The University of Wisconsin-Superior is unique in many respects and is planning its future as an institution of higher education with some of those unique characteristics in mind, the UW Regents were told last week.With an enrollment of approximately 2,900, UWS is the smallest four-year campus in the UW System, but last year ranked behind only UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee in amount of federally funded research dollars it leveraged...

...I have been UW-Stout chancellor for more than two decades, and in that time virtually every sexual assault was preceded by excessive drinking. It also is a leading cause of our students being dismissed from school, not attending classes and failing courses...(Author: UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen)...

The University of Wisconsin System is defending its decision to condemn a Madison bar as part of a plan to build a $43 million music performance hall. The owners of Brothers Bar&Grill on Tuesday sued the UW System Board of Regents, seeking to stop the condemnation and keep the bar they've operated for 15 years...

The company that owns Brothers Bar&Grill filed a lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Tuesday, alleging unfair condemnation procedures over their location at 704 University Ave. Brothers’ owner Fortney LLP has been negotiating with UW, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the Board of Regents at different points over the past several years for the property, which the university plans to use as the site for a new music performance facility...

Raising questions about the extent of the university's power to seize private property, the owners of a campus-area tavern are suing to stop the UW Board of Regents from condemning their bar...

The UW System Board of Regents is facing a lawsuit from a downtown Madison bar...

Tuition and fees for four-year universities increased by approximately 6.5 percent nationally from the 2008-09 to 2009-10 academic years due to state budget cuts, according to a report released Tuesday...Although tuition costs have been on the rise, the University of Wisconsin System has managed to keep yearly increases flat at a rate of 5.5 percent over the past three years...

A University of Wisconsin-Madison club plans to build a mock Berlin Wall and then destroy it. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the wall coming down. To celebrate, UW-Madison's German Club plans to erect an 8-foot tall cardboard wall on the school's Library Mall. The university says the German embassy has supplied funding...

The University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley Foundation will hold its 13th annual e.a.t.s. (educational assistance through scholarships) fundraiser from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the new James W. Perry Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, 1478 Midway Road, Menasha...

Developing experimental systems, using untried products and materials, and feeding loads of surplus solar energy back into the electrical grid were not the goals of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Solar Decathlon team. Instead, the students focused on designing and building a modest solar-powered house that demonstrates affordable solutions for an average Wisconsin family. Nearly every major system in the house is off-the-shelf...

The number of reported cases of influenza-like illness on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was up slightly in the seventh week of the fall semester, according to the latest report from University Health Services (UHS)...

More than 75,000 UW-Madison students, faculty and staff now can use their Wiscard - their campus identification card - as a debit card for a UW Credit Union checking account...As a result of competitive bidding that awarded UW Credit Union the debit card service, the credit union will have to provide on-campus financial education to students, 18 surcharge-free ATMs on campus, and a full-service branch at the south campus union that is under construction...

A new report shows most jobs in Wisconsin require more than a high school diploma, but not necessarily a four-year college degree. Authors suggest the state needs to pay more attention to training adult workers for what they call “Mid-Skill” work...

Beleaguered University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman announced his resignation Tuesday, marking a near-wholesale turnover of the university's most senior leadership. University and state leaders lauded Herman's departure as a significant decision that will allow the university to move beyond an admissions scandal that rattled the Urbana-Champaign campus and caused other universities nationwide to re-examine their admissions policies...

The chancellor of the largest campus of the University of Illinois announced Tuesday that he was resigning, a move that university officials said they hoped would bring an end to the scandal over admissions at the state’s premier public university...

U.S. medical school enrollment is up for the 11th consecutive year as colleges seek to meet a growing demand for physicians...The number of black and Asian enrollees climbed slightly while Hispanic first-year students remained mostly unchanged. Whites still make up about 70% of first-year students...

Even as tuition and fees increased last year, the amount students borrowed in private loans declined by almost 50 percent, according to the first widely accepted estimate of that drop, which was expected to be significant...

Now is an ideal time for colleges and universities to increase employee benefits, according to several administrators and consultants speaking here this week at the national meeting of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources...and they argued that economics make it essential to expand benefits like wellness programs, flexible work schedules, and professional-development training. Not only can institutions save money on health insurance by offering such programs, the speakers said, but they can also attract and retain the best employees, and make them more effective at work...

At community colleges, an underperforming high school graduate studying computer science is much more likely to see an earnings increase than a well-prepared high school graduate studying literature. That is the conclusion of a new analysis designed to explore the factors that predict which community college students will gain the most from their education...