Mike Nichols' Nov. 14 column, "Where the smart students go" is a financial recommendation to future students and their parents that is highly favorable to the University of Wisconsin Marathon County. Indeed, one of our long-standing taglines has been "Start Ahead. "I will go further than Nichols in stressing the financial advantages of starting at UWMC...

A group of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Chippewa Valley Technical College students are rallying on Wednesday in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street Movement...

Two University of Wisconsin-Waukesha students have been recognized for their creative writing by the August Derleth Society...

A recent release of science-based biomass cropping guidelines shows that Wisconsin is one of the country's top states in planting and harvesting biomass crops. The document, titled 'Wisconsin Sustainable Planting and Harvesting Guidelines for Nonforest Biomass,' is the result of a two year joint project conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Wisconsin Bioenergy Council...

Even after the old-fashioned method of checking out books, journals and resources with cards catalogs ended at UW-Madison's Memorial Library in 1986, the library continued to house millions of cards on the second floor. The collection will soon be removed to create space for new library services that will facilitate innovative research methods, the university announced Tuesday...

Once viewed by some as a "rising star" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, historian Jeremi Suri announced in early May that he was leaving Madison to pursue his fame and fortune at the University of Texas-Austin. With him went the fortunes of the short-lived and now deceased UW-Madison Grand Strategy Program (GSP), which he founded and headed as one part of a broader network of strategic studies programs currently underway on select campuses elsewhere...

Several state agencies have unveiled guidelines created in congruence with University of Wisconsin researchers to promote the continued use of biomass energy in Wisconsin, despite the state's current categorization as a leader in the field of biomass crop planting...

Additional 2011 grants totaling $185,800 to 25 area nonprofit organizations have been announced by The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times...Earlier this year, The Evjue Foundation announced grants to 51 community nonprofits and civic organizations plus support for 20 UW-Madison programs...

Stern emails and promises of a free trip to a bowl game were apparently not enough to stop the UW-Madison student section's sophomoric tradition of yelling chants laced with four-letter words...

A new honors program designed to challenge top students will be added to the curriculum this spring at the University of Wisconsin-Washington County...

Researchers at UW-Madison have been looking inside the brains of violent criminals held in Wisconsin prisons. What they've found may result in new approaches to dealing with people who have psychopathic tendencies. Gilman Halsted reports... (Audio clip)

Ten years into what he thought would be a one-year appointment, Tim Keane has resigned as director of Marquette University's Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship...

Edgewood College was awarded a federal grant worth nearly $1.6 million to support professional development activities that are designed to improve classroom instruction for English language learners, the college announced in a news release...

University of Washington student leaders are calling Gov. Chris Gregoire's proposal to increase the sales tax by a half-penny a good short-term solution...

As Occupy movement protests helped push spiraling college costs into the national spotlight, Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged higher-education officials Tuesday to "think more creatively — and with much greater urgency" about ways to contain costs and reduce student debt...

...That will not deter me from raising an issue the book discusses that is relevant to this discussion group: has spending on expensive campus improvements like gourmet restaurants, luxury dorms, gorgeous recreation centers and other stuff that impresses applicants gone too far at state and private non-profit colleges?...

Professors at Iowa's three state universities were paid a combined $3.4 million in overload pay for extra work last year, ranging from teaching extra courses to coaching a hockey team...University officials said paying overload pay is cheaper than hiring new professors...

The nation's college financial aid system is badly broken and getting worse. Students from mostly low and middle-income families now face nearly $1 trillion in college-related debt and, despite making such large investments, prospects are still low for college graduation. President Obama and congressional leaders have tried to address this problem by maintaining support for the federal Pell grant and making changes in loan programs...

...I would like to suggest, then, the emergence of a new paradigm for succeeding on the academic job market: the graduate student as entrepreneur...Increasingly, Ph.D.'s need to step slightly outside of their fields to define themselves, produce tools, appeal to wider audiences, attain rare skill sets, and forge partnerships beyond their disciplines and even beyond academe...

After more than a year of study, a federal committee is urging the Education Department to change how it tracks and evaluates graduation rates and other measures of success for students at community colleges...