The University of Wisconsin system is launching a new program called "Inclusive Excellence." The goal of the program is for all students to feel comfortable on campus regardless of their background.  Tuesday at UW-La Crosse, University leaders got together to share ideas on how to make sure everyone at UW-L gets involved...

Innovative thinking and collaboration was celebrated Tuesday, as city and university officials broke ground for the new Whitewater University Technology Park...

Despite a major donor’s financial setbacks, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside is on track to break ground on a multimillion dollar addition to the Communication Arts Building...

The UW System Board of Regents has approved a new bachelor of business administration degree in entrepreneurship for UW-Whitewater. Whitewater is the first UW System school outside of UW-Madison to offer an undergraduate entrepreneurship major...

Al Gore will be in Madison Friday, Oct. 9, to deliver the keynote address at the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) conference at the Concourse Hotel. UW-Madison is hosting the conference...

Critics of coal call it the dirtiest form of energy. Now some area college students are fighting to clean up their campus by switching to a cleaner form of energy. UW-La Crosse has a heating plant that heats steam that is sent to all the buildings on campus to heat them...

...Last year, about 10 percent of UW-Madison students sought treatment from UHS’ Mental Health Clinic for a total of at least 17,000 sessions in 2008, according to UHS Executive Director Sarah Van Orman. That’s at least 46 visits per day...

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point faculty will likely allow individual departments to form their own grading policies if the swine flu hits campus and leaves classrooms empty for weeks at a time...

The University of Wisconsin-Baraboo / Sauk County has exceeded its enrollment goals this year, with more than 590 students taking classes on the campus...

...The flight of promising homegrown biotech start-ups to Wisconsin does not bode well for Minnesota, a state that depends heavily on medical technology for economic growth and well-paying jobs...Wisconsin has become the regional biotech equivalent of traditional high-tech powerhouses like Boston, Silicon Valley and Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, thanks to strong political support, an influx of investor capital and what is arguably the most formidable university technology transfer program in the country...

Marty Preizler was named the new director of graduate programs for the School of Business at Edgewood College. The college made the announcement in a press release Tuesday. Preizler retired as President and CEO of Physicians Plus Health Insurance Corporation in Madison in January of 2008...

Graduates of virtual high schools are apparently posing new problems for college admissions officers, according to an article in Inside Higher Ed. Despite the growth in online classes on their own campuses, attendees at the recent National Association for College Admissions Counseling admitted they still don't know what to make of students who choose to obtain a high school diploma via computer...

When California's Legislature blew holes in the budgets of the University of California and California State University this year, one bit of good news resulted: The holes were so big that they showed above the waterline, where we all could see them and marvel at their size...They were the first major budget reductions widely viewed as reducing the value and appeal of the universities' degrees. The reaction suggests that, at long last, the state, as well as the country, can have a realistic discussion about how to support large-scale public higher education...

...To begin to rebuild the university, we will have to raise tuition in two phases by a total of 32 percent over the next two years—from $7,788 to $10,302. Students are angry about that, and they have every right to be; I am angry, too...But the fact is that the university has half as much money per student today as it did in 1990, based on current dollars. That's because the state is no longer a reliable partner...(Author: Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California)...

Colleges are not promoting civic engagement nearly as strongly as their students, faculty members, and administrators believe they should be, says a report released today by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, a group that promotes liberal education...

When it comes to policies that help the needy attend college, simplicity rules, and financial aid programs seem to be more effective when they link money to academic performance and/or support services for students. Those are the key findings of a paper, "Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor," published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research...