UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a package of drastic program and staffing cuts on Friday, as a response to Governor Scott Walker’s $300 million, two-year cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she has a plan to cut about 400 staff positions if the Legislature approves Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the UW System.
Astronomy Prof. Amy Barger, mathematics Prof. Jordan Ellenberg and English Prof. Lynn Keller were among 175 winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship, established 90 years ago by U.S. Sen. John Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga, in honor of their late son John.
Carl Gulbrandsen, who since 2000 has led the organization that commercializes the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s research, will retire early next year, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation said Thursday.
Gulbrandsen, 68, plans to retire early next year from WARF, where he has served since 1997 and been managing director since 2000. He said his retirement plans have been in the works for years and he is confident that WARF will remain a vital force long after his departure.
A new poll says the Wisconsin public doesn’t support the size of the Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and public K-12 education.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Rochester Republican, said Tuesday that the cap makes sense because parents wouldn’t have to worry about huge tuition hikes. But he says he still doesn’t support autonomy because he doubts the regents will use it to run the system more efficiently and cheaply.
In a rare move for the normally nonpolitical organization, the Madison area’s lead economic development agency on Tuesday came out against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
The state’s flagship campus, UW-Madison, and its affiliated entities contribute $15 billion a year to the Wisconsin economy, according to a report commissioned by the university and funded by its foundation.
For every taxpayer dollar spent on the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university generates $24 for the state economy, according to a new consultant’s report.
The state’s flagship campus, UW-Madison, and its affiliated entities contribute $15 billion a year to the Wisconsin economy, according to a report commissioned by the university and funded by its foundation.
For every taxpayer dollar spent on the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university generates $24 for the state economy, according to a new consultant’s report.
A study conducted by NorthStar Consulting Group found UW-Madison, UW Hospital and Clinics and startup companies sustain 193,310 jobs and more than $847.5 million in both state and local taxes.
The report from NorthStar Consulting said the number of jobs and the amount of tax revenue generated by UW increased since the last study in 2011. It includes UW Hospital and Clinics and the university’s affiliated organizations and startup companies.
Gov. Scott Walker has officially asked the Legislature to keep the University of Wisconsin’s guiding principle known as the “Wisconsin Idea” intact.
Gov. Scott Walker is using a cleanup letter on his budget to propose limiting tuition increases at the University of Wisconsin System to the rate of inflation once the current tuition freeze expires.
Gov. Scott Walker lent his support Monday to an embattled plan to decouple the University of Wisconsin System from state control with added state protections against tuition hikes for Wisconsin residents, but a key lawmaker still sees no hope for its passage this session. “I think it is dead in our caucus,” said Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, who’s co-chairman of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee. “I believe there will be enough support to remove it.”
UW-Madison animal sciences professor Mark Cook, an expert on avian health, comments. Noted: the UW-Madison Poultry Research Laboratory has been in lockdown mode since word got out that an avian flu virus was found in turkeys in Arkansas and Missouri several weeks ago.
Gov. Scott Walker wants to modify his state budget plan to cap University of Wisconsin System resident undergraduate tuition increases according to inflation, according to a letter his administration sent to the leaders of the Legislature’s finance committee on Monday.
The UW System Board of Regents voted Friday to approve tuition increases for some students at UW-Madison as well as at schools in La Crosse, Milwaukee, Parkside, Platteville, River Falls, Stevens Point, Stout and Whitewater during a meeting at UW-Waukesha.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved raising tuition for out-of-state undergraduate and some graduate students at most of the system’s four-year schools Friday as the campuses prepare to absorb massive cuts looming under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has approved limited tuition hikes for nine campuses. The increases will impact some graduate and out-of-state undergraduate students over the next two years.
Frank Kaminsky did not help Wisconsin win the national title he and his teammates so desperately wanted.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s four-year plan to raise tuition for nonresident undergrads and professional schools won tentative approval Thursday from a Board of Regents committee.
Tuition for graduate students and nonresidents would increase by at least several hundred dollars next year at most University of Wisconsin System campuses under a plan a regents committee approved Thursday to help the schools brace for $300 million in cuts Gov. Scott Walker has proposed in his budget.
The Wooden Award completes a sweep for Kaminsky of all the major player of the year awards.
The UW Board of Regents met at UW Waukesha on Thursday to discuss the looming cuts if Governor Walker’s proposed budget goes through unchanged.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is taking a long-promised plan to raise tuition for nonresident and professional students to the Board of Regents this week.
The Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team came up a little bit short in the national championship game against Duke on Monday. Joy Cardin and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank discuss what the program means for the university, especially its great run in 2015.
No one in the Wisconsin locker room was ready. Not one.
The best season in Wisconsin men’s basketball history will end on the most disappointing of notes.
The package deal has delivered Duke another national championship.
The Wisconsin Badgers are devastated after their loss in the NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Game.
Final Four heartbreak. A remarkable season — arguably the most memorable in the history of the Wisconsin basketball program — ended in the same gut-wrenching manner as last season.
Most of the eight satellite campuses’ plans call for raising tuition by at least several hundred dollars starting next year. UW-Madison has drawn up a four-year plan that calls for raising non-resident undergraduate tuition by $10,000 by 2018-19 to $35,523 per year. International students would see an $11,000 increase to $36,523 by 2018-19.
UW-Madison fans, so hopeful this was the year, took Monday’s 68-63 loss to Duke in the NCAA championship game with varying amounts of sadness, grief and frustration.
INDIANAPOLIS — This Duke team was forged not over years but months, weeks, days. Its genesis was a Friday afternoon in November 2013, when the star high schoolers Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor coordinated their commitments to Coach Mike Krzyzewski and a Blue Devils program that was changing before his eyes.
Nine University of Wisconsin System schools plan to ask regents this week for permission to dramatically raise tuition for graduate and nonresident students to help offset big cuts Republican Gov. Scott Walker has proposed in his state budget.
The Final Four schools represented in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament are powerhouses not only on the court, but also in the research lab.
UW-Madison officials and local police are preparing for potentially one of the most historic parties the city has seen if the Badger men’s basketball team wins the national championship Monday.
INDIANAPOLIS —The scene will bring smiles to many for a long time. Players chest-bumping and hugging. Fans on the fringe of delirium. A celebration perfect for highlight reels and posters.
INDIANAPOLIS — When the NCAA tournament bracket was unveiled on Selection Sunday minutes after they’d outlasted Michigan State in overtime to win the Big Ten tournament, the players for the University of Wisconsin were thrilled – then a little concerned.
Madison— On Saturday night, the roars echoed from Union South to State St.
INDIANAPOLIS — Nobody ever said they were perfect. Now, the Kentucky Wildcats aren’t undefeated, either.
Wisconsin avenged last year’s heartbreaking Final Four loss to Kentucky and ended the Wildcats’ perfect season with a 71-64 victory in the national semifinals in Indianapolis on Saturday night.
Scott Logdon is a tried-and-true, blue-bleeding University of Kentucky basketball fan. He doesn’t think there’s much chance UK could lose to the University of Wisconsin in their Final Four matchup Saturday night, but in that unlikely event, he would go ahead and cheer for Wisconsin in the NCAA men’s championship game Monday night.
Die-hard Kentucky basketball fan Scott Logdon may think twice before rooting against the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday night. Nearly two years ago, Logdon received a life-saving stem cell donation to combat his acute myeloid leukemia. 22-year-old University of Wisconsin student, Chris Wirz, donated those cells.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Final Four frenzy might not be as crazy in Wisconsin Rapids as it is in Madison, but fans and businesses are looking forward to — and preparing for — the Badgers Saturday battle to make it to Monday’s championship game.
Madison — In the frantic, desperate minutes after John Wilkes Booth fired a fatal shot into the president’s head 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln’s unconscious body was carried across the street from Ford’s Theatre to a rooming house.
Cross said at a forum on Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget Wednesday at UW-Eau Claire that the review system for tenured professors should include probation if warranted, and dismissal if gaps in performance are not addressed, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.
UW System President Ray Cross remains hopeful state lawmakers will reduce the proposed $300 million budget cut to Wisconsin public universities after negotiations between “two extremes.”
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross called for changes in how campuses handle tenured faculty on Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is being hit particularly hard by the governor’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System. School officials point to the elimination of entrepreneurial research in so-called segregated programs as one of the toughest hurdles.
The former head of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center has been selected as the university’s first vice chancellor for research and graduate education.
Indianapolis’ sports world is speaking out following the Indiana Legislature’s passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act RFRA.
Duke University, one of four teams left in the NCAA’s March Madness tournament, on Monday became the latest institution to publicly come out against the “religious freedom” law recently passed in Indiana. The University of Wisconsin-Madison also raised concern with the law, per a statement from Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
The main college partying thoroughfare in downtown Madison was mobbed after the Badgers 85-78 victory Saturday over Arizona, which sent Wisconsin to the NCAA Final Four of March Madness.
So who will be good enough — and tough enough — to take down Bo Ryan’s basketball team?
In all of the debate over the cuts to the University of Wisconsin System in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plan, the group that has the most at stake is the most often overlooked:
As worldwide panic over Ebola quiets down to a murmur, researchers are hard at work trying to stop the next pandemic. Now a new vaccine may be on the way, thanks to a group of research scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
