Professors at the University of Wisconsin are increasingly utilizing weblogs, or blogs, as a communication tool for their students, with many students agreeing it has helped them to better understand the course topics.
Worldwide, 1.1 million students took 1.9 million Advanced Placement exams in 2004, in 34 subjects ranging from U.S. history to English language and composition to calculus.
At a time when the academic performance of U.S. high school students has come under scrutiny, the College Board on Tuesday offered some good news ââ?¬â? mixed with a small dose of bad.
Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers were right: learning can be fun. With Wisconsin Union Mini Courses, students can attend a wide variety of grade and stress-free classes in cooking, food and wine appreciation, dance, fitness, languages, arts and crafts and self-help.
When UW-Madison alumni get a call from the University of Wisconsin Foundation’s Telefund, they receive a call with a purpose.
Telefund raised just over $4.15 million last year in alumni donations and aims to raise $4.3 million in 2005, said Telefund Assistant Director Michael Holland.
The new dormitory proposed for Dayton Street came one step closer to realization Monday as the Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee voted unanimously to recommend approval of the project.
UW-Madison’s chapter of International Student Volunteers now makes it easier to volunteer abroad by offering a scholarship to students living on a limited budget. ISV, a non-profit organization based in California, allows college students to travel to Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, and British Columbia. UW-Madison seniors Nicole Granacki and Brynna Larsen have made UW-Madison the first of five ISV branches to develop a scholarship program.
Ten years after civil wars and genocides tore Rwanda apart, the country continues to face serious issues with unclean water. Through a service project in Rwanda, the UW-Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders helps to improve the situation by creating a sustainable clean-water supply for the village of Muramba.
As a high school senior four years ago, Rebecca Wolf took a traditional spring break fun-in-the-sun trip to the Dominican Republic.
But this year, the UW-Madison senior is opting for a climbing excursion to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Nevada with the campus Hoofer Mountaineering Club.
Last month I had the opportunity to go to a forum where police and students discussed what might have gone wrong this past Halloween. For the third straight year, Halloween ended with a riot on State Street. I went because I was curious whether students and police could see that they both could have handled themselves better. That didn�t happen. Those who were pepper sprayed were convinced that they shouldn�t have been, and the police were sure, with few exceptions, which were layered with qualifiers, that they handled themselves correctly.
Guillaume Porche has been making a photo album since he arrived from Paris at the start of the fall semester at UW-Madison.
The Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee approved plans for the Dayton Street and Park Street Dormitory Project, the replacement for Ogg Hall, Monday night.
UW-Madison senior Brynna Larsen saw much that was new and wonderful, she said, when she spent a month doing down-and-dirty community development work in Costa Rica the summer before her junior year.
In the fall of 2003, two law students at Ohio State University’s main campus complained to the administration that the campus chapter of the Christian Legal Society, a student group, was violating the institution’s nondiscrimination rules.
B. J. Elsner, a 23-year-old senior at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, can�t picture what his college experience would be like if he didn�t live on campus.
It would mean that Elsner wouldn�t enjoy the convenience of having nearly everything he needs at his fingertips or made as many lasting friendships.
The tour guide seems bent on selling Texas A&M University to her audience –Ã? 26 black and Hispanic students brought here from big-city high schools as part of the college’s “Very Important Prospects” campus-visit program.
Stirring a longstanding local and national controversy, a series of UW System race-based grants has recently provoked both criticism and adulation.
“We believe the law is clear: that it is illegal to have programs for which skin color is an absolute [qualification]; that is, programs where you are not even considered if you have the wrong ethnicity,” said Roger Clegg, general counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative Virginia-based group that monitors state and federal race-exclusive programs.
A task force assembled by the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a program run through the University of Wisconsin Law School, approved measures this month to introduce legislation addressing possible reforms in the criminal justice system.
The University of Wisconsin men�s crew team will begin practice for the first time in its new home today. The crewhouse, sitting on Lake Mendota next to Adams Hall and the Kronshage residence halls, is now ready to host both the men�s and women�s crew teams as construction winds down.
Women�s teams have already
Eighteen-year-old University of Wisconsin freshman Sean Weas fell from a balcony during a house party at a College Court apartment Friday night, and after two nights in the hospital he has been released with extensive injuries.
Two proposals could restructure the University of Wisconsin System in order to alleviate budget pressures.
Mary Rouse, former University of Wisconsin Dean of Students and current director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service, announced her retirement this month from the university after working at UW for 38 years.
U.S. Rep. Tom Petri, R-Wisconsin, with the support of Rep. George Miller, D-California, is planning to re-introduce a bill that would potentially allow students who already receive Pell Grants to be eligible for more money.
Hats, gloves, and pocketfuls of PowerBars kept college students from across the country warm and sustained along the route of the presidential inaugural parade on Thursday, as they waited for up to five hours to either cheer or heckle President Bush’s motorcade.
The gap between graduation rates of white and black students at the University of Michigan is the second highest among 11 similar elite universities, according to a study released Wednesday by a national advocacy group for minority and low-income students.
LINCOLN, Neb. – Forget course catalogs and colorful pamphlets. Think sex, skiing and rock ‘n’ roll.
When it comes to recruiting students for college, admissions officials are turning to increasingly outlandish stunts to get the attention of high schoolers. Birthday cards, ski weekends and even reality TV shows are being used by colleges and universities to get an edge. (1/20/05 Capital Times print edition)
LINCOLN, Neb. — Forget course catalogs and colorful pamphlets. Think sex, skiing and rock ‘n roll.
When it comes to recruiting students for college, admissions officials are turning to increasingly outlandish students to get the attention of high schoolers. Birthday cards, ski weekends and even reality TV shows are being used by colleges and universities to get an edge. (1/20/05 Capital Times print edition)
Their dance is a celebration and an offering, both personal expression and public prayer, a rite of passage and a demonstration of poise.
Bharatanatyam, also referred to as Bharata Natyam in some circles, is a classical dance style that girls in south India study from childhood into womanhood. Unlike their mothers, some no longer give up the dance after they marry and have children.
THE JAN. 24 Sports Illustrated takes note of the basketball Badgers’ 38-game home winning streak, noting that the crowd at Sunday’s Michigan State game made “the bland Kohl Center sound like a rollicking German beer hall.” So what IS the home court advantage?
The gap in graduation rates between blacks and whites at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is among the largest of any public school in the country and twice the median rate, data from a new study show.
A proposal introduced by state Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, would merge the UW System’s 13 two-year colleges with the 13 four-year universities, according to a press release.
However, the lack of an actual proposal raises concerns among state government and UW System officials.
Several University of Wisconsin students are taking time off from the beginning of semester classes to travel to Washington, D.C. to protest the inauguration of President George W. Bush.
While Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, announced his plan to merge the UW System�s 13 two-year colleges and 13 four-year universities, UW System President Kevin Reilly recommended an unrelated plan suggesting a single chancellor for UW Colleges and UW-Extension.
University of Wisconsin International Student Services held a meeting with representatives from all international-student organizations Wednesday evening to brainstorm ideas to provide relief for victims of the Dec. 23 Asian tsunami disaster.
Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, chair of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities, has proposed a new solution to save the state money.
Kristin VandenLangenberg sometimes has trouble sleeping and often worries about how she will pay back her student loans.
VandenLangenberg was fortunate to find a full-time job after graduating from Carthage College, a private school in Kenosha. Although her income is comparable to that of any typical recent college graduate, it is barely enough to cover her monthly expenses.
Three buses are scheduled to leave Wisconsin for Washington, D.C., Wednesday to take people to the “Turn Your Back on Bush” protest at President Bush’s inauguration.
Over the past few years, UW students have seen their tuition increase at unprecedented rates. In the face of drastic budget cuts that originate in the statehouse, the university has been forced to continually demand more money from students while offering fewer, more crowded classes. A fourth-year in-state student now pays $2,933.12 per semester-a 64.4 percent increase from a semester’s tuition when he or she entered the university in the fall of 2001.
Meng-Ju “Mark” Wu, a former UW-Madison student facing three counts of first-degree intentional homicide, committed suicide in his cell early Monday morning at the Dane County Jail.
Sunday, Bucky Badger presented the Wisconsin National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing with an “official” UW-Madison spirit flag.
“The point of the flag is to continue to foster positive relations with the National Guard units in Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison,” said Don Nelson, UW Assistant Director of State Relations. “We want to support our troops.”
A University of Wisconsin pharmacy student was charged this month for three accounts of fires she allegedly started in the Elizabeth Waters residence hall two years ago, in addition to a charge of allegedly stalking a UW Pharmacy School official.
More than 40 years after the �60s civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the Wisconsin Union Theater, people gathered at the auditorium to honor his memory Monday evening.
Meng-Ju ââ?¬Å?Markââ?¬Â Wu, a 20-year-old former University of Wisconsin student who was charged with a triple homicide in 2003, committed suicide Monday in the Dane County Jail.
Angela Alfano has taken the PSAT three times and will take the old SAT on Saturday, but to her that is almost ancient history.
Her real concern is the new SAT. Like many of the nation’s 3 million high school juniors, the Fairfax County teenager is immersed in a great debate over exactly when to take the test.
A cluster of sudden deaths over a few months last winter and spring, including two suicides, prompted a George Washington University commission to ask some tough questions in an internal report that has already changed life on campu
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — His name is Ben and he’s a campus drunk trying to stay sober amid a lot of chances to party.
The 19-year-old, sticking with his first name in the style of Alcoholics Anonymous, knows how to party. He learned to drink in the fifth grade in Cleveland. By high school he was drinking at least three nights a week, sometimes having 20 drinks of beer, gin and tequila.
First, there was the “Daily Cardinal,” then the “Badger Herald,” now the “Mendota Beacon” is trying to make it’s mark on UW’s campus.
The founders of this paper say they’re looking for more balanced coverage of campus events – they say the other two papers are slanted towards the left
Colleges and universities can raise graduation rates by focusing on the academic and social problems of new students and emphasizing academics over research, suggest findings released today by an education advocacy group.
Angie Gratzl was gripped by fear as she dropped her son Jason off at his freshman dorm in Madison last summer.
“He kept saying, ‘Don’t worry Mom, I’ll be fine,’ ” Angie Gratzl said in an interview. “But when I drove away sobbing, I knew in the back of mind, something was wrong.”
As Lynn Gordon “Gordie” Bailey Jr. prepared for his freshman year at the University of Colorado last fall, his parents gave him the usual warnings about alcohol – be careful, don’t ever drink and drive.
They didn’t mention the warning that drinking too much at one sitting could prove fatal.
SEMICIRCULAR rows of benches face the front of the room. A raised platform faces the benches. Anyone who has ever attended college will recognize the setting at once: a lecture hall.
LIKE many students enjoying the newfound freedom of college, the young man accelerated the drinking he had begun at prep school. ”You go nuts,” he explains, looking back, seemingly both amazed and disgusted. At 6-foot-1 and 215 pounds, he was able to put away up to 18 beers a night at weekend parties. ”It was crazy,” says the student, now a junior at Fairfield University, adding that afterward, ”I’d feel like death all day.”
Unless your child is 7-foot-3 and has an amazing jump shot, people will not show up on your doorstep offering to pay for his college education. If you want financial assistance, you have to ask for it. And the first step in that process is filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.
Halloween is in 290 days.
This means the university, Madison city officials and the Madison Police Department have 289 days to come up with a plan to curb the disturbances on State Street that have plagued the celebration the past three years.
As many as 2,000 UW-Madison students could see a reduction in financial aid from Pell Grants due to a proposed government revision of the formula that determines the amount of money students can receive, according to Steve Van Ess, director of UW-Madison student financial services.
The unexpected natural disaster in Southeast Asia devastated nations yet brought together the world, including administration and student groups at UW-Madison.
The UW-Madison Departments of International Student Services and International Academic Programs have already focused much of their attention on locating international and study abroad students and ensuring their safety. All 25 UW-Madison students studying in India and Thailand have been found.
The state of Wisconsin is, apparently, on the move.
In the annual State of the State address Wednesday evening, Gov. Jim Doyle highlighted Wisconsin’s progress and optimistic future regarding agriculture, child care, health care, minimum wage and education. Regarding education, however, Doyle dropped a part of his speech that promised to give the UW System and its financial aid a larger increase in state money than the corrections system in his budget to be revealed next month.
The University of Wisconsin, in cooperation with Executive Management Inc., continues to push a multi-million-dollar redevelopment project at the heart of the UW campus. The public sector and private developer EMI are completing the preliminary stages of what will be a 12-story development plan on the University Square property.
When students look down State Street to the Capitol building, many may say they see a monopoly of power for University of Wisconsin policies, tuition setting and budgeteering. Many students do not know that much of the power held in planning the UW System�s future rests in the top floors of Van Hise, where they will find the Board of Regents� offices and where meetings are often held.
Gov. Jim Doyle addressed the state of Wisconsin Wednesday night, discussing an agenda which included job-growth measures and funding for the University of Wisconsin System.
