MILWAUKEE (AP) ? Working adults, military veterans and others pursuing college degrees in the University of Wisconsin System will soon be able to get college credit for knowledge already gained through work or life experience.
The University of Wisconsin System wants to churn out more degree-holders with a new online plan that will grant students college credit for their work and life experiences.
People soon will be able to improve their job prospects by earning college degrees at their own pace, wherever they are, through a new University of Wisconsin System Flexible Degree program.
Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) announced the creation of a new, online degree program for University of Wisconsin system students Tuesday morning.
(CNN) – The former Rutgers University student convicted of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate was released from jail Tuesday after serving a 30-day sentence, a jail official said. Dharun Ravi, 20, was found guilty in May of invasion of privacy, witness tampering, hindering apprehension and bias intimidation.
A former UW-Madison student who faked a mental illness in order to escape punishment for child pornography distribution was sentenced Monday to 12 years in federal prison. From the time of his arrest in 2010 until pleading guilty in November, Matthew P. Hendrickson, 23, of St. Cloud, Minn., had blamed his downloading and extensive sharing of child pornography on visual and auditory hallucinations. Hendrickson was expelled from UW-Madison in fall 2010.
College tuition and student loan costs have been a hot topic this year, even becoming a signature issue of the presidential campaign.
Ralph Armstrong, whose convictions for the 1980 rape and murder of a UW-Madison student were overturned, filed a $58 million federal civil rights lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin on Friday seeking compensation for about 30 years behind bars for the convictions. Armstrong filed the lawsuit by mail from his prison cell in New Mexico, where he is serving a sentence for a parole violation for earlier criminal convictions in that state in the 1970s.
Jessie Barndt was walking to class at UW-Madison one day when she saw her destiny drive by. It was shaped like a hot dog. Barndt, 23, followed the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile to a career fair where a recruiter persuaded her to apply for a job criss-crossing the country in the driver?s seat of a 27-foot-long fiberglass hot dog.
Matt Beilfuss is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this summer, but you won?t see him hanging out at the Memorial Union terrace after classes. Beilfuss isn?t in Madison or Wisconsin. He isn?t even in the United States.
It?s hard to believe, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) program is already 13 years old.
After I posted my previous blog entry, ?Priced out of education? (which also was published in Monday?s hard-copy edition of the Leader-Telegram), I received a couple of emails saying I?d missed half of the picture in my rant about the rising cost of college. I?m accustomed to complaints about my writing, but in this case they were exactly right.
Victoria Haler, 18, was crowned Miss Teen Minnesota United States in February, was selected a Princess Kay finalist in May, and graduated from Waconia High School in June. Haler plans to continue her studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she?ll major in international studies and Spanish.
It?s a small yet significant step toward boosting Wisconsin?s brain power. High school students across the state will have more access to college coursework by 2013, the state Department of Public Instruction and University of Wisconsin Colleges announced this week. Some of the UW courses will be offered online at high schools. Others will be taught by high school teachers with oversight from college professors. And here?s the cool part: The new classes will count toward high school and college diplomas at the same time. It?s called “dual enrollment,” and it?s something Wisconsin needs more of ? individualized instruction using technology to help control cost.
I can?t open the paper lately without reading about how the American economy is doomed unless we get more kids into the so-called STEM fields ? science, technology, engineering and math. On Tuesday, it was news touting five University of Wisconsin System campuses who are taking part in a nationwide science and engineering initiative led by a group of university and private sector bigwigs who want to boost the United States? competitiveness.
….”Skills and methods associated with the humanities aren’t soft, despite the convention of referring to them as such,” said Sara Guyer, director of the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities. “The importance of the humanities … is not just about empathy or imagining others, but it is about deepening our real understanding and fostering rigorous, critical analysis.”
The base tuition for state universities in Wisconsin is going up another 5.5 percent this fall, continuing a trend of tuition outpacing inflation that has been the norm for some time.
College will become more expensive this fall for students attending Wisconsin?s public universities. Last week, the UW Board of Regents boosted tuition by 5.5 percent, to offset cuts in state funding.
A UW-Madison delegation traveled to China Monday where it opened the UW-Madison Shanghai Innovation Office, which will function as an outpost for the university?s growing commitment to enhance educational opportunities in China. The delegation is made of up UW-Madison representatives, including interim Chancellor David Ward along with other state and business officials. The group worked in conjunction with members of Minhang District of Shanghai to celebrate the opening. China is the third most-popular location for students studying abroad at UW-Madison and opening the office will allow for increased study abroad and internship opportunities, according to Kerry Hill, the Communications Coordinator for the Division of International Studies.
Bright lights, thick black curtains and a large open stage. That?s all it takes for Jasmine Mans to feel right at home. The UW-Madison junior has been involved in all areas of the arts throughout her life, but today, she?s honing her craft as a poet and author.
Wisconsin officials are launching a statewide initiative to help high school students earn college credits.
Wisconsin high school students soon will be able to take University of Wisconsin college courses for little or no money in their own schools and taught by their high school teachers.
MADISON (WKOW) ? U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin is in Madison Tuesday to discuss student loan interest rates at UW-Madison?s Memorial Union.
Students across the state will be able to pick up valuable college credits while still in high school thanks to a new dual enrollment program announced Tuesday by the University of Wisconsin Colleges and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. The partnership is to be in place by the start of the 2013-14 academic year….This new initiative is different from the current Youth Options program that allows students to take courses at UW campuses, technical colleges or other higher ed institutions. That?s because the Youth Options students must take classes at the college or university.
While it is fresh in my mind and heart I want to share some of the unique frustrations we face at university election stations. At our ward in Memorial Library we turned away about 20 young adults or about 6% of those who came to vote at our ward.
What does it take to close the achievement gap? Last month the principal of Chicago?s Gary Comer College Prep wrote about how 100 percent of the school?s seniors earned acceptances to four-year universities. This is the last of four student stories.
Two U.S. students trapped in the New Zealand wilderness by a snowstorm trekked back out to safety after surviving their nine-day ordeal by rationing their meager supplies of trail mix and warming themselves in hot springs. Alec Brown and Erica Klintworth, both 21, returned to the city of Christchurch on Monday after meeting up with members of a search team, famished but otherwise in good shape, police said. The two students, on a foreign study program in New Zealand with University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, had planned to hike and camp for a few days at some hot springs on the country?s South Island.
It doesn?t take a college degree to see that the equation of University of Wisconsin tuition increases adds up to more trouble for students.
Tuition in the University of Wisconsin System will rise by several hundred dollars next academic year, after the Board of Regents voted Thursday to accept the maximum 5.5 percent rate hike. The increase applies to all 13 of the system?s four-year colleges, as well as its 13 two-year campuses. All students – in-state and out-of-state _ who attend UW-Madison, the system?s largest campus, will pay an extra $681 per year in tuition. That figure includes $250 from a previously approved surcharge earmarked for certain student programs and classroom support.
Tuition in the University of Wisconsin System will rise by several hundred dollars next academic year, after the Board of Regents voted Thursday to accept the maximum 5.5 percent rate hike.
College tuition is going up again at UW schools.
It?s a cliché to say that paying for college keeps parents awake at night. As is often the case, this became a cliché because it?s true — even if, as in my case, the child is barely a year and a half old.
Top officials in the University of Wisconsin System are meeting to discuss a possible tuition increase and other issues.
Top officials in the University of Wisconsin System are meeting to discuss a possible tuition increase and other issues.
Top officials in the University of Wisconsin System are meeting to discuss a possible tuition increase and other issues.
The League of Women Voters Wisconsin is reporting it has received more than 100 phone calls as of 2 p.m. from college students who are indicating they?re having trouble voting in Tuesday?s recall election. ?It?s a significant issue out there,? says Carolyn Castore, who is coordinating the League of Women?s Voters Wisconsin/Election Protection initiative. ?We?re getting all sorts of odd stuff.? Some of the more common problems for students, reports Castore, are related to hassles over proof of residency and apparent misinterpretations of the state?s relatively new voter ID law that was enacted last year and requires one to establish residency at a given address for 28 days in order to be able to vote from that location.
The University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin-Madison share more than initials; both universities and their students are struggling with the rising costs of education and its impact on the quality of education.
A Kenosha man convicted of killing a Milwaukee college student was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
With announcement of plans for the University of Wisconsin system to increase its student tuition 5.5 percent for the school year than begins in less than three months, it?s another step in the university?s ongoing practice of increasing tuition at a race far faster than inflation.
It could cost more than $10,000 per year for in-state students to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison if a recommended tuition increase is approved.
A judge sentenced 34-year-old Johnny Jones to serve his next 15 years in prison for causing a deadly crash in 2009, then running away. The crash killed a University of Wisconsin student.
For the first time in its history, UW-Madison?s in-state tuition rate may exceed $10,000 this fall. UW-Milwaukee would be close behind.
It would cost Wisconsin residents more than $10,000 a year in tuition and fees to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison if a recommended 5.5 percent tuition increase is approved.
Some University of Wisconsin student groups are trying to soften the blow of higher education costs after system President Kevin Reilly recommended raising tuition at all UW campuses by 5.5 percent Monday. The UW Board of Regents will discuss Reilly?s proposal, which would bring the annual cost of tuition at UW-Madison over $10,000 for in-state students for the first time, at its meeting Thursday. But some student groups are hoping they can convince the regents to accept a smaller tuition increase, according to The Daily Cardinal.
UW-Madison?s tuition and fees would top $10,000 per year for in-state students for the first time if a recommended tuition increase of 5.5 percent is approved by the UW Board of Regents on Thursday. For the sixth consecutive year, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is recommending a 5.5 percent tuition increase for in-state students at the 13 four-year campuses in the UW System. He?s recommending the same increase for UW System?s two-year campuses for the second year in a row.
As two of many faculty and staff long engaged in preparing UW-Madison graduate students to be both excellent researchers and excellent teachers, we were disappointed with the headline in the May 27 newspaper: “Interest in research wanes among UW-Madison Ph.D.s.” The headline missed the point and an important sea change in graduate education: Interest in teaching is increasing among UW-Madison Ph.Ds.
Some college students struggle with the dreaded weight gain known as the ?freshman 15.? These students had to deal with the opposite problem: weightlessness. Six UW-Madison students spent a week in late April conducting experiments on a gravity-defying aircraft at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, according to UW-Madison.
One of two gunmen sought in connection with the University Avenue shooting on May 19 has been arrested, according to the Madison Police Department.
Last Thursday?s editorial titled “Interest rate debate a sideshow” cuts through the political nonsense to focus on the cost of a college degree. What is more important, however, is the potential value any degree may hold. As a former UW System professor who now helps families navigate through the college admissions process, I fear some opt for a “pretty good school” and then aim for a “good grade point average.” Neither is sufficient when the price tag of a UW-Madison degree has surpassed six figures.
More than 20 years ago when I was in college at UW-Madison, the debate du jour was over so-called “speech codes.” Were race-, gender- or religion-based slurs protected free speech? Punishable offenses under a public university?s rules? Both? The fight raged. I remember a classmate locking herself to some fixed object in front of a Langdon Street fraternity to protest an event the frat held in which some members wore blackface. And I ? just another white boy from the suburbs ? felt positively righteous wearing a “Celebrate Diversity” button on my leather jacket.
Noted: Several state schools ? like the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin ? also made the cut, along with colleges in Japan, Canada, Switzerland and Australia.
Call Bruce Springsteen whatever you want, but make sure to call him a professional. Early in our class we had a conversation on whether or not he was as erudite as we were making him out to be. There were plausible arguments on either side. In interviews he claimed not to have read much, but he also lifted most of The Grapes of Wrath. For me I don?t think it matters too much, because he actively tries to be both. Springsteen is no fool, and he plays up his country or working-class image in spite of being ridiculously informed on music, as exhibited by his most excellent keynote address at the SCSW music conference.
By almost every account, University of Wisconsin senior running back Montee Ball was better than ever during the team?s spring practices.
A community celebrates the life of a long-time UW Band field assistant and music leader. Members of the band knew him as “Badger Bill.” Tuesday night after his funeral they honored him in a way that would make him proud – with a tailgate.
A UW-Madison free speech expert is questioning whether the university had the evidence to suspend a school fraternity for two years.
A 21-year-old Cascade man is in custody after a warrant was issued for his arrest in New Jersey for allegedly convincing a 9-year-old girl there to masturbate online.
Delta Upsilon fraternity members said they?d had a problem with trespassers prior to an encounter with two black, female students that resulted in a two-year suspension for the UW-Madison fraternity.
“Badger Bill” Garvey was an icon in both McFarland where he taught music for 31 years and among the UW-Madison community who shared his passion for all things Wisconsin.
UW-Madison has suspended a fraternity due to an incident last March in which two female students who are black were taunted by members of Delta Upsilon.
As we head into Memorial Day weekend, we?re going to hear from women veterans whose military service has inspired artwork. A new exhibit at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison features 20 prints that resulted from private conversations between veterans and local artists. As WUWM?s Erin Toner reports, several women say the project helps validate their service to the country.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving two UW-Madison researchers a $1.39 million grant to develop two video games to help teach eighth-graders compassion, empathy, cooperation, mental focus, self-regulation, kindness and altruism. I can?t help but wonder, wouldn?t a puppy work just as well, and be a heck of a lot cheaper? Besides, if your kid is going to be a mass murderer, derivatives trader or some other empathy-less sociopath, isn?t that mold pretty much cast by the time he?s 13 or 14?
