An exploration about where life begins and ends will lead a University of Wisconsin Marathon County professor to Shanghai in December. Mark Brown, 62, a professor of philosophy who has taught at UWMC since 1986, will be the chairman of a breakout session at the Third Annual World Congress of Regenerative Medicine&Stem Cells, to be held Dec. 5 to 7. He'll lead a discussion about the ethical problems of embryonic stem cell research...

A UW-Madison faculty member has nabbed the top award in the country for teaching undergraduates, becoming the first Wisconsin winner in the national competition's 30-year history. Teri Balser, 39, an associate professor of soil science, was in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to accept the honor, called the U.S. Professor of the Year Award...

The University of Wisconsin is known for its world-class faculty and groundbreaking research, but thanks to one UW professor, it is also the home to a Professor of the Year. UW soil science professor Teri Balser received the award from the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, who sponsored the award...

An associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named U.S. Professor of the Year, according to a news release. Teri Balser, who teaches soil science, was one of four professors chosen for the annual U.S. Professors of the Year program, sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching...

Giving, fundraising, and investment returns for the UW System campuses are faring okay, as the economy keeps trying to climb out of the recession. Kimera Way, executive director of the UW-Eau Claire Foundation, recalls the tumble her organization took a couple of years ago, when its endowment value fell 19-percent, resulting in a $10-million drop. But now Way says they’ve recouped their losses, and the UW-Eau Claire Foundation assets are just over $31-million now...

UW-Madison's Chancellor says the research university is in "the fight for its life" because of global competition, budget issues, and a worldwide scramble to hire the best young minds to replace retiring faculty...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is joining other schools around the country in purchasing apparel from a Dominican Republic factory that pays its workers a living wage...UW-Madison says all the school's licensees agree to a code of conduct requiring humane standards of production, but Alta Gracia goes beyond those requirements.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is joining other schools around the country in purchasing apparel from a Dominican Republic factory that pays its workers a living wage...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Odyssey Project Director Professor Emily Auerbach believes that higher education should be open to all those eager to learn and willing to work, not just to a privileged few...

...For the past four and a half years, (Andy) Ducett has taught a wide variety of classes at UW-Stout, from drawing and painting to computer imagery and installation. Also, this semester, he is teaching an advanced installation class at the College of Visual Arts in Minneapolis. Andy Ducett doesn’t just teach art, he creates it … and then it is displayed or published all over the world. Seriously. He’s a big deal...

Madison Area Technical College officials again will be able to assign overtime to faculty after a judge ruled in favor of the college Thursday. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Juan B. Colas lifted his temporary restraining order — a ban that prohibited the college from giving out overtime. He issued it last month in response to a lawsuit by the MATC part-time teachers union. The union alleged the college's overtime system is unfair to part-time teachers...

Lakeland College will be the first four-year college in Wisconsin to offer an aviation program under a plan approved Thursday by the college's faculty...

To keep up with competition from private colleges, many public universities are spending more money on student aid. While that approach has attracted lucrative out-of-state students, as well as those with financial need or high standardized-test scores, it could cut into revenues at a time of dwindling state support, new research suggests. Increasing the discount rate, or the percentage of tuition covered by institutional aid from the operating budget, initially earns a public four-year college more revenue per student, according to research being presented on Thursday by Nicholas W. Hillman, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Utah, at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. But once the discount rate rises above 13 percent—as it is has done at a number of public colleges, Mr. Hillman says—the financing approach earns less of a payoff...

...Many of the largest increases in applications are at less selective institutions seeing increased numbers of high school graduates in some areas, and increased numbers of Latino and black applicants in other cases...In fact, the study also notes that as applications have been increasing in number, so have the number of slots at many institutions -- at a range of competitiveness levels...

...The authors of the paper—one of several being presented at the conference that examine characteristics of contingent faculty members, the largest swath of the professoriate—find that part-time faculty members are much less likely to be satisfied with their salaries and benefits than tenured or tenure-track faculty members. However, full-time non-tenure-track faculty members are more likely to be satisfied with their benefits than tenured and tenure-track professors, and they have the same level of satisfaction with their salaries as the other groups...