In the last 18 months, the Universities of Wisconsin has effectively closed five of the system’s branch campuses, most of which predominantly served rural students. The UW system cites declining enrollment, not finances, as the reason, even as the system projects that 13 campuses would be a cumulative $60 million over budget by the end of fiscal 2024.
For the first time, a research team with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center has created a map, called the GLBRC Atlas that shows abandoned croplands, where they are, how long they’ve been abandoned, and more.
In Wisconsin, average earnings for a student entering the workforce directly after high school is $40,104, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; for graduates of the Universities of Wisconsin, the average starting salary is $61,221.
Recruiters are turning to college roadshows and prep classes to convince more rural students to go to college.
Several high school administrators told the Wisconsin State Journal that they are seeing increased interest in technical colleges from their students, both in dual enrollment classes, which allow students to earn college credit in high school, and overall interest in those colleges for their post-secondary plans.
“It’s incumbent on the large health systems to lead the way,” Cherodeep Goswami, chief information and digital officer at the University of Wisconsin Health System, told Pulse.
Dana Rettke, the 2021 national college player of the year, and Lauren Carlini, a four-time All-American, were named to the 12-player roster Wednesday. They are two of the four first-time Olympians on the team.
Dana Rettke and Lauren Carlini were selected Wednesday for the Team USA women’s national volleyball roster. They were on the court together when Team USA secured its qualification to the 2024 Paris Olympics by winning in four sets against Germany at the qualifying tournament in Lodz, Poland.
Badger alum John Stecher’s journey from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to the C-Suite of the largest Alternative Investment firm in the world is a lesson for all students: stay determined and embrace collaboration.
“The problem is now urgent, and we can’t say we need to do something about it in the future, we need to take action now,” said Andrea Dutton, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “The earlier we start making big cuts to emissions, the earlier we can start making a difference.”’
Anthony Gitter, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of biostatistics and medical informatics who uses machine learning in biological experiments, says the “significance of the advance” in the Cell paper “was due to top-tier bioinformatics research as opposed to automated science enabled by AI”.
