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A second attempt by the University of Wisconsin System to install a new computer payroll program is millions of dollars over budget and a year behind schedule. Moreover, a company fired over subpar work creating Wisconsin's statewide voter database in 2007 is working as a subcontractor on the project...
...I can't imagine any Badgers coach or UW Athletic Department administrator highlighting eight days on the calendar and filling them with personal activities, all because they won’t be compensated for their time at the office. To know these people is to know they aren't wired for furloughs. They don't watch the clock. They keep track of what's been done and what needs to be done, all in the name of improving the product. They know that too many good people depend on them for direction and support...
At least 11 doctors with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health received more than $50,000 from drug or medical device companies last year, including seven who pulled in six-figure amounts, according to records obtained by the Journal Sentinel. As part of an effort to enforce more stringent conflict-of-interest rules, UW doctors for the first time have had to specify how much outside income they receive...
Thomas A. Zdeblick, an orthopedic surgeon, apparently isn't the only doctor at the University of Wisconsin who has been collecting a substantial outside income from medical companies. A tally by the Journal Sentinel of Milwaukee has now found that Dr. Zdeblick had at least six colleagues at the Wisconsin medical school who have also been receiving six-figure payments from makers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices...
The UW Arboretum is celebrating its 75th Anniversary. Visitors and employees had a party Sunday, complete with historical presentations about when the nature preserve first opened in 1934...
After admitting 550 to 600 students from its waiting list, UW-Madison officials say they have filled next fall's freshman class. In late May, the State Journal reported the university had admitted about 300 Wisconsin students and about 50 out-of-state students. Since then, UW-Madison has admitted roughly 200 more students from out-of-state, after exhausting the list of qualified Wisconsinites...
Travis Tubré, an associate professor of psychology at UW-River Falls, has been named the 2009 UW-RF Academic Adviser of the Year. Tubré, of River Falls, will be honored at the faculty/staff awards ceremony held annually during the fall semester. He was also the recipient of the 2008 UW-RF Distinguished Teacher of the Year, the highest award that can be presented at the university...
...Ironically, state Sen. Judy Robson, D-Beloit, nursing's biggest advocate in the Legislature, tried to get $47 million in the next budget to jump-start the planned center. But her proposal was removed during the budget's final deliberations, meaning state funding will have to wait until the next budget in 2011, when the UW planned to ask for it...The UW administration and the Legislature need to get behind this long overdue improvement. We cannot continue ignoring this critical need....
Adopting a green lifestyle has become more than a trend. Now, many can do more than simply live a green lifestyle, they can get a college degree in it.A new cooperative initiative through the University of Wisconsin Extension combines higher education and green business. Starting this fall, students at four UW schools will be able to get a bachelor of science in sustainable management...
Wisconsin's athletic department is receiving national recognition for its "Wear Red. Think Green. Badgers Recycle" campaign. The department won a bronze award at the 2009 National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators annual convention...
Almost all state workers will have to take furloughs, regardless of whether their paychecks come from the state, federal grants, or private sources, under versions of the budget passed by both the state Assembly and Senate...
Advocates are making a final push to convince Wisconsin lawmakers to cut tuition rates and create a new driver's card for illegal immigrants...
...Taking a page from the tourism industry's glossy guidebook, a growing number of consortia have taken steps to market their states as higher education destinations in order to attract more international students. "There are many reasons, economic reasons, especially for smaller schools -- we're trying to pool our resources as much as possible to bring students to Wisconsin or to advertise Wisconsin as a study destination," says Kevin Beisser, assistant director of the English as a Second Language Program at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and co-chair of the 36-member Study Wisconsin. Each state consortium's work has been a little different, but among their activities, they've hosted EducationUSA advisers for tours of selected campuses, disseminated brochures and developed Web sites, and conducted joint recruiting trips. Study Wisconsin for one is hoping to have its first, all-Study Wisconsin fair in Ecuador sometime in 2010...
...But in recent years, empty campuses have been recognized as potential cash cows, and colleges have tried to fill those once-sleepy weeks with enrichment workshops, for-credit courses, day camps, conferences, private parties and film shoots. That is especially true this summer, as financially battered schools seek to wring all the value they can from venerable halls and shiny athletic centers...
...Administrators are calling the eliminations "vertical cuts." Instead of slicing costs equally across the board as many other colleges have done, the administration singled out a few that it said were not crucial to the university's mission and attracted few students or little outside research money. As the economy slumped this year, institutions in other states adopted similar strategies. The Louisiana Board of Regents cut the philosophy major at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, for instance, and colleges in Idaho, Florida, Michigan, and Wisconsin are also planning to eliminate programs and departments... (paid subscription required)
...Some colleges, slammed by the nationwide recession, have begun to eliminate specific programs and departments. But those cost savings often take time to materialize. Greensboro and other colleges instead turned to across-the-board measures that could be put in place quickly and have an immediate effect on the bottom line. Pay cuts often fit the bill... (paid subscription required)
College officials who close academic programs are entering -- and creating -- a world of hurt if they are not careful. Peter D. Eckel of the American Council on Education, in a new edition of his book, "Changing Course: Making the Hard Decisions to Eliminate Academic Programs"(Rowman & Littlefield), outlines ways for administrators to deal with the institutional pain... (paid subscription required)