A new pay plan for top administrators was approved Thursday by a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents committee, and the full board voted in closed session to grant raises for 10 of the 14 chancellors at System campuses.
The University of Wisconsin System may set back efforts to repair its relationship with GOP leaders of the Legislature if proposed increases to the salary ranges of key executive posts within the system are approved Friday by the Board of Regents, the chairwoman of the Legislature?s powerful Joint Finance Committee said Thursday.
More students keep going to University of Wisconsin System schools and graduate from those schools than the national average, according to figures released Wednesday.
The next University of Wisconsin System president could make nearly $600,000 under a proposal being considered by the Board of Regents.
UW-Madison?s new chancellor wants to create compensation funds to increase employee pay but said it could be a couple of years before the plans are in place.
If you live near UW-Madison, work at the university or are on the UW System Board of Regents, you will be getting a call today from comedian Bill Maher. He?s going to talk about research cats at UW-Madison and it won?t be comedy.
On Tuesday, a robocall message by Maher was sent to more than 100,000 UW-Madison phone numbers criticizing the school for its research involving cats.
Scientists from UW-Madison were deeply involved in figuring out the physics and building and operating the collider used to discover a particle responsible for giving matter mass and shaping the very early universe.
The ongoing federal government shutdown illustrates just how vital federal dollars remain to research on campus, even as they become a dwindling resource.
Detroit Lions team president Tom Lewand apologized to UW Marching Band director Mike Leckrone on Monday afternoon after reports surfaced that center Dominic Raiola verbally abused members of the band Sunday at Lambeau Field.
More people have signed up for Professor Kurt Squire?s online Video Games and Learning class than the total number of undergrad students at UW-Madison. The University launched “MOOC,” which stands for Massive Open Online Courses Thursday. Squire?s class is the pilot.
Federal investigators say the University of Wisconsin is cleared to continue a research study involving cats, following complaints that alleged the animals were mistreated.
Federal financial aid, funding for academic research and Veterans Administration benefits to students will all be affected if the federal government shutdown continues, University of Wisconsin System officials said Thursday.
The incoming freshman class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison boasts the most Wisconsin residents in 12 years.
The report was unveiled Wednesday during the YWCA?s annual Racial Justice Summit, attended by about 500 local leaders, representatives of social-service agencies, the UW-Madison and business.
All University of Wisconsin System campuses, state technical colleges and educational service agencies would be able to authorize charter schools under a bill to be discussed by a legislative committee Thursday.
The freshman class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall is the largest in school history and includes the most Wisconsin residents in 12 years, university officials announced Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was recently named the #2 party school in the nation. Some are cheering that distinction, but others point to the serious problems associated with the college drinking culture. A public health expert from the UW discusses addressing that culture in a meaningful way.
The UW System is planning to start up its own internet service to provide for the campus system and its affiliates.
Normally, the Oct. 1 beginning of the federal fiscal year kicks off a mad scramble for UW-Madison researchers hoping for federal funding, with applications coming due and nerves frayed. This year is no different — it?s just a scramble of a different kind with the dawn of the federal government shutdown, the first in 17 years.
And for University of Wisconsin researchers, confusion reigned. The National Institutes of Health, the largest source of the $620 million in federal funds awarded to UW-Madison researchers last year, said Tuesday that researchers should hold off submitting quarterly funding requests, which were to be due Friday, until the shutdown ends.
The University of Wisconsin System will be transitioning from its broadband provider, WiscNet, to its own network over the next 14 to 18 months, System officials announced Tuesday at the state Capitol.
On Saturday, Sept. 28 the Hmong community hosted a free community celebration and reception to welcome Yang Sao Xiong, Ph.D. to Madison. After ten years of advocacy to meet the needs of the University, students, and the Hmong community, UW-Madison hired Xiong to teach the first Hmong American Studies in the Nation. The Hmong American Studies will be part of the Asian American Program and the School of Social Work.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison alone received $620 million from federal taxpayers last year to fund some 4,000 research projects, said Kim Moreland, who heads the university?s grants and contracts office.
A proposal to shift state employee health benefits from a competitive HMO model to a self-insured program could be gathering momentum, with Gov. Scott Walker scheduled Tuesday to discuss the matter with health plan executives.
The people anxiously awaiting news about a government shutdown include Timothy Donohue, principal investigator at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center in Madison.
Colleges still may lawfully consider race as one of several factors in admissions as long as their programs are narrowly tailored to meet a compelling interest in campus diversity, federal officials said on Friday.
If Congress fails to reach agreement on a stopgap spending bill and the government shuts down on Tuesday, the impact on colleges, students, and university scientists would be minimal, at least at first.
Rebecca Blank, the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been on the job a little more than two months.
UW-Madison produces cutting-edge science and skilled researchers. But like other institutions in the upper Midwest, it doesn?t do enough to promote itself, the university?s new chancellor said Tuesday at a Wisconsin Innovation Network luncheon.
If you?re tired of the mess that is Library Mall, get used to it. It?s going to remain a construction zone for at least four more years.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will use social media and a town hall meeting this week to raise awareness and address student and parent concerns about campus safety in the wake of multiple armed robberies near campus since the start of the school year.
A rash of thefts and robberies Downtown and on the Near West Side around the UW-Madison and Edgewood College campuses has prompted police to work together to stop the crimes and catch the criminals.
The impending shutdown of the federal government is expected to affect higher education only modestly, at least in the short term, but the debate has already kicked off several months of unpredictable fiscal fights that threaten to further cut funding for some financial aid programs and scientific research.
A popular recreational sports facility next to Camp Randall Stadium is closed indefinitely after a water pipe ruptured on Sunday.
It was a big night for TV with Wisconsin ties at Sunday?s 65th annual Primetime Emmy Awards.”Modern Family,” created by Steve Levitan, who went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, won the Emmy again for best comedy series ? for the fourth straight year.
The man in the floppy hat and khaki vest was on his knees, pounding two small, brass-plated bricks into the wet sidewalk. One bore the name Arvid Harnack, the other of Mr. Harnack?s wife, Mildred Fish-Harnack ? the only American civilian to be executed on the direct order of Adolf Hitler.
When U.S. Army Reserve Captain Jane Renee “JR” Lund of Madison began her six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan in April, she knew what would make it the most challenging.
A shooting incident that prompted a lockdown Wednesday at UW-Madison and the Downtown Madison Area Technical College facility started as a drug deal that turned into a robbery followed by a foot chase that ended after one of the robbers fired a shot at his pursuers, Madison police said Thursday.
University of Wisconsin officials say its system through which it alerts students of emergencies worked on Wednesday night, September 18th, when officials sent out a mass emergency message to students after shots were fired near campus. Students say they appreciated the alert, and officials say it worked so well, the program will likely be expanded.
Five minutes after Dane County?s 911 dispatch fielded a call about a shot fired on Langdon Street by the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday, thousands of students received the same urgent message on their phones.
MADISON ? University of Wisconsin-Madison students were told to stay indoors on Wednesday night after a report of a shot fired near campus.
It has always been a challenge to describe the Waisman Center on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have issued an “all-clear” after gunfire near campus prompted a lock-down.
The robbery that led to a lockdown at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was not random, Madison police said Thursday.
Madison police detained two suspects after a shot was fired following a robbery Wednesday night Downtown. No injuries were reported but the incident caused a major disturbance as multiple police departments searched for the suspects on the UW-Madison campus as well as the Downtown Madison Area Technical College facility.
School shooters almost always telegraph their violent plans ahead of time, a tendency that could help authorities prevent assaults as long as those close to the person plotting an attack come forward in time, panelists said Tuesday at a summit for the nation?s attorneys general.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling says she has studied thousands of shootings that have taken place in the United States over the last 20 years. She?s still waiting for more details about the man who shot 12 people at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard this week before police killed him, but Riseling says mass shooters have a pattern.
There?s nothing new or even unexpected about the love-hate relationship between religion and science.
UW-Madison is warning of a Bucky Badger impostor.
Republican legislative leaders are suggesting that University of Wisconsin faculty have too much say in policies related to finances and personnel, according to a report in The Daily Cardinal.
New University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank already knows about Wisconsin?s political and fiscal landscape. As an economist and an experienced college administrator, she understands the finances of higher education.
The new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is promoting her campus as a partner, as opposed to a competitor, with other universities and communities across the state.
A fake Bucky Badger was spotted this week in the Capitol rotunda holding a sign that said: “Let Freedom Sing.”
The new University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor is making the rounds to four-year college campuses ? including Green Bay?s ? in her first weeks in the top job.
It?s that time of year again, when college recruiters swarm high schools across the country, touting their latest college rankings to woo the best and brightest prospective students. At the same time, critics line up to tell high school students and parents why they should ignore the rankings.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has the best real estate education program in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report.
UW Madison is ranked 41st — same as a year ago — in an overall review of 270 doctoral universities.
Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are bracing for a full-out attack on shared governance after a Republican legislative leader called for empowering campus chancellors to ?truly be the chief executive officers.?
UW-Madison has maintained its high standing among the nation?s 270 doctoral universities, tying for 41st overall once again.
