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University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates would eventually pay $1,000 more in tuition per year under the new chancellor's four-year plan to improve quality. UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is proposing a $250 supplemental tuition charge starting next school year for in-state undergraduates...
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin announced to a group of student leaders Tuesday an initiative to create differential tuition for all UW undergraduates to increase financial aid and the number of faculty positions. The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, which will go to the UW System Board of Regents for approval in May...
While experts across the nation are busy drafting solutions to deal with what some call a national economic crisis, UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is creating her own strategy for sustaining affordability and academic excellence. Martin unveiled her new plan, titled the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, to student leaders Tuesday. If passed by the Regents, the initiative would implement a supplemental tuition charge for all students to improve the quality of undergraduate education but still remain affordable, especially in comparison to other Big Ten schools...
UW-La Crosse will contribute nearly $5.4 million to a $25 million financial aid initiative for in-need students, if Gov. Jim Doyle's budget plan is approved. The new funding will come not from the state budget but existing funds that UW schools have saved in auxiliary accounts. Since UW-L had saved roughly $20 million as of June of last year, the UW System is expecting this university to fund about 21% of the total aid package statewide...
A University of Wisconsin-Green Bay program that encourages fifth graders to go to college will be replicated at another Wisconsin college, officials announced today. UWGB and a yet-to-be-named school will share $125,000 from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation to make the effort possible. Phuture Phoenix, founded by Ginny Riopelle and Cyndie Shepard, wife of former UWGB Chancellor Bruce Shepard, brings fifth graders from low-income schools to campus for a day each October....
Despite the economic crisis and a projected $5.7 billion state budget shortfall over the next biennium, it's looking like the building boom on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will continue for at least the next couple years. The Higher Education Subcommittee of the state's Building Commission recommended last week that $580.9 million in building projects across campus move forward during the 2009-11 biennium...
Unemployment among the building trades is hovering at 30 percent, nearly three times the regional average, and making $3.5 million in additional state funding for the University of Wisconsin-Superior vitally important to local contractors. And university officials are wasting no time to make sure those workers get the message about the project to construct the 144,000-square-foot academic building when work gets underway this summer...
UW-Eau Claire students will be able to relax at their own north woods lodge in the future. The new student center will use a lodge design concept -- including fireplaces and outdoor terrace seating, said Ray Maggi, project architect with Philadelphia architectural firm Burt, Hill...
Elmbrook high school students have another way to get a head start on college after the University of Wisconsin System's decision to consider two Project Lead the Way courses as high school science units for admission purposes. The first course, Principles of Engineering, is planned for introduction in Elmbrook next school year. The second, Biotechnical Engineering, is planned for the 2013-14 school year. Melanie Stewart, director of assessment and student learning, said students can also earn credits for Marquette University, Milwaukee School of Engineering and Waukesha County Technical College...
...To truly address this problem, the campus will need ongoing dialogues, support of prevention efforts, compassionate response to victims and holding perpetrators accountable. This vision requires us all to endeavor in activities that promote respect, consent, healthy sexual attitudes and excellence...(Authors: Lori Berquam, UW-Madison Dean of Students; Carmen Hotvedt, Violence Prevention Specialist)...
With the economy in a lurch and many jobs or businesses no longer on solid footing, now just might be the right time for a makeover...University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County is holding an "Extreme Makeover Education Edition" contest to give one local resident the chance to go to school and re-vamp their skill set...
The Marathon County Board on Tuesday approved spending $1 million on a hands-on dairy learning academy. The previously allocated taxpayer money will go to the Dairyland State Academy to buy farmland and facilities to use as a classroom for students. Dairyland and Northcentral Technical College officials hope to have the school open by fall...
Kenosha Unified Advanced Placement students will pay $25 for each test they take next year, but will get the money back if they do well. The move was approved by the School Board in a 6-1 vote Tuesday night after debating whether the fee should be any higher or if charging anything at all is punishing smart students who might not have any other way of getting to college. Students scoring 3 or higher on an AP test would get their money back...
After a month of celebrating the largest boost in federal spending on scientific research that most of them have ever seen, university presidents are increasingly tuned to the possibility of a downside. The new money—primarily from a $21.5-billion jump in research-and-development spending in the economic stimulus law—is certainly welcome, several university presidents and higher-education officials said on Tuesday during a lobbying trip to Capitol Hill. Yet, the leaders said, many institutions struggled over the past decade to retain promising young researchers and their investigative projects through upward and downward spikes in the budget of the National Institutes of Health, And they’re now hoping to avoid repeating that pattern with the stimulus money... (paid subscription required)
Nearly seven in 10 high school students say the struggling economy has affected where they applied to college this year, a survey out today shows. And yes, they are stressed about it. Most students will find out this month where they have been accepted. The biggest concern: that they will get admitted into the school they most want to attend but won't be able to for financial reasons...
...Many university-based researchers, after enduring eight years of financial restrictions imposed in 2001 by President George W. Bush, believe that the happiness among them with Mr. Obama's policy shift — and the potential of cures for paralysis or cancer or the growth of entire replacement organs — may soon give way to some tougher realities... (paid subscription required)
The fact that large numbers of international students enroll in doctoral programs in the United States is no surprise, but their considerable presence represents “one of the most significant transformations in U.S. graduate education” in the last quarter century, argues a new economic analysis of the supply and demand effects influencing student outflows from other countries and influxes into the United States. The proportion of foreign-born Ph.D. recipients in science and engineering nearly doubled from 27 percent in 1973 to 51 percent in 2003...
When the City University of New York began an ambitious fund-raising campaign in 2004, the first in the system’s history, some were skeptical. “People were nervous at the time because it was new,” said Matthew Goldstein, the chancellor and himself a City College alumnus. But on Wednesday Dr. Goldstein is to announce that CUNY reached its $1.2 billion goal three years ahead of schedule, and has expanded the campaign to seek $3 billion by 2015...
...In the world of college rankings, neck-breaking double takes abound. But it’s the nature of the business that discrepancies exist — why would Forbes begin ranking schools if its list was going to match up almost exactly with U.S. News, the leading rankings publication? The flip side to that, of course, is how could a dozen different publications differentiate their ranking systems enough to make printing them worthwhile?...College rankings might not be what they appear to be, but they can’t be written off altogether. At least prospective students don’t think so...