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University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly appointed a committee Tuesday to conduct a national search for a chancellor for UW-Parkside...The committee will incorporate changes designed to improve the vetting process that the System implemented after the failed search at UW-Parkside...
The University of Wisconsin System president appointed a 19-member search committee Tuesday to help find a new chancellor for University of Wisconsin-Parkside...
Chancellor Richard Telfer will be inaugurated as UW-Whitewater's 15th chancellor at 1 p.m. Friday in Irving Young Auditorium. Telfer has served as interim chancellor since 2007, when he was appointed to replace Martha Saunders, who took a job at Southern Mississippi. He's been at the university since 1985...
...While it goes without saying (Chancellor) Telfer is academically fit for the position, students may not know much about Telfer and his life outside UW-Whitewater. Although Telfer's job demands much of his time and energy, he still tries to have a life beyond his office...
Dr. Richard J. Telfer is a man in motion...Telfer said it's his job to make things go—campus initiatives, community relationships, financial resources...
...Students battled sloppy conditions Saturday during a baja invitational race at Arkansaw Cycle Park. Teams from nine colleges raced 21 cars on a minced motocross track in this Pepin County valley...UW-Stout's Society of Automotive Engineers hosted the event...
The university bookstore may be the handiest source of textbooks for students, but it's not always the cheapest. "I definitely think they're overpriced," junior Eric Mileski said. "I'm just too lazy to look anywhere else when I can get the books on campus"...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked ninth among research universities in the number of student Fulbright fellows, according to data recently released by the Fulbright program. The ranking is an improvement over last year, when the university ranked 11th...
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student killed by a drunken driver in Hong Kong was remembered Monday as an adventurous guy who worked as a volunteer at a Milwaukee soup kitchen. Kurt Leswing, 21, of Milwaukee was traveling in the Semester at Sea program, which sends students on a 15-week voyage around the world. The senior business major was killed Friday. The driver was arrested...
University of Wisconsin health officials are cautioning students in dorms to wash their hands after using the bathroom and before preparing food after what's being called the biggest outbreak of the norovirus on campus in the last 10 years...
When it comes to incidences related to safety on campus, up to 90 to 95 percent of them are due to excessive alcohol consumption. That's what UW-Madison Police Lt. Eric Holen told students and others at a safety forum Tuesday night...
For the past several years, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has demanded domestic partner benefits for its employees in its proposed budget. Sadly, the state Legislature has repeatedly blocked this request. But with Democrats winning control of both the state Senate and Assembly on Nov. 4, bringing domestic partner benefits to the university system must be a high priority for state lawmakers when the Legislature reconvenes in January...
An unlikely class is helping to solve an erosion problem in the Republic of the Gambia in West Africa. Students in a remedial math class at the University of Wisconsin-Superior are using geometry to predict where erosion will occur in an area that's losing land to heavy rainfall and the Gambia River...
The harsh economy will drive Wisconsin's budget shortfall to more than $5 billion over the next 2½ years — the worst fiscal crisis in more than two decades and a harbinger of deep spending cuts, state job reductions and at least some targeted tax increases, Gov. Jim Doyle said Tuesday...
Gov. Jim Doyle said Tuesday that the state budget deficit would top $5billion through mid-2011, making it by far the biggest funding gap in state history. In a meeting with Capitol reporters, the Democratic governor said that he would push new taxes on hospitals and oil companies but that he hoped to avoid other tax increases. He did not rule out increases in the income tax or sales tax, however...
Gov. Jim Doyle said Tuesday he would do "everything humanly possible" to avoid general sales or income tax increases to deal with a budget shortfall that could pass $5 billion. The "serious and extraordinary" problem, caused by a drop in tax collections and a national recession, will lead to state job and other cuts, Doyle said. He did not specify what the cuts would be, but said savings would have to be found at University of Wisconsin and in public school aid. Doyle said he hoped there wouldn’t have to be large tuition increases at the university...
The Senate Majority Leader says the budget will be among the top priorities of Democrats in the upcoming session. State Senator Russ Decker (D-Weston) says he's already talking to the Governor about what needs to be done to help fight a growing budget deficit. The Governor now says the state could face a $5 billion shortfall. Decker says many options are already being looked at. Decker says another budget repair bill may even be necessary, before lawmakers work on the next state budget...
Gov. Jim Doyle announced a re-evaluation of the state budget shortfall Tuesday, projecting a deficit of $5 billion within the next 2 years...
The Wisconsin biennial budget deficit is expected to drop further into the red than first expected, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Tuesday. Now expecting a $5 billion shortfall over the next two and a half years — up from the $3 billion estimation made Oct. 15 — Doyle said the national economical recession and a decline in state tax revenues are to blame...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to spend several hundred million dollars over the next five years to double the number of low-income young people who complete a college degree or a certificate program by age 26, foundation officials told an exclusive group of education leaders who gathered here on Tuesday to provide feedback on the ambitious plan...