Backpedaling on budget plans for University of Wisconsin campuses might mean more pay freezes or heftier tuition hikes later, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said Thursday...

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to freeze student tuition at University of Wisconsin System campuses for the next two years would mark the first two-year tuition freeze for the four-year campuses in the 42-year history of the UW System...

Governor Scott Walker has revised his budget for Wisconsin, freezing tuition for the University of Wisconsin System for the next 2 years. Walker submitted his revised budget last night after finding out the UW system had a $650 million surplus... (video clip)

The University of Wisconsin agrees with the Department of Administration in asking the legislature to make changes to the school's 2013-2015 budget, including a two-year tuition freeze... (video clip)

The Walker administration has laid out a plan that would reduce the University of Wisconsin's (UW's) reserves by $136 million, partly through a $94 million dollar cut in state funding... (audio clip)

UW-System officials are planning some significant changes in how they handle reserve funds, after Governor Walker revised his budget proposal for the schools...

Gov. Scott Walker is calling for a two-year freeze on tuition in the UW System after revelations the UW System was sitting on millions in reserves. There is broad political support for a tuition freeze, but some leaders say they hope the outrage doesn't damage education... (video clip)

Students graduating this week from the University of Wisconsin-Madison might take a moment to appreciate how mightily their school has struggled to preserve adequate resources to maintain its tradition of excellence, Greg Downey, chairman of the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication, says in a blog post Thursday, the day after Gov. Scott Walker announced that he wants to reduce the size of a funding increase for the UW System and also freeze tuition for its schools...

Jessie Otradovec showed promise in post-high school jobs at Papa John's and Cost Cutters in Green Bay. But she wanted to play with the universe. She eventually left behind the pizza and barber shears and, at age 27, will graduate from UW-Madison this weekend with a bachelor's degree in physics and astrophysics...

...Graduation on Sunday at the Kohl Center will be different for the Barnes family because both Nikki, 23, and Mark, 53, will be getting their undergraduate degrees. They will walk together to receive their diplomas, and it's unlikely there will be a dry eye in their considerable cheering section...

Jon Schultz of Madison (left) with his wife, Rheda, walk through Longenecker Horticultural Gardens in the UW-Madison Arboretum in Madison on Thursday, May 16, 2013... (photo gallery)

It will be one busy weekend for a northeastern Wisconsin family. Triplets Stephanie, Kyle and Ashley Verhasselt, of Freedom, will receive their undergraduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in three separate commencement ceremonies...

UW-Eau Claire and Visit Eau Claire have formed a partnership to expand and enhance local tourism. The partnership will provide Visit Eau Claire with improved access to new and existing university facilities for events, enabling the organization to more effectively market the Eau Claire area...

...The Community Engagement award winner was Peter Westort, an associate professor of account at UW Oshkosh. Westort has been leading the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) for 10 years, recruiting and training volunteers and providing technical expertise. VITA is a collaboration program with Oshkosh Area United Way, the Oshkosh Community Pantry and the UW Extension...

The number of younger college graduates in the Milwaukee metropolitan area increased substantially during a recent five-year period, ranking it as No. 16 in such growth among the nation's 100 largest metro areas, according to a new analysis conducted by USA Today...

...And instead of praising the prudence of UW System, Walker wants to take that money and use it for K-12 education and tax refunds. I thought the conservatives wanted fiscal responsibility, which UW has exhibited. It doesn't make sense to me...

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A Republican bill that seeks to end the practice of "double dipping" by state pensioners has technical college officials wondering how they are going to find former police, fire and EMS workers to teach classes...

The decline in college enrollments appears to be accelerating, with 2.3 percent fewer students enrolled on campuses this spring than there were in spring 2012, according to data published Thursday by the National Student Clearinghouse...

The pool of college graduates who earned degrees in the 2007-8 academic year was considerably less diverse than the overall student body, and that finding presents challenges for colleges because more and more individuals seeking a higher education do not fit the prototype of a traditional student, concludes a broad analysis of student outcomes released on Thursday by the American Council on Education...

The students who earned bachelor's degrees from American colleges in 2007-8 were substantially less racially diverse than all undergraduates who were enrolled in college that year, a new report from the American Council on Education shows...

The House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce approved legislation Thursday that would create a variable interest rate for student loans. The measure faced strong opposition from Democrats on the committee, who argued for a bill that would keep interest rates at their current levels for the next two years, as Congress works to reauthorize the Higher Education Act...

Twenty-somethings have flocked to America's largest metros after graduation in recent years, according to a USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Census data. New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles have provided nearly 400,000 jobs to recent graduates from 2006 to 2011, accounting for nearly 25% of the increase nationally...

...On Wednesday, Rutgers introduced Julie Hermann, the longtime second-in-command at Louisville's athletic department, as its new athletic director. The appointment is yet another unconventional choice for Rutgers; Hermann becomes one of a relatively few women leading major sports programs and also assumes the helm without experience as an athletic director...

...Ms. Powell Jobs has ramped up her years-long crusade for the Dream Act, which would give citizenship to young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally...The program put her in contact with students who couldn't get financial aid for college because they were in the country illegally, usually brought here as children...