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November 13, 2009
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On Campus
"UW business school launches global real estate program," Business Journal of Milwaukee, Nov. 12.
The University of Wisconsin School of Business has entered into a partnership with three other business schools worldwide to offer a new global program in real estate. The program, Global Real Estate Master (GREM), is expected to attract some of the brightest real estate students from the top business schools in Asia, Europe and Latin America...
"Bucky's brains boost tech rep," Editorial, Wisconsin State Journal, Nov. 12.
A smart and disciplined UW-Madison team has advanced for the ninth straight year to its top tournament. And it's not the football or basketball squad. It's the university's three-member computer programming team, which learned this week it's heading to China in February for the IBM-sponsored world finals...
"13 robberies reported near UWM in past 3 weeks," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 12.
Thirteen robberies have occurred in the past three weeks near the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, although crime near the campus is down overall since Sept. 1, according to data released Thursday by Milwaukee police...While police and university officials expressed concern Thursday about the spike, the statistics also show that crime in the area near campus is down about 7.3% since the school year began when compared with the same period last year...
"UW-Whitewater can't invite students to 'prayer vigil,' foundation says," Wisconsin State Journal, Nov. 13.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a letter to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater objecting to the fact the school invited students to attend a prayer vigil for a student killed in the Fort Hood shootings...
"Spiritual component remains a work in progress at the Pres House," Wisconsin State Journal, Nov. 12.
Before choosing the career path he's on today, Jonathan Reid, a doctoral student in history at UW-Madison, considered attending seminary. Many aspects of a religious life still appeal to him, including living among others of faith. So for his campus residence, he chose Pres House, a 51-unit apartment building opened in 2007 by the Presbyterian student ministry on campus...
"Global Entrepreneurship Week events start Sunday," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 12.
Kenny Dichter will hold a talk at Camp Randall about how he turned his passion for Badger sports into entrepreneurial ventures that ultimately led him to found Marquis Jet, a leader in fractional ownership private aviation...These are just three of about 30 events around the state that are part of Global Entrepreneurship Week beginning Nov. 15...
"Universities reject Kindle over inaccessibility for the blind," CNET, Nov. 12.
The National Federation of the Blind is applauding the decisions of Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison not to Amazon.com's Kindle DX as a textbook replacement. The universities cited the Kindle's inaccessibility to the blind as the problem...
"Debbie Crave receives highest award from UW-Madison CALS," Wisconsin AgConnection, Nov. 13.
One of the family members of this year's Wisconsin Farm Technology Days host farm has received the highest award conferred by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Debbie Crave, who serves as vice president at Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese Co., was presented with an Honorary Award during a banquet and ceremony at the UW-Madison by College Dean Molly Jahn...
"Colleges see rise in H1N1 flu cases," Beloit Daily News, Nov. 12.
...Other residential colleges near Beloit — Rockford College and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater — also have or have had cases of the H1N1 virus...In the meantime, Whitewater and Beloit College are awaiting vaccination doses...
"College grads hit hard by teacher glut," Associated Press, Leader-Telegram, Nov. 12.
...Across the country, droves of people such as Lackey are unable to find teaching jobs, in large part because the economy is forcing school systems to slash positions. The teacher shortage that many feared just a few years ago has turned into a teacher glut...UW-Eau Claire is working to improve the "universal skill sets" of its future teachers to ensure they can be successful in any part of the country, he said. Those skills include understanding cultural diversity, linguistic diversity, technology and developmental diversity...
"Campus-wide vote to decide fate of student programs," The Racquet, Nov. 12.
The student body will have a chance to vote in a referendum that directly impacts tuition on November 18. UW-La Crosse is required to update their Academic Initiative differential tuition agreement with the UW-System Board of Regents in December, but before going before the board, Chancellor Joe Gow has asked the student body to voice their opinion on the issue...
"New campus org encourages students to become active," UWRF Voice, Nov. 12.
With its 2009-2010 motto, “Students, Service, and Success,” the Falcon Fellows is one of the newest organizations on campus that is striving to help students become active in their community...
State
"Wisconsin could get $250 million in education funding if it's a winner in 'Race to the Top'," Wisconsin State Journal, Nov. 12.
Wisconsin would be awarded up to $250 million in federal education stimulus funds if it is one of the winners in the federal government's "Race to the Top" contest, the U.S. Department of Education has announced. Guidelines for the $4.35 billion competition, released today, are built around four areas outlined last week by President Barack Obama during his visit to Madison's Wright Middle School: reforming tests and raising standards, bolstering effective teachers and principals, creating data systems to measure student growth, and turning around low-achieving schools...
"Nurse survey will help get answers on future shortage," Wisconsin Public Radio, Nov. 12.
Registered nurses who are renewing their licenses early next year will have to fill out a survey. The results will be used to determine the impact a nursing shortage will have over the next decade...The Department of Workforce Development estimates the state will need 80,000 new nurses over the next decade...
National
"Liberal arts in jeopardy?," Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 13.
As colleges across the country continue to cinch their belts, both administrators and students have been forced to decide which sorts of programs are good investments and which are now unaffordable luxuries. And with students sweating a cutthroat job market that favors specific skills, many in higher education have been left wonder how the recession stands to affect the liberal arts. That was much on the minds of liberal arts leaders gathered here at the annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. How to maintain the appeal of “an education for wisdom and virtue” as families and institutions fixate anxiously on their bottom lines was the question of the day...
"For-profit colleges, growing fast, say they are key to Obama's degree goals," Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 12.
With about two million students in the United States now attending for-profit colleges, a number that is expected to double by 2015, leaders of those institutions say their sector must play a key role if President Obama is to meet his goal of having the world's highest number of college graduates by 2020. The institutions are still viewed with skepticism by some consumers and policy makers, but for-profit colleges have grown steadily...
"Foreign demand drops for American M.B.A. degrees, study finds," Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 12.
The United States' dominance in graduate business education seems to be slipping as growing numbers of young foreign applicants are opting to study elsewhere, according to an analysis released this week by the Graduate Management Admission Council. Between 2005 and 2009, the demand for business education grew 75 percent in Asia, compared with 25 percent in Europe, 30 percent in North America, and 43 percent in the Middle East and Africa...