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...The Bradley Foundation, the state's largest foundation and one of the country's 50 biggest, said Monday it will provide as much as $500,000 more this year to fund UWM research projects that have strong potential for commercialization...
Having trouble finding a job in, say, New York City or South Florida? You might give Madison, Wis., a try. It's got an unusually healthy outlook for job growth and a strikingly low unemployment rate--3.5% in October, when the national rate was 6.5%...Madison has several things going for it. Not only is the University of Wisconsin a major employer, but the university's research arm, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, has been fueling growth in the biotech, health care and medical-devices industries...
The new head of the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee, state Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, is a professor on leave from UW-Whitewater who is expected to offer a sharp contrast in approach from the previous chair...
Despite a massive federal effort to aid banks and boost the economy, lending has plunged in the last year. Home-mortgage volume and bank loans to big companies are down dramatically. But the government's response is expanding credit in at least one sector: higher education. Although the recession is weighing on colleges in many ways, the ability of students to get federal loans to pay tuition isn't one of them...
Saving for college is one of the most vexing problems in all of personal finance. Putting any money away is hard enough for parents worrying about keeping their jobs, making the mortgage payment and financing their own retirement accounts. If there are any leftover funds, it is not always easy to select among the confusing array of college savings vehicles...
Many teenagers cleaned up their MySpace profiles, deleting mentions of sex and booze and boosting privacy settings, if they got a single cautionary e-mail from a busybody named "Dr. Meg." The e-mail was sent by Dr. Megan Moreno, lead researcher of a study of lower-income kids that she says shows how parents and other adults can encourage safer Internet use. (Moreno is a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) ...
A new annual-outlook report from Moody's Investors Service says that higher-education institutions are facing a range of challenges in the next year and a half. Although all colleges will face hardship, private colleges will be especially stressed compared with public colleges and community colleges... (paid subscription required)
As state legislatures convene in the coming days and weeks, colleges will be battling to stave off large cuts, with governors in places like Arizona, Missouri, and Ohio asking public colleges to prepare for budget reductions of as much as 25 percent. Nearly every state is now projecting a revenue shortfall for both the current budget year and the next fiscal year, and few public-college officials expect to dodge the budget ax. But some higher-education leaders and state policy makers see the bleak economic outlook as an opportunity to press for broad changes in college policy and operations that haven't had much traction under better financial circumstances... (paid subscription required)