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UW-Waukesha's land and buildings belong to Waukesha County, which purchased the 86-acre (35 ha) land from William J. Hughes and his wife, Blanche I. Fischer Hughes, in March 1965. As part of a local-state partnership, the University of Wisconsin provides faculty, staff, educational programs, technology, furnishings, libraries, and supplies.
As of 2013, six of the campuses offered a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences degree. The UW Colleges were also frequently used as a stepping stone in order to transfer to another institution in the University of Wisconsin System. This was facilitated by the "Guaranteed Transfer Program" whereby a student was guaranteed admission as a junior ...
Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology, also in Milwaukee, is the state's smallest institution, with an enrollment of 75 for fall 2010. Waukesha-based Carroll University is the state's oldest four-year post-secondary institution as it was founded on January 31, 1846, two years before Wisconsin achieved statehood.
The Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering is a capacity-constrained major and UW Bioengineering uses a holistic process to review applications and requests. Factors include grade trends, especially in prerequisite courses, the personal statement, and considerations such as difficulty of completed courses, overcoming hardships, applicable work ...
[citation needed] The Fox Cities campus also collaborates with other UW schools to offer bachelor's degrees, including UW-Oshkosh, UW-Platteville, and UW-Milwaukee. [5] UWO Fox Cities has a student-instructor ratio of 23:1; the average class size is 24 students. At least 80% of the faculty have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. The school also ...
The University of Wisconsin was created by the state constitution in 1848, and held its first classes in Madison in 1849. In 1956, pressed by the growing demand for a large public university that offered graduate programs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city, Wisconsin lawmakers merged Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee (WSCM) and the University of Wisconsin–Extension's Milwaukee ...
Over the past quarter century, Slattery’s for-profit prison enterprises have run afoul of the Justice Department and authorities in New York, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and Texas for alleged offenses ranging from condoning abuse of inmates to plying politicians with undisclosed gifts while seeking to secure state contracts.
The school offers courses leading to either an associate's degree or the Guaranteed Transfer Program, under which students are guaranteed admission to a four-year University of Wisconsin System college of their choice if they meet the academic requirements. UW-Wausau also has a collaborative program with UW-Stevens Point and UW–Oshkosh that ...