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...Students gathered in downtown Madison Saturday for a peaceful rally calling on President Obama, Wisconsin state legislators, and new UW chancellor Biddy Martin, to fulfill their promises and bring necessary change directly into young people's lives...
Chanting “holding change accountable,” more than 50 University of Wisconsin students marched down to the Capitol Saturday demanding lower state tuition, an increase of grant aid, retention and recruitment of students and faculty of color, and green jobs...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison said it will use a new federal grant to combat violence against women on campus. The school said the three-year, $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will help in the fight against domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. UW-Madison has one of 21 projects to win the grant. The department received 131 applications...
Can $400,000 buy UW-Madison a better campus radio station? Former chancellor John Wiley thought so. Last year he earmarked an unrestricted grant to help WSUM move from its former location in the Towers on State Street...
..."Eddie" beat out "Screech" and "Talon" in UW-L's mascot-naming contest. The winning names, which received 200 of 712 votes cast, was unveiled Saturday during the men's basketball game vs. the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The mascot, which has been cheering on UW-L teams for nearly 20 years, previously had no name...
The scientific journal Nature says a former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater biology professor has put forward some of the decade's best ideas on evolution. The journal recognized Jeffrey McKinnon for his work ...McKinnon now teaches at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C....
...That fascination with space eventually led (Harald) Schenk, now 65, to the University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan, where he teaches astronomy. This year, he earned the 2008-09 Arthur M. Kaplan Award, a prestigious recognition of UW college instructors...
When a whistle blew Saturday afternoon, two teams of University of Wisconsin-Madison students pelted each other with snowballs, but the 45-minute battle won't be going down in history...Basak guessed that 2,000 or more students showed up, but other observers put the total at hundreds of students, not thousands...
Gov. Jim Doyle on Friday signed an executive order creating an Office of Recovery and Reinvestment to advise him and other state officials on how to spend what is expected to be as much $3.5 billion from the federal economic stimulus package...Doyle said Gary J. Wolter, president of Madison Gas and Electric Co., will be lent to state government to work as the agency's director. Wolter's deputy will be University of Wisconsin-Madison Vice Chancellor Alan Fish, who has worked on campus building projects, long-range planning and transportation systems, Doyle said...
...The Office of Recovery and Reinvestment is designed to help the government spend the money quickly and wisely by identifying potential spending obstacles and working with schools and local governments, according to Doyle spokesperson Carla Vigue. One of the goals is to jumpstart the economy through job growth in a variety of different sectors, including University of Wisconsin System projects, Vigue added...
With the downturn of the economy and a record number of students graduating from college each year, University of Wisconsin alumni are finding themselves entering an increasingly competitive workforce that leaves little time and money to put towards health insurance...
Milwaukee Area Technical College has cut in half the number of tenants in its two business incubators that are behind on their rent and has removed some that appeared not to be viable enterprises. The school also believes that getting tougher one day will result in the taxpayer-supported incubators breaking even financially...
Young Wisconsin companies raised $75 million of venture capital last year - less than a year earlier, but in line with national trends...Cellular Dynamics International, the stem cell company founded by University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher James Thomson, raised the most money of any state company...Cellular Dynamics, which is aiming to use the state's cutting-edge stem cell technologies to build a global hub for supplying large quantities of personalized stem cells, raised the $18 million in October from mostly Wisconsin-based investors...This kind of locally based funding is what Wisconsin needs more of if it wants to build a vibrant, high-tech economy, said Bob Palay, founder and principal of the Tactics II fund...
...Federal student loans remain readily available -- with some funding even increased recently by Congress. But the prospect that grants and scholarships may be cut at many schools, combined with the shrinking availability of private loans, has fueled widespread angst at a time when more people than ever are seeking help. Applications for federal aid for the current academic year already are running 10% above last year's record pace, according to the Department of Education...
...Much of the stimulus bill does not really claim to deliver a short-term boost to the economy. Provisions to develop a "smart grid" for electricity and to enhance scientific research, alternative energy development and education seek to boost the economy's long-term efficiency, and, hence, its capacity to grow. We are sympathetic to the objective, and there might be much to recommend each of the various proposals. But given their cost, and the inherent difficulty of forecasting their impact, Congress should vet them through the normal legislative process, weigh them against other priorities and pay for them...
College leaders confident that the federal government's economic stimulus package would pour billions of dollars into higher education should probably take a deep breath. A version of the legislation introduced in the Senate Friday would be somewhat less generous to colleges and students than the financial package unveiled by the House the week before, and while President Obama emphasized science and student aid in laying out his own plan Saturday, Republicans are balking at many of the spending proposals that would most benefit higher education...
The number of applicants for freshman and transfer admission to the University of California for fall 2009 has hit record highs, even as UC prepares to reduce freshmen enrollment, officials announced today...
Although lawmakers continue to argue over how to resolve the state's fiscal crisis, they already have endorsed $6 billion in spending cuts that provide a painful preview of what is likely to be in store for Californians. The proposed cuts would mean that money for the state's university systems would decrease...
..."Time and compassion" are two of the most important things a financial-aid office can offer right now, said Joseph A. Russo, director of student financial strategies at the University of Notre Dame. And one of the best ways to do that is by extending deadlines for tuition payments, he said. Colleges could also consider giving their students no-interest or low-interest institutional loans, Mr. Russo said. In fact, they are essentially doing so if they extend tuition-payment deadlines... (paid subscription required)