College students and parents are clogging phone lines and rushing to Internet sites in a scramble to refinance college loans before a sharp interest rate increase this weekend.
An almost 2 percentage point interest rate increase for federal student loans kicks in Saturday, and advisers say that not refinancing could cost thousands of additional dollars in interest in the decades after a student enters the work force.
College student Sierra Bethke is a little nervous about the rising cost of higher education ââ?¬â? but she has a chance this week to save more that $1,000 in interest on her student loans.
The nation’s top party school could get a sobering jolt from a change in state law that puts alcohol on a par with date-rape drugs as an aggravating factor in certain sexual assaults.
The change, long sought by rape- victim advocates in Wisconsin, means that victims who are very drunk during a sexual encounter can be judged incapable of giving consent, triggering a possible second-degree sexual assault charge.
UW Officer Heidi Laundrie credits UW staff for covering up or cleaning graffiti on campus as soon as it’s reported. So far it cost the University 20-thousand dollars to fix the graffiti in the Humanities building
This week, an excited group of Protestant clergy members and nonprofit officials broke ground on a new and unusual dormitory project that will serve the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Once constructed, the building will allow just under 300 students to live in an environment that is supportive of spirituality and religion, say organizers.
60,000 big ones.
That’s how much Laura Pickart expects to owe, despite a partial scholarship, after earning a biology degree from St. Norbert College in DePere.
It started already in elementary school ââ?¬â? pushing young kids to pick a career path, says college junior Jennifer LaBorde.
But the cost of college is pushing back, she maintains.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has expanded a program that guarantees admission to qualified transfer students from state technical colleges. (Final item)
Benjamin Fortin does not mince words when discussing Ogg Hall, a University of Wisconsin-Madison dormitory where he lived last year.
“It was no fun,” the sophomore said with a sigh. “I was on the bad floor.”
A socially conservative, practicing Presbyterian, Fortin was turned off by the drinking, smoking and general troublemaking that went on in the dorm. He craved a more serene place to lay his head.
As the university’s Presbyterian ministry sees it, Fortin is not alone. The ministry, known as Pres House, is spending $17 million to build a private residence hall for the university’s students of faith.
The family of a Japanese man who disappeared in January after coming to Madison to study English is expected to arrive soon to claim his body, which was found Monday in Lake Mendota.
“It must be an awful, horrible thing to have happen in any family at any time, and to have it happen 7,000 miles away is just hard to comprehend,” said Dan Perreth, co-director of the Wisconsin English as a Second Language Institute, where Kenji Ohmi, of Kyoto, had been studying only a short time before he vanished on Jan. 28.
Adding another wrinkle to the growing range of housing options at UW-Madison, leaders of the Pres House today will hold a ceremonial ground breaking for a $17 million private dorm aimed at helping students explore their faith.
The seven-story building, slated for a church-owned parking lot just behind the Pres House at 731 State St., will provide beds for about 280 students starting in fall 2007. Reservations will be taken starting this fall, and construction will begin in early July.
If you’re planning to consolidate your student loans, you no longer have to dance with the date that brung you. An emergency spending bill signed into law last week eliminated a decades-old rule that required borrowers whose student loans were all from one lender to consolidate with that lender.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) ââ?¬â? A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison won the National Concrete Canoe Competition for the fourth straight time Saturday. Wisconsinââ?¬â?¢s 21-foot-long, 162-pound natural gray canoe, named ââ?¬Ë?ââ?¬Ë?Forward,ââ?¬â?¢Ã¢â?¬â?¢ bested 22 other entries from engineering schools in the U.S. and Canada.
Area educators, for the most part, are waiting to see the execution of the University of Wisconsin System�s plan to increase student diversity before praising or pounding it.
Another University of Wisconsin team wins a national championship. The U.W. team competing in the National Concrete Canoe Competition in Oklahoma took home their fourth straight title this weekend.
Social networking, event announcements, roommate vetting, law enforcement, and recently a bit of job browsing � Facebook.com has an impressive array of uses.
Bo Ryan pointed to a number of factors that led to the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team earning the highest overall grade-point average of all the men’s teams at the school this spring.
“If one thing here is emphasized more than another, it wouldn’t be right,” said the Wisconsin coach. ” It was a combination of everything.”
What mattered to Ryan is that the Badgers, who had a cumulative GPA of 3.2, made a remarkable turnaround after three players stumbled during the fall semester and were ruled academically ineligible to play in the spring semester.
I have little sympathy for any student or family member who finds it hard now to pay for student loans (ââ?¬Å?In debt before you start,ââ?¬Â Cover story, News, Monday).
After revamping a fake Facebook.com profile they had quietly established for University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley calling him a “rage-aholic” and “Sweatshop Chancellor,” a student group sent a campuswide e-mail inviting students to view the page and register.
Enrollees in Wisconsin’s two state-sponsored college savings plans will be able to earn tuition credits at some private colleges and universities beginning Tuesday.
MOE KNOWS: Before calling a moratorium on college prank recollections, I’ll share Madison attorney David Relles’ tale from the 1970s. As Relles notes, “The statute of limitations has passed.”
In the early ’70s on the UW-Madison campus there was a mini-scandal involving the selling of term papers. A company had actually taken out an ad in the Daily Cardinal offering harried students a chance to buy, rather than write, term papers on a wide variety of subjects….
Some graduates are now leaving college with student-loan debt in the six figures. Graduates with more than $100,000 in debt still account for a small subset of borrowers. But their numbers are rising. And the proportion who are leaving college with some level of unmanageable debt ââ?¬â? debt they can’t repay without significant hardship ââ?¬â? is swelling.
The infamous Pail and Shovel Party’s flamingo prank on Bascom Hill, several UW-Madison alumni, and genetics professor David Schwartz are mentioned in this Doug Moe column.
After three years of effort developing one of the cleanest and most fuel-efficient SUVs in North America, a group of UW-Madison engineering students placed second in the “Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility” contest sponsored by General Motors and U.S. Department of Energy.
An electric hybrid vehicle running on E85 fuel proved to be the right technological combination for a team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, which won top honors Thursday in a General Motorssponsored competition to demonstrate alternative energy vehicles.
UW-Madison finished second.
MILWAUKEE – Resident students in the University of Wisconsin System will pay as much as $382 more in annual tuition starting this fall under a plan approved Thursday by the UW System Board of Regents.
The systemwide 6.8 percent tuition increase means UW-Madison students will pay $382 more a year, UW-Milwaukee students $374, and students at all the system’s other four-year universities and two-year colleges $291.
About 460 East High School seniors sat in the school’s sultry gym Thursday on the eve of their graduation.
They practiced the processional, sitting and standing in unison – graduation ceremony duties 101 – in preparation for the moment tonight when they are awarded their diploma.
Some worry about the future – how they will pay for college. If juggling a job and a full class schedule this fall is going to be a workable formula.
Move over Bud. College life isn’t just about drinking beer. In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.’s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most “in” thing among undergraduate college students, according to the latest biannual market research study by Ridgewood, N.J.-based Student Monitor.
(MESA, ARIZONA) A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students are out in the Arizona desert this week competing with 16 other universities to produce a new fuel-efficient SUV. The project is calls ââ?¬Å?Challenge X.ââ?¬Â
The contest is sponsored by General Motors and the Federal Department of Energy. It�s taking place in GM�s proving ground near the city of Mesa. The goal is to increase SUV fuel efficiency by 50 percent, reduce harmful emissions and still have a car that can carry a family pulling a boat on their vacation. (Third item.)
That iPods are ââ?¬Å?inââ?¬Â on college campuses might not surprise you. That Apple’s portable music players are more popular than beer? Now that’s surprising. Beer traditionally has had the biggest buzz with college students: Seventy-five percent consider drinking beer ââ?¬Å?inââ?¬Â on their campuses, according to Student Monitor’s Lifestyle & Media Study.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. – Administrators are investigating whether members of a university dance team violated school policies after photos on an Internet Web site appeared to show underage drinking and sexually suggestive poses at a team “initiation party.”
Time is running out for students and graduates to consolidate their college loans. At the end of the month, interest rates on federal loans will be going up, some by more than two-percent. It is also the last time current students can consolidate before they finish school and there is a lot to consider.
MADISON, Wis. — A legal drug used to give fast pain relief has been linked to dozens of deaths and a drug called “bad heroin.”
In the last month, two people have died of heroin overdoses in Madison.
Why is what you do important? I am able to help victims or survivors of various crimes and other students in crisis through a difficult time, providing services that assist them in succeeding in school and, hopefully, throughout their lives. I also have the opportunity to work with various student groups that are under-represented and help them find a voice on this rather large campus.
Why is what you do important? I am able to help victims or survivors of various crimes and other students in crisis through a difficult time, providing services that assist them in succeeding in school and, hopefully, throughout their lives. I also have the opportunity to work with various student groups that are under-represented and help them find a voice on this rather large campus.
The University of Wisconsin System is changing its admissions policy for all but the flagship campus Madison, which has long practiced the holistic approach to which the other campuses are switching.
A principle to guide the switch: UW campuses must enroll only students who qualify.
MADISON, Wis. — Demolition is under way to make room for a brand new University Square, which will change the Madison skyline.
While the annual American College Health Association conference in New York City was filled with many questions this year ââ?¬â?? where the profession is headed and how to assist mentally ill students looming large among them ââ?¬â?? the problem that is attracting ever more attention from many health professionals continues to be the ever-present risk of suicide on campus.
A 6.8 percent tuition increase would mean lower-income students would have an even tougher time paying for a University of Wisconsin education, student leaders said.
The Mann Scholars program has reached a milestone with two of its first recipients earning college degrees.
Wednesday night in the Memorial Union’s Great Hall, the high school scholarship program honored eight young people who hope to follow in the graduates’ footsteps.
The group from a campus religious center in Madison had gone to Israel and Palestine to see ways people in that conflicted region were trying to make peace. In the middle of their trip last week, they wound up just seven blocks away from a fierce gun battle in Ramallah between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians that left four of the Palestinians dead.
The group of 18 University of Wisconsin students was part of a service learning trip to Israel and Palestine known as Quest I-P, which is a project of The Crossing, an ecumenical ministry located at 1127 University Ave. just off the UW-Madison campus.
Hundred of campus health officials gathered in New York City Wednesday for the annual American College Health Association conference, in an effort to figure out where their complex profession is headed.
….the prank is probably not good enough to make it onto the prestigious list of the “Top 10 College Pranks of All Time,” which can be found online.
It’s a fascinating list, and I am proud to say that a UW-Madison prank, from 1979, is honored as the fourth best college prank ever perpetrated.
Madison: The UW System is in the process of changing the admissions requirements, but the new approach has many politicians worried that standards are being lowered.
Wisconsin veterans will receive free tuition at University of Wisconsin campuses and the state’s technical colleges starting in fall 2007 under a bill Gov. Jim Doyle signed on Monday.
Everything Christine “Chris” Rothschild did was controlled, elegant and kind, her friends said.Those qualities stand in sharp contrast to her violent death on May 26, 1968.On a rainy and foggy evening, a student looking for a friend found the UW-Madison freshman dead in the bushes outside Sterling Hall.
Not long ago, prattling away on the phone was as much a teenage rite as hanging out at the mall. Now, Sidekicks and iBooks are as prized as Mom’s Princess phone, and conversations, the oral kind, are as uncomfortable as braces. Which makes employers and communications experts anxious: This generation may be technologically savvier than their bosses, but will they be able to have a professional discussion? A 2005 report for Achieve, a non-profit organization that helps states raise academic standards, found that 34% of employers were dissatisfied with the oral communication skills of high school graduates; 45% of college students and 46% of high school graduates who entered the workforce instead of college said they struggled with their public speaking abilities.
A female student who drinks four Appletinis during a night of club hopping is a binge drinker, according to most experts who study campus health behaviors. But so is a male student who ends up in a campus health center after an intense night of keg stands and beer pong.
MADISON – Facing a backlash from parents and lawmakers, University of Wisconsin System leaders on Thursday downplayed their plans to change admissions policies to give greater weight to nonacademic factors such as race and income.
The University of Wisconsin System’s new guidelines for campus admissions policies threaten to bar high-achieving Wisconsin students from studying at the campus of their choice, a lawmaker says.
Grants and gifts totaling more than $2 million – including $100,000 for the Henry Vilas Park Zoo’s building campaign and $50,000 in additional support for the city’s first municipal swimming pool – were announced today by The Evjue Foundation Inc., the charitable arm of The Capital Times.
Most people believe increased educational opportunity for low-income Latino and African-American students is the key to a better quality of life in Milwaukee.
That’s why some support the school voucher program, essentially a taxpayer-supported affirmative action plan for minority students to attend private schools.
However, when attempts are made to incorporate more diversity in higher education, many of these same folks start to complain about racial quotas being used to create an unfair advantage.
The University of Wisconsin System will look at race and other factors outside academics under a new policy it is putting into effect for reviewing applicants to its campuses.
Six months ago, Patricia Rengel was just a lecturer in Spanish.
But in December, Rengel and others in the Spanish department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison heard about a program to encourage the use of podcasting in the classroom. At the time, she barely knew what podcasting was.
EARLIER THIS year, in conjunction with its 100th anniversary, the NCAA released a list of the 100 Most Influential NCAA Student Athletes of all time.
The athletes were chosen by a special panel that included college presidents, athletic directors, faculty representatives, student athletes and conference representatives.
The list was intended to honor those student athletes who have significantly impacted or made enduring contributions to society.
Digital plagiarizing calls for digital policing. Such is the philosophy behind a wave of anti-plagiarism digital software that colleges are using to deal with the widespread use of essay-writing websites and online databases of pre-written papers, and to uncover writing copied from other students’ work.
Spending time with friends before a night of studying for finals allowed UW-Madison freshman Ryan Huibregtse to reflect on his first completed year of college.
“It’s been crazy,” Ryan said, “but things are turning out better than expected, to be honest.”
Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to sign a bill that would make Wisconsin military veterans eligible for free tuition at University of Wisconsin campuses and the state’s technical colleges.
Mentions that the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business reports a 14.2% jump in companies interviewing on campus and a 6.2% raise in average salary for graduates – $47,021. UW Engineering Career Services says the average salary for engineers is up between 7% and 8%, with many new job seekers getting multiple offers, signing bonuses and relocation packages.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Patrick Farrell and Nicolet Area Technical College President Adrian Lorbetske signed a transfer contract agreement between the schools on Wednesday afternoon.
