The number of American students studying abroad continues to steadily increase, growing by 2.3 percent in academic year 2016-17 compared to the previous year, according to new data from the annual Open Doors report released today by the Institute of International Education.
A growing number of universities are trading notes on how to improve student success rates. And the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities wants to take this cross-institutional collaboration to the next level.
MADISON – Incoming Gov. Tony Evers and lawmakers would need to come up with more than $2 billion just to keep doing what the state already does and provide a healthy increase to schools, according to a new report.
Noted: “Many forces in our culture have conspired to elevate anxiety and stress — in part due to a lot of messages related to fear in the media — and this makes people unsettled,” Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin Madison and founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds, told Vox. “I think there is an increasing interest in strategies like yoga and meditation that can help people adjust to modern circumstances.”
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings is a proud member of “the Class of Shalala,” an informal name adopted by a group of Black women faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose academic careers were boosted by the newly elected Congresswoman, who mentored women and minority faculty in higher education long before she ventured into politics.
Noted: Professor of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jon Martin says climate change is contributing to more downpours and flooding across southern Wisconsin compared to 50 years ago.
Robert Golden, dean of the UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health for the past dozen years, leaned into the question as if he wanted no doubt to exist on where he stood. We were in his office in a campus building located a stone’s throw away from University Hospital.
Leading into the pivotal midterm elections this week, political activists were confident that turnout among college students would far outpace previous years. Their predictions were apparently correct; exit poll data revealed a surge among college-age voters that also seemed to contribute to Democrats taking back control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Noted: “Had she not died, she was a sure bet to be elected,” Robert M. Hauser, who was one of Dr. Pager’s advisers on her dissertation at Wisconsin, said in a telephone interview.
Quoted: Tammy Baldwin’s trouncing of Republican challenger Leah Vukmir in Wisconsin’s Senate race is also a bright spot for Democrats, says Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Standing on a skateboard for the first time in her life, Bing Sun radiates joy. She’s taking it slow as she coasts down State Street, but it’s still thrilling. “When I was young, this was not so popular,” says Sun, a native of China and a visiting scholar at UW-Madison. “Then I got married, had a daughter — I had no time to play.”
Noted: But fear not. The pianist will be Christopher Taylor, professor of piano at UW-Madison. Taylor, who is also a mathematician, has gained a reputation as one of America’s leading pianists by conquering some of the most complicated music on the planet.
At exactly 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1943, Mildred Harnack (née Fish), Milwaukee native, UW-Madison alum and former UW-Milwaukee instructor, was beheaded.
MIAMI – Democrat Donna Shalala, a former Cabinet secretary and University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor, Tuesday won a U.S. House seat in Florida that had been held by a Republican.
For most of his eight years as governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker was a thorn in the side of the state’s public colleges.
Even as many were gripped by the potential change in control of Congress, races for governor could be exceptionally important for public higher education. Governors appoint board members and have great influence over appropriations.
Noted: The idea spread around the world partly because of a chance meeting in 2010 between Mr. Brooks, an outreach manager for the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and Mr. Bol, who lived in Hudson, Wis. Mr. Bol attended a workshop presented by Mr. Brooks in Hudson. Afterward, they began talking about opportunities in what they called social entrepreneurship.
Noted: Separately, the leaders of Princeton University, the University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University wrote a letter to DeVos expressing their “deep concern” that the government might drop civil rights protections under Title IX for transgender students.
The heads of Rutgers University, Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison asked Betsy DeVos in an open letter Thursday “to do everything you can” to stop the Trump administration from undermining the rights of transgender students.
On Nov. 1, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber, Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in support of legal protections for transgender individuals.
The heads of Princeton, Rutgers and the University of Wisconsin-Madison penned a joint letter Thursday urging Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to protect transgender students.
Noted: Catalina Toma, an associate professor at UW-Madison who studies how people interact using technology and online tools, says these groups allow people to share information anonymously in an environment where staying anonymous is difficult.
Racial and socioeconomic gaps have grown at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the last 15 years, according to a new report on disparities in access and graduation rates at Midwestern flagship universities.
In July 2015, Gov. Scott Walker and GOP lawmakers tried to pull a fast one. The Legislature’s budget writing committee recommended sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s open records laws. Authored anonymously, the measure limited public access to draft legislation and lawmakers’ communications and exempted the governor’s office, state agencies and local governments from having to disclose certain records.
Whether the state of Wisconsin should provide insurance coverage to state employees for gender reassignment surgery has been something of a political and legal hot potato over the last two years.
The exhaustive 198-page external report that will help the University System of Maryland Board of Regents decide the fate of football Coach DJ Durkin paints a troubling picture of the embattled program but stops short of saying the environment in College Park was “toxic.”
Even after winning the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and being named a MacArthur Fellow, photojournalist Lynsey Addario still gets nervous when she takes on a new assignment.
It’s a story that Madison loves to hear. Two plucky entrepreneurs, Kevin Conroy and Manesh Arora, are hired in 2009 to revive a moribund health-tech startup in Boston. They have the temerity to move it from the best-known metropolis in the country for medical innovation to the much smaller Madison, where Conroy had run Third Wave Technologies. Their company had but two employees.
Noted: One of the CEOs on this year’s list, Jeffrey Sprecher, the CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the New York Stock Exchange, holds both an MBA and an engineering degree but said in a video posted on Facebook by his alma mater, University of Wisconsin, that he’s never had a job that relates to his chemical engineering degree. Still, he said, it “taught me about problem-solving, and complex systems and the way things relate to each other, and business is really just that.”
The cost of a higher education is weighing ever more heavily on the minds of Americans. Nearly three in five people tell the Pew Research Center that “affordability of a college education” is a “very big” national problem, a jump of about 11 percent from 2016, when just one in two had the same concern.
Over the past decade, state government funding of higher education in the U.S. has fallen by $7 billion after inflation. The implications include increased tuition, which has received much public attention, but also a reduction in the relative quality of public higher education, which has gone largely unnoticed.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are studying placentas from births at a local hospital to identify structural changes in fetal membranes that could help determine when a premature birth is likely to occur.
While things appear to be going well for UW-Madison, it’s a different story for the rest of the University of Wisconsin system. In recent years, many of the state’s UW campuses have seen declining enrollment, resulting in lost tuition revenue and creating tight budgets. Our guest says it’s time for the UW System to rethink its strategy going forward if it wants to remain sustainable well into the future.
If you ever wanted a chance to meet and chat with amazing historical figures like Maya Angelou, Duke Ellington, Walt Whitman, Sojourner Truth, Mahalia Jackson, Walt Whitman, Frida Kahlo, and Frederick Douglass, you will get your opportunity at the UW-Madison Odyssey Project’s 4th annual “Night of the Living Humanities” fundraiser this Thursday, Oct. 25, 5-7 p.m. at The University Club.
A new organization on the UW-Madison campus is connecting people in costume with chances to put a smile on a kid’s face.
Noted: Cases of technical revocations—dubbed “churn” or “back door entry to prison”—are dismally common. “Basically it’s impossible not to violate” parole conditions, suggests Pamela Oliver, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Returning to prison undermines efforts to go straight. “This is going to continually mess up my life, it’s all so difficult trying to get started again”, says Mr Amphy, in tears. Revocations can reset the parole time remaining to be served. Though his sentence should be over, he still has five years to go.
A trio of Wisconsin attorneys, including two whose appearance in the first season of “Making a Murderer” launched them to international stardom, have started a nonprofit aimed at improving forensic science.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has grown tremendously over the past 60 years, from just over 6,000 students to more than 27,000.
Students, staff and community members have a chance this week to learn about the opportunities that Foxconn Technology Group will provide to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Foxconn is looking to tap into young talent when it opens its new plant in Wisconsin.
Noted: Fitness trackers with heart rate monitors might be more accurate because the added data helps assess how hard people are working during exercise, said Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wasn’t involved in the study.
Noted: “The plagiarism charge will disrupt the Evers campaign but it is not likely to have much impact on how voters view the candidates,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
A new beer is being brewed by the Wisconsin Brewing Company, Heineken and UW-Madison that has a recipe with roots in our very own back yard.
As Big Ten rivals battle it out on the field this fall, researchers from the schools are coming together to fight cancer. The Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium is a clinical cancer trial network. University of Wisconsin-Madison is a proud participant.
PSLF offers the promise of loan forgiveness to nurses, teachers, first-responders and other student borrowers who work in public service for 10 years while keeping up with their loan payments. But it has been plagued by poor communication from the U.S. Department of Education and mismanaged by servicing companies the department pays to run its trillion-dollar student loan portfolio.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she is “really, deeply worried” about funding for the university’s building projects.
About $1.7 billion is spent on academic research every year in Wisconsin, with the funding coming from a mix of government agencies and private investors. Some people who follow the money say more could be done with it.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Their playoffs hopes are all but gone. The defense is banged up. The offense struggled in a blowout loss to Michigan.
Another University of Wisconsin campus is dealing with declining enrollments.
BOSTON — A trial will open here in federal court Monday to weigh accusations that Harvard University’s famously competitive undergraduate admissions system is rigged against Asian Americans, a case that could become another landmark in the nation’s long debate over affirmative action.
Concerns among UW-Oshkosh faculty are rising as the school plans to reduce positions.
hree years ago a survey on campus sexual assault drew national attention over its finding that one in four college-student respondents said they had experienced unwanted sexual contact, either by force or after being incapacitated by substances like drugs or alcohol.
In August, authorities in Wisconsin charged Quintez Cephus, a University of Wisconsin at Madison wide receiver, with raping two women.
Quoted: Local and state governments can take action to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A starving polar bear. A US Senator with a snowball. Images of the opposing sides of the issue of climate change.
Multi-factor authentication process will be implemented at UW-Madison in order to create a safer online experience for students and staff.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where Lorraine studied painting and sculpture and acted in plays, she single-handedly integrated a women’s dorm. Early in her writing life, she was mentored by both W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes. And yet next to nothing is broadly known about her life, beyond the facts that she was black and a woman and, maybe, that she was a communist and queer.
Two transgender Wisconsin state employees will receive $780,000 after previously being denied healthcare coverage for treatments such as sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. A jury awarded the damages this week.
Warrington Colescott, an innovative printmaker who deftly navigated the intersection between tragedy and high comedy with biting etchings about civil rights, history, politics and the Internal Revenue Service (which audited him), died on Sept. 10 at his farmhouse in Hollandale, Wis., southwest of Madison. He was 97.
Mr. Kellogg has been called a consummate newsman — serving not only as an editor for newspapers in South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota, but also as a television news journalist and as a communications professor at UW – Madison for over 20 years.
