University of Wisconsin System students who live in residence halls and have meal plans could be hit with fee increases averaging $335 this year, budget documents show. Some students said Wednesday the proposed hikes for student activities, services and room and board seemed excessive during a recession. But one national expert said they are a bargain compared to those in other states and will help pay for improvements....
Students in the University of Wisconsin System facing a potential 5.5% tuition increase could also see increases in the fees they pay for student services and room and board. On top of the proposed tuition increase, the UW System Board of Regents at their Thursday meeting will consider several fee increases for students to help pay for facility improvements, new student-approved services and, in the case of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, declining enrollment. Segregated fees would increase 5.8% on average at the four-year institutions and 4.4% on average at the two-year UW colleges. These fees subsidize such services as child care, parking, recreational centers and transportation...
A state lawmaker is attacking a five and a half percent tuition hike expected to be approved by University Wisconsin Board of Regents this week. Whitewater Republican Steve Nass is a member of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities. The tuition increase "ignores the plight that the middle class families are going through right now," says Nass, who accuses the Regents of "arrogance," for allowing the increase to go forward. Regents are expected to okay the increase Thursday...
A proposal at the Capitol seeks to make sure the UW System Board of Regents represents all corners of the state...(State Representative Jeff Smith (D-Eau Claire)) is co-sponsoring legislation that separates the state into seven regions, and requires at least one member of the Board to come from each of them. The districts would be based on the number of two and four year UW campuses in each area, rather than population...
An Assembly committee took testimony Wednesday on whether University of Wisconsin System regents should be required to come from all parts of the state...
On Campus
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students can expect to pay more but get less this coming school year due to budget cuts, said Erik Kahl, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Student Association president. The UW System Board of Regents will vote today on increasing tuition by 5.5 percent at all of its four-year campuses for the 2009-10 academic year. UW-L students will pay $282 more, or $5,425 a year. First- and second-year students affected by the Growth, Quality and Access plan that raises tuition to hire more faculty and staff will see an additional $500 increase.
The 5.5 percent could have been worse “when you look at the state of the state,” said Kahl....
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse officials have suspended a summer program on campus after seven students and two staff members became ill with flu-like symptoms. Although none of the cases have yet been confirmed as the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, a UW-L emergency response team erred on the side of caution and sent all 45 students in the Upward Bound program home Tuesday night, said UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow...
Costs will rise 10 percent at UW-Eau Claire in 2009-10 -- more than at any other state university -- if a $2.2 billion operating budget is approved as expected today by the UW System Board of Regents...
...The course is a joint effort between the Mendota Rowing Club and the UW Adapted Fitness Program under the department of kinesiology. The collaboration is unique, Mendota Rowing Club coordinator Cayte Anderson said, because it allows UW-Madison students and faculty to assist the participants while other volunteers assist with rowing instruction...
UW-Madison will be able to expand its golf instruction thanks to a $45,000 grant, steered to the university by Edgerton native and professional golfer Steve Stricker. The funds, distributed through the 2008 Ryder Cup Outreach Program, will allow UW-Madison to meet student demand for golf programs by adding eight more class sections over the next two years...
National
Borrowing a page from FDR's New Deal, some colleges are putting more students to work this summer than usual. The goal: to make sure they can afford to come back in the fall...Officials at both colleges say the similarities are coincidental. But their motives are the same: to keep students from dropping out or transferring to a less expensive school...
new type of admissions index introduced Tuesday can help the USA's graduate schools determine whether an applicant has personal attributes like resilience and creativity, which can't be measured by standardized admission tests. And it's just a matter of time before undergraduate admissions offices have a similar means at their disposal, says the testing company that designed the tool...
The president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators was charged with eight felony counts on Wednesday that accuse him of illegally redirecting $150,000 in public money to political campaigns and a secret expense account when he was chancellor of City College of San Francisco. Philip R. Day, 63, is accused of repeatedly diverting money owed to the 110,000-student college to campaigns for bond measures designed to raise money for campus construction projects and the California community-college system. It is illegal under state law to spend community-college funds to support a political campaign...
Francis S. Collins, a physician and geneticist who directed the federal project to map the human genome and later declared the experience an affirmation of his belief in the divine, was nominated Wednesday by President Barack Obama to be director of the National Institutes of Health...
More students are borrowing to pay for college, and that is especially true at for-profit colleges, according to an analysis of U.S. Department of Education data released today. Nearly 53 percent of full-time undergraduate students borrowed money to attend college in 2007-8, compared with 49.5 percent in 2003-4, according to the Education Sector's analysis of data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study...
...But an analysis released today by a Washington think tank, based on newly available federal survey data, aims to show that the steady, long-term growth in student borrowing has intensified in recent years, and that student borrowers have increasingly turned to more expensive "alternative" loans to meet their escalating college bills...
