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Four donors who together contributed $500,000 to support the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley’s Communication Arts Center named the center’s main hall in honor of Jim Perry, campus dean and chief executive officer...
Grant money becomes even more important when budgets are shrinking. UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen says the UW-System is getting hit the hardest by budget cuts when it comes to cutbacks in pay. "This year they took what amounts to a 5.5 percent decrease in pay, the tech colleges took a 3.25 increase in pay," Sorensen said...
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is trying to incorporate interactive technology such as Twitter and Facebook into a four-year degree. Jakob Iversen, a professor of Information Systems, is part of a three-member team looking to incorporate the popularity of the technology, its workings and possible applications into the degree...
The Department of Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received $8.1 million in new funding from the U.S. Department of Energy through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide crucial support for plant cell wall imaging and sustainability research...
Advanced Chemical Systems Inc. will partner with a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chemist to develop a high-tech sensor system that would do rapid analysis of water quality. The partnership was forged at a Milwaukee 7 Water Council meeting last fall in Delavan, said Claus Dunkelberg, the council's water industry specialist. It is the first academic/corporate agreement to develop a water technology that the council has announced since it was formed in 2007...
State agencies have suffered a string of costly computer blunders in recent years. Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan needs to get serious about the problem by quickly appointing Assembly representatives to a legislative panel that's supposed to oversee the state's big information technology projects...
A task force will look for ways to improve Wisconsin's system of awarding financial aid to low-income college students. The Higher Educational Aids Board voted last week to create the task force, which is expected to look at how other states award grants and make recommendations for change...
Some Wisconsin high school students will be able to send their official transcripts to college electronically this year under a new statewide e-transcript initiative. The initiative is an attempt to get state high schools to offer online transcripts of courses and grades, one of the last pieces of the college application that can’t be sent electronically for many students...
Here's a swell idea (or not) for recent college grads having trouble finding a job: Sue the school from which you earned a degree...Even college students are having a difficult time making sense of Thompson's actions. "I don't really buy into this idea of entitlement," says Aaron Wingad, a senior at UW-Eau Claire majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, who is one of two student regents on the UW System's Board of Regents. "I see college as a means to prepare myself for the real world and to expand my skill set and to give me the skills to succeed. College is a tremendous opportunity -- but I don't believe there are any guarantees." While that might seem obvious to many, some who work in higher education are noting a shift in how students -- and parents -- view secondary education. In an ideal world, educators say, college is the time for students to grow as individuals, develop critical thinking skills and become more aware of the world they live in. Instead, a growing number of students appear to be viewing higher education as a consumer good, a product one purchases that ensures future earning power...
...Students pay their schools to provide them the skills and knowledge to qualify for the jobs that are available. It’s on them to take it from there. That’s not to say universities or colleges should boot students out the door on graduation day and abandon them to the wolves. Most reputable schools have some sort of placement program to provide resources for alumni seeking employment. It’s unclear whether Thompson’s college, which specializes in business, followed through in her instance...
A new report by the College Board examines what education-loan debt looks like for graduates of different kinds of institutions. The report, "How Much Are College Students Borrowing?," breaks down the most recent data from the U.S. Education Department's National Postsecondary Student Aid Study by institution type, and finds that debt levels have increased rapidly for students in the for-profit sector as well as in certificate and associate-degree programs, while rising by a smaller amount for graduates of public and private nonprofit four-year colleges...
About a third of all students who earned bachelor’s degrees in 2007-8 graduated with no debt at all, about the same share as in the 2003-4 academic year, according to a policy brief released Tuesday by the College Board...For bachelor’s degree recipients who did borrow, the median loan debt was $19,999, up 5 percent from $18,973 four years earlier. The data, the latest available, come from the federal Department of Education’s National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, which is conducted every four years...
...As I said, the best of the impoverished students are not the issue. When Delbanco made his statement in the New York Review of Books, it would have been better if he had substituted the adjectives "capable and promising" for "gifted and motivated" and emphasized the problem of staying in college, rather than just getting in, for average students with unrealized potential...
...Monday saw a flurry of news about the campus bookstore and textbook markets, which, like many industries related to information and publishing, are being buffeted by technological and other trends....But the array of news -- Barnes & Noble's repurchase of its college bookstore arm, a venture capital investment in an online bookstore, and a big new grant supporting a community college open textbook initiative -- does suggest a lot of intensity and interest surrounding the transformation of the college textbook market...
...Faced with steep declines in tax revenue, states are reducing funding to public colleges and universities across the United States. That could hamper the nation's rebound from a deep recession and undermine President Obama's goal of making the U.S. the world leader in college graduates by 2020, experts say. No state is cutting more deeply than California, which has more than 3 million students attending college...
...Keeping students enrolled requires the work of many people on the campus, says the president, but "when everybody talks about it, it's everybody's problem but no one's responsibility." So last year, after Salvadore A. Liberto became Loyola's first-ever vice president for enrollment management and associate provost, he decided to put one person in charge of the university's retention strategy. Loyola is certainly not the first college to create such a position. The College Board surveyed nearly 100 four-year institutions for its "Pilot Study on Student Retention" in 2007 and found that about 59 percent had an administrator in charge of tracking and improving retention. But many of those people were not focusing on it full time, with colleges reporting an average full-time equivalency of only 0.29 people in that position...