Following intervention by Gov. Jim Doyle, the University of Wisconsin System on Tuesday backed down in a funding dispute with Milwaukee-area legislators over control of the state's efforts to catalyze jobs and investment in the fast-growing water technology sector...

Gov. Jim Doyle has eliminated funding for a University of Wisconsin System consultant hired to promote water research and education at state universities. Doyle's decision comes after Milwaukee lawmakers complained the position would undermine UW-Milwaukee's role as a leader in water research by spreading out resources statewide. UW System President Kevin Reilly denied that claim...

Gov. Jim Doyle on Tuesday said he withdrew funding for a $100,000 consultant at the Madison-based University of Wisconsin System, who was hired to create investment and jobs across the state in water technology...

A spokesman says the University of Wisconsin System will ask an agency to dismiss a union's request to move 130 academic staff members into collective bargaining units...

Southern Illinios University Carbondale announced Tuesday that after nearly a year of searching, its president has named University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Provost Rita Cheng as the campus's next chancellor...

Southern Illinois University's president introduced a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee administrator Tuesday as his pick to be the next chancellor of SIU's flagship Carbondale campus. Glenn Poshard chose Rita Cheng -- provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at UWM since May 2005 -- to succeed Samuel Goldman, who has served as interim chancellor of the 20,350-student Carbondale campus since spring 2008. Goldman is a former university trustee...

University of Wisconsin students are going international, according to a study released Monday ranking UW students among the top in the nation for their participation in study abroad programs...

A new report says the University of Wisconsin-Madison ranks among the top ten schools for student participation in international study programs...

Alcohol-related crimes on campus and the surrounding community have steadily decreased over the past six years, according to UW-Madison’s PACE Project, whose members held a meeting Tuesday at Memorial Union to present their findings...

Research from the UW Madison indicates that early voting results in lower turnout. The political scientists found that in Wisconsin, the impact is muted by the fact that the state allows voters to register at the polls...

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students will cast their vote in an online referdum today, indicating whether they are willing to pay more to retain certain student programs and 11 campus employees...

Given the sprawling terrain covered by the American Enterprise Institute's forum here on "Increasing Accountability in American Higher Education" Tuesday, it was probably inevitable that the conversation would touch on so many topics as to be almost incoherent...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is joining Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison in announcing that it will not make the Kindle available to students until the device has improvements to be better enable blind people to use it...