The Wisconsin state Assembly is scheduled to vote on a bill designed to ensure members of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents come from across the state...

...What this proposal fails to tell the general public is that the UW System annual budget only represents 7 percent of state expenditures. UW-Waukesha realizes these are tough times and will do whatever it can to return its fair share of funding, but the operative words are "its fair share of funding"... (Author: Harry Muir, campus executive officer and dean, UW-Waukesha)

With Wisconsin's concealed carry law going into effect today, Manitowoc County's colleges have posted signs prohibiting concealed guns and other weapons in their buildings. For public and private elementary and secondary schools, the law prohibiting weapons remains largely unchanged and signs are not needed, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice...

As agencies around the state prepare for the concealed carry law, effective today, the University of Wisconsin System updated police training and reiterated that weapons are prohibited in university buildings on campuses across the state...

Social innovator Bill Strickland will offer a presentation titled "The Art of Leadership and the Business of Social Change" tonight as part of UW-Eau Claire's The Forum series...

Former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos E. Santiago has been named one of the 2011 Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America by Hispanic Business Magazine...

Two Art&Design Department faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will be among the artists featured at various shows in Wisconsin, Connecticut, New York, Arizona, Indiana and Maryland. Keven Brunett and Kristin Thielking, a married couple who teach three-dimensional art at UW-Stevens Point, are being featured in the following exhibits...

Happy Meals hide unhappy truths. Best-selling author Eric Schlosser discovered as much when he began investigating the fast-food industry for Rolling Stone magazine more than a decade ago. The vast impact of fast-food chains on American farms and families eventually became the subject of his 2001 book "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal." Cheap, quick meals endanger the health of the nation's poor, alter the agriculture industry and leave a mark on Wisconsin, said Schlosser, who will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's Recreational Eagle Center...

David Rowley, University of Wisconsin-Platteville professor of history, will give a presentation, "Democracy, Nationalism and Socialism: Mazzini's Holy Trinity, or, What the Tea Party Could Learn from a 19th Century Italian Patriot," from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in Doudna Hall's Lundeen Lecture Hall, Room 103...

From UW-Stout Dean of Students Joan Thomas talking about attending the funerals of students who have died in alcohol-related incidents to UW-Stout Police Officer Lisa Pederson talking about futures of those who died that will never happen, a new video released by the Stout Student Association aims to raise awareness about high-risk alcohol use...

Madison-based Stratatech Corp. is getting a $4.6 million grant to help fund the start of clinical trials of ExpressGraft, a skin substitute designed to heal diabetes-related foot ulcers...Founded in 2000 based on discoveries at UW-Madison, Stratatech, 505 S. Rosa Road, makes tissue products described on the company's website as "nearly identical" to human skin...

We've heard the lousy job market has led many people to go back to school. But huge numbers of people with four-year degrees going to technical college?...Between 2009 and 2010, the percentage of college graduates entering technical college rose a bit. But high school graduates make up the largest category of transfer students in technical schools, far outnumbering those with college degrees. We rate Walker's statement False.

Fundamentally, American society doesn't value a college education as the necessary prerequisite to gaining knowledge or becoming a responsible citizen. Instead, it is promoted as the guaranteed means to gainful employment. In fact, the value of a college education is dropping so much that certain graduates who are dissatisfied that their diplomas did not yield the job placements of their choice want to shirk their responsibility to pay back their student loans...

Facing serious financial trouble in a weak economy, Cooper Union, the New York City college founded in 1859 to provide free education for the working class, may begin charging undergraduate tuition for the first time in more than a century, its president said Monday...

Only four states have measures related to higher education on ballots this fall, with voters deciding questions that would affect the financing of student-aid programs and public colleges, and the collective-bargaining rights of state employees, including public-college faculty members...