UW System Clipsheet
October 2, 2009
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On Campus
"UW sees drop in crime on campus," Badger Herald, Oct. 2.
Safety on the University of Wisconsin campus has seen major improvements over the past two years with total crime at an all-time low, according to the annual University Campus Safety Guide for 2009 released Thursday...
"University Dining jobs a treat for UWSP students," Stevens Point Journal, Oct. 2.
...Unlike many jobs, University Dining schedules short shifts that fit into students' academic schedules. Instead of working a six-hour shift before or after school, students can put in a two-hour lunch shift between classes...
"UWS seeks native artists," Superior Telegram, Oct. 2.
The Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Superior is seeking Native American high school students and professional artists to exhibit their artwork at the 11th annual American Indian Art Scholarship Exhibit April 7–28 in the university’s Kruk Gallery...
"Concern about mental health confidentiality," Daily Cardinal, Oct. 2.
Last year, approximately 10 percent of UW-Madison students visited UHS to treat at least one mental illness, but that’s just skimming the surface, according to UHS Director for Clinical and Crisis Services, Dennis Christoffersen. “Some don’t come because they worry it will make them seem weak or ... they’re too busy or they don’t know how somebody could help with their problems,” Christoffersen said...
"No students to be found at UW-Platteville chancellor-search forums," Exponent Online, Oct. 1.
Aside from committee members, seven faculty members and zero students attended the Sept. 23 Chancellor Search and Screen Open Forum in the Pioneer Student Center. The Sept. 21 meeting had no participants other than committee members, said Joanne Wilson, general engineering professor and chair of the Chancellor Search and Screen Committee. The committee has two student members, Quincy Bufkin and Amy Bell Kwallek, who will be involved in the nomination process for a new chancellor...
State
"VA to hand out emergency checks to students," Wisconsin State Journal, Oct. 2.
The Milwaukee office of the Department of Veterans Affairs will hand out emergency checks today and Saturday to students who are eligible for benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill but have not yet received them. The VA has a backlog of about 25,000 claims nationwide, said Thomas Braun, with the Milwaukee VA regional office. He didn't know how many in Wisconsin are awaiting benefits...
"It's getting kind of ugly," Column, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Oct. 2.
There's certainly no love lost between the Pawlenty Administration and the University of Minnesota...During a keynote speech Wednesday to The Collaborative's annual venture capital conference, Pawlenty chided the U for lacking a risk taking, entrepreneurial culture and not working well with outside companies, according to sources...The back and forth bickering is why we look like chumps compared to Wisconsin...In the Badger State, the University of Wisconsin has worked hand in hand with governors and legislators of both parties to craft one of the country's best environments for tech transfer and biotech start-ups...
"FVTC annual open house to highlight the impact of two-year colleges," Oshkosh Northwestern, Oct. 1.
...More importantly, the event illustrates the increasing role two-year colleges play in today's ever-changing global economy...
National
"Federal spending on academic research rose slightly in 2008," Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 1.
Federal spending on scientific research at universities and colleges rose slightly in 2008, following two years of declines, but the federal share of total academic research spending again dropped, according to figures released on Thursday by the National Science Foundation...
"Painful lesson on patents," Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 2.
...On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit told a lower court judge to dismiss a lawsuit Stanford had brought accusing the pharmaceutical company Roche of infringing its patent on a technology that measures the concentration of HIV in blood plasma...Several experts on intellectual property law said the Stanford v. Roche case has significant implications for any of the many colleges and universities that seek to transform their faculty's scholarly work into patentable inventions...
"Class advantage," Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 2.
Between 1955 and 2005, college enrollments increased to 17.5 million from 2.6 million -- and the percentage of high school graduates seeking some higher education increased to 70 percent from 45 percent. According to sociological theories of modernization, such a "massive expansion of higher education" should have disproportionately helped the less privileged in society, promoting their upward mobility, according to a paper just released in the American Sociological Review. But that didn't happen. And the paper -- by Sigal Alon, a sociologist at Tel Aviv University who has conducted extensive work on American college-going patterns -- suggests the reasons why...