UW-Whitewater has introduced a new program encouraging former undergraduates to return to school and complete their bachelorâ??s degrees.
UW-Whitewater has identified about 330 students who attended the university since 2001 and dropped out, for whatever reason, with one semester of coursework to complete.
Susan Crowley has been appointed administrator of the Division of the Long Term Care by Department of Health Services secretary Karen Timberlake.
Crowley, who is currently director of Campus Health Initiatives and Prevention Services for University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, begins her new role Aug. 24.
The Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) program will admit its eighth year of students Friday at the Alliant Energy Center.
The PEOPLE program prepares high school students for excellence at UW-Madison and serves as a major pipe-line to bring exceptional students to UW-Madison.
Seventy-four students completed the program and will take part in Friday’s ceremony.
CNN) — An international search is under way for a 29-year-old Auburn University veterinary student who vanished under what appears to be unusual circumstances in Thailand. Michael Griffin Harrie, 29, disappeared earlier this month during a vacation in Thailand, Auburn University says.
….In a media release, Alabama’s Auburn University said Harrie, a second-year student at the veterinary school, was attending a summer study abroad program in Morioka, Japan. He informed a professor he was going to take a one-week vacation with friends to Bangkok, Thailand, that would begin on July 7.
…my jaw dropped a bit when I saw this headline in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “U. of Alaska journalism students to embed with combat team in Iraq.”
According to the article, the journalism department at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks will soon have more reporters in Iraq than many major American newspapers, as three undergrads and a professor leave this week for Diyala Province in Iraq — where they will spend almost a month embedded with U.S. troops.
Ben Herbert’s weight room is more than a construction site, more than just a hard-hat area to build and nurture bigger, stronger and faster players for the University of Wisconsin football program. That’s especially true during the summer phase of conditioning — the final step before the opening of fall camp — when every precaution is taken to ensure success.
“There’s a million different things you can do from a program design standpoint,” said Herbert, the first-year UW strength and conditioning coordinator. “But the biggest thing you have to remember is that you want to put the guys in situations where you’re not only helping them get better, but you’re keeping them healthy.
Chalette Loy brought her daughter Chellalon some 70 miles from Grand Marsh to Madison Sunday for some education. She got a little for herself, too.
Lured to the Sheraton Madison Hotel via postcard from Edifi Education and Financial Aid Services, of Albany, N.Y., Loy discovered after two hours that the company would charge $1,500 to help the family fill out financial aid applications and prepare Chellalon, a high school sophomore, for college.
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) chose three UW System campuses to pilot a national initiative to enhance student learning.
UW-Eau Claire, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Oshkosh, and six universities from Oregon and California, were chosen to participate in the pilot program, â??Give Students a Compass: A Tri-State LEAP Partnership for College Learning, General Education and Underserved Student Success.â?
The goal of the project is to increase the participation and success of traditionally underserved students, such as racial and ethnic minorities, low-income and first-generation students. The project will also evaluate the performance of transfer students, who may have missed a universityâ??s orientation for incoming freshmen.
ROANOKE, Va. — Families of the Virginia Tech shooting victims asked Gov. Tim Kaine on Tuesday to reopen a state commission’s investigation of the 2007 mass killings in which 32 people died.
A group of parents of many of those killed and injured in the rampage by student gunman Seung-Hui Cho issued a statement urging Kaine to reopen the review because of inaccuracies in the report.
The families’ statement followed disclosure last week that the former director of the university’s counseling center recently found missing mental health records for Cho at his home.
Penn State University is now the nation’s No. 1 party school.
The school known partly for its football tailgate weekends and fraternity and sorority scene snatched the title away from the University of Florida in the 2009 Princeton Review survey of 122,000 students nationwide. Florida, last year’s winner, finished second in the annual survey released Monday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked No. 8.
Apparently, a penny saved is now a penny earmarked to fill budget deficits if youâ??re a student-funded group.
The new state budget specifically called on UW-Madison programs that receive funding from student segregated fees to fork over nearly $2.2 million on top of the $1.3 million theyâ??ve already provided as part of a budget cut throughout the university.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State University is now the nation’s No. 1 party school.
The school known partly for its football tailgate weekends and fraternity and sorority scene snatched the title away from the University of Florida in the 2009 Princeton Review survey of 122,000 students nationwide. Florida, last year’s winner, finished second in the annual survey released Monday. The University of Wisconsin is ranked 8th, one behind the University of Texas and one ahead of Florida State.
Once upon a time, eating in a college dorm meant soup in a hotpot or getting pizza delivered. The most interesting thing about the campus dining hall was often the salad bar.
No more. These days, college students have gourmet palates and a growing interest in preparing their own food. Mini-refrigerators and microwaves in dorm rooms are as essential as laptops. Chefs drop by dorm kitchens to give lessons, and dining halls provide takeout containers and ingredients for kids who want to cook their own meals.
What makes for college success? How do you survive freshman year? And beyond? For the freshly minted freshmen heading to campus in the next month, weâ??d like to hear your suggestions. To get you started, hereâ??s what a few readers have already volunteered.
Have a â??fellow student contact personâ? in each course, so you can read each otherâ??s notes if you need to miss class. Lucy Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison, class of 2006
The historic Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house at 237 Langdon St., destroyed by an early morning fire in May 2008, was razed this week with the site’s future still unknown.
Ryan Sugden, vice president of operations for the Sigma Phi Epsilon Alumni Board, said the fraternity just recently reached a settlement with the insurance company.
UW-Madisonâ??s student leaders are piloting a project this summer to deal with an annual problem: Where to sleep on the night of August 14?
Under most leases near campus, students must be out of their apartments on August 14, but canâ??t move into their new apartments until August 15.
This year, UW-Madisonâ??s student government is providing a safe place for students to spend the night. Under a program called Move Out Night, the third and fourth floors of the student activities tower, 333 East Campus Mall, will be open for 24 hours beginning at 10 a.m. August 14.
It has been two months since Diana Parsons graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a liberal arts degree that cost about $100,000, and she has still not found a full-time job. She has returned to Milwaukee, where she is living with her parents and occasionally waiting tables at a restaurant owned by a friend of her mother.
UW-Madisonâ??s student leaders are piloting a project this summer to deal with an annual problem: Where to sleep on the night of August 14?
Under most leases near campus, students must be out of their apartments on August 14, but canâ??t move into their new apartments until August 15.
This year, UW-Madisonâ??s student government is providing a safe place for students to spend the night. Under a program called Move Out Night, the third and fourth floors of the student activities tower, 333 East Campus Mall, will be open for 24 hours beginning at 10 a.m. August 14.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will realign its Office of Admissions and Visitor and Information Programs (VIP) in anticipation of the campus’s newly appointed vice chancellor for university relations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will realign its Office of Admissions and Visitor and Information Programs ( VIP ) in anticipation of the campus’s newly appointed vice chancellor for university relations.
MADISON â?? The University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching a national search for a new admissions director as part of an administrative reorganization.
Admissions and Visitor and Information Programs director Steve Admunson will lose oversight of admissions but remain in charge of other programs, such as campus tours and the Parent Program.
The text message was short and to the point: Possible white male 23 yoa heading towards campus with gun. Avoid campus. This is not a drill.
It wasnâ??t supposed to be a drill, but it turned out it was.
Parkside police received a call from the Kenosha Joint Services dispatch just after 8 p.m. Tuesday, said Dave Buchanan, a university spokesman. That triggered officials to use the universityâ??s new messaging system to issue a warning by phone and by text. The university had just switched to the new system that same day, Buchanan said.
A 21-year-old woman who says she was drugged and sexually assaulted multiple times at a Madison fraternity house last fall has sued the local chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity, its parent organization and the alumni organization that owns the house for negligence.
Madison police continue to investigate the incident, according to a spokesman, but no arrests have been made.
After University of Wisconsinâ??s Associated Students of Madison panicked over a debt of $180,000 owed to the state following the passage of the state budget, Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell stumbled upon a solution just prior to last weekâ??s Board of Regents meeting.
In total, UW-Madison must pay back a total of $2.2 million from University Auxiliary Units, including non-allocable and allocable segregated fees, in order to support financial aid.
A woman using the pseudonym “Jane Doe” is suing the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity and its national headquarters after she was allegedly drugged and gang raped at a party at the fraternityâ??s Langdon Street house last October.
Her attorney, Robert Elliot, filed a civil lawsuit in Milwaukee County circuit court last week, alleging that the fraternityâ??s negligence caused the womanâ??s injuries and that it failed to create a safe environment. The fraternityâ??s insurer, Risk Management Foundation, was also named as a defendant in the suit.
A lawsuit tells only one side of a story. Phone and e-mail messages left with the Sigma Chi headquarters and the Risk Management Foundation, both based in Evanston, Ill., were not returned Tuesday.
Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow plans to take the University of Wisconsin to a court after a final appeal for funding was rejected by Chancellor Biddy Martin..
CFACT is a conservative campus group that promotes solutions to environmental problems found in the free market, not within the government, according to its mission statement.
This, of course, is not true: Nearly two-thirds of students at Madison are Wisconsin residents. And yet, ask any â??Sconnieâ?â??as the natives are knownâ??and youâ??re sure to hear about the town being overrun by â??Coasties,â? the not-so-affectionate moniker for students from the East Coast and California. In campus lore, these out-of-state invaders even have a uniform: oversized sunglasses, a North Face jacket, spandex pants, and furry UGG bootsâ??no matter the weather. Oh, and her perpetual orange suntan.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student who told the Badger Herald she was raped multiple times at the Sigma Chi fraternity has now sued both the local chapter and national office, according to a suit filed in Milwaukee Circuit Court.
(HealthDay News) — If college students knew their friends really weren’t drinking as much as it might seem, they might cut back on alcohol, a new study suggests.
Researchers from Oxford Brookes University in England reviewed 22 studies that included nearly 7,275 students, most in the United States. The researchers divided the students into two groups: those who participated in intervention programs designed to help them decrease their alcohol consumption and students who didn’t.
Interventions included education about the risks of drinking heavily, information about how much college students normally drink and education about their own drinking habits, including quantity consumed, caloric intake and money spent on alcohol.
Maggie Hippman and Dan Stevens headline the list of 41 University of Wisconsin athletes who received the inaugural Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award.
Each carried a 4.0 grade-point average during the 2008-09 academic year.
Hippman, a cross country and track athlete who attended Madison Memorial, is a junior majoring in psychology. Stevens, a rower and former Sun Prairie athlete, is a senior majoring in medical microbiology and immunology.
Jason Chiang became sold on the importance of research exchange programs during his undergraduate years at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Although Chiang has traveled overseas several times to study over the past couple years, it was an experience a bit closer to home, an internship at Toronto Western Hospital in the summer of 2005, that first opened his eyes to the value of such an experience.
“I was only a sophomore and I was surrounded by these neurosurgeons who seemed to know everything,” said Chiang, who recently completed his first year as a student at the University of Wisconsin’s medical school.
Here’s a stupid question: Does incoming University of Wisconsin football recruit Shelby Harris have unlimited text messages on his cell-phone plan?
Harris gave the questioner one of those “duh” expressions, reserved mostly for out-of-touch old people.
“Of course, of course,” he said. “It would be terrible if I didn’t.”
Marsh Shapiro was incredulous when he read the June 25 letter. The Madison Fire Department wants him to hire an architect to produce floor plans of his restaurant, the Nitty Gritty, so the city can determine the capacities for individual areas: first floor, second floor and patio.
“To me, that’s nothing more than a harassment tactic,” Shapiro says. “I don’t believe it’s a safety issue. I don’t see where anybody’s safety has been jeopardized.”
Noted: Within a single state university system, health coverage can vary widely. At the University of Wisconsinâ??s Division I Madison campus, all varsity athletes fall under secondary sports coverage. By contrast, the Division III campuses of the University of Wisconsin have training rooms to treat minor athletic injuries; anything beyond that is the responsibility of athletes and their families.
While educators debate the wisdom of three-year college degrees, some ambitious students are going ahead and finishing their coursework in three years anyhow as a way to save thousands of dollars in tuition. It takes discipline, they say, a clear study plan and, often, an armful of advanced placement credits from high school.
When the TCF Bank Stadium opens in less than two months, the University of Minnesota plans to implement a system to deter alcohol-related problems by administering breathalyzers to prior offenders.
The program, called â??Check BACâ? â?? as in blood alcohol content â?? is just one of the many steps the University and police are taking to prepare for the inevitable trouble that will come with bringing football back to campus. University police have been travelling around the Big Ten looking for advice on alcohol enforcement and traffic control to get ready.
Check BAC is modeled after a University of Wisconsin-Madison program.
UW-Madisonâ??s student government has found a larger-than-expected amount of reserve funds available to cover the majority of the $256,580 asked for by the state, officials said Friday.
ASM Chair Tyler Junger said he was informed by Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell within the past 48 hours that a general reserve fund that contains money from student groups would be close to covering the entire cost. Junger said university officials were not yet sure what the amount would be, but that it was large enough to cover most of the amount requested by the state.
Tuition will rise 5.5 percent on most University of Wisconsin System campuses, but low-income students should be shielded from the impact under a budget approved Thursday.
Under a $2.2 billion annual operating budget approved by the Board of Regents, tuition will go up by $617 at the stateâ??s flagship school UW-Madison, $359 at UW-Milwaukee and about $280 at 11 other universities.
For Jordan Ludwig, Oct. 31 was just a regular night out with his friends. Until the cops showed up.
Ludwig, then 20, had used his older brother’s ID to get in to Ram Head Ratskeller on Henry Street. He and his friends, who were also underage, quickly left when they saw the cops walk in. About a half a block away, a cop grabbed him from behind.
The University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents on Thursday approved a 5.5 percent tuition hike for resident students attending one of the system’s four-year institutions during the 2009-10 academic year.
That’s the same increase approved by the board in each of the past two years, after hikes of 6.8 percent in 2007 and 6.9 percent in 2006.
Due to a new state program, students from families who make less than $60,000 are expected to get enough additional state and federal financial aid to cover the tuition hike. System officials estimate about a quarter of the students would be helped by this “hold harmless” provision.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a 5.5 percent tuition increase for undergraduates Thursday.
That comes out to $617 at the UW-Madison.
College costs are rising faster than inflation. That’s tough news for families with students in college, but it’s turning out to be a good thing for some technical colleges in the state.
The UW Board of Regents has approved a 5.5-percent tuition hike.
The Board voted for the increase at all four-year UW campuses during it’s meeting Thursday. System President Kevin Reilly says it will impact students at the UW-Madison the most, with a $617 tuition hike for the upcoming academic year. The UW-Milwaukee will see a $359 increase and other four-year campuses will see tuition jump about $280.
University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates from Wisconsin will pay $745 more during the next academic year, under a 5.5 percent tuition increase and new student fee rates approved by the UW Board of Regents on Thursday for four-year campuses.
That means in-state UW-Madison students will pay about $8,300 in tuition and fees annually. Tuition and fees at other University of Wisconsin System institutions will range from about $7,700 at UW-Milwaukee, or $398 more than last year, to $6,246 at UW-Stout, a $307 increase. Mandatory student fees, which pay for things like student unions and health services, vary by campus.
University of Wisconsin System officials said the budget approved by the Board of Regents Thursday will mean larger classes, cuts in student services, tighter reins on spending and an increase in tuition.
UW President Kevin Reilly said there’s no doubt the next several years “are going to be very difficult” on UW campuses.
The operating budget cuts $50 million in state aid, freezes salaries and requires eight days of furloughs for all UW System employees.
Guidelines approved by the board also direct campuses to slow down hiring and travel while they make plans to cut or merge unpopular or redundant academic programs.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google have expanded their agreement to make more of the university’s huge collection of books available to the public, researchers and libraries and other universities.
The expanded project came about when Google reached a settlement with a broad class of authors and publishers in 2008 to put their works online.
In the new agreement, portions of UW-Madison’s in-copyright and out-of-print books will be able to be previewed for free, as well as the full texts to be accessible online for a price.
Despite the rain, there was a bustle of activity and excitement Wednesday morning at the James Madison Park boathouse. It was the last day of a four-week adaptive rowing course and participants and volunteers were too busy setting up the boat shells to let a little rain slow them down.
The adaptive rowing group consists of 10 participants and approximately twenty volunteers. The participants have varying physical disabilities, including spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis and spina bifida, and most are in wheelchairs.
The course is a joint effort between the Mendota Rowing Club and the UW Adapted Fitness Program under the department of kinesiology. The collaboration is unique, Mendota Rowing Club coordinator Cayte Anderson said, because it allows UW-Madison students and faculty to assist the participants while other volunteers assist with rowing instruction. “We really couldnâ??t do it without each other,” Anderson said.
University of Wisconsin System students who live in residence halls and purchase meal plans could be hit with fee increases averaging $335 this year, budget documents show.
Some students said Wednesday the proposed hikes for student activities, services and room and board seemed excessive during a recession. But one national expert said they are a bargain compared to those in other states and will help pay for improvements.
A state lawmaker is attacking a five and a half percent tuition hike expected to be approved by University Wisconsin Board of Regents this week. Whitewater Republican Steve Nass is a member of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities.
Itâ??s an example of “arrogance” for UW officials to force a five and a half percent tuition hike on students in these troubling economic times. Thatâ??s the feeling of state Representative Steve Nass, a Whitewater Republican. “This is going to hurt middle-class families in particular because they are the ones whose sons and daughters don’t get grants. This is going to pound them.” The Board of Regents is expected to approve the increase tomorrow, raising tuition on the Madison campus about $620, to a total of $7300 a year.
Compiling final grades for students in Sharon Thoma’s Zoology 101 course is fairly simple.
The University of Wisconsin campus is home this week to the Hip-Hop Institute.
More than 40 teachers and students from across the country are attending the event to learn more about the culture, practices and benefits of hip-hop.
It’s a week-long event aimed at rethinking the genre, organizers said.
Noted: William Workman researched online dating as a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student and also taught classes on how to successfully date using the Internet through the Memorial Union’s Mini Courses, WISC-TV reported.
Borrowing a page from FDRs New Deal, some colleges are putting more students to work this summer than usual. The goal: to make sure they can afford to come back in the fall. St. Johns University in Collegeville, Minn., created 80 full-time student jobs, most of them involving physical labor such as clearing trails or painting dorm rooms. The College of Wooster in Ohio has hired more than 200 students â?? almost triple the number it usually employs in summer â?? to do chores such as planting vegetables and washing windows.
Police are searching for the suspect, or suspects, who murdered a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee student in the Riverwest neighborhood.
Nathan Potter, 21, was found shot near the corner of North Dousman and West Wright Streets, just east of Humboldt Boulevard. The shooting happened just after 1:00 a.m. Monday.
Look out from Neighborhood House at its Mills Street neighbors and you’ll see the hard-used, bikes-on-the-porch kind of housing that says “college students.”
“We’re surrounded by student housing,” says Zanna Majerle, executive director of the community center that has served Madison’s storied Greenbush area for 93 years. “Our neighborhood has moved away.”
The evolution of the neighborhood poses funding challenges for the center, and its leaders are looking to its location near campus, just a half-mile from Camp Randall Stadium, for a solution.
Tuition would rise more than $600 at UW-Madison under a proposal released Friday to increase tuition at the four-year schools in the University of Wisconsin System.
Tuition would remain unchanged at the systemâ??s 13 two-year colleges.
The recommendation by UW System President Kevin Reilly needs approval from the Board of Regents, which is expected to vote on it Thursday when it meets to approve the annual operating budget.
Tuition would increase about $300 at most of the four-year schools in the University of Wisconsin System and remain unchanged at the system’s 13 two-year colleges under a proposal released Friday.
The recommendation put forth by UW System President Kevin Reilly needs approval from the Board of Regents, who are expected to vote on it Thursday when they meet to approve the annual operating budget.
Awakened by a ringing alarm clock at 7:50 a.m., Adam Tackett leapt out of bed with a focused and determined attitude.
It was Monday, June 22 and University of Wisconsin undergraduate football tickets were about to go on sale. Back in March, Tackett â?? a junior who requested that his real last name not be used â?? made up his mind about what he planned to do with his possible tickets. It was just a matter of getting them.
A nervous Tackett hopped onto his laptop and at 8:30 a.m. logged into the ticket server on the athletic department site, uwbadgers.com. Thirty minutes later, Tackett had successfully purchased a ticket voucher. Around 11 a.m., the university confirmed all tickets had sold out, and an excited Tackett immediately posted on his Facebook status that he was selling a student football ticket voucher.
There are dorms that are popular on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus: Elizabeth Waters, the scenic hall in the center of campus, or the new Ogg, which has air conditioning and walk-in closets.
And then, for whatever reason, there are the ones that arenâ??t. Whether it be Witte, Cole, Kronshage, or another, officials say theyâ??re never sure which dorms will drop to the bottom of the list on any given year, falling victim to the whims of 17- and 18-year-olds.
Word up!
Forty teachers from nine states are gathering next week for a program to discuss the merits of using hip hop in the classroom.
The conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will also address using spoken word as a teaching tool. Spoken word involves telling a story in a lyrical way, much like poetry.
