"UW-Waukesha sees slight drop in applicants," Waukesha Freeman, June 17.
Applications for incoming students to the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha are down so far this year even though the state university system has seen slight growth overall...
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June 18, 2008
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On Campus
"UW-P students help design apartments," Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, June 17.
Senior design students at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville collaborated with a local developer to design a 12-unit apartment complex for the Platteville community...
"UW-Extension responds to the flood," Wisconsin Ag Connection, June 18.
...Extension Responds provides accurate, objective, research-based information developed in partnership by UW-System and UW-Extension faculty and Cooperative Extension agents to address current issues. This coordinated effort helps county-based agents and educators respond promptly to local needs...
State
"Report finds income gap between richest, poorest in Wisconsin is widening," Wisconsin State Journal, June 17.
The income gap between Wisconsin's richest and poorest families is widening, according to a report by UW-Madison's Center on Wisconsin Strategy...
"College students can help get projects done," Capital Region Business Journal, June 18.
...Getting connected to student resources is not difficult. Contact the Business Career Center at UW-Madison to learn more about how you can make your needs known, identify the skills you're looking for, find a talent pool to choose from and even post a position online.UW-Whitewater has a similar matchmaking service through the campus Career Services office...
National
"Minnesota colleges seek accountability by the dashboard light," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18.
...After two years of preparation, the 32-college system unveiled on Tuesday its new Accountability Dashboard. The service is based on a Web site that displays a series of measures—tuition rates, graduates' employment rates, condition of facilities—that use speedometer-type gauges to show exactly how the Minnesota system and each of its individual colleges is performing...
"New SAT is about the same as the old one, college board finds," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18.
...On Tuesday, the College Board announced that the recent changes in the SAT had not substantially altered how accurately it predicts first-year grades...
"E-mail, the workplace and the electronic paper trail," National Public Radio, June 18.
E-mail and other electronic communications have dramatically changed the contemporary legal landscape. By some estimates, more than 90 percent of the cost of a lawsuit today can come from sorting through e-mails and other electronic documents to determine which ones are relevant to the case...