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The UW Board of Regents is expected to approve a two-year budget today for the University of Wisconsin System that includes a request for $37.5 million in tax money and $13.4 million in student fees to support an agenda to recruit and retain more students...
...And while the 18-member group that governs the UW System's institutions of higher education has more than 500 pages worth of materials to sift through on a wide range of topics before adjourning Friday, the main focus of this week's meetings is centered on submitting biennial budget requests to the state for 2009-11...
Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley is receiving praise for starting a public debate about the future of higher education in Wisconsin...
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is aware of a push by some leaders of higher education to ask lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage binge drinking on campus...
Incoming UW-Madison Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin moved to town on Friday -- and her belongings finally arrived at Olin House, the official residence of the chancellor, on Monday. "I've started the process of unpacking and moving in," said Martin. "It's a lot of work but I've cleared a path from my bedroom to the coffee maker, and I thought maybe that would do for now."...
The WiCell Research Institute in Madison is starting its own stem cell bank to distribute cell lines beyond the 21 eligible by law for federal funding....
Madison is now home to two stem cell banks. The WiCell Research Institute, affiliated with UW-Madison, announced Thursday that it has created the WiCell Bank to distribute stem cells such as those created from skin cells last year by campus researcher James Thomson...
...The highly anticipated U.S. News & World Report magazine’s annual college rankings edition hits newsstands Monday. Officials at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse are sure to be happy. The school jumped from 22 to 17 in the rankings of master’s universities in the Midwest region...
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse once again has been named one of the best universities in the Midwest. UW-L ranked No. 2 among Midwest public universities that offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees on the U.S. News and World Report’s 2009 “America’s Best Colleges” list...
A national magazine continues to rate UW-Eau Claire among the top five regional public universities in the Midwest - a ranking it has held since 1995...
...University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley, who steps down Sept. 1 to pass the torch to former Cornell University Provost Biddy Martin, penned a 3,000-word story in the September issue of Madison Magazine blasting Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and what he describes as the hyper-partisan political environment at the state Capitol...
Outgoing UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley has been studying the health of the state of Wisconsin and he doesn't like what he sees...
The outgoing chief of Wisconsin's flagship university may be stepping down, but not before he fires off a few final rounds at both political parties in the Capitol, the business lobby and government bureaucracy...
...Wiley's essay in the September 2008 issue of Madison Magazine criticized Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce for pursuing policies he said limited the flagship public school's growth and presented the biggest roadblock to the state's economic success...
With less than two weeks to go before he steps down as chancellor of UW-Madison, John Wiley has penned a blistering rebuke of state officials and the state's largest business lobby for putting Wisconsin on the road to becoming a "permanent third-world state."...
Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said the state's largest business lobby has been taken over by "political extremists" and has become an obstacle to economic development...
The National Wildlife Federation on Thursday released its Campus Environment 2008 Report Card, which offers an in-depth look at trends in sustainability among U.S. institutions of higher education...
...When the Concordia School of Pharmacy opens in fall 2010, it will become the 113th pharmacy school in the United States and the second pharmacy school in Wisconsin. The other is at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Concordia officials hope to form partnerships between the school and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquette University and area hospital systems, Gielow said...
Wisconsin 2008 high school graduates outperformed their peers nationally on the ACT...
Higher education's favorite punching bag continues to expand. Twenty-five years after its debut, U.S. News & World Report's annual college guide has grown to include several new categories...
Even though many colleges will boast today about their placement in the annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report, more colleges than ever are declining to participate in the survey that makes up the single largest part of the magazine's formula...
Colleges are experimenting with Facebook and other social networks to notify students about emergencies like crimes and floods - and get vital information in return. Most emergency-alert systems send out warnings. But social networks give students a chance to add on-the-scene reports or trade information if trouble hits...
Whether it's the economy, new academic programs or better recruiting, community colleges are seeing an enrollment boom. While enrollment has been growing steadily at many two-year institutions, this fall appears likely to set records for many of these colleges...