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The state building commission has approved projects on four UW campuses. One of them is a new classroom building in Oshkosh that will be the state's largest "green" building...
The retired University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor who runs Microsoft Corp.'s advanced computer lab in Madison says the recent layoffs announced by the software giant will not negatively impact the local facility. David DeWitt informed WTN that he does not expect any reduction in the workforce at his office, which is the Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab on Main Street. In fact, he still has open positions that he is trying to fill at the lab, which was opened last year to take advantage of the database expertise in UW-Madison's Computer Science Department...
A center at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is trying to make sure the 29 lakes in Portage County remain healthy...
It could be an uphill climb to lobby for more higher education funding in the current economic climate, but a new report from the Wisconsin Technology COuncil argues that the state would reap economic benefits by reversing the downward trend in support of its university system. Citing the link between academic research and job creation, the report concludes that unless the state begins to reverse the slide in higher education funding, it could become an “also-ran” in the knowledge economy...
Academic research is a $1.1 billion industry in Wisconsin, but it's threatened by a 25-year trend toward weaker state support for higher education, a report released Wednesday by the Wisconsin Technology Council says. That is putting the state's entrepreneurial future in peril and spurring a slew of recommendations from the tech council. One of the foremost is that the governor and Legislature use the 2009-'11 budget bill to begin restoring support for the University of Wisconsin System operations, says the report, "The Economic Value of Academic Research and Development in Wisconsin"...
One of the best economic stimulus plans for Wisconsin may have less to do with federal pump-priming than with building on proven ways to turn on today's students to science, technology, engineering, and math. Some first-rate educational programs are working in Wisconsin, but progress is far from universal and even the best schools can't do it alone. It is important to align the needs and resources of private business with what schools can, and should, offer all students...
The state's record deficit is worse than earlier projections, and even top priorities - education, health care and aid to local governments - could face cuts, Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday. Doyle painted a grim picture in his annual "state of the state" message, but he did not spell out how much worse the state's two-year shortfall will grow beyond the $5.4 billion estimated in November...
Addressing the state at a dark hour and calling it "a time of sacrifice," Gov. Jim Doyle sought to bolster Wisconsin's spirits Wednesday with the bare planks of his seventh and bleakest State of the State speech...
Hours after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a federal stimulus package - minus the support of Wisconsin Republicans or any other GOP members - Governor Jim Doyle used his State of the State address to remind Wisconsin residents of the state's enormous fiscal challenges...Still Doyle said his priorities are clear: to safeguard education, health care and local services in Wisconsin communities, especially where the state's most vulnerable residents are concerned...
Doyle laid out the challenges in his speech, although he did not say how he intends to meet them...
For many Americans, the confluence of a recession and a growing realization that the nation needs to end its reliance on fossil fuels seems like a double whammy of bad news. But for the nation's research universities, it may be a golden opportunity...With that kind of money on the table, universities are chief among those hoping for a share. Even before he took office, President Obama received a letter from a group of 49 Nobel laureates and other scientific leaders urging increased federal support for scientific research and innovation...
...All that recently changed. Michigan has begun rolling out a new system that automates much of the matching process, saving time and reducing headaches...Information services built the new program based on PeopleSoft, a system many colleges, including Michigan, use to manage student records and other data. That platform allowed the university to use data it had already compiled in the new program. In the new system, each scholarship is described with a formula that incorporates all of the criteria recipients must meet. Users can search for all the students who meet the criteria for a specific scholarship, or for all the scholarships for which a particular student qualifies...
...(James E.) Applegate, a longtime higher education official in Kentucky and now a senior vice president at the Lumina Foundation for Education, bemoaned the fact that most federal and state aid to colleges was based purely on the number of students they enrolled, not on how the students fared once there. Unless and until that changes, he said, any significant new money that flows to states for higher education, or directly to colleges, is unlikely to compel institutions to focus more on ensuring that their students succeed...Arthur Hauptman, a financial aid consultant, questioned the wisdom of pouring significantly more money into the Pell Grant Program, as the stimulus package would do...
The U.S. House of Representatives passed an economic stimulus bill Wednesday, part of which would increase funding for the Hope Tax Credit, making nearly 4 million low- to middle-income students eligible for a tax break. Chye-Ching Huang, a research fellow in the federal fiscal policy team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said the package will make college more affordable for students. According to Huang, the bill would increase the tuition tax credit from $1,800 to $2,300...