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WASHINGTON — Vice President Biden said on Tuesday that the USA?s colleges and universities have a moral responsibility to “step up” efforts to prevent sexual assault on campuses.

As the White House pushes its campus sexual assault prevention efforts this week, colleges and universities once again find themselves in the crosshairs of an administration that has sought time and again to hold institutions more accountable.

In efforts to end sexual violence on university and college campuses, a White House task force issued a number of recommendations for schools on Tuesday.

After a year of intense conflict and scrutiny, the Legislature?s audit committee on Thursday unanimously approved a new University of Wisconsin System policy for managing and clearly explaining year-end fund balances and rainy day cash reserves.

This week?s Supreme Court ruling allowing Michigan voters to ban race-based public university admissions was cheered by some opponents of affirmative-action practices, but it is too soon to tell if it will build momentum that leads to additional state bans.

Leaders in higher education, upset by Tuesday?s Supreme Court decision upholding Michigan?s ban on race-based preferences in college admissions, said the ruling would nudge them further along the path of finding alternative means to promote diversity in their student bodies.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld voter-passed bans on racial preferences in public-college admissions in a case involving a challenge to Michigan?s 2006 adoption of such a measure.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a challenge to the measure approved by Michigan voters in 2006 to bar public colleges and universities from considering race in admissions.

The president of the University of Wisconsin System says he wants to work with the governor and Legislature to create the best budget possible for the university. That?s how Ray Cross responded today, after Governor Scott Walker said he wanted to freeze UW tuition through the summer of 2017.

MADISON ? Gov. Scott Walker on Friday called for another two-year tuition freeze throughout the University of Wisconsin System, citing concern over a projected year-end surplus topping $1 billion.

Gov. Scott Walker called for another tuition freeze at University of Wisconsin campuses on Friday.

Denied admission to UW-Madison because you?re white or Asian? Come, join our lawsuit. That?s the pitch being made by a conservative nonprofit legal group in Washington, D.C., which on Monday launched three websites seeking students denied admission to Harvard, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill or UW-Madison.

The Project on Fair Representation, a nonprofit legal organization, is seeking plaintiffs for potential lawsuits challenging the race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The organization announced the effort on Monday.

The man behind last term?s affirmative action and voting rights challenges in the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing for more of the same.

WASHINGTON ? It was the last Monday in June, and the Supreme Court had just issued its latest decision on affirmative action. The debate was starting about how much the court had restricted the use of race in college admissions.

A group opposed to affirmative action in higher education is taking the unprecedented step of looking for plaintiffs online.

The Project on Fair Representation, a nonprofit legal organization, is seeking plaintiffs for potential lawsuits challenging the race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The organization plans to announce the effort on Monday.