While the state granted the system greater flexibility this year in its biennial budget, a committee of Regents and chancellors said the system would still benefit from more flexibility. The Ad Hoc Work Group on UW System Structure and Governance is recommending the board "seek full authority to set tuition and manage the system's financial and human resources, capital projects, and procurement activities"...

Last year's proposal to split UW-Madison from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System may have flopped, but it prompted a committee of Regents and chancellors to ask: should individual campuses in the UW System have their own governing boards? In a report released this week, the committee responded with a resounding 'no' - or, at least, not yet...

UW-Madison interim Chancellor David Ward is scheduled to speak to the Wisconsin Special Task Force on UW Restructuring and Operational Flexibilities on Wednesday. The meeting, which begins at 9 a.m. in room 412 East of the Capitol, will allow the panel to learn more about the relationship between the UW System and its two doctoral campuses. UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell also is expected to appear...

University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, Madison, could create an optional defined contribution plan for newly hired professors and academic staff under a bill to be introduced in the Wisconsin Assembly...

In February, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside celebrates Black History Month and the timeless appeal of Charles Dickens as well as the new building that will host these events. On a recent Saturday in January, UW-Parkside officially opened the beautiful new Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts and Humanities, also known as "The Rita," to the public...

A University of Wisconsin-Madison study using primates could offer answers as to why girls are reaching puberty earlier, in some cases as young as age 7. For years researchers have been studying why young women are maturing faster...

Officials continue to investigate two incidents of nooses found at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside but have not yet sought charges against anyone, authorities said Tuesday...

A 21-year-old junior at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has admitted she created a hit list that targeted about a dozen African-American students on campus... (video clip)

A woman has been arrested in connection with the race hoax at University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Kenosha County Sheriff's Detectives have confirmed that Khalilah N. Ford, 21, of Louisville, Ky., is the person who made the list of targeted students. Ford is in her Junior year at UW-Parkside...

A cutting-edge surgical procedure at the University of Wisconsin Hospital has brought back the voice of a Monona man who lost his ability to speak...

It doesn't appear the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will add a men's hockey program any time soon. On Tuesday, Phoenix athletic director Ken Bothof refuted recent reports that the program was one of several being considered for the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, which is looking to add a 10th school for the 2013-14 season...

Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee apparently told an OSU student newspaper that he thinks University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema should "get a life." Bielema last week criticized new Buckeyes football coach Urban Meyer for unspecified, illegal recruiting methods...

The University of Wisconsin was again ranked as one of the best values for a public university by the Princeton Review, ranking fifth on its list for 2012. UW ranked fifth on the organization's list released yesterday...

UW-Madison students are experiencing a new distraction from homework, lecture and boredom after a Facebook page dedicated to university -related "memes" launched Tuesday, recieving more than 7,000 "likes" within the first 24 hours of its creation...

UW-Stout's annual pond hockey tourney was in full swing around noon on Saturday as a crowd gathered on the ice below the Waterfront bar on Lake Menomin to enjoy the action. (photo)

Stevens Point officials are hoping a new position in the city's Community Development office can help bring more employers to town and keep the existing ones happy. Kyle Kearns, 24, started last week as the city's new economic development specialist...Kearns graduated in 2010 with a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in general resource management, with an emphasis in land use management...

The UW-River Falls Art Department is sponsoring a student exhibition and fashion show of Wearable Art in Gallery 101 of the Kleinpell Fine Arts building Feb. 8-23...The Wearable Art Exhibition and Fashion show celebrates the artistic talents of students taking art classes at UW-River Falls during the 2011-12 school year. "Wearable art" includes almost all non-traditional materials...

Outstanding overall academic performance.  Commendable admission rates.  Excellent freshman retention and graduation rates.  Sound familiar? It may be due to the fact that this university exemplifies all of these characteristics, which are the very qualities that aided in propelling UW-La Crosse toward reaching an admirable position on Kiplinger's "best value" list for both 2008 and 2012...

The Dane County Sheriff's Office is helping in the probe of a man's allegation against former UW-Madison Athletics senior staff member John Chadima...

Biddy Martin, the former UW-Madison chancellor, will be in town March 3 to speak about the challenges of innovation in academia. The event, which begins at 11 a.m. at the Monona Terrace Convention Center, is being hosted by the Madison Civics Club...

It's now up to the governor to decide whether technical school IDs can be used to vote in Wisconsin. The Government Accountability Board on Tuesday approved a change in election rules that would add technical school IDs to the list of acceptable voter IDs...

A bill proposed by state Rep. Louis Molepske Jr., D-Stevens Point, would use state funds to offer worker training programs as an incentive to attract businesses to Wisconsin, or encourage current companies to expand. Molepske's bill would direct the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. to work with the Wisconsin Technical College System to develop training programs to teach workers the skills needed for new jobs...

The dozen higher-education leaders summoned to the White House in December to talk about college affordability included 10 prominent college presidents and the head of one of the nation's most visible education foundations. And the 12th person, the person seated right across from the president to open and frame the discussion? A self-made number cruncher named Jane Wellman, whose outspoken devotion to the power of data has helped raise some uncomfortable questions about the way states and colleges spend their higher-education dollars...

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, a Republican, on Tuesday proposed cutting the state's higher education budget by 30 percent, on top of a 20 percent reduction approved last year, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Democratic legislators and faculty unions denounced the proposed cuts and said that they would lead to significant tuition increases, but some Republican legislative leaders said that it was time to focus on whether the state has too many campuses.

Last week, faculty leaders at two universities held emergency meetings to object to administration proposals that professors said were dangerous to their rights. At Idaho State University, a provisional senate complained about a faculty constitution that they said had been substantially revised to whittle down the powers of the faculty without any input from them, while faculty at Arkansas State University were upset about a new university interpretation of intellectual property that appears to say faculty members have no rights in this area...

The latest list of America's "best value" colleges includes several with the highest sticker prices in the nation, according to a new ranking released Monday...The key issue is whether institutions can keep costs down while raising the quality of their education, says John Roush, president of Centre College in Danville, Ky., one of 150 schools listed in the guide, released exclusively to USA TODAY...

Student loan debt is pushing an increasing number of young people and their parents toward bankruptcy, according to a survey released Tuesday...

The Obama administration puts its stamp Tuesday on a strategy to boost the nation's numbers of science and engineering graduates by working harder to retain those already in the college pipeline...

More struggling borrowers are seeking relief from their student loans, according to a survey by the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys...

Schuyler County -- in New York's Finger Lakes region -- is home to 18,000 people; 14,000 farm animals; one NASCAR track and exactly zero livestock veterinarians. That dearth of vets is a common problem in rural America, and one reason behind a push by the country's veterinary colleges to admit more students...