UW System Clipsheet

"Post-high school plans," Watertown Daily Times, Sept. 19.

...But, in broad terms it does show somewhere around 40 percent of our high school graduates go on to four-year colleges, around a third go to vocational/technical colleges, about a fourth go directly to employment and about two or three of every 50 students choose the military. The statistics are interesting because in recent years there has been a push at the state level to get more of Wisconsin's population with college degrees. In fact, one of the charges the Wisconsin legislature has given to the University of Wisconsin System is just that - get more of the population equipped with college degrees...

"Monsanto aids UW plant breeding with $1 million gift," Capital Times, Sept. 21.

Monsanto Co. has made a $1 million gift to support plant breeding and genetics in the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), the UW announced...

"Robert Seltzer: An insider's guide to college admissions," Column, Capital Times, Sept. 20.

As I travel around Wisconsin, the question I hear more than any other is, "What does it take to get into UW-Madison?"...Here are a few tips that should work for almost every student getting ready to apply to college this fall...

"Survey sheds light on state 'brain drain'," Wisconsin State Journal, Sept. 21.

Two groups hoping to stem what they see as a Badger state "brain drain" are encouraged by the results of a recent survey showing nearly 60 percent of UW-Madison graduates now living in five out-of-state metropolitan areas would consider moving back to Wisconsin. The survey is part of a broader effort by the Wisconsin Alumni Association and Competitive Wisconsin Inc., a private group that promotes economic development, to increase incomes and match UW-Madison graduates with employers...

"Are UW's kosher kitchens, er, kosher?," Isthmus, Sept. 18.

...(Carlos) Gonzales, 50, has worked for two years as a cook at Pop's Club, a residence dining hall in Gordon Commons, on the UW-Madison campus. Recently, the kitchen began preparing a weekly meal for Hillel Foundation, which is building a new campus facility. And this, he says, has caused some faith-based disruption...

"A study in networking," WMTV, Sept. 20.

...The two (UW-Madison graduates) are co-founders of the academic networking site the ClassConnection. It's a web site that allows students at hundreds of universities across the country to share course information...

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"Cause of fraternity fire still unknown," WISC-TV, Sept. 22.

Fire investigators still haven't nailed down the cause of a fire at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house in Madison...

"New website to pay students for note-taking," Daily Cardinal, Sept. 22.

A social networking website launched last week aims to connect college students around the world—not through wall posts and photos, but through uploaded class notes...

"UW-Stout reports record enrollment," Dunn County News, Sept. 21.

This is a record-setting year for the University of Wisconsin-Stout: The campus has attracted the largest enrollment in its 117-year history...

"UWO gets $300,000 grant for suicide, mental health program," Oshkosh Northwestern, Sept. 20.

The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has given the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh $300,000 for its mental health support services...

"UW-P departments face recruiting obstacles," Exponent, Sept. 17.

Less than 10 percent of UW-Platteville’s share of a controversial retention and recruitment fund ended up going toward newly hired faculty during the 2008 and 2009 fiscal years. According to UW-P budget information, out of the $219,300 UW-P received from the UW System recruitment and retention fund, only $20,500 went to newly hired faculty or research academic staff. Five individuals were given money from the fund in addition to their starting base salary, with the largest distribution to one individual being $10,000 over the biennium...

"SA looking to improve student parking," UWM Post, Sept. 22.

The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Student Association (SA) is actively exploring options for new parking alternatives on campus. SA President Tyler Draheim talked about parking concerns in an interview with the Post last Thursday...Draheim explained how UWM is in debt for building the Klotsche Center Pavilion, and needs at least an extra $300,000 per year to pay the debt off. One of the ways the university will pay for the debt is from its annual parking revenue...

"Missing step: Control spending ," Editorial, Wisconsin State Journal, Sept. 19.

Wisconsin received more evidence this week that its taxes are too high.This time the evidence arrived in a study suggesting that Wisconsin may be just a few tax cuts away from becoming one of the nation's economic hot spots...Wisconsin should beware that prosperity requires public investment in the seeds of growth, including education. But the study re-enforces the importance of eliminating unwise spending...

"Financial mayhem hurts non-profits, foundations," USA Today, Sept. 22.

Foundations and non-profit groups that invest in the stock market are getting battered by recent Wall Street volatility. Hardest hit are community groups that rely on both endowments and donations, which are also expected to decline, says Sigurd Nilsen, director of policy research for the Council on Foundations. The council represents about 2,200 grant-making foundations...

"Conservatives try new tack on campuses," New York Times, Sept. 21.

Acknowledging that 20 years and millions of dollars spent loudly and bitterly attacking the liberal leanings of American campuses have failed to make much of a dent in the way undergraduates are educated, some conservatives have decided to try a new strategy...Their goal is to restore what conservative and other critics see as leading casualties of the campus culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s: the teaching of Western culture and a triumphal interpretation of American history...

"The tell-all campus tour," New York Times, Sept. 21.

...This month his Web site, called Unigo.com — a free, gigantic, student-generated guide to North American colleges for prospective applicants and their families — went live for the benefit of tens of thousands of trepidatious high-school students as they try to figure out where and how to go to college...

"The camera-friendly, perfectly pixelated, easily downloadable celebrity academic," New York Times, Sept. 21.

...Now a charisma-sensei — lucid, affable, groomed for “The Charlie Rose Show� — is all but a tenure shoo-in, an asset no blue-chip university can be without....Best of all, his online lectures now might go viral, playing around the world — beyond the reach even of Charlie Rose! — alongside clips of the Chinese Olympian Qiu Jian or the Lebanese singer Fairuz in concert. What better way to prove an institution’s embrace of globalism, new technology and populist models of information dissemination?...

"The College Issue," New York Times, Sept. 21.

Does teaching make you a bad writer? Could it make you a good president? How would you teach on YouTube? How would you teach in Dubai? How can you teach with ... style? From Alaska to Alabama to the Persian Gulf, we look at the mysteries of teaching in all its variety...

"U. of California report offers new push and gauges for accountability," Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 22.

The University of California plans to release a draft report today that provides information about how the 10-campus system is faring on measures of access, affordability, enrollment, and spending.The 211-page report is the first part of an effort by the system’s new president, Mark G. Yudof, to provide greater accountability at the institution after several years of criticism by lawmakers and others who viewed the president’s office as bloated and unresponsive...

"New questions on women, academe, and careers," Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 22.

In field after field, women either outperform or equal men — only to lag in key positions in academe (or in other careers that attract the highly educated). Identifying the causes for these gender gaps has become increasingly urgent as colleges find their enrollments increasingly female and some formerly male dominated fields struggle to attract enough talent...