PHILADELPHIA ââ?¬â?? This weekend marks the unveiling of the latest variable in the nation’s college admissions equation – the new and possibly improved Scholastic Aptitude Test, to be offered for the first time Saturday, March 12.
College can be unnerving, especially if your roommate has hair on his knuckles and howls at the moon. But for many young adults, the biggest shock comes after graduation, when they’re confronted with thousands of dollars in student loans that must be repaid.
The nation’s high schools are being flooded with AP, or Advanced Placement, courses. You’d think that would be a good thing. Think again.
Former Democratic presidential candidate the Rev. Al Sharpton blasted the Bush administration and tried to instill hope and offer strategies to a crowd eager to hear his take on what went wrong for Democrats in the 2004 election, and what can be done to changes things in 2006.
Hoping to stem the trend of increasing tuition, a coalition of students, teaching assistants and professors will hunger strike in the Capitol from March 7 to 10. The three-day fast will protest Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed 14 percent tuition increase over the next two years.
Hoping to stem the trend of increasing tuition, a coalition of students, teaching assistants and professors will hunger strike in the Capitol from March 7 to 10. The three-day fast will protest Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed 14 percent tuition increase over the next two years.
At a press conference Friday, Gov. Jim Doyle accepted a $15 million donation from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation, which will go to build the new Interdisciplinary Research Complex on campus.
Film critics and moviegoers alike will gather in Madison March 31 to April 3 for the seventh annual Wisconsin Film Festival.
Heaven only knows what Phil Hellmuth Jr. might have achieved had he not dropped out of the UW-Madison during his junior year.
Former University of Wisconsin football player Troy Vincent was brought in by coach Barry Alverez before last season to talk to the Badgers about a number of issues.
The New Yorker College Tour will visit the University of Wisconsin March 8 through March 10 to present material from The New Yorker magazine to promote the publication by reaching a wider variety of people and places.
University of Wisconsin police responded to the discovery of an unconscious male in Van Vleck Hall Friday morning.
The whining is loud over the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s unprecedented attempt to tell schools that if they do not educate their players, they will lose scholarships and eligibility for post-season play.
Leiszle Ziemba had watched her three older siblings make their way through the college-admission process the old-fashioned way: they took their SAT’s and that was that.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. ââ?¬â?? When “March Madness” – the premier tournament of men’s college basketball – kicks off next week, it may mark a swan song for some of the 65 invited teams.
UW-Madison students interested in spending a semester in Washington, D.C., earning credits while gaining experience in political and commercial fields, will have an opportunity to do so thanks to a new pilot program.
Wisconsin is poised to become more environmentally friendly in the near future with some assistance from UW-Madison students.
How would you like to go to lectures in classrooms that automatically respond to the temperature outside?
While many University of Wisconsin students roll out of bed just in time to make it to their 9:55 a.m. class, student teachers in UW�s School of Education wake up at 6:30 a.m. five days a week.
The spring committees and campaigns of Associated Students of Madison detailed their semester goals to benefit students and the community at a press conference Thursday.
The most frightening situation for a firefighter can be getting lost in a smoke-filled building. But, three students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, hope their invention will stop that situation from ever occurring again. Nick O�Brien of Apple Valley, Chandler Nault of Bloomington and Mitch Nick of Green Bay, Wis., designed FireSite and won the $10,000 first prize in UW-Madison 2005 Schoofs Prize for Creativity competition.
UW-Madison alumnus Graham Bernstein’s lactose intolerance depressed him.
“I thought I could never eat dairy again,” he said of his diagnosis at age 12. Bernstein diagnosed himself as lactose intolerant after noticing his discomfort after eating dairy. He never saw a doctor about his condition.
Students may no longer need to wait in the cold for campus buses that are already filled by the time they arrive according to plans for three different free bus routes circulating through campus.
Conflicting visions for the future of higher education in Wisconsin clashed at the Capitol Wednesday.
Before a joint meeting of the Senate’s Higher Education and Tourism Committee and the Assembly’s Committee on Colleges and Universities, UW System President Kevin Reilly and Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, outlined their respective proposals for restructuring the relationships between the 13 two-year colleges and the 13 four-year universities. Wednesday’s meeting offered a chance for legislators to debate whether they should undertake the grueling task of overhauling the UW System in increasingly tight economic conditions.
Representatives of the Teaching Assistants’ Association and the state returned to the bargaining table Wednesday to discuss contract terms, following nine months without talks.
The family of a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student who drowned in the Mississippi River a year ago is now suing the school and the city.
Jared Dion disappeared after a night of drinking in downtown La Crosse. His body was found five days later in the river.
Dion’s family claims the city fostered a culture of binge drinking that led to Dion’s death.
BOSTON — Are parents pushing college-bound students too hard? Are students taking on more activities than they can handle just to look good on a college admissions form?
In recent years, the college admissions process has become so competitive that some parents say it has become a public health crisis, Boston television station WCVB reported.
“We know kids have ulcers, stress disorders, eating disorders, sleeping disorders and where is it coming from? From the need to constantly perform,” said parent Marilee Jones.
Jones is the mother of a college applicant and the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Students at Yale University criticized the school�s financial-aid programs in a protest Feb. 24.
New research from the California Institute of Technology indicates brand loyalty may not have much to do with the quality of the product.
The UW Board of Regents conducted a survey last week to evaluate University of Wisconsin System students� drug and alcohol use to determine how to improve programs and services for students who abuse such substances.
The Office of State Employee Relations and University of Wisconsin�s Teaching Assistants� Association began contract negotiations Wednesday after a nine-month impasse during which neither group met to discuss working terms for the 2003-05 biennium.
An affordable housing project is being proposed for the 400 block of West Mifflin Street in the middle of “Miffland,” the hallowed staging grounds for the annual Mifflin Street block party.
The Madison Development Corp. is presenting preliminary design plans for a proposed four story, 23-unit apartment building to the Urban Design Commission tonight.
The NCAA announced Monday that all but two UW-Madison athletic teams met or exceeded the minimum score for their newly implemented Academic Progress Rate, a system meant to track academic eligibility and retention of all Division I scholarship athletes, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
Associated Students of Madison held a town hall meeting Tuesday to allow student input on the currently developing Campus Master Plan.
UW-Madison graduate student Gwen Drury presented the tentative Master Plan to the students and emphasized looking comprehensively at the buildings, open space, transportation and utilities of the UW-Madison campus.
University of Wisconsin students raised questions and expressed their opinions about campus aesthetics and transportation at the Campus Master Plan Town Hall Meeting Tuesday night at the Memorial Union.
State Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, spoke to University of Wisconsin students and faculty at a ââ?¬Å?teach-inââ?¬Â at the Memorial Union Tuesday in opposition to a proposed amendment to the Wisconsin State Constitution banning gay marriage and same-sex civil unions.
You are old and have no friends.
Of all the mean things my teenagers say to me, these are the most common jibes. Now I have proof that they’re right.
Nearly half of the football and men’s basketball teams in Division I are failing the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s newest measure of academic success, according to a report published Monday by the association.
Any intentional act “to claim effort for the work or efforts of another without authorization or citation” is academic misconduct, according to UW-Madison academic misconduct policy. This includes signing friends’ names on attendance sheets for classes and “helping” students with online or take-home quizzes.
The cost of attending the University of Michigan could go down for about 2,900 in-state undergraduates this fall under a new grant program, to be announced today that will give needy students $500 to $1,500 a year.
During her first week at Furman University last semester, Amber Kirtley enrolled in a cardio-kickboxing class to avoid the dreaded “Freshman 15.” After one intense class, she discovered that yoga was more her speed.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly met with Waukesha county executive Dan Finley, UW Colleges Interim Chancellor Margaret Cleek and UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago Friday to talk about a proposal that would offer four-year degrees on two-year campuses.
While typical college students work, sleep and engage in debauchery this summer, 90 of their peers from across the country, including UW-Madison sophomore April Williamson, will bike coast-to-coast to benefit Habitat for Humanity.
We are privileged at UW-Madison because our post-secondary education is enhanced daily by an intellectual, political and physically appealing environment. However, this does not hinder us from choosing to explore the education, culture and landscapes of universities in countries where study abroad programs are available.
If you sat next to an Olympic gold medalist in class every day, would you be able to tell?
If that champion was UW-Madison senior Carly Piper, then probably not.
Approximately 45 UW-Madison students will travel Wednesday to Selma, Ala. to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Right to Vote and the Bridge Crossing Jubilee.
In an effort to bring together the strengths of universities, former director of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign�s supercomputer center Daniel A. Reed will bring together a research center aimed at unifying both science and the arts through the benefit of technology.
In response to the steady decline of enrollment among foreign students at the University of Wisconsin throughout the past decade, UW is offering several programs designed to aid international students in becoming immersed in college life and, in a broader scope, with life in America.
MADISON, Wis. – The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) released Monday its newly created statistical calculation ââ?¬â?? the Academic Progress Rate (APR) ââ?¬â?? that measures success in the classroom by student-athletes. (Atletic Communications)
For David Stuart, the joy and satisfaction of finishing college in December was tempered by one pesky detail.
“When I graduated, my father stopped paying all my bills, so my budget was a little bit tighter,” said Stuart, 22, who earned a degree in sociology from UW-Madison. “I decided I needed to do something.”
UW students from around the state want something done about skyrocketing tuition costs and they took their message to the Capitol today. Their message: keep UW doors open to all.
Hundreds of students used actual doors to get their message across. Those doors were signed by thousands of UW students who say they can’t afford to go to school in Wisconsin.
Causing scheduling controversies months before it arrives, the Mifflin Street Block Party, currently set to take place May 7, could be problematic not only for UW-Madison students, but also for their professors.
College students around Wisconsin gathered on the steps of the Capitol Thursday to protest a proposed 14 percent tuition increase in Governor Doyle’s biennial budget. The protesters held doors signed by students from various UW System schools and marked with “Keep UW Doors Open 2 All.” These doors were delivered to Joint Finance Committees that met with student representatives of state schools.
As most members of the university community are aware, the state legislature is in the early stages of responding to Gov. Doyle�s recent proposed budget
** Chancellor Wiley’s letter to the editor also appears in the February 25th issue of Daily Cardinal.
The Government Accountability Office announced last week the United States has proposed a deal with China that would make it easier for Chinese students to study in the United States.
Research from the Harvard School of Public Health released Tuesday suggests binge-drinking patterns among college students can be correlated with the number of adult binge-drinkers.
University of Wisconsin students delivered doors to legislators at the Capitol Thursday in protest of tuition increases proposed by Gov. Jim Doyle�s 2005-07 biennial state budget.
Nearly 150 students from universities throughout Wisconsin converged on Madison, rallying for drops in state tuition or tuition caps. They complained about Gov. Doyle’s budget proposal, which calls for tuition hikes of up to 7 percent in each year of the biennium.
The University of Wisconsin men’s track and field team has won seven of the past nine indoor Big Ten Conference championships.
UW-Madison students raised about $1,500 for tsunami victims in Asia with a benefit concert last week on campus.
