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The Board of Regents voted today to increase pay for three new UW chancellors and the system president, making their salaries closer to the mid-point for leaders at peer public universities.
Related: "Regents approve $73,000 raise for UW System president," Associated Press, June 5.
Also: "Pay for UW leaders could be thorny issue for Regents," Associated Press, June 5.
UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago asked the Board of Regents to support the creation of a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences and a school of public health to help the campus become a leading urban research university; both proposals also require legislative approval.
Related: "Water, water everywhere. Let's study it," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 5.
At its meeting this week, the Board of Regents is expected to approve a 5.5 percent tuition increase at the four-year UW campuses and a tuition freeze at the two-year UW Colleges for the upcoming academic year .
Related: "UW-Waukesha dean supports tuition freeze," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 5. (2nd item)
Also: "Tuition freeze planned for UW-B/SC," Baraboo News Republic, June 5.
And: "Tuition increase on administrative agenda," Wisconsin Public Radio, June 5. (6th item)
Members of a neighborhood association representing residents near the UW-Milwaukee campus held a protest at this morning's Board of Regents meeting.
Editorial expressing support for Biddy Martin's appointment as the next chancellor of UW-Madison.
A California team of researchers reports making a stem cell technique safer to use; the technique, first used last fall, was developed in part by UW-Madison research teams led by James Thomson.
This summer, UW-Stout's campus stadium will get new synthetic turf, expected to last 10 to 15 years, that more closely resembles real grass without the maintenance grass requires.
Citing that short-term loans are not profitable enough to continue, two major lenders, Chase and Citibank, will no longer provide loans to students at Wisconsin's technical colleges or the two-year UW Colleges; students will still have other options for finding loans.
The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute's plan to bolster Milwaukee's capacity for a 21st-century economy includes partnering with the UW System, as well as business and civic leaders, to bring more college graduates to the area.