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Unless University of Wisconsin students specifically restrict access to their directory information, businesses such as credit card companies and lenders can get a list of every student's name, address, phone number and more from the university for a nominal fee...
For the first time in five years, undergraduate applications for fall admission to UW-Madison are on the decline. The reason why is still unclear, officials said, but it could be related to the slumping economy and a smaller class of high school graduates. The total number of students who applied to UW-Madison dropped from a record high last year of 25,073 to 24,263 this year...
...Their parents, frustrated with the limits of treatments for the disease, are banking on an experimental approach at UW-Madison: a drug that mimics the low-sugar diets some people with epilepsy have tried since Biblical times...When the Girouxs learned about the research, they decided to support it by forming Lily's Fund, named after their daughter..."We want to do our very, very small part to build on and sustain their work," Dave Giroux said. As spokesman for the University of Wisconsin System, he said the fund provides a personal connection to his job extolling the virtues of research and higher education...
The University of Wisconsin has fired a professor from Florida who mysteriously failed to show up to teach at UW-Eau Claire last fall, according to documents made public Tuesday. The UW System Board of Regents voted during a closed meeting last week to fire Philip Siegel. A copy of its six-page decision was released Tuesday...
This past spring no more than 9 percent of the student body at University of Wisconsin-Madison turned out to vote for the student government elections. Participation, in fact, has been low for years -- and so have been expectations...Most associated with ASM seem to agree the organization is battling an identity crisis and image problem, and is struggling to remain relevant to the more than 40,000 students on campus...
...For the last 13 years, the station had been in The Towers on State Street, standard office space that was never intended to house a radio station. The new station, on the fourth floor of UW-Madison’s sleek student services tower, 333 East Campus Mall, is palatial in comparison, 3,000 square feet that includes soundproofed studios, a mixing studio, a news booth and three listening rooms...
Taking a chemical approach, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process, which is described in the Wednesday, Feb. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is unprecedented in its use of untreated, inedible biomass as the starting material...
...UW-L started Stress Reduction Tuesdays this semester to help not just students, but faculty and staff alleviate some of the pressures on campus...
A former pediatric trauma nurse, a state deputy superintendent, a principal and two professors are candidates for Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction. The statewide primary set for Tuesday will trim the number of candidates from five to two. Those two will proceed to the April 7 general election during which one will be elected to a four-year term to replace Elizabeth Burmaster, who has headed the Department of Public Instruction since 2001...
The economy is hurting right now. But, according to the state's higher education institutions, that makes funding for financial aid all that more important...Tuesday afternoon, state lawmakers got a surprise visit. With letters in hand, representatives of the state's public, private and technical education institutions went door-to-door to convince legislators to put more money into the financial aid system...
Workers who provide essential services in Wisconsin could lose their jobs if the federal economic stimulus package approved by the Senate doesn't include $25 billion for states to help pay their bills, Gov. Jim Doyle said Tuesday. Doyle and many of his fellow governors are sounding alarms about the need for the funds for education and general-purpose state aid, which weren't in the version of the bill passed by the Senate on Tuesday. A conference committee will work out the differences between the Senate version and one passed by the House last week...
The Wausau City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to bring Rasmussen College to the city's west side, hoping to bring jobs and more educational opportunities to the area...
The first look ever at how the USA's economic downturn could affect education finds that states probably will cut an estimated 18.5% of spending over the next three years, an $80 billion drop that could eliminate 574,000 publicly funded jobs. The analysis, by Marguerite Roza, a senior scholar at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education, comes as congressional lawmakers begin working out a compromise on the economic stimulus bill...
Harvard University said Friday it will cut about a quarter of the staff — or about 50 jobs — from the company that manages its endowment after the fund's value tumbled $8 billion in four months. The estimated 22% decline, by far the largest in higher education, was the sharpest drop in the endowment's history. The fund was valued June 30 at $36.9 billion before falling to $28.7 billion by October...
The name-brand master of business administration programs at schools like Harvard, Wharton and Stanford have long been gateways to the gilded castles of investment banks, private equity firms and hedge funds. Now those jobs have evaporated...That's not such a problem for students at many less prestigious schools...They tend to head to regional businesses, and fewer of them go into financial services. Their specialties are such areas as energy, brand management, supply-chain management, human resources and market research. The industries they rely on may have been hurt during this downturn, but they haven't been devastated...
Now is a great time for colleges to get bids on construction projects — if they have the money to pay for them...As the financial, housing, and major-construction markets have headed toward meltdowns, those same construction firms are looking for jobs, even while the prices of energy and materials have fallen. The prices of essential construction materials like structural steel, cement, and lumber are all expected to decline through 2009... (paid subscription required)
Public colleges and universities are just beginning to recover from the 2001 recession, and that progress is likely to be undone in the coming fiscal year, according to a new report. The report, issued by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), indicates that per-student state appropriations were on the rise from 2006 to 2008, following four consecutive years of decline. Even with these gains, however, state-supported colleges are receiving less in constant dollars per student than they were in 2001 — a peak year in data that stretch back to 1983...