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The president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents says his top priority is expanding access to state universities. Milwaukee businessman Chuck Pruitt told a Senate committee on Tuesday a key part of that goal is providing more financial aid for low-income students. He says the state has made some progress, but needs to do better...
A recent analysis of the food purchased by the University of Wisconsin-Stout's dining services found that 37 percent of its $1.58 million annual food budget goes to Wisconsin companies, according to a university news release...
...Sure, the UW-La Crosse baseball and men’s tennis programs have been granted a reprieve. Both programs, which UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow announced in June would be cut, have raised enough money to continue for the 2009-10 school year...
...Jim (Faust) served Dunn County’s farming community for nearly 30 years in two capacities – farm management agent and agricultural agent...During a recent interview, it soon became apparent that Jim is a loyal advocate of UW-Extension. “The bottom line,” he affirmed, “is that Extension is about ideas that are based on research. We are not selling a product"...
Twelve Wisconsin high schools boosted the number of students taking Advanced Placement courses by 11% and the number of minority students in AP classes by 53% over two years. That's the good news out of a report this week by the National Governors Association on the results of a six-state initiative to increase participation in AP classes. The bad news is that Wisconsin trailed the other five states in both categories...Minority enrollment in AP classes more than doubled over that time...
Madison Area Technical College officials are looking for a new nickname to differentiate the school from Milwaukee Area Technical College. Both go by the acronym MATC, which causes confusion, said Becky Baumbach, vice president of strategic advancement...
Struggling with budget shortfalls that reach into the billions, several states nationwide are making deep cuts in college financial aid programs, including those that provide a vital source of cash for students who most need the money. At least a dozen states are reducing award sizes, eliminating grants and tightening eligibility guidelines because of a lack of money. At the same time, the number of students seeking aid is rising sharply as more people seek a college education and need help paying the tuition bill because they or their parents lost jobs and savings during the recession...
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, a Virginia-based philanthropy that helps promising low-income students pay for college, has named Lawrence Kutner, a Harvard University psychologist, as its next executive director...The nine-year-old foundation has attracted national attention for its innovative strategies to help bright, low-income students attend college and graduate school. Through its community-college-transfer program, the group has given awards to both private and public institutions for programs to recruit and retain needy students from community colleges. It has also underwritten efforts to replicate a University of Virginia program that places recent college graduates in high schools with low college-going rates to help students apply to college...
The Obama administration's plan to make the federal student-aid application form less complicated by eliminating some questions would cause complications for states, says a report from the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs...
...But tens of thousands of students at public and private colleges and universities around the country will find arts programs, courses and teachers missing — victims of piercing budget cuts -- when they descend on campuses this month and next...
Few things are more demoralizing than receiving a bill that exceeds the amount of money in your bank account. Especially if your child's future hangs in the balance. That's the predicament facing many cash-strapped parents of college students as bills for the upcoming semester start to arrive in the mail. Fortunately, even at this late date, you have options. Among them...
University of Illinois chancellor Richard Herman apologized Tuesday for his role in a far-reaching admissions scandal but said he has no plans to resign...