UW System Clipsheet

October 28, 2008

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On Campus

"University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point diversity project offers invaluable experience," Wausau Daily Herald, Oct. 28.

It might have taken just an hour of their day, but for the 90 or so University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point education students who helped present Hmong family stories to elementary students, the experience was invaluable...The project was an opportunity for the college students to experience in-class lessons in teaching diversity that they someday can use in their own classrooms...

"Kano, American varsities collaborate on research," Daily Triumph, Oct. 28.

A delegation of Kano University of Science and Technology (KUST) arrived in Madison in the U.S. State of Wisconsin at the weekend to foster a partnership with the University of Wisconsin (UW) System. The North America Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the collaboration was aimed at improving the quality of higher education and research in Kano State...

"UWM plan goes forward," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 27.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's plans to build a new engineering campus in Wauwatosa moved forward Monday after a county committee recommended that Milwaukee County negotiate a sale of the proposed college site...

"UWSP expert Randy Cray to serve on economy panel in Wausau," Stevens Point Journal, Oct. 28.

...Randy Cray, the director of the Central Wisconsin Economic Research Bureau (CWERB) and a UWSP Department of Business and Economics faculty member, will discuss “Globalization, the Market Economy and Its Impact on Wisconsin” along with Mike Knetter, dean of the UW-Madison School of Business, and Lee Hansen, professor emeritus of economics at UW-Madison...The three panelists will talk about how Wisconsin’s economy has fared among the confluence of open markets, the pressure for increasing profits and the use of cheap overseas labor...

State

"Debt-squeezed students consider graduate school as short-term fix," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 28.

...So the 24-year-old political science major is considering something a little counterintuitive: If he doesn't get the right job in government service immediately, he's thinking about going straight to graduate school to get his master's degree to avoid the loan payments...More students took the Graduate Record Examinations in September than in any month in the last eight years, Educational Testing Service spokesman Mark McNutt said. The increase in grad school interest comes as students are finding it harder to pay their high debt burdens...

National

"More pain for college endowments," Blog, U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 27.

More endowment numbers have come in, and it is not looking good at all. Northwestern lost more than 14 percent of its nearly $7 billion endowment. According to university President Henry Bienen, the school's investment situation is "the worst since the Great Depression," a position that may affect faculty hires and future construction. The University of Wisconsin reports a staggering 20 percent drop in its endowment, a loss of at least $300 million since the stock market's rapid decline this fall. Plus, the Badger fundraising campaign is also feeling the hurt from the economy, with the number of gifts to the foundation down 12 percent from last year...