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There's a resurgence of veterans clubs on University of Wisconsin campuses. With wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, more veterans are returning home, returning to school, and in need of a hand. Larger campuses like UW-Madison's have had veterans clubs since the Vietnam War. But now smaller UW campuses in Green Bay, River Falls and Superior as well as Madison Area Technical College are organizing them...
An unexpected $20,000 had to be pumped into the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s textbook rental program to ensure all students had materials in time for Monday’s start of the spring semester, officials said...The rental program was about $640,000 over budget in 2007-08, and ended with a $112,521 deficit even after depleting a textbook service reserve fund, according to an e-mail university leaders sent to faculty. “We have not done a good job with this, and this is a wake-up call,” said Gow...
A million dollar donation has provided the University of Wisconsin-Stout with the Center for Applied Ethics. Full story not available online.
The U.S. Department of Justice has given a $300,000 grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a project to help address the causes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. The grant was announced Thursday. The UW-Madison project, "Community Problems, Community Solutions: Building Capacity to End Violence Against Women at UW-Madison," is one of 21 projects receiving a grant from the Justice Department's Office on Violence Against Women...
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin hosted the fourth public forum on the budget crisis at Grainger Hall Thursday night, fielding ideas from over 60 UW staff, students and local community members. The forum produced a variety of new ideas to increase UW budget efficiency — including a reduction in time-to-degree for all students — the creation of a “resource center” to streamline communications between university agencies and departments, and better monitoring of heating and cooling systems to ensure campus buildings are not wasting resources. Martin did not see tuition increases as beyond consideration during this economic climate...
Few consider the smallest of the UW System campuses a research university. Yet, when it comes to research, the University of Wisconsin-Superior is making its mark. In 2007-08, the federal government committed $1.48 million to research efforts at the Superior campus...
...With the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, more than 12,000 projects staffed by thousands more volunteers aimed to lend a hand in communities in the United States. One group of people who were notably engaged were young people, or the Millennial Generation, according to Tim Zimmermann, director of creative content for Be The Change Inc., one group that promoted the day of service. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, almost half these college students report volunteering on a regular basis...
Today Senator Glenn Brothman (R-West Bend) along with twenty-nine fellow legislators released their letter requesting the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics to halt any plans to sponsor a midterm abortion facility at the Madison Surgery Center. "I am ashamed that the University would even consider being part of a second semester abortion clinic," said Senator Grothman...
Quantcast Nearly one-quarter of Wisconsin lawmakers asked the University of Wisconsin Hospital on Thursday to back off a plan to provide late-term abortions at a private clinic..."To create a situation in which the university would be affiliated with ending the lives of those babies is just appalling," Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, said at a Capitol news conference...
Madison Fire officials say a construction site accident is to blame for the gas leak that evacuated several buildings on the UW campus Thursday morning...
The city of Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have made little progress in fulfilling the goals of a plan a neighborhood group rolled out one year ago to cut down on alcohol-fueled crime and other disturbances Downtown. Capital Neighborhoods Inc. found only "slight" progress toward two of seven goals in its proposal, based on recommendations and research from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism...
The world may best know Japanese manufacturers as the picture of ruthless efficiency. Jeffrey Alexander sees them mostly as ruthless. Last year Alexander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, published “Japan’s Motorcycle Wars,” a book about the often vicious winnowing of Japan’s post-war motorcycle industry from as many as 200 manufacturers to the big four — Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha — that remain. The book was released in paperback this month...
A new report from a higher education research center says Gov. Jim Doyle's Wisconsin Covenant program needs to fund the initiative with state money for financial aid if it truly wants to boost enrollment of low-income students. The program currently guarantees a spot in college for students who maintain good grades and take the right classes in high school, but it doesn't promise automatic funding. The privately funded Wisconsin Covenant endowment and Fund for Wisconsin Scholars will use their combined $215 million to offer scholarships that complement the covenant pledge, but that's not likely enough to cover all the Covenant Scholars' full need...
Despite significant strains on the state budget, higher education leaders in Wisconsin say it's critical that college remains affordable and accessible to students as the nation grinds its way through the recession. Rolf Wegenke, president of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, said it's critical to keep investing money in our students. Wegenke, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly and Wisconsin Technical College President Dan Clancy sat down with Wisconsin Eye -- the public affairs network for the state of Wisconsin -- to talk about financial aid and state investment in higher education on Tuesday. As a group, the trio stressed the importance of increasing the number of Wisconsin residents with some sort of higher education degree so the state is better positioned to both rebound from the current economic crisis and to thrive in what some view as a future knowledge-based economy...
Colleges in Wisconsin want some of that stimulus money to help students. There's a call for more financial aid for all students who qualify for higher education, regardless of whether they attend a technical school, the UW system, or a private college...
In almost the same breath in his inauguration speech this week, President Obama touted green technology and his desire for higher education to make changes to meet America's evolving needs...Mr. Obama was probably referring to a curricular transformation, in getting colleges to teach about new technologies, including green ones, to prepare students for emerging industries. But he might as well have been talking about the campuses themselves—their buildings and energy systems, which at many colleges are outdated, inefficient, even crumbling... (paid subscription required)
Margaret Spellings may be secretary emerita, but the assessment and accountability movements— which of course predated her commission — are alive and well. And if colleges think they can ignore these pushes, they are seriously misguided. That was the message behind speeches and the announcement of two new national education campaigns here Thursday at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities...
In a research milestone, the federal government will allow the world’s first test in people of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. Federal drug regulators said that political considerations had no role in the decision. Nevertheless, the move coincided with the inauguration of President Obama, who has pledged to remove some of the financing restrictions placed on the field by President George W. Bush...
Federal regulators have cleared the way for the first human trials of human embryonic stem-cell research, authorizing researchers to test whether the cells are safe to use in spinal injury patients, the company behind the trials announced Friday...