Wisconsin state agencies could consider offloading even more office space than previously planned, according to an audit presented to state lawmakers this week.
Spring break started this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the state’s largest campus, and several Milwaukee-area school districts also start their breaks on Monday, March 25.
At least one administrator doesn’t think the Universities of Wisconsin system has “sold out” its students of color.
Even after the Board of Regents accepted a deal that restructured 43 diversity positions, UW Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt believes the campuses are still catering to all of their diverse student groups.
Get your brackets ready. Four Wisconsin teams are headed to college basketball’s ultimate arena, the NCAA Tournament.
The Marquette and Wisconsin Badgers men’s teams and the Marquette and UW-Green Bay women’s teams are each vying to win it all.
The School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently facing a $15 million budget shortage for construction of its new building, set to open in 2025.
Months after a controversial deal which exchanged funds for capped diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) positions, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking for ways to protect itself and fight against a nationwide anti-DEI movement.
“Computing was going to be a big deal,” says Charles Isbell, a former dean of Georgia Tech’s college of computing and now the provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Emancipating the field from its prior home within the college of engineering gave it room to grow, he told me.
Marquette University announced it’s planning for budget cuts. Although the specifics are unknown, the university plans to cut the annual operating budget by $31 million in six years.
Multiple universities in Wisconsin have announced staff reductions over the last year, from public universities like UW-Oshkosh and UW-Green Bay to private colleges like Concordia University and St. Norbert College. And several Universities of Wisconsin System schools have announced plans to stop in-person classes at their two-year branch campuses.
Marquette University is planning $31 million in budget cuts over the next seven years, campus officials said in a message Monday. That represents about 7% of its current operating budget.
Meanwhile, Wisconsin lawmakers are considering legislation that would eliminate race-based criteria in scholarship, grant, and loan programs. A University of Wisconsin system spokesperson told the news site WisPolitics that its campuses would remove race as a factor in most scholarships by the end of the academic year, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
Another bill that took months to take shape was a deal between Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and the Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents. Vos wanted to do away with positions related to DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion. In exchange, he agreed to approve UW staff raises and building projects that were included in the state budget.
Evers, who was critical of the deal, eventually signed off on multiple components, including $700 million for building projects like a new engineering building at UW-Madison and guaranteed admission to the UW for the top-performing students in each graduating class across the state.
On Friday, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the launch of its Sustainability Research Hub.
In early Feb. 2024, UW-Madison chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced a new cross-campus initiative focused on environmental sustainability.
Contradicting advice from the Department of City Development, a Milwaukee zoning committee on Thursday voted to effectively deny a request to allow the Arizona College of Nursing, a for-profit out-of-state school, to operate out of a building in the city.
The Arizona College of Nursing has already taken several steps to open a school at 9000 W. Chester St. in western Milwaukee. Because college or university isn’t listed among the “permitted uses” for the building, the college has been following a three-step city approval process so it can begin holding classes.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Department is investigating property damage and vandalism over the weekend at Golda Meir Library, named for an Israeli prime minister and that has been at the center of student protests.
Former state representative Dana Wachs had been serving on the Board of Regents since 2022, and his term doesn’t expire for another few years. But the Senate voted to reject his confirmation.
From the UW Board of Regents to the Legislature and governor, those chargedg with the care and preservation of the public’s investment in higher education watch idly by while UW system President Jay Rothman wields his ax to make the system’s budgetary ends meet.
Raising the money by the board’s April 3 deadline would give leadership the fiscal stability for the 2024-25 school year to reimagine a “new” Northland with a yet-to-be-seen sustainable model. Without the infusion of cash, the 132-year-old college will be forced to close at the end of the year, displacing hundreds of students and dozens of faculty and staff.
The UW Board of Regents announced Wednesday that James Beeby will assume the post July 1. He’ll be the first new UW-La Crosse chancellor in 17 years. Gow was chancellor from 2007 to 2023.
James Beeby, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Keene State College in New Hampshire, has been named the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
James Beeby, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Keene State College in New Hampshire, has been named chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
The UW Board of Regents filled a position left open by former UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow by unanimously appointing James Beeby to the position.
James Beeby was named the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, taking over for a leader fired late last year after his production of porn videos was publicly revealed.
Enrollment, retention and campus services are key concerns for campus community members as the University of Wisconsin-River Falls deliberates how to confront its structural deficit.
Republicans fired eight of Evers’ appointees to various state boards Tuesday, including the the first Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents members to be rejected by the Senate since 1991.
The GOP-controlled state Senate fired eight Democratic appointees Tuesday, including two members of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents who voted against a controversial deal limiting campus diversity positions in exchange for state funding.
Lawmakers rejected two of Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Tuesday after the regents voted against a deal to freeze positions related to diversity, equity and inclusion in exchange for funding for the UW.
The Senate also for the first time passed Assembly Joint Resolution 109, a constitutional amendment that’s Wisconsin Republicans’ latest step in their fight against government-run diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Republican lawmakers last year struck a deal requiring the Universities of Wisconsin to restructure its DEI programs, and GOP legislative leaders have said they plan to scrutinize similar programs in state agencies.
Republicans who control the state Senate fired eight more of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees Tuesday, including two Universities of Wisconsin regents who voted against a deal that limited campus diversity and four judicial watchdogs who wouldn’t commit to punishing liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday fired eight of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees, including two on the UW Board of Regents whose rejection came after they voted last year against a divisive deal that gives the UW system additional state funding in exchange for scaling back diversity efforts.
Republican lawmakers voted to pass a proposal prohibiting the Universities of Wisconsin System and technical colleges across Wisconsin from using institutional or loyalty pledges that can influence how students are admitted to its universities and faculty is hired.
The two fired Regents, John Miller and Dana Wachs, are among 22 of Gov. Evers’ appointees to state offices that have been fired during his two terms.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will close its two-year campus in Waukesha, the fifth UW branch in less than two years to announce it would shutter its doors or move to an online model.
The Senate appears likely to fire John Miller and Dana Wachs, two of the six regents to vote late last year against a sprawling, controversial deal struck by UW system President Jay Rothman and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, that gives about $800 million in funding to the UW system in exchange for changes to the public university system’s diversity programming.
UW-Milwaukee announced the closure Monday, saying it would instead shift to a university center model at Waukesha County Technical College, where UW-Milwaukee will eventually have a physical space on the WCTC campus. UW-Milwaukee will also stop offering associate degrees and end its College of General Studies, the academic department that oversaw both the Waukesha and Washington County campuses.
The Republican-backed bill, signed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Feb. 20, requires the state’s flagship public university, UW-Madison, to accept all students who rank in the top 5% of their classes at the end of their junior year, and the 12 regional UW campuses to take all those who rank in the top 10%.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will close its Waukesha campus at the end of the spring 2025 semester.
At a Monday news conference, UW-Milwaukee chancellor Mark Mone cited declining enrollment, shifting demographics and budgetary issues as reasons for the closure, which was made under a directive from Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman.
First-day nametags. At the University of Wisconsin, one professor asked students on the first day of class to create a nameplate and to fill out a notecard with their major and other personal information such as interests or involvement in campus activities.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will close its Waukesha campus at the end of the spring 2025 semester, eliminating an educational option that has been around since 1966.
A state Senate committee has recommended rejecting the nominations of two members serving on the state public university board, both of whom voted against a deal struck with the Legislature to restructure campus diversity positions.
A Republican-led committee this week recommended rejecting two of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointments to the UW Board of Regents after they voted last year against a divisive deal that gives the UW system additional state funding in exchange for scaling back diversity efforts.
The titles of the 150 or so posters on display in the Capitol’s Rotunda sounded just as impressive as what might be found at a symposium of doctoral students — such as “The cost of clean water: An efficiency analysis of Wisconsin’s water utilities” or “Investigating alternatives to antibiotics using phage.”
Last April the Wisconsin Examiner published an examination of the way that Native American human remains have been retained by public institutions in Oshkosh long after the passage of a federal law that was intended to speed their repatriation to the tribes that once inhabited the area.
The Universities of Wisconsin announced the Wisconsin Guarantee, which admits the state’s top performing students to state’s 13 public universities. Under the Guarantee, students who rank in the top five percent of their class at the end of 11th grade will be eligible to be accepted into UW-Madison. While students who rank in the top 10 percent are eligible to be accepted into the state’s other public universities.
Sophia Schoenfeld, a UW-Madison third year senior presented her research findings on biology and health policy. “It is amazing to see all of the research that not only my peers here at UW Madison but also at the other UW Schools are able to do,” she said. “And it speaks to the volumes of the support systems that we have in the UW System and the mentorship opportunities that are able to make something like this happen which is amazing.”
Students were accompanied by faculty advisers to share their research findings with state legislators, state businesses, nonprofit leaders, UW alumni and supporters of the annual event.
More than 150 UW System undergrad researchers present to legislators, UW leaders in Wednesday showcase.
On Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers signed a measure that gives about $740 million in funding for capital investments to the Universities of Wisconsin, including funds for the new engineering building that rallied massive industry support.
Morna Foy, president of the Wisconsin Technical College System for more than a decade and its first female president, on Tuesday announced her plans to retire.
Foy will leave a role overseeing Wisconsin’s 16 publicly funded technical colleges that currently receive more than $625 million in annual state funding. Those schools educated nearly 288,000 students last year, more than 50% more students than the University of Wisconsin system.
In an effort to address the state’s teacher shortage, Edgewood College is launching an online program to help Wisconsin National Guard members and their spouses earn their master’s degrees and state teaching licenses.
Foy hasn’t set a final retirement date — it’ll be dependent on the timing of a search for her successor, which will be led by the system’s governing board. But it’s expected later this summer or fall, system spokesperson Katy Pettersen said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is getting a new engineering building, a widely supported project ensnared for months in a broader political negotiation over campus diversity programs.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is one step closer to finding a new chancellor and turning the page on a scandal involving its former leader.
Sixty people applied for the job. The finalists are:
The UW-La Crosse chancellor search committee announced Friday it has selected three finalists for the position, including interim chancellor Betsy Morgan. The candidates will visit the UW-L campus next week for community question-and-answer sessions.
Eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of race in college admissions, a conservative Wisconsin law firm is drawing attention to what it says are Universities of Wisconsin programs that continue to consider race in other areas, while the state’s flagship university says it’s reviewing programs that might be affected by the court’s ruling.
The Joint Finance Committee unanimously passed the measure, although Democratic members of the committee criticized their GOP colleagues for holding back the funds in exchange for restructuring the DEI positions.
One of the last pieces in a sweeping deal between the University of Wisconsin System and the state Legislature was approved Thursday, moving campuses one step closer to the end of an extended and contentious state budget session.
The Universities of Wisconsin will receive around $32 million in funding withheld for months by Republican lawmakers amid ongoing efforts to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs on campuses.
UW-Oshkosh Provost Edwin Martini released new restructuring plans to reduce the number of colleges in lieu of $18 million budget deficits.
UW-Oshkosh Provost Edwin Martini released new restructuring plans to reduce the number of colleges in lieu of $18 million budget deficits.
