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University of Wisconsin campuses have the power to discipline students for serious off-campus misconduct for the first time this semester. New disciplinary rules went into effect Sept. 1 after sailing through a final review by the Legislature without any changes...
An $80 million update to the University of Wisconsin System payroll computer software, which dates back to the 1970's, will be proposed by the UW System President Kevin Reilly next week.In the regents' meeting Sept. 10, the project titled "The Human Resource System Project," which will combine and restructure all of the payroll software in the UW System schools, will be considered...
When University of Wisconsin System officials announced a plan to spend $81.4 million to upgrade the System's payroll and benefits software, spokesman David Giroux offered the following reassurance: "There is absolutely no reason for things to go astray." Let those words ring as a warning to the UW System and the state Legislature. UW System administrators are accountable for completing the project on time and within budget. Lawmakers are responsible for the oversight required to guarantee that accountability...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has launched two initiatives designed to make it easier for undergraduate students to learn about and apply for scholarships. There's a new Web site to help students search undergraduate scholarships...The other new initiative is designed to make it easier for students to apply for scholarships by completing an online application form...
With flu season bearing down, the University of Wisconsin is shoring up its preparations to confront a potential H1N1 influenza virus, or "swine flu," pandemic on campus...
Another pathway to an engineering diploma opened Thursday as leaders from Carroll University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee signed an agreement that will allow students to work toward such a degree at the Waukesha campus...
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will be allowed to conditionally continue the teacher education program that came under fire earlier this year. Parkside will be granted full approval by the Department of Public Instruction by the summer of 2010 if it continues to meet a series of steps, according to information released Thursday afternoon by the university, but Chancellor Debbie Ford said she hoped to have everything resolved by spring when the program comes up for its normal, five-year review...
...While the Badgers look to go 1-0 on the football field, the university looks to keep the alcoholic culture associated with football games down to a minimum. In many ways, the war on binge drinking and underage drinking is a futile endeavor, especially when dealing with something as inveterately linked as football and beer. But it is a noble endeavor nonetheless; one that the University has shown it is willing to fight...
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and researchers from laboratories, universities and businesses around the Midwest discussed their latest work in bio-fuel technology at the first Bio-Fuels and Energy Independence Symposium held at the University of Wisconsin-Superior on Thursday...
The school year is less than a week old but UW-Madison health officials already are seeing students with flu-like symptoms. The school sent out a press release Thursday which said University Health Services has begun seeing more patients than usual for this time of year with these symptoms..."But we're not going to routinely put out those numbers"...
...The UW-Eau Claire housed most of its student body on campus. But nearly 230 students, including 66 freshmen, will stay in two local hotels. That's due to a higher than expected number of upper classmen returning to the dorms...
A fire caused damage to the Engineering Research building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Thursday night...The fire was contained to just one room and damage is estimated at $20,000...
...Stevens Point natives Austin and Aaron Wessell must feel like they're part of a Hollywood fraternity without leaving Wisconsin. The twins transform themselves into Bucky Badger, the much-loved University of Wisconsin mascot, at least 100 times a year...
Thousands of college students have been moving onto University of Wisconsin campuses across the state. But hundreds more can't, due to housing crunches. The UW-Eau Claire housed most of its student body on campus. But nearly 230 students, including 66 freshmen, will stay in two local hotels. That's due to a higher than expected number of upper classmen returning to the dorms...Meanwhile, Paul Evans of UW-Madison housing says they're in a crunch too, but expect relief soon...
A UW student is beaten near campus. It happened just before midnight near the intersection of Park and Johnson Street...The victim is a UW Safe Walk employee and student who was treated at the hospital and has since been released...
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student working as a SAFEwalk escort allegedly was beaten up Wednesday night by two men, who were found and arrested a short time later, UW-Madison police reported...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's space observatory is getting ready to celebrate renvoations. Washburn Observatory plans an open house on Friday, Sept. 11, to celebrate the two-year, $2.5 million project...
CNN's chief business analyst Ali Velshi hosted a town hall meeting at the Grainger School of Business Thursday, offering University of Wisconsin students the opportunity to share their perspective on therecession and health care...
A large freshmen class will join returning sophomores this weekend as University of Wisconsin-Stout students move into the residence halls in Menomonie. Sunday, Sept. 6, is move-in day for approximately 3,000 UW-Stout students who will be living in the residence halls...
Classes at a suburban Detroit university were canceled indefinitely on Thursday after professors went on strike, upset over being asked to freeze their salaries a year after the university's president received a $100,000 raise...
The world economic crisis and the election of Barack Obama will change the future of higher education. Even as universities, both public and private, face unanticipated financial constraints, the president has called on them to assist in solving problems from health care delivery to climate change to economic recovery...
Four years ago I ranked all of the major college guides for Slate. My piece is still there, if you want to look. It retains some relevance at this time of year, when America has its annual ratings-o-rama. It is more entertaining than informative, but so what? A little amusement might help us better understand what we want in our colleges...
In a flurry of comments filed with the federal court New York overseeing the proposed Google Book Search settlement, library groups have stepped up their criticism, joined by several industry heavyweights. On the other side, a variety of supporters have emerged, notably smaller academic institutions that believe that the institutional subscription database (ISD) would be a far better deal than having to try to match a major research library...The University of Wisconsin at Madison, like Michigan a partner library, wrote in support...
A number of higher education institutions have assigned Judge Denny Chin some reading for Tuesday. Chin, the federal judge who is presiding over Author's Guild et al. v. Google, Inc., has been inundated with letters and amicus briefs in advance of the September 7 deadline for participants in the class action to opt out of a settlement over the company's controversial Google Books project that has received preliminary approval from the court...
...With the Spellings Commission nearly two years in the rearview mirror now, (Robert) Zemsky has once again taken on the role of critic -- this time of the commission and of higher education. In "Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education" (Rutgers University Press), the University of Pennsylvania professor delivers what he describes as "the report the Spellings Commission should have written"...