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UW-River Falls Chancellor Dean Van Galen has only been on the job since June 1, but he's quickly getting familiar with the many names, places, the campus and the community...A new chancellor has a big learning curve. In Van Galen's case, that curve is even sharper because of budget cuts starting this summer. The university cuts are related to the state budget deficit in Madison...
Assembly Democrats made an unwise choice -- both fiscally and practically -- when they voted last week to remove funding for a new nursing school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the state budget. The $47 million allocation was not merely an appropriate expenditure. It was, and is, necessary...
A second attempt by the University of Wisconsin System to install a new computer payroll program is already millions of dollars over budget and months behind schedule. Also, a company dumped for shoddy work creating Wisconsin's statewide voter database in 2007 has been hired as a subcontractor on the project...
A developer that claims it lost a major contract for political reasons cannot sue the state for millions of dollars in damages, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a 7-0 ruling, the court dismissed two lawsuits filed by a development group known as Prism, which was chosen for a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee dormitory project in 2003...
A new power-saving computer program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point should save the university thousands of dollars a year. The Desktop Power Management Initiative will switch groups of campus computers to a standby or hibernation mode during periods of low use, especially overnight. It is a fairly common idea on college campuses, but UWSP needed to find a program that would only put the computers to sleep rather than shut them off...
...After originally announcing that the university was going to eliminate men's tennis and baseball from the school's sports programs, (UW-La Crosse) chancellor Joe Gow changed course last week and said the school would give the two programs the opportunity to raise enough money to become self-funded. It's still a long shot, but at least it's a shot...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's athletic program is the fifth-largest revenue-producer in the country, according to a report in Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal. The publication, citing Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act forms from the U.S. Department of Education, said UW had about $93.5 million in revenue during the 2007-08 school year...
A church that owns a private dorm for UW-Madison students wouldn’t have to pay roughly $239,000 in property taxes under an amendment inserted into the state budget last week. Because the Pres House Residence, which opened in 2007, is the only residence hall operated by a religious organization on a public campus in the entire state, it fell into a "gray area" in the tax code, said Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison...
...He was telling stories about those days because it appears an era is about to end for Kappa Sigma on campus. The fraternity is looking to sell the house, which has been home to the Madison chapter of Kappa Sigma since 1924...The economics of operating a fraternity house have grown increasingly difficult in recent years...
A few days after last week's shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the interim director of the Kansas City Jewish Community Center had to reassure the parent of an incoming preschool student that she would do everything possible to make sure the woman's child would be safe at a Jewish school...The Hillel chapter at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was faced with the same challenge when it designed a new building, which is expected to open soon...
UW-Whitewater and the Milwaukee 7 Water Council are beginning a joint relationship to train students to work in water-related industries...The program is designed to give students a basic background in water law, environmental law, natural resources and environmental economics as well as aquatic biology, chemistry and ecology...
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Small Business Development Center is offering the Project Management Certificate Program, a new self-guided program based on a skills-based assessment and evaluation...
Facing a record deficit that forced them to raise taxes and fees by $2.1 billion to balance the budget, Assembly Democrats added millions for projects they can brag about back home - a $500,000 upgrade for an opera house; $50,000 for a shooting range; and $46,000 for a town's recycling bins. As they erased a $6.6 billion, two-year deficit, Assembly Democrats added $36.7 million in regional favors, according to a Legislative Fiscal Bureau summary...
The Wisconsin Credit Union League is entering the next phase of a statewide investment education project and recruiting credit unions interested in participating. The 18-month REAL Progress and Pathways to Prosperity project aims to provide online investment education training to 4,000 credit union employees in Wisconsin. Some of the areas to be tested include knowledge of 401(k) plans, housing costs and paying for a child's college education...
...But just as dropout rates have a dramatic effect on students' future economic prospects, in today's economy, postsecondary education also is of high importance. For Wisconsin's work force to remain vital into the future, both of these problems -- dropout rates and postsecondary education rates -- will need to improve. Postsecondary education doesn't necessarily mean going from high school on to get a degree from a four-year college. For many students, this is desirable, and in many cases it is exactly the right thing...
While some other Ivy League schools are lopping budgets and issuing bonds, Columbia University just passed a budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 that is essentially flat and avoids the severe cuts faced by its peers...Although Columbia might have once bemoaned that its endowment was not as hefty as, say, Harvard's or Princeton's, administrators and analysts say that has helped it weather the fiscal storm better than other universities. That is because Columbia does not rely on its endowment nearly as much as its peers do...
The University of Illinois official who oversees undergraduate admissions told a state commission Tuesday that decisions about well-connected applicants were out of his hands. Keith Marshall, the university's associate provost for enrollment management, described a process in which admissions officers were at times overruled by university Chancellor Richard Herman and other top administrators when it came to politically connected students...
University of Minnesota officials are taking public comment today on the proposed budget that includes a small tuition hike and more than 1,200 job cuts. University President Robert Bruininks is proposing a budget that holds the in-state tuition increase to 3 percent, but eliminates at least 1,240 jobs. Bruininks says 60 percent of in-state students will see their bills go down next year, thanks to federal stimulus money and other aid...