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Carlos Santiago's four-year effort to juice academic research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is beginning to pay off, but for the sake of the school and region, there is much more work to do. That requires continued investment with state tax dollars and swift action from Milwaukee County...
The University of Wisconsin College System wants to expand a new program that offers students at two-year campuses a chance at bachelor degrees in engineering. The College's Chancellor says it's worth the money even as state leaders struggle with a massive budget deficit...
The UW-Madison veterinary school is trying to increase the number of researchers and classroom teachers. Many vets are choosing private practice, creating concern than fewer people doing research could affect discoveries that help both animals and humans...
The Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment announced that it has awarded a $102,839 grant for the establishment of a University of Wisconsin-Madison - Mazomanie Science Outreach Outpost at Mazomanie Elementary School...The project's major goals are to assist teachers in the development, implementation and assessment of inquiry-based science curricula and lessons; to provide a laboratory setting for teacher training and for student use to conduct self-designed inquiry; and to create a model for partnerships between K-12 public schools and the UW-System...
Dozens braved bitter cold temperatures to protest the location of a potential abortion clinic jointly run by UW Health, UW Medical Foundation and Meriter Hospital. The clinic would perform second trimester abortions. There currently are no clinics in the Madison area that offer the later term procedure, something that UW Health claims is an essential public health service. Protestor Peg Gibson, who's had an abortion, doesn't agree...
...A few months ago, I wrote about “The Kalamazoo Promise,” a program that offers tuition in Michigan’s state colleges and universities to every Kalamazoo Public School student who can qualify for admission. I visited Kalamazoo and I learned how “The Promise” had helped reverse the school system’s declining enrollment...Noel Radomski, a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, contacted me after I first wrote about Kalamazoo’s plan. Radomski is helping determine the best way to spend a $175 million gift from the former Chairman of Cisco Systems to provide scholarships for Wisconsin’s public high school graduates. Radomski is also working with the mayor of Racine, Wis., to implement a program similar to the Kalamazoo Promise...
The numbers hardly reflect reality. Each of the four tri-state-area colleges say four or fewer students reported sexual assaults during the last school year. But not one of the educational institutions' representatives said the figures were completely accurate...With a new year beginning, Clarke College, the University of Dubuque, Loras College and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville continue to examine services offered to students who suffer in the aftermath of sexual assault...
...Everyone from entrepreneurs to technical college students to children exhibiting prized pigs could be affected by the move by Gov. Jim Doyle's administration to cut some $25 million in state grants...Targeted grant programs include:...Grants to minority technical college students and other technical college programs...
Administration Secretary Mike Morgan sent a letter this week to a handful of state agencies this week informing them that a number of programs and grants could be cut to save $25 million in this fiscal year...The agencies affected by the potential cuts are: DATCP, Commerce, the Governor's Office, Health Services, Natural Resources, the Public Service Commission, Transportation, the UW System and the Wisconsin Technical College System...
...Here’s a new measure of how bad it is: The researchers who produce the definitive annual study of state appropriations for higher education are being forced today to release data they know understate (in some cases significantly) the extent of the cuts. As of right now, state support for higher education is up 0.9 percent for fiscal 2009, according to the annual study (known as Grapevine) produced by researchers at Illinois State University’s Center for the Study of Education Policy. Grapevine is known for making state spending figures — which in many ways are inconsistent — comparable. The study excludes tuition revenue or debt used to finance facilities and focuses on state tax support...
State-tax support for higher education increased by less than 1 percent in the 2008-9 budget year, to $78.5-billion, according to an annual report released today by the Center for the Study of Education Policy, at Illinois State University. This was the first time in five years that state aid for higher education grew more slowly than it had the year before...
Economic storms historically have prompted more adults to seek shelter in the classroom. But this time around, two-year colleges and private for-profit institutions are especially optimistic about attracting more students—and many of those older students will probably take courses online, according to one of the authors of a recent survey...