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A growing number of retirements coupled with less-than-competitive faculty salaries in the University of Wisconsin System will critically challenge the system's ability to attract and keep the best corps of academics, according to a report up for discussion at the UW Board of Regents meeting today...
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will convene today to examine two major issues challenging the system, including the graying and retention of faculty. In addition to professors, there is likely to be a shortage of university health workers, advisers and others who help provide services to students on campus, UW System spokesperson David Giroux said...
The University of Wisconsin System is continuing the process of filling chancellor positions for three UW campuses, with UW-River Falls expected to announce their finalists within the next two weeks...
Ten years ago today, human embryonic stem cells entered the popular vocabulary. The world hasn't been the same. The first report that the human cells had been isolated and grown by scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison appeared in the journal Science, triggering a decade of fierce debate and great hope...
Today is the 10th anniversary of a monumental achievement in stem cell research by University of Wisconsin professor James Thomson...
The possibilities of expanded student recruiting in Beijing, and a student and faculty exchange program with a Chinese university are the results of a recent trip by the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Chancellor Julius Erlenbach and Provost Christopher Markwood...
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse told students Wednesday he’s more open now to supporting a national discussion on how the 21-year-old drinking age is not working. A campus forum Monday on the Amethyst Initiative demonstrated it’s an issue worth looking at, Chancellor Joe Gow told the UW-L Student Senate. “If you want to do this and others do, too, I think we can do this as a model for other universities,” Gow said. “There is a way to talk about this without getting drawn into the emotion.”...
After encouraging students to sign up for WiscAlerts in light of recent downtown crime, the University of Wisconsin did not send out a text last night when a UW junior was held up at gunpoint outside her Langdon Street sorority house...
Many meetings aren't worth their salt, but a meeting coming up at UW-Madison could be worth its salt and much more. More than 20 food and ingredient companies will gather on campus Thursday to see what could be used in processed foods that works as well as salt as a preservative, with the goal being cutting down American salt intake without cutting down on flavor...
A UW-Madison library official says a proposed settlement between search-engine giant Google and various writers and publishers groups will greatly enhance learning and research opportunities...
At a time when colleges are under increasing financial pressure to rely more on part-time faculty, three new studies suggest that doing so erodes the quality of education many students receive...
Adjunct faculty members are increasingly pointing out the inequities of the way they are treated — even as the recession leads some colleges to rely on them more and others to eliminate their positions...
...John M. Braxton’s view is that classroom incivility is a two-way street, and neither way is good. At a session this week at the Council of Independent Colleges’ Institute for Chief Academic Officers here, Braxton, a professor in Vanderbilt University’s Higher Education Leadership and Policy Program, discussed past research he and colleagues have conducted showing that various sorts of classroom misbehavior by students and faculty members both can do damage to student engagement and/or academic performance...