A 7-percent hike in tuition at University of Wisconsin System schools this fall should hardly be considered modest.
Yet it’s welcome relief compared to the double- digit increases of the past couple of years. And given that state leaders are skimping on state support for higher education, the 7- percent increase is about as low as could be expected.
It has been 15 months since Barry Alvarez assumed the dual role of University of Wisconsin athletic director and football coach, yet he still has a contract for only one of those jobs.
Alvarez ranked among the highest-paid coaches in NCAA Division I-A with a salary of $1.585 million in 2004-05.
Quoted: Dr. Scott Spear, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Quoted: Norman Drinkwater, an oncology professor at the University of Wisconsi
The week of July 3-July 9 UW-Madison Dean of Students Luoluo Hong will officially conclude her employment at UW-Madison to pursue a career opportunity at Arizona State University in Glendale. Hong had been working as dean of students since Nov. 1, 2002 and oversaw much of the reorganization of the Office of Student Affairs after Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows took an extended leave of absence last school year.
Researchers at the Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have received a $20 million award to fund Phase II of the Protein Structure Initiative over the next five years. Information from the PSI project, funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, will deepen our understanding of a variety of biological processes.
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor convicted of stalking remains in jail after being denied the chance to go back to work.
Medical school professor Steven Clark pleaded guilty to stalking an ex-girlfriend in March, and two weeks ago he was sentenced to one year in jail with work release.
People often ask me, “What can you do with a history major?” As I began my summer job search this spring, I was looking for an answer to that question myself. After two years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I learned in many of my courses that art long has been used to capture the history of cultures and generations.
The decision to pursue a summer internship at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum brought together my university experiences, reminiscences of art classes at Athens High School and a fascination with museums sparked by reading the novel “The Da Vinci Code.”
After a month at the Woodson, I realize that “Birds in Art” might be the exhibition that most people know and that put the museum on the map, but there is much more to the Woodson and to museum work.
UW-Madison professor Lewis Keith Cohen will enter a plea and face sentencing July 26 in Milwaukee on charges involving his alleged attempt to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex in Greendale, according to the current court docket.
Meanwhile, a formal university investigation of Cohen’s actions that was promised in March has yet to begin, university officials said Tuesday. Cohen, 60, a professor of comparative literature, remains on paid leave at UW-Madison, where he earns $72,856 a year.
Refrerence: UW- Madison’s Arlington Research Station.
Quoted: Hardin Coleman, a UW-Madison associate dean of education.
UW-Madison resident undergraduates would pay $364 more for annual tuition in the 2005-06 school year under a resolution before the UW Board of Regents for a vote today.
The dollar amount – about half as much as the yearly hikes students paid the past two school years – equals a 6.9 percent annual tuition increase. Gov. Jim Doyle had proposed a 6.2 percent hike as part of the University of Wisconsin System budget for the fiscal year that started July 1. System officials said they need the extra money to help cover higher-than-expected bills for items such as utilities and debt payments.
A 16-story private dormitory proposed for the corner of Charter and Dayton streets has been rejected by the Madison City Council, which criticized the design for being too dense and lacking a neighborhood plan.
Losers: UW faculty, staff, and students: Lawmakers voted to cut state funding for the UW by an additional $25 million above the $65 million proposed by Doyle. Officials say tuition hikes of 6 to 7 percent are in the works
University of Wisconsin tuition increases of 6.9 percent for resident undergraduates will go to the Board of Regents for approval Thursday.
The proposed increases in the 2005-2006 school year are $364 at Madison, $356 at Milwaukee, and $277 at other four-year campuses, according to materials assembled for the regents.
In one of his last interviews before he stopped speaking publicly at the advice of his attorney, Paul Barrows lamented the fraying of a friendship.
MADISON, Wis. – The Assembly signed off Tuesday on changes the Senate made to the state budget to create a new tax credit for those who adopt, force some state employees to pay into retirement funds and cut an additional $1 million from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She graduated with honors from Earlham College in 1998 and finished her graduate work in the Urban and Regional Planning Department at the University of Wisconsin this spring. In recognition of her contributions to the department, Jessica received the Outstanding Student of the Year award from the Urban Planning faculty.
Written by Merri Lindgren, librarian in the School of Education.
Quoted: Mason Carpenter, professor of strategic management at the UW- Madison School of Business.
Paul Quantrill, born in London, Ontario, is also the last player from the University of Wisconsin baseball program still playing in the majors. The school dropped the sport in 1991, two years after Quantrill was drafted. “That a Big Ten school can’t have a baseball program is pathetic to me,”
What would have been the tallest residential building in Madison….won’t become a reality. The city council voted down a proposal for a 16-story apartment building on Charter Street….and Alderman Ken Golden believes it would have set a bad precedent.
Madison landlords have had 180 days to install security locks on their front doors. That grace period ends Wednesday, and Madison building inspector George Hank says he thinks most landlords have complied.
Madison, Wis. – The June 20 issue of The Scientist, named Madison, “the Midwest’s low-key hotspot” for biotechnology. The publication reported that the city’s research facilities and open community make it one of the best climates for starting or continuing a biotech and life sciences company.
At least once a day – in the aftermath of a 10-year, violent civil war – someone would step on a land mine in Nicaragua and either be killed or maimed.
It was the severity of these lower extremity injuries that turned a 1991 missions trip of plastic and reconstructive surgeons from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to Nicaragua into a cooperative medical training project.
CLEAR LAKE – Up here in Polk County, where the chain of lakes that spreads across northern Wisconsin begins, and where folks take seriously the notion that nature really is a resource to be cherished and preserved, sits a tiny village that goes by the name of Clear Lake.
There are many well known features unique to Wisconsin, but there are also many that are not well known. One example is the Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker Program.
Author: Ann Althouse, the Robert W. and Irma M. Arthur-Bascom professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She maintains a blog at althouse.blogspot.com.
There was a sharp increase in the number of NCAA secondary rules violations reported by the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department in 2004-05.
Some school officials see that as a good sign.
As if some Wisconsin legislators haven’t embarrassed our state enough with support for recent proposals such as free lunches for lawmakers and kitty killing, they are at it again with legislation to allow health care workers to opt out of certain medical services and to ban prescriptions for the “morning-after pill” at University of Wisconsin System health clinics.
The Pew Charitable Trusts, one of the nation’s largest philanthropies, is enduring the embarrassing revelation that it spent millions of dollars advancing its own agenda.
Along with other foundations and nonprofits, the Philadelphia-based organization has come under fire recently for quietly bankrolling efforts to ensure passage in 2002 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.
Among those receiving money was the University of Wisconsin, which received $1 million for a study on issue advertising on TV.
Just what did Pew get for its money?
Quoted: David Mott, associate professor of social and administrative science at the University of Wisconsin
Gaylord A. Nelson, former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator who founded Earth Day and launched a new wave of environmental activism, died Sunday at his home in Kensington, Md.
Quoted: Susanne Desan, professor of French history at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, professor of political science and public affairs at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON, Wis. – A few years ago, California surpassed Wisconsin in milk production. University of Wisconsin researcher James Thomson now fears the same is going to happen with embryonic stem cells, a technology he pioneered.
Quoted: Herman Goldstein, law professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin.
It doesn’t look like a place that has lost millions of its state funding.
While registering for her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Rachael Barger saw manicured lawns, met staff who could answer questions, toured roomy residence halls and saw top-of-the-line technology.
New information regarding former Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows’ seven-month paid leave has spurred an independent investigation into the matter, according to a June 30th university statement
I was born and grew up in the Midwest, but subsequently studied both on the East and West coasts. I therefore know firsthand that there is a strong impression on both coasts that the middle of the country is an intellectual void.
If a TV sitcom takes place in either L.A. or New York, and the writers want to introduce a character that is a well-meaning yokel, they often put a T-shirt on him with “Wisconsin” printed on the front to establish his character. It has been a great source of pride to me that the publicity surrounding human embryonic stem cells and its universal association with Wisconsin has helped to remove that T-shirt. Please be absolutely clear: Any legislation that impacts basic science that is more restrictive than current federal legislation will only help put that T-shirt back on.
Gov. Jim Doyle dismissed the latest Republican version of the state budget as smoke and mirrors after GOP leaders added a series of tax breaks and changes early Friday to win the final two votes they needed for Senate approval of the $52.9 billion plan.
The two-year budget now goes back to the Assembly after the Senate approved it 17-16 following an all-night session.
Senate leaders inserted a new tax break for parents who teach their children at home or send them to private school, a $1 million cut to UW-Madison and a new requirement for nonunion state employees to contribute toward their retirement funds.
Ten cows died from malnutrition this past winter at a special research farm run by UW-Madison located near New Glarus, Wis. A technician who was in charge of caring for the herd has resigned and a faculty member who oversaw the care of the cattle has been suspended from caring for animals.
t’s time to pack off junior to summer camp to experience the wonder of nature.
But why should kids be the only ones to get a break from their regular routines?
Take, for example, the Republican representatives who voted to halt future stem-cell research by lumping reproductive cloning (the wacky idea of cloning people) with therapeutic cloning (which uses, for example, unfertilized eggs injected with skin cells and could cure horrible diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and diabetes). They voted to ban all human cloning in Wisconsin.
Gordon Baldwin, professor emeritus of law at UW- Madison, said he thinks history will treat O’Connor well, remembering her as a pragmatist who had no allegiance to any particular ideology. She looked at the facts of each case and respected precedents, he said.
The numbers ought to speak for themselves.
Wisconsin, under the Senate’s version of the state budget approved last week, will increase state spending on the University of Wisconsin System by about 0.5 percent in the coming budget year and about 0.3 percent the following year, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
If there was ever any doubt before, there certainly shouldn’t be any now — it’s not UW’s fault that state finances are screwed up. UW took a big cut in state funding two years ago. Now UW’s state funding is basically being frozen.
College officials are divided over the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week that commercial producers of file-sharing software can be sued for copyright infringement. The software has been wildly popular among college students, who use it to download songs and movies — usually in violation of copyright law.
Gaylord Nelson, a former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator, died Sunday at the age of 89. He was an eloquent defender of the natural world and a man who brought skill and grace to the practice of politics.
Nelson died of cardiovascular failure at his home in Kensington, Md., a Washington, D.C., suburb. He will always be known as the founder of Earth Day.
Construction continues at a furious pace at Camp Randall Stadium as crews finish up projects and begin the cleanup phase in several areas. (Athletic Communications.)
MADISON ââ?¬â?? In July of 2003, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley created the Office of Corporate Relations in a major effort to build bridges with the Wisconsin business community.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who follows Middle East politics says whether Iran�s new President took part in the hostage crisis may not matter. Kemal Karpat says many former revolutionaries have since moderated their political views, although the new President has been described as a hardliner.
For Dr. Paul Barrows, the embattled former vice chancellor for student affairs, it�s been a long eight-month wait for an investigation.
Madison – Working all night, state senators passed their version of the budget early this morning, giving new tax breaks to parents who teach their children at home or send them to private schools, taking an additional bite out of the UW-Madison budget, and requiring up to half of all state workers to start paying for their retirement benefits.
When applying to be Vice President of Student Life at the University of Toledo, former University of Wisconsin Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Paul Barrows asserted in writing that he planned on returning to UW in the capacity of Vice Chancellor April 1, 2005.
Susan Steingass, a Madison attorney and former judge, will investigate the Paul Barrows matter for the University of Wisconsin, the UW has announced.
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley and UW System President Kevin Reilly selected Steingass, taking the investigation out of Wiley’s hands, the university said Thursday.
The only title onetime vice chancellor of student affairs and current University of Wisconsin-Madison “consultant” Paul Barrows should have is “fired!”
Quoted: Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor.
Quoted: Helen Harrison, Ph.D., professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Sean B. Carroll, a leading molecular biologist and geneticist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Angela Rose doesn’t see herself as a victim or even a survivor. Rather, she calls herself a “thriver.”
It would be hard to argue with that assessment. Yes, she was sexually assaulted by repeat offender Robert Koppa nearly a decade ago.
University officials Thursday announced that Madison lawyer Susan Steingass will conduct an independent investigation of the charges and counter-charges swirling over embattled UW-Madison administrator Paul Barrows.
Also Thursday, UW-Madison officials released records at the request of the Wisconsin State Journal showing that a reorganization of the student affairs division that Barrows led cost $183,600, about 97 percent of that in new staff and raises in the dean of students office.
