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Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich [UW-Eau-Claire], along with administrative members of his cabinet, discussed challenges of the state budget and reviewed suggestions from students Thursday...
To cut back on costs, UW-Eau Claire will be cutting out lunch trays. Starting this fall, UWEC students will no longer use trays in any of the campus' dining facilities. The food service director says trayless Tuesdays were such a success in cutting back on wasted food and dishwashing -- the college decided to get rid of them completely. Trays accounted for nearly 400,000 gallons of water being used daily...
...UW-Whitewater is the only school in the UW system to offer undergraduate courses in video game design. The school is currently in the process of transforming it multimedia program into a media arts and game development program...
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is hoping to make a name for itself in the video game industry and help some of their students find jobs...
Some UW-Madison engineering students say the proposed tuition increase for all undergraduates will hit them especially hard because they already pay a higher rate in the College of Engineering...
A state lawmaker is calling for the University of Wisconsin System president to step into a deteriorating situation at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point after Thursday's no-confidence vote by the student government for Chancellor Linda Bunnell...
State Rep. Steve Nass is asking the University of Wisconsin System to review the conduct of UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Linda Bunnell in the wake of a report that she failed to tell police immediately that she had caused a car crash on the UW-Madison campus...
In a letter to the University of Wisconsin System, Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, voiced concern regarding the leadership skills and other recent issues regarding UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Linda Bunnell...
...Al's' 23-year-old son, Scott, was one of three UW-Stout students who died in an off-campus house fire on April 5, 2008, while they slept in separate upstairs bedrooms of a duplex at 1415 Eighth St. E. in Menomonie...
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student has been charged with selling a prescription drug to fellow UWM student Luke Murphy, who was found dead of an apparent overdose the next morning...
An idea for the establishment of an institute for the study of evolution on the University of Wisconsin campus is evolving among members of the scientific community who are currently working on a draft of a formal proposal to bring the concept to life...
UW-Stout students will vote electronically Wednesday on a proposal to eliminate smoking on campus, possibly as early as next fall.
...The University of Wis-consin-La Crosse psychology major studied whether sexiness played a role in how people interpret a musician's musical ability. She was among more than 120 UW-L graduate and undergraduate students sharing her results at the university's 12th annual celebration of research and creativity Friday...
In sharp contrast to the noisy allegations in lawsuits and political campaigns in the year since Brittany Zimmermann's murder, a memorial on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday was silent except for tolling bells...
The University of Wisconsin remembers one of its own, on the one year anniversary of her murder. Brittany Zimmerman's family was present as the Carillon Tower bells on the Madison campus tolled 21 times in memory of the 21 year-old Marshfield woman who was murdered in her off campus apartment a year ago...
Several Madison officials shed light on the reasons why sexual assault numbers are deceptively low in Wisconsin and nationwide...
A legislative leader is backing a controversial tuition surcharge for UW-Madison students...
A U.S. Army officer has been hired to be the University of Wisconsin-Madison's military historian thanks to a gift from the late author Stephen Ambrose...
...Community members and UW-L students collected pledges and shaved their heads to support children’s cancer research through a St. Baldrick’s Foundation event held at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse...
Some students got to go on an exciting ride Friday. About 20 ROTC students from UW-Stout, UW-Eau Claire and UW-River Falls got to hitch a ride on three helicopters that landed in a soccer field at UW-Stout Friday afternoon...
...Sollinger helped build the University of Wisconsin Hospital organ transplantation center in Madison into one of the largest in the world. For the past 13 years, he has led UW's organ transplantation program, one of the most successful organ donation programs in the country. He's chairman of the division of transplantation at UW and a professor of medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health...
UW athletic department officials released a copy of a cancelled check to 27 News as verification the transfer of a moped from Cindy Alvarez to a football player was a sale, and not a gift, but the copy deletes the name of the check writer...
Eight UW-Superior students spent their spring break in Montana helping build two houses for Habitat for Humanity. Joe Cadotte reports...
On a spring weekend when winter makes a comeback, two events near the University of Wisconsin are trying to put a spotlight on homelessness and poverty...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s push for more bicycle usage on campus has earned a silver award from the League of American Bicyclists in the league’s “Bicycle Friendly Business” program...
Governor Jim Doyle announced that his Capital Budget will create or maintain approximately 30,000 jobs and help stimulate local economies around the state. The Building Commission approved a $1.4 billion State Building Program today that focuses on economic development, higher education, energy efficiency and renewable energy...
...Doug Mell joins us from Menomonee to discuss the industry. Mell spent over 25 years in the print industry with the Wisconsin State Journal and Eau Claire Leader Telegraph. He is currently the director of communication at the University of Wisconsin-Stout...
Two state legislators have called for the creation of an academic detailing program in Wisconsin that would give doctors unbiased information about cost-effective prescription drugs...
There's been a fair amount of attention recently to the financial woes facing higher education in Wisconsin...But if legislators and residents focus solely on four-year institutions, they'll ignore another vital - and equally challenged - part of Wisconsin's higher education system: technical colleges...
Mindful of the severe shortage of dentists in large swaths of rural Wisconsin, the Marshfield Clinic and the state's largest community health center have begun putting together the pieces to start a second dental school in Wisconsin...
Concordia University is on track to open Wisconsin's second pharmacy school in September 2010 with a class of 65 students...
A recent report shows that Wisconsin isn't churning out enough doctors to keep up with demand...
Advocacy groups have long claimed Wisconsin's overly litigious climate costs state businesses money and keeps others from locating here in the first place...Not true, says a new study published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Law School that aims to "examine some of the persistent myths" about civil litigation. In fact, it says, the number of civil cases in which individuals seek compensation for personal injury and property damage fell 17.4 percent in Wisconsin from 1996-2007...
As students from the state's private colleges lobby legislators for more financial aid, one lawmaker sees things differently...
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is closing its online-education grant program, a foundation official has told The Chronicle. Some college officials are concerned that the decision will leave a fast-growing sector of American higher education without a major source of support...Robert Kaleta, director of the Learning Technology Center at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, compared the change to losing a parent "who has always been there to support, guide and encourage us."... (paid subscription required)
The end of the fiscal year usually isn't a momentous occasion for colleges. But this June 30 could be a day of reckoning many never expected. Colleges borrowed tens of billions of dollars over the past decade to improve facilities, in some cases stretching themselves to the limit and beyond. Now the financial crisis threatens to turn that debt into a ticking bomb... (paid subscription required)
...The recession, they said, might be a time for colleges to renew their implicit contract with the public, and for faculty members to reassert their standing as professionals... (paid subscription required)
Baby boomers once redefined youth—and now they are redefining retirement. Health-care advances and increasing life spans have allowed adults who are 50 and older to stay in the work force longer than their parents did. A tough economy means that many older Americans must continue working out of necessity, if not by choice. And many baby boomers who leave the work force seek opportunities to stay active and engaged in their communities... (paid subscription required)
For leading private colleges and universities, the 2006-7 and 2007-8 academic years were periods of excitement, as institutions greatly expanded the generosity of their aid policies, eliminating loans for some or all students and providing grants that made even the most expensive of colleges (by sticker price) significantly more affordable for many families...Quietly, however, a few college and university officials have noted that their presidents and provosts have adjusted their rhetoric slightly, and are talking more about keeping commitments to current students and applicants -- and a little less emphatically about keeping those commitments to new students...