The man appointed to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents says he hopes to be a role model for Native American students. Eau Claire attorney Edmund Manydeeds is an enrolled member of South Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. He's also a 1973 graduate of UW-Superior and the UW-Madison law school...

The battle between Brothers Bar&Grill and the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has become a tangle of figures and offers for the property on which the bar sits. UW, in the hope of building a music school on the site, exercised the power of eminent domain and offered Brothers owners Eric and Marc Fortney $2.1 million for the building and $150,000 in moving costs...In an attempt to sort out what could happen next and other matters of real estate, The Badger Herald sat down with Thomas Mitchell, a UW associate professor of law and an expert on property law...

College applications for the fall are up dramatically nationwide, especially at public universities. But a drop in applications at the University of Wisconsin system has some admissions staff scratching their heads. This year more than 82,000 students have applied to UW-System schools. That's down 2-percent from last year, which saw nearly 84,000 applicants system-wide...

The UW System said they are unable to comply with a 2005 law requiring all state agencies to post their contract agreements online because of technology problems. The law requires all agencies to post their external contract information to a website called Contract Sunshine run by the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board. According to UW System spokesperson David Giroux, UW System schools are unable to report their contracts online because of problems with the way the website is set up. Giroux said UW schools want to comply with the law, but are not capable of doing so because the UW System’s contract database is incompatible with Contract Sunshine’s reporting system...

The Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee has approved a Senate bill sponsored by Sen. Jeff Plale (D-South Milwaukee) that allows the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to proceed with spending $145 million in two construction projects and $31 million for the Columbia Hospital acquisition. Sen. Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee) said the committee’s action “will create and sustain over 3,100 jobs.” The $145 million will be used to construct the School of Freshwater Sciences building and the Kenwood Integrated Research Complex...

Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said he wouldn't prosecute UW-Madison for violating state law in sheep experiments, so two animal rights groups are attempting to file the criminal charges themselves. The groups - Madison-based Alliance for Animals and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - are allowed to do so under a little-used state statute. They filed a petition Tuesday asking a judge to allow them to prosecute five UW-Madison officials and several researchers...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Madison-based Alliance for Animals petitioned Tuesday to bring criminal animal cruelty charges against the University of Wisconsin for allegedly illegally performing decompression experiments on sheep...

Two animal rights groups, one national and one local, jointly petitioned a state circuit court on Tuesday to bring criminal animal cruelty charges against the UW-Madison for what the district attorney of Dane County determined were violations of state law involving decompression experiments on sheep...

Suggestions ranged from the cuddly (the Badger Burrow) to the silly (Union Schmunion) to the irreverent (Colbert Union). From a long list of submissions, a UW-Madison student committee this week narrowed down the list of possible names for the new south campus union to four: Discovery Union, Randall Union, Union South, and Varsity Union...

Throughout the highly publicized property battle between Brothers Bar and Grill and the UW System Board of Regents, student organization MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) said it has slipped through the cracks in university priorities. The student group’s office is located above Brothers, where the university is fighting to build the new UW School of Music facility. While the university is exercising eminent domain to seize the property, there has been no initiative to compensate the student organization, said Ismael Cuevas, MEChA president...

...The five-year-old gaming development program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has been named one of the top 50 undergraduate programs for studying computer game design by the Princeton Review...

Computer hackers were able to get into the UW-Stout computer system late Friday afternoon, which caused the temporary shutdown of all the university’s service servers. A core server was compromised as outside forces attempted to set up a large downloading site within the system. Since the server was administrative in nature with only privileged access, the determination was to isolate the core servers from the Stout network...

...When staff members leave (UC-)Davis these days, they are seldom replaced. By merging administrative units, Davis has cut about 150 positions, largely through attrition. There are more reductions and layoffs to come, and Nosek will spend the next few months trying to figure out where those cuts can be made with the least disruption to the university...One of the beauties of higher education -- its decentralized respect for the mores of varied disciplines -- has also been its undoing, Nosek says. Over the last several decades, disparate departments have given ad hoc duties to multiple employees without centralized functions -- creating a metastasization of obligations that the private sector long ago determined was both inefficient and expensive...

All weekend, Cornell University's residential advisers knocked on dorm rooms to inquire how students were coping...The university is on high alert about the mental health of its students after the apparent suicides of three of them in less than a month in the deep gorges rending the campus...

The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees is forming a committee to examine the evolving role of the university president's spouse...For example, Kate Reilly, wife of University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly, has a paid staff appointment on the UW Madison campus and an unpaid appointment as "associate to the president" - an "honorary title" that does not include pay or benefits but allows her to have access to UW facilities, as well as fleet vehicles for official functions, according to UW spokesman David Giroux...