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...Thumbs Down: To the University of Wisconsin System, for an information technology contract that looks like a bad deal. Four employees of a consulting firm billed the System more than $200,000 each over five months, according to the Associated Press, and 10 others from the same firm billed more than $100,000...
University of Wisconsin System professors and instructors are growing frustrated as they struggle to peel away layers of confusion over how they'll cut 16 days of work in the next two years without disrupting instruction and research... For weeks university leaders have discussed how to schedule the unpaid days off without losing any direct student instruction time. That means no classes will be cancelled, said UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells. But professors and instructors warn of unintended consequences for students, and some protest that furloughs for federally-funded researchers do nothing to help the state's budget woes...
Starting this fall, Lincoln County residents will no longer have to travel to Wausau to take University of Wisconsin courses. Merrill Area Public Schools has joined a University of Wisconsin Marathon County pilot program to offer associate degree classes at Merrill High School. The classes will be held in the evening, with the majority of work completed online..
...Today, Chiang is not only continuing his studies abroad -- he recently returned from a monthlong trip to Cairo, Egypt, during which he studied a novel tumor detection program in a clinical setting -- but he is also helping bring international students to UW-Madison as part of an exchange program that operates through the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations...
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student was shot to death in the Riverwest neighborhood late Thursday, the second UWM student killed in the neighborhood in less than two weeks...
Dozens gathered within the hour to remember a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student gunned down in the Riverwest neighborhood. Jontae Woodley, a 23-year-old studying human resources at UW-Milwaukee, was shot Thursday night near Auer and Dousman streets...Just two weeks ago and a few blocks away, another UWM student was shot and killed...
The news that tuition will be frozen at all two-year University of Wisconsin institutions brought smiles to the faces of administrators of the two colleges in central Wisconsin. While there are a few complaints -- timing and a loss of money -- the opportunity to keep offering a lower-cost education in the current economy is a positive step...
A new study of University of Wisconsin-Madison start-ups shows more than 250 companies have been launched by the school's faculty, staff and students since 1950...
...For its age and history, the Washburn Observatory atop Observatory Drive remains a lively part of Madison's cityscape. Within just a few weeks, Old Washburn, as it has been fondly called, will be reopened after a two-year renovation and restoration...
The U.S. House of Representatives later today is expected to approve the Energy and Water Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2010, which contains a $500,000 provision to allow the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to use new cutting-edge nanotechnologies recently invented at UWM in the development of new types of solar cells that could be produced at a fraction of the cost of today's solar cells and be at least as efficient or even more efficient. If approved, UWM estimates that the project will create about 200 new jobs in Wisconsin and ultimately could revitalize some of the foundry and molding industries in Wisconsin and other states...
A University of Wisconsin-Madison official can be held liable for the 2003 death of a television cameraman who fell off an unguarded platform, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday... The lawsuit claims Camp Randall Stadium's facilities director Barry Fox failed to comply with state and federal safety rules that required the platform to have a railing...
Adam LaSalle, a 2009 forestry management graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, won this year's national Stihl Timbersports Collegiate Challenge championship held recently in Columbus, Ga...
Some students at UW-Oshkosh are getting real-life experience managing an investment fund. Over the last 10 years students in a course at UW Oshkosh's School of Business have managed five investment funds. Collectively they're known as the Student Managed Endowment Fund ...Huffman says each year about 1 percent of the earnings is skimmed off for scholarships. He says it also creates an opportunity for students to apply what they've learned in class, and work with real money real stocks...
A report released in May and co-authored by UW-Madison professors Sara Goldrick-Rab and Douglas Harris argued that community colleges are in need of significant government investment if the United States is to help more of its people get a formal education and better compete with others from around the globe for the best jobs...
...The phrase shared governance is so hackneyed that it is becoming what some linguists call an "empty" or "floating" signifier, a term so devoid of determinate meaning that it takes on whatever significance a particular speaker gives it at the moment...Shared governance is not a simple matter of committee consensus, or the faculty's engaging administrators to take on the dirty work, or any number of other common misconceptions. Shared governance is much more complex; it is a delicate balance between faculty and staff participation in planning and decision-making processes, on the one hand, and administrative accountability on the other...
...Ms. Duff is a practitioner in a rapidly growing, largely unregulated field seeking to serve families bewildered by the admissions gantlet at selective colleges. No test or licensing is required to offer such services, and there is no way to evaluate the counselors' often extravagant claims of success or experience. And Ms. Duff's asking price, though higher than many, is eclipsed by those of competitors who may charge upwards of $40,000 -- more than a year's tuition at many colleges. In the last three years, the number of independent admissions advisers (as opposed to school-based counselors) is estimated to have grown to nearly 5,000, from about 2,000, according to the Independent Educational Consultants Association, a membership group trying to promote basic standards of competency and ethics. While initially clustered on the East and West Coasts, counselors are making inroads across the country...
...With tuition levels as high as they are, many students have no alternative but to fund their schooling with loans. The percentage of graduate students borrowing money for a master's degree in 2007-2008 was about 55% -- 86% for those seeking a professional degree, according to the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS). That's just one part of the story. Students are carrying credit cards to meet other expenses. ..
...Disappearing jobs have helped drive thousands of people like Ray to Tennessee's 27 state-run trade schools, where they can pick up training on anything from truck driving to medical billing. Many of the newcomers at the Murfreesboro trade school are in their 40s and 50s -- twice the age of the typical student there. A lot of them, like S'ari Gian, already have college degrees...As economic struggles and unemployment plague much of the nation, vocational schools across the USA are seeing significant spikes in enrollment, says Betty Krump, executive director of the American Technical Education Association, based in Wahpeton, N.D...