UW System Clipsheet

August 8, 2008

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On Campus

"Funding request approved for UW-BC theater," Barron News Shield, Aug. 7.

Members of Barron County's property committee met Monday and approved a $26,300 funding request from UW-Barron County officials that will allow the campus to refurbish an aging rigging system that has brought safety concerns to its theater stage...

"Legislators should recognize the value of higher education," Editorial, La Crosse Tribune, Aug. 8.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has lost a key environmental researcher to the University of Minnesota.If this was an isolated case, it would be one thing. But this has happened before. And it will happen again as long as salaries for UW campuses do not keep up with peer institutions...

National

"Congress presses colleges to produce more teachers in high-need subjects," Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 8.

The mammoth higher-education bill that awaits the president's signature would hold colleges accountable for producing more teachers in subjects that face shortages...