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The Board of Regents will vote Thursday on proposed revisions to the UW System conduct rules that could allow universities within the system to punish students for severe off-campus misbehavior...
A state-court judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a controversial 2001 decision by the University of Wisconsin system to fire a tenured professor at its Superior campus over the objections of the faculty panel that had investigated misconduct charges against him. According to the Associated Press, Judge Robert Eaton of the Douglas County Circuit Court ruled this month that the campus’s chancellor, Julius E. Erlenbach, had not done anything improper in calling for the firing of John B. Marder, an associate professor of mass communications, in a private meeting with the system’s Board of Regents...
Trying to educate as many students as possible and giving them the quality of education they need to succeed is a tough balancing act for University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells. Add the certainty of budget cuts because of the state's financial mess and the problem becomes more difficult...In an interview with The Post-Crescent on Monday, Wells discussed the fiscal situation, as well as UW-Oshkosh's present and future...
Creating more online classes, including science labs, would be a great way to expand the University of Wisconsin-Parkside's options, bring in more students, and help offer courses during difficult budgets, a chancellor candidate said Tuesday. Elizabeth Langland, one of five contenders for the post, gave her perspectives on teaching, fundraising and other issues during a community forum Tuesday. She's currently the vice president and dean of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University...
In the almost two weeks since Chancellor Linda Bunnell announced she will step down May 31, money hasn't been flowing into the fundraising group whose leaders recently questioned her spending and leadership. But Bob Spoerl, president of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation and a Bunnell critic, said he is confident donations will increase in time...
Fear over the H1N1 virus prompts school officials at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh to ban hugs and handshakes during their spring graduation ceremonies. The 1,400 seniors will have to find another way to celebrate their college degree...
The world's largest drugmaker has signed a license with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to use human embryonic stem cells...
Copies of Michael Pollan’s book "In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto" will likely swarm the UW-Madison campus this fall. The book was chosen for the university's first common reading program, Go Big Read. Chancellor Biddy Martin created the program to engage students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members in a shared reading experience...
...The city Landmarks Commission on Monday recommended landmark status for the five-story University of Wisconsin-Madison structure, designed in Italian Renaissance style, built at a cost of $434,000 and opened in 1930...
Medicare won't pay for genetic tests to determine patients' best dose of the blood thinner warfarin, discovered at UW-Madison and named after the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF...
The Associated Students of Madison, UW-Madison's student government, is charged by its constitution "to ensure the greatest participation by students" in governance and policy-making. But former ASM Chair Brittany Wiegand, who was involved with ASM sessions 12-15, from 2006 to 2009, said student detachment from ASM has been a problem for years that members only began to dig into this year...
The state's financial shortfall could grow by $1 billion or even more over the next two years, lawmakers said Tuesday. Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, a member of the Legislature's budget committee, said that a worsening economy and falling tax collections could add as much as a $1.2 billion to a projected state budget deficit that was already nearly $6 billion earlier this year. A growing budget shortfall could lead to everything from higher taxes to furloughs or layoffs of state workers or cuts to programs such as education and health care...
Wisconsin lawmakers have decided to take a week off from budget deliberations and to wait for new revenue projections. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Gov. Jim Doyle told the National Governor's Association in Milwaukee on Monday the state's current $5 billion deficit likely will grow even worse...
Amazon.com is widely expected to unveil a new Kindle electronic book device with a larger screen Wednesday, which would be geared for textbooks, magazines and newspapers and possibly shake up the economics of multiple industries at once...
Rumors that Amazon will introduce a wide-format Kindle have the news media and bloggers speculating about whether the new gadget will spark an electronic-textbook revolution and lighten backpacks nationwide. This week The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon plans to work with a handful of universities on a pilot project featuring Kindles loaded with textbooks. Officials at the institutions named in the article -- Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, Pace University, Princeton University, Reed College, and the University of Virginia's business school -- refused to reveal details, citing nondisclosure agreements...
College officials and adult students, including a well-known country singer, argued for increases in federal funds for job training and adult education in a Congressional hearing on Tuesday. And the lawmakers appeared sympathetic to their pleas... (paid subscription required)
...In a particularly competitive year for college admissions, The Wall Street Journal turned the tables on the presidents of 10 top colleges and universities with an unusual assignment: answer an essay question from their own school's application...The exercise showed just how challenging it is to write a college essay that stands out from the pack, yet doesn't sound overly self-promotional or phony...
An estimated 2.9 million students worldwide are pursuing their educations outside their home countries, a 57 percent increase since 1999. At a round table discussion at the Institute of International's Education's Washington offices Tuesday, coinciding with the release of the institute's new book, "Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility," participants discussed the implications of that figure and other trends and trajectories not only in student mobility, but in scholar and institutional mobility, as well...
The University of Kansas will start telling parents about alcohol and drug violations by students under the age of 21. That and other policy changes follow two alcohol-related deaths at the university. The school said it also will make more efforts to educate students on drinking and will begin an amnesty policy meant to encourage students to seek help for friends having alcohol-related emergencies...
The number of newly reported swine-flu cases appears to be ebbing, but the recent health scare, which led some institutions to pull students and faculty members out of Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak, and to cancel study-abroad programs there, can have some lasting lessons for colleges, says Gary Rhodes, director of the Center for Global Education at Loyola Marymount University. Just as colleges learned from earlier incidents, like the London subway bombing and earthquakes in China, colleges can use this latest episode to strengthen their response to hazards encountered in overseas work, says Mr. Rhodes... (paid subscription required)