Does paying for college send chills down your spine? UW-Madison financial aid staff will try to assuage your fears during a live one-hour web chat on Tuesday from 6-7 p.m.
Staff from the Office of Student Financial Aid plus a representative from the UW-Madison Parent Program will field questions from students and parents about the aid available, work-study opportunities, common sense financial tips, even how to fill out the FAFSA, or Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials launched what appears to be a pre-emptive strike.
A letter from Dean of Students Lori Berquam to “members of the UW-Madison community” and posted on the universityâ??s website earlier this week starts by noting: “In coming days, there will be a great deal of media and online coverage of sexual assault in our community and around the UW System.”
The Center for Public Integrity is running an interesting series about “Sexual Assault on Campus.”
Dear Editor: I applaud Dave Zweifelâ??s column â??Fast trains are something to celebrate.â? The idea of trains not only connecting Madison to Milwaukee, but Madison to Chicago and the Twin Cities is indeed exciting.
(Schmid is a UW-Madison senior and transit intern at WISPIRG)
For too long, bankers have gotten a free ride from the U.S. Department of Education.
Under current law, taxpayers provide as much as $9 billion each year to subsidize guaranteed student loans issued by banks. The banks earn profits on the interest; if students default, taxpayers take the loss, not the banks. In other words, working Americans pay while bankers get rich.
Meanwhile, educators, engineers and computer scientists — the backbone of the new economy — face crushing debt from six-figure college tuitions. A study of national post-secondary student aid found that in 2008, two-thirds of college seniors graduated with debt averaging more than $23,000. That number will rise as public and private college tuition costs escalate.
People flocked to the UW-Madison campus Friday night to dance the night away… literally. The second annual Wisconsin Dance Marathon ran from 7:00 p.m. Friday to 9:00 a.m. Saturday as part of a fundraising effort to support the American Family Childrenâ??s Hospital.
At University of Wisconsin campuses, sexual assaults remain seriously underreported and many women still face barriers to notifying authorities. Most victims do not report crimes. The statistics are inconsistent. And most rapists go free.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Officials said all of its students studying in Chile this semester are safe following a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake early Saturday. The students are in Chile with the International Academic Programs exchange program, as well as programs affiliated with the Wisconsin School of Business and College of Engineering.
Got your own cool take on the “On Wisconsin!” fight song? The University of Wisconsin-Madison wants to hear it.
UW-Madisonâ??s First Wave hip-hop dance performance group has been selected to participate in Contacting the World 2010, an international theater project that marks First Waveâ??s debut on the world stage.
University of Wisconsin engineers have made a breakthrough in technology that would allow food waste to be converted into clean jet fuel.
Kudos to the Greenbush Neighborhood Association for getting involved at the start in making the most of Klief Park.
The group is circulating some statements on what members want to see at the park as the city begins to develop a master plan to improve it. The park at Milton and South Charter Streets is a favorite with families — and UW students — who live nearby in the â??Bush. The group wants to keep many of the features packed into the city-block sized park: playground, basketball court, open lawns, while making improvements that show the park “is cared-for and valued by the community and is welcoming to all.” What to add? New play equipment, a water-jet kiddie cooler, benches for adults watching children, accessible walkways.
WASHINGTON â?? Young Americans are the linchpin of a new progressive era in American politics. So why arenâ??t Democrats paying more attention to them?
The online ad, a small text link, is easy to miss. It reads, â??The Holocaust Question: The Power of Taboo.â? The advertisement on the Badger Herald website leads to a site denying the Holocaust and the UW-Madison student newspaper is now taking heat for running it.
An ad hoc committee of the Faculty Senate released its report Monday in response to proposals from Chancellor Biddy Martin and Provost Paul DeLuca, who intended to substantially restructure the UW-Madison Graduate School. Administrators sought to divide the graduate education and research sections of the Graduate School into more separately defined entities and create a new administrative structure to accommodate them. Martin and DeLuca both said restructuring was needed so UW could remain competitive in securing multi-million dollar federal grants, fix problems in research safety compliance and better administer UW-Madisonâ??s ever-expanding research capabilities.
The latest estimated death toll from Haitiâ??s recent earthquake is 212,000, according Haitiâ??s prime minister. The United Nations has reported that more than 300,000 are injured and three million have been affected worldwide by the earthquake.
Over the course of the last week, we have been inundated with comments of the most reprehensible quality. Anti-Semitism was bandied about in our comments section for our story on Alpha Epsilon Pi. This spurred a dialogue between Dean of Students Lori Berquam, Hillel Executive Director Greg Steinberger and the University of Wisconsin-Madison student body over appropriate speech and the need to repudiate anti-Semitic speech in all forms.
An assembly committee had a public hearing Wednesday regarding a bill that would put regulations on university and credit card issuer marketing campaigns that target students.
At a recent rehearsal in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Hall basement, it took more than an hour to help Robert V. Phan into his costume.
Dressers put on five layers, including a padded vest, wrist gauntlets and a cape with red and orange flames licking at the hem. His sleeves hung wide, two feet from his arms, and his legs were hidden beneath a straight, floor-length skirt.
Dear Editor: Compared to Madison as a whole, the UW-Madison delis severely lack fair trade, organic, and local products. Being part of a city full of fair trade establishments like Just Coffee, SERRV, and the farmersâ?? market, UW seems like a natural candidate for these products. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
Most of us know the brassy rendition performed by the UW Marching Band.But could “On, Wisconsin!” be reimagined as a rap, a guitar solo, or an a capella ballad? People are invited to perform their own version of UW-Madisonâ??s fight song, “On, Wisconsin!” at an open mic night Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Memorial Union. This year is the 100th anniversary of the song.
It took nine months in 2005 and 2006 for the University of Wisconsin at Madison to contemplate, then reject filing disciplinary charges against a crew team member accused of rape.
Enough time for the accused student to start his fourth year at the university, compete in another rowing season, and glide into another spring as a celebrated college athlete.
Enough time, too, for an enraged encounter with his accuser, Laura Dunn, at a fraternity party. â??He started threatening me,â? said Dunn. â??When he hit the wall, he used his whole forearm, and just slammed within inches of my head.â?
On Feb. 2, 2010, the members of the Morgridge Center Advisory Board received an e-mail informing them the board had been â??temporarily suspendedâ? by the Morgridge Center staff.
Although the University of Wisconsin Spring 2010 commencement speaker may not be as esteemed as President Barack Obama, who will be speaking for the University of Michigan, UW speakers are chosen with student dollars in mind.
The doors at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul food pantry on Fish Hatchery Road donâ??t open for another 30 minutes, but a line has already formed.They wait quietly, for the most part, this rainbow coalition of all ages: African-American grandmothers, Latino families, young women with pierced tongues, disabled seniors and working fathers.
What they have in common is poverty.
….Measuring poverty in college towns can be somewhat misleading, researchers caution, since many students live below the poverty line and are counted by the U.S. Census Bureau as officially â??poorâ? even if they come from wealthy families.
Quoted: Tim Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty and professor of public affairs
Noted: At the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison, the gap has been roughly halved over the last three years. The university has poured resources into peer counseling to help students from inner-city schools adjust to the rigor and faster pace of a university classroomâ??and also to help minority students overcome the stereotype that they are less qualified. Wisconsin has a “laserlike focus” on building up student skills in the first three months, according to vice provost Damon Williams.
Public health officials said that final state test results indicate that both of the recent meningitis deaths were due the same type of meningococcal disease but different strains. Officials said that confirms the belief that Haleyem M. Thorpe, 16, of Mount Horeb High School and Neha Suri, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Singapore, were not in contact with each other.
A college campus isnâ??t the first place that comes to mind in a discussion about violent crime.
But research funded by the U.S. Department of Justice estimates that 1 out of 5 college women will be sexually assaulted. NPRâ??s investigative unit teamed up with journalists at the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) to look at the failure of schools â?? and the government agency that oversees them â?? to prevent these assaults and then to resolve these cases.
When a woman is sexually assaulted on a college campus, her most common reaction is to keep it quiet. Laura Dunn says she stayed quiet about what happened in April 2004 at the end of her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin.
With cases of Swine flu among University of Wisconsin students becoming virtually nonexistent in recent weeks, Dane County and Public Health-Madison jointly released a report Monday detailing efforts to immunize large parts of the Dane County population.
University of Wisconsin football head coachoach Bret Bielema recently announced the suspension of three football players due to an alleged violation of team rules.
Dear Editor: Speaking as a UW-Madison student, I was shocked to read about Edgewoodâ??s diversity issue (â??At Edgewood College, a surge in minority enrollmentâ?). The experiences Iâ??ve stumbled upon here in a single semester have allowed me to meet many unique individuals of all ethnicities. Itâ??s almost as if â??diversityâ? swallowed me whole.
….The New York Times posted an interesting article noting that a number of public high schools in eight states are participating in a program that allows students who pass a range of tests after their sophomore year to receive their high school diploma two years early so they can enroll in a community college. None of those schools are in Wisconsin.
Those who pass these exams but who hope to one day attend a selective college such as UW-Madison can continue with college preparatory classes during their junior and senior years of high school.
Got your own cool take on the “On Wisconsin!” fight song? The University of Wisconsin-Madison wants to hear it. In honor of the tuneâ??s 100th anniversary, the university has invited anyone to come to the student union on Thursday to perform.
Sophomore center Matt Thurber has been dismissed from the University of Wisconsin menâ??s hockey team. Thurber, from Beaver Dam, was charged with multiple misdemeanors Feb. 8 after an alleged incident of domestic abuse. A Madison Police Department official said officers responded to a 911 call involving a woman, described as a girlfriend or ex-girlfriend of Thurberâ??s, and cited him for battery and disorderly conduct.
Over the last decade, weâ??ve redefined what it means to be healthy. No longer does sitting on the couch eating bags of 100-calorie snack packs and watching marathons of The Biggest Loser count as being health conscious. Frequent exercise and physical activity have become a necessity for many Madison residents, especially college students. But are UW-Madisonâ??s recreational facilities able to accommodate an increasingly active student population?
High school student got into a financial state of mind on Sunday as they sought strategies to map out their futures in higher education. Hundreds of college-bound students and their families packed a Madison College classroom for help applying for financial aid for the fall.
Evan Western is a graduate student at UW. We profiled him and his friends on Thursday, February 11 as they prepared for their trip to the Winter Games. Evan is blogging about his experience.
As University of Wisconsin students cuddled up to their sweethearts on Valentines Day, the musicians behind the controversial â??Coastie Songâ? serenaded their own personal valentine â?? UW Chancellor Biddy Martin.
A sharp drop in the amount of funding awarded to the University of Wisconsin based on the number of National Merit and All-State Scholars enrolled has some officials concerned UW is having trouble attracting high-achieving students.
Thousands gathered at the 11th annual Polar Plunge Saturday to brave the icy waters of Lake Monona in an effort to raise money for the Special Olympics of Wisconsin.
Single-game football tickets will cost $3 more beginning this fall after the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board approved its 2010-11 budget.
RICHMOND, VA (WKOW) — Many colleges across the country have made the decision to stop printing yearbooks.
MADISON, Wis. — High school student got into a financial state of mind on Sunday as they sought strategies to map out their futures in higher education. Hundreds of college-bound students and their families packed a Madison College classroom for help applying for financial aid for the fall.
Prior to the start of each school year, Denise Bolduc typically sits down with four or five students who have food allergies.
The assistant food services director for UW-Madisonâ??s Division of University Housing not only goes through the six-week menu cycle with the student, pointing out specific items to avoid, but sheâ??ll introduce the student to the managers of the four dorm dining rooms, three convenience stores and deli that her division runs on campus.
The most important bit of news to come out of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board meeting Friday involved a ticket price increase for Badgers football. As expected, the board unanimously approved a $3 hike for general public and student season tickets, pushing the per-game price to $42 and $22, respectively, for seven games at Camp Randall Stadium in 2010. Meanwhile, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez told board members a research firm is working on behalf of the Big Ten Conference and recently put together data on 15 schools that might prove compatible for the league, which is considering adding a 12th member.
The University of Wisconsin is part of the U.S. Collegiate Ski & Snowboard Association. Who knew the Badgers â?? or technically the UW Hoofers and Wisconsin Union â?? were fielding nationally competitive Alpine skiing and snowboarding teams? â??We donâ??t get a ton of coverage,â? acknowledged Dakota Dux, who is a co-coach along with Kevin Houlihan. Both are former UW skiers.
The ingredients in every dish served by University Housing will soon be available online. Here a student selects food from a salad bar in the cafeteria at Elizabeth Waters Hall.
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) – Carthage College in Kenosha says it has no plans to cancel a speaker opposed to homosexuality.
More than 400 students signed a petition objecting to a regional conference of an evangelical Christian group called “Intervarsity” this weekend.
The La Crosse County medical examiner said the college student who drowned in the Mississippi River this week had a blood alcohol level more than three times the legal limit.
UW-Madison dietetic and nutrition students will be this weekâ??s guest breakfast team, with help from chef David McKercher, Mermaid Café, at the â??Taste of the Marketâ? Saturday at the Dane County Farmersâ?? Market from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St. Farmersâ?? market hours are 8 a.m. to noon.
Having near-perfect grades and an impressive cadre of coursework and research helped Daniel Lecoanet win the prestigious Churchill Scholarship last week. The award is given out to only 14 students across the country each year. The first UW-Madison student to win it in 30 years, Lecoanet will spend the 2010-2011 academic year studying mathematics at the University of Cambridge, with expenses up to $50,000 paid.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin got a special Valentine from some students this month: a song in her honor. “My Biddy” riffs off the chancellorâ??s nickname, which is also a slang term for women.
The dispute between Madison and Dane County over the 911 center is not a new development. The tension intensified in April 2008 after the 911 center mishandled a call made from the cell phone of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann around the time she was killed in her West Doty Street apartment.
A multi-million dollar electronic learning center was one of the 31 proposals recommended for Madison Initiative for Undergraduates funding to Chancellor Biddy Martin Tuesday.
The rate of minority students graduating in six years is on the rise at the University of Wisconsin, corresponding to an overall increase in graduation rates.
With the 31 top-ranked Madison Initiative for Undergraduates proposals in the hands of University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin, UW officials have begun the next step in the process of choosing which proposals to fund.
The 41st Backhaul Direct Hoosier Classic this weekend will feature one of the largest fields in college bowling history and the United States Bowling Congress announced that it will provide wire-to-wire live webcasting on BOWL.com.
You could be the one to name the new south campus union.Associated Students of Madison and Wisconsin Union will take submissions beginning Friday.
Hilary Knight was not yet 10 when she was in a Maine emergency room, paging through a magazine while waiting to get her knee lanced because she had fallen on barnacles.
In it was a story about the U.S. womenâ??s hockey team, featuring smiling Cammi Granato and teammates Angela Ruggiero and Jenny Potter.
Some colleges are trying to cut out the go-between when it comes to federal student loans. UW-Oshkosh is the latest school to require students to borrow any new loans from the government, not banks.
Some other schools in the process of changing to direct loans are UW-Green Bay, Ripon College, and Fox Valley Tech. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has already made some of the changes to direct loans.
The Rotary Club of Madisonâ??s Ethics Symposium, to be held Friday, provides high school students a chance to discuss ways to think through ethical issues. A group of talented UW-Madison students, known as the First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community, will open the symposium with an interactive performance.
