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With almost certain state funding cuts coming down the pike, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin recently took the unusual step of holding campus forums to give faculty, students and staff a chance to float ideas on how best to absorb revenue reductions...
University of Wisconsin Hospital, its doctor group and Meriter Hospital are proposing to open an abortion clinic at their jointly owned Madison Surgery Center near Meriter, which anti-abortion groups say could violate state laws...
Anti-abortion groups are condemning a University of Wisconsin plan to provide second-trimester abortions at a Madison clinic and questioning whether it's illegal...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is taking advantage of its location to create a geothermal heating and cooling system for the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery...
Forbes.com has released its list of the 10 best cities to look for work in 2009, and Madison tops the list...The publication looked at big employers in Madison, like the University of Wisconsin-Madison and jobs in the biotech and health care sector. That's good news for the University Research Park, where several companies are hiring despite a sluggish economy...
Even as millions of Americans watch their retirement savings drop with the ebbs and flows of the stock market, the dean of the University of Wisconsin’s business school said that people need to stop saving and start spending...
The nation's stock market is already in recovery and gross domestic product should begin to recover in mid-2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison Business School Dean Michael Knetter said today. High unemployment, however, will linger through the year, he predicted...
...But a new study co-led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher suggests not all MySpace users realize how public their so-called private lives are - and many made changes when warned about it...
Because of the worst economic downturn since World War II, many state governments now expect revenues to fall in coming years — resulting in less public spending on higher education. Certain state-revenue reforms could moderate the effects of economic slumps on colleges. But higher-education institutions must also face reality and become more productive and cost-effective... (paid subscription required)
Two years after budget pressures prompted Dana College to eliminate some academic programs and lay off tenured faculty members, the struggling Nebraska institution is trying a different tactic amid worsening economic conditions: ending its retirement contributions for all employees... (paid subscription required)
Expanding research may be a worthy goal in higher education, but doing so comes with significant costs that aren’t recovered by grants alone, according to a study published in "Academic Medicine" this month...While colleges may grow in prestige by expanding their research base, they’re likely to dole out more money in start-up packages and other benefits for new faculty than they bring in through grants, the study asserts...