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Dr. Dean Van Galen, Vice President for University Advancement at the University of West Florida (Pensacola, Fla.), has been recommended as the next Chancellor of UW-River Falls, System President Kevin P. Reilly announced Friday...
The field of finalists to become the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's next chancellor narrowed to three on Friday, and a final decision could be announced soon. UWGB received word Friday that Betty Rambur of the University of Vermont has withdrawn her name from consideration for the position. She cited personal and professional reasons.The other three finalists met Friday with UW System President Kevin Reilly and a system committee...
Despite the alarm about volatile credit markets, financial aid directors at local colleges and universities say they haven't heard from many students who can't get loans to cover college costs. But college administrators say they will closely watch for problems next semester and beyond as families begin to feel the full force of the recession...
As hundreds of new University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates filed out of the Kohl Center on Sunday, some huddled close with friends and family, others lingered inside in their caps and gowns, while several trudged into the into the subzero afternoon making new prints in the snow. On many of the about 1,500 graduating minds was the blistering economic news of recent months and the uncertain prospects of the job market...
UW-Madison scientist James Thomson was among three stem cell researchers who received the Massry prize for 2008...
...A relationship between former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor John Kerrigan and University of Nizwa President Dr. Ahmed bin Khalfan Al Rawahi brought Al-Mughairy to Oshkosh for two weeks to get a first-hand look at how alumni services and career services function here in order to help her develop a basic understanding and approach to establishing similar programs at the University of Nizwa...
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is upset that Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton's re-election campaign asked him for money in an e-mail sent to his state-owned account, a violation of state law...
Using higher education to solve the economic and social problems of the present and future was a highlight of several speeches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's winter commencement ceremonies Sunday...Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, making her first commencement speech as the university's new chancellor, singled out the increasing importance of a college degree, particularly in today's economy...Martin and other speakers also touched on the importance of ensuring that the university can maintain its prominence as a No. 1 research university through the current economic recession. David Walsh, a member of the UW Board of Regents, encouraged graduates to be active in discussions about the importance of public universities, particularly at the state level...
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay said farewell to its biggest midyear class ever Saturday, when about 270 of the school's approximately 361 graduates took part in commencement ceremonies. Among them were Brown County Executive Tom Hinz, who received his degree in interdisciplinary studies after starting UWGB's adult degree program in 1991...
..."It was nothing short of a phenomenal experience," said Waas, who will finish her two-year Associate of Science degree at Nicolet this spring and then transfer to UW-Stevens Point. “Just being able to work next to people of that caliber was a beautiful thing"...Waas' experience was a first-of-its-kind internship for a Nicolet student, thanks to the growing relationship between Nicolet, UW-Madison and Michigan Tech...
Perhaps the weather outside Sunday was indicative of the challenges mid-term graduates at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside will face in the coming months and years. Cold, representing the hurdles and obstacles they'll face, especially in these trying economic times; but also sunny skies, representing a bright future...
...Thirty-eight UW-River Falls students who took part in an open records audit learned the answer is nearly always yes. But that doesn’t mean all area officials give up the information graciously...
Barely a day passes without another discouraging headline about job losses somewhere in Wisconsin...Everyone has a stake in reversing that trend. State and local governments, public schools and higher education must reduce services if tax revenues stagnate or decline. Predictions of a $5.4 billion budget deficit in Wisconsin are only the start if a recession becomes an irreversible slide that erodes quality of life -- and the ability to regenerate the economy...(Author: Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council.)...
...Property taxes in Wisconsin are among the highest in the nation, and there is every reason to think that anger over this fact will become a much hotter political issue as the population ages and those aging homeowners -- who form a reliable voting bloc -- increasingly feel the hurt...Wisconsin was settled by Yankees and northern European immigrants who believed strongly that government should promote the general welfare, Todd Berry and Dale Knapp of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance noted in a paper several years ago. From such pioneer beliefs sprang the Wisconsin Idea at the University of Wisconsin and the Progressive movement...
...Not all private colleges are reporting fewer applications this year. Even in the Midwest and Pennsylvania, where most colleges seem to have dwindling numbers, some are getting more applications than ever. Still, in a survey of 371 private institutions released last week by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, two-thirds said they were greatly concerned about preventing a decline in enrollment...
It's no secret that colleges and universities are relying increasingly on part-time instructors or other faculty who are neither tenured nor on track for tenure. But a flurry of studies draw troubling conclusions about what kind of effect that has on the quality of a student's education...
For anyone looking for signs of the decline of American higher education, the annual statistics published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have become a standard building block to make that case. The data -- particularly those showing the comparative rate of educational attainment by 25- to 34-year-olds in the U.S and elsewhere -- are regularly cited to show the nation's failure to keep pace as other developed nations that long trailed the U.S. ramp up their higher ed systems. As the OECD numbers have gained currency, some researchers and statisticians have warned against overdependence on them, citing questions about the international agency's methodology...