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This weekend's homecoming is a long-standing tradition that brings back University of Wisconsin alumni from around the country to join current students to celebrate the school. Those alumni bring back fond memories of campus and some of them are bringing cash to donate to their alma mater. However, some officials are concerned that the nation's economic tumult will impact the economics of giving...
The non-profit College Board says nationally tuition at public four-year colleges has almost doubled over the last 20 years. Yesterday, students at UW-Madison joined a country-wide effort asking Congress to make college more affordable. Volunteers with the Student Wisconsin Education Association petitioned for Congress to provide more funding for Pell Grants, which give need-based aid to low-income students, and for affordable student loans...
Quantcast Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point might experience different responses when searching for financial aid as the economy tumbles. In the private sector, students might find it increasingly difficult to find loans; however, the situation remains favorable in the public sector, at least at UWSP. Federal and state funds are still available, and in some cases, eligibility is increasing...
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working together to build an experimental bridge in St. Croix County. The bridge will be the fifth built by the state and university. Their partnership has already produced four innovative, experimental state highway bridges...
A new China-related exhibit at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is opening on the heels of the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. The exhibit, called RUINS, uses video and photography to show China's fast-growing and quick-changing society along with its traditional history and culture...
The Wisconsin School of Business has bestowed one of its five 2008 Distinguished Business Alumnus Awards on K-C's CEO Thomas Falk. Dallas-based Falk, a 1980 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, began his career at K-C in 1983 as a member of the internal audit staff in Neenah...
The Medical College of Wisconsin has launched a new doctoral program in public and community health. The four-year program will train students to combine traditional public health practices with direct community engagement, organizers at the Wauwatosa-based Medical College said...
The UW-Oshkosh says it has formed a "student financial emergency response team" in response to the global economic downturn. Campus administrators say between the nation's financial crisis, the state's multi-billion dollar shortfall, and cutbacks and layoffs in the local labor force, times are hard for students. The team will work with students in financial trouble, and recommend financial aid including work-study or jobs off-campus...
For most college students, paying back student loans after graduation has become an expected part of the college experience. But for students at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the burden of student loans may be smaller than that of students at other UW System institutions...
Officials with the Federal Corrections Institute at Oxford should reconsider their plans to pull the plug on a 35-year partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County because the campus doesn't offer a program that would certify inmates in custodial services...
A commission lent its support Friday to a campus master plan expected to cost $30.25 million over the next decade. University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County officials hope to fund the first phase of the plan — a $15.5 million environmentally sound dorm and conference hall — through private donations and grants. But Sauk County and the City of Baraboo would be asked to share in the remaining costs, which include upgrades to facilities over the next 11 years...
The University of Wisconsin - Rock County is exploring another four-year degree program - this time in nursing. The UW - Rock County has been meeting with area hospitals, Blackhawk Technical College officials and officials from the UW - Oshkosh to start a bachelor of science degree program at the Janesville campus...
A delegation of the University of Science and Technology (KSUT) in Nigeria's North-Central Kano State arrived here Sunday to foster a partnership with the University of Wisconsin (UW) System. PANA learnt that the collaboration is aimed at improving the quality of higher education and research in Kano...
Two College of Education and Human Services alumni were honored Wednesday during the annual Professor for a Day event at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh...
Most graduating college students wouldn't think to look at a beer brewery for an information technology job, but a new initiative will help graduates find those jobs throughout the state. Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton and Information Technology Association of Wisconsin Acting President Bill Mortimore have announced a job and internship board aimed at keeping graduates in Wisconsin by matching them with technical jobs and internships...
Members of the UW-Eau Claire Carbon Neutral Team facilitated a discussion on Oct. 22 in Davies Theatre of research findings regarding campus greenhouse gas emissions, where those emissions come from, current actions reducing emissions and what can be done in the future to reduce emissions...
You may have heard lately, that UW-Milwaukee is undergoing a little efficiency adjustment. The Campus Master plan is the illustrious and long overdue assessment of UWM campus needs. One of the goals of this plan is to understand the needs of students as they move from place to place on campus, making life smoother and more easily navigable, keeping in mind things like sustainability, historical markers and ecological concerns. The plan, that began last April, will be worked over and formed throughout the next year and a half, and currently holds a budget of $2 to 3 million dollars to be paid back to the state upon completion...
...While joining the Wisconsin Army National Guard late this summer was the first step toward starting a new life for Nelson, he credits "Learning for Life" -- an intense two-week GED preparation and career advising project run by both the Guard and staff at Madison Area Technical College -- for giving him an exciting new outlook on his future...
While students at most colleges and universities in Wisconsin will have to find time between classes to cast ballots Nov. 4, those at the 2,700-student Alverno College in Milwaukee get the day off to vote and get involved in the political process. It's a first for the women's college, which appears to be the only college in Wisconsin, and one of few in the nation, to make election day a holiday...
The faltering economy is forcing many high school seniors who were set on attending private colleges or universities to consider less expensive public ones...Because of the financial crisis, many students say they're dropping some big-ticket schools from their list of potential colleges and adding affordable ones...
...Goolcharan is one of thousands of high school seniors navigating a college admissions process that was stressful and complicated even before credit froze, stocks crashed and families' finances were upended. Paul Kanarek of the Princeton Review, a test preparation service, calls it "the perfect storm" in which everything is sinking: the mutual funds many families use to save; the sale and mortgage value of homes; the supply of student loans; and college endowment income, which many tap to grant financial aid...
After a decade of worrying about her son's attention-deficit disorder, meeting with teachers, calling around to get lost homework assignments and getting advice on SAT test accommodations, Lori Spinelli-Samara is facing this simple truth: Next year, in college, Nick is on his own...A generation of students accustomed to receiving help for special learning needs is entering college. The percentage of students identified with learning disabilities who graduate from high school and go on to four-year colleges jumped from one in 100 in 1987 to about one in nine last year. And those who go on to any kind of post-secondary education went from a third to almost three-quarters by 2003. But some are finding that the transition isn't easy...
As with any campus tour, you get a lot of numbers at SUNY Binghamton, the top-rated school in the State University of New York system...The result is one more number: a roughly 50 percent increase in applications so far this fall as college-savings plans melt away, parents worry about job security and price becomes a major factor in the college-application anxiety pit, even for well-off families, in a way it has not been in the past...
...Yet even though higher education is an important source of economic and social progress, public investment is not keeping up with increased enrollments or the costs of high-quality teaching and research — and the future doesn't look any brighter. According to the State Higher Education Executive Officers, state investment per public-university student was at a 25-year low in 2005, and the gains of the last two years are likely to be wiped out by today's weak economy...Why is public education the poor pupil of public investment?.. (paid subscription required)