A group of 20 students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison is managing $40-million of the system’s endowment funds ââ?¬â? and it’s not play money.
The number of foreign students who enrolled at American colleges and universities fell for the second consecutive year in 2004, with much of the damage seen in the graduate schools, where international enrollments dropped for the first time in nearly 10 years.
These results appear in the latest edition of “Open Doors,” an annual report on international academic mobility that is published by the Institute of International Education and supported by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Curious where those extra tuition dollars are going? One place to look would be the pockets of college presidents.
Five presidents have cracked the $1 million compensation barrier, according to an annual survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education to be released Monday, and more are sure to follow. Nine earned more than $900,000 — a figure none broke in last year’s report.
Amidst the attention of the Teresa Hallbach case….and the arrest of Steven Avery….a UW group that helps free wrongfully convicted prisoners….won a court decision in a different case.
MADISON, Wis. — Badger fans said farewell, Saturday, to the man who made Wisconsin proud.
Even though the game ended with a 20-10 loss to Iowa, fans, players, and the university paid tribute to Barry Alvarez with a program on the field.
Saturday’s big Badger football game brought out the “Hardcore Hawkeyes,” and, of course, those “Badger Backers.” But, no matter which team they rooted for, today everyone was a fan of UW football coach, Barry Alvarez.
“From a Hawkeye fan, we all love Barry Alvarez, thank you for what you’ve given to the Big Ten, we appreciate it,” says one Iowa fan.
If you want to know how Badger fans feel about their beloved coach, just walk into any campusââ?¬â??area bar this weekend.
“We compete every year, we’re getting into the bowl games we want to get into, we’re getting them money that we want … Barry brought everything to this school,” said John Siebert, UW fan.
Saturday Barry Alvarez coaches his last home football game of his career.
Cindy Alvarez has stood by her husband for their last 16 years in Madison. She’s been a supporter of UW athletics and in some ways, a coach herself.
Citing the need for the next generation of U.S. leaders to be engaged globally, a national commission created by Congress is recommending today that a federal program be established that would broaden opportunities for U.S. college students to study abroad.
While the number of U.S. students studying abroad continues to rise, foreign student enrollments in U.S. colleges and universities last year declined slightly for the second year in a row, a report says.
The post-9/11 damage to the international exchange of students is starting to be repaired.
Data being released today reveal that 565,039 students from abroad enrolled at American colleges and universities in 2004-5, a drop of 1.3 percent from the previous year. In 2003-4, foreign enrollments dropped by 2.4 percent ââ?¬â? the first drop reported in the annual ââ?¬Å?Open Doorsââ?¬Â report compiled annually by the Institute of International Education.
Quoted: Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry
Quoted: Mason Carpenter, UW- Madison associate professor of management and human resources.
QUoted: Keith Findley, director of the University of Wisconsin-based Innocence Project.
Quoted: Kimberlee Burrington, dairy ingredient applications coordinator, Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Interviewed: Richard Davidson, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin, is one of several scientists who will present research on meditation at the neuroscience meeting. (Audio.)
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin System would not grant future academic administrators backup jobs, a controversial perk in which administrators gotlower-level jobs if fired, under a proposal a regents’ committee approved Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin officials moved ahead Thursday with a plan to audit how its schools are using student fees, which have skyrocketed along with tuition in recent years.
The paper was launched using funds largely from two sources, as Motel explained. “Because some of us were students,” she says, “we were able to get a grant from the Morgridge Center for Public Service,” a service-oriented program at UW-Madison.
MADISON – The discovery of a woman’s remains at a salvage yard owned by the family of Steven Avery is a great shock, but it doesn’t change the mission of the group, said a co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
The group won Avery’s freedom from prison two years ago.
Most people know UW Madison students drink.
But the UW Board of Regents wants to know what to do about it in the wake of statistics some experts call alarming.
Cornell University professor Molly Jahn, described by colleagues as dynamic, creative, a gifted scholar and great with people, will be the dean of UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, effective Aug. 1 at a salary of $221,000 a year.
UW-Madison students studying amid the unrest in France are “all safe,” according to interim Director of International Academic Programs Catherine Meschievitz.
Only three UW-Madison students currently reside in Paris, while 13 live around Aix-en-Provence. This stretch of land sits 30 to 60 miles from Marseilles — one of the French cities and towns ridden with the nation’s worst civil unrest in decades.
Need cash? There’s a Tyme Machine down by the bank near the stop-and-go-lights.
And if you’re not sure where that means, you might want to check with the Dictionary of American Regional English, which contains thousands of colloquial words and phrases used across the nation. Based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the dictionary was a 1960s project of English professor Frederic Cassidy.
A newspaper in Madison deserves community support for giving the homeless a voice and a way to earn some money.
The Homeless Cooperative recently published its first edition, featuring writing by those who are or may become homeless. Vendors can buy the paper for 25 cents, sell it for $1 and keep the profit.
Donations including a UW-Madison grant paid for the first issue. With enough advertising, future issues will hit the streets every two months.
Though he finished his coursework for a doctorate in philosophy at UW-Madison, the death of a friend, poet Paul Blackburn, led him to commit to poetry.
Holy horns on a heifer, Mildred, that new ag school dean is a girl!
What’s most interesting to me about the appointment of Molly Jahn as dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences isn’t the fact that the Cornell University plant geneticist is the first female dean in the school’s 116-year history.
It’s the fact that the ag college itself has become so girly.
Quoted: Erik Olson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Everybody has an irresponsible friend who cadges money one week to pay his electric bill and then goes out the next and buys himself a big-screen TV.
Congress is that freeloading friend. And America’s children and working families are about to get handed the bill for the television.
Department of Administration Deputy Secretary Gina Frank-Reese told 27 News she was never told about dissatisfaction with the process used to pick Milwaukee-based Adelman Travel for a lucrative state contract, despite claims to the contrary by top UW-System officials.
A March 8 e-mail from UW-System Assistant Vice President Doug Hendrix to members of a contract evaluating committee indicates that System Vice President Deborah Durcan was instructed to protest the travel contract process: “Debbie will verbally communicate our dissatisfaction with the process to a higher level within DOA.”
Playboy has been on campus since Monday, looking for girls to bare all, and show off their ranking of the u-w as a top party school. A ranking that has many at the university concerned about the consequences.
WHITEWATER, Wis. – Nearly every college has some screwball who never seems to graduate, lingering year after year as classmates move on. And then there is Johnny Lechner.
In his 12th year of college here, Mr. Lechner has parlayed life as perpetual student into a lucrative personal brand. His genius for self-promotion might have earned him Phi Beta Kappa – if only it had been applied to his studies.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â?? Motorists driving along the DeNeveu Creek bridge on Highway 151 near Fond du Lac will never notice the difference as they drive over a bridge that uses a new method of construction developed at UW-Madison.
However, highway officials who concern themselves with the cost of road construction may definitely notice the difference in the form of a much longer-lasting road.
Entering Michigan State University as a freshman, Joseph Montes assumed he would complete his degree in four years. Two majors, multiple part-time jobs and three internships later, the 22-year-old fifth-year senior from Lake Orion, Mich., isn’t necessarily disappointed that it didn’t turn out that way.
In a laboratory at Indiana State University, a dozen green iguanas sprawl tranquilly in terrariums. They while away the hours basking under their heat lamps, and at night they close both eyes – or sometimes just one. They lead comfortable lives pretty much indistinguishable from any ordinary pet iguana, except for one notable exception: the bundles of brain-wave recording wires that trail from their heads
Quoted: Giulio Tononi, psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin and Chiara Cirelli.
A yearlong audit of the University of Colorado Foundation, released on Tuesday, found some evidence of overspending, a failure to follow donors’ wishes, and a lack of accountability. But the problems, which the university swiftly pledged to remedy, appear not to add up to a major scandal, as some critics had expected.
Mohammed Abed cannot visit his grandfather�s house.
His family was expelled from Palestine in 1949 after much of their homeland was designated to become the state of Israel in 1948. His family settled in a refugee camp in Lebanon. ââ?¬Å?For many years, Palestinians have cried out to the world that we were ethnically cleansed from our land,ââ?¬Â Abed said. ââ?¬Å?Nobody believed them.ââ?¬Â
With government research funding slowing and its scientific ambitions on the rise, Harvard University has launched a drive to commercialize more of its inventions and attract additional research money from private companies.
It recently created a high-ranking new post to oversee the effort and plans to establish a $10 million fund aimed at moving inventions from the laboratory to the marketplace. Harvard is also talking to local companies about investing more in the university’s science research.
Quoted: Richard Davidson, a research psychologist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Stanley Kutler, a retired history professor at the University of Wisconsin.
The Fitchburg Technology Campus has broken ground on a second building to house early stage companies that will have Imago Scientific Instruments as its anchor tenant – the second local nanotechnology company to move onto the campus.
What do you give someone who has everything, at least in the materialistic sense?
If the person is Barry Alvarez, and the occasion is his final appearance at Camp Randall Stadium as University of Wisconsin football coach, then you do what you can.
MADISON, Wis. — The wearing of the red and white in Wisconsin is at a fevered pitch right now. Nationally, the school is ranked 16th for the most collegiate merchandise sold and is on the verge of a break out year.
So Naplan has enlisted a band of UW-Madison marketing students to convince their peers that no, they won’t be bored at the opera; yes, they can dress for comfort; and if they have a student ID, they’ll pay only 20 bucks.
As Wisconsin slides toward its worst year in a decade for attracting venture capital, the importance of the State Investment Board’s role in helping to fill the state’s venture void looms large.
The board, which manages more than $70 billion in government employee pension money and other state assets, started talking earlier this fall about increasing the amount it devotes to venture capital the money that bankrolls entrepreneurs as they build fledgling businesses.
MADISON, Wis. — The wearing of the red and white in Wisconsin is at a fevered pitch right now. Nationally, the school is ranked 16th for the most collegiate merchandise sold and is on the verge of a break out year.
“We achieved over $500,000 royalties for the first quarter, so we’re on pace for a record year right now,” said Cindy Van Matre of University of Wisconsin.
Sweet victory alone is worth getting dressed up for, but people who buy Badger gear are doing so much more, and it’s a safe bet that most people have no idea.
“Half of that amount that we earn then from the royalties, half of it goes to athletics to help student athletes, and then, the other half goes to a scholarship fund that we call the Bucky Grants,” Van Matre said.
The Green Bay Packers blew it again Sunday.
Barry Alvarez’s Badgers lost a tough one at Penn State, probably costing them the Big Ten title.
Then there’s the other Wisconsin “football” team that came out of nowhere to win its first Big Ten tournament title in more than a decade Sunday. Continue reading
WHITEWATER-The painstakingly painted table was spotted with plastic cups of cheap Milwaukee beer and half-ringed with college dudes who didn’t so much cheer for either team as they cheered for the game in general.
Four men clashed in beer-spattered battle around this table in the basement of a house near the UW-Whitewater campus before 10 p.m. on a Thursday.
UW-Madison keeps turning out life-sustaining and life-changing technologies.
Yet another example is a recent discovery by a UW-Madison virologist that improves on a bird flu vaccine-production technique he helped develop six years ago.
Ames, Ia. ââ?¬â? University of Iowa student Zachary Kmiec was amid the throngs of students nationwide this year who abandoned their home campuses in favor of a shoulder-to-shoulder bash in another college town that resembled Mardi Gras and surpassed Animal House. This year, he went to Madison, Wis., for the Halloween celebration.
Quoted: Dr. Giulio Tononi, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – Students in the University of Wisconsin System binge drink at a higher rate than their peers across the nation, with 6 of 10 of them admitting doing so, a new survey shows.
The heavy drinking is taking a toll on college students at UW campuses from Platteville to Green Bay, often leading to poor academic performance and risky personal behavior, according to the survey of undergraduate students taken last spring by UW System staffers.
CONSIDER the cadences of daily life that result from something as prosaic as a course schedule. This boring bit of housekeeping establishes a campus’s circadian rhythms, its bursts of activity and its lulls. It is the master calendar that dictates when plazas fill and when they empty.
And consider Friday. Most colleges and universities offer fewer classes on Friday, and while freshmen and sophomores might have to take required classes, juniors and seniors can easily schedule their way around the day.
A new survey has found that it is common for college students to switch schools or to take courses at more than one school, and that such peripatetic students are less engaged in the intellectual and social life of their campuses.
The annual report, the National Survey of Student Engagement, found that transfer students were less likely to work with professors on research projects, to participate in community service or to engage in other activities that enrich learning.
Walter Hamady, often credited with helping the art world see the book in a new way, is the featured artist in a vast and yet intimate one-man show at the Watrous Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts. “Juxtamorphing Space,” which runs through Nov. 20, is a collection of collages, assemblages and books he has composed, crafted or published at The Perishable Press Limited, which he operates out of his home and old dairy barn south of Mount Horeb.
Hamady (pronounced ha-MAH-dee) also is a former UW-Madison art professor, a poet, papermaker, designer, chronicler and prolific letter writer, and in the world of book artistry, a trailblazer.
A nationwide shortage of pharmacists is prompting fierce competition for new pharmacy graduates. ââ?¬Å?Pretty much everyone in my class has people calling them left and right about jobs,ââ?¬Â says Clarissa Hall, a pharmacy student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Quoted: Dr. Robert Huntington, a pathologist at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Quoted: Patricia Brennan, a professor of nursing and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin
MADISON – Most University of Wisconsin System leaders should continue to receive backup jobs, a controversial perk in which administrators get lower-level jobs if they are fired, UW System President Kevin Reilly said Friday.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and founder of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
