UW System Clipsheet

July 8, 2008

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On Campus

"$109,000 grant helps fund study of area bedrock," Green Bay Press-Gazette, July 8.

A team through the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay received a $109,000 grant to research the bedrock below the soil in Brown County...

State

"5-day college workshop prepares American Indian students," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 5.

...77 students from around the country descended on Lawrence University's Appleton campus last week for College Horizons, a five-day pre-college workshop for American Indian students. It's the first time a Wisconsin school has hosted the national program...

"Education pilot program begins in Wisconsin," Wisconsin Public Radio, July 7.

Wisconsin's public schools and technical colleges will participate in a project that aims to get more girls and minorities to pursue careers in science and technology...

Listen: http://clipcast.wpr.o...news/news080707sj.rm

National

"Rethinking student aid - really?," Inside Higher Ed, July 8.

...The session led by Fowler and a small group of other financial aid administrators who have been working quietly for two years on a new federal student loan model was one of several recent signs of growing recognition that the federal financial aid system is broken and needs fixing:..