Category: Campus life

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.

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.

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.

A Kenosha man convicted of killing a Milwaukee college student was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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.

One of two gunmen sought in connection with the University Avenue shooting on May 19 has been arrested, according to the Madison Police Department.

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.

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.

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.

A driver convicted of fleeing from police, crashing into another car and killing a college student, was to find out his sentence on Thursday. A judge was set to sentence Johnny Jones in a Milwaukee County courtroom in the case of Shanica Adkins? death.

Its a classic case of virality. Someone takes a picture of a good joke between friends and posts it on Facebook. The jokes so good, so funny, or so topical that Facebook users pass it  around and eventually one of them shares it with Reddit or in this case Buzzfeed and  voilà: a meme is born. In the instance of David Coppinis business card pictured above which is themed after Carly Rae Jepsens viral pop hit “Call Me Maybe”, it made a leap few memes do: it went IRL Internet-speak for “In Real Life”.

A story in today?s Post talks about a generational decline in study time, the number of weekly hours college students devote to actual study. Since the 1960s, the weekly total has dipped from 24 to about 15. College has become, in effect, a part-time job.

Madison police said that they believe “there were multiple guns present” during a weekend shooting that injured at least three people early Saturday morning on University Avenue near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

University alumni groups have always eagerly welcomed new grads to their loyal ranks.

But as a stagnant economy and state funding cutbacks up the ante for private fundraising to boost financial aid, development offices and foundations for public institutions are taking a page from private schools that long have connected with potential donors before they even graduate.

An 18-year-old Memorial High School student was grazed on the side of his head by a bullet in a shooting early Saturday outside two University Avenue bars that also injured at least two other people. Arlene Kennedy said Monday that Jamar Morris, who is living with her husband, Jim, was “incredibly lucky.”

“He had a guardian angel watching over him,” she said. “He was a totally innocent bystander. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was the keynote speaker at her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison yesterday.

At UW-Madison, the official document notifying professors and students of when classes start and end is called the academic calendar. It also lists special dates such as when commencement exercises are held, when breaks occur and when exam weeks begin. For years, this calendar has included some of the more well-known religious holidays ? Rosh Hashanah, Good Friday, Ramadan ? so that professors and administrators can avoid scheduling exams or staff meetings on those days. That tradition has now ended; all references to specific religious holidays will be deleted from the calendar.

Hey, can you give a well-intentioned college kid a ride? Or, more to the point, can you help pay for the ride that kid needs to do much-needed volunteer work in our community? It?s well documented that volunteerism is one of the important civic threads that bind our community together. What isn?t so well known is that an important piece of that volunteer corps resides on the UW-Madison campus. And many hundreds of those college student volunteers could use a lift. Literally.

A Monona teen may be the youngest to walk across the Kohl Center stage and receive her bachelor?s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Less than three weeks after her 16th birthday, Serra Crawford graduated Sunday. Serra says she just enjoys learning. The UW-Madison registrar?s office says Serra is the youngest graduate since 1978, the year records began to be searchable.

A few years ago I was invited to give a commencement speech for Edgewood College graduates. I wasnt invited back. In fact, I was never again asked to give a commencement speech anywhere. I guess word got around.But on Saturday night, I did give a “keynote address” to the graduates of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UW-Madison. Not officially a “commencement speech” and I didnt get to wear a robe or anything, but still close enough. So, I adapted my Edgewood address for that audience.