Before it knows all the details, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents gives the go-ahead to a tuition hike for U.W. Eau Claire students...The vote comes with a requirement that in May the university provide the Board of Regents with specifics of exactly how the extra funds will be used...

After extensive deliberation the UW System Board of Regents approved the BluGold Commitment, a controversial differential tuition increase for University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, at their meeting last Friday. In the wake of student opposition on the UW-Eau Claire campus, the Board of Regents debated over the right course of action regarding the BluGold Commitment...

The UW System Board of Regents voted Friday to raise UW-Eau Claire’s tuition by $1,200 over the next four years by expanding the university’s differential tuition program. The Blugold Commitment, which was approved on a 14-2 vote, will raise undergraduate resident tuition by $300 each year for the next four years. According to UW System spokesperson David Giroux, UW-Eau Claire will still be below the midpoint of its peer group in terms of undergraduate resident tuition...

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly has appointed a new commission to help make the case for increasing employee salaries. Reilly says the Competitive University Workforce Commission will take an in-depth look at the salary, compensation and benefits received by faculty and staff and how they compare to comparable universities...

When it opens in December, the $205 million Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery will be a showcase of high-tech design and model of collaboration. ...Developers see the institutes as a place where a diverse group of researchers from the UW-Madison campus and beyond will mix with each other and with industrial partners to tackle technical problems in new and unexpected ways...

...Last week, I had an editorial printed in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Badger Herald, and the UWM Post, which encouraged all students to get involved in lowering tuition. As most students can recognize the problem of exponentially growing tuition and see the necessity to reverse it, I have received a lot backlash for initiating a campaign that wishes to increase funding to the UW System. Since there seems to be some confusion, I would like to elaborate on this...

A software program developed by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researcher successfully has predicted the fate of stem cells, a key step toward better understanding the developmental process and perhaps one day controlling it...

The battle lines were drawn as anti-abortion and abortion rights groups both held rallies at the University of Wisconsin Library Mall Saturday. Saturday marked the one-year anniversary since the Madison Surgery Center voted to approve an abortion clinic that would perform second-trimester abortions...

Opposing sides of a controversial plan to create a late-term abortion clinic in Madison this month faced off over the weekend in separate rallies. Pro-life advocates from across Wisconsin held a rally at Library Mall protesting the decision by the Madison Surgery Center to create a late-term or second-trimester abortion clinic. Some pro-choice supporters responded by walking over to the Library Mall rally to voice their own views...UW police said both rallies were peaceful events and reported no arrests...

The clods of earth that will be turned over on Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside won't be the last ones moved to make room for a new building. Expansion and remodeling of the Communication Arts building this year and next is only the latest in the group of finished and imagined projects at the university. The remodeled Student Center opened a year ago, and the new Pike River Suites dormitory opened in August. "The next building, we think, would be an academic building," said William Streeter, vice chancellor for administration and fiscal affairs...

About 26 percent more international students applied for admission to UW-Madison's fall freshman class, causing a bump in overall undergraduate applications. About 700 more international students applied to the university compared with a year ago...

If you're an undergrad at UW-Madison, Tyler Junger has his hands on your money. Junger, a junior from Cudahy, is chair of the student committee that reviews which proposals will get funding through the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates. In-state students are paying an extra $250 this year for the program...

...She signed up for a study in which stem cells are infused into the arm to potentially do what the body can’t do on its own: grow new heart muscle. It’s one of seven studies for cardiovascular disease at UW Hospital involving regenerative medicine: the use of stem cells, gene therapy or growth factors to repair damaged tissue...

A trial expected to begin Monday will recall an ugly chapter at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, when two black administrators were each demoted within months for misusing university credit cards. The university removed its graduate studies dean, Lee Jones, after an investigation in 2005 found he repeatedly broke rules on travel and credit card spending. Months later, the university demoted Howard Ross from his 13-year position as dean of letters and sciences when an audit suggested he couldn't account for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Both cases stung, coming as lawmakers were scrutinizing wasteful spending in the UW System and the southeastern Wisconsin school of 10,000 students was trying to improve diversity...

Future deal-makers from three Wisconsin universities will compete at the Milwaukee Athletic Club on Saturday in a contest that tests their ability to analyze and make recommendations about real-life investment banking transactions. Three graduate student teams are vying for a $5,000 top prize in the ACG Cup, an event that for the second year has been organized by the Association for Corporate Growth's Wisconsin chapter...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials are reconsidering their plans to build the new School of Freshwater Sciences next to UWM's Great Lakes WATER Institute, which overlooks the harbor at 600 E. Greenfield Ave. Instead, UWM is now looking at moving the institute, and putting the school, at a business park planned for the Reed Street Yards site, south of the Harley-Davidson Museum...

...Flynn of Janesville turned to UW-Whitewater, which quickly is becoming a regional powerhouse in educating students for careers in small business and in helping small businesses flourish. More than 50 students are enrolled in a new entrepreneurship degree program. Why has UW-Whitewater become a hub for entrepreneurship? Because many people—from the chancellor to the dean of the business school to the marketing, accounting and management professors—believe an entrepreneurial spirit is the key to economic sustainability...

After a stint in jail, University of Wisconsin-Parkside student Matrice Scales was able to turn his life around — thanks to the non-profit Racine Vocational Ministry...His story lies at the heart of CAN Works, launched Thursday by the UW-Parkside Center for Community Partnerships...

In the upcoming months, the Wisconsin State Legislature will be making a major decision on the future and growth of UW-Milwaukee. On Jan. 28, UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago gave an address in which he discussed six major additions to UWM facilities. The purposes of the facilities are a combination of upgrading current resources as well as adding new ones. The proposed projects are the purchase and redevelopment of Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital, the construction of a new aquatic research vessel, the construction of two new research complexes, a new home for the School of Freshwater Sciences, and to develop a location for the newly added School of Public Health. The development of the projects will depend on a $240 million initiative from the state congress. If approved, it would be the largest single sum of auxiliary funding since UWM’s founding in 1956...

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside has until the end of April to arrange a future for some area students. As one of only four recipients of a grant from the Milwaukee 7 regional workforce group, Parkside is busy setting up a series of agreements with area technical colleges to train people in water technology. Conserving water, purifying it, and keeping it clean to begin with has emerged during the past couple of years as a potential industry for southeastern Wisconsin...

Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen laid out an ambitious goal for the University of Wisconsin-Stout a number of years ago: increase to 40 the number of undergraduate majors. That would be nearly double the number UW-Stout offered when Sorensen came to campus 22 years ago. Sorensen believed the limited number of majors was hampering UW-Stout's student recruitment and retention efforts...Sorensen accomplished his goal Friday when the UW System Board of Regents approved the 40th undergraduate major for UW-Stout: a Bachelor of Science degree in cognitive science...

...Arts Bash has become an annual mainstay in central Wisconsin's lively arts scene and is UWSP's largest student scholarship fundraising event. It is also the best single showcase of the visual and performing arts talent for which UWSP is gaining a national reputation. If you've seen an exhibition on our campus, taken in a concert or recital, or attended a performance by our Theater and Dance Department, you've experienced what our high-caliber student talent and faculty mentors can produce. It really is little wonder that UWSP alumni are on Broadway, in Hollywood and on stages and in galleries in major cities and small communities across the country... (Author: Interim UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Mark Nook)...

Tuition is waived for people age 65 and older who audit a course at Viterbo University; the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Western Technical College stop charging tuition at age 60. Students still might have to pay for materials or other course fees...

...There is a payoff for the long bus rides: The 48 SandHoke seniors are in a fast-track program that allows them to earn their high-school diploma and up to two years of college credit in five years — completely free. Until recently, most programs like this were aimed at affluent, overachieving students — a way to keep them challenged and give them a head start on college work. But the goal is quite different at SandHoke, which enrolls only students whose parents do not have college degrees. Here, and at North Carolina’s other 70 early-college schools, the goal is to keep at-risk students in school by eliminating the divide between high school and college...

The leader of the country's largest university thinks it's time to re-examine how professors are awarded tenure, a type of job-for-life protection virtually unknown outside academia. Ohio State University President Gordon Gee says the traditional formula that rewards publishing in scholarly journals over excellence in teaching and other contributions is outdated and too often favors the quantity of a professor's output over quality...