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...After about 35 years of working together, a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County and the federal prison system may come to a close because officials at the Federal Corrections Institute at Oxford want educational opportunities in job fields not offered at UW-Baraboo, like custodial services...
Custodians working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who have been pressing to get the start time of the second shift changed back to 5 p.m. got their wish. Campus officials announced Monday that the starting time for about 145 second-shift custodians will be restored on Nov. 23...
Shaky economic conditions have had their effect even on the University of Wisconsin’s new Union South building, with construction scheduled to begin in the next year. Organizers are considering their contingency plans in light of the tough economy, including compiling a database of leftover materials from other UW building projects and the possibility of changing some elements to cheaper materials...
After six straight years of seeing a cut tax rate, Mid-State Technical College's district residents will see their bill increase this year -- by a few dimes and nickels...
Technical colleges in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Kenosha and Fond du Lac believe they can help struggling manufacturers better as a group than any one campus could do individually. First up for the newly formed Southeastern Wisconsin Technical College Manufacturing Consortium will be an interactive database that companies can use to locate worker training programs. If one college does not have what an employer needs, maybe another will...
...Even though it is called the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the new legislation won't take effect until Aug. 1, 2009 -- eight years after jets felled the twin towers and other planes crashed into the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. By then, Adkins will have graduated from Towson University. And because the bill is not retroactive, it won't help him at all....Many advocates for veterans say that it took too long to update a GI Bill that has not kept pace with the escalating price of college tuition. But now there is also concern that the VA won't be able to meet the August deadline after it abruptly abandoned its plan to hire a private contractor this month and instead will implement the new program itself...
...It is part of a growing national trend in which some of the country's largest businesses have cut back on internship opportunities that often benefit some of the least-fortunate youths. It is also a sign of these frantic economic times that companies with revenue in the hundreds of millions decided they could not afford to hire a student for a tax-deductible $9,500...
...Comparing grades with survey responses from more than 9,000 students, researchers found that low grades were more common among Minnesota undergraduates who didn't exercise, lacked sleep, watched too much TV, gambled, drank alcohol or smoked cigarettes. The first-of-its-kind report also found lower grades among students who suffered stress, asthma, injury or mental illness, but the lead author said the results should be particularly alarming to students with avoidable behaviors...
...This time of year, the academic job market is marked by doctoral students and Ph.D.'s trolling though job ads and painstakingly assembling application packets. But with the economy in a tailspin, new sources of anxiety have surfaced for job seekers. Steep budget cuts, either anticipated or in place, threaten many colleges. So do hiring freezes or slowdowns. Some institutions are already couching their job ads in timid terms: Two tenure-track appointments in history at Auburn University are "contingent on funding," according to a Chronicle advertisement that is among several that include such cautionary words... (paid subscription required)