...Last week, Chancellor Joe Gow was the featured speaker during Student Senate's weekly meeting, answering questions from the students in Senate as well as the audience. Many questions were asked concerning the UW System budget lapse, and more importantly, how it will affect students. "As more prospective students come into the university, more tuition must be paid out of our pockets," he said...

Daniel Rothe has a head start on his college education. By having taken classes in high school that awarded college credits, Rothe will save thousands of dollars in tuition and better his chances of graduating early. An engineering student at the University of Wisconsin, Rothe arrived in Madison already having earned 31 credits through advanced high school courses...

UW-Madison opted against using stickers on identification cards, which means students will likely receive updated forms of identification to accommodate stipulations in the law that require voters to show valid forms of IDs at polling places...

Here's what we know: In June 1975, a disgraced former President Richard M. Nixon testified before a grand jury about Watergate. What exactly he said has been sealed for the last 36 years. That will change today when the records will be released, thanks to the efforts UW-Madison emeritus professor Stanley Kutler...

The art galleries at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside offer a trio of exhibitions featuring nationally known photographer Wing Young Huie and faculty member Lisa Barber, along with the prints and paintings of three local artists...

Thanks to a generous additional compensation package, Wisconsin men's basketball coach Bo Ryan is to be paid slightly more than $2.1 million this season. UW officials released the details of the compensation package, which was given the OK by the UW Board of Regents last month. According to the agreement: Ryan is to receive a base salary of $436,364 and $1.675 million from the UW Foundation (private gift funds) for a total compensation package of $2,111,364...

Bo Ryan made $1.7-million to coach the Wisconsin Badger men's basketball team last season. This season, Ryan's compensation package shows him earning more than $2.1-million, making him the 4th highest paid head coach in the Big Ten...

A book about an ordinary person caught up in extraordinary experiences has been published by a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Theresa Kaminski is the author of "Citizen of Empire," a story about Wisconsin native Ethel Thomas Herold, whose sense of patriotic duty took her from her small town of Potosi to the Philippines to teach in the 1920s...

A growing demand for online professional development has prompted the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources to develop two new master's degree programs available online. The Master of Science in Environmental Education and Interpretation and the Master of Science in Natural Resources Leadership and Administration already have enrolled professionals from across the nation, from Hawaii to Massachusetts...

Jeff Leigh knew that Lebanon would be a fractured place with plenty of challenges before he and his family spent 10 months there. But the University of Wisconsin Marathon County associate professor of history found that being immersed in a society that's based on power and patronage gave him a whole new perspective on how those factors affect individual's lives...

A local university will be honored by the state for its efforts to help minority students stay in school. UW-Stout will receive a program achievement diversity award Thursday at the state capitol.  The university is being recognized for its high retention rates among minority students... (Video clip)

State election officials reversed course Wednesday and said photo identification cards issued by technical colleges could be used at the polls, putting them on equal footing with IDs issued by University of Wisconsin schools and private institutions. But two key lawmakers quickly raised concerns about the Government Accountability Board's action and said a committee they oversee would likely meet soon to consider overruling the board...

State election officials decided Wednesday to allow technical college students to use their school IDs at the polls, saying they made a mistake two months ago by ruling that such IDs didn't qualify as photo identification. The Government Accountability Board's surprise move coupled with another decision Wednesday to permit colleges to affix two-year stickers to ID cards immediately touched off a firestorm. Republican lawmakers say the board has overstepped its bounds and weakened the state's new voter ID law...

State election officials decided Wednesday that technical college IDs can be used for voting, overturning a ruling two months earlier. Following more than two hours of testimony by school officials and at least a dozen students, the Government Accountability Board changed direction on the controversial law, saying technical college IDs are as legitimate as university IDs...

...The Government Accountability Board (GAB) is charged with enacting Wisconsin's new photo ID law. But during the process, questions have arisen, such as: are technical colleges' identification cards acceptable? The law seems to exclude them. In fact, the GAB voted earlier this fall not to allow them. But Wednesday, the retired judges that comprise the board said they were wrong...  (Audio clip)

State election officials reversed a previous decision Wednesday by voting to allow Wisconsin Technical College students to use their student ID cards at the polls as photo ID, provided they meet state requirements. By a vote of four to two, the Government Accountability Board also decided to uphold a previous decision to allow Wisconsin colleges and universities to issue stickers with signatures and expiration dates to their students who could apply them to their ID cards to make them eligible photo ID at the polls...

The possibility of restoring collective bargaining rights to Wisconsin public employees was reopened Wednesday after a Democratic senator called for a statewide review of the budget repair legislation, in light of a recent vote in Ohio against instating a similar law...

The College of Menominee Nation has a $37 million economic impact in the region and supports 404 jobs in the state, according to a report presented to college officials this week...

Princeton, along with Harvard, canceled its early-admission program four years ago to delay the beginning of the annual frenzy of applicants hoping to secure a precious seat in the next freshman class. But when none of their main competitors followed suit, both institutions announced in February that they would once again offer applicants an opportunity to apply in November, two months before the regular deadline. The response, at least at Princeton, was a flurry of early applicants...

Thousands of Penn State students loudly and angrily displayed their displeasure over the firing of football coach Joe Paterno on Wednesday night, rioting, screaming and loudly chanting, hours after the school's Board of Trustees fired the 46-year head coach...

...Penn State is a major research university in a small town, where people tend to put down roots and build families. So if a person is accused of wrongdoing in State College, chances are they have a familiar and trusted face. That culture, some professors and observers say, may have influenced administrators who saw no need to involve police when Jerry Sandusky, an accomplished former football coach, was seen sexually assaulting a young boy in a locker room, according to the grand-jury report...

Young adults agree that college is becoming increasingly unaffordable in today's economy even as it is becoming more important, according to a recent poll released on Wednesday by Demos and Young Invincibles, two research and advocacy groups...

...The speaker, Paula Chambers, would talk openly about a subject that graduate students tend to discuss in hushed tones among close friends or trusted mentors -- or anonymously in online forums. The taboo topic: preparing for nonacademic jobs...While universities like Ohio State are putting new emphasis on helping Ph.D. students explore nonacademic careers, some research universities have been focused on those efforts for several years. Among them are the University of Pennsylvania and Duke, Harvard, Michigan State, and Yale Universities, which were the founding subscribers to the Versatile Ph.D. last year...

...After several years of gossip about fund-raising campaigns getting delayed and adjustments to deal with the economic downturn, in the past month three universities -- Case Western Reserve University, Georgetown University, and the University of Rochester -- have publicly launched comprehensive fund-raising campaigns with goals of at least $1 billion...

Thousands of students marched through central London on Wednesday to protest cuts to public spending and a big increase in university tuition fees...