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The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has confirmed Deborah Ford as the chancellor of Parkside. Ford, currently the vice president of student affairs from the University of West Florida, will take over her new duties no later than Aug. 1...
University of Wisconsin campuses will be able to discipline students for serious off-campus misconduct for the first time under a controversial policy adopted Friday. After more than two years of review and debate, the Board of Regents voted 15-2 to adopt the first rewrite of system rules governing student misconduct since 1996. The rules now go to the Legislature for a final review but are expected to be in place for the upcoming school year...
The University of Wisconsin Regents are trying to prepare for the impact state budget cuts will have on employees and students. At yesterday's meeting in Madison, UW officials told the Regents there will likely be cuts in student financial aid, and layoffs of university staff are still on the table. While the financial picture for the university system won't become clear until the legislature approves the budget and the Governor signs it later this month, UW campuses are bracing themselves for significant cuts...
University of Wisconsin System officials are commending lawmakers for investing in new campus building projects despite the recession. The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee has approved 36 major UW System building projects in the budget, including new residence halls, state-of-the-art research laboratories and academic buildings...
Facing state-mandated furloughs, University of Wisconsin System employees are struggling with how to handle unpaid days off in an academic environment. Professors and instructors aren't sure if they will have to cancel classes. And many argue that a break from federally funded research does nothing to help the state budget. Frustration with the plan became a point of discussion at last week's meeting of the UW Board of Regents...
The provost at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee says classes will not be canceled because of the furloughs instructors will have to take. But the 25 other UW campuses have not put out such guarantees and university spokesman David Giroux promises that class disruptions will be kept to a minimum...
University of Wisconsin officials are complaining that furloughs, proposed for all state employees as a way to reduce a $6.6 billion budget deficit, will create many difficulties for them...The UW System has a long tradition of generally getting what it wants, and complaints about the furloughs are seemingly stronger from the environs of academia than from anywhere else. That's regrettable. The UW System and its Board of Regents often submit inflated budget requests, then claim it must raise tuition and other fees to make up for perceived "shortfalls"...
Gifts and grants to area educational, cultural and civic organizations have been announced by The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times. The grants this year total $1,219,411, considerably less than what the foundation in past years has been able to give the nonprofit and educational communities in the Madison area. Of the total, $452,911 this year has been donated to the University of Wisconsin for 22 projects and $766,500 to 56 Madison area community nonprofits...
The state budget hasn't been approved yet, but state labor organization AFT-Wisconsin has already posted a job announcement for someone who could help university employees form unions. Gov. Doyle's budget included legislation that would allow UW System faculty and academic staff to form unions and collectively bargain for better wages, hours and working conditions. They don't currently have that right...
To Mark Nook, the new interim chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a former physics professor, the problems he may face as an administrator in many ways mirror the ones he faced as a scientist. Both have known and unknown factors, and ultimately a goal. Solving the problem is about understanding the dynamics between those factors, identifying the crux of the issue and using available tools to find the best solution...
Three Wisconsin natives now run their high-tech firm out of Chicago. But if they win a statewide business plan competition, they will be coming home. The former University of Wisconsin-Madison classmates have pledged to move Flex Lighting if they beat out 11 other finalists to win the top prize in the 2009 Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan contest...
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Biddy Martin says she'll hire more safety officers to oversee the university's research. That's after a school committee said the National Institutes of Health might penalize the UW for not complying with federal inspection guidelines...
It's official. Crime scene investigation training at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville will get a regionally unique facility. On Friday, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved the UW-P's request to build a $140,000 Forensic Laboratory House. The university also received a waiver to allow the project to be constructed by UW-P Building Construction Management students and selected subcontractors...
Barry Alvarez, the University of Wisconsin’s director of athletics, summed up Thursday's Badger Day event in short and accurate fashion. "This isn't a fund-raising event," he said "This is a friendship-raising event." Indeed...
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse plans to eliminate baseball and men's tennis from its sports programs, officials confirmed Friday. The programs can't be formally ended until UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow notifies the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference council of chancellors and commissioner at a meeting Wednesday, said Gow...UW-L has to cut $400,000 due to the uncertainty over whether unionized state employees will give back a 2 percent pay increase as requested by Gov. Jim Doyle, said Gow. About $300,000 more in cuts will be announced next week, said Gow...
The University of Wisconsin-Stout will add bachelor degree programs in video game design and development and in property management following Friday's approval of the new programs by the UW System Board of Regents. The new majors will start in fall 2009...
Dr. Cynthia Haq directs UW-Madison's Center for Global Health, formed in 2005. It includes students and faculty from the schools of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and veterinary medicine. Haq also heads up the medical school's new program in Milwaukee, called Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health. She lives in Madison and Milwaukee...
You must do better than this. That should be Wisconsin's response to the state budget proposal to go before the Assembly for a vote this week. This budget amounts to a huge, irresponsible gamble likely to haunt the state for years...Even if the lawmakers' gamble with this budget pays off -- despite overwhelming odds -- the state will simply return to the precarious position it was in when this year began. That means lurching from budget crisis to budget crisis because of the way Legislatures and governors for years have spent money and put off the day of reckoning to the next budget in the hope that economic growth will bail them out...
The state budget, passed out of the Joint Finance Committee a little more than a week ago, is not a thing of beauty. The debate to follow, already in full swing last week, will not be a lovely thing to behold, either...
It was fitting that the top educators in entrepreneurship in the Milwaukee 7 region met recently at the Harley-Davidson Museum, a testimony to an iconic start-up dating to 1903...The educators from the 20 colleges and universities in the region caught the entrepreneurial flavor of the place, and they universally expressed a commitment to fill the pipeline with modern versions of Harley's founders...Right there with Marquette in a leadership role is the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, which is starting a major in entrepreneurship in 2010...
The Wisconsin Legislature's budget-writing committee has approved three measures that will help alleviate Wisconsin's nursing shortage: a nurse workforce survey; a home for the UW School of Nursing to expand capacity; and support for a bachelor's degree nursing program in Rock County...The nursing shortage is not due to a lack of interest in the nursing profession. At UW-Madison, 400 qualified applicants for the School of Nursing were turned away last year because the program could only accommodate 150 new students...(Author: Sen. Judy Robson)...
An anonymous graduate of Lawrence University has pledged to give $10 million to the Appleton college -- the second-largest gift in the school's history, officials announced Monday. The $10 million bequest will support the college's endowment, including the establishment of a new endowed professorship in Lawrence's renowned conservatory of music...
...The billions of dollars in federal stimulus aid to plug shortfalls in state education budgets have helped limit the damage this year, but the money hasn't prevented all of the cuts to college budgets. Most states are spending the bulk of the stimulus money they are receiving for education on elementary and secondary schools, and roughly 20 percent on public colleges. In one state, Wisconsin, none of that federal aid is going to higher education...Lawmakers in 17 of the states that have received stimulus money for education had already cut higher-education budgets from last year, with reductions ranging from about 2 percent in Massachusetts to nearly 14 percent in Wisconsin... (paid subscription required)
At the end of 2005, Robert D. Felner was riding high. A well-paid dean at the University of Louisville, he had just secured a $694,000 earmarked grant from the U.S. Department of Education to create an elaborate research center to help Kentucky's public schools...Two days later, Mr. Felner's offices were raided by federal agents who took away his files and laptops. He was questioned for hours by a U.S. Postal Service inspector and a member of the University of Louisville's police department. That weekend he called Wisconsin officials: Sadly, he wouldn't be coming to Parkside after all... (paid subscription required)
The idea that college students who work on the side are at a disadvantage is almost quaint. Not because there's no evidence that spending many hours on things other than academics can impair students -- such evidence does exist -- but rather because the days are long past when many college students had a choice but to work. As tuitions have risen and more and more undergraduates are enrolling later in life, nearly half of all full-time students and 80 percent of part-time students work -- numbers that are likely only to grow in the future. Given that reality, the more college officials and higher education researchers know about how working affects students' academic performance the better...
A rogue Clemson University staffer has accused the South Carolina school of manipulating its U.S. News & World Report ranking -- reviving a debate over what critics call the pernicious influence of the magazine's annual college ratings...