University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin met with The Daily Cardinal editors Friday to discuss the Madison Initiative, diversity on campus and other topics of interest to students...

Michael Pollan, a critic of big agriculture, was invited to speak in farm friendly Wisconsin to promote a diversity of opinion, a top college official said. "I saw this an opportunity to solicit conflicting points of view on a very important topic," said Carolyn Martin, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, home to one of the nation's largest agricultural schools...

UW-Madison is one of seven universities across the nation to receive a competitive federal grant to raise awareness of sexual assault and dating violence on college campuses...

...But transfer students - who arrive at the university each fall by the hundreds - say their reception traditionally has been a little cold...But the school is trying to change that. For the first time this fall, UW-Madison organized a convocation, or welcome event, just for transfer students...

...The image of the starving artist may be romantic, but that's about it. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is combating uncertainty for people contemplating arts careers with a groundbreaking program called Arts Enterprise. It includes a public lecture series...

...Olear's "Pathological Processes" is a series of digital prints, watercolors and large-scale oil paintings hanging in the Ebling Library. The art lines the hallways around the second floor of the Health Sciences Learning Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Members differ on whether the Eau Claire City Council should approve a site plan allowing the construction of a new UW-Eau Claire student center before university officials decide how to resolve the possible loss of a revered tree...

UW-Eau Claire is considering moving the emblematic Council Oak tree held sacred by American Indians because a land crunch on lower campus limits options for a new student center. The university is getting an assessment of the tree's health to see if it can survive transplantation and a cost estimate for the procedure...

UW-Whitewater is urging students who fall ill with the flu—whether it’s swine flu or the seasonal flu—to go home and stay home until they feel better. Beloit College has a similar policy. But if sick students can’t leave campus, the schools have designated isolation areas in residence halls...

Tens of thousands of Wisconsin college students would get a boost in financial aid from a House bill that aims to dramatically alter the student loan landscape...

Limited supplies of an H1N1 virus vaccine will be available earlier than anticipated and ready by the first week of October, according to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius...

...Strengthening research capacity through international collaborations, which in 2005 ranked second in importance only to internationalizing the faculty and student body, is no longer among the top three rationales institutions cite for why they are internationalizing. Instead, their current priorities, in order of importance, are improving student preparedness, internationalizing their curricula, and enhancing their institution's international profile and reputation...

American universities may still lead the world when it comes to the sheer number of students they attract. But in another measure of internationalization, Europe fares far better. At the annual meeting of the European Association for International Education here last week, many educators focused on the booming field of international joint-degree and dual-degree programs...

That too many young people come out of high school ill-prepared for college or the work force is little disputed. The questions of why that's so and how to fix the situation, however, have too often resulted in finger pointing, with many college faculty members complaining that high schools are asking too little of their students and high school officials saying that colleges send mixed signals about what they want students to be able to do...

Students who get kicked out of a University of Minnesota football game for drunken rowdiness won't be allowed back next time unless they pass an alcohol breath test at the gate — one of the most extreme attempts yet by colleges to curb misbehavior in the stands...But Ervin Cox, assistant dean of students at the University of Wisconsin, said he believes his school and Minnesota are the only ones with such a policy...