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A state lawmaker criticizes the governor's budget proposal for raiding yet another segregated fund. Republican Senator Rob Cowles (R-Green Bay) wants the Joint Finance Committee to remove a provision in the two-year spending plan that takes $25-million from UW system student fees and places it in financial aid programs...
The story behind the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s new academic building goes back to 1932, when Sadie Ann Bashara earned a degree in education. The Ironwood, Mich.-native instilled in her children the importance of higher education, said her son, Jim Swenson. He and his wife Sue are benefactors of the $32 million project to construct the first new academic building on campus in 30 years. The couple contributed $5 million to the university in support of the project...
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago is one of 13 finalists for the job of president of Florida International University in Miami...University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly said Saturday that he offered to recommend a pay raise for Santiago when he found out Thursday that Santiago would be a finalist. But Santiago asked Reilly not to do that because his decision about FIU would not be about money, but the type of choice that "tugs at the heart"...
Carlos Santiago, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been named as one of 13 finalists for the job of president of Florida International University in Miami...
With the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates proposal scheduled to be sent to University of Wisconsin System officials Thursday, Chancellor Biddy Martin sent an e-mail to students last week updating them on the direction the initiative is taking...
It's been a rough couple of months for University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Chancellor Linda Bunnell. Directors of the university's fundraising arm have rebelled against her leadership. Student leaders voted "no confidence" in her and accidentally posted her credit card number online. She got into an accident in her state vehicle and later acknowledged she had been drinking a bit beforehand. Bunnell has become a polarizing leader of the central Wisconsin school of 8,800 students known for its environmental programs...
Whether or not a driver is under the influence of alcohol, a hit-and-run is a hit-and-run, hands down. According to an April 16 Associated Press article, the chancellor of UW-Stevens Point, Linda Bunnell, said alcohol was not a factor in a crash she was a part of on Feb. 17...According to the article, the student senate at Steven's Point voted 15-0 on a resolution expressing "no confidence" in her leadership. This reflects poorly on the administration, and it shows her irresponsibility...
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Chancellor Linda Bunnell said she has no plans to resign over criticism from students and donors about her leadership...
Electric bicycles. Bring-your-own-bottle vending machines. Ergonomic piano benches. Disease assessment tools for developing countries. Those are some of the ideas that UW-Madison students want to turn into working companies. They presented their concepts Friday at the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition at Grainger Hall, home of the School of Business...
Two Blackhawk helicopters from the Wisconsin Army National Guard landed a little before noon on Friday at the recreational fields just north of UW Hospital and Clinics. The large, four-bladed "birds" picked up about 20 Air Force ROTC cadets from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and flew them to Volk Field Air National Guard Base, which is located at Camp Douglas, Wis., some 85 miles northwest of campus...
Kenosha's Italian-American community gathered Sunday to recognize two community leaders and honor another longtime community champion. University of Wisconsin System Regent Michael Falbo and former Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian were honored during the fifth annual Celebrazione Italiana at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside...Falbo was given the 2009 UW-Parkside Lifetime Recognition award. Antaramian was given the 2009 UW-Parkside Excellence in Leadership Award...
Kansasville Elementary School students might have a hard time today believing they've arrived at the right school. The 1922 building was transformed Saturday and Sunday by the power of 180 college students, all future teachers eager to give the 87-year-old school a major freshening up. "I had never done anything like this — ever," said Katy Tuyls of the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley...The program, now in its 11th year, is called Outreach to Teach, and it's a program of the Student Wisconsin Education Association...
(UW-Stevens Point senior) Eric Bath is prepared to meet the real world, in some ways...But with unemployment climbing and the number of available jobs plummeting, he and other central Wisconsin college graduates face what is by some measures the most difficult labor market since before they entered kindergarten...
From a spinning roulette wheel to felt-covered blackjack tables and official chips and playing cards, an entertainment gambling lab at UW-Stout is designed to teach students about managing and operating a casino. The lab, in the home economics building, is part of the hospitality and tourism department. The university offers a certificate program in gaming management and a minor in gambling entertainment management...
UW-Madison lost its top spot in Playboy Magazine's rankings of top party schools but still made the top 10, hitting the No. 6 spot in this year's poll. Playboy doesn't put out the list every year and UW-Madison was ranked No. 1 in 2006, the last time Playboy came out with the rankings...
UWPD officers trained members of SAFEwalk for Badger Watch, a UW-Madison crime prevention organization, at Memorial Union Sunday. According to Heidi Laundrie, UWPD lower campus community officer, Badger Watch is a program that encourages members to watch for and report crime in the UW-Madison community...
Somers firefighters battled two grass fires Saturday, one that sent a firefighter to the hospital. As many as 20 firefighters responded to a call about 10 a.m. for a grass fire on the east side of Highway 31, or Green Bay Road, south of Highway JR, on the cross-country course of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside...
Mark Guard could have been one of many jobless workers included in Green Bay's 11.9 percent unemployment rate. Thanks in part to a pioneering collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley and UW-Platteville, Guard is a well-paid engineer at Schneider National...The ABET-accredited bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering program offered by UW-Platteville entirely on the two-year UW-Fox Valley campus in Menasha allowed Guard to earn his degree without leaving his home or moving his family...I recently provided testimony to the state Legislature's Joint Finance Committee about the importance of preparing our state for a brighter economic future by increasing the number of engineers throughout Wisconsin...(Author: Brad Hansen, president and COO of Heartland Business Systems and Avastone Technologies in Little Chute, WI, and vice president of the UW Colleges and UW-Extension Board of Visitors)...
Colleges have added managers and support personnel at a steady, vigorous clip over the past 20 years, new research shows, far outpacing the growth in student enrollment and instructors. Support staff — like budget analysts, computer specialists, and loan counselors — nearly doubled from 1987 to 2007. Meanwhile, jobs for instructors increased by only about 50 percent, according to a report to be released this week by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. Although the report draws no direct link between growth in back-office staff and rising tuition, it does conclude that the scale of the expansion reflects unproductive spending by academe... (paid subscription required)
Colleges' enrollments have risen dramatically in the past 20 years, so it's not surprising -- and arguably is even appropriate -- that the size of their staffs has grown, too. But the rate of growth has come among support staff employees rather than instructors and has outstripped the enrollment growth, resulting in a decline in productivity over that time, a new report asserts...
...A new student POLL survey found that the recession has caused one in six collegebound students to change their college plans. The effects were most pronounced among lower-income students... (paid subscription required)
Vice President Joe Biden pledged Friday to close gaps between family incomes and college costs to make higher education a reality for more young people. Biden told a town hall-style meeting in St. Louis that he'll the Treasury Department to look into how to make family college-savings plans more effective and reliable. Many families save for college in tax-deferred plans known as 529s, and Biden said the government will consider options such as low-interest loans against those plans to help families pay for school...
New guidelines governing the use of federal stem-cell dollars, issued by the National Institutes of Health on Friday afternoon, drew a generally positive reaction from scientists and college advocacy groups... (paid subscription required)