Katharine Lyall returned to the UW-Madison campus Tuesday as a guest rather than president, but her message about higher education financing cut to the core of the university system she ran for 13 years.
As state tax support for public higher education declines, Lyall said, educators and elected officials must talk about new ways to fund and govern public universities, including options such as making them partially private.
Two weeks into the college football season, the instant replay option available to nine of the 11 Division I-A conferences has reversed roughly one of every three calls reviewed.
The UW has a huge public relations problem that it needs to fix, especially when it comes to the immediate firing of convicted felon professors charged with heinous sex crimes. I was one of two guests last week on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ on the Fox News channel to talk about this issue. Bill O’Reilly and his producers had asked me to come on to discuss three criminal professors who had not been fired as of last
week, but had already been convicted and sentenced for their crimes.
Ellen Breeden is dedicating the next year of her life to making sure that Schools of Hope works in Sun Prairie. As a Volunteers in Service to America volunteer coordinator, she’ll make a modest stipend – 30 percent above the federal poverty level – and will split her time between C.H. Bird and a Madison school.
A native of Oakland, Calif., and a May graduate of UW- Madison with a degree in psychology and women’s studies, she’ll recruit volunteers and match them with teachers.
Quoted: Robert Lasseter, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: Dean Sommer, a cheese researcher at the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Dairy Research in Madison.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin’s board of regents is looking to provide students displaced by Katrina with a semester’s worth of free tuition.
What the regents seek to do is establish a new class of students called Hurricane Katrina victims.
With savings rates for Americans at an all-time low ââ?¬â?? even in negative territory ââ?¬â?? Ted Beck is going to have his work cut out for him in his new job.
Beck, who has been associate dean for executive education and corporate relations since 1999, will take over next month as president and CEO of the National Endowment for Financial Education.
The house shook a little bit, but Judith Schafer, who teaches history at Tulane University waited it out. She said the storm wasn�t too bad. But then came the news that the electricity could be out for weeks.
Quoted: Dietram Scheufele, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
A government witness in a landmark lawsuit against the tobacco industry is criticizing the Justice Department for abandoning its demand that the companies pay $130 billion. Spending $5.2 billion a year on tobacco cessation programs for 25 years would profoundly improve the health of Americans, Dr. Michael Fiore said in an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, reprising some of his testimony from the tobacco trial in May.
State Sen. Ron Brown (R-Eau Claire) believes Western Wisconsin Technical College should be allowed to offer liberal arts courses.
If that happens, what would distinguish technical colleges from two-year campuses in the University of Wisconsin system?
Quoted: Alexander Dolinin, a lecturer in Slavic literature at the University of Wisconsin and author of several studies on Nabokov
#2: The original home of The Onion (America�s finest news source), UW boasts a history of antiestablishment ideals and lenient local laws when it comes to marijuana. Also, hate to Badger you, but it�s a damn good school.
The UW Board of Regents on Friday continued a suspension on backup jobs for outside hires and approved other rules designed to tighten the use of sick days and paid leaves and to speed up the process of investigating employees charged with felonies.
“We’re not trying to keep to the status quo,” Regent Danae Davis said, “because the status quo is unacceptable.”
The UW Board of Regents said Friday it will waive fall tuition for students affected by Hurricane Katrina as long as legislative leaders approve.
Board President David Walsh said the waiver could be made official as early as next week for students who transferred to University of Wisconsin System institutions after the storm closed their Gulf Coast schools.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin at Madison marketing specialist Bob Cropp
Paper, that most essential of office staples, also seems the most timeless — an implement impervious to the high-tech changes that bring copy machines and laser printers through the front door and hustle typewriters out the back.
But local USDA researchers now want to change office paper. By revising the federal government’s standards for buying paper, scientists at the USDA’s Forest Products Laboratory in Madison think they can save taxpayers millions of dollars and even help the environment.
Quoted: June Dahl, a pharmacology professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School
Leon R. Kass, the controversial chairman of President Bush’s advisory committee on bioethics, has announced that he will step down as chairman but remain a member of the panel. Mr. Bush has named as his successor Edmund D. Pellegrino, a former president of the Catholic University of America and a leading medical e
WEST BEND ââ?¬â? The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents said Friday it will waive fall tuition for students impacted by Hurricane Katrina as long as legislative leaders approve.
A new development in the case of Tom Monfils –the man killed in a Green Bay paper mill in 1992.
Six of his co-workers were convicted of conspiring to murder him –five of them remain in prison.
Action 2 News has learned four of the convicted murders are now talking to the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which works through the U-W Madison law school to exhonorate people wrongfully convicted.
WEST BEND, Wis. – Starting next fall, Wisconsin residents can apply for discount tuition at 130 colleges in six Midwestern states under a plan approved by University of Wisconsin System regents.
WTDY-AM 1670 talk show host Casey Hoff is a bit worried that he won’t be allowed to graduate in December from the UW-Madison as planned. The reason? He got the chance Wednesday night to “rip” Chancellor John Wiley to an audience of millions on national television. And he jumped on it.
The topic was the UW-Madison professors who have been convicted of crimes and remained on the payroll, specifically Roberto Coronado, the UW Medical School professor who was sentenced to eight years in prison for repeated sexual assault of a child and fired the same day the segment aired.
Lance Woods, adolescent and child psychologist at the UW-Madison School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, agrees: “Girls tend to internalize frustration and aggression and take it out on themselves. The media makes it worse. I’ve yet to meet a teenage girl who is satisfied with her weight.
“Most of the girls we see have, at their core, self-esteem issues. If I tell girls to tell me 10 things that are good about them, most can’t get beyond two or three. But when I then ask them to tell me 10 things wrong with them, they have trouble keeping it to 10. They also tend to believe that if they do well it might be because of luck, but if they do poorly it’s because of their lack of ability or talent.”
Each season has its own magic, and this time of year we should ponder autumn’s: splendid colors by day; crisp, sharp skies at night filled with bedazzling starscapes. And between the two – the wondrous sight of migrating birds drawn to destinations reachable only by a pair of wings.
It’s a fitting time, then, for “Starry Transit,” an installation by Madison artist Martha Glowacki. Inspired by and built specifically for the picturesque, 19th-century Washburn Observatory peering high above the UW-Madison campus, “Starry Transit” explores our own fascination with the heavens and the feathered creatures that soar where we cannot.
In Madison, 3,000 small American flags will fly today and Monday on Bascom Hill at UW-Madison in a memorial sponsored by the Mendota Beacon, a student newspaper.
Van Hise Street is full of opportunity for David Worzala on game day. “It’s a beautiful day for a football game, so that’ll be nice,” he says as he looks to direct fans to park in his back yard.
Some UW students wanted anyone heading through campus Sunday to pause and remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
About 15 students woke up early this morning and laid out 3,000 flags on the lower quad of Bascom Hill. The flags represent those who were killed that day in the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
BERKELEY, Calif. – This fall’s incoming class of 4,000 students at the University of California, Berkeley is expected to include just 129 black freshmen, a disturbing trend to leaders of the socially progressive and academically elite school.
The recent appointment of Daniel Okoli, a native of Nigeria, to the position of university architect this past spring underlines the many cutting edge contributions that Africans have made across the board to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s reputation as a world-class institution of higher learning.
The Wisconsin Innocence Project of the UW-Madison Law School, which seeks to free those who have been wrongly convicted, also began looking into Brummer’s case six years ago, said John Pray, the program’s co-director.
“The students I had believed in Penny, liked the case, but they hadn’t cracked any signficant new evidence that was going to lead to a motion” to reopen the case, Pray said.
With the publication of the Berrys’ book, Pray said, the case is being reviewed again. Pray said he expected his team will focus this time on the physical evidence, none of which directly tied Brummer to the killing.
West Bend – The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents pledged Thursday to rein in backup appointments and paid leaves granted to university administrators as early as today, saying recent news reports highlighting the perks showed that change was needed.
MILWAUKEE – (KRT) – Maytee Aspuro’s mother was a Milwaukee high school teacher who, at age 59, began showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
Quoted: Timothy Olander, a tropical cyclone researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quoted: Byron Shafer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quoted: Charles Jones, a retired University of Wisconsin political science professor.
WEST BEND, Wis. – University of Wisconsin System regents said Thursday that they will put new limits on how universities grant backup positions and paid leaves to administrators, as they began reviewing personnel policies that have come under scrutiny.
Madison, Wis. – When you don’t use or refrigerate your dairy products, they spoil beyond use – and now it looks like stem cells may have the same problem. Except instead of food poisoning, this problem could lead to cancer.
A new study in the magazine Nature Genetics claims that human embryonic stem cells, one of the few cell types that self-renew, show deviations in their genetic structure when left to replicate. Published in an advance online issue Sunday, the article highlights risk to the use of embryonic stem cells in human treatment, and calls the existing supply lines into question.
Quoted: Gabriela Cezar, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Animal Sciences.
Even as Tulane University officials try to work from here, amid the chaos, to reopen in New Orleans for the spring semester, it’s business as usual for the admissions staff, which is attempting to recruit a class for next fall.
MADISON, Wis. – Each week, a different department from University of Wisconsin athletics will be featured so fans can get a behind-the-scenes understanding of what it does for football game days. This week, a closer look at the marketing department. (Athletic Communications)
Quoted: ames A. Stewart, a medical oncologist at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center in Madison.
Quoted: Alan Luskin from the University of Wisconsin, Madison
COLUMBIA, Mo. –For University of Missouri tailgaters, the name of the new parking lot down the hill from Memorial Stadium is little more than a curiosity: Reactor Field, a nod to the nearby nuclear research reactor.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay opened its doors Tuesday to a more diverse student body.
UWGB enrolled 5,541, including 914 freshmen.
BARABOO – By the summer of 1970, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was an epicenter of rising U.S. student activism, made evident by the bombing of Sterling Hall. What many may not realize is the mayhem started right here is Sauk County with a failed attempt to bomb Badger Ordnance Works.
UW-Madison’s 3,000 teaching and project assistants hope upcoming mediation sessions will break the stalemate between their union and state labor negotiating officials.
But before those meetings are held, TAA leaders want to talk to their members, many of whom have just returned from being away for the summer. The meeting with members is slated for late September.
Consumption could go down if early long-term weather predictions hold true – Wisconsin is on track for another warmer- than-usual winter, according to the Wisconsin Climatology Office at UW-Madison.
It looks like the University of Wisconsin football team got the better of the unusual schedule trade that resulted in Saturday’s game against Temple at Camp Randall Stadium.
At the request last April of Mid-American Conference commissioner Rick Chryst, the Badgers traded their originally scheduled home game against Western Michigan for the date with Temple
Quoted: Helen Blackwell, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is currently investigating molecules that mimic the quorum sensing ones, thus confusing the bacteria.
Quoted: Rodney Stevenson, a business and environmental studies professor at UW-Madison. Stevenson is the founder of the school’s Wisconsin Public Utility Institute and is past chairman of the Energy Analysis and Policy program with the university’s Institute for Environmental Studies.
The president of Tulane University said on Tuesday that he had little choice but to get his campus up and running by the spring if it is to survive as a national research institution, and he urged other colleges that are enrolling Tulane students in the wake of Hurricane Katrina not to encourage them to stay permanently.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.563-billion as of August 10 (increase of $17.6-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
MADISON, Wis. — In July, News 3 reported that after spending $25 million tax dollars, the UW System’s Appointment, Payroll and Benefits System is mired in problems and delays. ( Read Original I-Team Report )
On Tuesday, the state Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities started asking questions, but got few definitive answers. Rep. Robin Kreibich, R-Eau Claire and chairman of the committee, asked UW officials, “What would you tell the taxpayers of this state?”
Crowd flow problems, due in part to a ticketing mistake, arose during Saturday’s grand reopening of Camp Randall Stadium, prompting University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials to issue apologies and seek solutions Tuesday.
UW fans in a segment of the newly upgraded west side – the final phase of the four-year, $109.5 million renovation that was completed last month – encountered major gridlock trying to get to their seats when the Badgers played Bowling Green.
UW-Madison students are more wedded than ever to their computers, but it’s an increasingly mobile relationship, a new computing survey shows.
When asked where they’d like to see more money for campus computing spent, most students said the dollars should go toward increased wireless access. That way, they can take their laptop computers – now owned by more than half of all students – and use them in more places on campus.
Tuesday morning, Kevin Reilly, UW President and Don Mash, UW Sr. Vice President went before the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities.
They told the committee the reason the new system is behind schedule, is because there wasn’t anyone in charge of keeping the project on track or on budget. Reilly and Mash said more money is needed to complete the transition. But committee members were not convinced.
Fraternities, sororities and private dormitories in the state may soon be forced to install fire sprinkler systems on every floor.
Six years ago the legislature put rules in place for UW System dorms.
Quoted: Brian Rust, communications manager for the UW Department of Information Technology.
(MADISON) Traffic police for the City of Madison are making their annual show of force on the University of Wisconsin campus. They�re cracking down on bad bike riders.
