In its first meeting on the UW-Whitewater campus since 2002, the UW System Board of Regents last week reaffirmed the controversial overhaul of a statewide computer system...

...University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point administrators are building a catalog of university-related pages on the popular social-networking site. That will include pages about university or community topics that spring up without university involvement. The university will be able to use the catalog to spread information, such as events, menus or even plans for a swine flu outbreak to a targeted audience it knows has an interest in UWSP...

UW-Madison officials would like your help spending millions of dollars. Remember the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates? That's the tuition surcharge of $250 this year for in-state UW-Madison students - which will ultimately grow to $1,000 in four years - to boost undergraduate education and financial aid. An oversight committee, made up of students, faculty and staff, are looking for proposals to make use of the funds generated by the initiative...

With school back in session, college students across Wisconsin are exploring some of the freedoms of being on their own -- one of which could have a major impact on their health -- their diet...Dining managers at the University of Wisconsin are working to give students healthy options...

The Higher Learning Commission concluded its reaccreditation visit by reporting its findings to UW-Eau Claire yesterday morning in Schofield. After the last reaccreditation visit, the HLC issued eight challenges for the university to address, including diversity and assessment, among others, according to the Self-Study. But this time, the HLC reported only four concerns...

...Taking four or more years to graduate is common at Eau Claire, where only 26 percent of students graduate in four, compared to UW-Madison's 50 percent and UW-La Crosse's 32 percent. After six years, the rate of students graduating from Eau Claire jumps to 61 percent...But four-year graduation is something the university does want to push now. It's often referred to by professors and administrators as a "selling point" to soften the blow of the $1,000 - 2,500 tuition increase proposed in the Blugold Commitment to compensate for declining state funding...

The new 54,000-square-foot Campus Services Center, located at 650 Witzel Ave., was completed $1.2 million under budget, leaving the University extra money to upgrade a few other aspects of its new acquired property...

Two UW-Milwaukee faculty members, Stefan Schnitzer and Lei “Leslie” Ying, were recently awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to fund research studies in their fields...

The Chancellor Search and Screen Committee has set up forums to take place starting 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21 in the Platteville West room of the Pioneer Student Center. The forums are open to the public to voice their questions or concerns...

Fourteen people were arrested today for disrupting a UC regents meeting in San Francisco with protests and chants against employee pay cuts and proposed student fee increases. Shouting “Whose university? Our university!”, the demonstrators had their hands bound behind their backs by UC police and were escorted out of the meeting room at the Mission Bay campus of UC San Francisco...

...Although college officials around the country were expecting an early and rough flu season, the fact that it hit so many campuses while students were still unpacking has complicated the start of the academic year...

College students from Missouri to Oregon are urging their schools to stop using coal-based electricity in favor of cleaner energy sources ranging from wood chips to geothermal power...A 2007 Sierra Club lawsuit charging the University of Wisconsin with violating federal pollution standards and a subsequent court ruling led that state's governor to endorse a $251 million project to convert the school's coal boilers to instead burn paper pellets and wood chips...

Projected enrollment rates for college students and graduates are projected to stagnate or even decline by 2018, according to a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics...

Employers plan to hire 7 percent fewer college graduates from the class of 2010 than they did from this year’s graduating class, a survey released Wednesday found...

The U.S. House of Representatives began debate Wednesday on a bill (HR 3221) to end bank-based student lending, adopting an amendment that would provide $50-million to help colleges make the transition to the government's direct-loan program...

...Sure, student evaluations have their limits. They should never be the only means of evaluating faculty members, and they should never be used to snoop on professors who deal with controversial subjects in their classes. Yes, administrators have been guilty of misusing them. But the benefits far outweigh the risks, and faculty members who actually want to become better teachers—and who believe that good teaching skills are not bequeathed to them in perpetuity with the awarding of a Ph.D.—should read them over and over again...