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UW-Stout and UW-Eau Claire are taking part in the College Portrait, part of a new Web site that offers comparable data on universities, including statistics on students and cost of tuition. The College Portrait is part of a nationwide effort. All UW System campuses are participating...
...UW-Madison is adapting to students whose study and research habits are vastly different than they were a generation ago by revolutionizing the traditional concept of what makes up a library...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's College Library has a coffee house, a cafe and expansive views of Lake Mendota. What it's missing is more books... Full story not available online.
...Thumbs Up: To the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh's Center for Community Partnerships, for scoring an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! will open a technical support center on the UWO campus to provide support for some Yahoo! employees. The corporation also has tech support centers in California, New York and India...
University of Louisville President James Ramsey offered apologies this week to those hurt by former education dean Robert Felner, telling the school's Faculty Senate that "I should have never let that happen."...Felner, who resigned from U of L on June 30 to become chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, is the focus of a federal investigation that was sparked by his alleged misappropriation of a $694,000 grant at U of L. No charges have been filed...
There will be no competition for the top grade among first-year medical students this year at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. That's because the school is eliminating grades for first-year medical students in favor of a pass/fail system, a trend in medical education already embraced at Harvard, Stanford and the universities of Minnesota and Michigan, among others...
...Rudd's class was one of a more than a dozen Re-University Day learning sessions offered Saturday as part of an open house celebrating UWFV's 75th anniversary...
The public is invited to attend a special reception celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first day of classes at the University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac...
Faculty and staff attending the UW-River Falls opening meeting last week heard a message of leadership transition from Chancellor Connie Foster, as UW-RF continues implementing its strategic plan, Living the Promise, instituted during the brief but productive tenure of former Chancellor Don Betz...
...He is one of 50 new international students to arrive at (UW-Superior) this summer. The group is the largest class of new international students ever to arrive at the college in one year. Their numbers brings the ranks of international students at UWS up to 113 students from 29 countries this school year.
...In the past 12 months, despite the national economic trends, metro Denver has gained nearly 10,000 jobs. Metro Milwaukee has lost 7,000...A third lesson is the alignment of higher education, federal research spending and private industry...
...Instead, south-central Wisconsin needs to concentrate on growing its economy using the strengths and advantages our region already has. That includes a growing high-technology sector, a world-class university, prominent health care providers, strong agricultural production, bio-energy innovation and an attractive quality of life...
...The state is faced with growing budget challenges, and there’s no question that legislators are juggling a lot of priorities in a tough economic environment. Everyone wants more, of course. But it’s troubling that as many as 4,000 students in Wisconsin’s technical college system could be denied financial aid for this school year because the state fund for it has run dry...
...But more than a quarter-century after President Jimmy Carter signed it into law, the Bayh-Dole Act, sponsored by the former Senators Birch Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, and Robert Dole, Republican of Kansas, is under increasing scrutiny by swelling ranks of critics. The primary concern is that its original intent — to infuse the American marketplace with the fruits of academic innovation — has also distorted the fundamental mission of universities...
...And like Ms. Terrano, their reasons for leaving college often defy simple explanations. Often, students drop out because of a combination of factors -- some serious, some frivolous and some as idiosyncratic and unpredictable as college students themselves...
It's a simple question, but when Chronicle reporters asked presidents, policy wonks, and plenty of men and women on the street, the responses could scarcely have been more different...