UW System Clipsheet

June 20, 2008

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On Campus

"UW Foundation fundraiser to help retain professors, relieve financial stress on undergrads," Wisconsin State Journal, June 19.

The UW Foundation announced Thursday it's launching a money-raising campaign focused on financial help for undergraduates and keeping talented professors and graduate students at UW-Madison...

"UWM licenses company to test, sell new alcoholism drug," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 20.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee licensed a newly developed alcoholism treatment to a Milwaukee-area pharmaceutical company, which in turn will shepherd the drug through the federal approval process...

National

"House approves veterans' education aid in a deal on war spending," New York Times, June 20.

The House voted on Thursday to offer what amounts to a free college education to the new generation of military veterans...

"Gauging the new GI Bill," Inside Higher Ed, June 20.

With Congress and the White House in agreement on a supplemental war spending package that would dramatically boost GI Bill benefits, thoughts are turning to the potential impact of the changes on colleges and student veterans...

"The next satellite campus may be on satellite radio," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 20.

...station offers its content free online, as well as over the air waves, but teaming up with a satellite-radio company would allow more people outside the Seattle area to listen in their cars and other places where they cannot get access to the Internet...