The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and itâ??s likely more college leaders will make seven-figure salaries once the slumping economy rebounds.
Quoted: Still, what works in the laboratory often runs into trouble on the farm and never makes it to the grocery store, said Jeri Barak, an assistant professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and its likely more college leaders will make seven-figure salaries once the slumping economy rebounds. A record 23 presidents received more than $1 million in total compensation in fiscal 2008, according to an analysis of the most recently available data published Monday by the Chronicle of Higher Education. A record one in four in the study of 419 colleges mandatory IRS filings made at least $500,000.
Hector DeLuca has seen his share of contentious campus issues since arriving at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for graduate school in 1951. There were the Vietnam War protests in the 1960s and the heated debates over merging UW-Madison and the Wisconsin State Universities into the University of Wisconsin System in the early 1970s.
Ever wonder why the word â??railroadingâ? came into use to describe a plan or idea being pushed ahead too quickly or forcefully? Just picture the scene in â??Back to the Future Part IIIâ?, where Doc Brownâ??s tricked-out locomotive goes soaring over the edge of a cliff after the time machine disappears in flaming tire tracks.
Quoted: Allan Odden, a University of Wisconsin educational leadership expert, said IMPACT was â??sophisticated, well thought through and, if executed well, will represent one of the most rigorous systems in the country.â?
Quoted: “Itâ??s the opposite of discrimination,” said Dr. Norman Fost, a pediatrician and medical ethicist at the University of Wisconsin. “They want a special exception for people who use unproved treatments, and they also want to get paid for it. They want people who use prayer to have it just automatically accepted as a legitimate therapy.”
Two years ago, incoming high school freshmen became part of something new. The Wisconsin Covenant was billed as a way to make it easier to get into college.”It was my parents that gave me the push to sign it,” recounts Madison East High junior Mariah Burmah.
Quoted: “The rule of thumb that replacement rates should be above 70 percent to maintain living standards in retirement is conceptually flawed,” wrote John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri, two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, in their paper “What Replace Rates Should Households Use?”
Quoted: â??The Justice Department has clearly begun a major investigation and is moving ahead, which is more than happened in the last eight years,â? said Peter Carstensen, a former Justice Department lawyer who teaches antitrust law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and studies mergers in the agriculture industry.
Quoted: James Paul Gee, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin who was an early adviser to the software company Tabula Digita, said that in the last two years the companyâ??s 3-D multiplayer games for math and science have evolved into exercises for improving childrenâ??s test scores as the company sought wider adoption.
Dr. Hector Valdivia, a physiology professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison is isolating the paralyzing poisons that scorpions use to immobilize their victims. The ability of these toxins to mysteriously penetrate cell membranes — with lethal results for unfortunate victims — could end up benefiting mankind, by delivering drugs to otherwise impenetrable cells.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they defused threats from 125 troubled students, employees and area residents under a little-known program launched two years ago in response to deadly tragedies on college campuses in Virginia and Illinois.
Noted: That would be people like Jimmy Wu, a newly graduated doctor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Raised in a family originally from Taiwan, Wu said traditional healing practices are “very much ingrained” in how he thinks about sickness and health.
For the fourth year since it became a gated and ticketed event, Madisonâ??s annual Halloween street party ended without any major incidents.
Noted: Through the University of Wisconsin Law School Restorative Justice Project, Jackie can visit Craig once a year in Stanley Prison, east of Eau Claire. They talk about the weather. They talk about a recent math test Craig took. They talk about that day 14 years ago.
Ah, fall. The trees are alight with the fire of autumnal color, thereâ??s a decided chill in the air, Hoofers are pulling their boats out of the water by the Memorial Union Terrace, and good Madisonians everywhere are scrambling to come up with that perfect Halloween costume.
University of Wisconsin Police arrested 15 people at Saturdayâ??s Badger game. Twelve of those arrested were UW students.
Thousands of costumed revelers descended on State Street on Saturday night for Freakfest, the city-approved annual Halloween party, and police said that the event was a success for the fourth year in a row.
IN a speech last year, Drew Faust, the president of Harvard, congratulated seniors who had gone the extra mile to get their R.O.T.C. training. She meant it literally, and the extra miles they had gone were the least of it.
Wisconsin is a far cry from being Americaâ??s fruit bowl. But a collaboration between Dale and Cindy Sechers of Carandale Farm and the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems is aimed at making our brutal climate more fruit-friendly. Since 2003, the Sechers have been growing and evaluating 42 unusual and forgotten fruits with a goal of finding perennial fruits that are easy to grow without a lot of labor or chemicals, nutrient-rich and appealing to consumers, able to provide a healthy income for the farmer while being easily affordable for customers and produce jobs that lead to regional development.
Sachin Tuli, co-director of International Programs and a lecturer in the UW-Madison School of Business, said “trade missions help you get off on the right foot.”
Madison attorney William Conley was nominated Thursday by President Barack Obama to succeed the retiring U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb on the federal bench. Conley received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
About 150 Madison-area residents are apart of a UW-Madison study asking if meditation or exercise can ward off colds and the flu. The research is especially relevant this fall as swine flu levels have soared before enough vaccine against the H1N1 virus is available, leaving millions of Americans wondering how to stay healthy. The seasonal flu vaccine also is in short supply. Scientists know meditation reduces stress and exercise can prevent chronic diseases. But they donâ??t know if either activity makes the immune system better able to fight respiratory infections, said Dr. Bruce Barrett, a UW Health family physician heading up the research. The study, which started last month, features eight weekly classes in meditation or exercise.
FluGen, a Madison company based on research by UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, has produced swine flu vaccine without using eggs, the company announced Thursday. The companyâ??s use of cell lines to grow vaccine against the H1N1 virus is an alternative to the egg-based method used by most manufacturers, which has been blamed in part for the current shortage of vaccine.
Former UW-Madison basketball recruit Jeremy Glover pleaded guilty Thursday to burglarizing a campus dorm room with a fellow recruit and was placed in a first offenders program.
The NCAAâ??s decision Thursday to approve new rules aimed at shutting down money trails in menâ??s basketball recruiting wasnâ??t a surprise to Big Ten Conference coaches. But while the coaches agreed that the changes will help clean up a notoriously problematic part of the game, some expressed concern over one portion of the package of legislation that may limit who they can hire to help run their camps and clinics. University of Wisconsin menâ??s basketball coach Bo Ryan said that restricting those jobs to students or campus employees, as the legislation suggests, would force coaches to greatly reduce the number of campers who could attend.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department has clarifyied its carry-in policies for Camp Randall Stadium and the Kohl Center for athletic events. Halloween costumes will also be allowed at both venues this weekend, but the costumes must fit in a normal seating space and be “of an appropriate nature.”
Clarence Kailin, the last surviving Wisconsin veteran of the Spanish Civil War has died at age 95. Kailin worked as a photo technician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for much of his life.
Itâ??s (mostly) all over now, except for the shouting.
As the two-week run date for the inaugural project of All Together Now winds to a close, itâ??s time to take stock of what was achieved. To do, in other words, a little shouting.
The University of Wisconsin Athletics and the UW Police Department are clarifying past stories about what you can and canâ??t bring into Camp Randall and the Kohl Center.
Creating energy from methane produced in cow manure could lead the way to local farmers generating their own electricity, said Tom Drendel, the former superintendent of the Marshfield University of Wisconsin Agriculture Research Station.
Some minority students at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls said they may not go to school on Monday after a written threat was discovered in a library bathroom.
The University of Wisconsinâ??Madison is famous for many things: a beautiful campus, enthusiastic fans and delicious dairy products. The university is also infamous for many things, and at the top of that list is a riotous Halloween history.
Officials at Addison Trail High School donâ??t just talk about college as soon as students arrive freshmen year.
They actually send kids there.
The entire freshmen class piles into buses for a daylong trip to the leafy campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison so kids can see and feel what a real college is like â?? and learn what it takes to get there.
The last surviving Wisconsin veteran of the Spanish Civil War has died. Clarence Kailin was 95.
When he was 22, Kailin joined the Abe Lincoln Brigade in 1936 to fight against Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
After the war that ended in Franco’s victory, Kailin became a labor organizer and an advocate for civil rights. He worked as a photo technician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for much of his life.
Gov. Jim Doyle passed an emergency rule Thursday to clarify a bill that allows young adults to receive coverage under their parentsâ?? health insurance plans until age 27.
Susan Li’s senior year at the University of California, Los Angeles, was fast approaching, and she was running out of time. She needed at least three classes to qualify for financial aid. But a week before classes began, she had registered for only one course.
Betty Jean Owens, age 88, died on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. Betty worked for the University of Wisconsin as an administrative assistant.
Some UW-Madison faculty members are opposing a plan that would shake up the universityâ??s internal structure by creating a new office to oversee research. A resolution from the sociology department will be presented at Mondayâ??s Faculty Senate meeting, alleging that the proposed reorganization has been presented without a detailed written plan or proper consideration of its implications. The plan from Provost Paul DeLuca would put oversight of research under a new vice chancellor, rather than where they’re currently housed in the graduate school.
A UW-Madison student was killed late Saturday when his motorcycle crashed on Highway 41 near Oshkosh. Craig T. Houston, 20, of Neenah, was a junior in the College of Letters and Science.
University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore Meg Six is earning national recognition for her unselfish sportsmanship at the Midwest qualifying race for the national sailing championships. Six, who races for the University of Wisconsin Sailing Team but was out of contention for nationals, gave her boat to Lauren Knoles of Michigan State, whose own boat had become disabled.
Pianist Christopher Taylor, an associate music prof at the University of Wisconsin, performs the Goldberg Variations on Friday at the University of Chicago. An opportunity to see the Goldbergs is always a treat, and Taylor is an outstanding pianist – his performance of Messiaenâ??s complete, immensely challenging “Vingt Regards sur lâ??Enfant-Jésus,” one of his specialties, last year as part of the Messiaen Festival was one of the most remarkable shows Iâ??ve ever seen.
The Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research and Development has a new director. Karen Nielsen, who is an institutional leader in international dairy research, development and education, has accepted the position.
Four more people in Wisconsin have died from the H1N1 flu virus, according to officials with the state Department of Health Services.
College campuses experienced a surge in flu cases last week just as vaccine shortages and delays were forcing many to postpone scheduled shot clinics, the American College Health Association reported on Wednesday.
Some of the increases in what the association called “influenza-like illnesses”â??widely thought to be the H1N1, popularly called swine fluâ??occurred in regions that had seemed to be recovering from severe outbreaks earlier this fall. The unexpected rebounds in the Southeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast have some health experts worried that the holiday season might bring some colleges a double dose of illness.
Inez Ruth Koval, age 84, of Madison, died Thursday, Oct. 26, 2009. Inez worked for 24 years in the UW Hospital Dietary Department.
UW-Madisonâ??s two campus newspapers have called for a student boycott of the Nitty Gritty after its owner, Marsh Shapiro, opposed putting a student on a powerful city committee.
The badger leads an online survey to help gauge the popularity of four possible designs for a new Wisconsin Endangered Resources license plate. State Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matthew Frank cited lobbying from University of Wisconsin-Madison students for the badger’s popularity.
More than 65 percent of U.S. mothers with depression donâ??t receive adequate treatment, a new study has found.
Black, Hispanic and other minority mothers are least likely to receive adequate treatment. Mothers with health insurance are three times more likely to receive adequate treatment than those without insurance, wrote the researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Joanne Cantor’s son was 5 years old when he passed an elaborate Halloween exhibit with a scarecrow oozing “bloody” macaroni-and-ketchup intestines.
Halloween is a tricky time for the 5 and under set. On one hand, they get orange M&M’s, school parades and face paint. On the other, they have to contend with slithering snakes, 8-foot ghost skeletons and bloody animatronic ghouls.
Cantor, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Mommy, I’m Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do to Protect Them,” has advice for parents trying to navigate the spookiest holiday.
Noted: Madison is home to one of the most vibrant ultimate communities in the country with hundreds of players participating in recreational leagues running year round. The Hodags, UW-Madisonâ??s open club, has won college nationals three times â?? 2003, 2007 and 2008. Bella Donna, the womenâ??s team, is consistently ranked among the top teams nationally.
The state Department of Health Services wants health care providers to stop conducting mass swine-flu vaccinations until vaccine supplies increase.
Wisconsin health officials are urging only those in the most sensitive groups to be vaccinated for the H1N1 flu virus. The new strategy comes as officials expressed frustration over the nationwide shortage of the vaccine.
Quoted: But it’s not age alone that makes our heart work harder. The study found a bad diet and lack of exercise also contribute. Dr. James Stein, directs the Preventive Cardiology Program at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine. He says he’s seeing more patients with poor cardio fitness. Stein says people are overweight and canâ??t do activities or daily living, such as chores around the home. He says if it gets to be severe, people lose their independence. (Seventh item)
Officials at the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse have been vaccinating priority groups on campus to protect them from the H1N1 virus. However, limited doses raise questions as to who will be next.
As of last week, UW-La Crosse had received 300 nasal spray doses of the H1N1 vaccine. Dr. Brian Allen, director of Student Health at UWL, says they will finish vaccinating priority groups this week. If the university receives more vaccine, Allen says the question is who will get it. He says with 100 doses left, student-teachers may be next in line since theyâ??re out in the classrooms, exposed to sick kids. (Fifth item.)
University of Wisconsin-Madison say 40 computers have been hacked, possibly exposing personal information of nearly 3,000 people.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said that 40 computers have been hacked, possibly exposing personal information of nearly 3,000 people.UW-Madison authorities sent a letter Oct. 12 to faculty, staff and students affected, apologizing and promising new security tools.
Jeanette Hill, age 65, Green Bay/Madison, resident, died peacefully on Sunday, October 25, 2009. Jeanette worked part time for UW Colleges in the Registrars Office.
Quoted: In addition, individual farmers are sending cows to slaughter at a pace of about 55,000 per week, said Robert Cropp, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. At that rate, about 3 million cows could be killed in a year.
