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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow wants to use funds earmarked for faculty bonuses to help pay for financial aid for Wisconsin students...Gow's proposal calls for easing what is needed from reserves by tapping $15 million in "star funds" in the proposed budget money earmarked for recruitment and retention of high-demand faculty in the system...
University of Wisconsin students expressed both concern and support Thursday at the first of two campus forums on Chancellor Biddy Martin's Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, which would increase tuition, financial aid and academic services for students...
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin explained her newly proposed initiative to students and listened to their feedback at a forum Thursday...A UW-Madison engineering student at the forum asked Martin why all undergraduate students needed to pay extra money when engineering students already have to pay differential tuition. Martin said the benefits of the initiative will benefit high-demand courses in the College of Letters and Science and also courses within it required by other colleges...
Birth control may soon become more affordable for many local college women, thanks to an obscure provision in the giant federal spending bill signed earlier this month by President Barack Obama...When costs of these contraceptives tripled and even quadrupled a few years ago, students and their health care providers were "all blindsided," said Jason Walker-Crawford, a pharmacist with UW Health, which provides drugs to the Women's Health clinic at University Health Services...
Three years is better than four, at least when you're paying for it. Gateway Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside agreed last week to let Gateway students transfer credits in core classes. That means qualifying Gateway students can essentially skip their freshman year when enrolling at Parkside...
The chancellor of UW-Stevens Point hit a parked car while in Madison to see Gov. Jim Doyle speak and left the scene of the crash without alerting anyone, according to a Madison Police Department report...
The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point wound up with a traffic citation when she visited Madison to hear Gov. Jim Doyle speak last month. A police report said Chancellor Linda Bunnell hit a parked SUV and left the scene without telling anyone...
Ottensman Hall was evacuated during the evening of March 26 after a fire in the building set off an alarm. Police speculate the fire was started by someone in the building...Damage to the building was minimal...
A dessert dinner and dance will cap a weeklong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Lee Sherman Dreyfus University Center at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point..."This is a formal opportunity to reminisce," said Greg Diekroeger, the assistant director of Campus activities and recreation...
Some UW-Stout students' faces showed disgust Thursday while picking through about 40 containers of trash, but as bags of plastic bottles, cans and paper were filled they hoped their efforts would make a point that many recyclable items are needlessly being thrown away...
UW stout students dive into a competition, involving trash. It's part of a nation wide competition called RecycleMania. Thursday's event, Trash Blitz will end the week long competition...
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers report they have found a way to further purify adult stem cells, taking scientists a step closer to the day when such stem cells could potentially be used to treat people with chronic ailments...
Having mastered the ability to roll back a cell's clock to its embryonic origin, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison cleared a major technical hurdle this week, raising hopes that the technique could usher in a new kind of medicine that exploits the body's own repair system...
The UW-Madison scientists who created a new kind of stem cells two years ago have removed a major obstacle to using the cells to develop treatments: genetic mutations that could cause cancer...
The economic downturn may have stopped most new construction in southeast Wisconsin, but area colleges and universities are plowing ahead with more than $150 million in projects and have more than $400 million in potential developments on the drawing board...
A group of Fox River Valley high school students gave some serious thought to foreign language and the future Thursday, attending the inaugural World Languages Day at St. Norbert College. The event was designed in part to show how fluency in multiple languages can benefit students in an increasingly global community, organizers said...
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday to broadly expand national community service programs, increasing the number of positions to 250,000 from 75,000 and creating new cadres of volunteers focused on education, clean energy, health care and veterans...
Attendance is down at many academic and professional conferences in higher education this year, and next year's numbers are expected to be far worse, as campus budgets take further beatings... (paid subscription required)
Faced with severe budget cuts and an increase in applications for this fall, nearly half of California State University's 23 campuses may have no choice but to turn away students who would normally be promised admission. Campuses across the state are rejecting or wait-listing students who meet the system's minimum admissions standards. The restrictions are a response to a call in November from the system's chancellor, Charles B. Reed, to cut systemwide enrollment by 10,000 full-time equivalent students in view of the state's budget crisis... (paid subscription required)
Public college leaders in many states are looking to the recently enacted federal stimulus package as a lifeline, if not a savior, in the worst economic climate in more than a generation. But keep those expectations in check: As the murky picture surrounding the stimulus funds slowly begins to clear, the evidence so far suggests that higher education may fare well in some states, but could receive relatively little in others...
The University of Illinois' president said this week the university will try to avoid a large tuition hike. A UI spokesman said it's too early to put a number to it, but it's likely to be significantly less than the 9 percent raise last year...Hardy said that with the UI's guaranteed tuition after the first year, annual increases average out to about 3 percent, "which is close to the levels of private schools like Northwestern, which have much higher tuition to begin with"...