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UW-River Falls students and members of Student Senate traveled to Milwaukee on March 5 to voice objections to a listening committee established by the UW System Board of Regents about the proposed revisions of Chapters 17 and 18 of the UW System Administrative Code...
...The event, held in the Laird room of the Dreyfus University Center, featured a wide variety of ethnic cuisine and entertainment from cultures around the globe. The theme, “global crossroads,” underscored the idea of a global connection that binds all people on a fundamental level...
The University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point Student Government Association passed a unanimous vote of “no confidence” in Chancellor Linda Bunnell at last Thursday’s senate meeting. "A vote of 'no confidence' has absolutely no legal standing, nor precedence," Kirk Cychosz vice president of SGA, said to the assembly. "It is just simply to show that an organization is dissatisfied with the leadership."...
Leave it to libertarians to reduce every single issue on earth, be it political, economical or social, to absolutism. Leave it to them to turn an innocuous and practical initiative like Chancellor Biddy Martin’s Madison Initiative for Undergraduates into a new battlefront between those who value freedom and self-reliance and those pesky Marxists who just love leeching off the rich. One needs to look no further than the way those who oppose the Madison Initiative are going about framing the discussion as proof of these tendencies. Yet, is it true that this initiative is just another case of “wealth redistribution”?...
Although largely scrutinized, Biddy Martin’s proposed Madison Initiative for Undergraduates will do more good than harm for the student body. It is easy to get riled up by numbers, but after hearing all of the fuss, I was surprised to find much of the commotion is over petty change. With tuition numbers in the thousands, it is hard for me to comprehend the impact $2,500 at most is likely to have on me in the long-run. But I do know something that is likely to have an impact. Lecture halls filled to the brink, the loss of renowned faculty to a student body unwilling to fork out the money and the end of distinguished reputation in a school known for above-average academia...
The deans of the UW-Madison School of Business and College of Engineering want their students to know they will benefit from a proposed tuition hike for all undergraduates...
Word is getting out about the University of Wisconsin. A new study ranks the UW sixth nationally when it comes to appearing in the global print and electronic media, on the Internet, blogosphere and social networking sites...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked No. 6 in a new study that examines how often a college or university's name appears in a wide range of media...
A deep appreciation for and encouragement of diversity on the UW-Madison campus has earned Janice Rice, senior academic librarian and a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, the honor of being named the university's 14th recipient of the annual UW System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award...
Everybody knows Bucky Badger. Then again, nobody knows Bucky Badger. That's why the documentary "Being Bucky" will likely open a few eyes as to what it's like -- and what it takes -- to be the live version of the state's most visible symbol...
Gov. Jim Doyle’s budget somehow finds $25 million in new financial aid for low-income students. The goal is to “hold harmless” students from households making less than $60,000 from the tuition increases many UW schools will be forced to implement...
Local artist in residence, Roger McVey, performed pieces ranging from Debussy to Beethoven to Chopin during a faculty recital April 2 at the UW-River Falls Kleinpell Fine Arts Building inside William Abbott Concert Hall...
Wisconsin's Office of Financial Literacy is being recognized by Harvard University as one of the nation's notable agencies...
As more and more people without jobs look to technical colleges for re-training, teachers are wondering where the money will come from. Wisconsin’s technical Colleges are educating students who want to be truck drivers and dental assistants as well as those who will go on to get four-year degrees. Some have enrolled in the Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eau Claire because they couldn’t find a job with that four-year degree or have been laid off. However, economics teacher Carmen Iannarali is upset that financial aid for tech school students could be much lower this year than for university students. That makes no sense she says because preparing people for work means they’ll eventually pay taxes...
Following a wave of states legalizing same-sex marriage this week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will now have the opportunity to review the state’s ban on gay marriage, an appeals court ruled Thursday...
A lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's constitutional ban on Gay Marriage took another step closer to the State Supreme Court Thursday, The suit brought by U-W Oshkosh professor William McConkey says the 2006 referendum on Gay Marriage in the state violated the state constitution because it included two different issues. Banning gay marriage and banning civil unions...
Several Milwaukee School Board members bristled at not receiving or being briefed in advance on a consultants' report that claims the city's public schools could be saving more than $100 million per year if its bureaucracy was run more efficiently. Some said they had already pushed for reform on many of the reported problem spots: streamlining purchasing, selling unused land and curtailing large salaries. Outside the system, many wanted to know what makes this report - another in a long line of analyses that paint a dismal picture of MPS - different from the others...
A recent report by the National Bureau of Economic Research points out that throughout the first half of the 20th century, each new cohort of Americans was more likely to graduate from high school than the preceding one -- a trend that has increased worker productivity and fueled American economic growth. In the past 25 years, growing wage differentials between high school graduates and dropouts increased the economic incentives for high school graduation. So it's surprising that at a time when the premium for skills has increased, so too has the high school dropout rate...
After several years of aggressive hiring, some college fund-raising operations are now cutting back as both revenue and investment income fall. The regrouping could slow growth plans on many campuses at a time when the need for private support has never been greater... (paid subscription required)