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...Economic hardship is prompting a growing number of UW-Madison students and families to appeal financial aid decisions — which for the 2009-2010 academic year are based on 2008 earnings — school officials say. “We’re getting a lot more people appealing” aid offers, said Michelle Curtis, associate financial aid director at UW-Madison...
The City of Milwaukee Board of Harbor Commissioners will hold a public hearing May 28 on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s proposal to build the School of Freshwater Sciences on the downtown lakefront...
...However, for three generations, one western Wisconsin man has had the chance to personally hand out diplomas to his own family. George Field is very familiar with the pomp and circumstance involved in graduations. From 1968 to 1985, he served as chancellor of UW-River Falls. In that time, he led dozens of commencement ceremonies...
There are two ways to shine in the world, Abdi and Ahmed Samatar said their Somali parents and grandparents told them. “You can create wealth or you can create knowledge,” said Ahmed. And after coming to the U.S. in the 1970s and graduating from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, both have pursued the latter...
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewate and city officials have taken a major step toward the development of a joint technology park by agreeing on a location for the development. The Whitewater University Technology Park will be located in the southeastern section of an existing city business park and will house the planned UW-Whitewater Innovation Center...
Combating the risks in teenage drinking is a problem on most college campuses. Now, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is working to help solve it, with help from the experts...
...Awaiting some 67,000 state employees, 30,000 of whom work in Dane County, are 16 furlough days over the next two years and the rollback of a 2 percent pay raise each of the next two years for those who manage to keep their jobs...The cuts, necessary to plug a projected state budget deficit of $6.6 billion over the next two years, are becoming all too common around the country, with state after state responding to budget problems by turning to their workers to shoulder the burden. As experiences in other states have shown, it's not only the workers' pocketbooks that come up lighter. The goods and services provided by these workers are taking real hits. Depending on what Doyle and Wisconsin lawmakers announce this week or early next week, residents here should brace for the same...
...Wisconsin biotech and life sciences companies are not immune from those global trends. For those companies at critical stages of development, the next round of investment may be necessary to buy equipment, hire the right staff or even launch a clinical trial. Unlike companies in some technology sectors, those in biotech and life sciences face a long and costly regulatory runway before products reach the market - and their capital needs reflect that...It's less about survival of the fittest than survival of the most adaptable...
Governor Jim Doyle says he's still working out the details of a plan to solve a budget shortfall that has grown by more than $1.6 billion. But the Governor says aid for schools will get cut...Furloughs and layoffs of state and university employees are the only concrete plans the Governor has proposed so far to fill this latest budget hole. But that chips away a little more than a tenth of the problem at best. Schools are a much bigger piece of the budget, and Doyle says they won't be exempt from cuts...
College tuition prices keep rising. State budgets are stagnant or shrinking. And policy makers, from President Obama on down, are increasingly calling for increases in the number of Americans who get some higher education or training. Those factors have led more state legislators, trustees and others to argue that, to accomplish the latter goal given the former circumstances, colleges are going to have to lower what they spend to produce the average credential they award. But any discussion of lowering the "cost per degree" must start with a more fundamental question: What does a degree cost to produce now? That question may be basic, but it is not simple, as a new report from the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability makes clear...
The job market is terrible for new graduates and young alumni, but development offices still want them as donors. At many institutions, this is leading to campaigns to get as many people as possible to give small amounts, such as $20.09 to symbolize this year. But there are also colleges that have decided this is a time to forget about participation rates and go for dollars...
In the old days, college students might turn to classmates for help during all-night cram sessions before final exams. Now their study buddies are just as likely to be commercial Web sites with step-by-step solutions to textbook problems, copies of previous exams, reams of lecture notes, summaries of literary classics, and real-time help with physics, math and computer science problems...But as companies with playful names like Cramster, Course Hero, Koofers and SparkNotes are transforming the way undergraduates like Mr. O’Connor study, some professors and ethicists are questioning whether such Web sites encourage cheating and undermine the mental sweat equity of day-to-day learning by seducing students with ready-made solutions and essays...
... The average undergraduate leaves college with more than $22,000 in debt. Many graduate and professional students leave with loan balances of $100,000 or more. Most borrowers are required to start repaying the loans within six months after graduation. If you're unemployed or suffering other economic hardship, you can apply to have payments deferred for up to three years. But depending on the type of loan, interest may continue to accrue during that period, which means you'll have an even bigger balance when you resume payments. Starting July 1, borrowers will have a new option: a repayment program that caps monthly payments based on income...
...Young people are carrying a load heavier than they normally bear as they scatter from campuses, judging from an AP-mtvU poll that finds students anxious about their finances, job prospects after graduation and the pressures facing their folks back home...
Middle and high school students across the country are generally falling behind in life sciences, and the nation is at risk of producing a dearth of qualified workers for the fast-growing bioscience industry, according to a report released Monday...