The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay announced on Monday its largest private academic gift, a $5.5 million contribution from the late David A. Cofrin. Combined with previous Cofrin family gifts, the windfall will help create UWGB's second fully endowed chair and a $4 million permanent endowment to fund academic enhancements. It also will result in a new name for the university's business program, which will be called the Austin E. Cofrin School of Business...

Forty computers in the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry were hacked over the course of roughly 18 months, possibly exposing the names and Social Security numbers of 2,920 people on campus. UW-Madison authorities sent a letter Oct. 12 to faculty, staff and students who were affected, apologizing for the security breach and promising that new security tools are being put in place...

University of Wisconsin agricultural research stations that conduct research and testing on a variety of vegetables will be sending their food surpluses to local food banks and other food redistributors as the weather gets colder...

UW-River Falls Chancellor Dean Van Galen is asking the campus community to remain vigilant after a student discovered and reported race-related graffiti in the Chalmer Davee Library on Sunday evening. The vandalism threatens violence Monday against African-American and Asian campus populations...

A racist graffiti message threatening African American and Asian students was found in a men’s restroom in the Chalmer Davee Library at UW-River Falls. The vandalism threatened that violence against these two groups of the campus population would occur on Nov 2. In a special edition of the Falcon Daily, UWRF Chancellor Dean Van Galen said he encouraged students to post a “I Pledge to Speak Up” sign, found on the UWRF Inclusiveness Web site and to show support for the campus...

A monthlong exhibit at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will explore the history and culture of Japan from the Tokugawa period...While students will be studying the exhibit for classes taught by Chaffin and Barske, the expansion to more events will allow a broader audience to find something to attend...

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has announced the four finalists for provost, whose responsibilities include the quality of academic programs and the hiring and promoting faculty and staff...

SysLogic Inc., the Blood Center of Wisconsin, and University of Wisconsin-Madison have received a federal grant of $1.4 million to advance a patient safety project using radio-frequency identification to manage collection, production and transfusion of blood products...

An internship could help launch the careers of a pair UW-Stout students. They're in the engineering program at UW-Stout and went through an internship with NASA this summer...

National Campus Sustainability Day was Wednesday and UW-River Falls participated by hosting a day full of events to educate students and faculty about the importance of this topic...

If you’re in danger of falling off a building or have a toilet in need of some TLC, check these clever inventions by Stout students. Winning first place honors in the 2009 Safety Products Student Design Challenge, five students studying apparel design and development (Amy Alderete, Deanna Badman, Stephanie Fitzgerald, Sarah Lafata, and Laura Schannach) came out on top for their “suspension pants”...

At a time when the average number of years to finish a bachelors degree is approaching five, the University of Wisconsin-Stout is allowing members of three popular majors to graduate in just three. On Oct. 14 Chancellor Sorensen announced that he had accepted the recommendations of a task force composed of Edwin Biggerstaff, Damien Hanft, Karen Martinson and Associate Vice Chancellor Janice Coker to offer students majoring in Psychology, Business Administration and Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management the opportunity to finish their degrees in three years...

People who choose to attend college after some years in the workforce are often referred to as non-traditional students or returning adults. I think of them as students who have made a commitment to further their education and positively impact their ability to earn. The average student age at Mid-State Technical College is 29. From this, you can see we have students of all ages; some are recent high school graduates and some have been out of high school for 30 or more years. So, no matter your age, you will fit right in at MSTC. We have more than 50 associate degree and technical diploma program offerings. We have something for everyone...

Congress has not given final approval to legislation ending federal subsidies for private student loans for college. But Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter Monday to thousands of colleges and universities urging them to get ready to use the government’s Direct Loan Program in the 2010-11 school year...

The economy may be on the mend, but the chief finance officers of colleges are far from upbeat about the near future, according to a survey conducted by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The survey found that 62 percent of the officers think the financial pressures on their colleges will get worse, and almost two thirds fear that 2010-2012 will be even more difficult...

Critics have sometimes blamed the accreditation standards of the American Bar Association for driving up the cost of law school and making it more difficult for students of color to be admitted to those programs. But a report released on Monday by the Government Accountability Office says that most law schools surveyed instead blamed competition for better rankings and a more hands-on approach to educating students for the increased price of a law degree...