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The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is reaching out to adults with one semester left of coursework who want to go back to college and earn their bachelor's degree. About 331 students from 2001 to the present have been identified for the new outreach program, which is made possible by a two-year, $90,000 grant from the UW System Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion...
The fact that it apparently took UW Hospital and Clinics three years to figure out one of its senior pharmacists was stealing what ended up to total more than 27,000 powerful narcotic pills has a lot of people scratching their heads...
...As the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse prepares for its 100th birthday, technology gurus on campus teamed up to create a centennial Web site, including a social networking spot for faculty, staff, students and alumni...The technology approach to the centennial has helped UW-L spread the word about it on a "shoestring budget," said Jim Jorstad, UW-L's director of education technologies...
Two research projects that could lead to innovative technologies and eventually boost the Wisconsin economy are receiving new funding. John Droske and Nathan Bowling, chemistry professors at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, have been chosen for state-funded grants worth up to $50,000. The grants are given each year to research around the UW System that could, potentially, be commercialized by Wisconsin companies. About 40 applications come in each year, and only a handful are chosen. Droske and Bowling were among eight selected this year...
Kenosha and University of Wisconsin-Parkside police responded Tuesday night to a man threatening to enter the school's campus with a weapon...Parkside police locked down the campus. City police went to the man's home and found the threat was false...
The text message was short and to the point: Possible white male 23...heading towards campus with gun. Avoid campus. This is not a drill. It wasn’t supposed to be a drill, but it turned out it was. Parkside police received a call from the Kenosha Joint Services dispatch just after 8 p.m. Tuesday, said Dave Buchanan, a university spokesman. That triggered officials to use the university's new messaging system to issue a warning by phone and by text. The university had just switched to the new system that same day, Buchanan said. Unfortunately, not everyone got the message sent out Tuesday night by University of Wisconsin-Parkside police, including Chief Jim Heller...
A partnership between the University of Wisconsin and the UW Credit Union will give students the option to use their campus cards as debit cards...The seven-year contract calls for the university to receive $286,000 a year in support of the debit card option in addition to monthly rent payments for 18 ATMs on campus...
Some diners at UW Madison are enjoying really fresh veggies. They don't come much fresher than the salad greens being served at Frank's Place dining facility in Holt Commons. The produce is grown just a few hundred feet away, and supplements the salad bar offerings to some 800 high school students on campus for various summer camps...
Casually convening in their boardroom late on the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the Milwaukee Area Technical College board appeared blissfully unconcerned with all that was amiss in the outside world...MATC budget officials had known since spring that the economy was deteriorating. Now, it was imploding. Credit markets were seizing up. Pension funds were plummeting. Many Americans were both flummoxed and fearful -- but not the MATC board as it gathered at 4:30 p.m. for one of the most important meetings in years. And one that would last less than four minutes. Board chair Lauren Baker sat at the head of the table. Darnell Cole, the MATC president who had repeatedly butted heads with the powerful employee unions, sat stoically to her left. She quickly took roll and announced the sole topic: new, two-year labor contracts...
Entrepreneur magazine lists Madison, Wisconsin as one of the Top Ten best places to be an entrepreneur in its' August issue. The writer, Jason Daley referred to Madison as "The Diversifer" for moving beyond the cities traditional base of state government, UW-Madison, and agriculture. The article points out that Madison has expanded to grow businesses in the biotech, healthcare, and software industries...
In what proponents see as a sign of growing strength in the local tech sector, nine companies focused on biotechnology and information technology recently became new tenants of University Research Park or its Near East Side offshoot, the Metro Innovation Center...
When colleges announce they're making entrance exams optional, they publicly embrace a holistic stance: standardized tests are incomplete scorecards on how a student will fare in colege; they favor families who can afford test prep, while minority students tend not to do well. Cynics cite additional motives. "Evidence suggests there are also marketing and competitive issues at play," says Jonathan P. Epstein, a senior consultant at Maguire Associates specializing in enrollment and admissions...
...This summer brings a measure of relief. Starting July 1, student borrowers can cap their monthly payments at a modest sum determined by income and family size. A second initiative, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, will erase student debt entirely after 10 years for graduates who work for government or various nonprofit organizations. Together, the programs amount to "the broadest and most expansive set of provisions we've ever had" to ease student debt, said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, an association of college administrators based in the District...
Six people were shot and wounded at a community rally on the Texas Southern University campus in what police think was a gang-related drive-by shooting, a school spokeswoman said...
Think these are economically challenging times in Wisconsin? They are, of course. But have you been paying attention to what's happening on the Left Coast? The California State University system raised student fees by 20 percent as part of a budget plan that would also shrink enrollment and furlough nearly all employees for two days each month, the Associated Press is reporting...
A majority of colleges provide services specifically for students who are military veterans or members of the armed services, says a new report that was sponsored by six higher-education groups. The report, which is based on data from 723 institutions, identifies areas where colleges meet the needs of their student veterans and areas where they don't, in preparation for the expected surge this fall in the number of veterans attending college...
The path to the presidency doesn't necessarily include the provost's office. That statement -- which might once have been surprising -- is no longer so, and more evidence arrived Wednesday in the form of a study by the Council of Independent Colleges. The CIC, using information from the American Council on Education's database about presidents and their careers, compared the paths to the presidency at its member institutions (small and mid-sized private colleges and universities, many of which identify as liberal arts colleges) and other sectors in higher education...