UW System Clipsheet
October 9, 2009
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On Campus
"Excitement builds for new academic building at UW-Oshkosh," Oshkosh Northwestern, Oct. 8.
Construction of a new academic building at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh has people buzzing with interest in more ways than one. They’re excited that the four-story structure will be the first free standing academic building added to the school since 1971. They’re also buoyant because the state-of-the-art building will use renewable energy resources and sustainable principals, which are expected to save the school an estimated $182,000 annually in utility costs...
"University of Wisconsin Colleges, Wisconsin-Extension receives diversity award," Badger Herald, Oct. 9.
University of Wisconsin Colleges and University of Wisconsin-Extension received an award Thursday for their work with diversity training in their Multicultural Awareness Program. The Ann Lydecker Educational Diversity Award is an annual award given out by the State Council on Affirmative Action and the Office of State Employment Relations...
"Alcohol licensing committee to add student voter in Wisconsin," Blog, U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 8.
Madison, Wis., is known as a great college town that treats University of Wisconsin students as citizens of the city and part of community. And now, students will have a voice—and a vote—on the city's Alcohol Licensing Review Committee, reports the Badger Herald...
"UWM as economic engine? Dream on," Column, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 3.
Over the past five years, turning the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee into an "entrepreneurial" research university has been touted as an economic "game changer" for Milwaukee...The two signature initiatives of UWM entrepreneurialism - a biomedical engineering technology park in Wauwatosa and building a research arm for the Milwaukee 7's vision of turning Milwaukee into the "Silicon Valley of water technology"- have been almost universally supported by civic leaders and in the media...This is, however, Milwaukee's latest manifestation of irrational exuberance in economic development. The contribution of university-based technology transfer to city and regional economies has been wildly exaggerated... (Author: Marc V. Levine, professor of history, economic development and urban studies, UW-Milwaukee)...
"Three Wisconsin students start real estate website," WEAU-TV, Oct. 7.
A new website is helping college students find off-campus housing and it was started by three Wisconsin students. A UW-Stout student, a UW-Eau Claire student and another man started the website called homejotter.com...
"College Notebook: Hmong studies at UW-Milwaukee," Blog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 9.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee celebrates a community partnership seven years in the making Friday afternoon as it launches a certificate program in Hmong Diaspora Studies...
"Many debate UW policy," Badger Herald, Oct. 9.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin community members convened Thursday at an all-day conference to evaluate campus diversity and strategize ways to position UW as the country’s leader in campus diversity issues...
"UWSP bike rental program gets off the rack with repairs," Stevens Point Journal, Oct. 9.
...The Student Government Association at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is looking to make a fresh start this spring by repairing the bicycles in its student bike rental program...
"UWSP swine flu absence plan for students in works," Stevens Point Journal, Oct. 9.
A possible attendance policy at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point to deal with swine flu would require greater flexibility from professors for students who miss classes, while at the same time documenting when students were absent to prevent abuse of the policy...
"Main Street mansion: An inside look at UW-Platteville's chancellor house," Exponent Online, Oct. 8.
The house offered to the chancellor of UW-Platteville on Main Street remains vacant while the Chancellor Search and Screen Committee and the UW System Board of Regents conduct their search for the next chancellor of UW-P...
"UW-Platteville ranked noncompetitive by national publication," Exponent Online, Oct. 8.
UW-Platteville has been labeled the only “non-competitive” four-year school in the UW System, according to the 2009 Barron's Profile of American Colleges...
State
"Nobel Prize recipient has Wisconsin ties," Wisconsin Public Radio, Oct. 8.
One of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is a Wisconsin native. Dr. Thomas Steitz graduated from High School in Wauwatosa. He received his undergraduate degree at Lawrence University in Appleton...
National
"University of Minnesota confronting pain of budget crunch," Pioneer Press, Oct. 8.
The budget shortfall at the University of Minnesota could soar to $1 billion by 2025 if the school doesn't overhaul its financial structure to slash costs and manage declining state support, according to a report released Thursday. Without sweeping changes, the state's flagship university could face a $50 million shortfall by 2012 and see its costs skyrocket in the next two decades. The report cited the steady decline in state funding as the primary culprit. The findings came in a yearlong study by a task force of top university officials...
"Leaner times at Harvard: No cookies," New York Times, Oct. 8.
Gone are the hot breakfasts in most dorms and the pastries at Widener Library. Varsity athletes are no longer guaranteed free sweat suits, and just this week came the jarring news that professors will go without cookies at faculty meetings. By Harvard standards, these are hard times. Not Dickensian hard times, but with the value of its endowment down by almost 30 percent, the world’s richest university is learning to live with less...
"A college that is paying students not to attend," Blog, New York Times, Oct. 8.
...Ithaca College is paying 31 students as much as $10,000 each to put off going to college for a year. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Ithaca had hoped “to enroll 1,700 to 1,750 new freshmen but found itself with an incoming class of 2,027 for this fall”...But “coming in heavy” with a class, as this circumstance is known in the field, can often bring its own short-term and long-term costs, and create some added financial instability...
"Remediation worries and successes," Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 8.
...The major change in the last four decades? The top course at community colleges has switched from remedial English to remedial mathematics. One part of the problem, he said, is that colleges aren't asking tough enough questions about their own performance in making remediation work...
"The social media maze," Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 8.
...But even as more and more colleges create profiles, fan pages, and Twitter feeds, the question of how best to take advantage of these adolescent technologies — and how influential they actually are in terms of recruiting students and prompting donations — remains largely unanswered...
"Promised increase in federal farm research funds buoys public colleges," Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 8.
The secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, promised on Thursday an aggressive plan for boosting federal spending on farm-related research, cheering up public colleges that expect to be the chief beneficiaries...