Madison: Very few students can afford to attend college without some form of financial aid. And for students without a lot of family support, financial aid is a must.
Higher Education Aid Board Executive Secretary Connie Hutchison says the Wisconsin Higher Education Grants are big part of that aid. “We know there are a lot of needy students out there who are depending on this to get to college.
For the past 15 years, Intel executive Craig Barrett has played the national education scold, warning anyone willing to listen that the United States would pay a price for poorly educating its students in math and science. It’s too bad so few listened.
University of Wisconsin students will most likely have to pick up the tab for an extra $40.3 million in state funding cuts approved Wednesday by Republican lawmakers.
No matter how long a person has lived in Madison, it is common for UW-Madison students to see the same nameless faces passing by them almost daily. They become a part of a routine, and seeing familiar faces can be comforting to students-but faces don’t explain a person’s life story.
UW-Madison students do not have to travel to the nation’s capitol to get a glimpse of a memorial to see one of America’s greatest leaders.
A statue of Abraham Lincoln has watched over UW-Madison students since 1909.
A $40 million initiative to add a new wing to Grainger Hall can begin this summer, following the demolition of 905 University Ave, a building commonly identified by the “Bucky Badger” clocks on its exterior.
“The Santa Fe Trail,” a UW-Madison traveling classroom summer course, embarked June 2 for a two-week exploration of racial issues and history found within the U.S. West.
The course aims to broaden student perceptions of the West by visiting a range of famous and not so famous western locations on their bus tour.
The Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee today moved to trim Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed budget for the University of Wisconsin System and student aids.
In a May 7 cycling race, Matthew Wittig-a dearly-loved member of the UW-Madison cycling teams-crashed and sustained the injuries that would lead to his death on May 12.
A class of University of Wisconsin-Madison students has been designing ties for a world-class neckwear company as part of an annual competition.
The class, Printing and Dying II, is in its fifth year of designing ties for the company XMI, which is based in Chippewa Falls. The company also has a marketing office in Greenwich, Conn., and a showroom in New York. The class, led by Professor Jennifer Angus, is in the Department of Environment, Textiles and Design.
Almost 600 incoming UW-Madison freshmen found themselves on the University Housing waiting list in late May, seeking spaces in the dorms that many will never receive.
MADISON ââ?¬â? The Legislatureââ?¬â?¢s budget committee voted Wednesday to deny state funding to University of Wisconsin campuses that turn away ROTC programs.
The 15-1 vote was a symbolic slap at UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen, who last month rejected a proposed Army ROTC chapter over the military�s stance on gay soldiers.
Madison Democrat, Representative Mark Pocan, said legislators have voiced more concerns over an increase in the cost of a deer hunting license, than in increases in tuition on UW campuses. “A lot of us are here because of that education,” said Pocan. “We’re making it harder and harder for people to get the same opportunity we had. And I think that’s unfortunate.” (Audio.)
MADISON, Wis. — State legislators have voted to slash $45 million from the governor’s budget that would have gone to the University of Wisconsin System.
The Joint Finance Committee’s vote means less financial aid and less money to hire professors at UW schools.
So it’s one thing to eat bugs for $50,000 or humble yourself before Donald Trump. But can anyone imagine a reality show with 10 gifted, teenage brainiacs competing head-to-head for a four-year college scholarship? Well, yeah.
As this year’s college seniors pick up their diplomas, many of them may think that their future relationship with their alma mater will be limited to periodic class reunions and solicitations for funds. That may have been true in the past, but no longer. Colleges and universities have come to realize that their relationship with their alumni is a two-way street. If they want support from their graduates, they must give them something back in return.
MENASHA ââ?¬â? A bill that would ban the University of Wisconsin System from advertising and prescribing emergency contraceptives has been generating debate and receiving mixed reaction, especially among students.
MINNEAPOLIS – What started out as a little-noticed ban on the military at a small University of Wisconsin campus in Menomonie has erupted into a statewide controversy ââ?¬â? which may be on its way to being defused.
At first pass, Jessica Zigman seems to be a fairly typical young woman from a nice middle class family. Sheââ?¬â?¢s attractive, outgoing and smart. As a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Zigman is majoring in medicine. There is one other thing ââ?¬â? she is a highly skilled competitive boxer with the tools to flatten most of her male classmates.
A state lawmaker said Thursday the Legislature needs to send a message of disapproval to the University of Wisconsin System after a school clinic urged students to get advance prescriptions for emergency contraception before leaving on spring break.
Vincent Patoka, an information guide at the Campus Information and Visitor’s Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university department that handles off-campus housing, said almost everyone who lives off campus has to sign a yearlong lease.
“Certain apartment complexes will offer an academic-year lease, but the student will have to pay up to several hundred extra dollars a month for nine months, instead of a smaller rent for 12 months,” Patoka said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took a more proactive stance to prevent the spread of meningococcal meningitis last week by issuing a recommendation that all children over the age of 11 be immunized against the potentially fatal disease with a newly licensed vaccine.
College athletes have been noticeably absent from Congressional debates over performance-enhancing drugs. New legislation pending in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, however, could trigger government oversight of drug testing in college sports.
On the 16th floor of the Boston University School of Law building one recent afternoon, three law students took a break from their studies to eat lunch and reflect. They discussed classes that could have been better, the impending bar exam, and the foremost question in their minds: how to pay off their student loans.
Each was looking at the attractive option of consolidating her debt by locking in the current low interest rate for up to 30 years, either with the U.S. Education Department or a private lender that provides government-backed loans. But the students had plenty of questions and concerns.
(MADISON) Critics say there will be more unplanned pregnancies if campus health services in the University of Wisconsin System are prevented from advertising or dispensing emergency contraception. But supporters of such a law say the UW should be focusing on education, not family planning.
On April 28, 27 students from the University of Wisconsin-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Posse Program and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., entered the hallways of Falk Elementary eager to meet with their second and third grade pen pals for the last time as the culmination of their yearlong writing experience. As a teacher of second and third grade at Falk Elementary and a mentor of college students in the University of Wisconsin-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s Posse Program, I decided to bring both of my dynamic groups of students together through a yearlong writing experience. Aware that meaningful learning takes place through culturally relevant experiences and projects, last October I designed the Pen Pal Project as a unique opportunity to encourage and motivate students to write and to connect them with an outstanding group of college students of color to serve as role models. After initially only involving my students I was approached by another teacher of second and third grade who hoped to get her students involved. Mrs. Carolyn Bakula stated that she wanted to become involved because it would allow her students to ââ?¬Å?communicate biweekly on a meaningful and authentic level as well as gave them a purpose for writing beyond the classroom.ââ?¬Â I eagerly expanded the project to involve their peers, and involved more UW Posse scholars including freshmen, sophomores, and juniors from Chicago and Los Angeles and a group of students from the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
A state lawmaker said Thursday the Legislature needs to send a message of disapproval to the University of Wisconsin System after a school clinic urged students to get advance prescriptions for emergency contraception before leaving on spring break. (Fourth item)
Turnout among young Wisconsin voters in last fall’s presidential election was second highest in the nation, with nearly two-thirds casting ballots, a census report released Thursday says. Quotes Jennifer Knox, a UW-Maadison junior who led Vote 2004.
We are getting close to the end of our Foreign Student Series on American higher education. This week, we report comments from foreign students in the United States who have experienced the process we have been describing.
We talked to four students attending the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Two are undergraduates — Ometere Omoluabi from Nigeria and Chilwin Tanamal from Indonesia. The others are graduate students — Rogerio Mazali from Brazil and a young woman from China who does not want her name broadcast. (Audio.)
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will apparently review UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen’s decision not to permit a Reserve Office Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus for a four-year period.
A majority of college students frequently use plastic for purchases, but they are carrying slightly lower credit-card balances than they did four years ago, according to a study released on Tuesday by Nellie Mae, a major provider of student loans.
When she applied to 13 colleges last year, Carly Chase thought she was wise to all the possible responses she would get: deferment, early acceptance, regular acceptance, or rejection.
But when she opened up the envelope from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., – her top choice – she thought, “Oh, that’s a new one.”
With a backdrop of poster-sized front pages blaring headlines like ââ?¬Å?House fire kills 3 studentsââ?¬Â and ââ?¬Å?Penn State student fies in house fire,ââ?¬Â several members of Congress gathered Wednesday to say that they were teaming up to push a package of legislation aimed at improving fire safety on college campuses.
MADISON, Wis. – Four University of Wisconsin-Madison students were detained briefly by Capitol police Tuesday after they disrupted the Legislature’s budget committee, demanding that lawmakers protect state funding for higher education.
Four UW-Madison students interrupted yesterday meeting of the legislature’s budget committee…demanding lawmakers act to protect state funding for higher education. The students were detained briefly by Capitol police after they stepped in front of the podium and unfurled a banner reading…”cut tuition…not the budget.” Several members of the committee responded to the protesters with their microphones off.
College students who get drunk regularly are likelier than other students ââ?¬â? even those who drink alcohol ââ?¬â? to physically injure themselves, or to be hurt by other drinkers, according to researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
SHAWANO ââ?¬â? Nicole Bowman-Farrell, 34, sees herself as a competitive athlete, whether training to win a spot on the Olympic bodybuilding team or growing her Shawano-based business, Bowman Performance Consulting.
When she completes her doctrinal thesis this year, she will be the first state American Indian to receive a doctorate in leadership and policy analysis and only the sixth in the 150-year history of the University of Wisconsin�s Department of Education
MADISON, Wis. – The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout says the military, which does not accept openly gay recruits, is not acceptable on his campus. (First item.)
A recent survey found that college seniors are more worried about debt than terrorism, a finding that probably says more about the size of student loans than the state of homeland security. The numbers tell the story: 45% of the seniors said they expect to graduate with $10,000 or more in student loans. Nearly 21% said they expect to graduate with more than $20,000, according to the Partnership for Public Service.
For Jen Kraus, joining thousands of other Jews to usher in the Sabbath as the sun set over Jerusalem’s Western Wall was the pinnacle of her four-year college career and a spiritual affirmation that no other semester abroad could offer.
Seven universities–including the University of Wisconsin, Michigan State and Ohio State University–recently have reinstated their programs with the caveat that students must sign a waiver clearing their schools of any liability in case of violent unrest.
Students once saw computer-science classes as their ticket to wealth. Now, as more technology jobs are outsourced to other countries, such classes are seen as a path to unemployment.
MEQUON – Matt Wittig was perseverance personified.
Just 11 months after a bicycle accident had him near death last spring, he was back on his bike enjoying the sport, the team camaraderie and the competition. But on May 7 at a Wisconsin Cup bicycle race in Muskego, he suffered another crash and sustained head injuries. He was only 20 years old when he died May 12.
University of Wisconsin President Kevin Reilly has asked the Board of Regents to re-examine a decision made by UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen to reject bringing ROTC to campus.
It’s closer to Independence Day than All Hallows Eve, but Madison is considering some strong measures to prevent another Halloween melee this fall.
The unofficial Halloween celebration on State Street has become violent and been broken up by police in the early morning for three straight years.
The president of the University of Wisconsin System on Thursday resurrected a proposed Army ROTC program at UW-Stout that had been rejected by the Menomonie school’s chancellor.
The decision by President Kevin P. Reilly to resume discussion of the program was welcomed by three Republican lawmakers from western Wisconsin who had complained about the decision not to offer ROTC.
The Precollege Scholarship Program will be expanded to serve more students from disadvantaged backgrounds, such as Iris, but race will no longer be a criterion. The decision to change the program came last year as the result of a reverse-discrimination complaint that will affect students coming into the program as of July 1. The program’s shift has met differing views. Some believe the change will reduce the number of minority students who get a chance at a college education, while others say the fight for equal rights is no longer based on race, but class.
(MADISON) A national program on southeast Asian cultures says its Hmong language courses are growing in popularity. While the upper Midwest has seen thousands of new immigrants from Laos and Thailand pour in during the last year, a program coordinator says most participants are actually first-generation Hmong-Americans.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has regularly hosted the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute since 2000.
Concern over recurring Halloween violence has led to a proposal to give Mayor Dave Cieslewicz greater power to shut down downtown businesses during “a state of emergency.”
In the next few weeks, the Madison City Attorney’s Office plans to send out letters to more than 50 downtown bar and restaurant owners informing them that in the event of such an emergency, the city will have authority to evacuate customers.
A large group of academic associations is urging the federal government to take more action to welcome international students, researchers, and scholars to the United States by overhauling the visa process and taking other steps to remove hurdles to foreigners.
The job outlook for college graduates is much better now than it was a few years ago. But Wisconsin businesses still face challenges in getting those graduates to work in our state.
Even though many Wisconsin students in UW schools will stay in state for their first jobs…many others will leave the state to begin their careers.
Many Wisconsin cities hope college graduates will stay in the state to start their careers, but that’s not always a guarantee, as many will hit the road, and it’s causing cities, businesses, and colleges to take a closer look at this phenomenon known as the “brain drain”.
“Being a business major is so broad, you can pretty much do a ton of different things,” says UWSP senior David Savides. That’s also how his job search has been over the last few months: broad.
The generation that came of age after Sept. 11, 2001, fears college debt and joblessness more than another terrorist attack. That’s according to a new survey of college seniors and graduates of the class of 2005, most of whom were just weeks into their college careers that fateful Tuesday.
MADISON, Wis. — City officials want to gate off State Street for this year’s annual Halloween bash, and so far the controversial proposal is getting support.
Representatives from the university, the business community and police met Tuesday to discuss plans to prevent more riots this year. Police said they want to keep out-of-towners out of the party this year.
A UW-Madison student was charged Monday with breaking into a physics professor’s office on three occasions to steal exams.
Nicholas Z. Hanson, 22, faces three counts of burglary in the failed Dec. 17 theft from a Sterling Hall office, as well as two earlier burglaries during which he allegedly took exams from the same office.
BEN SCHUMAKER was helping out in an orphanage in Guatemala when he had the conversation that changed his life.
This was 18 months or so ago, and Schumaker, 23, had just graduated from UW-Madison with a psychology degree. He found out that a month in a Central American orphanage can affect your psyche every bit as much as four years on a college campus.
Dear Editor: I respect the grief Sarah Stellner’s parents are going through (Rob Zaleski’s column) but I need to address some of the things mentioned in the article.
Sarah’s mother, Cindy, says: “We knew she was partying, of course, because 95 percent of the college kids in Madison do that.” The false perception that everyone is doing it has been found to actually promote heavy and binge drinking among college students, and campaigns to correct this misperception have actually led to reduced drinking, as noted in your newspaper in a 2003 article. The truth is that most people and students vastly overestimate the amount of risky drinking going on and so promote more risky drinking.
Jian Yang stood with his wife and their friends early Friday evening in front of the Kohl Center, proudly wearing the cap and gown of a University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. candidate, about to get his doctorate in civil and environmental engineering.
“This is one very important day,” the 28-year-old from China said, ready to join hundreds of other graduate students inside the Kohl Center for the 152nd commencement of the state’s largest university Friday night.
Four years ago, the class of 2005 arrived on campus like any other group of freshmen – eager and a little nervous.
Then, just a few days into their college careers, came the terrible jolt of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Some were shuffling in and out of morning classes when the news hit, followed by the realization they would have to confront a suddenly scarier world away from home, in the company of unfamiliar faces.
Matt Wittig didn’t know four years ago that his signature on his driver’s license would result in five strangers getting a chance to live longer. He couldn’t have known then, at the age of 16, that his death four years later would elevate him to hero status in the eyes of his family and of those strangers who needed organ transplants to have a chance at survival. The 5 strangers – 4 of them from southeast Wisconsin – received one or more of Wittig’s organs in transplant surgeries that occurred Friday, hours after his death Thursday.
