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The strength of Wisconsin's economy relies in large part on the willingness of the state Legislature to adequately fund the UW System, and this must happen in order for the state to continue to be a nationwide leader in public higher education.
UW System officials continued to extol the benefits of having more diverse campus communities, including improved educational quality and career prospects.
UW-Madison's Summer Research Opportunity Program will bring about 100 undergraduate students of color and from lower-income families from across Wisconsin to the campus for a nine-week session where they will do graduate-level research with campus faculty; one program goal is to attract these participants to the campus if they decide to pursue graduate education.
A UW-Madison professor outlines non-salary reasons why other institutions can sometimes appear attractive to UW System faculty.
Because nontraditional college students face scheduling challenges that traditional college students do not, they often have difficulty securing state education grants or subsidized loans; officials at UW-Madison said they must, therefore, present financial aid information to nontraditional students in a much different way.
UW System officials are currently crafting guidelines for its campus' financial aid offices that create the greatest amount of transparency and provide the greatest benefit to the university's students; the federal Education Department released its own proposed rules on the matter late last week.
Related: "U.S. offers loan reforms of its own," Inside Higher Ed, June 4.
A panel studying campus safety in Florida determined that privacy laws regarding student information may be superseded in the case of a mental, physical or safety emergency.