Why does college cost so much? Many parents are wondering just that as students gear up for the fall semester ââ?¬â? and parents pull out their checkbooks. In part, the answer rests with tuition increases that have outpaced inflation and the median family income.
A well-known expert in dairy nutrition with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center has passed away.
We are all aware of the controversy surrounding University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Kevin Barrett�s interpretation of 9/11 and other activities that he claims the Bush administration was purported to have been involved in.
CHICAGO ââ?¬â?? According to Kevin Barrett, the US government planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks, the World Trade Center imploded due to explosives set up ahead of time in the buildings, Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone’s plane crash was no accident, and Osama bin Laden has probably been dead since 2001.
Let the wailing commence: The annual college rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report have arrived. This year Princeton University claimed the top spot, followed by Harvard University at No. 2. Princeton and Harvard had tied for first place in each of the previous three years.
UW-Madison was 7th among public universities, 34th overall.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin leaders laid out a wish list on Thursday that includes increasing enrollments and improving research while holding the line on tuition.
University of Wisconsin System regents voted 15-2 on Thursday to approve a two-year budget request that would add 2,000 students to the 160,000 student system, increase tuition by an average of 2.5 percent each year and fund goodies such as a new research initiative at UW-Milwaukee.
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin System leaders moved Thursday to pull their assets out of companies that do business with the government of Sudan.
UW could not invest in companies who work with the Sudanese government or are complicit in what the U.S. government and other countries consider genocide in the Darfur region in western Sudan under a resolution adopted by a committee of UW System regents on Thursday.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The cost of higher education looks like it’s climbing … again.
While the final trend figures for the fast-approaching 2006-2007 academic year are still being compiled, students can expect about a 5 percent increase in both tuition and fees, says Carl Buck, vice president for college funding for the college information firm Peterson’s.
Early this month, the office of state Rep. Steve Nass asked the UW-Extension to provide more information relating its ties to a pro-worker radio and print news service called Workers Independent News. An offshoot of the UW School of Workers, WIN now purports to be completely independent.
(UNDATED) Wisconsin needs to do a better job of attracting federal dollars for classified military research. That�s according to Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council. He�s launching a new project to help Wisconsin researchers get access to lucrative Pentagon contracts linked to the war on terrorism.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a new freshman-level computer science program aimed at enticing women to become computer scientists.
The Wisconsin Emerging Scholars in Computer Science was created by Professor Susan Horwitz, with initial grant support from the Microsoft Corp. Now, with National Science Foundation backing, the program is combining two core strategies: direct recruitment of new freshman students from underrepresented groups and parallel team-learning techniques.
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The University of Wisconsin has retired the uniform numbers of four football players over the years: Alan Ameche, Elroy Hirsch, Dave Schreiner and Allan Schafer.
It is knowledge even straight-A students often lack: how to handle money…and debt. According to Michael Gutter, UW Extension Financial Specialist, “While college students are doing pretty well, they’re increasingly having more student loan and credit card debt and they’re not necessarily well-equipped to mange this.”
There’s an effort underway to make the UW Arboretum, an historically valuable site, on par with places like Stonehengeââ?¬Â¦and at the same time keep ATC transmission lines away from the property.
The first step in this process is to get the Arboretum on the National Register of Historic Places.
The generation of students in college, just out or heading there soon, is causing those in academe to make big changes for the future as they welcome young people long immersed in technology and accustomed to both alone time and working together.
States move to lighten college financial burden
Concerns over spiraling college textbook prices have prompted state legislators to introduce more than 40 bills and resolutions in 15 states this year.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 ââ?¬â? A surgeon who was appointed by President Bush this week to lead the National Cancer Institute said Wednesday that he had great hopes for finding new nontoxic cancer drugs but that given a shrinking of resources, some of the instituteââ?¬â?¢s programs would probably have to be phased out.
While states focus on soaring college textbook costs students, faculty and publishers also are taking action. USA TODAY’s Mary Beth Marklein and Beth Walton look at local efforts.
As demand for low-cost textbooks increases, college administrators, bookstores and faculty have been forced to re-examine how their students get books.
Quoted: Morris Davis, a professor of real estate at the University of Wisconsin School of Business in Madison.
Madison, Wis. – If everything goes according to schedule, the newest multimillion-dollar research institution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be erected sometime after 2010.
But even as architects design the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID), campus leaders are busy forging its identity.
Quoted: Dhavan Shah, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A new research paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research argues that declining state funds for colleges can impair student success and, in turn, economic growth.
The Danes no longer control the UW-Madison campus, but it was a good run while it lasted. Last Thursday morning the flag of Denmark was flying on the pole high above Bascom Hall, underneath the U.S. and Wisconsin flags. Campus facilities workers couldn’t get it down until Monday.
The flag was rigged with heavy-gauge plastic ties to the pole, and not the flag rope, making it tough to remove. A group calling itself, “The Dane County Danes” has taken credit for the prank. According to Physical Plant director John Harrod, written on the flag was: “In remembrance of our Norwegian cousins in Madison on 17 of May 1957 and to show our support for our American friends.”
Harrod says they had to create a long pole rigged with a cutter to remove the flag.
“Our Danish friends are certainly enterprising,” concedes UW Communications’ Dennis Chaptman. “However, we would have preferred if they would have brought a kringle instead.”
He was employed by the University of Wisconsin, Physical Plant Department, before retiring in 1979.
A civil engineering graduate of Purdue University, he served on the engineering faculties of Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin for more than 20 years.
“There are, in fact, fewer meth labs popping up around the state, but that’s not the same as saying the meth abuse problem has gone away,” said Mike Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing affiliated with UW- Madison. “As important as it is to reduce the local production of meth, one likely consequence is there’s going to be more meth that’s produced elsewhere and trafficked into the state of Wisconsin.”
Apparently it’s not enough to live through the annual indignity of college town life: The week the new students arrive, and they’re all younger, smarter and prettier than they were a year ago.
(You, of course, don’t age. They just get younger.)
But now there’s a new humiliation: Dorm envy.
Think I’m kidding? Then you weren’t one of the 600 or so people who filed through Newell J. Smith Hall during Tuesday’s open house.
In a nod to MySpace and Facebook, more schools are creating their own sites for social networking.
Scores for the ACT college entrance exam rose ââ?¬Å?significantlyââ?¬Â this year, and the average composite score reached its highest level since 1991, a report says today.
Record $165 million donation has Oklahoma State buzzing with excitement, feeds concern about one alum’s influence.
Giving big: Largest gifts to colleges
Donations to colleges of at least $150 million since 1967
One Wisconsin lawmaker wants to introduce a new piece of legislation that would ban some admission procedures in the UW system.
Representative Stephen Nass says the system puts too much emphasis on socio-economic factors and not enough on academic performance when admitting students.
With so many students returning or new to campus this week, police want to get the word out about crimes that have been occurring in the downtown area over the summer.
UW officials have teamed up with Madison police to issue safety reminders.
For the first time since the 1960’s, there’s a new dorm on the UW campus. And in just a few weeks, students will be calling it home.
On the outside, it’s hard to believe that this modern looking structure is a UW residence hall. Inside — it’s definitely not what many would call normal dorm life.
“This is the first major residence hall since Ogg was built in 1965,” said Paul Evans, Director of University Housing.
The average score of high-school seniors who took the ACT exam in 2005-6 rose two-tenths of a point, to 21.1, the biggest one-year increase in scores over the past two decades, ACT officials said Tuesday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison teacher made headlines recently for stating his belief that the U.S. government, Dick Cheney in particular, masterminded the terrorist attacks of 9-11.
The composite score on the ACT increased to 21.1 for students who graduated from high school this year ââ?¬â? a 0.2 point increase that represents the biggest advance in 20 years.
MADISON, Wis. — Some lucky freshmen on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will have a new state-of-the art dorm to call home this fall.
It’s not a surprise that there aren’t more Hispanics in elected office, said Ben Marquez, professor of political science at UW- Madison.
It takes a while for a population, especially one that has grown as rapidly as Hispanics, to produce political leaders, he said.
One large impediment to Hispanics in Wisconsin exerting their influence at the polls is obtaining citizenship, he said. Until they register voters in large numbers, the political parties likely will be slow to respond to their needs, Marquez said.
Michael Scott, a former lawman and now a policing expert at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said ending the chase in such a case is a good – but not foolproof – way to resolve a dangerous situation.
“All the police can do is hope that their discontinuing the pursuit will be noticed by the person and (that person) will then bring their driving under control,” Scott said.
It started off slowly, a few cars lining the streets and small piles of used items covering street corners as students moved their belongings over the weekend.
On Monday, the chaos was no longer controlled as furniture piles grew higher, traffic grew heavier and the most common sight was students sitting on the steps of vacant apartments with blank stares. It was the final day for most Downtown tenants to move from one property to the next.
For Jeremy Kleier, a UW- Madison junior and recent 400 block West Mifflin Street resident, the day was carefree. As students rushed to clean out their former properties, Kleier relaxed on a couch outside his new home.
Milwaukee, Wis. – When it comes to finding information technology workers, Bruce Maas feels the pain of his private-sector counterparts, but his very public employer has found a way to address the problem – embracing diversity.
TOWN OF MENASHA ââ?¬â? Andy Lathropââ?¬â?¢s passion for Japanese and love for the Pacific island nation led him to forego his sophomore year of college and go there to teach English.
Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton.
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery are a risky endeavor, Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, acknowledged during a recent Wisconsin Innovation Network luncheon.
But they are worth the gamble because they hold the potential to produce breakthrough science that can improve lives and create new companies and jobs for Wisconsin. (Video.)
It’s a busy week for UW-Madison students as they get ready to pack up and move out.
Some have already begun the process, while others plan on making the move later this week.
The U.S. Defense Department has backed off a proposal to require significant new controls, including security badges and restricted laboratory access, for foreign researchers working with sensitive technology at American universities.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and physician with ties to the entertainment industry is developing a software product to train medical students. The ultimate objective of Fred Kron, proprietor of Medical Cyberworlds, is to transform the doctor-patient relationship.
Quoted: Dale Schoeller, professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Admistrators at UW Madison says their message of personal safety is not getting through to students. That’s a concern given the recent rash of violence on King Street, and several muggings downtwn.
MADISON, Wis. — With the start of the school year rapidly approaching, University of Wisconsin and Madison police are finalizing plans to protect students from the recent surge in downtown violence.
You’re starting graduate school this fall, and your parents are thrilled. Which is a good thing, because once your student loans come due, you may have to move back in with them. More than 60% of graduate students have student loans, and the average borrower graduates with $37,000 in debt. For law and medical students, average debts range from $70,000 to more than $113,000.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.
As your toddler settles down in front of the television, Bucky Badger strides into the middle of the screen amid the warm sounds of a piano concerto.
OZAUKEE COUNTY – Washington County Board Chairman Tom Sackett said cutting his countyââ?¬â?¢s UW-Extension budget to protest a controversial UW-Madison lecturer would be like “spitting in the wind and it comes back and hits you in the face.”
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I am Langdon Divers, a 104-year-old Fond du Lac native. I recently saw on television the show “History Detectives,” in which they showed the man that made the engine that powered the Spirit of Saint Louis across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris on May 21, 1927.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â?? Doctors are testing a radical new way to help smokers quit: a shot that “immunizes” them against the nicotine rush that fuels their addiction. That pleasurable buzz has seduced Mario Musachia into burning through nearly 500,000 cigarettes in half a century.
The monetary rift forming between the federal government, the state and private interests has created an onerous overhead for stem cell research, and its effects are visible on the UC Berkeley campus.
Quoted: Pilar Ossorio, visiting professor of law from the University of Wisconsin.
