Higher Education

Track athletes and runners in the Madison community say the new space is too small, comparing it to a running track found at a health club instead of one at a Big 10 University. 

A national doctors advocacy organization is asking federal officials to investigate the use of live pigs for training at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Ah Yun is the first person of color to lead Marquette, and the Catholic, Jesuit university’s second lay president in its 143-year history.

Non-tenure-track faculty at Marquette University say a new promotion structure and pay raises are needed. But the school is claiming a religious exemption.

The committee studying the future of the Universities of Wisconsin wants the state Legislature to explore spinning off UW-Madison.

Many college students will be voting for the first time on Tuesday. For most of them, the current political climate of increasing polarization and threats to democracy is all they have ever known.

A new behavioral health program at Carroll University in Waukesha is successfully helping students treat anxiety and homesickness, according to the program’s founders. 

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.