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University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin signed an agreement Monday that could pave the way for a future academic exchange with Tikrit University in Iraq, taking part in a growing trend among U.S. universities to reach out to scholars in Iraq...
As Wisconsin soldiers prepare for deployment, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is formally establishing ties with a changing Iraq by partnering with a prominent university...
Sauk County area residents interested in leadership positions within government, business or non-profit institutions will have more educational opportunities come fall. UW-Baraboo/Sauk County will offer a Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree from UW-Oshkosh as part of an agreement between the two schools signed Monday...
...Drug companies have largely taken over the field of doctor education, in part by bankrolling physician education courses at medical schools. Critics say the practice increases medical costs by encouraging doctors to write prescriptions for expensive brand-name drugs and by exaggerating the frequency and prevalence of rare conditions. It also promotes the use of drugs not approved for the ailments. A Journal Sentinel investigation found that industry-funded doctor education courses offered at UW often present a slanted view by favoring prescription medications over non-drug therapies and by failing to mention important side effects...
The first new academic building since the 1970s to be built at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will have to wait a few more years. Preliminary design on the Innovation and Collaboration Center was to receive funding in the 2011-13 biennium as part of the UW System's six-year plan. But because of financial uncertainties, the work has been pushed back to the 2013-15 biennium...
Chancellor Biddy Martin and the Associated Students of Madison will create a student oversight committee to help implement the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, Martin announced Monday at a forum about the initiative...
Students and staff raised questions and concerns at a campus forum Monday regarding the University of Wisconsin’s initiative to increase tuition...
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee freshman was found dead inside a dorm suite early Monday and has been identified as Luke David Murphy, 19, of New London, according to university spokesman Tom Luljak. UWM police continue to investigate the death, which was reported just before 6 a.m. at Sandburg Hall, 3400 N. Maryland Ave., where Luljak said Murphy was staying after attending an off-campus party Sunday night...
On Monday, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point began interviews for the dean of its College of Letters and Science, bringing the first of four finalists to campus...
...And when times get tough, community colleges like MATC get busy. "The two-year colleges are the places that are best equipped to -- relatively quickly -- help the unemployed or underemployed," said Noel Radomski, director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, a think tank on the UW-Madison campus...
In the bid for a fat envelope this year, it may help, more than usual, to have a fat wallet. Facing fallen endowments and needier students, many colleges are looking more favorably on wealthier applicants as they make their admissions decisions this year. Institutions that have pledged to admit students regardless of need are finding ways to increase the number of those who pay full fare in ways that allow the colleges to maintain the claim of being need-blind -- taking more students from the transfer or waiting lists, for instance, or admitting more foreign students who pay full freight...
For a generation of students who share every detail of their personal lives in text messages, MySpace pages and other online postings, the college admissions chase is offering a lesson that some things are best kept private...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is loosening many of the proposed requirements that some colleges feared might limit their ability to participate in a new federal program that helps veterans attend private colleges, graduate schools, and out-of-state public institutions... (paid subscription required)
As budgets thin, many public universities around the country have begun outsourcing remedial education to community colleges. Some scholars, however, maintain that these developmental programs should remain at four-year institutions. In particular, they argue that on-campus preparatory courses help boost the academic success of black male students, an often heard-to-reach population...