Since word hit that the University of Wisconsin System had accumulated more than $1 billion in reserveseven as tuition continued to soar and state funding plummeted, the UW Board of Regents has gotten a lot suggestions on what to do with that money...

Chris Rickert's May 19 column, "Surplus of blame encircles UW fund," doesn't state what he means by "professorial stars." But data is available suggesting comparisons between CEO and university faculty salaries are ridiculous...

I suppose I should be used to Gov. Scott Walker's antics by now, but he continues to make me slap my forehead. Now he wants to punish the University of Wisconsin System for showing fiscal responsibility by putting aside more than $600 million as a hedge against future budget problems. He proposes to cut the System's budget and freeze tuition to force it to spend down its reserves...

The UW-Madison School of Business has surpassed Harvard as the most popular business school in the nation in a magazine's rankings. In a U.S. News and World Report "short list" released Tuesday, UW-Madison ranked No. 1 in the number of new students enrolled compared to students accepted for admission to the school...

The University of Wisconsin-Rock County in Janesville is now accepting applications for the fall 2013 semester for 75 reduced-tuition slots open to residents of Illinois and certain other Midwest states...

More than 100 University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley graduates participated in the 2013 commencement ceremony at the campus' field house Tuesday night...

Family, friends, past and current colleagues, and former students gathered Sunday on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus for the dedication of the campus television studio in honor of retired mass communications professor Peter Conover...

New research indicates that Lake Superior's warming water is probably already affecting its most abundant big fish: the cold water-loving siscowet lake trout...The study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates that fatty siscowets have lost about 20 percent of their historic habitat because of the temperature changes that have already occurred...

Concession stands at University of Wisconsin sporting events could have a new look -- or at least a new group in control -- next season, and it could mean the end of a relationship that spans more than 50 years...

The College of Business and Economics at the UW-River Falls will host an information session from 6-7 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at the UWRF Hudson Center, for those considering whether a master's degree in business administration will help them further their career goals...

Nine students from the UW-Stout Honors College presented research posters and made oral research presentations at the Upper Midwest Honors Conference held April 18-20 at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn...

The Legislature's powerful budget committee voted Tuesday to modify Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to sell or lease state property by adding oversight to the process...A major piece of the proposal is the possible sale or lease of some or all of the 38 power plants at University of Wisconsin System campuses and other state facilities. That provision was removed from the last two-year state budget...

The Legislature's budget committee Tuesday approved a measure meant to discourage public employees from collecting a pension and a paycheck at the same time...A Legislative Audit Bureau report found that over a five-year period, state agencies and the University of Wisconsin System hired 2,783 retirees who continued to collect a state pension...

Republicans on the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee have approved a budget provision aimed at reducing a practice known as "double-dipping"...Double-dipping has drawn harsh criticism in recent years, after a former UW-Green Bay official made a deal to return to work after retiring, then collected his pension and a salary...

Government employees would have to stay off the public payroll more than twice as long as is currently required under a change to state law approved by the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee on Tuesday...Under the committee's 12-4 vote, teachers, university professors and other public workers would be required to take a 75-day break from public service before they could return. The current minimum is 30 days...

Public workers would have to wait longer after retirement before they could return to the government workforce and in some cases would be barred from receiving retirement benefits while working the new job, under a provision Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee adopted Tuesday...

With no deal in place to use Madison Area Technical College's new protective services building, the city will pursue its own facility for advanced firefighter and EMS training...

A group of Fox Valley residents are headed to Madison today to urge Wisconsin lawmakers to stop implementation of standards outlining what every U.S. student needs to learn to prepare for college or the workforce...

In an effort to convince Congress to stop a big increase in student loan interest rates scheduled to take place this summer, Wisconsin's new U.S. senator, Tammy Baldwin, has been urging students to send her testimonials on what that will mean to them personally...

The number of students enrolled in American colleges and universities was 1.6 percent lower in 2011-12 than it was the year before, but the number of degrees conferred by those institutions was up 5.1 percent, new data from the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics shows...

A higher education consulting firm had a blunt message for the University of Virginia's governing board Tuesday: Despite the university's vaunted stature as a "public Ivy," school and state leaders have been complacent in the past 15 years and U-Va. is now falling behind many of its competitors...

...A few years ago, armed with a donation from Georgia State's president, Renick tried an experiment: He provided mini grants to nearly 200 students after they were dropped for nonpayment. It worked, helping to bring students back to classes and generating more than $660,000 in tuition and fees for the university that would have otherwise been lost...

...Colleges and professors teaching MOOCs or thinking about jumping in can learn a few things from these students, who have spent more time in these new virtual classrooms than just about anyone else on the planet. Among their observations: Clarity and organization are key...

An amendment passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday added language to a pending immigration bill that would extend federal student loans, work-study funds, and other federal support to students who are in the United States illegally...

The National Center for Education Statistics, the Education Department's statistical arm, on Tuesday released a "first look" report at new data on college pricing across sectors, finding that tuition and required fees for in-state students at four-year, public institutions rose by 6.7 percent from 2010-11 to 2012-13...