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...Spending on academic programs for athletes at UW-Madison has more than doubled in the past 10 years — with the intent of building up the classroom performance of athletes and hopefully making it nearly impossible to fail...
In an effort to strengthen the University of Wisconsin’s study abroad program with China, Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton signed a new exchange agreement between UW and Tsinghua University in Beijing last Wednesday...
With the help of a $1.7 million federal grant, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is starting a geographic information system center that will educate students and professionals throughout northern and central Wisconsin...
UW-River Falls Public Safety has begun the transition to change into a certified police force. With the transition, Public Safety will be changing its name to University Police and Parking. Former chancellor Don Betz made the decision to switch to a police force after reviewing a UW System study and a State of Wisconsin Governor’s study that looked at safety across campuses and recommended all universities have licensed police officers on staff...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has apologized to a black student who during a class last year was shown a clip of the movie "Blazing Saddles" that features racial epithets. During a seminar for working professionals, an instructor showed a scene of the 1974 comedy in which blacks are shown working on a railroad, according to a complaint filed by the student. Whites call the workers racial epithets and an overseer orders them to sing like slaves. The student complained and the school's Office of Equity and Diversity, which investigates racial discrimination, got involved. That prompted an apology in March from the Department of Professional Development and Applied Studies, which offered the course...
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is closer to a deal to buy land at the County Grounds for a new engineering school and business park, judging from letters sent in recent days between UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago and County Board Chairman Lee Holloway. That’s good news for an economy stuck in neutral. The new engineering school, working collaboratively with academic and business partners nearby, will be a new engine for growth in the Milwaukee 7 region, one that has the potential to help existing companies and to help create new ones...
...The suspension was big news in the state as the 300-member band is one of the nation's best. The sanction also came as many college presidents are campaigning - mistakenly in my view - to lower the 21 drinking age because they have given up on policing alcohol. Leckrone is a reminder that campus leaders need not capitulate to abuses of America's heavily marketed alcohol culture and some of the horrible things it leads to. Leckrone had the courage to send a sharp message about shared responsibility even if only a relative handful of members engaged in the actual acts...
Four Wisconsin research institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, have launched a collaborative effort to advance genomic research and personalized health care. The Wisconsin Genomics Initiative is a collaborative research effort that also includes the Marshfield Clinic, Medical College of Wisconsin, and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle announced Friday...
A growing number of medical students at UW-Madison are being trained to become doctors in some of the most medically needy parts of the state: rural areas. Home visits, job assistance and other services are being offered to parents of newborns in one of Madison's most challenged neighborhoods: Allied Drive. Full story not available online.
At next week's Badger Career Expo in Minneapolis, several hundred University of Wisconsin alumni in the Twin Cities area will talk with Wisconsin-based companies bent on luring them home. Meanwhile, University Research Park in Madison has launched a campaign to persuade UW grads in the science and technology worlds to expand, relocate, or start a new company in the state's signature high-tech business park. These are two examples of creative efforts to reverse what is often called “the brain drain,” a phrase that describes the net loss of college-educated young people in Wisconsin to other states. It's a trend Wisconsin must reverse if it hopes to build a stronger economy...
...But today, the nation's industrial heartland is aching. The old economy of the 1950s and '60s has moved on. And the biggest question facing a new generation of Midwesterners is whether they will have the fortitude to do what needs to be done to build anew. This much is clear: We haven't a chance of building much without creative and unprecedented cooperation across state lines...
A culture that fails to encourage and even ostracizes young people, especially girls, who excel at mathematics is putting America at a disadvantage compared to countries where such talent is recognized and encouraged, according to a new study led by UW-Madison researchers...
With a daughter in eighth grade, George Patterson is considering how he should react to the market plunges that have caused a 20% decline in his college savings account, which is invested largely in stocks...Other investors who’ve been putting money into 529 college savings accounts, such as the Wisconsin-sponsored EdVest program, are asking similar questions in light of a global stock selloff that’s been driving down the value of their investments...
For many colleges, the last 15 years have been a golden age. Philanthropy and Americans' grudging tolerance for high tuition fueled an unprecedented boom — investments in everything from gyms, dorms and labs to faculty and expanded financial aid. Now, suddenly and like the rest of us, many colleges are faced with toning down their ambitions, at least in the short term. The financial meltdown is forcing institutions to tear up budget plans and prepare for a simultaneous hit to their three major revenue sources — government funding, donations and tuition. At the same time, they're having to find more money for one of their major budget items — financial aid — or risk seeing students drop out...
For students who set their sights on Wall Street during the boom years, the end has come just as they are getting ready to join the party. Wall Street recruiters have canceled or postponed visits to elite universities like Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, citing the turmoil in the markets...But even as the markets spiraled downward, business and finance students at top universities said they were not panicked about their futures and were confident that the financial markets would recover...
College campuses are going smoke-free in rapidly growing numbers across the USA. More than 140 campuses now are completely smoke-free, more than triple the number that had banned smoking as recently as March 2007, said Frieda Edgette, of the lobbying group Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. An additional 30 campuses are smoke-free with a few exceptions, such as designated smoking outdoor areas, and at least 500 campuses have smoke-free policies in residential housing, she said...