UW System Clipsheet

"Gow's 'mission' begins at UW-L," La Crosse Tribune, Feb. 2.

New UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow will spend his first days in Wisconsin meeting with campus and community members to assess what UW-La Crosse's top priorities should be.

"'The gathering place' realized for campus, community, region," Column, River Falls Journal, Feb. 2.

UW-River Falls Chancellor Don Betz extols the campus's new University Center, where members of the campus community and residents of the entire St. Croix Valley can gather to create the best possible opportunities and outcomes for the region's future.

Editorial: "Bold, beautiful and designed for today's environment," Editorial, River Falls Journal, Feb. 2.

"UW's fallen soldier," Badger Herald, Feb. 1.

UW-La Crosse and UW-Fox Valley remember Jon St. John II, a former UW-La Crosse student who was killed while serving with U.S. military forces in Iraq.

"UWSP grant writer brings knowledge, determination," Stevens Point Journal, Feb. 2.

Anita Wright, UW-Stevens Point's new director of grant support services, says determination and hard work are the key ingredients to attracting grant funding to the campus.

"Doyle talks terms with students on college aid," Green Bay Press-Gazette, Feb. 2.

Gov. Jim Doyle is encouraging students to participate in the Wisconsin Covenant, a program which would grant college admission and financial assistance to 8th graders who maintain academic and nonacademic requirements through high school graduation.

Related: "State to kids: Here's deal for you," Capital Times, Feb. 1.

"Envisioning Cambria's future," Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, Feb. 2.

A UW-Madison professor and UW-Extension landscape architecture students helped facilitate a brainstorming session for the Village of Cambria's long-term comprehensive development plan.

"President Bush will propose largest Pell Grant increase in a generation but hasn't said how he would pay for it," Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 2.

President Bush will reportedly announce plans to increase the maximum Pell Grant award by $550 next year, with the goal of achieving an overall increase of $1,350 in the next half-decade.