as is now the case.
Shared governance in the UW System was removed by Wisconsin state legislators during the last passed budget.
The bill will bring statutory language back to what it was before it was changed in Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-2017 budget to downgrade the role of faculty, staff and students from “active participants” to advisory.
During an interview with the State Journal on Monday, UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez addressed the timetable of former basketball coach Bo Ryan’s retirement and also elaborated on what he expects to see from interim coach Greg Gard.
Quoted in story, part of series: “Social isolation is a huge issue,” said Art Walaszek, a professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s department of psychiatry. “The other huge issue is suicide in older adults. After age 65, the suicide rates just skyrocket. They’re much higher than for any other demographic group. And one of the top five risk factors for suicide in older adults is social isolation.”
From Jeffrey Russell, Dean of Continuing Studies: A democracy requires government to function effectively, and public employees are the ones who make that happen.It’s easy to take government services for granted. Most of us don’t think twice about the clean water that comes from our faucets, the trash that’s picked up on schedule or the effort that goes into caring for our most vulnerable citizens.One key to doing these jobs well is lifelong learning. In a rapidly changing world, public employees must commit themselves to mastering the latest developments in their fields so that government runs as efficiently as possible.
What University of Wisconsin men’s basketball fans dreaded for months became reality Tuesday night when Bo Ryan officially announced his retirement, effective immediately.
After nearly four decades as a coach at the collegiate level, Bo Ryan has finally decided to hang up the whistle for good.
The Bo Ryan era at Wisconsin has come to an end.
Following the Badgers’ victory over Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Badgers head coach Bo Ryan announced his immediate retirement as the Wisconsin men’s basketball coach.
Badgers basketball head coach Bo Ryan announced he will be retiring effective immediately, instead of at the end of the season.
The methodical brand of basketball that Bo Ryan ran at Wisconsin rarely surprised opponents as it piled up wins and two trips to the Final Four over the last two seasons.
Ryan saved the biggest shocker of his career for his final game.
The 67-year-old coach abruptly retired on Tuesday night, 12 games into the season after his Badgers beat Texas A&M-Corpus Christi two weeks before Big Ten play begins.
Bo Ryan’s 494th game as Wisconsin’s head men’s basketball coach was his last.
The letter, which was written by three UW-Madison scientists, contends that the bill “would severely restrict promising avenues of biomedical research for conditions such as diabetes, Down syndrome, heart failure, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury and more.”
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced his retirement following the Badgers’ 64-49 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tuesday night.
Longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison basketball coach Bo Ryan announced on Tuesday that he was retiring, effective immediately.
Doug Todd of Wausau treasures the astonishingly gracious letter he received from Nobel Prize-winner William C. Campbell.
A committee of the UW Board of Regents reaffirmed its support for free speech Thursday by unanimously approving a resolution inspired by debates over how colleges should handle sensitive or divisive subjects.
Ideas that are unpopular or even offensive should not be shut out of debates over controversial topics at University of Wisconsin System schools, the System’s Board of Regents affirmed Friday, when its members passed a resolution restating their commitment to free speech.
The UW System’s Board of Regents has approved a resolution aimed renewing a commitment to free speech and academic freedom on its campuses.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin has become the latest university system to officially affirm the right to free speech and academic freedom for all students amid concerns that academia is trying to protect students from being offended by classroom lectures and discussions.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee unanimously approved a resolution Thursday affirming a commitment to free speech, following the lead of schools around the country that have faced protests over racial tensions and other social issues.
The resolution, which was written by a group of Regents with help from some UW-Madison professors, states that the university may not suppress the free exchange of ideas, even if some on campus find those ideas “offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed.”
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee unanimously approved a resolution Thursday affirming a commitment to free speech, following the lead of schools around the country that have faced protests over racial tensions and other social issues.
As African-American students at UW-Madison join others at universities across the country in demanding inclusive campuses, the UW System Board of Regents developed a statement reaffirming its commitment to free expression that also sets limits on acceptable responses to offensive speech.
The Regents will take up a proposed resolution reaffirming the board’s commitment to academic freedom and free speech when its education committee meets Thursday in Madison. The move comes weeks after UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent students and faculty a controversial message about speech, which critics said was contrary to First Amendment principles, and as colleges across the country weigh how to handle sensitive debates on campus.
he Supreme Court’s proceedings resembled a debate over educational research more than a fight over constitutional principles as the justices heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a challenge to race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin.
In February 2014, staff from UW-Madison’s Living Environments Laboratory arrived at a Mazomanie residence where a murder had recently been committed.
Irish-born Nobel Prize laureate William C. Campbell has warned of the great cost of a decline in the kind of scientific research that lead to him beating the parasitic infection that leads to river blindness.
The UW System is conducting an open online survey to gauge public opinion through Dec. 14. The five-minute survey touches on issues identified in a series of public listening sessions held around the state this fall.
UW-Madison chancellor discusses the university’s difficult year, the future of public financing of higher education and racial protests on campuses.
Every month, Lishan Su receives a small test tube on ice from a company in California. In it is a piece of liver from a human fetus aborted at between 14 and 19 weeks of pregnancy.
A sign has been sitting at the corner of Lake and University Streets in downtown Madison for years, announcing the site of a new UW-Madison School of Music building.
Now, a large gift from the Wisconsin Rapids-based Mead Witter Foundation will allow the sign to finally come down next fall and construction to begin on a new building that will house both music classrooms and a large concert hall.
“This was proposed before the 2008 financial crisis and we had some wonderful, generous donors, but the fundraising effort stalled out for some time,” Director of Jazz Studies at UW-Madison Johannes Wallmann said. “Even the most optimistic among us thought it might be decades away.”
When one of America’s first graduate-student unions was recognized at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in 1969, organizers embraced a key principle: Graduate assistants should get equal pay for equal work. (Login may be required.)
WISCONSIN RAPIDS – The Mead Witter Foundation announced Thursday it is giving $25 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music has received a $25 million gift to help construct a new building featuring performance spaces and a large concert hall.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a way to generate cells similar to primitive leukemia cells, an advance that will allow researchers to study the disease in a lab dish and perhaps even find better treatments. The new work appears in the journal Stem Cell Research.
WASHINGTON — As student protests over racial injustice are exploding at campuses across the nation, the Supreme Court is preparing to hear a major case that could put an end to racial preferences in college admissions.
Proposed new University of Wisconsin System policies on the layoffs and termination of faculty don’t meet accepted standards and threaten academic freedom, say Wisconsin leaders of a national academic professional group.
Faculty leaders on three University of Wisconsin System campuses objected to proposed new tenure policies ahead of a systemwide task force meeting on the new guidelines Monday.
Faculty are again pushing back against proposals for new University of Wisconsin System tenure policies, saying rules laid out in draft documents last week would violate professors’ rights to due process and threaten academic freedom. The draft policies outline layoff protections for tenured faculty and the review process professors must go through after they have received tenure. They led to a lively discussion Monday at a meeting of the UW System Tenure Policy Task Force, the body charged with writing new faculty protections. The task force will meet again later this month before sending its recommendations for a new tenure policy to the UW System Board of Regents next year.
Policies on tenure protections and job reviews for University of Wisconsin System faculty that a special task force will consider Monday afternoon fail to meet nationally recognized professional standards for academia, according to faculty leaders from three UW campuses.
