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The poor economy coupled with an increase in application fees is coinciding this year with a drop in the number of applications at some University of Wisconsin System schools...What's evident is that fewer students this year are filling out applications to multiple schools. This is the first year of an increase in the application fee from $35 to $44, and the fee must be paid for each application...
Although Gov. Jim Doyle's budget did not include $8.4 million the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee requested to hire faculty and build infrastructure, Chancellor Carlos Santiago hopes to sustain momentum in UWM's push to boost its research profile. The school is seeking state approval for $240 million in building projects over the next six years, including new schools of freshwater science and public health and the envisioned engineering complex in Wauwatosa. Meanwhile, Santiago is urging legislators to restore some of the $8.4 million UWM requested...
Amid all the bad news about the economy and disturbing health disparities in Milwaukee, the promise of a far more robust research-based economy is on the horizon. An economy stemming from and centered on growing the research capacity at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee stands out not only as a glimmer of hope but as something within our reach...(Author: Rep. Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee), who represents the 19th Assembly District, which includes UWM)...
Just like people in your household, those of us at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point are keeping a close eye on the nation and state's changing economic conditions. In this uncertain economy, our faculty and staff members continue to implement best practices to ensure student success...UWSP has been doing more with less much of the past decade. Since the early 1990s, this university has about $9 million in state support. About 28 percent of our operational budget comes from Wisconsin taxpayers. A decade ago, UWSP had 38 percent state support for it operations...(Author: Linda Bunnell, chancellor of UWSP)...
...Instead, the Badger Career Network Alerts program seeks to connect mostly graduates who are now in mid-career and executive-level positions with companies seeking new management, scientific and professional talent in those fields. "It’s highly specialized skills that (these companies) seek," said co-organizer Jennifer Alexander, president of Thrive, an economic development organization serving the eight-county Madison region. And because e-mails about the open jobs would be sent to UW-Madison alumni who fit the needed criteria, the hiring company can be sure applicants will be familiar with the area and eager to move back...
A record number of University of Wisconsin students rolled out of bed Saturday morning to attend a seminar on personal finances. More than 120 students attended the Alumni Student Board's annual personal finance seminar. That's more than double the number last year...
When Sidra Syed carried Pakistan’s flag to kick off the University of Wisconsin-Parkside’s Worldfest Week in the International Flag Ceremony a couple years ago, she was just one of nearly 50 international students and faculty members in the colorful parade...Worldfest Week is just one way UW-Parkside shows it values the university’s international students and faculty, Syed said...
A partnership among the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, UW-Fox Valley and Fox Valley Technical College will let Waupaca County residents earn bachelor of applied studies or bachelor of liberal studies degrees from UWO...
The disarming this month of 25 knife-wielding teddy bears by UW-Platteville police has prompted a campuswide discussion on the boundary between free expression and campus safety. The bears were part of a student art display, propped up in neat rows on the floor of the main lobby of the UW-Platteville Art Building with sharp kitchen knives in their plush laps...
An art display at a southwestern Wiscosnin college has prompted free-speech debates after campus police ordered it modified. Student Michael Hannigan wanted to juxtapose the innocence of teddy bears against the ferocity of real bears. So he lined up 25 stuffed bears in the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Art Building -- with kitchen knives in their laps...
With just $15 in their pockets and a time limit of 100 hours, University of Wisconsin-Madison students dreamed up and created such inventions as an egg-cracking machine and an isolation chamber for studying. The winner of the 100-hour Wiscontrepreneur Challenge will be announced Monday...
Three old buildings are coming down on the corner of Randall Avenue and W. Johnson Street on the University of Wisconsin — Madison campus to make room for a larger multi-use student-union building that will be a focal point for students and guests in the south-central area of campus...Throughout the project, Madison Environmental Group, Inc., Madison, WI, will provide environmental consulting, help find outlets for reusable and recyclable materials generated by the project, and certify the types and amounts of materials that have been reused, recycled or sent to landfill...
...Today, as the economy takes another nosedive, Dubuque is back in the spotlight, but for something good - landing an IBM facility with 1,300 high-tech jobs...Many of the local college presidents had already worked together on other projects, and those relationships paid off when IBM was being wooed, Blouin said. Markee and Knox, despite being from Wisconsin, eagerly joined the effort, Blouin said. UW-Platteville's involvement added a tech-heavy college - half of its 7,000 students are majoring in engineering and related subjects - that's a 20-minute drive from Dubuque. IBM executives visited the campus recently to conduct recruitment workshops, said Markee, whose college uses tuition discounts to draw more than 1,000 students from nearby communities in Iowa and Illinois...
Paying attention in class has paid off for Kelly Opdahl. The senior accounting student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater phoned home after guest speakers from a Brookfield firm pointed out that certain education tax credits have doubled because of the mid-2008 storms and floods that pummeled the Midwest, including 30 counties in Wisconsin.So instead of qualifying for a $2,000 Lifetime Learning Credit to offset college expenses, her parents became eligible for $4,000 worth...
There could soon be more money than ever to help students go to college, but figuring out how to get it is the trick. Both the proposed state and federal budgets included significant investments in financial aid, beefing up grant and loan programs and creating new ones. The concern among some officials is that the federal application form for aid — a labyrinthine 109 questions — intimidates prospective college students and their families from applying to college...
Students at one UW school are standing behind the statewide domestic partner registry in Governor Jim Doyle's budget proposal. From La Crosse, Danielle Kaeding reports on the debate...
A nonprofit is bringing 90 college graduates to teach in Milwaukee's highest need schools in the next three years. Teach For America says it will provide at least 30 teachers to Milwaukee Public Schools this fall, with at least 30 more in each of the two following years...
One bright spot in the gloomy economic news recently is the success of biotech firms. Many are hiring, even during a tough economic time...But for qualified applicants, biotech companies are one industry that is still hiring. FluGen is one of many area biotech companies still hiring in a tough economy, partially because of support from the state and the University of Wisconsin...
Gov. Jim Doyle has rightfully proclaimed that everyone in the state must share the pain of solving our huge budget deficit in the face of an incredibly bad national and state economy. Nevertheless, legislators need to somehow find a way to send a few more dollars to the state's vocational and technical colleges, for if there ever was a time that our tech schools need more, it is now...
Although the down economy has people scrimping and saving, they’re still willing to invest in higher education. Application numbers are up from last year at three area colleges and school officials say the economy is part of the reason why...The University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Somers is seeing similar increases, not because of layoffs, but because of housing expenses...
`When the state of Illinois joined the Midwest Student Exchange Program two years ago, it opened the door for Illinois residents to receive thousands of dollars in discounts to attend colleges in nearby states. But there was a catch: First, at least one Illinois school had to sign up for the program and offer similar discounts to some out-of-state students. Two years later, none has...But Dahlquist noted that an entire university system wouldn’t have to join. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, for example, doesn’t take part, she said, though the other 11 University of Wisconsin campuses do...
Admissions officers at the State University of New York college campus here are suddenly afraid of getting what they have always wished for: legions of top high-school seniors saying “yes” to their fat envelopes...At SUNY New Paltz, as at many other well-regarded public institutions this spring, admissions calculations carefully measured over many years are being set aside as an unraveling economy is making less expensive state colleges more appealing...Similar surges are occurring at public colleges and universities across the country, education experts say...