People with concealed weapon licenses would be allowed to carry guns inside the buildings and classrooms of Wisconsin’s public universities and colleges under a bill introduced Monday by two state legislators.
UW-Madison is poised to enroll hundreds more out-of-state students, starting with next year’s freshman class, after the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Friday approved a request to waive the limit on nonresident students at the campus.
For nearly 30 years, through rounds of state funding cuts and tuition increases, the cost of attending UW-Madison increased at a higher rate than inflation each year. The main culprit has been tuition — the largest single cost college students pay and the one that has been rising at the steepest rate, now more than three times as expensive as it was in the mid-1980s. A tuition freeze in place since 2013 has kept that price nearly flat in recent years at about $10,400.
How much more elite will UW-Madison become now that a cap on the number of nonresident students it can enroll has been lifted? It won’t, Chancellor Rebecca Blank assured the UW System Board of Regents Friday as they voted to approve her proposal to lift the cap and let UW-Madison take more out-of-state students.
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System has approved a plan to lift UW-Madison’s cap on out-of-state students. UW System President Ray Cross told the Regents on Friday that the state’s flagship university faces a demographic reality – a declining pool of Wisconsin high school graduates to choose from.
Noted: UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank told the committee Thursday the waiver would push the institution to recruit harder within and outside of Wisconsin. She added her institution is “uniquely situated” to make sure Wisconsin’s best and brightest don’t leave for colleges in other states, and to bring students from other states into Wisconsin and get them to stay for work.
“I’m looking at all sorts of ways to partner with industry in the state, with professional organizations in the state, to put industry and Wisconsin businesses in front of my students in a way when they get to their senior year, they’ve heard of these companies, they know something about them, they are more likely to go work for them,” Blank said.
If the University of Wisconsin-Madison starts accepting a few hundred more undergraduates from other states and countries each year, and successfully recruits more top Wisconsin prospects who otherwise might leave the state, will that raise the bar even higher for instate students who already compete for a limited number of seats?
MADISON, Wisconsin — A University of Wisconsin System committee approved a plan to lift UW-Madison’s cap on out-of-state students Thursday after the campus’ chancellor and system president insisted they need more freedom to attract fresh talent for Wisconsin employers.
A UW-Madison proposal to lift the limit on how many out-of-state students the campus can enroll is closer to becoming policy after a committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved the plan Thursday.
The average time to get a degree dropped to 4.13 years during the last academic year, the lowest the university has on record, the Office of Academic Planning and Institutional Research said.
This could be big for UW-Madison. It’s exactly the sort of transformative discovery you would expect from a great research university. Like Harry Steenbock fortifying the vitamin D content of milk. Like James Thomson unlocking the mystery and promise of stem cells. In this case, two UW researchers have pioneered a breakthrough that could end of the flood of human antibiotics into animal feed.
A controversial plan to lift the cap on the number of non-resident students — who pay substantially higher tuition — is about workforce development, not more revenue, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Monday. But Blank also shared several ideas that are geared to increasing revenues in an era of diminishing state funds — including more summer school classes and continuing philanthropic giving — in an annual State of the University speech delivered to the Faculty Senate.
Associated Press story on three scientists from the U.S., Japan and China — including a UW-Madison alumnus William Campbell— who won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs to fight malaria and other tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year.
Three scientists who used modern laboratory techniques to discover anti-parasitic drugs long hidden in herbs and soil won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday.
A master’s and doctoral graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison was awarded a portion of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, according to a release from the university.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin is one of three scientists who’ve been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan were honored for discovering the drug Avermectin. Two derivatives of that drug helped reduce the presence of diseases caused by parasitic worms, mostly in Asia and Africa. The other Nobel Prize winner is Tu Youyou, China’s first medicine laureate. He created a drug that sharply dropped mortality rates for malaria.
William C. Campbell, who shared a Nobel Prize in medicine announced Monday, said that his time as a graduate student at UW-Madison helped shape his career.Arlie C. Todd and Chester A. Herrick, the professors who oversaw his research as a veterinary science and zoology student in the 1950s, gave him the freedom to be intuitive in his work, Campbell said in an interview from his home in Massachusetts.
Three scientists from the U.S., Japan and China, including a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum, won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs to fight malaria and other tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year.
The medicines they helped develop are credited with improving the lives of millions. And now three researchers working in the U.S., Japan, and China have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Among the winners: William C. Campbell of Drew University in Madison N.J., for his work on the roundworm parasite. Campbell is a UW alum.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would drop its cap on nonresident enrollment through 2020 while continuing its promise to save a minimum of 3,500 seats in each freshman class for Wisconsin residents, under a proposal to be considered next week by the UW System Board of Regents.
Officials of the nation’s leading universities have watched with dread as the fallout from the Planned Parenthood sting videos has threatened to engulf labs that depend on fetal tissue for research.
Associated Press report on the proposal to lift the school’s cap on out-of-state students.
UW-Madison wants to lift the cap on the number of students from outside of Wisconsin who can enroll at the university, though officials said Thursday they will make sure the state’s flagship campus stays accessible to its residents.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials plan to ask UW System regents next week for permission to lift the school’s cap on out-of-state students, a move they say would attract more young people to Wisconsin. It also would bolster the school’s coffers considerably as it struggles with deep budget cuts.
A growing appreciation for the value of learning how to code has led to skyrocketing enrollments in computer science courses at UW-Madison that are stretching resources, says department chairman Mark Hill.
“You think it’s a prank until you hear everyone on the (conference) call describing your work,” said Matthew Desmond, the sociologist, who works at Harvard University. Desmond is a 2010 UW-Madison graduate.
Participation in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “massive online open courses” — also known as MOOCs — has skyrocketed to well above the national average following an overhaul of the university’s offerings.
Research using fetal cell lines has been going on since the 1940s. The cell lines — samples of cells from fetal tissues that can reproduce themselves in labs, making them essentially immortal — are essential to research toward medical treatments, said Dr. Bob Golden, UW-Madison’s vice chancellor of medical affairs.
MADISON — High in a laboratory overlooking Lake Mendota, University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Gail Robertson is looking for the next breakthrough in medical science. If Republican lawmakers will let her, that is.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’s optimistic the chamber will vote on a bill outlawing research on tissue taken from aborted fetuses.
Wisconsin legislators are set to hold another public hearing on a bill that would outlaw research on tissue taken from aborted fetuses.
The Senate’s health committee was scheduled to hold a hearing on the Republican-authored measure Tuesday morning in the state Capitol. The Assembly’s criminal justice already has held a hearing and approved the bill, clearing the way for a full vote that chamber but it’s unclear how much support the proposal has among Senate Republicans, who are concerned the measure’s effect on research.
The authors of a bill that would outlaw research on tissue from fetuses aborted are trying to persuade the state Senate’s health committee to approve the proposal.
Sen. Duey Stroebel and Rep. Andre Jacque, both Republicans, told the committee during a public hearing Tuesday that the bill will stop atrocities and aborted children should be treated like humans, not specimens.
A bill banning certain types of research using fetal tissue from abortions and allowing others likely lacks the votes needed to pass the state Assembly, Speaker Robin Vos said Tuesday.
The top Republican in the state Assembly says a controversial proposal that would ban researchers from using most tissue from aborted fetuses likely does not have the votes needed to pass out of his chamber right now.
More than one in four female undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who participated in a national survey said they had been sexually assaulted since entering college, often by a friend or acquaintance.
A survey of thousands of UW-Madison students found more than 25 percent of undergraduate women at the university say they have experienced some form of sexual assault, a slightly higher rate than female college students nationwide reported.
More than 1 in 4 female undergraduates at UW-Madison said they have been sexually assaulted while enrolled at the university, but most of them decided not to report those assaults to officials, according to survey results released Monday by campus officials.
A quarter of undergraduate women surveyed at more than two dozen universities say they experienced unwanted sexual contact sometime during college, according to a report released Monday.
Nearly one-quarter of female undergraduate students who responded to a survey created by the Association of American Universities said they have experienced a sexual assault of some kind since enrolling in college. While the survey includes a broader definition of sexual assault than some researchers on the topic advocate using, it also breaks down types of sexual assault and found that 11 percent of female students reported that the sexual assault involved penetration.
Nearly 28 percent of female undergraduates responding to a campus survey at University of Wisconsin-Madison say they’ve been sexually assaulted.
More than one in every four undergraduate women (27.6 percent) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report being a victim of sexual assault, according to a new survey released Monday morning by the Association of American Universities (AAU). That’s a higher rate than the 23.1 percent of female undergraduates who reported being victims in the survey conducted by 27 universities nationwide.
The data comes from a questionnaire that was sent by email to UW students in April and May. Roughly 22 percent of the undergraduate population answered the questions in the survey. It also found that of those students who were sexually assaulted, only 26.1 percent reported the incident to authorities.
A University of Wisconsin System policy on tenure has to include a policy for post-tenure review of faculty if it is going to satisfy concerns about accountability of the university, Regent John Behling said Thursday.
A $22 million donation to the UW-Madison College of Engineering will be aimed at helping undergraduate students by supporting a tutoring center and giving them more opportunities for hands-on learning, officials said Thursday.
Work or play, it’s great to be a Badger. A number of recent rankings — both silly and serious — have placed the University of Wisconsin-Madison among the world’s best universities.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has announced a $22 million gift to elevate undergraduate engineering programs at the campus.
A conflict is escalating over U.S. researchers’ use of human fetal tissue. Legislators in Wisconsin last week advanced a bill that would make it a felony for scientists working in the state to conduct studies using tissue or cells obtained from recently aborted fetuses. The measure, approved by a committee of the Wisconsin State Assembly, has drawn opposition from universities and research groups, who say it will stifle important disease studies. The bill is likely just the first of many similar state-level efforts, science policy observers predict.
UW Biological Anthropologist Carolina Vansickle talks to News 3 This Morning avout the UW’s involvement in the discovery of a new species of human ancestor in South Africa.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are continuing to travel throughout Wisconsin to build stronger connections between businesses, citizens and higher education.
The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate said Tuesday that he wants to pass a bill banning the sale of tissue obtained from aborted fetuses, but he doesn’t know yet how it would apply to research.
Faculty at UW-Madison holds the authority to make academic program changes on campus of the kind that can trigger layoffs or termination of tenured faculty under newly revised law, a draft policy proposal asserts.
The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate said Tuesday that he wants to pass a bill banning the sale of tissue obtained from aborted fetuses, but he doesn’t know yet how it would apply to research.
A UW-Madison faculty committee on Monday unanimously approved new standards for laying off tenured professors, a few months after legislators drew national attention by weakening them in the state budget.
Two top leaders within the University of Wisconsin System are hitting the road this fall to make new connections and strengthen existing relationships between Wisconsin businesses, residents and the public higher education system.
Proposed legislation banning research using tissue from aborted fetuses would have a devastating impact on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. That was the warning of Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Friday, who told the UW System Board of Regents that the restriction currently being considered by the Legislature could have potential impacts on the university that are “greater than anything we have discussed around budget cuts.”
The scurrilous attacks on Planned Parenthood — based on hidden-camera videos falsely purporting to show that it illegally sells fetal issue — have turned into attacks on fetal tissue research in Congress and in several state legislatures.
The UW Board of Regents will not yet make a formal statement about a fetal tissue research ban circulating in the Legislature. Members of the board said Friday that they do have concerns about the measure that would make it a felony to do research on fetal tissue derived after January 1, 2015.
The scurrilous attacks on Planned Parenthood — based on hidden-camera videos falsely purporting to show that it illegally sells fetal issue — have turned into attacks on fetal tissue research in Congress and in several state legislatures.Various bills now threaten to curtail or eliminate research that has already benefited millions of Americans and is poised to benefit many more.
Every once in a while research and advancement of knowledge at the University of Wisconsin can leave one in awe. It has again this week with the announcement of the UW-led discovery of fossils being described as a new species of human.
The state’s largest business lobbying group on Thursday came out against a bill banning research on tissue from aborted fetuses, further clouding the future of legislation key Republicans hope to pass this fall.
When the guiding mission of the state’s public higher education system for more than a century was on the line in January, stunned educators accused Gov. Scott Walker of trying to kill the Wisconsin Idea in his proposed state budget. The debate drew national attention.
