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...The culture that has allowed demeaning and inappropriate conduct within the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, however, must change. That was the message University of Wisconsin-Madison officials sent Thursday when they held a news conference to announce the band would be allowed to play at Saturday night's UW football game against Penn State at Camp Randall Stadium...
UW Madison Marching Band director Mike Leckrone pledges a new culture in the wake of an investigation into hazing. They will play for this weekend's game against Penn State, but it's been a tough week for the band. Leckrone told a campus press conference that he's embarrassed by events that have occurred on his watch, calling the hazing abuses asinine, disgusting and degrading...
The UW Marching Band will once again take to the field Saturday night in the Badger home football game against Penn State. But university officials said in a news conference Thursday that some band members could still face punishment for recent hazing, characterized by band director Mike Leckrone as "asinine, disgusting, and degrading"...
After a hazing investigation kept it off the field last weekend, the University of Wisconsin Marching Band will be allowed to perform Saturday at Camp Randall, but some members will face disciplinary action for violating university conduct codes, officials said Thursday...
UW-River Falls is forming a special task force to address the special needs of our veteran and active duty students. UWRF has approximately 300 students who are veterans or active duty servicemen and women, and this number is expected to increase with the new G.I. Bill, which will take effect in August 2009, according to Interim Chancellor Connie Foster. “We are seeing an increase and we are aware that they will be needing special services,” Foster said. “We want to make sure we are accommodating them.”...
Residence Life, a division of Student Affairs, intends to remove landline telephones from the residence halls to cut costs by fall 2009. Nearly all UW schools have already removed their landline phones, or intend to do so by 2009. The only exceptions, UW-Stout and UW-Platteville, are also talking about removal, Director of Residence Life Sandra Scott-Duex said...
For over a decade, costs have risen throughout the UW System and students are being asked to foot the bill. During the 1997-98 fiscal year, UW-P received $11.8 million in tuition revenue, none of which went to pay faculty salaries. However, for the 2008-09 fiscal year over 110 full-time employees are being paid from the $35.8 million received from tuition...
The former Pieces of Eight restaurant site on downtown Milwaukee’s lakefront could be replaced by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee facility that would showcase its new water technology program. The building also could house a new agency that would promote the Milwaukee area as a center for water-related businesses, including companies that make water treatment equipment. That's according to UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago, who discussed his idea at a recent conference on the economic development potential of water-related businesses. The building would showcase Milwaukee's campaign to turn its Lake Michigan location into a source of new investment and jobs, Santiago said Thursday...
Gov. Jim Doyle unveiled an initiative Friday to make Wisconsin a worldwide leader in a fledgling science that would treat patients based on their DNA. But the ambitious proposal faces stiff competition from states such as California, which have already made similar investments. The Wisconsin Medical Research Triangle will include scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's school of medicine and public health, UW-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin and the Marshfield Clinic, Doyle said...
Governor Jim Doyle announced a collaboration between four Wisconsin research institutions to advance personalized health care this morning at the Marshfield Clinic. The Wisconsin Genomics Initiative is a collaborative research effort among the Marshfield Clinic, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and UW-Milwaukee. “With our combined knowledge, expertise and technologies here in Wisconsin, we have an incredible opportunity to become a worldwide leader in personalized health care,” Governor Doyle said. “By aligning the intellectual capital of four major research institutions, we will meet an important scientific and public health need that could otherwise not be met, and which cannot be accomplished anywhere else but Wisconsin.”
Enrollment of minorities in U.S. colleges has increased substantially in recent years, but not fast enough to keep up with demographic changes. Among Hispanics, a lower proportion who are in their late 20s has completed at least a two-year degree when compared with those age 30 and older. Unless the trend is reversed, the increases in Hispanic participation in higher education won't be enough to ensure that a growing proportion earn a college degree. The findings are highlighted in a biennial report to be released Thursday by the American Council on Education, supported by the GE Foundation...
With acceptance rates under 13%, Harvard, Yale and Princeton are indeed extremely selective. But looking just at them gives a very skewed picture. "When we read stories about how hard a time people are having getting into those very selective institutions, it's not the tip of the iceberg — it's the fly on the tip of the iceberg." says David Hawkins of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Using data that colleges reported to the U.S. Department of Education, Hawkins crunched application and acceptance numbers for 857 four-year, not-for-profit colleges in the country that accepted more than 1,000 students in 2004. In this chart, only 2.6% of the schools accepted fewer than 25% of their applicants, while 82.5% accepted more than half...
Americans may like to make fun of girls who are good at math, but this attitude is robbing the country of some of its best talent, researchers reported on Friday..."The U.S. culture that is discouraging girls is also discouraging boys," Janet Mertz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who led the study said in a statement. "The situation is becoming urgent. The data show that a majority of the top young mathematicians in this country were not born here"...
The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels, a new study asserts, and girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued. The study suggests that while many girls have exceptional talent in math — the talent to become top math researchers, scientists and engineers — they are rarely identified in the United States. A major reason, according to the study, is that American culture does not highly value talent in math, and so discourages girls — and boys, for that matter — from excelling in the field. The study will be published Friday in Notices of the American Mathematical Society...
