For the first time, Gov. Jim Doyle has proposed $500,000 a year to fund health insurance coverage for the domestic partners of University of Wisconsin employees.
The funds would cover the partners of gay and lesbian employees, but non-gay employees who choose not to marry would have the option as well.
Quoted: David Bernhardt, professor of pediatrics and sports medicine at the University of Wisconsin
With increased competition for the state’s top students and a drop in interest in the state’s top public school, the University of Illinois is taking a page out of athletic directors’ playbooks.
Given the potential deficit that Gov. Jim Doyle confronted in putting together the next state budget, the plan he introduced last week is nothing short of magical. That magic is its strength but also its weakness.
The balanced budget the governor proposed delivers marvelous results $850 million more for public schools, $100 million more for the University of Wisconsin System, enough money to maintain medical assistance for the poor all while avoiding any state tax increases and while placing limits on property taxes.
SAN FRANCISCO — Last fall, a group of pioneering scientists, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs sold Californians on the ultimate startup, one with shoot-for-the-moon ambitions. The men and women pitched the state’s residents on a new science that they said might one day lead to cures for humankind’s worst diseases. “Save Lives with Stem Cells!” campaign posters urged.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Staying up all night to cram for an exam is nothing new on college campuses, but the new drug of choice many students are using for that extra boost is.
Adderall, a powerful and potentially addictive drug used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, is increasingly finding its way onto camp
The area around Camp Randall Stadium is a hectic place these days, with construction still dominating the scene. I’m not around there much these days, although it was once like my second home when I covered University of Wisconsin football and basketball for the Wisconsin State Journal.
So a recent visit with sports information director Justin Doherty in the new Kellner Hall at the east end of the stadium staggered my imagination. Seeing the lavish surroundings I couldn’t help but think of former SID Jim Mott’s old office, where water leaked from the stadium seats above during a heavy rain.
When the prominent professor who had recruited her locked her out of the research lab, there was no question what Denice Denton would do. Fight back.
But the odds were against her. He was entrenched in the electrical and computer engineering department. She was a junior faculty member, without tenure and one of two women among 180 men in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Login required.)
If you’re trying to find fish or firefighters, Friday was a day that could signal a leap forward in technology.
A homing device designed to help firefighters find their way out of smoky, burning buildings and a high-tech fishing lure took top honors Friday at UW-Madison’s 11th annual Innovation Days competition.
UW-Madison scientist Hector DeLuca, an international authority on vitamin D whose patents have earned the university millions in royalties, will step down in July as chairman of the biochemistry department he has led for the past 35 years.
College and university officials must do more to deal with violence on their campuses, according to a report issued on Friday by the American College Health Association.
All college freshmen who will be living in dormitories should receive a meningitis vaccine, according to new recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
State institutions should tie tuition to median family income, and colleges need to find ways to reduce costs if they ever hope to return to the days when higher education was seen as a public good, Larry R. Faulkner, president of the University of Texas at Austin, told college leaders here on Sunday at the opening session of the American Council on Education’s annual meeting.
Freshman Max Bender uses the phone plugged into the wall of his American University dorm room so rarely that he forgot it was there. “Hey,” he said the other day when he walked in and saw it on top of the microwave. “We do have a land line.”
Starting next fall, AU students conditioned to cell phones will find few of those wired artifacts as the school all but eliminates traditional phone service in its residence halls.
BOULDER, Colo. ââ?¬â? University of Colorado professor Ward L. Churchill has come under fire recently for comparing the Sept. 11 victims to Nazis and for questionable claims of Indian ancestry. Now, fellow academics are accusing him of fraud. (Login required.)
DENVER – Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements.
MADISON, Wis. — A new lawsuit could force most downtown Madison bars into bankruptcy, according to an attorney connected to the anti-trust case.
News 3’s Joel DeSpain has been investigating and reports this could become an enormously damaging
Saying higher education’s long-standing tenure system harms the careers of many women with spouses and children and needs to be changed to attract the best talent, a panel of university leaders has called for colleges to make the traditional academic career path more flexible.
An internationally recognized software developer Thursday disparaged the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as he explained his decision to leave and take his technology lab with him.
Madison – It could have been worse, but it’s not ideal.
That’s the answer many University of Wisconsin System students and leaders give when asked how they fare in Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed 2005-’07 budget. Combine Doyle’s proposal with what President Bush outlined for higher education in the federal budget, and students, in particular, start to feel squeezed.
Those who approve animal studies at the University of Wisconsin say there are reasons to give professor John Webster the green light to test the effects of TASER’s on pigs.
Doing away with late-night drink specials, registering kegs and increased patrolling for “party houses” were among the recommendations made Thursday by La Crosse’s alcohol task force.
MINNEAPOLIS – The University of Minnesota wants to be one of the world’s top public research institutions and it expects to more selectively pick students for the future. However, Minnesotans want the university open to average Minnesota students and they put national rankings low on the list of things the university ought to pursue.
Quoted: Thomas Rooney, a forest ecologist at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts said this week that he opposes a controversial type of research on human embryonic stem cells and may propose a state ban that would affect several institutions, including Harvard University.
ATLANTAÃ? Feb 10, 2005 ââ?¬â?Ã? All college freshmen who live in dorms should be vaccinated for meningitis, a government panel recommended Thursday for the first time, reversing policy of the past.
Noel P. Thompson loves his life at the University of Southern Maine.
MADISON, Wis. — Seven roommates never dreamed they could face more than $73,000 in fines for hosting a house party.
Most UW students were shocked as well.
When controversial scholar Ward Churchill tried to speak last week at Hamilton College, a number of contributors to the institution answered with a message that’s gaining currency from New York to Nevada: not on our dime.
Beginning July 1, the dancing and live music scene in downtown Madison may take a drastic leap forward. City officials in league with members of the alcohol-regulatory Policy, Alternatives, Community and Education group and the Madison Police Department are shaping the future of live entertainment through the possible approval of a new entertainment license.
Bill Schultz is thankful the state has helped him attend college.
The third-year political science student uses a wheelchair to get around the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus. He was born with spinal cord tumors that, when removed as a child, left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Ward Churchill is becoming a hot property. Hot, in two senses of the word.
Quoted: Barry Gerhart, director of the strategic human-resources-management program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Stephen E. Lucas, a professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin. (Login required.)
Virginia lawmakers endorsed legislation this week that would grant the state’s public colleges more operating flexibility and would lay out a process by which some institutions’ governing boards could seek even greater management freedom from the state.
Hours after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Ward Churchill compared the victims to the Nazis. A professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he wrote in an essay that those killed at the World Trade Center were not innocent civilians but “little Eichmanns.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Young adults value college, but many haven’t enrolled because of money woes, poor preparation, low expectations at home or sheer laziness, a survey finds.
Some UW students fear the Governor’s budget takes more than it gives to the university system.
MADISON, Wis. — UW students are reeling after Gov. Jim Doyle proposed a 5 to 7 percent tuition increase in the next budget.
MADISON, Wis. – Chris Clark’s workday used to begin in a damp, poorly lit tent pitched near Willows Beach on Lake Mendota.
His vantage point has improved immensely. (Athletic Communications)
Many organizations talk a good game about interpersonal skills, influence and collaboration, but when it comes right down to it, there’s a pretty clear chain of command that runs right down the middle.
As director of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Annie Stunden manages 500 staff. But because there are at least that many more staff with IT responsibilities in other departments on campus, a traditional chain of command doesn’t exist.
Quoted: Su-Chun Zhang, the UW-Madison researcher whose team recently was the first to coax embryonic stem cells to become motor neurons.
Quoted: Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Terry Devitt, director of research communications at the University of Wisconsin.
Quoted: Andrew Cohn, a spokesperson for the University of Wisconsin-Madison�s Alumni Research Foundation.
Over the past several months, Hamilton College, the small liberal-arts institution in upstate New York where I teach history, has been the site of some of the most heavily publicized conflicts ever fought in the history of American higher education to define the limits of acceptable speech on a college campus.
Two Republican members of Congress welcomed on Tuesday the increase in Pell Grant awards that President Bush proposed in his budget for the 2006 fiscal year but also called for additional spending on the student-aid program.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.456-billion as of December 31 (increase of $134.2-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007
The scientist who attracted world attention by cloning Dolly the sheep is about to take another step for medical research. He will clone human embryos and extract stem cells to unravel the mysteries of muscle-wasting illnesses such as Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS.
The campus of American Capital University has no tree-shaded quadrangle, no stately old buildings or libraries, no classrooms, no fraternity houses ââ?¬â? not even a student curled up with a book in a quiet corner.
A University of Colorado professor at the center of a national controversy over free speech and a person’s right to criticize the United States stepped forward to defend himself Tuesday night as college administrators consider firing him.
President Bush’s budget for science would provide slight increases for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and cuts for several other agencies that provide most of the federal funds for research in the physical sciences and engineering. Spending for basic research overall would fall by 1 percent
President Bush called on Congress to raise the maximum Pell Grant by $500, to $4,550, over the next five years, and to eliminate a $4.3-billion shortfall that has plagued the program, as part of his 2006 budget request, released on Monday.
He also asked lawmakers to raise the amount that students in their first two years of college can borrow from the government’s direct- and guaranteed-student-loan programs
Terry Hannaford never knew his career would lead him to the ends of the Earth.
Butg as a logistics manager for Project Ice Cube, Hannaford spent almost two months at the South Pole. His efforts have helped scientists in their quest to detect neutrinos and delve into the lives of black holes
Quoted: Charles Jones, emeritus political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.
A growing number of public universities are requiring that students have health insurance before they are admitted to save the uninsured from huge bills and college hospitals from getting stuck with the cost.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Faced with state budget cuts and the need to remain competitive, public universities around the country are beginning to focus on students as young as freshmen and sophomores as prime targets for fund-raising campaigns
MADISON, Wis. – Final exams are over and first-semester grade reports are being compiled all over nation. (Athletic Communications)
