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University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly has announced Tuesday, Oct. 7, is Higher Education Day. Described as a single day dedicated to thousands of futures, Reilly said this is an opportunity for all educational institutions to assist Wisconsin students in focusing on life goals and the role education can play in reaching them...
...Director Mike Leckrone suspended the group from performance last Friday because of hazing allegations, which meant the band was absent from the Badgers home football game against Ohio State on Saturday night. Leckrone has not yet said whether the band will play at this Saturday's game against Penn State, but he told the band to be ready to perform...
Many students may be affected by the faltering economy and crisis on Wall Street when trying to apply for school loans due to the lack of liquidity in financial markets. Yamin Ahmad, assistant professor of economics, said the credit markets are frozen, making it difficult for banks to get money to lend. It will affect students in terms of student loans, credit cards and other types of financing...
A 21-year-old woman accused of helping her boyfriend kidnap and kill a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student is now charged with felony murder...
I think the world of UW Band Director Mike Leckrone...I'm disappointed, though, in Leckrone's decision to suspend the entire band for the misdeeds of what appears to be a handful of members...
Wall Street may have hit the skids recently, but employers and job seekers at a UW-Stout career conference remained mostly optimistic about the economy...
A handful of local students are the first in the state to use an invasive plant species education kit. A grant helped UW-Stout develop the kit -- and now, 17 seniors at Menomonie High School are putting it to the test...
Allegations of hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct got the University of Wisconsin marching band suspended last weekend, making the Badgers the latest in a long line of college bands that have had to face the music for their missteps...
Sen. Charles Schumer called on the federal government Monday to protect student loans as it implements the $700 billion bailout amid a credit crisis that has students worried they won't be able to pay for college...
...But educators generally agree that providing more people with an opportunity to study engineering will help produce the very-best engineers and a more tech-savvy work force. When engineering students transfer from two-year colleges, they perform quite well. They earn better grades and graduate at slightly higher rates than those who started at the four-year institutions, according to research by the Department of Education and individual universities. The challenge is getting them to switch to four-year institutions in the first place... (paid subscription required)
...Stable state budgets, healthy endowment returns, and a rise in private donations helped keep tuition and fee increases within a few percentage points of the consumer price index, said Tim McDonough, assistant vice president for public affairs at the American Council on Education. However, the nation's economic downturn over the last six months, he said, will soon change all that. Mr. McDonough expects pressure to raise tuition will increase as sources of revenue begin to dry up. This study, in short, is "almost history," he said... (paid subscription required)