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...Good hygiene practices are plastered on the walls all around campus and the UW is handing out H1N1 guidelines to students, telling them what to look out for, ways to avoid catching the virus and most importantly, telling students to isolate themselves if they experience any flu like symptoms...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is addressing its H1N1 virus concerns for the upcoming fall. Much of the university's plans include how classes can continue, even if students are not able to attend. Professors are being asked to have online lesson plans ready...
Voluntary isolation in dorm rooms and mass vaccination are two of the flu prevention measures planned by officials at the UW-Madison. UW Health Services director Sarah Van Orman says they hope to have enough H1N1 vaccine by mid-October to vaccinate more than half the campus. Students and faculty will be able to get a regular flu shot sooner...
Created by G.I. Jobs, a magazine produced by veterans, the 2010 list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in recruitment, retention and providing services for veteran students. The list is also intended to be a resource for veterans pursuing a college degree. Currently, UW-Madison enrolls more than 600 students with military experience and is making new outreach efforts to the population...
The family of slaying victim Brittany Zimmermann is trying to settle its lawsuit against Dane County...
I attended the UW-Madison from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s -- an era when protests, teach-ins, be-ins and the occasional full-scale riot were part of the campus experience. The noise emanating from the students was matched by that from the biggest construction initiative the campus had ever seen, as the baby boomers entered college. During this period the university built some of its largest, most imposing structures, including Van Hise Hall, the Humanities Building, Vilas Hall, Van Vleck Hall and Helen C. White Hall. Today, it may seem as though history is repeating itself...
An official at Clemson University created a firestorm earlier this summer when, speaking candidly at an academic conference in Atlanta, she said nearly all policies at her institution were driven by how they would help the South Carolina school move up in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of America's best colleges...
Sheila Roberts' own life could have been the stuff of a novel, but instead it shaped her writing and world view. Roberts grew up poor and white in the apartheid of South Africa. In 1977, her first novel, "He's My Brother," was banned by government censors, probably as much for the title as any content, said son Kelly S. Roberts. That same year, she completed her doctorate, leaving South Africa for literary freedom and academic life in the United States. In 1986, she became a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she taught creative writing and literature until her retirement in 2007...
A 17-year-old statewide test used to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind law will be replaced with a broader approach to judging how well Wisconsin students are performing, state Superintendent Tony Evers said Thursday...
The state's top schools official said Thursday that he will blow up the system used to test state students, rousing cheers from local education leaders. The statewide test used to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind law will be replaced with a broader, more timely approach to judging how well Wisconsin students are performing...
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Marquette University, Milwaukee School of Engineering and several regional companies and foundations are joining together to research renewable energy issues. The partnership is called the Southeastern Wisconsin Energy Technology Research Center...
When Stan Jaskolski finally walks out the door of the engineering school at Marquette University for the last time, he'll leave behind a growing program and the promise of an exciting new home. Not bad for a guy who thought he was retiring five years ago...
Wisconsin's unemployment rate is twice what it was a year ago. And at 9 it's at a level not seen since the 1980's. But the rate at which unemployment is rising is at least slowing down, according to some economists...
Beneficiaries of the new Post 9/11 GI Bill may be more likely to attend four-year universities and enroll in college full time than were their recent veteran counterparts, who typically enrolled at community colleges and attended part time, according to a new report from the American Council on Education...
The Association of American Publishers and the University of Georgia this week unveiled an electronic database aimed at making it easier for blind, dyslexic and otherwise impaired college students to get specialized textbooks in time for classes...
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has ended sponsorship agreements with two major brewing companies after a campus panel recommended that banning beer ads from football broadcasts would help the fight against binge drinking, the Associated Press reported...
"Furlough Fridays" for John Krumm may as well be called "Food Bank Fridays." Along with 210,000 fellow California government workers, the driver and safety clerk for the Department of Motor Vehicles is helping California balance its battered budget by taking an unpaid day off from work three Fridays each month. But he's not going to Project Open Hand's kitchen to volunteer...