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In the second installment of WTN TV, an internet-based news and commentary broadcast service produced by WTN Media in conjunction with DelphiTV.com, features Ed Meachen, the CIO of the University of Wisconsin System...Meachen shares his thoughts on K-12 and higher education in regards to technology adoption...
...The state Building Commission gave the expected thumbs up to UW-Superior's largest-ever construction project this week. The $32 million Swenson Hall Academic Building got final approval Wednesday...
After a lively debate the State Building Commission added $3.5 million Wednesday to the Jim Swenson Hall project, which secured the final funding for construction of a $32 million building at the University of Wisconsin-Superior...
Choosing to focus on big building projects at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, the State Building Commission Wednesday voted not to give approval for UW-River Falls to build a $44.5-million Health and Human Performance building that would replace Karges Center. UW-RF officials have been planning since 1990 for this much-needed facility. It's been recommended for 10 years by the UW-System Board of Regents...
An 18 million dollar renovation of U.W. Stout's Memorial Student Center now has the approval of the State Building Commission...
The Wisconsin State Building Commission has approved a $1.4 billion state building program that includes $240 million for the aggressive growth plan of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday. The plan submitted by the university includes funding for the School of Freshwater Sciences and the School of Public Health in downtown Milwaukee, and the UWM College of Engineering campus in Wauwatosa...
A landmark Near East Side factory building has come back to life as a high-tech business incubator aimed at brewing the big ideas of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and faculty...
State government improperly gave the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee twice as much in federal aid last year after the school double-billed the state...
According to an audit report from the Legislative Audit Bureau, a few UW System campuses misspent some of their federal funding...
The Oshkosh Student Association sent out a second round of requested changes to Chapter 17 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code, which if not revised would continue allowing the university to punish students for their off-campus misconduct...
UW-Eau Claire no longer will hold an August commencement ceremony. With fewer than half the candidates for graduation participating in the August ceremony, eliminating the ceremony has been discussed for several years, Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich said. Given the financial challenges currently facing the university, it made sense to make the change now, he said...
Tears flowed and bells chimed on the UW-Madison campus Thursday as family, friends and members of the university community gathered to remember slain student Brittany Zimmermann on the one-year anniversary of her death...The homicide ignited an urgent sense of personal safety awareness across campus at the time of Zimmermann's death, and though the university has taken great strides in expanding security, improvements are still being made one year later...
Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment will hang posters in Madison buses for the month of April to address the issue of sexual consent...
A UW student group launched a new campaign promoting the importance of consent in sexual situations. PAVE (Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment) is behind the Metro bus ads, that feature the tagline "Some things should never be blurry. Get consent every time...
University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac Dean and Chief Executive Officer Daniel J. Blankenship has announced he will be leaving the campus to accept the position of executive vice president and provost at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee...
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Student Government Association on Thursday passed a vote of no-confidence for Chancellor Linda Bunnell. It cited a lack of accessibility, clarity and accountability on Bunnell's part, including not meeting the UW System's shared governance requirements and her traffic citation in Madison in February...
Opening up yet another university e-mail, I was initially disappointed to find a hidden message from Chancellor Biddy Martin -- we're jacking up your tuition. They call it "The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates" when the initiative is to charge us more. For obvious reasons, Martin does not want to frame her plan as what it is -- an intentional tuition increase for students. There would be considerably more attention--and outrage--if this idea were sold to us sans the glittery, wonderful-sounding name. Despite the unnecessary marketing maneuver, this tuition hike will benefit every Badger...Martin's plan would upgrade two vital components of our world-class university -- affordability and education quality...
Chancellor Biddy Martin's new Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, unveiled last Tuesday to students, is designed to improve student services, access to core classes and increase the amount of need-based aid offered to University of Wisconsin students. Martin rightly assesses higher education funding by dividing it into four areas: federal, state and private dollars in addition to tuition money. As state support continues to slip, she is correct in turning to the two sources of money that are out of the hands of politicians and bureaucrats and rather largely in our control -- tuition and private donations -- in order to fund the initiative...Biddy and Co. are banking on the fact after the above-average tuition increases, our out-of-state tuition will still be on the lower end of the spectrum in comparison to our higher education competitors to continue to lure top students from across the country to Madison...
Athletes on campus may be spending scholarship funds on mopeds, with critics saying it shows a lack of oversight by the Athletic Department...
A UW-Madison athletics department official told 27 News verification the provision of a moped from the wife of UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez to a football player was a sale and not a gift will be produced...
What if I told you there was going to be a public forum on the world of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department. Would you show up? What if I told you that many of the major decision-makers involved with UW sports -- including director Barry Alvarez, his top aides, members of the Athletic Board, chancellor Biddy Martin's office and the Board of Regents -- would be on hand in the same campus lecture hall to outline key policies of the department. Would you be curious?...
Students from the state's private colleges make their case at the capitol for more financial aid...
Wisconsin authorities improperly charged the federal government for rent on unused rooms, unlicensed foster care providers and college students ineligible for financial aid, auditors reported Thursday. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee also overcharged a government foster care program that pays tuition for students studying to become social workers by $112,000, the Legislative Audit Bureau report found...
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle on Thursday proposed a $1.4 billion, two-year capital spending plan that he said will create 30,000 jobs in the state...
The U.S. Education Department examines 2 ways to make it easier for families to apply... (paid subscription required)
Muriel A. Howard, president of the State University of New York College at Buffalo, is set to become the first black leader of any of the "big six" higher-education associations in Washington. She was named this week as the next president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities...In an interview, she talked about the milestone her selection marks, her leadership style, and the challenges she will face... (paid subscription required)
A bill that could bring a major overhaul to U.S. patent law -- and perhaps prompt inventors to publish new findings earlier to preserve their intellectual-property rights -- was adopted by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Thanks to several amendments also adopted Thursday, the new measure, unlike bills proposed in 2007, would not undercut the rights of academic institutions that hold patents, college officials said... (paid subscription required)
Eighteen months ago, Ohio's Owens Community College set up shop in the Source, the local county's one-stop employment center in downtown Toledo....In the year and a half since the change, the two-year institution has educated 1,000 students at the Source, 600 of whom were brand new to Owens, says Paul Unger, the college's executive vice president and provost...The steady stream of students that Owens is educating through the Workforce Investment Act could accelerate into a torrent for it and other community colleges, thanks to the federal stimulus package that is just beginning to course its way through the nation's economy...
...For many college students in the class of 2009, the post-graduation job hunt has turned into a quest for a rewarding Plan B -- or in many cases Plan C or D...