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UW System President Kevin Reilly explained to the Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance that the university wants to use an investment of state dollars to produce more college graduates and to help the state create knowledge-economy jobs; testimony also included the importance of offering domestic partner benefits to recruit and retain university employees.
UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard urges Wisconsin residents and political leaders to invest in the UW System, particularly to properly compensate university employees; Shepard notes that low faculty salaries, when compared to other institutions, are driving star teachers away from the UW System.
Related: "Money search gets in the way of research," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 25.
Also: "Comparing tech college pay omits some key facts," Column, Green Bay Press-Gazette, March 25.
The UW System is working hard to increase campus diversity, in part because business recruiters say they want UW graduates who have experience working and living in heterogeneous environments.
Wisconsin suffers more from a lack of a brain gain, where college graduates from other states choose to live and work in Wisconsin, than from a brain drain, where Wisconsin-educated students emigrate to other regions of the country; the challenge might be remedied if the state were to invest in promoting business development and job creation.
UW-River Falls and two area utility companies will work together to ensure the campus is energy self-sustainable by 2012.
An editorial opposing a proposed tuition increase for students in UW-Madison's College of Engineering.
Related: "Paying by the program," Inside Higher Ed, March 26.
This editorial applauds UW-Madison and its Division of Information Technology for refusing to cooperate with the Recording Industry Association of America's latest string of lawsuit threats against campus students.
Related: "UW-EC students targeted," Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, March 22.
Also: "University student illegal downloading tunes risks paying hefty fines," Kenosha News, March 26.
An autopsy reveals that a UW-Stout student recently died from liver failure; there is no indication that Cody Nelson suffered from a communicable disease, nor were any drugs or alcohol found in his residence hall room.
The state of Wisconsin has changed or halted several large information-technology projects in recent years; a state audit of such IT projects is expected soon.