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A “digital commons” is on the horizon for University of Wisconsin System students, offering them a wealth of information including more digital journals and databases than ever before. The Board of Regents discussed the proposal last month, and it is now in the system's 2010-11 budget request to the state...
An Associated Press story that appeared in the Superior Telegram on Aug. 15 reported on a University of Wisconsin System report, which found that university students seeking mental health counseling “routinely” waited more than a week for an appointment to see a counselor and sometimes did not receive follow-up assistance. The report and subsequent news story raise important issues regarding mental health counseling for our state’s public university students, and undoubtedly raise questions about the situation in Superior...
...The fact that a recent UW System audit found that student mental health needs were growing at a much faster rate than the resources available is, therefore, a cause for great concern. The UW System needs to address this issue now before it grows out of control or situations arise in which students are put at risk...
...At the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where Enz Finken is the new provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, females have accounted for about 55 percent to 60 percent of the enrollment in the past decade...
John Wiley, former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, worked so hard to connect the university to the business life of the state that it was disheartening to see him leave on a sour note...
After 35 years of producing soy sauce and related products in Wisconsin, perhaps it was no surprise that Kikkoman Corp. would choose Madison's University Research Park as the site for its new research and development lab. No surprise, that is, until you think about the range of global choices available to Kikkoman...
An unknown number of University of Wisconsin students are still waiting on thousands of dollars in checks from the Bursar’s Office though they were mailed in Milwaukee more than two weeks ago, according to the office...
Aurora Health Care has appointed Randall Lambrecht, a dean from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, to vice president for research and academic relations...
Leaving his family's home for the past 14 years is bittersweet, but UW-Eau Claire's second-in-command is returning to his first home. Steve Tallant is getting a send-off today from co-workers before he departs for his new post as president of a university in Texas, the state in which he was born...
Banners and posters around UW-Stout have encouraged students and the community to be smart and stay healthy...
A federal investigation of Robert Felner for allegedly mishandling a grant will end soon, but now his former school is trying to determine if he gave a doctorate degree to a friend who steered $375,000 in contracts toward Felner...
...This month, UW-Eau Claire students with the urge to learn the language are in luck; the China 1+2+1 Partnership Program will give students and community members the opportunity to participate in a series of Chinese cultural events happening around campus. As part of the program, students from China spend a year studying at their home universities then spend two years receiving education at Eau Claire and finally return to China to finish the program. Through the program, the students can earn a bachelor's degree from their school in China and a bachelor's degree from Eau Claire...
As Wisconsin soldiers wage war abroad, the state’s top veterans official is calling on taxpayers to prop up the faltering fund that helps care for those veterans on their return. Punished by a shifting economy and the largest number of returning state soldiers in more than a generation, the Veterans Trust Fund will be bankrupt by as early as 2013 without new state money or serious spending cuts, said John Scocos, the secretary of the state Department of Veterans Affairs...
As Wisconsin casts about for ways to reinvent its industrial past, a little-noticed cluster shows high-tech promise — medical imaging technology...
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is raising awareness throughout the state this fall by holding campus outreach events, hoping to ensure veterans know their guaranteed rights...
It's a tough lesson for millions of students just now arriving on campus: even if you have a high school diploma, you may not be ready for college. In fact, a new study calculates, one-third of American college students have to enroll in remedial classes. The bill to colleges and taxpayers for trying to bring them up to speed on material they were supposed to learn in high school comes to between $2.3 billion and $2.9 billion annually...
Squint hard, and textbook publishers can look a lot like drug makers. They both make money from doing obvious good — healing, educating — and they both have customers who may be willing to sacrifice their last pennies to buy what these companies are selling....In protest of what he says are textbooks’ intolerably high prices — and the dumbing down of their content to appeal to the widest possible market — (Cal Tech economics) Professor McAfee has put his introductory economics textbook online free...
What may be largest high school senior class ever in the United States is applying to college this fall. And thousands of students will look beyond their high school guidance counselors to help them get into the schools of their choice. Private educational consultants take up where overburdened high school guidance counselors leave off...
...Ninth grade is crucial to a student's eventual academic success, so secondary schools across the nation, including Pasadena's Muir High, are increasingly sheltering their freshmen in small learning communities or sometimes on separate campuses...In recent years, taking a cue from universities, high schools have tried various strategies for first-year students, including assigning them mentors, creating summer programs to ease their transitions and giving them extra time to acclimate to life on campus...
Two years after University of Illinois officials killed a proposal to enroll fewer in-state students at their flagship campus, the percentage of freshmen from Illinois in this fall's class has dropped to less than 83 percent, the lowest in at least a decade, the Tribune has learned...Chancellor Richard Herman on Friday said the steep decline in the percentage of Illinois freshmen was not a strategic move to make the campus more elite by adding more geographic diversity, a goal of the 2006 proposal...
There's about to be a new entrant in the college-ranking business: the Boeing Company. The Chicago-based aerospace giant has spent the past year matching internal data from employee evaluations with information about the colleges its engineers attended. It has used that analysis to create a ranking system, which it plans to unveil in the coming month, that will show which colleges have produced the workers it considers most valuable...
Millions of young Americans are off to college, and many will rely on those institutions for health care. But that reliance might be misplaced, because our college health systems are gravely ill. Unless colleges address widespread problems with insurance coverage, students risk being one disease or accident away from losing the potential for getting the education they are paying for...
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which previously had called for research on whether affirmative-action preferences set minority law students up for failure, turned its attention on Friday to the question of whether disproportionate numbers of minority students leave science, technology, mathematics, and engineering because they are admitted to colleges where they cannot keep up...