On Campus
There were people in the Columbia County Law Enforcement Center meeting room Tuesday who could remember when the University of Wisconsin-Extension's work pertained mainly to home economics, farming and 4-H clubs. Rick Klemme is one of those people. As statewide dean of the Extension, Klemme said he's starting to hear rumblings from some counties that the Extension is a throwback to a small-town, agriculture-centered culture that no longer exists, or that it's a service that's "nice to have," but expendable by budget-strapped counties. But the "farming and 4-H" Extension that Klemme knew as recently as the 1980s has evolved, he said...
Educators, politicians and students are celebrating the groundbreaking of UW-Marathon County's newest project. Nearly 100 people showed up for the ceremony to kick off construction of the University's Public Policy Institute and Theater. It will house the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service and Wisconsin Public Radio. As well as the continuing Education and Theater Departments. U.S. Congressman Dave Obey secured about $4 million dollars for the nearly $7 million dollar project...
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UW Marathon County and community leaders gathered in Wausau to celebrate a long awaited day. Friday, they officially broke ground for the University's new 33,000 square foot building. The facility will house offices and four programs currently contained in UWMC's current building...
The University of Marathon County on Friday will break ground for its Public Policy Institute/Theater for Marathon County building at the corner of Stewart and Seventh avenues in Wausau...
On this move-in weekend, we welcome back to campus what will be one of the largest classes of new University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students since the 1980s. We expect more than 2,300 new faces in a enrollment nearing 9,200. Thousands of lives will be transformed by their time with us, and thousands of individuals will transform our community in so many ways. (Author: UW-Stevens Point Interim Chancellor Mark Nook)
...For a lot of college students, the path to a bachelor's degree is not necessarily smooth or accomplished at a single institution. That's why the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's efforts to simplify its credit-transfer system is the right thing to do to help students who make the decision to transfer colleges. Creating a "seamless transfer system" would benefit not only transfers from the University of Wisconsin Marathon County and to others within the UW System, but also to students from technical schools such as Wausau's Northcentral Technical Colleges. Rather than a course-by-course system, it would create more accessible "packages" of transfer credits. The initiative, led by interim chancellor Mark Nook, is a worthwhile one...
While some people head back to school, others may be thinking about changing schools, and local colleges want you to know if you're considering transferring, it's not as daunting as it may seem...
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point dropped four places, but remained in the top tier of its peer institutions in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report rankings...
Standing in the new Aylward Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley in Menasha is like being outdoors from inside..."This idea of installation art is sort of visual theater, if you will," said Frank Zetzman, a UWFV art professor who is a member of the gallery's advisory committee that brought Takahashi and his art to campus..
Why did you choose UW Fox? "The decision to return to school was a daunting one for me. I was married with four young sons. Although I knew how to run a household, I wondered, 'Could I successfully juggle the demands of family and still excel in an academic environment?' When I walked into the UWFox Student Services Office during the summer of 2005, I carried with me many of my reservations. Thanks to the friendly and knowledgeable reception I received, I was quickly able to put my fears aside...
UW-Fox Valley will present “Financial Boot Camp” beginning Sept. 22. The course will examine the basics of personal finances in the U.S. Students will examine the origin of money and its flow through our economy, the basics of a family financial plan, and how wealth is accumulated, taxed, distributed and finally transferred at death...
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh residence hall community advisers, hall directors, assistant hall directors and other Residence Life staff volunteered throughout the Oshkosh community Aug. 27 during the university's 13th annual Citizenship Day...
...UW-Milwaukee also follows the UWS 22.01, adding UWM Fac. Doc. 1918 that says when there is a scheduling conflict between religious beliefs and course requirements, students are permitted to make up exams or other requirements if the student has notified the instructor within the first three weeks of classes. "At present, we are not considering prohibiting faculty or instructional staff from holding classes on the High Holidays," [UW-Oshkosh Provost Lane] Earns said. "Our efforts are directed toward the accommodation of religious beliefs, rather than the prohibition of teaching."...
It's move in day at colleges across the country, including right here in the Northland...Tiffany is joining more than 700 students registered to live in the UW- Superior's residence halls. That's the largest number of new students the campus has seen since the 1970's...
Like father, like daughter. Amanda Kriehn of Franklin was among a throng of first-year and transfer students moving into the dormitories Sunday on UW-Eau Claire's upper campus. Kriehn's room is on the ninth floor of Towers Hall, only one floor down from where her father resided a generation ago...
A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse professor and his students are part of a worldwide effort to document all life on the planet on one Web site. That is a large undertaking, considering there are about 1.8 million known species on Earth, said UW-L biology professor Tom Volk...
"It's a question of life and death," says the University of Wisconsin-Madison veterinary epidemiologist and specialist in the food-borne bugaboo Escherichia coli O157:H7. "Ten of those bacteria can kill a person, especially young children and the elderly." But the National Science Foundation's $1 million grant to Döpfer and UW-Madison bacteriology professor Charles Kaspar is not just a novel dissection of a murderous pathogen. It's a shot at righting an economy. Döpfer's grant is one piece of UW-Madison's growing collection of research projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the federal government's economic stimulus package...
If you've spent any time around University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema and his players since last spring, you've heard the word "accountability" creep into most conversations...
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is urging employees and students to stay home when they are sick to control the spread of swine flu...
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is the latest campus official to urge students and staff to stay away if they begin to feel ill. The move comes as another precaution to prevent a potential widespread outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus...
Author Michael Pollan, one of the major architects of the current movement to create a more sustainable, environmentally sound food system, will give a free talk to the public at the Kohl Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, Sept. 24...
There's no word yet on what'll replace the lucrative beer ads that UW administrators just axed for broadcast sports events. But a university official says Wisconsin was in the minority when it came to having alcohol sponsors for games...
State
People might picture manual labor when they think of manufacturing jobs, but they should think of math. A Wisconsin Technical College System 2004 study of manufacturing employees across the state showed the skill that workers most needed - and lacked - was math, said Patti Balacek, community liaison for the 7 Rivers Alliance. A new $600,000 grant will help boost math and science skills, said Balacek. The Western Wisconsin STEM Consortium - made up of nine area school districts, two colleges and several businesses - announced the state Department of Public Instruction grant Friday. With the funding, University of Wisconsin-Stout and Western Technical College faculty will guide 60 elementary, middle and high school teachers on how to better teach math and science. Business partners will help decide on curriculum that apply to current jobs...
School and business officials in western Wisconsin are working together to improve student learning in math and science. Nine school districts, Western Technical College, UW-Stout, and several business partners are educating teachers more in those areas to achieve that goal...
Bryan Renk grew up with a family seed business, directed licensing activities at one of the world's biggest academic technology transfer organizations and has overseen a company that makes feed additives with chicken antibodies. Now he's been tapped to grow the organization that represents the state's biotechnology industry. Renk was named Friday as the executive director of BioForward, which has about 250 member companies, about half of which are biotech firms...
A countywide economic development corporation is an excellent step toward retaining and creating jobs in Sheboygan County...The valuable educational resourses and people at the University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan, Lakeland College and Lakeshore Technical College can also be tapped to round out a program for economic development...
The college president is an economist. He knows numbers and history, theories and reality. As he prepares for his Sept. 25 inauguration as Beloit College's 11th president, Scott Bierman surveys the landscape of higher education with cold-eyed realism...
At a ceremonial opening of the Bayshore campus of Bryant & Stratton College last week, Peter Pavone alluded to the ballooning popularity of career colleges...
It's a bit like studying days and days for a test, putting every ounce of energy into performing at a top level -- and then receiving a D. After more than two decades of concentrated effort to improve U.S. education, the latest scores on the SAT for college-bound high school students show achievement is down. Wisconsin's performance beat the national average, with scores up slightly here. But Wisconsin suffered its own poor report cards on other measures...
National
They worry about the quality of online courses, say teaching them takes more effort, and grouse about insufficient support. Yet large numbers of professors still put in the time to teach online. And despite the broad suspicion about quality, a majority of faculty members have recommended online courses to students. That is the complicated picture that emerges in "The Paradox of Faculty Voices: Views and Experiences With Online Learning," part of a two-volume national study released today by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities -- Sloan National Commission on Online Learning...
Online education is no longer a peripheral phenomenon at public universities, but many academic administrators are still treating it that way. So says a comprehensive study released today by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and the Sloan National Commission on Online Learning, which gathered survey responses from more than 10,700 faculty members and 231 interviews with administrators, professors, and students at APLU institutions...
Students have more ways than ever to post anonymous attacks on classmates, thanks (or rather, no thanks) to new and expanded online forums promising to be bigger and juicier than the infamous JuicyCampus, which drew fierce protests from harassed students before it shut down earlier this year...
Colleges and universities contribute significantly to the cost of federally sponsored research projects, through what they spend on research labs and equipment, faculty start-up packages, and "indirect" costs that aren't reimbursed by the government...
In an effort to control damage from the state's worst scandal in public higher education, Gov. Patrick J. Quinn on Wednesday appointed to the University of Illinois board of trustees two new members who he said would help restore integrity to the admissions process...
