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Chris Rickert: Extending welfare to the well-off community college student

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Wisconsin State Journal

Sara Goldrick-Rab, UW-Madison professor and founding director of the Wisconsin Harvesting Opportunities for Postsecondary Education, or HOPE, Lab, thinks paying for college with need-based government aid is an antiquated model and supports Obama’s proposal. There is “clear evidence that most families are struggling to afford the cost of even community college today,” she said. Still, the existence of students who manage to pay for college without any government help isn’t proof that there isn’t enough help available.

Lindberg, David

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Madison.com

Dave joined the UW in 1967 as a professor in the History of Science department, where he spent the rest of his career until he retired in 2001. He was devoted to his colleagues, department, and the UW, also teaching in the Integrated Liberal Studies program, and serving as director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities.

On View | American Monotypes

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Wisconsin State Journal

A selection of monotypes is on view at the Chazen Museum of Art as part of an exhibit from the Baker-Pisano Collection … To celebrate these unique pieces, UW-Madison graduate Joann Moser, senior curator and specialist on American monotypes at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will lecture on Jan. 29 in the Chazen auditorium.

UW-Madison researchers earlier proposed free community college, advised Obama

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Wisconsin State Journal

Two UW-Madison professors last spring proposed making the first two years of college free. “Students will not face any costs for tuition, fees, books or supplies, and will receive a stipend and guaranteed employment at a living wage to cover their living expenses,” wrote Sara Goldrick-Rab and Nancy Kendall, who study educational policy at the university. “Unsubsidized, dischargeable loans of a small amount will also be available for those who need them.”

Tom Mulhern named the NSSA Sportswriter of the Year in Wisconsin

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Madison.com

Mulhern, who primarily covered the University of Wisconsin football team, previously won the award in 2005 and ’10. Mulhern was 56 when he died Oct. 3 from complications due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease … It was announced last month that the first recipient of the Tom Mulhern Scholarship for Sports Journalism at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication will be named April 10.

Bill would force persistently low-performing public schools to be made into charters

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Wisconsin State Journal

The legislation also asks that UW-Madison’s Value-Added Research Center provide the new board a list of alternative tests “acceptable for statistical comparison” with the tests adopted by the superintendent. It also requires the research center to work with the board and DPI to review alternative tests proposed by schools, and asks that it equate the scores between the different tests. Brad Carl, associate director of the center, said while it’s possible to do that, the most accurate way to compare test takers is to have all students taking the same test on the same academic standards.

Schomisch, Thomas P.

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Madison.com

Upon completing a Ph.D. in mass communications in 1983, he also joined the faculty of the U.W. Agricultural Journalism Department. Professor Schomisch taught advertising, market research and marketing campaign courses. His collegues elected him department chair in 1999. He retired in 2004.

John L. Gann Jr.: Warning in UW biz study is a stretch

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Capital Times

or multiple reasons I find possibly misleading either the study of economic development marketing by the University of Wisconsin’s department of agricultural and applied economics or Mike Ivey’s brief description of it, “WEDC marketing efforts a waste of money, new report suggests.”

Pottinger, Janice E.

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Madison.com

Janice was a founder of Children’s House in Racine, a school for mentally handicapped children, and worked for many years for the medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Doug Moe: Hall now includes father and son

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Wisconsin State Journal

Ed Nuttycombe, 62, the hugely successful 26 Big Ten conference championship teams recently retired University of Wisconsin men’s track and field coach, was inducted into the track coaches Hall of Fame, and the man who presented Ed for induction was his father, Hall of Fame member Charlie Nuttycombe, 84.

Take a class, make a buck — or, in this case, $30,000

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Generally, taking a college course costs money. But a group of students at UW-Madison wound up making money — $30,000, or theoretically, enough to pay annual tuition and fees for three in-state students — when they took an introductory class on entrepreneurship for non-business majors this fall and had to run a business of their own.

Stonecipher, Janet Seabury Slade

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Madison.com

This led her to employment in the back shop of the Daily Cardinal student newspaper at the UW where her exposure to electronic composition started her on a career in information technology.

Wisconsin legislative preview: UW-Madison looks for flexibility, ‘reasonable’ state support

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Capital Times

For the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all focus for the upcoming legislative session is on the state budget. The university doesn’t traditionally promote or oppose specific bills in the Legislature, said Charles Hoslet, associate vice chancellor of government and corporate affairs. “Ninety percent of what we’re interested in happens in the state budget,” Hoslet said.

Tom Oates: Barry’s back on the sidelines and the players couldn’t be more excited : Sports

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Madison.com

Alvarez, who retired as UW’s coach after the 2005 season, also coached UW against Stanford in the Rose Bowl after Bret Bielema bolted for Arkansas two years ago … When Bielema’s replacement, Gary Andersen, took off for Oregon State on Dec. 10, Alvarez again came out of the bullpen to coach UW when it plays Auburn on Thursday. He did so after UW’s seniors, recalling their Rose Bowl experience two years ago, asked him to come down from the athletic director’s box one more time.

Paul Fanlund: Is Wisconsin destined to be a Rust Belt backwater?

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Capital Times

Maybe the GOP has actually convinced voters that we do not need and cannot afford a world-class research university such as the one we have at UW-Madison. After all, it is GOP pols who like to say — to dodge overwhelming evidence that climate change exists — that they cannot opine on it because they are not scientists. So, not grasping the promise of stem cells and other advanced research, maybe they think Wisconsin’s flagship university should stick to training for professions they understand.

Hamilton, Thomas Edwin

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Madison.com

In June, 1994, Tom returned to Madison to serve as director of the Forest Products Laboratory FPL. After 37 years in the Forest Service, Tom retired in 2001.

Beck, Anatole

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Madison.com

His 52 year teaching career included Chair of Mathematics at London School of Economics, Visiting professor at Cornell University, Hebrew University, Gottingen University, University of London, University of Warwick, Imperial College, Williams University, London School of Economics, University of Erlangen, Republic of Germany, Tulane University, and was assistant professor, associate professor, professor of math at the University of Wisconsin. During his time at the University he was co-founder and he served as president of the Wisconsin University Union, and was a longtime activist member of University Faculty Senate.