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Students studying in the nation's largest undergraduate natural resources program will be the main beneficiaries of a $1.2 million gift bequest from a rural Port Washington couple. The bequest from Marion and John "Jack" Wilson is one of the largest single gifts in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, according to Chancellor Linda Bunnell...
A link between Iraqi university and UW-Madison is closer to reality. Wisconsin officials participated in a recent teleconference with officials affiliated with Tikrit University. Dean of UW's Division of International Studies Gilles Bousquet says the Iraqis are highly interested in drawing from their resources including the study of agriculture, engineering and health. Bousquet says UW has an "international reputation" in those fields...
Three power figures -- all of them Democrats from the Madison area -- could end up making the final decision on how up to hundreds of millions of dollars in federal stimulus money for Wisconsin is spent. Under a budget bill fast-tracked to be passed by lawmakers as soon as Wednesday, Gov. Jim Doyle and the two co-chairmen of the Legislature's influential budget committee could decide how much of that money would be spent...
Madison Area Technical College leaders find themselves in a bit of a conundrum. On the one hand, the college is starting to burst at the seams as it attempts to educate a new generation of young people while also providing training and sometimes the groundwork for a new career to casualties of the economic crisis. But to truly address this issue, MATC must find a way to expand -- a move which could raise some eyebrows due to the recession...
Madison Area Technical College will keep its fine arts courses at its main Truax campus, although the latest plans still call for the demise of the Mitby Theater. The move comes as students and community groups, concerned about the proposal to eliminate the theater, are pushing MATC to prioritize arts education and performance...
Despite a projected $5.7 billion state deficit in the next fiscal year, lawmakers Monday unveiled a plan to decrease the over $600 million current deficit that still needs to be solved by June 30. The proposal does not solve this year's deficit, but reduces it by $183 million, according to analysis by the state's Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The proposal does not mention cuts to the UW System, meaning any reductions will be announced in the larger budget package Gov. Jim Doyle will unveil Tuesday...
The $100 billion in emergency aid for public schools and colleges in the economic stimulus bill could transform Arne Duncan into an exceptional figure in the history of federal education policy: a secretary of education loaded with money and the power to spend large chunks of it as he sees fit...
Quantcast ...Even before Barack Obama had moved into the White House, America's first black president was responsible for a noticeable decrease in racial prejudice -- particularly on the nation's college campuses -- according to a new study. "We saw a dramatic decrease like we've never seen before," said Ashby Plant, a psychology professor at Florida State University and co-author of the "Obama effect" report, targeted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Plant and a colleague at the University of Wisconsin, psychology professor Patricia Devine, started their study once Obama secured the Democratic Party nomination last summer...
University of the District of Columbia leaders announced last night that they would phase in a tuition hike for the coming school year because of increased funding for the school expected in the economic stimulus package passed by Congress...
Community colleges are touting the economic-stimulus bill as a big win for their job-training programs, which under the mammoth legislation would be eligible for billions of dollars in grants. The bill, which President Obama is expected to sign today, would also broaden the Trade Adjustment Assistance program and programs authorized by the Workforce Investment Act by allowing community colleges to participate in them more directly... (paid subscription required)
Colleges have talked for decades about the educational benefits of diversity on their campuses without offering much research to show how students are affected by exposure to members of other racial and ethnic groups. In an effort to fill that gap in knowledge, James Sidanius, a professor of psychology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard University, led a team of researchers in conducting a long-term study of about 2,000 students who entered the University of California at Los Angeles in the fall of 1996... (paid subscription required)
When U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander spoke this month at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education, he urged college leaders to offer three-year bachelor's degrees. The concept would cut "one fourth of the time and up to one third of the cost," he said, calling three-year degrees the "higher ed equivalent of a fuel-efficient car," compared to the traditional "gas guzzling four-year course"...
College presidents who declined raises and bonuses this year may have lost money, but they gained goodwill and political capital. As might be expected, the opposite appears true for those who clung to their often generous rewards even as budgets were slashed...