Higher Education

Herzing University’s campus in Kenosha is the latest Wisconsin college to be recognized as a Hispanic-Serving Institution.

The state Legislature could consider several proposals to revamp the Universities of Wisconsin, including spinning off UW-Madison and increasing tuition. 

Former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow’s pornography hobby led him to decline work calls and plan a pornographic video shoot around business travel to Los Angeles, according to documents obtained by WPR. 

The founder of UW-Milwaukee’s Center for Equity Practice and Planning Justice says most challenges that cities face — including education, health and development — are connected to segregation.

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced Wednesday that he will step down next year, becoming the 4th chancellor in the Universities of Wisconsin system to either announce plans to resign or be fired since December 2023.

In recently released book ‘The New College President,’ co-author Terry MacTaggart profiles seven leaders as they navigate the fraught ecosystem of higher ed

Fifty community development projects across Wisconsin will split roughly $50 million in state grant funding, including one aimed at celebrating a community’s resilience and another aimed at addressing a workforce need.

Black student enrollment at the state’s flagship university has never surpassed 3 percent of the student body, according to data from the Universities of Wisconsin. 

Enrollment in the state’s technical school system has steadily declined over the past decade. But the president of the Wisconsin Technical College System said the system is on the road to recovery.

Two graduate students at UW-Madison are facing campus disciplinary hearings linked to an op-ed they authored in support of the student pro-Palestine encampment movement this spring.