I was hoping for more drama at University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez?s press conference Thursday morning. With the news that he had accepted a request from some senior football players to coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl already broken on Wednesday evening, I was looking for even more of a return to the golden era of Wisconsin football.
It?s clear this hire will be handled much differently than the last time Barry Alvarez hired a football coach at the University of Wisconsin.
Yes, Mike Eaves has noticed the growing number of empty seats at the Kohl Center and, of course, the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey coach has some theories on the phenomenon.
MADISON (AP) ? A panel of University of Wisconsin System regents has approved a compromise plan for admitting a higher percentage of out-of-state students.
At a public meeting Thursday night UW-Madison?s Police Chief Susan Riseling and others criticized plans to replace Madison?s Stadium Bar with an eight-story building with apartments and commercial space.
Seven years ago, Bret Bielema walked into his first Big Ten head coach?s meeting. In the room were Joe Paterno, Lloyd Carr, Jim Tressel and Joe Tiller.
As tuition rise at UW campuses in recent years, UW-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward says it?s important to realize times are changing. He tells regents this morning, when coming to Wisconsin in 1960, students covered 10 percent of the costs of their education. Today?s freshmen at UW System campuses can expect to pick up 50 percent.
Montee Ball?s season of resurgence continued Thursday night.
The victim of a brutal assault less than a week before the opening of preseason camp in August, Wisconsin?s senior tailback struggled early in the season and eventually fell out of the race for the Heisman Trophy.
On Thursday, five days after being named the MVP of the Big Ten Conference title game, Ball won the 2012 Doak Walker Award, given annually to the top running back in the nation.
Hours after learning Bret Bielema was leaving the Wisconsin program for Arkansas, which promised more money and better odds of winning a national championship, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez sat in his New York City hotel room and mulled his options.A barrage of text messages and phone calls disrupted his focus.
A slightly higher percentage of students from outside Wisconsin would be allowed to enroll at University of Wisconsin System campuses for the first time in more than 40 years, starting next fall, under a compromise expected to be approved Friday by the UW Board of Regents.
A regents committee Thursday unanimously approved the compromise, raising the nonresident enrollment cap from 25% to 27.5% on a three-year rolling average.
Had a coin flipped the other way, Leon Smith would have been on the plane that dropped the atomic bomb ?Little Boy? on Hiroshima.
Smith, who grew up in Wisconsin, was pursuing an electrical engineering degree at the University of Wisconsin when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943. When he suffered extensive hearing loss, he applied for a transfer to what was then called the Army Air Forces.
SWARTHMORE, Pa. ? A group of Swarthmore College students is asking the school administration to take a seemingly simple step to combat pollution and climate change: sell off the endowment?s holdings in large fossil fuel companies. For months, they have been getting a simple answer: no.
A proposal to increase the percentage of students from outside the state allowed to enroll at University of Wisconsin System campuses is raising concerns about whether fewer Wisconsin students ultimately will have access to the flagship Madison campus.
MADISON (AP) ? The University of Wisconsin System and other college associations have endorsed a commission finding that calls for an increase in college aid in the next state budget.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez will coach the Rose Bowl, TODAY?S TMJ4/NBC26?s Lance Allan is reporting.
Just a day after news broke that Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema will leave Madison to coach at Arkansas, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez told The Wall Street Journal in an interview that he hasn?t ruled out the possibility of coaching the Badger football team in the Rose Bowl against Stanford on Jan. 1. Alvarez, in New York for his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame and to raise funds for a new student-athlete facility, said he will make an official announcement of his decision at a press conference Thursday in Wisconsin.
An organization of student nonbelievers is likely to receive $69,000 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the largest grant from an institute of higher learning ever awarded to a nontheistic, student-led organization.
O.K., let?s see if we?ve got this straight: Bret Bielema spends much of his six-season tenure as Wisconsin?s football coach bashing the Southeastern Conference for being slimy and unfair and just plain mean. He does this to try to make his dwindling Big Ten neighborhood look more spiffy by comparison, to gloss over the fact that Jim Delany?s kingdom would love to crack the slimy, underhanded market.
Researchers are giving mixed reviews to a draft U.S. government plan to subject some grant requests for studies involving the H5N1 avian influenza virus (like those performed by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the UW?Madison) to special reviews?and perhaps even require the work to be kept secret.
Dec. 5, 2012 ? Two-and-a-half years ago, Jimmy Anderson went golfing with his best friend on a summer day in California. In the evening, he hopped in the car with his parents and his little brother, his only sibling, and the Anderson family drove off for dinner. Now, he recalls the tragedy that happened next.
On Tuesday night, three days after Bret Bielema guided UW to its third consecutive Big Ten title, he was named head coach at Arkansas of the powerful Southeastern Conference, hired away from UW by athletic director Jeff Long.
Speculation has been flying all afternoon since it became public that Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema would be taking the Arkansas head coaching job. It only seemed logical that Paul Chryst would be at least a candidate to succeed Bielema at his alma mater. Chryst was the tight ends coach at Wisconsin in 2002, and served as the Badgers? offensive coordinator from 2005-2011. Chryst released the following statement tonight:
On Tuesday the only two job openings in the SEC West were both filled when Auburn announced it had hired former offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn and Arkansas surprised everybody by hiring Wisconsin?s Bret Bielema.
PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Pittsburgh football coach Paul Chryst says he?s committed to sticking with the Panthers.
MADISON ? The University of Arkansas has confirmed Wisconsin?s Bret Bielema will be the next head football coach for the Razorbacks.
There were no flood warnings issued Tuesday because of an excess of tears. The news that Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema was leaving for Arkansas came from left of left field, but once the surprise subsided, there were more folks running toward the Don?t Let The Door Hit You In The Backside On Your Way Out bandwagon than any other.
Noted: The Cooperative Children?s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, which compiles statistics about the race of authors and characters in children?s books published each year, found that in 2011, just over 3 percent of the 3,400 books reviewed were written by or about Latinos, a proportion that has not changed much in a decade.
Quoted: Closing fisheries during spawning time is only one of several ways managers might soften the evolutionary pressures created by recreational and commercial harvest, says fish ecologist Jim Kitchell of the University of Wisconsin?Madison. Tweaking the legal limits on fish size might change pressures toward slower growth or smaller body size.
Wisconsin?s Bret Bielema was officially named the new Head Hog in a press release Tuesday evening.
It?s been a mixture of emotions from Badger fans, who are responding to the news that Bret Bielema will be leaving Wisconsin to coach for Arkansas.
Interim Chancellor David Ward knows what to expect in the search for the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s next chancellor.
After all, Ward has done the job – twice. From his perch inside Bascom Hall, the energetic, English-born academic has seen the nation?s higher education landscape transformed and buffeted by economic challenges, social change and political turmoil.
ON THE face of it, American higher education is still in rude health. In worldwide rankings more than half of the top 100 universities, and eight of the top ten, are American. The scientific output of American institutions is unparalleled. They produce most of the world?s Nobel laureates and scientific papers. Moreover college graduates, on average, still earn far more and receive better benefits than those who do not have a degree.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation says it doesn?t plan to change its investment strategy. But climate change activists say they?ll keep pushing the UW fundraising arm to dump its holdings in the fossil fuel industry.
Energy needs a Nate Silver. Perhaps Gregory Nemet of the University of Wisconsin is that guy.
MADISON — This morning, a group of students and alumni delivered over 1,000 signatures to University of Wisconsin Foundation President Mike Knetter demanding that the university divest its holdings from the fossil fuel industry. The activists point to science that shows the industry is slowly cooking the planet and divestment, or “hitting them where is hurts,” as a moral imperative.
College and university endowments have recovered most of the losses they sustained during the recession, now that the economy has begun to grow. Yet as this year?s high school seniors begin to fill out applications and aid forms, a number of prestigious smaller colleges are straining to meet students? financial needs. To bridge the gap, some colleges have begun revising their financial aid formulas, raising concerns about how campus diversity ? both economic and racial ? might be affected.
It may be a first in the nation: Come next fall, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the two-year UW Colleges will offer a 100% competency-based online degree program for working adults.
The Badgers used big plays on offense and defense to score twice in the first 2 minutes of the game and completely out-schemed Nebraska?s proud defense throughout en route to a stunning 70-31 victory for their third consecutive Big Ten title, a first in the history of the program.
Quoted: But the weather may have affected availability in some markets, says Les Werner, an associate professor of forestry at University of Wisconsin. Some farms have fewer trees to sell because of weather damage, which means the retailers, tree lots and other vendors that buy from farms might need to order from farms further away, or accept a few lower-quality trees, he says.
What if August came and there were no piles of old couches on downtown terraces? What if there were no crowds of wide-eyed freshmen tramping down State Street? What if autumn came to Madison not with the rush of confusion and excitement of 6,000 18-year-olds out on their own for the first time but with the yawn of an extended summer? What if autumn in Madison came silently?
When Florida Governor Rick Scott announced earlier this week the creation of two four-year, $10,000 bachelor?s degree programs in Florida, he could have easily been mistaken for another Republican governor named Rick.
Take a book. Return a book. The instructions for using a Little Free Library are that simple. But the rewards of being part of what has become a worldwide, community-building movement reach beyond an exchange of written volumes to a sharing of ideas, friendship and more.
Even our footsteps can generate power, by driving a salty liquid through microscopic pores in a shoe sole to deliver up to two watts per leg, using a “reverse electrowetting” device developed by Professor Tom Krupenkin at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “This is more than sufficient to power such common devices as smartphones and tablets,” he says. “We expect the first product prototype to be available in one to two years.”
Noted: Such coercion is a natural augmentation of censorship. Next comes mob rule. Last year, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the vice provost for diversity and climate ? really; you can?t make this stuff up ? encouraged students to disrupt a news conference by a speaker opposed to racial preferences. They did, which the vice provost called “awesome.” This is the climate on an especially liberal campus that celebrates “diversity” in everything but thought.
A major overhaul of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s HR system involved collecting input from 7,800 employees and students via surveys, an employee advisory committee, forums and web chats.
A couple of years back, when I was in high school, I took part in this debate on the topic ?studying abroad is a mere fad?. I spoke against it. I spoke on how it?s not a fad. I won the debate because I truly believed in the points I had put forward. But now that I am here in the United States of America, studying at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, I am all the more convinced that studying abroad is not a fad at all! The opportunity given to me by my university to experience the U.S. education system at one of the premiere institutes in the U.S.A, is one I will always be grateful to them for.
As Bret Bielema analyzed the challenge Wisconsin faces against Nebraska in the Big Ten Conference title game, he neither sounded nor looked like a coach whose team had lost three of its final four games, all in overtime.
Worn and worried? Hardly. Bielema appeared almost giddy because he believes UW is a healthier team today than the one that suffered a 30-27 loss at Nebraska in the teams? league opener Sept. 29.
Former Wisconsin fullback Cecil Martin will be Indianapolis for the Big Ten title game and also to help out at the Allstate Big Ten Good Works Day.
Organizers of the Big Ten Conference football championship game are facing third-and-long in their quest to fill Lucas Oil Stadium for Saturday night?s matchup in downtown Indianapolis.
Noted: Marcy Carlson, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, basically warned me not to get all googly-eyed. She pointed out that the number of marriages has been close to 30,000 in the last couple of years, a rate of 5.3 per 1,000 Wisconsinites. And, from her point of view, one would expect more marriages when the state population goes up and the rate stays the same, as it has since 2009.
Back in January, when UW-Madison announced plans to construct an “athletic village” at Camp Randall, consisting of a training center and academic facility on the north end of the stadium, associate athletic director Justin Doherty explained why in simple terms.
For an especially lucrative occupation, one might consider becoming a fired college football coach.
Wisconsin senior tailback Montee Ball on Wednesday was named to the American Football Coaches Association All-American team for the second consecutive season.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly proclaimed Wednesday a watershed day for Wisconsin residents, as the UW System became perhaps the first public university system in the nation to roll out a set of 100% competency-based online degree programs for working adults starting next fall through UW-Milwaukee and the two-year UW Colleges.
Quoted: “To have doubled the population prevalence of a disorder is staggering,” says University of Wisconsin psychiatrist Eric Heiligenstein. “Obviously, that?s weird.”
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) ? One year after a student drowned in a river after a night of drinking, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is considering banning alcohol consumption in the dorms, even for students of legal drinking age.
University of Michigan has topped its public peers in research and development spending for the third year in a row, according to the U.S. National Science Foundation.
University of Washington President Michael Young has terminated its ties to Adidas, responding to a student-generated protest over $1.8 million in severance pay owed to laid-off workers at a factor in Indonesia that made apparel for Adidas.
Noted: He also voiced support for taking merit-based exams for college credit to eliminate educational waste and ensuring people are taking classes they?re interested in. The governor also noted support for making college credits easier to transfer within the University of Wisconsin System.
Re ?How to Cut Prison Costs? (editorial, Nov. 10): I was taught in law school that prison sentences have two purposes: to ensure public safety and to punish the offender. For the past few decades, meeting those goals has meant long prison terms even for nonviolent offenders, leading to soaring incarceration rates.
