An act of vandalism done to divide the University of Wisconsin - River Falls campus has instead had the opposite effect. It's pulled students and staff closer together...

In response to racist and threatening graffiti in a University of Wisconsin-River Falls bathroom, university community members banded together through rallies, discussions and demonstrations Monday to show their support for diversity...

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will celebrate its 40th anniversary all during the coming week, and the culmination will be the inauguration on Friday, Nov. 6 of Deborah Ford as the university's sixth chancellor...

Biddy Martin apologized to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Faculty Senate Monday evening for the way in which her administration rolled out a proposed reorganization of the Graduate School. The round of applause she received following this concession at Bascom Hall would seem to indicate many are ready to forgive Martin for her first significant public relations misstep as chancellor at UW-Madison...

The Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison has voted overwhelmingly to urge the administration there to slow down a proposed reorganization of the institution's Graduate School that would change how the campus handles research. The proposed reorganization would establish a separate office, overseen by a new vice chancellor, to manage the research being performed by various graduate programs...

UW-Madison’s Faculty Senate almost unanimously approved a resolution Monday opposing any action to restructure the graduate school until a thorough, shared governance process is completed...

After voicing their opinions without restraint Monday, the Faculty Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution to slow down implementation of Provost Paul DeLuca Jr.’s proposal to restructure the University of Wisconsin graduate school...

Two women with extensive teaching, research and administrative experience are the finalists for the position of chancellor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale...They are: Rita Cheng, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a doctoral research university with an enrollment of 29,000...

The total number of reported swine flu cases on the University of Wisconsin campus showed a slight decrease this week following several weeks of fluctuating numbers, as University Health Services continues to wait for a second shipment of vaccines for the third week in a row...

 ...To facilitate the local marketing of feed commodities, the University of Wisconsin-Extension has developed a Web site where livestock producers in need of high moisture corn find corn growers who have high moisture corn for sale...

On Monday October 26^th, 250 students, faculty, and community members crowded into the Reeve Union Ballroom at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh to listen to Wisconsin Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson. Abrahamson is one of the longest tenured Chief Justices in American history and she has been a leader in protecting access to justice in this state...

U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin is trying to address a projected nursing shortage nationwide, with a provision that would get more loans to nurses who want to teach. Despite recent layoffs and furloughs of nurses nationwide, a shortage of nurses is still projected. And one obstacle in training more nurses is not enough faculty. At UW-Madison's School of Nursing alone, 68-percent of the faculty will be eligible for retirement in the next five years...

...the Center for American Progress, headed by the former Clinton confidante John Podesta, is the think tank for the current White House. Time magazine called the center "Obama's idea factory" after his election last year. Which makes the center's new white paper on higher education all the more interesting -- and, perhaps, all the more concerning to some college leaders...

...A survey this year of M.B.A. applicants by QS TopMBA.com, a career guidance Web site, found that 28.4 percent of respondents cited “starting own business” as a prime aspiration, up from 24 percent in 2006, while “improving career prospects” had dropped to 66.2 percent from 73 percent. Insead has adapted its curriculum accordingly...

Nearly one-third of U.S. private colleges are preparing for a drop in tuitions and fee revenue this school year, according to a survey of colleges and universities by Moody's Investors Service. The findings show that many schools could be facing weaker future operating performance from the revenue declines. Credit raters have been downgrading some schools' debt the past year, though not in the numbers seen among municipal and corporate debt. Laura Sander, author of Moody's report on the survey's findings, said the tuition-income drop "may stem largely from colleges needing to discount tuition by a larger amount than in prior years. The colleges and universities increased tuition but also increased by even more their discounts to students in the form of financial aid and scholarships"...

The federal stimulus package has saved or created 325,000 jobs in public schools and colleges across the country, according to a report released on Monday by the White House's Office of Management and Budget. But the legislation's actual impact on higher-education employment is far from concrete...