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Deborah Ford will be the new chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Ford, currently the vice president of student affairs at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, has agreed to contract terms and will take over on Aug. 1...
Dr. Deborah L. Ford, Vice President of Student Affairs at University of West Florida, has been recommended as the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside...
Deborah Ford has been selected to become chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside as of Aug. 1. She currently serves as vice president of student affairs at the University of West Florida in Pensacola...
University of Wisconsin officials are negotiating with the person they want to take over as chancellor at Parkside, but haven't yet released a name...
Some University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students are crying foul over proposed rule changes that would give them the right to an attorney during disciplinary hearings but allow university officials to punish them for off-campus misconduct...
Some faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are concerned that expansion plans could hurt the university by moving academics away from the main campus to other locations, according to a recent survey. But others said they support the initiatives, a central part of Chancellor Carlos Santiago's ambitious plans to reshape the university...
The economy loomed in the background of a joyful UW-Rock County commencement ceremony Thursday...
While lawmakers continue to work on Wisconsin's budget shortfall the University of Wisconsin system has been able to avoid further cuts as of now. However, that doesn't mean the system isn't having problems...UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow says the school will do its best to leave its students uneffected by the potential changes...
Nearly 200 people attended the second annual Manufacturing Advantage Conference held May 14 at UW-Stout. The event featured nearly 40 presenters, including keynote speakers Mike McKinley and Daniel Burrus. It was sponsored by the Wisconsin Technical College System, Xcel Energy and UW-Stout...
The University of Wisconsin-Extension is offering the nation's first online Sustainable Management bachelor's degree, according to a May 12 press release. UW-Extension has brought together the strengths of four different University of Wisconsin campuses -- UW-Parkside, UW-River Falls, UW-Stout, and UW-Superior -- to craft a degree completion program that equips workers with the management skills they will need to lead a sustainable business strategy...
Children with certain rare lung diseases may be able to breathe easier, thanks to the work of students at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Students this semester helped design the Overnight Pediatric Oxygen Delivery System, or OPOD, a device designed to help those suffering from children's interstitial lung disease -- a group of diseases that impair a child's ability to get oxygen...
Students across the state are breathing a little easier as summer break begins, but they may not be the only ones, thanks to the work of students at UW-Stout...
The full-scale unveiling of a new online jobs tool for highly skilled UW-Madison alumni is set for August, after a successful test launch with about a dozen area firms finished up this month, organizers said. "We got very good feedback," said Mary DeNiro, vice president of marketing and communications for the Wisconsin Alumni Association. The Badger Career Network Alerts program will use targeted e-mails to connect graduates in mid-career and executive-level jobs anywhere in the nation with Wisconsin companies seeking new management, scientific and professional talent in biotechnology, health-care and information technology...
Outdoors lovers can go stargazing at Wisconsin state parks this summer. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's astronomy department's annual Universe in the Park program got under way Friday night at Blue Mound State Park. The program is set to run 38 times throughout the summer at state parks around Wisconsin...
Lawmakers protected state universities from further deep cuts Friday as they moved to try to fill a $1.6 billion hole in the state budget. The move by the budget committee comes as Gov. Jim Doyle and lawmakers seek to impose cuts on schools, local governments and most other state agencies in response to falling tax revenues. But Democratic lawmakers said they feared doing more harm to the UW System, which absorbed severe cuts in 2003 and isn't receiving enough money in the upcoming budget to keep pace with rising costs...
Members of the state's budget-writing joint finance committee acted swiftly to begin incorporating Governor Doyle's latest round of cost-cutting measures to cope with a state budget deficit of nearly seven billion dollars...
The Legislature's budget committee has voted to cut $120 million from the University of Wisconsin System's budget over the next two years. The committee, however, also approved spending $15 million for a retention fund for high-demand faculty members and to pay for UW research initiatives in bioenergy, DNA and biotechnology...
Unlike most state employees, faculty and academic staff working within the University of Wisconsin System don't have the right to form unions with collective bargaining powers. Yet if ever there was a time when such an option might look appealing, it's now. Gov. Jim Doyle announced May 7 that he hopes to start filling the state's massive $6.6 billion budget deficit over the next two years by rescinding 2 percent pay raises for non-union state workers. He also plans to make all non-emergency state personnel take eight days of unpaid furloughs in each of the next two years -- which equates to another 3 percent pay cut...
To help close the state's budget shortfall, the University of Wisconsin System will have to give back an additional $7 million in auxiliary funds -- revenue raised from residence halls, bookstore operations, dining services, residence halls and parking, according to a motion passed by the Joint Finance Committee Friday. That means the UW System must give the state a total of $23 million from these reserves. Previously, the university system was supposed to contribute about $16 million from those funds...
The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee approved measures Friday that would let some illegal immigrants pay in-state college tuition, and provide limited legal protections to same-sex couples...The committee also approved establishing new schools of freshwater science and public health at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It did not provide funding...
A controversial measure to allow some undocumented students to avoid nonresident tuition rates at UW System and Wisconsin Technical College System schools was passed on a party-line vote...
A proposal to allow illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition rates at UW schools will remain in the state budget. The provision allows students who graduated from a Wisconsin high school to qualify for an in-state tuition break at any UW campus or technical college...
The JFC voted to extend domestic partner retirement and group insurance benefits to state employees despite the objections of Republican members. Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, moved to eliminate the provision, saying that while it "may be a good idea" this is the wrong time to expand state benefits to a new group. But Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, said the provision merely allows the state to catch up with other neighboring states who already offer the benefits, and that it gives "fairness to all state employees"...
...The governor said Thursday that up to 1,400 state employees could be laid off under his new budget-balancing plan that cuts funding for state agencies, schools and local governments. Doyle said he plans to cut funding for state agencies over the next two years by 5 percent and to save the University of Wisconsin and programs that need to be funded at a level to get matching federal dollars...
Philanthropists Robert and Patricia Kern have pledged $10 million to the Medical College of Wisconsin - the largest, single private gift in the college's history - to develop devices for detecting and treating disease. The Kerns' personal gift will go to hire researchers and purchase mass spectrometers - sensitive equipment used to find very low concentrations of molecules that might reveal the presence of cancer, heart diseases or other problems...
When President Obama lifted restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research in March, many scientists hailed the move as a long-awaited boost for one of the most promising fields of medical research. Since then, however, many proponents have concluded that the plan could have the opposite effect, putting off-limits for federal support much of the research underway, including work that the Bush administration endorsed. "We're very concerned," said Amy Comstock Rick, chief executive of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, which has been leading the effort to free up more federal funding for stem cell research. "If they don't change this, very little current research would be eligible. It's a huge issue." ...
Many scientists and other advocates of studies involving human embryonic stem cells had expected the pace of such research to quicken after President Obama signed an order in March easing restrictions on the types of studies eligible for federal funds. But some now are questioning whether Many scientists and other advocates of studies involving human embryonic stem cells had expected the pace of such research to quicken after President Obama signed an order in March easing restrictions proposed new ethical guidelines, which the National Institutes of Health released for comment last month, might have the opposite effect, The Washington Post reported...
This year would break all the crystal balls in admissions. That much seemed certain months ago. After all, the statistical models that deans use to predict enrollment outcomes rely on historical data, but no moment in recent history had looked so hazy or so dire... (paid subscription required)