As colleges expand entrepreneurship education, more are giving hands-on schooling in the rarefied world of start-up finance.
More college students get start-up schooling: Campus-based venture-capital funds turn profit
USA Today
Author: jplucas
Principals pass ââ?¬â? then fail
USA Today
Parents and boards of education probably feel comforted when they see the title ââ?¬Å?Dr.ââ?¬Â preceding the name of the superintendent of schools. Unfortunately, though, ââ?¬Å?doctorates of educationââ?¬Â are relatively lightweight degrees. The dissertation and research expectations are far lower than those required for a Ph.D. in other fields.
Doyle agrees to exchange program between UW System, Mexican school (AP)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? Gov. Jim Doyle signed off on an agreement between the University of Wisconsin System and a Mexican university that allows them to exchange students and faculty and possibly conduct joint research projects.
Contraception ad prompts criticism (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been publishing newspaper ads encouraging students to have emergency contraception on hand during spring break, prompting criticism from abortion opponents.
Seriously, iPods Are Educational
Chronicle of Higher Education
This fall, when a freshman at Drexel University’s School of Education wonders what courses he should take or what to do over the weekend, he won’t have to thumb through orientation brochures or hunt down a sympathetic upperclassman. Instead, he can simply reach for the iPod strapped to his side, put on his earphones, and listen to information provided by the university as he walks to class.
A Makeover for the NIH’s Peer-Review Process
Chronicle of Higher Education
The National Institutes of Health has put the finishing touches on an eight-year effort to overhaul the peer-review committees that evaluate applications for research grants, the first such systematic retooling ever.
Higher Taxes and Higher Education
Chronicle of Higher Education
State universities looking for more money should make sure their fiscal houses are in order before reaching for the pockets of taxpayers.
The Battle for Hearts and Lungs
Chronicle of Higher Education
In the small roped-off area designated for smokers outside of Maloney’s bar, students from the University of California at Los Angeles are packed like cattle in a holding pen.
Ante Up at Dear Old Princeton: Online Poker Is a Campus Draw
New York Times
PRINCETON, N.J. – For Michael Sandberg, it started a few years ago with nickel-and-dime games among friends. But last fall, he says, it became the source of a six-figure income and an alternative to law school.
SAT’s English Focus Worries Students
Washington Post
Lily Cao took the old SAT in January and scored 1520 out of 1600, a worthy complement to her nearly 4.0 grade-point average at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda.
She will take the new SAT tomorrow. She expects to tank.
Students’ Verdict on New SAT: It’s Long (AP)
Yahoo! News
After being drilled in a test-prep class, Sheryl Nagy wasn’t fazed by the new essay section of the revamped SAT exam. She just wasn’t sure the test ââ?¬â? 45 minutes longer this year and nearly 4 hours in all ââ?¬â? would ever end.
Early results of new SAT: Fatigue, pressure, boredom
USA Today
Kids also cite trouble focusing. About 330,000 college-bound high school students got their first taste Saturday of the new SAT Reasoning Test, and some already have advice for their peers: Get ready for both a marathon and a sprint.
End ââ?¬Ë?Malt Madness’
USA Today
NCAA schools gladly tap the financial keg of beer companies, as TV ad money flows in like a smooth lager. Meanwhile, drinking problems still plague college campuses. This hypocrisy is hard to swallow.
Changing world is leaving the SAT behind
USA Today
On Saturday morning, 330,000 American teenagers began their march into meritocratic adult life by taking the SAT. The test was new and improved, the first significant changes to the SAT in a decade. Analogies disappeared. A new writing section debuted. And math got a little harder.
UW signs pact with Guadalajara (AP)
As he wrapped up a trade mission to Mexico, Gov. Jim Doyle announced today the University of Wisconsin System had signed a sister school agreement with the University of Guadalajara
UW football player arrested
For the second time this week, a University of Wisconsin football player has had a run-in with the law.
Blogging Clicks With Colleges (washingtonpost.com)
Washington Post
First the Internet turned colleges upside down, extending classrooms and changing the way people learned. Next came Napster and other file-sharing tools, then Web logs. Now blogs are morphing into the next big thing on campus: wikis.
Tobias kicked off team (WSJ 3/11/05)
An assault charge stemming from a fight at a State Stree bar has cost Brandon Tobias his spot on the University of Wisconsin Football team.
In addition, Marcu Randle El’s suspension was modified by an appeals committee.
Benefits of Arts Funding Questioned (NPR)
National Public Radio
Quoted: Kantor Taylor teaches arts administration at the University of Wisconsin Madison. (Audio.)
LaCrosse council accepts alcohol task force’s report
La Crosse Tribune
The La Crosse Common Council on Thursday unanimously accepted a report and recommendations designed to deal with binge drinking in the city.
Regents pitch financial aid plans
Daily Cardinal
The gap between UW-Madison’s tuition and the tuition of its Big Ten peers has widened in the past two years, according to the UW System Board of Regents.
UW-Madison presently ranks eighth out of nine peer institutions when comparing resident undergraduate tuition a
Residents set Mifflin ultimatum
Daily Cardinal
Nearly 50 incensed Mifflin Street residents sent a clear message to the Madison Police Department Thursday: they want the Mifflin Street Block Party on April 30.
Master Plan should be green
Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison is currently working on creating its Master Plan, which will decide the outcome of construction efforts at the UW for the next 20 years. Considering Wisconsin just issued its first-ever pollution advisory Feb. 1, it is of critical importance to our future and our children’s future to make sure the UW includes green building techniques into its master plan.
UW amends Randle El’s spring suspension
Daily Cardinal
On Thursday the Appeals Committee of the UW-Madison Student-Athlete Discipline Policy amended the March 7 suspension of UW-Madison quarterback Marcus Randle El, according to uwbadgers.com.
“Morning After” Pill Marketed to Students
WKOW-TV 27
It’s known as the morning after pill, but UW students are being encouraged to get it days in advance.
With spring break around the corner, University Health Services has taken out ads in campus newspapers urging women to get emergency contraception before going on vacation.
Lower-Income UW Students Could Get Tuition Break
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is talking about pricing tuition differently for lower-income students.
Report: U. of Colo. May Buy Out Professor (AP)
Yahoo! News
BOULDER, Colo. – The University of Colorado’s governing board is trying to negotiate the resignation of a professor who compared victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to Nazis, a television station reported Wednesday.
Advanced courses still make the grade
USA Today
Commentary writer Patrick Welsh’s fears of oversaturation of Advanced Placement (AP) coursework are greatly exaggerated. What all college-bound students need more than anything else today is a healthy exposure to rigorous academic curricula while in high school.
Author: Patrick F. Gould, associate researcher, UW-Madison Center on Education and Work School of Education
Lampert Smith: Feral threats make cats look tame
Wisconsin State Journal
Cat lovers have been coming at a UW-Madison professor with sharpened claws after his cat research was described in this newspaper Sunday.
Two police agencies are investigating death threats against wildlife ecologist Stan Temple, who has also received dozens of round-the-clock phone calls at home and work after a Wisconsin State Journal article about a debate over whether feral cats should be shot.
FAC specials popular, though not profitable
Daily Cardinal
By simply glancing at the long lines outside of some of Madison’s popular bars each Friday afternoon, it would be difficult to believe “Friday After Class” was almost never implemented at all
Graduate-School Applications From Overseas Decline Again, Survey Finds
Chronicle of Higher Education
Foreign applications for graduate study in the United States are down 5 percent this year, the Council of Graduate Schools reported on Wednesday. The drop follows last year’s 28-percent decline and suggests, the council said, that “despite significant efforts by the federal government” and graduate schools, “international interest in graduate study in the U.S. is not rebounding.”
Godzilla Ice (LA Weekly)
LA Weeklyââ?¬â?¢s Margaret Wertheim was the National Science Foundationââ?¬â?¢s visiting journalist to Antarctica for the 2004ââ?¬â??05 season. In the second of two articles on her recent trip, she reports on the worldââ?¬â?¢s oldest ice, the physiology of freezing and IceCube at the South Pole.
Israel Program Regains Support (The Daily Californian)
Two years after the University of California�s Education Abroad Program suspended its study abroad trips to Israel, UC Berkeley students are working to get the program reinstated.
In April 2002, UC and other major universities suspended their study abroad programs in Israel after heightened terrorist activity in and around the state led the U.S. Department of State to issue a travel warning to Americans going to Israel, the Gaza Strip or the West Bank.
Essay is a small part of admissions
Boston Globe
Students may be sweating the new essay portion of the SAT, but college admissions officials say the essay is unlikely to make or break an applicant’s chance of getting in.
UW-Madison wireless plan requires more net addresses ââ?¬â?? lots more (WTN)
Wisconsin Technology Network
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been assigned 65,000 Internet addresses to boost its network capacity, allowing it to go forward with a planned expansion of its wireless network to blanket the campus.
A multiple-scandal test for big university (csmonitor.com)
Christian Science Monitor
DENVER ââ?¬â?? Elizabeth Hoffman would rather be remembered for the two faculty members that won Nobel Prizes during her five year tenure as at the helm of the University of Colorado, for new state-of-the-art facilities for CU’s medical school, and for a $100 million rise in research funding.
SAT improves, but states are brewing up a better idea
USA Today
This Saturday, 330,000 sweaty-palmed high schoolers will head out to take the new SAT college admissions test. At some point, nearly all of those students will ask: Is this really necessary? Good question.
Students to voice worries at Thurs. Mifflin meeting
Daily Cardinal
The date of the Mifflin Street Block Party is still in contention as the Madison Police schedule a meeting open to all students who want to attend.
The meeting will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St.
A happy heart seems to do a body good
USA Today
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Good relationships and a sense of purpose may help women over age 60 fend off heart disease, arthritis and other illnesses by reducing the inflammation that promotes them, according to a new study conducted by psychologist Elliot Friedman of the University of Wisconsin.
UWGB sex assault didn�t occur, woman confesses (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Green Bay Press-Gazette
A student who claimed she was sexually assaulted Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus is now admitting it never happened.
Updates on Billion-Dollar Campaigns at 24 Universities
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.464-billion as of February 14 (increase of $8-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007
Students Protest Tuition Hikes (WPR)
Wisconsin Public Radio
(MADISON) Visitors to the State Capital over the next few days might notice some University of Wisconsin students camped out amid the marble columns and towering murals. They�re staging a hunger strike to protest Governor Jim Doyle�s plan to raise tuition. (2nd item.)
UW student groups vie for slice of $1.2M budget-surplus pie
Daily Cardinal
An excess of $1.2 million in segregated fees paid by students has allowed room for additional student groups to submit proposals for funding. Associated Students of Madison’s Reserve Board met Monday night to hear their proposals in order to release its decisions Tuesday night.
University President Resigns at Colorado Amid Turmoil
New York Times
DENVER, March 7 – The president of the University of Colorado, Elizabeth Hoffman, resigned Monday after struggling with a football recruiting scandal and a firestorm over a professor who likened some Sept. 11 victims to Nazis.
Politics, Culture, and the Lab
Chronicle of Higher Education
Most universities don’t need legal help to protect the safety of their faculty members, much less construction workers. In November, however, a High Court in Britain barred certain animal-rights activists from coming within 50 yards of a research laboratory under construction at the University of Oxford, except during scheduled weekly demonstrations.
NIH Opening Minority Programs to Other Groups
Chronicle of Higher Education
The National Institutes of Health has been quietly overhauling several of its diversity-oriented grant programs, largely to avoid lawsuits accusing it or its grantees of discriminating against white or Asian-American researchers.
Donations to Colleges Post First Rise in 3 Years
Chronicle of Higher Education
Giving to colleges and universities increased by 3.2 percent in the 2004 fiscal year, the first growth in contributions since 2001.
New Method Makes ‘Safer’ Stem Cells, Study Finds (Reuters)
ABCNEWS.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Researchers looking for ways to make safer stem cells for use in medical therapies said on Monday they had grown human cells without the use of contaminating animal cells.
They said their work, done outside U.S. federal restraints, could bypass problems with existing stem cell batches, which scientists complain are contaminated by animal products and thus of no use in treating people.
Tom Still: Wisconsin Security Research Consortium hopes to tap state’s scientific assets (wisbusiness.com)
www.wisbusiness.com
MADISON ââ?¬â?? As the second Iraq war neared and the Pentagon feared chemical weapons attacks, Air Force commanders heard that a new, hand-held chemical weapons sensor was hot out of the laboratories. So they pleaded for 100 early models to be pressed into action at a cost of $1 million.
UW to hold rock concert for world’s oldest stone (AP)
Duluth News
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is throwing a rock concert to celebrate the world’s oldest stone. A piece of zirconium silicate some 4.4 billion years old and no bigger than a grain of sand will appear on stage next month with the New York band Jazz Passengers, who will use rocks as percussion instruments and use recordings of rock strikes on a synthesizer keyboard.
Course Aims to Counter the ‘Freshman 15’ (AP)
Yahoo! News
At 19, Jessica Pollard has learned the hard way how important regular exercise is. In her first semester at the University of Missouri-Columbia last year, Pollard gained 15 pounds from all-you-can-eat dorm dining and by not keeping up the exercise she got as a high school athlete growing up on a farm.
An altered rite of passage for US teens (csmonitor.com)
Christian Science Monitor
PHILADELPHIA ââ?¬â?? This weekend marks the unveiling of the latest variable in the nation’s college admissions equation – the new and possibly improved Scholastic Aptitude Test, to be offered for the first time Saturday, March 12.
Consolidating student loans now means a lower interest rate later
USA Today
College can be unnerving, especially if your roommate has hair on his knuckles and howls at the moon. But for many young adults, the biggest shock comes after graduation, when they’re confronted with thousands of dollars in student loans that must be repaid.
Watering down ââ?¬Ë?advanced’ classes
USA Today
The nation’s high schools are being flooded with AP, or Advanced Placement, courses. You’d think that would be a good thing. Think again.
Colicky Baby? Read This Before Calling an Exorcist
New York Times
Quoted: Dr. Lewis Leavitt, a professor of pediatrics and an expert on parent-infant interaction at the University of Wisconsin
University towns: hot job markets (csmonitor.com)
NEW YORK ââ?¬â?? From Bryan-College Station, Texas, to Madison, Wis., America’s college towns are producing more than diplomas – they have become job machines.
Getting the Mice out of ES Cell Cultures (Science)
Researchers in Wisconsin have come a step closer to developing a culture for human embryonic stem (ES) cells that is free of animal products–a recipe that is essential for growing any cells that would be used for therapy in humans.
Professor: Community crucial to education (Wausau Daily Herald)
Wausau Daily Herald
WESTON – Community is the word educators need to remember, Hardin Coleman, professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told them Friday.
CD aims to shatter silence, alert women to the threat of violence (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
Angela Rose is a promoting a CD-ROM called “Sexual Violence: It Can Happen to You” for a good reason: It happened to her.
In 2001, as a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Rose started a non-profit called PAVE, short for Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (www.pavingtheway.net). (Login required.)
Elusive quest to boost minorities in academia (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco Chronicle
For the past 35 years, one of the issues confronting higher education has been how to increase the number of black and other minority group faculty members. It has proved to be a discouraging task.