The fall semester for the Universities of Wisconsin campuses starts next week. But at least 50 students at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee still don’t know if they’ll be able to attend class. 

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Thanks to her new Fulbright scholarship, UW-Stout associate professor Candice Maier will teach her feminism-informed approach to family therapy at an Istanbul university next Spring.

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Retention and graduation rates are up since Northeast Wisconsin Technical College condensed most courses from 16 weeks to eight.

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Carroll University is preparing for projected record enrollment this school year with a more than $50 million facilities plan for its Waukesha campus. 

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The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is paying $265,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who says she was demoted from a diversity, equity and inclusion leadership position because she is white.

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A proposal from a Republican Wisconsin congressman would make it harder for universities to use a work visa program to hire faculty and staff from other countries, while limiting private businesses' ability to recruit high-demand workers from abroad. 

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The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ made a variety of changes to the federal student loan system. Two changes — the elimination of the Grad PLUS loan program and a lifetime loan cap of $200,000 — leaves medical students well short of the estimated cost of medical school in Wisconsin.

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System president Layla Merrifield discusses tech schools’ reliance on federal funding and the value of the adult education programs they provide.

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