As Madison considers what to do about future Downtown Halloween parties, the city should recognize that the celebration is fun for some and good business for others. But it’s also a huge expense for our community.
NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, getting more students into college has been the top priority of America’s higher education leaders. But what’s the point, a growing number of experts are wondering, when so few who go to school finish a degree?
Following the release of a police DVD of last month�s Halloween festivities, representatives gathered together yesterday to scrutinize the aftermath of this year�s event.
Chancellor John Wiley has yet to sign a resolution improving the working conditions for sweatshop laborers manufacturing University of Wisconsin apparel.
Once again, state legislators and the national media have turned their attention to the UW System. This time, their fiery gaze has zeroed in on UW-Eau Claire.
Madison�s unofficial Halloween planning group maintained mostly positive opinions about the 2005 celebration at a Tuesday meeting.
University of Wisconsin System officials asked the attorney general Monday for her opinion on whether a practice at the Eau Claire campus of banning resident assistants from leading Bible studies in their dorm rooms is constitutional.
….UW-Eau Claire resident assistant Lance Steiger, who challenged the policy, said he was happy to see the UW System seek an outside opinion on the practice. But he said a lawsuit was possible if the school does not change its policy.
Proposed cuts to financial aid programs could harm the ability of some families to send their children to college, a state lawmaker says.
Republicans in Congress are trying to cut $50 billion in overall spending, and have targeted $14.5 billion in student financial aid cuts over the next five years. The House is expected vote on Wednesday.
….State Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison, said Monday that the cuts would come on top of major tuition increases in the states. By next year, tuition at University of Wisconsin campuses will have increased more than 50 percent over four years.
It must have been a long time since state Rep. Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, last stepped foot on a UW campus because his ââ?¬Å?student bill of rightsââ?¬Â is completely out of touch with the students and lacks all practicality. Its chief accomplishment is to be an absolute waste of time and money for students, professors, university administrators, legislators and taxpayers.
Former Senator George McGovern spoke to a crowd of UW-Madison students in the Wisconsin Union Theater as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series Monday.
In a situation that may strain the relationship between church and state in Wisconsin, UW System officials appealed to the state attorney general Monday for her input on a UW policy that forbids resident assistants from holding religious functions in dormitories.
Attention! This university is on high alert! According to some University of Wisconsin officials, we have a huge problem here on campus that is ruining this university�s reputation.
University of Wisconsin Regent Danae Davis has made a priority of creating a healthy campus climate for UW students.
Expressing various qualms with the country�s current political sphere, former United States Senator and former presidential candidate George McGovern spoke to a packed crowd at the Memorial Union Monday.
Madison – Emily Bach, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recognized her friends’ Halloween costumes immediately – jackets by The North Face, oversize sunglasses, sheepskin boots known as Uggs.
MADISON – University of Wisconsin System officials asked the attorney general Monday for her opinion on whether a practice at the Eau Claire campus of banning resident assistants from leading Bible studies in their dorm rooms is constitutional.
Some of the hardest-working, most engaged students at community colleges also are achieving the lowest academic results, a report out Monday says.
The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) says students who are considered high-risk ââ?¬â? typically defined as being less academically prepared, minorities, the first in their families to go to college or older than their peers ââ?¬â? are generally more engaged in school than their colleagues.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – New federal proposals would significantly change how research is conducted at universities, placing tough restrictions on foreign-born scientists and tightening access to equipment and computers.
UW-Madison researchers said the proposed rules could create problems for them. Universities are exempt from most federal controls on their work because they conduct what the government calls “fundamental research” – work that is taught in open classrooms, published in journals and shared openly with the scientific community.
It is not true that officials at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will be conducting room checks to make sure that students aren’t reading their Bibles or the Qur’an on state property; nor will those officials be conducting bed checks to make sure the kids aren’t praying before they close their eyes to sleep
University Partners is renovating the five private dorms serving UW-Madison students that it acquired from Steve Brown Apartments of Madison.
University Partners, a subsidiary of Dallas-based FirstWorthing, acquired the Highlander, Statesider, Langdon, The Towers and The Regent in 2004, and is taking over management of them on Jan. 1.
A bill proposed in the state Assembly would set specific standards for school policy and professor conduct to ensure the rights of students in the UW System, according to its author, Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids.
Some revelers attending last month�s Halloween festivities were captured not only by police officers, but also by police cameras.
Pending a signature from Governor Doyle upon his return from abroad, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will add a second student representative.
Camp Randall Stadium saw 66 ejections and 33 arrests from a record crowd of 83,184 for Barry Alvarez�s final home game as the University of Wisconsin�s head football coach Saturday.
The number of foreign students who enrolled at American colleges and universities fell for the second consecutive year in 2004, with much of the damage seen in the graduate schools, where international enrollments dropped for the first time in nearly 10 years.
These results appear in the latest edition of “Open Doors,” an annual report on international academic mobility that is published by the Institute of International Education and supported by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Students in the University of Wisconsin System do not have enough control over their education, State Rep. Marlin Schneider, D-Grand Rapids, says. And that is why Schneider has proposed a ââ?¬Å?student bill of rights,ââ?¬Â which was introduced into the Wisconsin Legislature and is awaiting committee consideration.
All University of Wisconsin students traveling to Spain next spring will soon be receiving their visas.
University of Wisconsin student fees, historically used to pay for student services and activities, are increasingly being tapped by administrators to build student unions, fitness centers and student health clinics as state funding dwindles, members of the Board of Regents were told Thursday.
The fees have reached more than $500 per year at all four-year campuses and as high as $1,148 at UW-Green Bay. At the flagship UW-Madison, student fees have increased 33 percent over the last five years to $662 this year.
Regent Thomas Loftus of Sun Prairie asked for a clearer picture of how student fees have been used, the process to approve increases, and what they mean for the affordability of attending college.
In a win for student representation on the UW System Board of Regents, the state Senate unanimously passed a measure to add another student regent to the board Thursday.
A married duo of Washington insiders, UW-Madison alumni Rita Braver and Robert Barnett, discussed insights on their careers and on the current state of Washington with UW-Madison students Thursday.
The Board of Regents raised several issues relevant to students during Thursday�s meeting, including the results of a UW System-wide drug and alcohol use survey and the proposed audit of student segregated fees.
University of Wisconsin students will have additional representation on the UW System Board of Regents if a bill passed in the State Assembly Thursday becomes law.
University of Wisconsin business students seeking to go to Spain next semester learned Thursday they will be able to receive their visas in time for the trip.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Education Committee discussed several issues pertaining to the UW System Thursday, including a recent survey related to alcohol abuse throughout the system.
The auditor of the University of Wisconsin System agreed Thursday to launch a review of student fees at the request of a member of the UW Board of Regents.
The announcement by Ron Yates of the audit – the first one ever requested by a regent – came less than two weeks after the Journal Sentinel reported that annual student fees had more than doubled at most schools in the UW System, to as high as nearly $1,150 at UW-Green Bay.
MADISON, Wis. ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin officials moved ahead Thursday with a plan to audit how its schools are using student fees, which have skyrocketed along with tuition in recent years.
Most people know UW Madison students drink.
But the UW Board of Regents wants to know what to do about it in the wake of statistics some experts call alarming.
Freedom of choice and the right to privacy are two of the most fundamental principles in our country. Why, then, is a Wisconsin State Representative trying to restrict both of these key constitutional rights for UW women? The Republican-controlled Assembly passed legislation this summer introduced by Rep. Daniel LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, that would prohibit University Health Services from dispensing the morning after pill to students. While LeMahieu claims the bill promotes responsible choices, this gratuitous, offensive and otherwise unconstitutional legislation is nothing more than a malicious attack on the reproductive rights of women across campus.
Students gave input on plans for creating a new Union South and renovating aspects of the Memorial Union during the Wisconsin Union Facilities Improvement Plan 2005 Student Open Forum Wednesday.
After five months of labor on two murals in Union South, a Madison artist must leave his work unfinished, as the future of the building is uncertain.
For more than 30 years, officials in higher education have made a mission of leveling the playing field for potential college applicants in a variety of ways.
Union officials held an open forum for students and faculty Wednesday, listening to feedback and providing reasons to address future reconstructive projects of Memorial Union and Union South as a part of the Campus Master Plan.
U.S. Rep. Mark Green, R-Wis., sent a letter to University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly Wednesday requesting the system rescind a controversial policy he views as ââ?¬Å?unconstitutional.ââ?¬Â
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz addressed Halloween, students� impact on the city and his potential recall while drinking milk and eating cookies at a discussion with University of Wisconsin students Wednesday at Grainger Hall.
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz addressed Halloween, students� impact on the city and his potential recall while drinking milk and eating cookies at a discussion with University of Wisconsin students Wednesday at Grainger Hall.
Steve Brown Apartments’ five private dorms serving UW-Madison students will be under new management with new names effective Jan. 1, the new management company announced today.
University Partners, a subsidiary of Dallas-based FirstWorthing, said it acquired the Highlander, Statesider, Langdon, The Towers and The Regent in 2004, with Steve Brown Apartments continuing to manage the properties.
Everybody has an irresponsible friend who cadges money one week to pay his electric bill and then goes out the next and buys himself a big-screen TV.
Congress is that freeloading friend. And America’s children and working families are about to get handed the bill for the television.
Playboy has been on campus since Monday, looking for girls to bare all, and show off their ranking of the u-w as a top party school. A ranking that has many at the university concerned about the consequences.
WHITEWATER, Wis. – Nearly every college has some screwball who never seems to graduate, lingering year after year as classmates move on. And then there is Johnny Lechner.
In his 12th year of college here, Mr. Lechner has parlayed life as perpetual student into a lucrative personal brand. His genius for self-promotion might have earned him Phi Beta Kappa – if only it had been applied to his studies.
Entering Michigan State University as a freshman, Joseph Montes assumed he would complete his degree in four years. Two majors, multiple part-time jobs and three internships later, the 22-year-old fifth-year senior from Lake Orion, Mich., isn’t necessarily disappointed that it didn’t turn out that way.
Chancellor John Wiley refused to sign a proposal to curtail sweatshop labor in the production of UW-Madison merchandise. Now Associated Students of Madison is voicing its concerns with Wiley�s decision.
Molly Jahn, a professor of plant breeding and genetics and plant biology at Cornell University, will soon take over as dean of UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. As a college, CALS has a budget of over $150 million and is annually awarded over $100 million in research grants. It also contains 2,200 undergraduates, 1,000 graduate students and 270 faculty members.
Facing problems obtaining the necessary visas from the Spanish consulate in Chicago, UW-Madison students may have to cancel or postpone plans to study abroad in Spain during the upcoming spring semester.
The Associated Students of Madison received a letter from Chancellor John Wiley Tuesday in response to a proposal aimed at the university�s apparel-licensing policy.
University of Wisconsin students set to travel abroad to Spain this spring now face uncertain plans.
Dear Editor: I am an engineering graduate student at UW-Madison and have attended Halloween on State Street for each of the last seven years. I have become very frustrated by the attitude of the police and the mayor over the last few years. Every year they claim to spend so much time planning the event, but the planning always results in minimal communication and excessive force by the police.
It seems to me most of the crowd would leave State Street at the threat of being pepper-sprayed, so why don’t the police warn us (if they have, I have never heard it)….It seems a little communication could go a long way.
Congress could vote this week to make it harder for low- and middle-income families to provide their children with a college education.
Republicans in Congress are trying to cut $50 billion in overall spending, and have targeted $14.5 billion in student financial aid cuts over the next five years. The House will vote on Thursday.
Mohammed Abed cannot visit his grandfather�s house.
His family was expelled from Palestine in 1949 after much of their homeland was designated to become the state of Israel in 1948. His family settled in a refugee camp in Lebanon. ââ?¬Å?For many years, Palestinians have cried out to the world that we were ethnically cleansed from our land,ââ?¬Â Abed said. ââ?¬Å?Nobody believed them.ââ?¬Â
So Naplan has enlisted a band of UW-Madison marketing students to convince their peers that no, they won’t be bored at the opera; yes, they can dress for comfort; and if they have a student ID, they’ll pay only 20 bucks.
Fifty UW-Madison students with a desire to travel and help the less fortunate can do so this winter through the Wisconsin Union�s Alternative Breaks program.
