After the anti-sweatshop movement grew on campuses a decade ago, a framework arose for resolving protests and making it possible for colleges to continue to enjoy revenue from licensing their logos for use on clothing and other products.
Last year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association
proudly announced that under its new system of measuring graduation rates, 76 percent of Division I athletes who entered their institutions from 1995 to 1998 received diplomas, compared with the comparable federal rate of 62 percent.
UW Madison doesn’t want to get hit with flooding issues again like it did during a July storm, so the University has armed itself with a high-tech storm drain of sorts.Wednesday morning, engineers dug a six-foot-deep pit, right behind the Educational Sciences building on Johnson Street.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said that he believes more police officers are necessary to curb the string of muggings and violence around bar-closing time in the city’s downtown.
MADISON, Wis. — Fleming Development presented plans Wednesday to develop a unique condominium project near the University of Wisconsin campus.
Quoted: Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, which monitors political advertising.
An advisory commission report sent this month to Education Secretary Margaret Spellings recommends a wide range of proposals related to the accessibility, affordability and accountability of higher education.
The offer of admission from the University of North Carolina was wonderful, of course, but it was the letter from the financial aid office that made all the difference for Canada Steele. Her mother, Lori Brown, a single parent of seven in Hickory, calls it ââ?¬Å?a blessing.ââ?¬Â Steele, 18, her oldest, calls it ââ?¬Å?a miracle.ââ?¬Â The miracle’s name is the Carolina Covenant, a UNC program that promises low-income students such as Steele that their college costs are paid off and they can graduate debt-free. Now in its third year, the Covenant serves about 950 students and has become a model for other public universities.
Sustainable might sound like New Age jargon, but college students are embracing the idea: food grown locally with ecologically sound and seasonally sensitive methods. The concept also includes humane treatment for workers and animals and fair wages.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings called Tuesday for greater accountability by colleges and universities, including the creation of a national database to track how well students learn. She also called for an overhaul of the financial aid process and an increase in need-based aid.
MADISON – A Republican lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate renewed their call Tuesday for the University of Wisconsin-Madison to fire a part-time instructor who believes the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks.
The calls by GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Green and Rep. Steve Nass of Whitewater came after they learned a UW-Madison academic unit was sponsoring a lecture on Sunday by Kevin Barrett titled: “9/11: Folklore and Fact.”
MADISON, Wis. — Officials left this college city on Tuesday with the seed of an idea for improving town-gown relations when new UNC Chapel Hill construction projects are on the table.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist, Charles Franklin.
University of Wisconsin junior safety James Kamoku was caught on national television during Saturday’s game against Michigan on ESPN, twisting the leg of punt returner Steve Breaston following a tackle.
The victim of a beating and alleged sexual assault attempt last month said Tuesday she willed herself to stay conscious, despite numerous blows to the head, so she could fight off her attacker.
UW-Madison lecturer Kevin Barrett will talk Sunday at the university about his controversial belief that the U.S. government was complicit in the 9/11 attacks, prompting two elected officials on Tuesday to again call for his termination.
The TV ads for this fall’s elections are getting more nasty.But are they accurate?TODAY’S TMJ 4’s Truth Squad examines ads in the two most hotly contested races: Governor and Attorney General.”So, where’s Jimmy going next year?” asks Mark Green in his latest ad. “He’s applied to UW, but was wait-listed,” answers theÃ? TV “Dad.”
Education leaders and policy makers responded with expressions of relief, disappointment, and concern on Tuesday after the U.S. secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, announced her five-point “action plan” for the future of American higher education.
It’s difficult to empathize with, let alone have sympathy for, a psychopath. But one scientist believes psychopaths, despite their sometimes terrifying behavior, deserve compassion.
At its core, he argues, psychopathy is a learning disability that makes it difficult for psychopaths to stop themselves from pursuing harmful behavior.
Many psychopaths end up in jail, where they comprise up to 25 percent of the incarcerated population. Outside of prison, just 1 percent is diagnosed with the disorder.
The incidence of psychopathy is about the same as schizophrenia, but a clear differential exists when it comes to studying the former, says Joseph Newman, chairman of the psychology department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 ââ?¬â? Saying she hoped to jolt American higher education out of a dangerous complacency, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings vowed Tuesday to help finance state universities that administer standardized tests, establish a national database to track studentsââ?¬â?¢ progress toward a degree and cut the red tape surrounding federal student aid.
WASHINGTON – Handed a plan to shake up college life in America, Education Secretary
Margaret Spellings is endorsing some of its key ideas and promising to get moving on them.
A Republican lawmaker says UW-Madison instructor Kevin Barrett’s plan for a special lecture on 9/11 on campus Oct.1 should get him fired.Barrett has been teaching a course on Islam this semester, with strict university instructions to contain discussion of Barrett’s theoryÃ? the 9/11 tragedy was orchestrated by the government.Ã?Â
MADISON, Wis. — Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green is using paid actors in one of his campaign ads to drive home discontent over University of Wisconsin tuition and wait-list policies.
MADISON, Wis. — A man accused of a violent attack on Langdon Street in August will stand trial.Paul Aud is charged with kidnapping, attempted sexual assault and battery in connection with the beating of a woman in her downtown apartment.
(MADISON) Conservatives are hailing a compromise reached last week in the U.S. Senate on a bill that outlaws the use of torture and defines the legal rights of detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base. But an expert on the history of the CIA�s use of torture says the bill has a huge loophole in it.
University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Alfred McCoy has spent his career documenting the role of the CIA in U.S. foreign policy. (Fourth item.)
Quoted: Audrey Trainor, assistant professor in special education at UW-Madison.
Joseph Grande has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Oberlin College and master’s degrees in both water resources management and biological systems engineering from UW- Madison. He has worked as a high school science teacher and a research specialist.
Tucked amid faculty and student housing on the UW- Madison campus is a form of early childhood education that has survived by adapting to one of the fundamental economic shifts of the last 40 years.
University Houses Preschool is one of 13 cooperative preschools in Dane County. The preschools, which operate on the premise that parents are the primary educators of their children, require parents to take a hands-on approach to their child’s education.
Today’s college students are failing to graduate with a knowledge of and appreciation for America’s history and institutions, a new report says. Warning of a ââ?¬Å?coming crisis in American citizenship,ââ?¬Â it blames U.S. colleges and universities for neglecting to prepare students for their civic responsibilities.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings plans a many faceted campaign to carry out the recommendations of her Commission on the Future of Higher Education, including providing matching funds to colleges and states that collect and publicly report how well their students learn, building a ââ?¬Å?privacy protectedââ?¬Â database of college studentsââ?¬â?¢ academic records, and streamlining the process of applying for federal student aid.
A Wisconsin researcher believes Tasers can stop the human heart in rare situations.
“If the Taser dart lands on a thin person over the heart and between the ribs, in my opinion . . . it could electrocute the heart,” John Webster, a professor emeritus of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, said in an interview Monday.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Eighth-graders at Perry Tipler Middle School were thinking ââ?¬â? and talking about ââ?¬â? their educational futures Monday.
Jessica Doyle, wife of Gov. Jim Doyle, made a stop at Tipler to speak with students about the Wisconsin Covenant, an initiative that guarantees students with good grades a place in the Wisconsin higher education system.
Quoted: Bill Beckman, director of UW-Madison College of Engineering’s Solar Energy Laboratory,
MADISON, WIS. – When the University of Wisconsin-Madison created a master plan for its campus in 1995, the map outlining the changes didn’t even recognize the neighborhoods outside the university’s borders.
MADISON, Wisc. — Chapel Hill isn’t the only community where tens of thousands of people — including some who actually wear costumes — descend on downtown for Halloween.
MADISON, Wisc. — It pays to talk to the neighbors early and often.
That’s one of the lessons university leaders in this city say has been driven home over the past decade, as they’ve undertaken a number of building projects on the University of Wisconsin campus. Steps such as working with the city and neighboring village of Shorewood Hills to create standing committees of residents and officials have gone a long way toward improving town-gown relations, members of a discussion panel said Monday.
Usually a college dorm-room conversation like this …
“It’s been changing colors,” said Becky Wachowiak, UW Freshman.
… is about a sandwich that someone left in the fridge for the better part of the last year.
A UW-Madison Police official told 27 News, the owner of a moped allegedly stolen by� football player Elijah Hodge is owned by a UW hockey player.
A labor union local at UW-Madison has launched a blog that charges the university has ignored a series of racist incidents over the last six years involving employees in the kitchen at the Memorial Union.
Since April, Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green has campaigned on the promise of freezing state revenues at current levels.
When asked what services he would cut to meet that pledge – something his critics say is inevitable given the growing cost of such things as health insurance, fuel and utilities – Green has stayed away from specifics, suggesting the state could find savings through “administrative efficiencies” and by reducing outside contracts.
Michael J. Tate runs an operation with the kind of resources that many small colleges would envy. He has an annual budget of $3-million and a full-time staff of 55, including two people focused exclusively on communications and a development officer who’s angling to raise $10-million. All this is in a unitÃ? ââ?¬â? the office of the vice president for equity and diversityÃ? ââ?¬â? that didn’t even exist here at Washington State University in the summer of 2004.
Sandi was tending begonias in her dorm room while she attended UW-Madison to get her bachelor’s degree in wildlife ecology. But her hobby took off in earnest a decade ago when a friend gave her an Arabian jasmine plant.
During the height of the Depression with many bank and business failures, a half dozen UW-Madison professors started a credit union to serve the university faculty. In two years, the institution had 88 members and $2,500 in assets.
As voters select a governor this November, architects will be drafting plans for the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, a $150 million research complex at UW-Madison.
The public-private complex, to expand research on stem cells and related fields, will be built whether or not Republican Mark Green defeats Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, organizers say. It is to open in late 2009 in the 1300 block of University Avenue.
American women have waited long enough for a cervical cancer vaccine. Now that it’s available, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should quickly issue permanent guidelines.
While UW-Madison’s University Health Services started offering the vaccine this month, many Madison-area clinics aren’t providing this breakthrough health product.
Lois Anderson, a “card-carrying, lifelong” Republican from Madison, isn’t sure who to vote for this November in the race for governor.
The reason: stem cells.
Anderson would normally support Republican candidate Mark Green, whose opposition to much embryonic stem-cell research is shared by her Christian Reformed church.
UW-Madison scientist James Thomson was the first in the world to grow human embryonic stem cells in a lab in 1998.
Gabriela Cezar is a stem-cell researcher at UW-Madison, but she’s not studying the cells as potential cures.
She’s trying to come up with tests to detect developmental disorders such as autism.
In her lab, Cezar exposes dishes of embryonic stem cells to the epilepsy drug valproate. Studies have shown that the drug, when taken by pregnant women, increases a baby’s risk of autism, spina bifida and skeletal deformities.
It would be great if one person’s generosity always produced another’s gratitude, but, for some reason, life doesn’t work that way.Sometimes the giver prefers to remain anonymous. Sometimes the receiver is inconsiderate. Sometimes the gift is woven into a process that disguises its true value, leaving the recipient with a blurred perspective.
Quoted: Patricia McConnell, who teaches a course called ââ?¬Å?The Biology and Philosophy of Human-Animal Relationships,ââ?¬Â at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Calvin DeWitt, a University of Wisconsin biology professor and a founder of the Evangelical Environmental Network.
Quoted: Bob Cropp, a dairy specialist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Arthur Glenberg, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Quoted: John Sharpless, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor and political scandal expert.
R. Alta Charo, a panel member and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist and law professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
The online anti-coup petition, www.petitiononline.com/thaicoup/petition.html, was the initiative of Thongchai Winichakul, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States.
Quoted: Seapahn Megerian, a computer engineering professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Courtney Arnoldy, UW-Madison’s certified canine rehabilitation practitioner
