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The University of Wisconsin System tied with Harvard University for educating the most chief executive officers of major companies in 2008, according to one report. That Harvard University is churning out the heads of top businesses in no surprise, but the perch of UW System graduates is perhaps more unexpected...
Eleven University of Wisconsin-Superior student journalists recently received collegiate radio news awards from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association -- more than any other Wisconsin university...
A public hearing on the proposed sale of county-owned land to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been set for Wednesday, March 25, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Zoofari Conference Center, 1001 W. Bluemound Road, Wauwatosa. The hearing will be a special meeting of the County Board's Committee on Economic and Community Development. The hearing is to gather comments, and the committee will not make a recommendation at the meeting...
Laurits (Lau) Christensen, chair of the economic and engineering consulting firm Christensen Associates of Madison, has established a named faculty chair in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Economics, the UW announced. Christensen, who served on the UW-Madison economics faculty for 20 years, says he made the gift to allow the recruitment and retention of top-flight professors, the UW said in a news release...
The University of Wisconsin is moving ahead with developing a $25 million hockey arena/practice facility next to the Kohl Center and banking on 100 percent private financing to do it. The credit crisis has eliminated traditional methods of underwriting sports projects, including those at colleges, which often sell bonds to initially pay for construction. But in Madison, where Wisconsin's women's team entered last weekend's NCAA tournament as the top overall seed and the men were seeded third in their conference tourney, athletic officials are confident they will cover building costs by passing the hat among Badgers hockey's biggest supporters...
Despite a recent stock market rally, no one is yet calling the current recession over.As countless large companies across the nation have suffered losses due to the economic downturn, small locally-owned businesses are trying to avoid the same fate.And many of them are turning to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Small Business Development Center for advice...
Local biotech entrepreneur Russell Smestad announced the launch of a Web site that aims to enhance the visibility of the Madison biotechnology industry, to facilitate finding local career opportunities in biotech, and to provide a private networking forum for its executive talent...
Times are tough, very tough. The great majority of colleges are looking at 2009 and 2010 and beyond, in anticipation of the deepest budget cuts in more than a generation. But as bad as the financial situation may be, colleges can survive if they take swift and strong emergency action...The first message for higher-education institutions has to be that competition is going to become fierce. For college leaders to believe that their main worries are the inwardly focused challenges and politics of maneuvering campus groups through an unpleasant budget realignment would be a major mistake... (paid subscription required)
Class sizes and teaching loads for composition courses at community colleges -- courses typically required of most students and seen as crucial for college success -- appear to be growing well beyond levels that are considered educationally sound. That was the suggestion from preliminary data released here Saturday at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication...
...In the last decade, record numbers of immigrants, both legal and illegal, have fueled the greatest growth in public schools since the baby boom. The influx has strained many districts' budgets and resources and put classrooms on the front lines of America's battles over whether and how to assimilate the newcomers and their children...