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Wisconsin cannot afford to skimp on higher education without hurting its economy and future.That's the warning state leaders need to hear loud and clear in the wake of another troubling report on University of Wisconsin System funding...
The consultant hired to review the University of Wisconsin's screening process after a failed chancellor search at UW-Parkside recommended changes in checking finalists' references, including possibly visiting their home campuses...
The people involved in the failed search for a chancellor at UW-Parkside could have done a better job of sharing information about the top candidate, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly said Friday...
When searching for top officials at the University of Wisconsin, don't forget to Google them. That's one piece of advice contained in a report to the UW Board of Regents released Friday on how to improve its searches for new chancellors and others in leadership positions...
Following a failed chancellor search at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, a consultant released a range of suggestions Friday for the system to improve future searches...
Four University of Wisconsin chancellors are slated to receive pay raises of between 3.5 percent and nearly 5 percent...
Last week UW-Oshkosh received $3.6 million in funding from the first phase of the Growth Agenda, which was approved in 2007. The funding will support increased enrollment, additional and expanded programs and the construction of the new academic building...
A public launch of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's human rights initiative kicked off on Friday. The initiative began last year on campus but the public launch promotes human rights in teaching and in research in the community as well...
Fall enrollment at the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County is the second-highest recorded in the college's 40-year history.This fall the campus enrolled 669 students, a drop from last year's all-time high of 719 but almost 50 more students than in the fall of 2006...
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is channeling its environmental origins with a new institute designed to help the school and the region become more eco-friendly...
Despite congestion within the University of Wisconsin System, student counseling services at the three central Wisconsin schools should be improving...But the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County and the University of Wisconsin Marathon County have taken measures this year to increase staffing and cut wait time...
Last Monday, the Collegiate Readership Program, operated by USA Today, went into effect on campus, offering UW-Milwaukee students complimentary access to three prominent newspapers. USA Today, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin State Journal are all available each day at various locations throughout campus and are free of charge. The program sponsored by the UWM Student Association (SA) will last on campus for four weeks. During this period the newspapers will be free...
In April, UW-Madison's Jewish student community will be able to gather at the new, four-story, $14 million, 30,000-square-foot Barbara Hochberg Center for Jewish Student Life. But since the Hillel center is currently a skeletal construction site on Langdon Street, its leaders have scrambled to find makeshift space to celebrate the Jewish High Holy Day of Rosh Hashana, which begins tonight and continues Tuesday...
Dear Wisconsin legislators: You are scheduled to receive a 6.3 percent pay increase next year. Don't take it...A pay freeze at the Capitol would help to demonstrate your willingness to make sacrifices to control state spending just as the majority of Wisconsin families are sacrificing during tough times...
...The stratification caused by class rank, which arguably makes a student such as Turner appear less accomplished, compelled the Elmbrook School District last week to start looking at whether its two high schools should quit tracking the data. It's a move that's been implemented within the past five years at Whitefish Bay and Shorewood high schools, where administrators say they've seen more seniors being accepted into the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Some Wisconsin school districts are questioning the emphasis placed on high school students' class rank, and at least a few districts have already ended their practice of keeping track of the data...
Wisconsin standardized test scores for Green Bay School District students are below the state average in multiple categories as persistent achievement gaps continue to trouble district officials...
...The "College Portrait" system, now encompassing more than 300 colleges, is now being placed on a single Web site to allow easier access and provide a wider menu of information and user options... (paid subscription required)
...The latest entrant in the information sweepstakes is being unveiled today by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. The groups' new Web site, College Portrait, brings together in one place the individual Web pages produced by the 302 public colleges and universities that have agreed thus far to participate in the organizations' Voluntary System of Accountability, which they designed, in part, to respond to the pressure from Spellings and others to bolster higher education accountability...
For the 5,500 college admissions officials and high school guidance counselors who gathered here over the weekend, there were discussions, debates and analyses of things like the ethics of tracking student applicants on Facebook and "Why Good Students Write Bad College Essays - and How to Stop It." But for this crowd, at the Seattle convention center for the annual conference of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, the main event was William R. Fitzsimmons's first public presentation of the findings of the Study of the Use of Standardized Tests in Undergraduate Admission...
After students and parents raised concerns about displayed calorie counts leading to or worsening eating disorders, Harvard University Dining Services removed the index cards detailing nutritional information from dining halls this year...
...As a slew of recent reports, public forums, and growing media interest suggest, the rising cost of college looms larger and larger as a personal and national concern. The sticker shock could also become a factor at the ballot box. A poll of likely voters commissioned by the National Education Association and released two weeks ago showed that 70 percent of parents and 65 percent of students said making college affordable was an important issue for them in the fall election... (paid subscription required)