The University of Wisconsinâ??s two-year colleges could soon have the power to offer limited four-year degrees under a plan aimed at serving adult students in mostly rural areas.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents could approve rules Friday designed to hold down textbook costs on its campuses. The policy, which comes before the regentâ??s education committee today, will encourage campuses to explore textbook rental programs, among other cost-saving options.
Itâ??s the Midwestâ??s unquestioned power conference, a collection of tradition-rich universities that jostle for position in the Top 25 and haul in staggering amounts of money. Oh, and the Big Ten plays decent football, too.
The Big Red will be joining the Big Ten. A source with intimate knowledge of the expansion talks told the Tribune on Wednesday that Nebraska will be invited to apply for Big Ten membership, a mere formality in the process. An announcement is expected Friday.
Quoted: The season has also arrived early for Judy Reith-Rozelle, assistant superintendent at UW-Madisonâ??s West Madison Agricultural Research Station in Verona, where she is running a strawberry research plot for the second consecutive year.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukeeâ??s menâ??s indoor track team will lose 1.26 scholarships because of poor academic performance, according to NCAA data released Wednesday.The team was the only team among the stateâ??s four Division I programs that received an immediate penalty for poor academic performance.
University of Wisconsin System regents will meet at UW-Milwaukee on Thursday to consider raising tuition by 5.5 percent at most state universities.
Most K-12 teachers lack basic training on how to teach money management to students, though many would like to.The study is an undertaking by researchers at UW-Madison. UW-Madison human ecology professor Wendy Way co-authored the study, which determined that nationally, relatively few educators are teaching personal finance education.
The study of technologies to clean wastewater and generate energy from algae and use new materials to reduce air pollution are among projects that will bring researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee together.
Doctors spend almost as much time on the subtleties of billing codes as we do on patient care. Primary care in particular is adversely affected by a fee-for-service system that stifles innovative approaches to managing complex chronic and preventive care in favor of those services insurance companies and Medicare will reimburse.
John J. Frey III, Madison, Wis. The writer, a doctor, is a professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Quoted: Several medical physicists said in interviews that they were reserving judgment until they saw the specific changes. â??How it is implemented would make a big difference,â? said Dr. Bruce Thomadsen, a medical physicist at the University of Wisconsin.
Claude Adams Taylor Jr., age 79, passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 6, 2010. He served as professor of anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 30 years until retirement. While at the UW he helped initiate the local modern ambulance era as the program director of the Paramedic Program and trained the first 48 paramedics for the City of Madison.
Paul A. Leverentz, age 44, of Madison, died unexpectedly on Monday, June 7, 2010. He worked at University of Wisconsin-Madison as an accountant, CPA, CIA, CISA for the past two years.
FluGen, a Madison company that specializes in technology to prevent and treat flu viruses, said Tuesday it has gained rights from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to a new class of antiviral drugs with a wider time window for therapeutic action. The technology was developed at UW-Madison and patented through WARF.
When Madison Ald. Jed Sanborn bought the Buck’s Pizza rrestaurants — thereâ??s a West Side location on University Avenue — from Bill Buchholz, he had to agree not to sell or even divulge the sauce recipe. â??Heâ??s pretty protective of it,â? Sanborn said. Buckâ??s Pizza got its name from founder George â??Buckâ? Backus, who opened the Cottage Grove location in 1960 after coming to Madison from Racine, where he managed the Meadowbrook Country Club. Backus later added a West Side location, on Midvale Boulevard, and Buckâ??s continued at those two locations until a couple of years ago, when the Midvale restaurant relocated to University Avenue. Backus did more than run the pizza restaurants. In March 1962, he was hired to manage concessions for the â??Wâ? Club. Backus stayed there for 22 years and turned it into a major money-maker for UW athletics. Sanborn, 38, enjoys the history associated with Buckâ??s. He came to Madison from the Twin Cities area for college and in 1995 got a degree from UW-Madison in political science and international relations.
Virent Energy Systems is ready to rev up hiring and research and move closer to selling its biofuel to the public now that investors have pumped another $46.4 million into the Madison company. Virent converts plant sugars from beets, corn and sugar cane into fuel that has the same molecular structure as gasoline; it would be blended with petroleum-based gas for up to a 50/50 mixture. Eventually, the company wants to use non-food agricultural residues for its biofuel. With the latest funding round, Virent has attracted more than $116 million since the company was founded in 2002, based on UW-Madison research.
What appear to be Ron Dayneâ??s two Rose Bowl rings, his Heisman Trophy ring and other sports jewelry reported stolen from his Waunakee home in April turned up Tuesday on the porch of a Madison residence where Dayne said a diamond and ruby bracelet commemorating his Heisman win also was recently stolen.
After the Badgers played their last game of the season, an 11-3 Big Ten Conference loss to Michigan State at Goodman Diamond, Chandelle Schulte had an extended postgame meeting with her players in which she announced all the award winners for the season. Before leaving the locker room, she said the annual banquet, scheduled for a few hours later at the Concourse Hotel, had been called off. No explanation was given to the players or their parents,leading to speculation, later verified, that Schulte was on her way out after five seasons as UW coach. Someone from the UW Athletic Department should step up and apologize to the players and their families. It isnâ??t too much to ask.
The nationâ??s most profitable program controls its destiny â?? and everyone elseâ??s.
Six rings reported stolen from the home of former University of Wisconsin and NFL running back Ron Dayne have been returned to his Madison apartment. Dayne reported in April that his two Rose Bowl rings and about $100,000 worth of jewelry and other items were stolen from his home in nearby Waunakee. Last month he reported a second burglary of about $50,000 in jewelry and other items from an apartment in Madison, including a diamond bracelet commemorating his 1999 Heisman Trophy win. Madison Police Lt. Jennifer Krueger Favour says the rings returned were reported stolen from the Waunakee home, but were returned anonymously in a plastic bag to the Madison apartment. She did not describe what the rings were and Dayne did not return a message left on his cell phone.
The habits that make Megan Seidl an honor student and medical school candidate donâ??t necessarily translate to her current passion. Seidl is a record-setting high jumper for the University of Wisconsin womenâ??s track and field team, a senior from Brown Deer who is looking to close her career with a flourish. She advanced to the NCAA outdoor championships, which run Wednesday through Saturday at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., courtesy of a career-best effort outdoors jump of 5 feet, 11¼ inches in a preliminary qualifier last month.
At least a dozen private and public colleges seeking to fill quiet summer campuses and bring in additional revenue are making undergraduates â?? and in some cases high school students â?? offers that are too good to pass up. In addition, as families look for recession-sensitive price tags, some private colleges are trying to stay competitive by offering one-year tuition freezes or four-year tuition guarantees.
The Writerâ??s Almanac notes that Franklin Hiram King was born on this day in 1848. He was an early advocate of sustainable agriculture and a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he studied soil and soil fertility.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will decide Thursday how to make textbooks more affordable for students. Patrick Sorelle manages the UW-Green Bay bookstore. He seen his fair share of frustration in the aisles.”Itâ??s very frustrating to se
Colleges these days work closely with parents on studentsâ?? financial aid applications or living accommodations. But, when it comes time to inform parents about their son or daughterâ??s underage drinking violation, colleges are divided about how much mom and dad should know.
U.S. Senator Herb Kohl says he has appointed an 11-member bipartisan task force of Wisconsin legal experts and community leaders to examine the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. The group includes Frank Tuerkheimer, professor, University of Wisconsin Law School
and Brady Williamson, professor, University of Wisconsin Law School and attorney, Godfrey & Kahn.
Quoted: “This study is pretty consistent to what the research literature say so far,” said Dave Riley, a professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the UW.
It appears most of the $100,000 in Ron Dayneâ??s Rose Bowl-themed and other distinctive jewelry have turned up at the scene of the crime.
Two UW-Madison students are paying hefty fines of about $700 apiece, for stealing a 20 foot maple tree from a downtown street.
Chandelle Schulte was officially let go as University of Wisconsin softball coach June 3, a move that was understandable, but one that left at least one loose end.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the UW Madison, said he does not recall a similar event, or any high profile politico changing support for a candidate, as Klauser has done. Neumann is contesting the Republican primary race against Walker, with the winner to face the Democratic candidate, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, in November.
The liquor licenses of seven downtown Madison businesses owned by a couple convicted of tax evasion are still up in the air.The Alcohol License and Review Committee is considering pulling the liquor licenses for Vineyard Liquor, Churchkey Bar and Grill, Badger Liquor, the Badger Tasting Room, Samba grill, Brickhouse BBQ and Rileyâ??s Wines of the World.
Six rings reported stolen from the home of former University of Wisconsin and NFL running back Ron Dayne have been returned to his Madison apartment.
June Gay Forsyth, age 95, died Saturday, June 5, 2010, at HospiceCare in Fitchburg. June worked for a short time as a secretary for the Agronomy and Engineering departments at the UW-Madison.
College students today show less empathy toward others compared with college students in decades before, a study from the University of Michigan says. Students are less likely to agree with statements such as “I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me” and “I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective.”
The Tea Party approach that reminds UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden of several 19th century political movements.”They are not really a political party yet, and they might never be,” he said. “They fall more in line with the Progressive and temperance movements.”
Tuition rates would go up 5.5 percent on most University of Wisconsin campuses next school year under a proposal released Monday.If approved by the Board of Regents on Thursday, it will mark the fourth straight year that base tuition has increased 5.5 percent at the systemâ??s 13 four-year universities. The plan would also freeze tuition for 13,000 students enrolled at the 13 UW two-year colleges for the fourth straight year. The increases would be the sharpest on two campuses – the flagship UW-Madison and UW-Eau Claire – where regents have already approved tuition surcharges being phased in over four years to pay for more professors and services.Rates would jump by $638, or about 8.7 percent, for UW-Madison undergraduates as the campus enters the second year of its plan to raise tuition by an extra $1,000.
Salaries for University of Wisconsin System faculty and academic staff have fallen so far behind their peers that they must be increased quickly to remain competitive, a report warned Monday. Average salaries for almost every category of academic employee are now behind what comparable schools pay their employees, a 19-member commission created by UW System President Kevin Reilly concluded. “If not remedied in a timely fashion, the Commission believes that these deficiencies could have a damaging effect on the UW System, the UW Systemâ??s ability to achieve its goals for the Growth Agenda of Wisconsin, and on the quality of life in Wisconsin,” the report warned.
Calling it “reasonable and predictable,” University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is recommending a 5.5 percent tuition increase for the stateâ??s 13 four-year universities for 2010-11. The UW Board of Regents will vote on the increase at a meeting in Milwaukee on Thursday as part of the UW Systemâ??s operating budget, which is expected to exceed $5 billion next year for the first time. This is the fourth consecutive year that Reilly has recommended a 5.5 percent tuition hike. It will mean tuition will rise $638 at UW-Madison, for an annual cost of $7,933. That rate increase â?? 8.7 percent â?? is because UW-Madison is in the midst of implementing a surcharge called the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates to pay for more professors and services. UW-Madisonâ??s tuition will still be the second lowest in the Big Ten conference, according to UW System documents.
The University of Wisconsin System is seeking approval for a $35.9 million one-year budget for its ongoing plan to install a new payroll and benefits system. The Board of Regents approved the outline of the $81.4 million plan last year, but required system administrators to come back every year for approval of the budget.
Barry Alvarez is the Chief Economic Officer of a business that brings in over $90 million annually in Madison, Wisconsin. Alvarez has admitted the business, which is part of a business that has 10 active partners in various endeavors and another “silent” partner in the Midwest, doesnâ??t necessarily need to take in more partners but could be forced into an expansion of the business in order to maximize revenues.
But the group has as much responsibility to provide legal drugs as it does to control illegal ones, says David Joranson, founder of the University of Wisconsinâ??s Pain & Policy Studies Group, which works with governments to reform their palliative-care laws.
It was the top story for several days last week on the health section of the influential BBC News website. But the story — on a site that typically boasts “74,900 pages were read in the last minute” — was an old one from 2003, inexplicably revived by lovers of Irelandâ??s favourite brew.”Guinness could really be good for you,” reads the headline, over a nostalgic picture of the long-running ad with the slogan: “Guinness Is Good For You”.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin law professor Frank Tuerkheimer, a former U.S. prosecutor, said the probe suggests investigators are improving at identifying potential terror threats. “It gives me more confidence that weâ??re devoting resources to watching people who could become a problem,” he said.
Insomnia isnâ??t just an annoyance, it seems. People who were chronically unable to get a good nightâ??s sleep were three times more likely to die of all causes than well-rested folks, a long-term study shows.
The University of Wisconsin System is seeking approval for a $35.9 million one-year budget for its ongoing plan to install a new payroll and benefits system.
Salaries for University of Wisconsin System faculty and academic staff have fallen so far behind their peers that they must be increased quickly to remain competitive, a report warned Monday. Average salaries for almost every category of academic employee are now behind what comparable schools pay their employees, a 19-member commission created by UW System President Kevin Reilly concluded.
Tuition rates would go up 5.5 percent on most University of Wisconsin campuses next school year under a proposal released Monday.
Many University of Wisconsin students will likely paying more for tuition next school year.
Two UW-Madison students are paying hefty fines of about $700 apiece, for stealing a 20 foot maple tree from a downtown street. Police spokesman Joel DeSpain says it appears some late night hijinks were involved.
Noted: Some scientists and advocates for gender equity have argued that the remaining gender gap in extreme scores is rapidly shrinking and will disappear. It was called â??largely an artifact of changeable sociocultural factorsâ? last year by two researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Janet S. Hyde and Janet E. Mertz. They noted evidence of the gap narrowing and concluded, â??Thus, there is every reason to believe that it will continue to narrow in the future.â?
Clifford J. Lange, age 71, of Madison, passed away on Thursday, June 3, 2010, at St. Maryâ??s Hospital. Clifford was employed in the Maintenance Department of the University of Wisconsin for many years.
Elizabeth M. “Betty” Bablitch, of Madison, passed away on Sunday, May 30, 2010, at the age of 85. She was a retired employee of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Big Ten did not take formal action during a meeting Sunday about conference expansion, although officials say their timeline may change after the Pac-10 revealed plans for their own expansion.
A: Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean basin runs from June through November. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting 14 to 23 named storms this season, say atmospheric sciences professors Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin.
Even as the recession recedes, most parts of the country are still seeing a “slow recovery out of a large hole,” according to a national economic expert at a housing conference Friday at UW-Madison. A quicker, stronger bounceback is unlikely, said David Altig, senior vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Thatâ??s because the recovery remains restrained by high unemployment, nervous retailers, only modest growth in construction and other industries and household wealth still way below pre-recession levels.”We have a long, long way to go,” Altig said. “Slow and steady goes the race.”
The housing conference was sponsored by the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at UW-Madisonâ??s School of Business, the Wisconsin Realtors Association, the state Department of Commerce, the Wisconsin Bankers Association and the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.
A free public workshop on competition and regulatory issues in the dairy industry will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 25 in the Union Theater at UW-Madison, 800 Langdon St. The workshop is the third in a series of five around the nation being conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Two UW-Madison students woke up with a maple tree in their living room Saturday morning, then spent part of the day replanting it because they were the ones who dragged it there in the first place. Thomas Schroeder, 21, of Menomonee Falls, and Brenton Neuharth, 21, from Eureka, S.D., were issued citations for damage to property for taking a newly planted tree out of the ground on a terrace on West Main Street near South Broom Street.
Robin Mittenthal is chairman of the board that oversees Eagle Heights Community Gardens, which has 537 plots tended by about 1,500 gardeners near the family housing area at UW-Madison. He is a former Minnesota organic farmer and is now a graduate student in entomology who is studying the effects of organic fertilizer on insect pests. Mittenthal, 36, said the huge collection of plots has a 30 percent turnover each year and a small waiting list. Because Eagle Heights has a large contingent of foreign student families, the contents of some plots can be unusual.
