A gift of almost $500,000 worth of stock in Cisco Systems, a giant high-tech company based in California, will allow students from Milwaukee’s Bradley Technical and Trade High School to attend the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on scholarships covering all of their tuition.
B. J. Elsner, a 23-year-old senior at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, can�t picture what his college experience would be like if he didn�t live on campus.
It would mean that Elsner wouldn�t enjoy the convenience of having nearly everything he needs at his fingertips or made as many lasting friendships.
The nation’s most prestigious universities –Ã? and many others in academe –Ã? increasingly contract out portions of their campus operations.
The tour guide seems bent on selling Texas A&M University to her audience –Ã? 26 black and Hispanic students brought here from big-city high schools as part of the college’s “Very Important Prospects” campus-visit program.
The vast majority of the country’s colleges got richer in 2004, ending a three-year losing streak for many of them.
2004 was a record year for Wisconsin farmers…according to a new report from the UW. Ed Jesse is with the college of agriculture and life sciences
PRINCETON, N.J. – For students at Princeton University, final exams are even more stressful this year: The Ivy League school decided to make it harder to earn an A.
QUoted: Dr. Robert Huntington III, an associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Wisconsin.
Well-heeled investors poured billions into young biotech companies last year, powering overall start-up investing to its first annual increase in four years. The venture-capital investments underscore the growing interest in the emerging biomedical industry, which is creating treatments for cancer and other diseases.
Hats, gloves, and pocketfuls of PowerBars kept college students from across the country warm and sustained along the route of the presidential inaugural parade on Thursday, as they waited for up to five hours to either cheer or heckle President Bush’s motorcade.
LINCOLN, Nebraska (AP) — Forget course catalogs and colorful pamphlets.
Think sex, skiing and rock ‘n’ roll.
When it comes to recruiting students for college, admissions officials are turning to increasingly outlandish stunts to get the attention of high schoolers.
The gap between graduation rates of white and black students at the University of Michigan is the second highest among 11 similar elite universities, according to a study released Wednesday by a national advocacy group for minority and low-income students.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? If the last video game you played was Pac-Man, you might have missed the advances that turned games into immersive training tools for skilled professionals and leaders.
Three University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, among the top researchers in learning through game-playing, explained the advantages of games over traditional teaching tools Thursday evening.
The gap in graduation rates between blacks and whites at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is among the largest of any public school in the country and twice the median rate, data from a new study show.
State funding, capital improvements and the continuing need to improve diversity were among the many topics University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Doug Hastad discussed in his spring semester all-campus address Wednesday morning.
He expects a better budget for the upcoming biennium because the state’s economic outlook is improving, he said.
Kristin VandenLangenberg sometimes has trouble sleeping and often worries about how she will pay back her student loans.
VandenLangenberg was fortunate to find a full-time job after graduating from Carthage College, a private school in Kenosha. Although her income is comparable to that of any typical recent college graduate, it is barely enough to cover her monthly expenses.
Quoted: Psychologist Janet Hyde of the University of Wisconsin
Researchers have been trying for decades to figure out why men are more successful than women in math and science careers, and experts agree that no one yet has found a genetic reason. This debate took center stage Friday when Harvard University president Lawrence Summers told the audience at an economics conference that innate differences between the sexes might be a reason.
Can the UW System offer enough money to get the kind of chancellor it wants at UW-Whitewater?
UW Regent Roger Axtell of Janesville, who will help pick the replacement for UW-W Chancellor Jack Miller, said chancellor pay levels have become a concern.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Three of the top video-game researchers will show off developments in games that offer real-world experience on Thursday at the Fluno Center in Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer
CHAPEL HILL — A campus committee is leaning toward a book on a southern racial uprising for use as UNC’s 2005 summer reading program text.
A nine-member committee is expected to select “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story,” by Timothy Tyson. Tyson, a professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, grew up in Oxford, in Granville County.
Quoted: Keith Findley, co-director of the Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Quoted: Byron Shafer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
An aide in the UW-Madison chancellor’s office has been charged with felony child abuse after allegedly stabbing her 5-year-old son in the hand with a pen.
Graduation rates at colleges with similar students and resources vary widely, and colleges could do a lot more to improve their numbers, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Education Trust. The report is the first to analyze data culled from the trust’s new database, College Results Online, also introduced on Tuesday.
Harvard University’s president, Lawrence H. Summers, has come under fire by some scholars for suggesting that one reason fewer women make it to the top in mathematics and science may be the result of innate differences from men.
Michael O. Leavitt, President Bush’s nominee to be secretary of health and human services, spoke generally in support of the National Institutes of Health and biomedical research during a friendly confirmation hearing before a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday.
Angela Alfano has taken the PSAT three times and will take the old SAT on Saturday, but to her that is almost ancient history.
Her real concern is the new SAT. Like many of the nation’s 3 million high school juniors, the Fairfax County teenager is immersed in a great debate over exactly when to take the test.
A cluster of sudden deaths over a few months last winter and spring, including two suicides, prompted a George Washington University commission to ask some tough questions in an internal report that has already changed life on campu
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — His name is Ben and he’s a campus drunk trying to stay sober amid a lot of chances to party.
The 19-year-old, sticking with his first name in the style of Alcoholics Anonymous, knows how to party. He learned to drink in the fifth grade in Cleveland. By high school he was drinking at least three nights a week, sometimes having 20 drinks of beer, gin and tequila.
First, there was the “Daily Cardinal,” then the “Badger Herald,” now the “Mendota Beacon” is trying to make it’s mark on UW’s campus.
The founders of this paper say they’re looking for more balanced coverage of campus events – they say the other two papers are slanted towards the left
Colleges and universities can raise graduation rates by focusing on the academic and social problems of new students and emphasizing academics over research, suggest findings released today by an education advocacy group.
BERKELEY, Calif. – Ward Connerly ââ?¬â? reviled as an Uncle Tom, hailed as a man of principle and unflinching courage ââ?¬â? is moving on to another battlefield. Connerly’s term as a member of the University of California Board of Regents is drawing to a close after 12 turbulent years in which he led the university, and then the state of California, to drop affirmative action.
Angie Gratzl was gripped by fear as she dropped her son Jason off at his freshman dorm in Madison last summer.
“He kept saying, ‘Don’t worry Mom, I’ll be fine,’ ” Angie Gratzl said in an interview. “But when I drove away sobbing, I knew in the back of mind, something was wrong.”
As Lynn Gordon “Gordie” Bailey Jr. prepared for his freshman year at the University of Colorado last fall, his parents gave him the usual warnings about alcohol – be careful, don’t ever drink and drive.
They didn’t mention the warning that drinking too much at one sitting could prove fatal.
Quoted: Cynthia R. Jasper, a consumer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
(MADISON) — The relationship between Wisconsin troops and the UW system is ready to take flight.
SEMICIRCULAR rows of benches face the front of the room. A raised platform faces the benches. Anyone who has ever attended college will recognize the setting at once: a lecture hall.
LIKE many students enjoying the newfound freedom of college, the young man accelerated the drinking he had begun at prep school. ”You go nuts,” he explains, looking back, seemingly both amazed and disgusted. At 6-foot-1 and 215 pounds, he was able to put away up to 18 beers a night at weekend parties. ”It was crazy,” says the student, now a junior at Fairfield University, adding that afterward, ”I’d feel like death all day.”
Unless your child is 7-foot-3 and has an amazing jump shot, people will not show up on your doorstep offering to pay for his college education. If you want financial assistance, you have to ask for it. And the first step in that process is filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.
Call it the revenge of the nerds. While many professions have been slow to hire, accounting firms have been adding to their payrolls, leading to greater pay and perks for the nation’s bean counters.
With the nation’s longest current Division I college men’s basketball home winning streak in jeopardy Sunday, Wisconsin went to work just in time.
Quoted: Ed Jesse, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin
Quoted: Sanjay Limaye, who is attached to the University of Wisconsin’s space science and engineering centre.
The library in the newly opened Health Sciences Learning Center at UW-Madison sustained some minor water damage when a pipe burst during final exams last month.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison panel has suspended a popular researcher of Lou Gehrig’s disease from leading research studies.
A man charged with second-degree sexual assault after being caught by a citizen shortly after allegedly assaulting a young woman on Bassett Street on New Year’s Day has been charged with similar assaults on four other women in the downtown area.
You’ve seen it many times in pizza commercials: An unseen hand uses a spatula to lift a slice. The cheese, hot and stringy, becomes long and elastic as it resists the pull from the pie.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball player Boo Wade, who quit the team for good last week after taking time off for what was described as personal reasons, will be back in criminal court to face sentencing on charges from last year of fighting with his girlfriend and bail jumping.
The UW-Madison has opened a new center that aims to help businesses improve the economic well-being of their low-income workers.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Triple murder suspect Meng-Ju Wu, who was scheduled to go on trial Wednesday and faced the possibility of spending the rest of his life in a Wisconsin prison, killed himself overnight in his jail cell.
The campus police chief at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has a “passion for kids,” she says.
Here’s proof: five of them call her “Mom.”
Pamela Hodermann is about to begin her second semester as police chief on the UWM campus, the culmination of 30 years on the UWM police force.
Since California voters approved a $3-billion ballot measure last November to provide state funds for stem-cell research, several other states have seen similar proposals, and now a Florida group is beginning to campaign for a similar measure on the 2006 ballot.
President Bush announced on Friday that he will seek to raise the maximum Pell Grant by $500, to $4,550, over the next five years, as well as to eliminate a $4.3-billion shortfall that has plagued the program for the past several years.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced on Friday that it had formed a panel of college presidents to study the future of college sports. Peter Likins, president of the University of Arizona, will serve as chairman of the group, which will present a series of recommendations in the next 18 to 24 months.
The Justice Department plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a lower-court ruling that would allow colleges to restrict military recruiting on campuses without risking the loss of federal money.
Madison – Gov. Jim Doyle’s job is so basic, even a first-grader can understand it.
When Doyle visited Kathy Rehl’s classroom at Milwaukee’s Ralph H. Metcalfe School last week, Rehl and her co-teacher asked if anyone in the class knew what Doyle does.
MADISON, Wis. — Just hours before his high- profile murder trial was to begin, Meng-Ju Wu killed himself at the Dane County Jail early Monday.
