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Just returning as Head of Mission for the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA) mission to China, Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton announced Wednesday the formal signing of a student exchange agreement between the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China...
The University of Wisconsin marching band is getting another chance to behave while traveling. The university announced Wednesday the band would be allowed to play at halftime during the Green Bay Packers game at Lambeau Field on Sunday...
Recently released survey results say that, for the most part, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is an inclusive place for people of diverse genders, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disabilities and other backgrounds. However, the voluntary, online survey taken in spring 2008 to measure the overall “campus climate,” also pointed to some areas that need improvement...
The 2008 Campus Climate survey results are in....The results were positive overall. 85% of respondents said they were either "comfortable" or "very comfortable" with the overall climate at UW-L. However, 17% of respondents felt that they had "personally experienced offensive, hostile, or intimidating conduct that interfered unreasonably with their ability to work or learn on campus," according to the report. It is this 17% that we must be concerned about, Rankin said...
UW-Green Bay's student population swelled by 800 yesterday. Fifth graders were invited to spend a day on campus to learn about the college experience. The program is aimed at kids who receive free or reduced lunch ... and who might not otherwise consider education beyond high school...
...The University of Wisconsin recently stifled the use of racist slurs in one of its classes with little explanation. In doing so, it has shown a determination to wipe any acknowledgement of the issue of racism clean from its classrooms...
Stung by the crisis in the national economy, the state faces a possible $3 billion shortfall in its next two-year budget, a gap that could spell shared pain for students, state workers and poor and unemployed, Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday. The Democratic governor, facing what is at least the worst state budget since he assumed the office in 2003, said he would have to consider a long list of difficult fixes -- job cuts, delays of approved expansions in health programs for the needy and scaling back new state money for public schools and universities...
Gov. Jim Doyle warned Wednesday of a potential gap of $3 billion or more between tax collections and state spending in the two-year budget cycle that begins July 1. The deep slump in the nation’s economy will force a budget crisis for state government, Doyle said, adding that he has ordered state agencies to submit new 2009-’11 budget requests — this time with 10% cuts in spending...To put $3 billion into perspective, it is what state government spent last year on prisons, aid to local governments and its contribution to the University of Wisconsin System...
To a parent or a student, it might seem like they need a college degree just to figure out the federal government's financial aid application to get into college. It can be pretty imposing. And it can keep students from getting all the financial aid they can -- or it can keep them from getting financial aid at all...
College students become increasingly liberal within their first three years of college, according to a recent study. University of California-Los Angeles researchers surveyed 15,000 students from a national pool about their partisan viewpoints. Survey questions were administered once in 2004 when the students were freshmen, and again in 2007. The purpose of the study was to determine any significant changes in partisan viewpoints during college and to challenge the belief that university faculty are responsible for such changes...
Collegiate athletes are graduating at the highest rate since the NCAA began collecting data seven years ago, NCAA President Myles Brand said Tuesday. The most recent Graduation Success Rates (GSR) show that 79% of freshmen athletes who entered college in 2001 earned their four-year degrees...
...Kettering University isn’t the only institution seeing changes — including some declines — in corporate giving. As the economy enters a recession, those who follow philanthropic trends expect such giving to drop, especially among companies that are filing for bankruptcy, being acquired, or drastically losing stock value. The question is by how much... (paid subscription required)
Hispanic college freshmen are growing increasingly concerned about paying for their education—with one in five now saying they worry about it, according to a report released today by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles...