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Students attending four-year schools in the University of Wisconsin System will see a 5.5% base tuition increase along with jumps in fees and room-and-board rates under a budget the Board of Regents approved Thursday. Tuition at the two-year UW Colleges will remain frozen at 2006-'07 rates to preserve affordability and keep the schools' rates competitive with technical college prices...
Tuition will rise 5.5 percent on most University of Wisconsin System campuses, but low-income students should be shielded from the impact under a budget approved Thursday...For the first time, the budget protects students from families who earn less than the state’s median of $60,000 by promising enough state and federal grants to cover the tuition increases...
The University of Wisconsin System's Board of Regents on Thursday approved a 5.5 percent tuition hike for resident students attending one of the system's four-year institutions during the 2009-10 academic year. That's the same increase approved by the board in each of the past two years, after hikes of 6.8 percent in 2007 and 6.9 percent in 2006. Due to a new state program, students from families who make less than $60,000 are expected to get enough additional state and federal financial aid to cover the tuition hike. System officials estimate about a quarter of the students would be helped by this "hold harmless" provision...
University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates from Wisconsin will pay $745 more during the next academic year, under a 5.5 percent tuition increase and new student fee rates approved by the UW Board of Regents on Thursday for four-year campuses...Reilly pointed to $120 million that the System requested but did not get from the state, money he said was necessary to continue operating at current levels. Despite the budget challenges, low-income students and those attending two-year System colleges will be insulated from the tuition hike...
The UW Board of Regents has approved a 5.5-percent tuition hike...Reilly says he'd prefer not to see tuition go up at all, but it's just not possible at the UW System works to deal with state budget cuts and rising costs...
University of Wisconsin System officials said the budget approved by the Board of Regents Thursday will mean larger classes, cuts in student services, tighter reins on spending and an increase in tuition. UW President Kevin Reilly said there's no doubt the next several years "are going to be very difficult" on UW campuses.The operating budget cuts $50 million in state aid, freezes salaries and requires eight days of furloughs for all UW System employees. Guidelines approved by the board also direct campuses to slow down hiring and travel while they make plans to cut or merge unpopular or redundant academic programs. The regents approved a tuition increase of 5.5 percent on most campuses. But plans call for providing grants to students from low-income families to make up for the increase...
The UW Board of Regents would have to have members from all over Wisconsin under a plan state lawmakers are considering. The proposal would divide Wisconsin into seven regions that would not be based on population, but rather on the number of two- and four-year campuses in each district. Governors would have to appoint at least one person from each district to sit on the 18-member Board of Regents. Based on the boundary lines in the plan, the district that would include Milwaukee currently has seven regents, the one that covers Madison has three while other districts have none. Stevens Point Democratic Senator Julie Lassa represents one such district. She says this proposal will make sure everyone benefits from the University, in terms of an "equal balance" to help meet the needs of the comprehensive campuses in the UW System...
A healthy UW System is essential to rebuilding the state's economy. Yet glaring discrepancies in compensation for the faculty and academic staff who power UW institutions in the state pose a serious threat to our future viability. Let me explain. Wisconsin has three broad groups of educators who are paid with public funds: K-12 teachers, those who work in the Wisconsin Technical College System, and the faculty and academic staff who teach for the UW System. One thing is clear: The group comprised of faculty and academic staff group suffered the most in the new 2009-11 state budget...(Author: UW-Stout Chancellor Chuck Sorenson)...
The National Science Foundation has awarded a nearly $1 million grant to UW-Stout and UW-Manitowoc to increase the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates in Wisconsin. "What we're trying to do is increase the number of STEM graduates by providing opportunities for students who wouldn't have gone into STEM studies or to college," said Kitrina Carlson, a UW-Stout associate professor of biology. Carlson applied for the grant with Rebecca Abler, a UW-Manitowoc assistant professor of biological sciences...
A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse geography student was identified today as the 26-year-old man who died after being found on a marsh trail...
...The 26-year-old University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student was jogging on the marsh trail between the La Crosse River and St. James Street about 7:20 p.m. Tuesday when he collapsed and was found unresponsive, according to La Crosse police. He suffered from exercise-induced asthma but did not have any other medical conditions, said his mother Becky Skidmore of Babcock, Wis...
A University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of bacteriology has been awarded the nation's highest honor for researchers beginning their independent careers. Cameron Currie is one of 20 winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The honor was announced by the UW-Madison news service on Thursday...
Daniel Zurawski, a 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point sophomore and Pacelli High School graduate, drowned Wednesday night in Buck Lake near Rhinelander. The death appears to be an accident, and no foul play is suspected, said Bob Tomlinson, vice chancellor for student affairs. Tomlinson said he was confident alcohol was not a factor...
Authorities say a 20-year-old Stevens Point man who drowned while swimming in northern Wisconsin was attending a natural resources camp run by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Daniel Zurawski disappeared while swimming Wednesday night in Buck Lake at the Almon Recreational Area near Rhinelander. His body was found by a dive team and he was taken to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead. UWSP vice chancellor of student affairs Bob Tomlinson says the death appears to be an accident and it's not believed alcohol was involved...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says a new agreement with Google will expand public access to its library collection. The university says readers across the country will be able to preview its books for free and buy access to the full texts online. In addition, universities, colleges and public libraries will be able to offer access to their students through subscriptions...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says a new agreement with Google will expand public access to its library collection. The university says readers across the country will be able to preview its books for free and buy access to the full texts online. In addition, universities, colleges and public libraries will be able to offer access to their students through subscriptions...
Tuition hikes are set to go into effect for most University of Wisconsin System schools this year. But they won't affect students at two local campuses. UW-Marathon County and UW-Marshfield/Wood County announced Thursday they are freezing tuition for the 2009-2010 school year. That means students will pay the same rates they've been paying for the past three years...
...UW-La Crosse students will pay $282 more, or $5,425 a year. First- and second-year students affected by UW-L’s Growth, Quality and Access tuition increase — intended to fund hiring more faculty and staff — will pay an additional $500. A 5.5 percent increase is “reasonable,” said UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow...
...All told, Wisconsin's manufacturing sector has now lost 65,400 jobs since December 2007, a 13 percent decline. Not surprisingly, the battered construction industry has seen its job numbers shrink even faster; down 16 percent (20,200 jobs) since the start of the recession, according to a new report from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. That's not to say there aren't occasional upbeat developments. Cellular Dynamics International, the company formed by University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, announced last week an expansion of its collaboration with Swiss drug Roche. But while that's good news for the lab coat crowd, the reality is there will likely never be enough stem cell or biotech jobs created to replace the thousands of family-supporting positions that have been lost or shipped overseas over the past couple of decades...
...On the whole, scientists believe American research leads the world. But only 17 percent of the public agrees, and the proportion who name scientific advances as among the United States’ most important achievements has fallen to 27 percent from nearly 50 percent in 1999, the survey found...The survey, by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest scientific organization, involved about 2,000 members of the public and 2,500 scientists drawn from the rolls of the science advancement association, which includes teachers, administrators and others involved in science as well as researchers...
...College farming is growing. According to the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania, more than 80 schools now have hands-on and classroom-based farm programs. Many of them are organic vegetable farms, but students don't necessarily earn as many credits as Green Mountain College students do, nor do they get to work with teams of oxen...
At a time when the academic job market is looking bleak, we asked career experts and economic forecasters to predict where faculty job growth could come in the next decade. Many agreed that job prospects will be dim because of budget cuts and diminishing faculty pension funds that have made professors less likely to retire. In addition, the growing use of graduate students and adjuncts to teach classes means fewer jobs are available that are secure or financially rewarding...
The 33 American universities that are seeking to raise at least $1-billion collected a total of $387.5-million in gifts and pledges during the last month for which they had data available...
After years of delays and debates, the National Research Council on Thursday released the methodology for its rankings of doctoral programs. The rankings themselves still have not been released, but for the first time graduate schools know definitively how they will be judged when that report comes out in the next few months...