At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of part-time adjunct faculty grew far faster than at the average state university from 2005 to 2012, according to a new study by the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning Washington research group.
In an effort to combat illiteracy in their area of Stockton, a community group is refurbishing old newspaper vending machines into kiosks that will let anyone borrow a book ? for free.
Quoted: Colonial authorities went into homes to check whether parents were teaching the alphabet. Later, in the middle of the 19th century, says University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Rima Apple, doctors began to write childcare books that mothers were expected to read in order to understand the ?science? behind parenting.
Quoted: Marsha Mailick, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Waisman Center, which helps teens with autism move into adulthood, says that she supports any program that increases the likelihood of employment. But interview training hasn?t been demonstrated as the most effective strategy, she says.
Quoted: Speech and language pathologist Meghan M. Davidson M.S. CCC-SLP from UW Madison says, “If I just gave you a symbol system that I make up, you have no idea what this says. But now, and this is the key piece of reading, if I give you the sounds and the language and we sound it out together, you?re going to be able to figure it out. So we can say ca-a-t, cat. Or we can say cat rhymes with bat. Like those types of things require this sort of extra level of processing and they just don?t know what to do with those sounds. That?s just when it falls apart.”
Democrats in Wisconsin want to lower the interest rate on student loans to help make college more affordable.
Don Kirkpatrick, the author of eight books on training measurement and human resource management, is widely known for the training measurement model he developed in the 1950s as a professor at the University of Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin Class of 2014?s commencement ceremony marked the end of the graduates? journey as Badger students and the start of their journey as Badger alumni.
When she started at UW-Madison in 1979, Susan DeMerit remembers her dormitory mates arranging their class schedules so they wouldn?t miss ?General Hospital.? They didn?t bother with fake IDs because they didn?t need them. The drinking age was 18.
Men and women walked into Camp Randall for the last time Saturday as student, and walked out alumni.
Camp Randall filled with black gowns, colorful tassels and proud parents this afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin Class of 2014?s commencement ceremony marked the end of the graduates? journey as Badger students and the start of their journey as Badger alumni.
It felt like a game day, with some 50,000 people packed in to Camp Randall.
The University of Wisconsin ranks among the top 10 U.S. medical schools in producing graduates who go into family practice.
Quoted: “We are not likely to create any full-time jobs out of the gate,” said Jesse Stommel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison liberal studies professor. “Currently, we are creating a few short-term contract positions for special projects. Ultimately, we are hoping to employ a full-time paid managing editor and assistant, but our growth plan is slow.”
Is the science of biology sexist? Last week, in a co-written article for the journal Nature, the director of the US National Institute of Health (NIH) publicly admonished scientists for testing drugs and theories on male lab rats, tissues and cells, while excluding females for fear their hormone cycles might distort results. Research, the authors wrote, suggests females? cycles are no more distortionary than males?. Now all studies that apply to the NIH will be vetted for an appropriate balance of male and female subjects.
Will it take a disaster to respond to climate change? A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers last week released a series of detailed science-based scenarios envisioning life in 2070 in the Madison area?s Yahara Watershed, aiming to help people envision the effects of climate change before it worsens.
Another year of exams and major papers is barely in the rear view mirror for University of Wisconsin-Madison students, and officials at the flagship already are thinking about next year ? including how to better detect cheating.
University of Wisconsin-Superior has given its entire custodial and grounds crew staff ?at risk? letters, saying they may be laid off and have their jobs outsourced.
University of Wisconsin freshman Vitto Brown has become just as well known around campus for his singing talents as his basketball skills.
Noted: China has long expressed an interest in the Paracels, whose surrounding waters are thought to contain great oil wealth. But Beijing?s establishment of the oil rig — accompanied by a large naval presence to ward off an expected Vietnamese response — represents ?a fundamental change in policy,? according to Edward Friedman, a China expert at the University of Wisconsin. Once governed by Deng Xiaoping?s maxim that the country should ?keep its head down,? contemporary China has begun to pursue its interests forcefully. ?The Chinese believe that, after years of being too passive, it?s time they?ve stood up for themselves,? Friedman said.
Forget about their students not making it to graduation. Now colleges have to wonder whether their speakers will.
MADISON – In recent years school leaders across the country have started discussing the possibility of selling alcohol in their venues. University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez is not one of them.
A new center devoted to helping University of Wisconsin student veterans and military members opened its doors today.
Commencement calls for celebration, but it can have young adults asking what?s next?
UW-Madison professor of entomology Susan Paskewitz says she?s heard from many people who hope the cold winter months might have put a dent in the state?s population of disease-carrying ticks.
Maybe you?ve spotted it in your daily news feed in the last few weeks. Net neutrality — the idea that the Internet should remain an open, democratic, free-market medium for all people, regardless of how much they pay — is getting mainstream attention.
Typhoons are peaking in strength farther north in the western Pacific Ocean, and that may have consequences for Japan and the Korean peninsula in years to come, researchers said.
Noted: Eight Division I men?s basketball teams, including the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, will not be allowed to compete in the NCAA tournament.
Tropical cyclones worldwide are moving out of the tropics and more toward the poles and generally larger populations, likely because of global warming, a surprising new study finds. Atlantic hurricanes, however, don?t follow this trend.
Notoriously prolific Pop artist Jim Dine has donated 67 of his works, made between 1982 and 2000, to the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin. The pieces cover a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, ceramics and photography, but all take the figure of the skull as their subject matter.
Quoted: ?Marriage rates overall in the nation have been going down since 1979,? said Christine Schwartz, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies marriage and partner issues. ?Wisconsin tends to mirror national trends.?
Quoted: Tim Van Deelen, a UW-Madison wildlife ecologist who works with the DNR on research projects, said he understands why the state would cut back on hunting next year, but he doesn?t necessarily agree.
Noted: Much of the political capital Lucey earned by working in party vineyards was available to spend during his years as governor. He dusted off the idea of merging the University of Wisconsin in Madison, which also included the UW Extension and campuses in Milwaukee, Green Bay and Racine-Kenosha, with the nine-campus Wisconsin State University System. At the time, both systems had a Board of Regents.
Quoted: Ken Mayer, a political scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the appeals court decision could eventually allow some smaller groups to participate in elections by reducing legal and accounting costs involved in reporting their spending. Currently, those costs are significant enough that a group might not consider the expense worth it unless they planned to spend at least $100,000 on ads, he said
Hurricanes and tropical storms are reaching their peak intensity closer to the poles, migrating at about 30 miles per decade, according to a new study published Wednesday. If this shift continues, it could have major consequences for places like New York City, Tokyo, Japan and Brisbane, Australia, as well as other high latitude areas that don?t normally see intense hurricanes.
Tropical storms are migrating out of the tropics, reaching their peak intensity in higher latitudes, where larger populations are concentrated, a new NOAA-led study published in the journal
As the Earth?s oceans have warmed over the last three decades, the grounds for destructive hurricanes have crept northward finds a new study, published by three of the world?s leading tropical weather experts. Two are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
?For years, I wanted to hold on to my work, to have it all in one place, so I kept everything,? Lynda Barry, the painter, cartoonist, playwright, and teacher (at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), who is in town for the opening of the first exhibit of her work, says.
MILWAUKEE (WITI) ? The average college student in Wisconsin graduates with $30,000 in loans! Help may be on the way ? but the idea is controversial.
Tiny crustaceans in Lake Mendota are distant cousins of sea monkeys ? but they are more like the cattle of the lake.
The taxpayer-funded University of Wisconsin?Madison is now offering a pioneering postdoctoral fellowship in feminist biology.
Noted: ?Making antibodies to get rid of pathogens is vital to frogs? ability to fend off disease,? said Tawnya Cary, a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Biology Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and lead author of the study.
Quoted: ?Questions often arise when news organizations pay for content rights because journalism ethics generally tells us we shouldn?t pay for interviews or access,? wrote Katy Culver, an associate director at the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in an email to IBTimes.
A new program at the University of Wisconsin, called ?Feminist Biology,? teaches biology with an emphasis on women in the field. We all know we need more women in science; but, is it necessary to teach biology through a feminist gaze?
Noted: Facebook has allowed the fad to spread across the United States and jump internationally in some cases, but it doesn?t cause bad behavior, said Catalina Toma, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and social media expert.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Doctor Julie Poehlmann has spent years studying the risks a child faces when a parent goes to prison. While the child may eventually follow suit, she says the possibility is not as great as the public might believe.
MADISON, Wis. — A newly hired top-level communications director for the University of Wisconsin System was fired last year as University of Arkansas spokesman following a disagreement over that school?s handling of an open records request filed by a newspaper.
All University of Wisconsin two-year campuses and one four-year campus, UW-Superior, are outsourcing their bookstores to the Nebraska Book Company (NEEBO).
Lucey?s biggest legacy was creating the modern UW System. Before he was governor, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Green Bay, UW-Parkside, 10 freshman-sophomore centers and the extension system operated outside the chain of nine other state schools such as Platteville and Eau Claire. Each group had its own board of regents.
Campus Technology interviewed five CIOs about the perceptions of their changing role on campus, asking them to give examples of how they delegate, mentor, collaborate and strategize more than they used to. In part 4 of our series, the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Bruce Maas talks about the organizational changes that enable him to focus on a more strategic role. (Missed parts 1-3? See the Table of Contents on the top left of this article.)
When the University of Wisconsin announced last month it had endowed country?s first-ever post-doctoral program in feminist biology ? ?which attempts to uncover and reverse gender bias in biology? ? the backlash was swift. ?Memo to the University of Wisconsin,? Christina Hoff Sommers sniffed in an American Enterprise Institute video, ?we don?t need feminist biology any more than we need femistry or galgebra.?
Quoted: ?Our perception has changed more than the reality,? says Dave Riley, the Rothermel-Bascom Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “Historically, the push has always been to look at foot pronation,” said Bryan Heiderscheit, a professor in the department of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Runners were told to wear shoes that would correct for the foot?s tendency to roll inward or outward, on the theory that this would correct biomechanical flaws and prevent injuries to the knees and lower back.
Cows create a lot of body heat and use a large amount of energy in the process of producing milk. ?When you are comfortable, a cow is warm; when you are hot, a cow is miserable; and when you are cold, a cow is probably fine,? explained Dr. Lou Armentano, a professor in the Department of Dairy Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On those hot summer days, cows immediately respond to the high temperature with decreased milk production.
Graduation season is officially upon us. Wednesday night, students who are part of a special program at UW-Madison celebrated their achievements with teachers, family and friends.
Student leaders at UW-Madison say athletic department officials did not disclose the full picture of their plans for campus facilities when students threw their support behind a March referendum that approved a $223 million upgrade of recreational sports facilities.
MADISON ? University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates think they?re the cream of the crop and will rise to the top. And they want to yell it one last time.
On Saturday, the Marshfield community is got behind a family looking to not only honor the memory of their daughter, but also help out the city the way she would have done.
Noted: Great storytelling can transcend setting. Kathleen T. Horning, director of the Cooperative Children?s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, notes that she very much identified with “Harriet the Spy” as a girl, despite the fact that she had never been to New York City. When Horning grew up and finally saw Harriet?s neighborhood, it was “more like going home than when I got back to the neighborhood I grew up in.”
