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New University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is moving to put her stamp on the school, remaking the administration with an eye toward improving communication. Two months after she succeeded John Wiley, Martin is moving to replace two Wiley aides with staff members of her own and to create a new high-profile communications post...
While his role as chair of the Committee on Colleges and Universities will end in January, state Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, plans to continue to be active in education policymaking. Nass, who is an outspoken critic of the UW System, has served as chair of the committee since 2006, but after Democrats gained the majority in the Assembly last week, Nass will lose his influential position to an Assembly Democrat. According to Nass spokesperson Mike Mikalsen, Wisconsin’s budget shortfall will be the first item on the committee’s agenda, and Nass wants to cut spending by decreasing the number of UW campuses in the state...
It looks like the state may be spending a little more than it has available. Governor Jim Doyle’s recent announcement of a $3 to $5 billion deficit in the state budget may cause worries for Wisconsin residents and students of the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point who are already suffering from the current economic decline in America...
The next time the many farmers in Jefferson County have a question or concern about the prize livestock, they won't have the help of longtime livestock and dairy agent Ken Bolton. The Jefferson County Board on Monday night sealed Bolton's fate, eliminating his job with a 25 percent cut in the county's portion of the UW-Extension office budget. The cut was less than a finance committee had recommended, but it's still a loss that will be felt in the $1.5 billion agriculture business community...
The current economic crisis is having an affect on financing plans for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s proposed new academic building. Because banks have become more conservative, the UW-L Foundation has not been able to secure a $6 million letter of credit from local banks to help pay for the new building. However, the project will stay on schedule, with ground breaking set for spring, said Chancellor Joe Gow. The university plans to pay early construction bills from its facilities reserve, funds accumulated for university priorities that do not include tuition or state funds, said Bob Hetzel, UW-L vice chancellor for administration and finance...
A new search committee has been formed to find the next chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Kevin Reilly, UW-System president, appointed the 19-member committee Tuesday that will look for a permanent replacement for Jack Keating, who retired earlier this year...
The rapid growth in the number of nonprofits in Wisconsin combined with an impending wave of retirements in that sector will create job opportunities for people seeking meaningful work. But making the leap from the corporate to nonprofit realm requires more than a big heart...As executive director of the new, privately funded Center for Nonprofits on the UW-Madison campus, (Jeanan) Yasiri and faculty director Shepherd Zeldin are creating undergraduate majors and doctorates in nonprofit studies -- something Yasiri said are rare...
UW Health officials have unveiled AWARE: All Wisconsin Alcohol Risk Education...AWARE hopes to lobby state legislators to craft legislation to address alcohol abuse in Wisconsin, but there's a public education component as well...
A biochemist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has won a $100,000 award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help develop a "stealth" drug that can be used to battle viruses such as HIV...
Even though the Madison Common Council voted to approve a proposed fare increase for Madison Metro services, officials say prices for student bus passes may rise regardless of the result of Wednesday’s city budget debate. A current deal between Madison Metro and the Associated Students of Madison allows the university to use segregated fees to pay the bus company at a discounted rate. The agreement will remain in effect until June 30, 2010, at which point price and terms of the deal will be renegotiated...
UW-Eau Claire staff said a dramatic increase in bicycle use this semester has made it challenging to keep up with the demand for parking. Facilities Planning and Management's buildings and grounds supervisor Randy Palmer said he has never seen so many people biking to campus in his 22 years of working for the university...
A University of Wisconsin chancellor on Wednesday visited Wausau to discuss the state budget and upcoming initiatives. David Wilson, UW colleges and UW-Extension chancellor, was at UWMC on Wednesday to meet with students and teachers...
Gov. Jim Doyle and the Democratic majorities in the state Senate and Assembly have options to deal with the $5 billion projected budget shortfall announced Tuesday. The catch is, none of them is pretty. Battered by a harsh economy, Wisconsin's tax revenues are projected to go down in each of the next two years -- only the second time that's happened in more than four decades on record. To balance the state's books, officials can cut spending and with it possibly some of the services most in demand during a recession, such as health care for poor families or retraining for laid-off workers. They can also raise taxes on families or businesses already struggling to stay afloat. Most likely, they'll do both, lawmakers and experts said...
Congress is crafting a second economic-stimulus bill, and the nation’s colleges, hit by the deepening fiscal crisis, want a share of the money. Over the last few weeks, colleges and their lobbyists have bombarded members of Congress with letters and phone calls seeking money for research, student aid, and infrastructure. Their appeals emphasize the role colleges play in the nation’s fiscal health, not only as educators but also as employers and innovators...
Three new studies of college freshmen suggest that even the most promising can run into academic difficulties as a long-term consequence of experiences like attending a violent or run-down high school or being raised by parents who never went to college. And two of the studies call into question a large body of research on the educational benefits of racial and ethnic diversity on campuses, concluding that most first-year students do not reap any gains from diversity that can be measured objectively...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., after saying for weeks that the federal government’s $700-billion financial-rescue program would be aimed primarily at buying mortgage-backed securities from lenders, said its focus would be expanded to include other types of troubled credit markets, including those that provide student loans...
In what appears a harbinger of things to come for higher education, governors of two of the nation’s most populous states have rolled out plans that would dramatically reduce funding for colleges and universities — again. In the past two weeks, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Gov. David Paterson of New York have both proposed midyear budget cuts that college officials say will cripple already strained higher education systems...