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...Investments in traditional markets and financial products may be uncertain, but there is one investment that has and will continue to pay dividends: A college education.The short-term economic forecast is cloudy, but the long-term forecast is bright for University of Wisconsin-River Falls graduates...(Author: Connie Foster, Interim Chancellor, UW-River Falls)...
...Since taking over as chancellor last year, (Chancellor Biddy) Martin has made a determined effort to improve relations between the state's flagship university and the Legislature. The style is a major contrast to that of her predecessor John Wiley, who denounced lawmakers as petty and overly partisan as he left office...
...But as the university faces pressure to improve success rates for underprepared college students, one professor's markedly different approach to the introductory psychology course is turning heads. Professor Diane Reddy has replaced the traditional lecture format with an online version of Psych 101...Initial evidence says it works: In a study of 5,000 students over two years, U-Pace students performed 12% better on the same cumulative test than students who took traditional Psych 101 with the same textbook and course content, even though U-Pace students had lower average grades than those in the conventional course...
Although the economy is down and sinking lower by the week, University of Wisconsin-Parkside enrollment in business-related courses is doing just fine. The number of seats occupied by students in UW-Parkside's School of Business and Technology was 2,280 last week, said the school's Associate Dean Dirk Baldwin. That's slightly more than 10 percent greater than the 2,066 seats occupied one year earlier...
Nursing programs within the University of Wisconsin System must expand in order to avoid a future nursing shortage, a new report commissioned by the System found. Over the past 10 years, the number of undergraduate nursing students across the System has almost tripled, the report's authors wrote, but the programs are not meeting demand from students or the marketplace...
Activists from either side of the abortion divide met face-to-face in a noisy, sometimes heated, confrontation Saturday outside the Madison clinic that may soon provide second-trimester abortions...
University of Wisconsin medical officials say they do not plan to make a profit by performing late-term abortions even though an internal document lists increased revenue as one benefit...
...The RIAA sued Lewis in September, making her among the last alleged illegal music sharers to be sued by the recording industry in a campaign that has swept up about 40,000 people since it began in 2003. Last month, the RIAA announced that it had ended the campaign, but the news is small comfort for Lewis and others like her whose lawsuits remain active...
Just a stone's throw from UW-Madison's seat of power on top of Bascom Hill is a place that melds old scientific methods with modern research that you likely have not heard of - The Wisconsin State Herbarium. The herbarium in Birge Hall is a collection of 1.1 million dusty, dried plant specimens, taped or glued inside manila folders and tucked inside row upon row of huge, vertical metal file cabinets protected with insect traps. Boxes of overflowing specimens sit in the hallways. Now the herbarium staff is trying to get more people interested in the vast collection housed there...
A foodservice provider at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire hopes a new program to recycle cafeteria meals will cut down on wasted food. Christian Wise is the general manager with the university's Blugold Dining. He estimates 4 percent to 5 percent of food goes to waste, which adds up when 43,000 meals are prepared each week. He says food can't be reused if it was self-serve or otherwise publicly accessible. But starting next month, food that hasn't been served that way will go to students with the Campus Kitchens Project. They'll donate it to local shelters...
A center at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is helping make sure Portage County's 29 lakes remain healthy. The UWSP Center for Watershed Science and Education is partnering with local municipalities to help develop management plans for the lakes...
It might not seem like now is the time for Superior to be eyeing growth in foreign markets, but that's exactly what Wisconsin's commerce secretary envisions for Superior and communities throughout the state...He talked about Superior's port being the 16th largest in the country, the transportation industry accounting for more than 10 percent of the city's economy, and the University of Wisconsin-Superior being a big research hub for the state...
From roomier cattle stalls to a new hockey rink, UW-Madison is seeking the state's approval to build more than $450 million in projects. About $150 million of the construction projects will require state funding. The others would be built with gifts or grants, or by borrowing the money and paying it back with fees from students...
The University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc will hold a teach-in Thursday to educate the public about global warming. UW-Manitowoc is one of more than 500 schools and organizations nationwide that plan to participate in the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions...
Even in this weak economy, many students may think holding a university job is a guaranteed paycheck. Think again. "Just because there's a deficit in the state budget doesn't mean we're going to get more money to give to students. I would love to say that is the case but it just isn't true," Susan Fischer, director of the UW-Madison Office of Student Financial Aid, said...
Waukesha County Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced Friday they're expanding their articulation agreement to include engineering programs...
...Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council, and others that tout the economic value of academic research and development say the Governor and lawmakers must do more than cut spending and raise taxes - they must figure out a way to stimulate economic growth. In this Visions interview with Still, he tells WTN that boosting university support and technology transfer is a demonstrated jobs creator...
The giant economic stimulus bill working its way through Congress should deliver enough money to Wisconsin to keep the state from taking such draconian measures to close its $5.7 billion budget shortfall as furloughing prisoners, knocking poor children off Medicaid rolls and slashing school aids. But the federal largesse -- up to $4 billion or more for Wisconsin alone -- carries the potential of leaving the state budget worse off in the future if the economy doesn't recover and lawmakers don't do a better job than they have in the past of making sure the state lives within its means...
When David Obey came to Washington 40 years ago, he became "the 435th person on the totem pole," far removed from the center of the action in Congress and constantly told to learn, wait and listen. Now, as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, he is chiefly responsible for shaping one of the largest economic stimulus plans in U.S. history...In addition to pressure from Republicans, Obey is getting pressed by people back home who want to make sure their pet issues and projects receive funding under the plan...
Check the start-up tally on Bizstartsmilwaukee.com, and you can see the makings of a new innovation-based cluster - at least a mini-cluster - in the big-dollars world of pharmaceuticals...Marquette, Milwaukee School of Engineering, UWM and Medical College of Wisconsin all offer advanced degrees in fields related to the development of new pharmaceuticals...
The downturn in the economy is driving up the number of students who are returning to community and technical colleges for a second year. A survey by ACT found 54% of students returned for a second year nationwide. And as NBC 15's Michelle Riell reports, not only is MATC above the national trend, it's seen a dramatic jump in enrollment at a very untraditional time...
Bill Moyers talks to the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York Vartan Gregorian about the perilous state of higher education in America. Gregorian is the former president of the New York Public Library and Brown University...
...It is too soon to say exactly how the recession will shape admissions outcomes this spring, as most application numbers are still preliminary. Some admissions officials have expected that a greater number of students would apply to more colleges to hedge their bets — and shop for the best financial-aid package. And some admissions experts have speculated that tight economic times would raise the demand for less-expensive public colleges this year... (paid subscription required)
Professors are losing their grip. Tough economic times are leading administrators to propose swift changes that short-circuit faculty governance, long a prized principle that gives professors wide-ranging authority over educational matters. The results, faculty members say, are hastily conceived plans that reorganize academic programs, decrease professors' roles in shaping the curriculum, and jeopardize tenure applications -- all done with little advice from the faculty, in the name of saving money... (paid subscription required)
...(Karina) De La Cruz faces fairy tale odds. She's an illegal immigrant, so she isn't eligible for most forms of state and federal financial aid. The University of California system, by policy, does not require applicants to disclose their citizenship status: Officials say their goal is to find the best students, not to enforce immigration law. UCLA officials say they aren't even sure how many undocumented students are on their campus..."To have a chance to thrive here, students like that need an advocate," said Charles Alexander, UCLA's associate vice provost for student diversity...
...But a comparatively little noticed tax provision in both the Senate and House measures could make it significantly easier for small private colleges to raise money to build or renovate facilities, buy equipment, or refinance debt...
President Bush has left town, but former Education secretary Margaret Spellings says she'll remain until 2010, spending part of her time burnishing Bush's No Child Left Behind law, which is due for reauthorization...
Few things are more poignant than a gem of a museum whose days may be numbered. So it was at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University on a visit Friday, days after the university's trustees voted unanimously to trash the institution by closing it and auctioning off the 6,000 works in its collection...