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Enrollment in the University of Wisconsin's 26 campuses reached an all-time high this year. The university said Monday that enrollment was 175,056 last fall. That was an increase of 1 percent or 1,663 from the previous year and an all-time high...
University of Wisconsin System enrollment hit a record high in Fall 2008, continuing a pattern of steady growth, officials said today. Enrollment hit 175,056 total students – an increase of 1% from the previous year, and an all-time record. The increase holds true when you look at the number of course credits carried by students, too. The system had 149,494 full-time equivalent enrollments – also a record...
Students come to Madison with their priorities for the upcoming state budget. Funding the UW System benefits everyone. So says the United Council of UW students. Nicole Juan, executive director of the Council, says they want affordable tuition and financial aid, saying the amount of student debt affects career choices...
Members of the United Council for UW students gathered at the Capitol today to tell lawmakers they want more funds in the budget for education. The students asked for additional funding for staff retention, domestic partner benefits for employees, student employment and continuing education...
Student leaders in the UW System say they recognize the state's tight finances but they hope lawmakers won't be tight-fisted as they consider how much money to put toward higher education. Gov. Doyle's proposed budget gives student leaders some of what they want: domestic partner benefits for all UW System employees, increased pay for faculty, and higher average amounts for need-based grants...
Gov. Jim Doyle proposed Monday that the state authorize $240million for construction projects at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an unprecedented amount that UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago said would enable the university to reinvent itself as a research and economic force in the metro region...
Gov. Jim Doyle announced Monday his capital budget will include $240 million in bonding over the next six years to allow the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Engineering College, School of Fresh Water Sciences and School of Public Health to move forward...
Construction workers are in “a full-scale sprint” as they near the finish on several Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex projects at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, an official said...
Arthur D. Code, a scientist who elevated the field of astrophysics in many ways over his 40-plus years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Wednesday at the age of 85 in Madison after a long illness. Code was a celebrated scientist who pioneered launching telescopes into space to avoid the distorting effect of Earth’s atmosphere...
Mentor Kenosha and Racine, an initiative based in the Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has named Lisa Anderson the January Mentor of the Month. An employee at Kenosha’s Edward Bain Elementary School of Language and Art, Anderson is the award’s initial recipient...
Former Green Bay Packers linebacker George Koonce is the new athletic director at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Koonce, 40, is currently a senior associate athletic director at Marquette University. He will replace longtime UWM athletic director Bud Haidet...
When Michael Crow became president of Arizona State University seven years ago, he promised to make it “The New American University,” with 100,000 students by 2020. It would break down the musty old boundaries between disciplines, encourage advanced research and entrepreneurship to drive the new economy, and draw in students from underserved sectors of the state...But this year, Mr. Crow’s plans have crashed into new budget realities, raising questions about how many public research universities the nation needs and whether universities like Arizona State, in their drive to become prominent research institutions, have lost focus on their public mission to provide solid undergraduate education for state residents...
To be at the University of Arizona these days is to be, in some ways, under siege. The flagship university in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states may have to eliminate some 600 jobs and merge dozens of programs to deal with two rounds of budget cuts imposed since June, and now the governor is telling the university and other state agencies to prepare for cuts of as much as 20 percent for the next fiscal year...University leaders feel their core mission is at stake, as they struggle to make a case for the public value of a research university to a governor and key legislators who have found success in life without having earned a four-year degree... (paid subscription required)
For the first time in six years, enrollment in computer science programs in the United States increased last year, according to an annual report that tracks trends in the academic discipline. The revival is significant, according to computer scientists and industry executives, who in the past have pointed to declining numbers of science and engineering students as a canary-in-a-coal-mine indicator warning about the nation’s weakening ability to compete in the global economy...
Most workers who have a degree from a community college can earn more than a person who had no formal training after high school. And even if they never complete a two-year degree, students who attend some community college can get higher-paying jobs. But what if that student goes on to earn a bachelor's? A study being released today shows that people with a bachelor's degree who transferred from a community college earn less than those who start at a four-year school...