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The University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County continues to grow, and during the 40th Anniversary celebration, alumni and administrators reflected on the challenges the university already has overcome...
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside Soup and Substance series examines a growing crisis in food and farming during its next program beginning at noon on Monday. The program, which compares sun-based and petroleum-based farming, features Dave Kozlowski from Pinehold Gardens in Oak Creek...
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside experienced an increase in enrollment in the fall semester and improved its student retention rate, university officials said Friday...
Concerned that police are not doing enough to get information that could help find their daughter's killer, the parents of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann spent part of Saturday putting up reward posters in and around the Downtown neighborhood where she was killed April 2...
Business students with ambitions to get a job on Wall Street after graduation may need to revise the dream, at least temporarily. Big investment firms, like Goldman Sachs or J.P. Morgan, are skipping their usual fall recruitment visits to UW-Madison's campus amid the financial crisis on Wall Street, said Steve Schroeder, director of the Wisconsin School of Business career center...
More than a decade after University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Stephen Ambrose set up a fund to hire a military history professor, the school may finally fulfill the late historian’s vision by filling the position next fall...
...City officials said the late-night taxi stand on University Avenue on Friday and Saturday nights will likely stay in operation even after the money for the pilot project runs out.They said they are close to closing a deal with a local corporation to keep the stand going. They said it is an issue of safety with large groups of drunk students leaving the bars at bar time...
Ever wonder what those elegant sorority and fraternity street houses on and near Langdon Street look like on the inside? Very nice indeed, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison students who live in them opened their homes to local residents on Sunday in the second annual Greek Tour of Homes...
University of Wisconsin men's basketball players may be required to take a summer school course each year that they are eligible to play, if a recommendation by an NCAA committee is approved at its meeting in January. UW-Madison officials expressed concerns about the recommendation at an Athletic Board meeting on Friday...
...Gov. Doyle has asked all state agencies – including the UW System – to resubmit 2009-11 biennial budget requests (by Nov. 17) reflecting a 10 percent reduction in spending. We will be working on that request while obtaining campus feedback and providing campus-wide updates on these issues. We remain hopeful that no emergency reductions will be required during this academic year. However it is possible that we may be called upon to make some changes to our current budget...
Lawrence University is kicking off the public phase of a $150 million capital campaign, the largest fundraising effort in the school's history. The university quietly began the "More Light!" campaign three years ago and already has raised $104 million toward its goal. Today, the university announces the final phase of the campaign, which will support the school's endowment, capital projects and new initiatives...
The Medical College of Wisconsin launched a new doctoral program in public and community health this fall, making the college a leader in a growing field that links academia to practice...The school’s new PhD program comes as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks legislative approval for its own School of Public Health that could open as early as fall 2009...
Although education is Gov. Doyle's top priority, nothing is off the table for upcoming cuts due to the country's financial crisis that has put Wisconsin's budget $3 billion in the red, Doyle announced Oct. 15...
...As members of the high school class of 2009 fill out their college applications this fall, many are thinking more about affordability than academics. With household debt on the rise, parents have less money for their children's educations. While families' savings are down, tuitions are up. At the same time, several private lenders, squeezed by the credit crunch, have left the student loan business, taking away what had become a popular alternative to federal financial aid and scholarships. Those that remain have tightened their standards to the point where few students can get loans without co-signers, advisers and college financial aid directors said...
...The University of New England and Ripon College in Wisconsin are giving free bikes to freshmen who promise to leave their cars at home. Other colleges are setting up free bike sharing or rental programs, and some universities are partnering with bike shops to offer discounts on purchases.The goal, college and university officials said, is to ease critical shortages of parking and to change the car culture that clogs campus roadways and erodes the community feel that comes with walking or biking around campus...
Families of those killed in the mass shootings at Virginia Tech last year met with university officials for more than four hours on Sunday to ask questions about their response to the killings...
In the competition to get into the most selective colleges, some students and their parents are resorting to a tasteless tactic: bashing other applicants. The letters, mailed to college admissions offices, typically arrive without a signature. They say rival applicants cheated on exams or got suspended for underage drinking. Sometimes, they include an unflattering newspaper clipping or a sly suggestion to check out pictures on a student's Facebook page...
Colleges have been asserting for months — in an effort to persuade Congress not to impose new requirements on them to fight illegal file sharing — that they’re spending big bucks to monitor, prevent and discipline online behavior that could run afoul of copyright law. But lawmakers ignored their pleas and added several new mandates to the Higher Education Act in August...
Financing college education is a greater challenge for Latino students than other demographic of students across the nation, according to a study released by the University of California Los Angeles...