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.
The amount of financial aid available to University of Wisconsin students has remained at a standstill while the cost of attending UW has continually risen, according to Steve Van Ess, director of the Office of Student Financial Services.
A plan to reduce scholarships for all Division I student athletes who are performing poorly in the classroom was recently approved by the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Board of Directors.
Climbing the long, winding staircase to the third floor, it�s easy to be struck by the austerity of the Overture Center. White and cream, glass and steel, it has more the feel of a memorial than it does a vibrant arts center. Yet as you round the corner to Gallery III, everything changes. Humanity floods in, in colors and shapes, in honesty and reality.
Students across the nation face a reduction in financial aid next school year due to cuts in the national Pell Grant program.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball player Boo Wade, who quit the team for good last week after taking time off for what was described as personal reasons, will be back in criminal court to face sentencing on charges from last year of fighting with his girlfriend and bail jumping.
Triple murder suspect Meng-Ju Wu, who was scheduled to go on trial Wednesday and faced the possibility of spending the rest of his life in a Wisconsin prison, killed himself overnight in his jail cell.
The campus police chief at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has a “passion for kids,” she says.
Here’s proof: five of them call her “Mom.”
Pamela Hodermann is about to begin her second semester as police chief on the UWM campus, the culmination of 30 years on the UWM police force.
President Bush announced on Friday that he will seek to raise the maximum Pell Grant by $500, to $4,550, over the next five years, as well as to eliminate a $4.3-billion shortfall that has plagued the program for the past several years.
MADISON, Wis. — Just hours before his high- profile murder trial was to begin, Meng-Ju Wu killed himself at the Dane County Jail early Monday.
WASHINGTON – To ease tuition sticker-shock, President Bush (news – web sites) wants to raise the maximum Pell Grant award by $500 over the next five years and fix a persistent shortfall in the nation’s chief college aid program.
WASHINGTON – Proposed changes in the federal guaranteed student loan program for college students could save $12.3 billion over 10 years, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
History professor Jacqueline Moore had prepared her students as best she could for a month-long course on temples and empires in Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), and Cambodia.
UW Madison’s Babcock House is now accepting applications for the 2005-2006 academic year. Babcock House is UW Madison’s only housing unit dedicated to providing quality housing for male and female students with a common agricultural interest at a substantial savings over dorm living.
From around Christmas through this week, most UW-Madison students disappear, spending their hard-won winter break at home with friends and family or traveling.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association gave preliminary approval on Monday to a plan to take scholarships away from Division I sports teams when their players flunk their courses. That was the highlight of a flurry of meetings here in which delegates from all three divisions of the NCAA considered rules changes.
Matthew Costigan is young, single and a recent college graduate. He has a good-paying job and a bright future with a big accounting firm. So what does he do? He gives up his nice pad in the trendy Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh and moves in with mom and dad.
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in 2003 backing the use of race in college admissions, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Georgia took particular interest in the mechanics of the ruling.
At the time, both public universities were operating under federal-court orders prohibiting them from considering a student’s race in making admissions offers. With those decisions supplanted by the Supreme Court ruling, the institutions were free to return to race-conscious policies.
The end of 2004 brought plenty of news to make college officials uneasy at institutions that treat their students and applicants differently on account of their skin color or what country their ancestors came from.
At the end of November, the Office for Civil Rights at the Education Department pressured the state of Wisconsin into changing a minorities-only scholarship program to one that allows participation by students of all races
By modern fraternity standards, Phi Delta Theta’s tailgate party was a real rager. For one thing, there were kegs. I couldn’t see them just then, but proof of their existence was everywhere. Packed into a backyard near the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., were some 100 drunken college students, beer spilling from plastic cups, industrial-size ketchup bottles overturned on the grass near the grill and gaggles of hard-drinking sorority girls (including one self-described Phi Delt groupie) keeping pace with the boys.
A UW Pharmacy School student was charged Thursday in connection with fires she allegedly set two years ago at a residence hall to get attention.
Kelly L. Fausek, 22, faces two charges of negligent handling of burning material. Fausek also faces a stalking charge for delivering threatening letters last month to a university official, and to herself, also allegedly done to get attention.
After the terrorist attacks of 2001, many believed the government’s more stringent visa policy would complicate life for international students….Numbers of international students at UW-Madison and at other U.S. universities have been declining recently. But, at least at UW, it isn’t because of bureacratic holdups. (1/5/05 Capital Times)
The Christmas Eve news that the Bush administration is going to cut back on Pell grants for low-income students this year underscored just how out of kilter this country has become.
We’re spending billions upon billions fighting a war that should never have been started and lavishing billions upon billions on giving the least needy people in America breaks on their income taxes. As is almost always the case, the people who can afford it least wind up bearing the burden.
The stereotypically cutthroat, competitive world of law school is largely fiction, a study suggests, with most first-year law students saying faculty members are helpful and sympathetic.
CHICAGO ââ?¬â?? One education publication dubbed it the “December surprise”: Two days before Christmas, the Bush administration announced it was revising the formulas for its Pell Grants – the federal government’s primary aid vehicle for America’s neediest college students – in a way that may leave 1.3 million students receiving a smaller amount, and 90,000 off the rolls altogether.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received their grades online for the first time in December. An electronic grading system was developed and implemented by a team of staff members from the University�s Division of Information Technology and the Office of the Registrar.
MADISON, Wis. – What better way to make a mother proud than by following in her footsteps at the University of Wisconsin? (Athletic Communications)
Dear Editor: The AP story by Justin Pope, “Thunder from the campus right,” published in the Capital Times Dec. 28, cites the case of Columbia University, where our film, “Columbia Unbecoming,” documented the harassment and intimidation of students by professors hostile to Israel.
But this is not…a case of “liberal vs. conservative (writes Charles Jacobs, president of The David Project in Boston)…. It has to do with the dominance in many of our country’s Middle East studies departments by Arabists and radicals, and the indifference of university administrators.
Cheri Dlugosinski talked to her 22-year-old son Matt by phone late Saturday night.
A student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Matt has been studying in Maduari, India, since August.
For the holiday, though, he decided to travel to the coast.
In its most recent annual study of UW-Madison students, the university ‘s department of information technology found that students were online an average of 26.5 hours per week in the 2003-04 school year…
University of Wisconsin officials expressed sorrow over the devastation in Asia, but said there was little more they can do to reach out to members of the university community overseas.
The UW was able to track down all 25 students from this country that were studying in Thailand and India. But it has proved much more difficult to find the approximately 700 UW international students from the affected areas.
STATE COLLEGE, PA-January 3, 2005 ââ?¬â? In an attempt to fight identity theft, Penn State University is ending a long-standing practice of using Social Security numbers to identify students.
MADISON ââ?¬â? All 25 University of Wisconsin-Madison students studying abroad in parts of Asia devastated by last weekendââ?¬â?¢s deadly tsunami are safe.
School officials, however, might not know the fate of hundreds of international students for weeks.
As many as 90,000 students could be disqualified from receiving Pell Grants and other forms of federal and state financial assistance under a change that the Bush administration has made in the formula the government uses to calculate a student’s need for aid.
Two days before Christmas, the U.S. Education Department announced in the Federal Register that it had, for the first time in a decade, updated the amount it allows families to deduct for state and local tax payments when applying for financial aid. (Subscription required.)
College life has long provided young people with a smorgasbord of late-night diversions. But now students have been flocking to bars, nightclubs and campus parties for a new kind of social event: tobacco-industry-sponsored parties, complete with complimentary cigarettes. A new study suggests these parties are a powerful marketing tool that encourages some to start smoking.
Jennifer de Silva of Racine has spoken with her husband by phone five times since he was swept up in the earthquake-driven waves of death that hit the coast of Sri Lanka on Sunday morning. …
On Tuesday, a day when the death toll soared above 58,000, the University of Wisconsin-Madison had not yet confirmed the whereabouts of 19 students who were studying in India.
TAMPA, Fla. – There’s no shortage of numbers that stand out when reviewing the storybook tale that is Jim Leonhard’s run at the University of Wisconsin.
…Leonhard is not alone in his ability to put things in their proper perspective, but he’s certainly in the minority in the world of major college athletics. Leonhard and others have managed to remain student-athletes in a landscape dominated by athlete-students.
Wage too low, even for students Mac VerStanding claims raising the minimum wage would ruin State Street, which he describes as “lined with locally owned stores staffed largely by college students doing homework behind the counter.” He goes on to suggest that these college students are well taken care of with financial aid and pre-paid room and board: Even paid a mere $5.15 an hour, these students greatly appreciate the wage, which goes to textbooks or walking-around money.
Interested college students no longer have to coyly ask friends whether a particularly attractive classmate is single. The information might well be available at thefacebook.com. The site is the latest craze to hit college campuses.
….There are 293 schools on the site, including UW-Madison and Milwaukee, and more than 1 million members. (from the 12/28/04 Capital Times print edition, reprinted from the Harford Courant)
A new electronic grading system at UW-Madison means most students will get their final grades within a few days of the end of the semester, rather than a few weeks, officials said
At the University of North Carolina, three incoming freshmen sue over a reading assignment they say offends their Christian beliefs. In Colorado and Indiana, a national conservative group publicizes student allegations of left-wing bias by professors. Faculty get hate mail and are pictured in mock “wanted” posters; at least one college says a teacher received a death threat. The episodes…all touch on an issue of growing prominence on college campuses.
Athula and Renuka Gunawardena had a difficult couple of hours on Sunday as word broke of a tidal wave hitting the coast of their native Sri Lanka. They waited two hours before finally hearing from her brother.
“My parents’ house is OK. But most of our friends have died,” said Renuka Gunawardena. She lives in the Eagle Heights apartments with her husband, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSSETTS A student at a vocational training school has died from injuries he suffered when he fell from a third-floor balcony during a party at his apartment, authorities said.
There are several hundred U-W students who came to campus from countries like India and Thailand…..which were struck by the disaster in South Asia that has claimed the lives of an estimated 40,000 people. (First item)
A legal confrontation is playing out here as a student organization seeks official recognition and money from a state-run university even though the students plan to exclude non-Christians and gays.
MADISON, Wis. — Last weekend’s deadly earthquake-powered tsunamis in southern Asia have sent shockwaves through the University of Wisconsin’s international community.
This week in our Foreign Student Series, we examine support services for students who come to the United States to study. We will use a major university in the Midwest for our example.
More than three thousand foreign students attend the University of Wisconsin at its campus in Madison. Most are in graduate programs; twenty-eight percent are undergraduates.
Celine on Halloween and UW tuition cuts are just two of the topics addressed in Zaleski’s list of tongue-in-cheek predictions for 2004.
University of Wisconsin officials said today that there have been no reports of students abroad getting caught up in the turmoil wrought by Sunday’s tidal wave in southern Asia.
….Once, it was liberal campus activists who cited the importance of “diversity” in pressing their agendas for curriculum change. Now, conservatives have adopted much of the same language in calling for a greater openness to their viewpoints.
Next Halloween, the elected guardians of Madison might try to eliminate rowdy crowds by closing off interstate access to the city or putting up gates on State Street.
The Department of Education yesterday announced a new formula for calculating eligibility for college financial aid, a move that will eliminate federal Pell Grant scholarships for an estimated 80,000 to 90,000 low-income students and force a modest scaling back of other types of state and federal assistance to broader categories of undergraduates.
