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University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh chancellor Richard Wells has withdrawn his candidacy as a finalist for the presidency of the University at Albany in New York, according to a statement issued by Wells today...Wells did not elaborate on his reasons and was unavailable for further comment...
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is breaking records left and right. Aside from seeing a record number of applicants for fall 2009, the university has had an 11 percent increase in enrollment over the past 10 years and a 2.6 percent increase in the 2007-08 school year alone, according to an enrollment report from the UW System...
...Because these UW-Madison campus museums and collections are often viewed as relics — or worse, completely invisible to the public — they are especially vulnerable to budget cuts, officials say. Even on campus, no one knows just how many collections exist, or what types of artifacts they contain...
To say Katsina Darma is committed to education may be an understatement. The 54-year-old Nigerian left behind his wife and two children to earn his bachelor's degree from UW-Stout in 1983. Darma returned to the Menomonie university 24 years later -- this time leaving his wife and three minor and four grown children in Nigeria -- to earn a master's degree...
...The collection of regional words and phrases is beloved by linguists and authors and used as a reference in professions as diverse as acting and police work. And now, after five decades of wide-ranging research that sometimes got word-gatherers run out of suspicious small towns, the job is almost finished. The dictionary team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is nearing completion of the final volume, covering "S" to "Z." A new federal grant will help the volume get published next year, joining the first four volumes already in print...
The UW-Madison is about to complete its final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English...
Growing up the daughter of a logger in the Rhinelander area, Kitrina Carlson didn't think much about going to college. That is, until she started working one summer while in high school hoeing potato fields at the UW-Madison Rhinelander Agricultural Research Center on the UW Lelah Starks Potato Breeding Farm. Working there, she said, she got a great tan but also met professors who encouraged education, opening her eyes to the idea of attending college...
You wouldn't expect detail-oriented, data-based engineering types to go all cross-cultural, change-the-world-one-village-at-a-time kumbayah. But then, Engineers Without Borders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison isn't your typical 4-year-old organization...
Tom Landgraf teaches a real estate class with a focus on sustainable green development at UW-Madison...In lieu of a conventional lesson plan, the class will complete projects to benefit Union South's redesign...
Eric Sandow is poised to graduate with a geography degree in May, but career plans A and B - graduate school or a land-planning job - aren't panning out. So the 28-year-old University of Wisconsin-Parkside student is seriously considering a pursuit he's had in the back of his mind for years: the Peace Corps. The troubled economy and President Barack Obama's call to service are helping create a surge of interest in the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and other service opportunities. Meanwhile, the U.S. House last week approved the largest expansion of government-sponsored service programs in years...
People nearing retirement aren't the only ones walloped by the stock market decline during this recession. Parents saving for college also have seen their equity accounts dwindle, especially if their money is in more aggressive savings programs. But experts say there are several ways parents can soften their losses...
...Paying for education, local colleges say, will be most difficult for families who think money would be better spent elsewhere because of lost jobs or invested money. But financial difficulties can be overcome, they stress, if families capitalize on money still available...
For the fourth straight budget, Gov. Jim Doyle has included a provision that would allow illegal immigrants who graduate from Wisconsin high schools to pay in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin institutions...
After more than a decade of expansion, the Medical College of Wisconsin is grappling with smaller operating margins, a less profitable patient mix and excess research capacity at the school and its hospital partners...
...With the economy in shambles and the cost of higher education spiraling ever higher, being an R.A., as the job is known, has a newfound cachet: 168 Seton Hall students applied this spring for 30 spots, up from 104 applicants two years ago...The position — part therapist, part event planner, part enforcer — has long been seen as a leadership role that bolsters a résumé, but now is increasingly embraced as a financial crutch...
...Interest has surged in becoming a teacher, and more pathways are emerging to get people there quickly. The New Teacher Project, which helps people switch from other careers to the classroom, said 29,576 people have applied to its teaching fellows programs this year, a 44% increase over last year. The group was founded in 1997 by Michelle Rhee, now the schools superintendent in the District of Columbia. There has been similar interest in Teach For America, which recruits new college graduates, although not career-switchers. The organization has received more than 35,000 applications, 42% more than last year...
The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital. Within two years, press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs that the press publishes each year -- currently in book form -- to be released only in digital editions...
The median salary increase for mid-level administrative positions in higher education for 2008-9 is 3.5 percent, according to data being released today by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Increases are larger at private than at public institutions, and smaller at doctoral universities than in other sectors of higher education...