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...(Chris) Klundt, who earned undergraduate degrees from UW-Madison in computer sciences and biomedical engineering in 2005, had simply become frustrated during his days as a student with how few of his professors used Learn@UW -- a collection of software tools that allows instructors to create course-specific Web sites to enhance the learning experience and help improve student-instructor interaction...
E-mails released by the University of Wisconsin-Madison show parents of marching band members were fighting mad when the school suspended the band for a football game over bad behavior by some members. The parents sent dozens of e-mails to administrators. They threatened to withhold donations, asked for refunds for football tickets and even vowed to seek the firing of an assistant dean who led the probe...
On his summer vacation, Dominic Dharam got to assist a doctor in the operating room...Dharam, who wants to become a cardiologist, was one of 15 students selected this year to participate in the program that partners interns with professors and undergraduate and graduate students within science and engineering departments at the University of Wisconsin...
...Alcohol-related health and social problems cost the state a staggering $5 billion annually, according to the University of Wisconsin's School of Medicine and Public Health, which is starting a statewide campaign to combat Wisconsin's problems with alcohol...
The massive economic stimulus plan being weighed by President-elect Obama and Congressional Democrats will likely fill at least part of Wisconsin's budget shortfall. But just how much is still unclear...(Governor Jim) Doyle says a billion dollars is an optimistic number to expect from Washington, but he hopes the state gets something that large. "If you look at what's happening around the country, there's no doubt there's just going to have to be a very large...the federal government's going to have to help states in a very big way"...
Some of the nation’s universities are trying to sell chunks of their portfolios privately as their endowments swoon with the markets...
Every month, about 18,000 people reach an important milestone on the road to personal financial recovery. Having previously defaulted on their student loans — because of lost jobs, chronically poor health or, yes, sometimes less sympathetic reasons — they have gotten their acts together and consistently made on-time payments such that their loans are deemed ready for "rehabilitation." Once a new lender buys such a borrower’s loan, his or her credit record is wiped clean, as if the default never happened. Here’s the rub: The country’s current economic mess has obliterated the market in which banks or other investors buy existing student loans, and while the U.S. Education and Treasury Departments have taken several steps to buttress that market, what they’ve done so far has not included rehabilitated loans. And as of Friday, Suntrust — the lone lender that has been buying up nearly rehabilitated loans from the guarantee agencies (and the government) that hold them — will no longer do so, which would leave borrowers who qualify for rehabilitation starting in December without a means of getting back into good graces...
The University of California at Berkeley tripled the number of international students it admitted in this year's freshman class and plans to enroll even more students from outside the state next year, in part to pump up tuition revenue during a difficult financial period for the state's universities... (paid subscription required)