"UW-Marathon County students taking hybrid courses," WSAW-TV, Sept. 2.
More and more students at the University of Wisconsin at Marathon County are taking hybrids. Not the cars ... but the courses...
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September 5, 2008
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On Campus
"Obey visits Marshfield UW campus," Marshfield News Herald, Sept. 4.
One of the most powerful people in the nation's government stopped in Marshfield Wednesday afternoon to discuss current affairs with a geography class at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County. U.S. Rep. Dave Obey, D-Wausau, was the guest speaker during the first day of assistant professor Iddi Adam's World Regional Geography class...
"Research building expected to advance technology, economy at UW-Madison," Wisconsin Public Radio, Sept. 5.
A new campus building designed to enhance cancer research officially opened yesterday at UW-Madison. The medical research center is being touted as a way to build Wisconsin's economy, attract students in medical research, and change science to improve patient care...
"WisBusiness: Doyle opens new UW medical research facility," WisBusiness.com, Sept. 5.
Gov. Jim Doyle touted Wisconsin's continued commitment to education, research and knowledge today at the opening of the $134 million Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research East Tower on the UW-Madison campus...
"Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research opens first tower," Capital Times, Sept. 4.
Although it was mostly gray and rainy around the Madison area on Thursday, nothing was going to dampen the enthusiasm of those who attended the grand opening ceremony for the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research...
"New Wiscard required for access in Grainger," Daily Cardinal, Sept. 5.
UW-Madison's Office of the Registrar issued a new Wiscard to incoming freshmen and business school students this semester. In addition to acting as a debit card, the new "one card" gives students access to some classrooms and computer labs across campus...According to Wiscard administrator Jim Wysocky, the university plans to increase key-card access throughout campus, and Grainger Hall, the School of Pharmacy and campus residence halls already have security card technology in place...
"High-profile professor returns to UW," Badger Herald, Sept. 5.
A popular and well-respected political science professor will be returning to the University of Wisconsin after leaving in 2007, UW officials said Thursday. Jon Pevehouse, who took a position at the University of Chicago for triple his UW salary, will begin teaching at UW again in the fall of 2009...
"Interim provost named at UW-EC," Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Sept. 4.
Martin Wood will serve as interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at UW-Eau Claire, it was announced today by Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich...
State
"KJ Lang: Education grants lead to economic freedom," Column, La Crosse Tribune, Sept. 5.
Jayme Woodhouse is trying to make a better life for herself and her three children. She is well on her way down that road, entering her last semester on the way to an associate degree in nursing at Western Technical College...
"Programs show college is on right track," Editorial, Marshfield News Herald, Sept. 3.
...Mid-State Technical College received district leader approval to add renewable energy specialist and energy efficiency technician degrees; they now await an OK from the Wisconsin Technical College System Board...If Wisconsin applies the ingenuity and solid work ethic it demonstrated in past endeavors, these industries really could be a driving force for economic growth -- and they'll provide the added benefits of price relief and decreased susceptibility to the whims of foreign energy producers.
National
"Freshman finances," CNN, Sept. 5.
As your kids leave for college, it's important they know how to handle money...
"Tuitions freeze across the USA," USA Today, Sept. 5.
Several colleges and universities in Texas, Ohio, Maryland and New York are freezing 2008-2009 tuitions at last year's levels in an effort to make college more affordable for the nation's middle class...
"Less affordable colleges may get 'F,' land on Wall of Shame," USA Today, Sept. 5.
Colleges beware: One more tuition hike and your name might just end up on a new federal Wall of Shame...
"From Bloomingdale's to Bloomington," Wall Street Journal, Sept. 5.
The nation's largest freshman class in history is moving into college dorms, hanging posters, meeting roommates and learning fight songs...The admissions competition is expected to peak next year, with a record 3.33 million high school students graduating in the class of 2009, up from the 3.30 million in the class of 2008. Roughly 63% of high school graduates go on to college straight after high school, and though colleges have expanded capacity at a rate of about 5% each year, the increase in applications has been outstripping capacity growth by an average of 11 percentage points a year, says David Hawkins, public policy director for the National Association of College Admission Counseling, in part because of the ease of applying online...
"Congress shows colleges they're not off the hook on accountability," Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 5.
...Even as Congress was beating back the Education Department, it was writing legislation packed with new requirements for colleges to document their performance. The bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, which President Bush signed in August, will double colleges' reporting requirements, making them disclose considerably more information about their graduation rates, grant aid, and -- perhaps most significantly -- the success of their teacher-training programs...