A tuition hike appears almost certain for most University of Illinois students next school year, administrators said Thursday, a move immediately criticized by the governor’s office.
U. of I. sees tuition bump again (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
Author: jplucas
City dog pound under fire as chief leaves (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
Quoted: Ron Schultz, a veterinary immunologist and infectious diseases expert at the University of Wisconsin
President Bush Is Expected to Call for Changes That Would Increase Pell Grant Awards and Eliminate Program’s Deficit
Chronicle of Higher Education
At a town-hall meeting in Florida today, President Bush is expected to announce that he will seek to raise the maximum Pell Grant by $500 over the next five years, as well as to close a $4-billion budget shortfall that has plagued the program for the past several years.
U. of Colorado Plan Would Go Beyond Class Rank in Granting Automatic Admission to Top Students
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Colorado System plans to guarantee admission to its three campuses to high-school students in the state who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class, according to a proposal negotiated over the past several months.
Fans Continue to Support the Badgers
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – Long known for its rabid following, Wisconsin athletics is once again among the national leaders in its fan support. (Athletic Communications)
Bush May Raise Pell Grant Award (AP)
Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – To ease tuition sticker-shock, President Bush (news – web sites) wants to raise the maximum Pell Grant award by $500 over the next five years and fix a persistent shortfall in the nation’s chief college aid program.
Harvard Hires ‘Fun Czar’ to Spice Up Student Life (Reuters)
Yahoo! News
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (Reuters) – Harvard University students: overachieving, bookish bores or repressed party animals? A little of both, it seems.
Student loan changes could boost Pell grant funds Gannett News Service)
Arizona Republic
WASHINGTON – Proposed changes in the federal guaranteed student loan program for college students could save $12.3 billion over 10 years, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
Doyle leaves out pledge on UW funding in speech (AP)
Duluth News
MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Jim Doyle dropped a section of his State of the State address Wednesday night that promised to give the University of Wisconsin System and financial aid a bigger increase in state money than the state prison system in his next budget.
Johnson Receives NCAA Silver Anniversary Award
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – At the NCAA Convention Honors Dinner, Jan. 9, Wisconsin womenââ?¬â?¢s hockey head coach Mark Johnson was honored as a recipient of the 2005 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award. (Athletic Communications)
Doyle names business and technology successes, plans for 2005 (WTN)
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? ââ?¬Å?Wisconsin is on the moveââ?¬Â was the theme of Governor Jim Doyleââ?¬â?¢s speech on the ââ?¬Å?State of the Stateââ?¬Â Wednesday evening in the state Capitol.
New WARF investment director plans to keep steady course (WTN)
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has hired a new director of investment, who has worked with the organization since December 1 and was officially announced Wednesday.
Biotech crops gained ground across globe
USA Today
Plantings of biotech crops worldwide increased by 20% in 2004, says a report by a group that promotes agricultural technology in poor nations.
Will more professors develop video games for their classes? (Village Voice)
Quoted: As James Gee, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Let’s Shake Wings (Science)
ScienceNOW
Quoted: John Fallon of the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tom Still: Wisconsin Angel Network part of state�s focus on entrepreneurship (wisbusiness.com)
www.wisbusiness.com
MADISON ââ?¬â?? Five years ago, it wasnââ?¬â?¢t necessary to use terms such as “entrepreneur,” “venture capital” or “knowledge worker” when talking about the state economy. That was before the recession of 2000, the war on terror and other global trends fundamentally changed the Wisconsin landscape.
Madison’s Liquor Licenses Drying Up
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. — A liquor license shortage has some city leaders nervous about future new business in Madison.
Lack of Liquor Licenses Could Leave New Taverns High and Dry
NBC-15
(MADISON) — Some might say Madison’s liquor licensing is on the rocks.
The city has a handful of certain licenses left for new taverns. Madison could run out of these licenses early this year.
Brief forays offer lasting lessons to US students (csmonitor.com)
Christian Science Monitor
History professor Jacqueline Moore had prepared her students as best she could for a month-long course on temples and empires in Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), and Cambodia.
Schools Offer Real Venture Capital Lessons
Yahoo! News
Venture capital is agony and ecstasy, bust and boom, the stress of gambling and the thrill of a front-row view on the latest technologies. And when real money is involved, it’s also one of the hottest classes on business school campuses.
Caution raised over SARS vaccine (Nature.com UK)
Nature
Quoted: Chris Olsen who studies animal viruses related to SARS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scientist takes back patents and develops product others ignored (WTN)
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Mark Cook, a tenured animal sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had seen his patents get licensed out to several businesses, only to sit on the shelves.
He�d been working since the mid 1980s on biotechnology that was was not being promoted by any of the businesses to which it had been licensed through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Cormorant diet is subject of study (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate researcher Sarah Meadows
War protester cited for obscene Bush sign (Appleton Post-Crescent)
Quoted: Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and author of several books on political speech,
Pregnant Women Urged to Manage Asthma (AP)
Tallahassee Democrat
Quoted: William W. Busse, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School
Babcock House Accepting Applications (Wisconsin Ag Connection)
Wisconsin Ag Connection
UW Madison’s Babcock House is now accepting applications for the 2005-2006 academic year. Babcock House is UW Madison’s only housing unit dedicated to providing quality housing for male and female students with a common agricultural interest at a substantial savings over dorm living.
UW-Madison picks scalable SGI computer to simulate weather (WTN)
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? To model something as big as the weather, the University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies needed a bigger computer.
Updates on Billion-Dollar Campaigns at 25 Universities
Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.322-billion as of December 7 (increase of $14-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007
NCAA Approves Penalties for Division I Teams That Fail to Meet Academic Standards
Chronicle of Higher Education
The National Collegiate Athletic Association gave preliminary approval on Monday to a plan to take scholarships away from Division I sports teams when their players flunk their courses. That was the highlight of a flurry of meetings here in which delegates from all three divisions of the NCAA considered rules changes.
New academic rules will challenge programs — Scholarship losses, bowl bans possible
USA Today
The NCAA set the bar Monday for college athletics teams hoping to steer clear of newly drawn penalties for academic shortcomings: the equivalent of a 50% graduation rate.
Why grown kids come home: High rents, college loans drive ââ?¬Ë?boomerang kids’ back to nest
USA Today
Matthew Costigan is young, single and a recent college graduate. He has a good-paying job and a bright future with a big accounting firm. So what does he do? He gives up his nice pad in the trendy Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh and moves in with mom and dad.
Short kids reach new heights with costly drug (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
Quoted: Dr. David Allen, director of endocrinology at the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital in Madison. (Login required.)
On the edge of their seats (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Aggregate Research Industries
Quoted: Andrew Taylor, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chamomile Tea May Have Medicinal Value (RedNova.com)
Quoted: Hasan Mukhtar, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who has studied green tea
NCAA President Paints a Rosy Portrait of College Sports, as Critics Call for Reforms
Chronicle of Higher Education
Myles Brand, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, told people attending its convention here on Saturday that the following are myths: that college sports are more about sports than college, that college sports are only about the money and that athletes are pawns, that amateur sports are no more, and that Mr. Brand himself is the czar of college sport
Michigan: Who Really Won?
Chronicle of Higher Education
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in 2003 backing the use of race in college admissions, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Georgia took particular interest in the mechanics of the ruling.
At the time, both public universities were operating under federal-court orders prohibiting them from considering a student’s race in making admissions offers. With those decisions supplanted by the Supreme Court ruling, the institutions were free to return to race-conscious policies.
Time Has Not Favored Racial Preferences
Chronicle of Higher Education
The end of 2004 brought plenty of news to make college officials uneasy at institutions that treat their students and applicants differently on account of their skin color or what country their ancestors came from.
At the end of November, the Office for Civil Rights at the Education Department pressured the state of Wisconsin into changing a minorities-only scholarship program to one that allows participation by students of all races
Affirmative Action, Relatively Speaking
Chronicle of Higher Education
If you are employed full time by a selective college, there is a good chance that your institution is willing to bend its admissions standards to enroll your child.
To Market, to Market
Chronicle of Higher Education
Aetos Technologies Inc. pulled the wraps off a new high-tech microscope accessory last month at a scientific conference in Washington, D.C. But the unveiling of the company’s first product is probably far less significant than the existence of Aetos itself.
Brand appeals to schools to control rate of spending
USA Today
NCAA President Myles Brand is calling for sanity where he thinks it has often seemed lacking in big-time college athletics ââ?¬â? in spending. Warning that the days of escalating TV rights fees are near an end and profit margins are shrinking or disappearing.
A smart path ââ?¬â? that isn’t ââ?¬Ë?college’
USA Today
The jobs market is uneven, and the U.S. education system needs a tune-up. What to do? The most intelligent answer may not be found within the nation’s most august learning institutions. The answer might be vocational education.
Microbial Diversity Unbound (RedNova.com)
Quoted: Microbiologist Jo Handelsman, of the University of Wisconsin,
What your personal trainer isn’t telling you (Mason City, Ia. Globe Gazette)
Quoted: Steven R. McClaran, Ph.D., professor of health promotion at the University of Wisconsin
Law school not so bad, students say
USA Today
The stereotypically cutthroat, competitive world of law school is largely fiction, a study suggests, with most first-year law students saying faculty members are helpful and sympathetic.
Americans interested in adopting tsunami orphans (AP)
Quoted: Seth Pollak, associate professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Paying for college just got harder (csmonitor.com)
Christian Science Monitor
CHICAGO ââ?¬â?? One education publication dubbed it the “December surprise”: Two days before Christmas, the Bush administration announced it was revising the formulas for its Pell Grants – the federal government’s primary aid vehicle for America’s neediest college students – in a way that may leave 1.3 million students receiving a smaller amount, and 90,000 off the rolls altogether.
Parents want to control influences; critics see need for wide exposure (KRT)
Quoted: Michael Apple, a University of Wisconsin professor who opposes home schooling
Dean of UC-Berkeley’s Law School Calls for Partial Privatization as Answer to Budget Woes
Chronicle of Higher Education
Frustrated with the level of public support for his institution, the new dean of the University of California at Berkeley’s law school says he would like to partly privatize the school to allow it to raise more money and to control how that money is spent. (Subscription required.)
MapTeach project spreads Alaskan geographic knowledge online (WTN)
Wisconsin Technology Network
Traditional, rural Alaskan knowledge can now spread globally thanks to a joint effort between UW-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Environmental Remote Sensing Center and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys. Their MapTeach effort, or Mapping Technology Experiences with Alaska’s Cultural Heritage, is designed to combine geospatial information with traditional knowledge as a teaching tool.
Networking in the cold north
UW-Madison�s move to online grading goes smoothly (WTN)
Wisconsin Technology Network
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received their grades online for the first time in December. An electronic grading system was developed and implemented by a team of staff members from the University�s Division of Information Technology and the Office of the Registrar.
Celebrating Our Past: Staying in the Lanes
UWBadgers.com
MADISON, Wis. – What better way to make a mother proud than by following in her footsteps at the University of Wisconsin? (Athletic Communications)
Challenges to one’s thinking can enrich education
USA Today
I find it troubling that some college students today seem to want to decide for themselves what they should or should not read or study.
UW student escapes in India (Arlington Hts, Il. Daily Herald)
Chicago Daily Herald
Cheri Dlugosinski talked to her 22-year-old son Matt by phone late Saturday night.
A student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Matt has been studying in Maduari, India, since August.
For the holiday, though, he decided to travel to the coast.
Time Warner, SBC mix it up (Business Jounral of Milwaukee)
MSNBC.com
Quoted: Barry Orton, a professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and consultant in the cable and telecom industries.
Tsunami presents challenge to faiths (Chicago Tribune)
Quoted: Charles Hallisey, a leading scholar of Theravada Buddhism at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
For Tailgating Crowd, The Outback Bowl Was A Blast (Tampa Tribune)
TAMPA – Hip-hop boomed from speakers sitting atop the SUV, and the beer cooler’s hinges were getting a workout.
Bush has big plans, but ‘capital’ might run low (KRT)
Duluth News
Quoted: Charles O. Jones, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin
Revamping Student IDs (AP)
STATE COLLEGE, PA-January 3, 2005 ââ?¬â? In an attempt to fight identity theft, Penn State University is ending a long-standing practice of using Social Security numbers to identify students.
Whereabouts of 700 UW students undetermined (AP)
MADISON ââ?¬â? All 25 University of Wisconsin-Madison students studying abroad in parts of Asia devastated by last weekendââ?¬â?¢s deadly tsunami are safe.
School officials, however, might not know the fate of hundreds of international students for weeks.
Change in Federal Formula Means Thousands May Lose Student Aid
Chronicle of Higher Education
As many as 90,000 students could be disqualified from receiving Pell Grants and other forms of federal and state financial assistance under a change that the Bush administration has made in the formula the government uses to calculate a student’s need for aid.
Two days before Christmas, the U.S. Education Department announced in the Federal Register that it had, for the first time in a decade, updated the amount it allows families to deduct for state and local tax payments when applying for financial aid. (Subscription required.)