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University of Wisconsin chancellor Biddy Martin said today she’s building a relationship with the state's largest business group, which her predecessor has slammed as an impediment to economic development...
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin said Monday she will continue to work with the state's largest business group, three months after her predecessor condemned the organization's policies...
Chancellor Biddy Martin said Monday she will aim to develop a relationship between the university and Wisconsin's largest business interest group that will benefit the state...
The decline in the value of Wisconsin's two big college savings plans does not seem to be hurting current students. That's according to Susan Fischer, the Financial Services director at UW-Madison. She says most students get federal aid -- which has been holding steady. She says if there's a problem, it will become apparent during the spring semester...
Record numbers of University of Wisconsin-Madison students are studying abroad, an increase that exceeds the national average and places the school among the top 10 U.S. research universities for study-abroad participation, according to an international report released Monday...
The birth of University Research Park on Madison's West Side 25 years ago was a historic breakthrough in the area's economic development. In the story of the park's beginning and its growth are two lessons: Bold, persistent leadership and public-private collaboration were required. It wasn't enough to offer a research park. Administrators had to meet the needs of industry and sell the park in a competitive marketplace. Those are lessons the Madison region should continue to apply...
Robert Greenstreet, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been appointed to the additional position of the chair of city development at UWM. The chair of city development is a new academic position at the university and is being funded by the Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation, Wisconsin Preservation Trust, and David and Julia Uihlein Charitable Foundation...
Mary Hopkins-Best, director of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, has accepted the appointment as dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences at the university...
Communications technology has us endlessly connected and for some of us, addicted. If you had to, could you go unplugged? Like President-elect Barack Obama, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow holds his technology close to his heart. Literally. He keeps the device on vibrate in his shirt pocket at all times...
Michael Dombeck, University of Wisconsin System Fellow and professor of Global Conservation at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP), was recently named 2008 Fellows of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters...
At least one person on campus has done OK as the economy has declined: public university presidents' salaries climbed 7.6% last year. Fifteen presidents of public research universities took home at least $700,000 in 2007-2008, up from eight in last year's survey, and nearly one-third now earn over $500,000, according to the annual Chronicle of Higher Education survey out Monday...
...Eager to encourage public service and give debt-burdened graduates more options, several colleges and universities are trying new initiatives. This fall, for instance, eight 2008 Princeton University graduates are the first group to begin two-year, federal jobs as a pre-condition for pursuing a free Princeton master's degree. Harvard Law School said earlier this year it will, starting in 2010, waive one year's $41,500 tuition for third-year students who commit to work five years in government or non-profit fields. Tufts became the nation's first university this year to offer loan repayment assistance to all its graduates, not just those from a particular professional school...
The California State University system for the first time in its history is proposing to turn away qualified students due to a worsening state budget crisis. As part of a plan to slash its 450,000 enrollment by 10,000 students for the 2009-2010 academic year, the 23-campus system, the nation's largest, will push up application deadlines and raise the academic bar for freshmen at its most popular campuses, Chancellor Charles B. Reed said Monday...
...Say what? You're going to take Shanghai Jiao Tong University's word on where the best places for you to go to school are? I had vaguely heard that the Shanghai university made an annual list of the best research university's in the world but didn't pay it much heed. After all, those kinds of lists often strike me as arbitrary. I got up this morning still thinking about the matter. After Googling the list, I quickly found that places like the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Minnesota proudly note that they are fairly high on Jiao Tong's list...
...Yet colleges capture a slew of highly sensitive information on everyone on campus. And while chief privacy officer has become a recognized title in the corporate world, higher education seems slow to pick up on the trend - a reluctance that could represent either head-in-the-sand thinking or fiscally prudent avoidance of bureaucratic bloat...