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UW-Platteville’s chancellor has announced plans to retire. On March 17, Chancellor David Markee announced that he is planning to retire in August. Markee, one of the longest serving chancellors in the UW System, has served UW-P since 1996...
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has shaken up the leadership of the campus Police Department, demoting Pamela Hodermann from police chief to administrative lieutenant and appointing a police captain as interim chief, officials said...
...All in all, fundraising from listeners is $300,000 off pace this year, (WPR acting director Mike) Crane reported. Add to that $150,000 in projected cuts in state funding, and venerable WPR, first licensed to the University of Wisconsin in 1915, and a $45,000 shortfall in corporate underwriting and WPR is looking at about a half-million-dollar drop from anticipated revenues this year on an operating budget of $11.4 million...
Milwaukee Area Technical College may create new guidelines that would limit the college's ability to rehire senior management-level retirees as consultants. A discussion about creating a new policy came two months after Journal Sentinel columnist Daniel Bice reported that former vice president of college advancement Rob Hartung got a consulting gig after retiring. At the request of board member Melanie Holmes, a vice president at Manpower Inc., MATC Vice President and General Counsel Janice Falkenberg drafted proposed changes that would prohibit senior management-level retirees from being rehired to staff a temporary or limited-term position, special assignment or consultant role at the college...
Wisconsin is the ninth-worst state in which to do business, according to a survey by Chief Executive magazine. The magazine polls chief executives across the country and ranks the states on what it calls “a broad range of issues” including natural resources, regulation, tax policies, quality of living, education and infrastructure...The state’s worst asset this year? Its work force. Chief Executive ranked Wisconsin’s work force 47th in the nation. The state also ranked low in the cost of business and in economy, both of which ranked 36th. Business friendliness (28th) and access to capital (27th) also ranked in the lower half of the country. Education and transportation proved to be bright spots, ranking ninth and 13th, respectively...
It's traditionally seen as a time for celebration, but these days Hamline University senior Emily Amici looks at graduation day with nothing but uncertainty...The numbers bear her out, with the unemployment rate among college graduates at a record high. In February, almost 1.9 million college graduates were unemployed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Colleges and universities nationwide are preparing to roll out their welcome mats for veterans who will be eligible for the new Post-9/11 GI Bill. It goes into effect Aug. 1. Now, if only the schools knew exactly what they were getting themselves into. or public colleges and universities, the terms of the new bill appear to be relatively clear-cut. It essentially covers tuition and fees for any eligible veteran pursuing an undergraduate degree in his or her home state. Much of the uncertainty to date centers on what happens if a veteran chooses a higher-priced option — a private college, for example, or a graduate program at a public school in another state...
True, it's not a great time financially to be going or sending a kid to college. But from the success of a bailout to the federal student loan system, to the tuition "deals" some colleges are offering, there's more good news out there on college costs and financial aid than some families recognize. A look at the good and the bad for the college-bound...
Foreign students who have traditionally stayed in the United States after graduation are beginning to find their job prospects more promising back home than in the U.S., a trend that is being accelerated by recent protectionist measures by American companies, according to a report being released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation...
With defaults rising and investor confidence low, banks and other lenders are rethinking the way they structure private student loans. On Monday, the nation’s largest student-loan provider, Sallie Mae, will begin requiring borrowers who take out its private loans to make interest payments while they are still in college and repay their loans in 15 years or less, rather than the typical term of 15 to 25 years...
At California State University this fall, five slots per campus will be reserved for active duty or veteran service members guaranteed admission on the basis of their commanders’ recommendations. “We’re not second-guessing the recommendations. We’re taking them,” said Allison G. Jones, assistant vice chancellor of academic affairs and student academic support for the CSU system...