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It's a simple economic problem: Supply is not meeting demand. The UW-Madison economics department is struggling to deliver enough course space as the major grows at a heady pace. In the 1998-1999 academic year, there were 183 economics majors at UW-Madison. Last school year, there were 442...
...In May of this year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department began using GPS technology to track stolen bicycles. Sergeant Jason Whitney says despite most students -- and their bikes -- absent from campus for summer break, police still managed to capture several thieves due to the new "bait bike" program...
With the announcement of a $1 million grant from the Waukesha-based Kern Family Foundation on Monday, Teach for America stands on the brink of opening operations here, with the goal of putting 30 teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools classrooms by next fall. The arrival of Teach for America, a national force in motivating high-caliber college graduates to teach in low-performing urban schools, would bolster efforts by prominent education organizations to improve the quality of new MPS teachers and principals...
At this month's World Stem Cell Summit in Madison, several nations and even a few states will boast they're relying on public dollars to propel their cutting-edge research in human embryonic stem cells. Wisconsin won't be among them...It is WARF, not the university or state government, which acts as the primary funder of stem-cell research in Wisconsin. It is joined by the non-profit UW Foundation, which raises dollars from Wisconsin alumnus and other donors for hundreds of purposes, including stem-cell research...
...Wisconsin has lost 24,000 jobs since last summer. Manufacturing jobs - some of the highest paying - have taken the biggest hit. We're in the first sustained period of decline in our median wage since the early 1980s...Third, we have key assets and infrastructure - from schools to the UW system, to roads and internet access - that will be critical to our success in the future. But these assets and infrastructure require investment and support to continue to move Wisconsin forward...
Frustrated with the lack of effective activism on campus, some Beloit College students formed Activists United early this year, just months before a poll found people are likely to believe students today are less politically active than past generations...
The primary purpose of the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College initiative called "Vision of Success" (VOS) is to remove some of the key barriers to post-secondary education of our youth in general, and of students of color in particular. Due to low grade point average and low test scores in math and science, a large number of students of color with a high school diploma are not enrolling in post-secondary education...
Two dozen college presidents and policy experts defended the rising costs of tuition on Monday and argued against forcing colleges to spend more of their endowments...
Sen. Charles E. Grassley appears to be backing away from his threat to offer legislation that would require the wealthiest institutions to spend up to 5 percent of their endowment assets each year...
Women and members of minority groups tend to take longer than other subsets of the population to complete doctoral programs, while international students stand out as the fastest in earning Ph.D.'s, according to a report being released today by the Council of Graduate Schools...