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The University of Wisconsin System is moving ahead with a new computer program to manage its payroll and benefits for employees after spending $26 million on a previous failed effort. The university has budgeted $8 million just to plan for the massive and complicated conversion from a system that's been in place since 1975. There are no estimates yet for how much the project will cost or how long it will take...
More than 2,000 University of Wisconsin System students received a total of $1.76 million in need-based financial aid during fall 2008, thanks to a generous scholarship donation. The Fund for Wisconsin Scholars was created with a $175 million gift from philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge. Roughly the same amount of aid will go to about the same number of students in the current semester...
The UW System says it's making "significant progress" in providing more need-based financial aid for students. But future progress will depend on what the state and federal governments can provide...
Yesterday, the Board of Regents got a report saying UW nursing schools need to expand so they can train health officials needed for the future. And a nursing educator adds lack of access for qualified students is not just an issue for the UW System...
The University of Wisconsin System is suspending payments from about 30 endowments whose values have dropped in the recession, its president said Friday. The move will mean $700,000 in reduced payments for scholarships, projects and other initiatives on campuses across the state, President Kevin Reilly told the Board of Regents...
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved tuition increases for certain students at UW-Oshkosh, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Platteville...
The University of Wisconsin at Madison announced today that it would end its business relationship with Russell Athletic, which makes apparel with the university’s logo, when its current licensing agreement expires in March. The decision follows a recommendation made late last year by the university’s Labor Licensing Policy Committee in response to questions about why the Russell Corporation, the apparel maker’s parent company, had decided to close one of its factories in Honduras. Worker-rights groups had alleged that the closure was in response to union-organizing activity there...
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin said the university will end its relationship with Russell Athletic, a UW licensee that makes fleece wear with the university's logo...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will no longer do business with a clothing manufacturer that allegedly closed a plant in Honduras after workers began unionizing, university officials said Thursday. The university earned almost $40,000 last year from its licensing agreement with Atlanta-based Russell Athletic, which makes fleece clothing with UW-Madison logos. That agreement is expiring in March and UW-Madison will not renew it...
UW-Madison officials said a half dozen engineering school graduates either had accepted job offers rescinded, or delayed for months, by national firms...
Novelist L.P. Hartley opens his most famous work, The Go-Between, with this line: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” It comes to mind while viewing the Black Thursday Remembered exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh...The exhibit recounts in words and images the events leading up to and following Nov. 21, 1968, the day campus blacks at what was then known as Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh occupied the university administration office with a set of demands that amounted to a request for equal treatment and representation...
...UW-Stout has become the first campus in the UW System to incorporate ethics into everything...
Wisconsin's Focus on Energy Environmental and Economic Research and Development (EERD) Program has awarded $988,810 in grants to nine researchers for biomass energy-related studies. One of the studies is being led by Anna Haines, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the director of the university’s Center for Land Use Education. Haines was awarded $54,491 for an 18-month feasibility study concerning the availability of feedstock for a proposed wood gasification plant at the Stevens Point campus...
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle says he wants to install a new biomass boiler at a coal-burning power plant in downtown Madison by 2012. The state agreed last year to reduce coal use at the plant under a settlement to stop a federal lawsuit over pollution at the plant. The Charter Street Power Plant helps heat and cool the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
...So important is the concept of evolution that UW-Madison's biology department is now offering an evolutionary biology emphasis for students. The role of evolution on campus will be evident Saturday at the university's celebration of Darwin's 200th birthday...
The most ridiculously named conference the University of Wisconsin has held in many years went off without a hitch Thursday, as a crowd of elitists put on their blinders and whined about how their cherished illusions are being challenged. The "Free Trade Under Threat" session at Grainger Hall, which was promoted by the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, the UW-Madison Center for International Business Education and Research and the Madison International Trade Association, featured as its whiner-in-chief Paul Blustein, of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Blustein was brought in to worry aloud about how Americans are demanding that economic and trade policies be restructured to benefit workers, farmers, consumers, communities and the environment in the U.S. and abroad...
A website that publishes anonymous, sometimes malicious gossip about college students has agreed to cease operations. Matt Ivester, founder and chief executive officer of Los Angeles-based JuicyCampus.com, announced his intention Wednesday in a message posted on the website. The message cited the national economic meltdown and falling ad revenue...
The Harvard endowment, stung by declines of more than 20% in recent months, says it will eliminate a quarter of its staff, or about 50 jobs, over the next several months...
Buried in the recent news about big endowment losses and the steps colleges are taking to weather the economic crisis is an emerging pattern: Culture, it would seem, is expendable...
In urging lawmakers to crank up spending on scientific research in the economic stimulus package Congress is now debating, university lobbyists have focused their rhetoric on the potential of the money to produce jobs and “expand the knowledge base and produce the discoveries that will sustain and improve the nation’s economic competitiveness,” as the Association of American Universities put it in a letter so senators this week. Given the bill’s purpose and the political necessities of the times, that focus makes sense.But part of the reason Congressional backers of the additional research support are pushing it — and the major reason potential recipients of the funds want them so badly — is that they believe federal backing for scientific studies have been insufficient in recent years...