A joint committee of the Wisconsin Technical College System and the University of Wisconsin System issued a draft report Friday outlining plans to increase the number of bachelor’s degree holders emerging from the two systems.
The federal government is proposing a new means of tracking secondary education achievements ââ?¬â?? or the lack thereof ââ?¬â?? by following high school graduates as they work their way through the collegiate system. Studentsââ?¬â?¢ personal information, including Social Security numbers, would be collected by higher education institutions in compilation with marks of academic achievements (namely grades) and reported to Washington so that high schools may be better assessed for the quality of students they are able to place in the collegiate field.
While the advent of the information age and the Internet has given people greater access to information, it has not helped in deterring plagiarism.
UW-Madison senior Grant Zukowski wields a metal rod with a chunk of glass barely the size of a walnut molded to its end. He repeatedly …
Saturday afternoon finds Edward Erwin studying at a community coffee shop. The 45-year-old takes a break from his work to discuss his involvement with Madisonians struggling with mental sickness.
Their next stop is the world finals in China in April. The UW-Madison computer programming team is a relatively recent creation. …
Following the restructuring of a large division of administration when the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs (VCSA) stepped down from his position Nov. 4, University of Wisconsin announced a new position in the Offices of the Dean of Students.
A group of University of Wisconsin students gathered to protest allegedly racist dress codes at two Madison bars ââ?¬â? Johnny Oââ?¬â?¢s and Brothers ââ?¬â? Friday night.
Students at the University of Wisconsin’s biomedical engineering department will have a chance to bring a semesterââ?¬â?¢s worth of work into the spotlight on Friday at the Biomedical Engineering Design Expo.
Drinking will be banned at University of Oklahoma fraternities and residence halls under new policies announced Wednesday, two months after a 19-year-old student died of alcohol poisoning. University of Oklahoma President David Boren said the rules will go into effect January 18 at the start of the new semester. Three violations will end in a student’s suspension for one semester.
Growing up, Ben Banks had the urge to yell out that he had HIV, but mostly he had to keep it to himself. His best friends didn’t even know. He assumed his life expectancy would be short…. Banks, 26, who spoke at UW-Madison Science Hall Thursday night in honor of World AIDS Week, is described as the “longest-living person with pediatric AIDS.”
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is developing a new forensic science program, and according to Peter Killoran, a sociology professor and the first faculty member hired for the program at the college, the program is growing quickly.
Wrongfully incarcerated for 18 years, Steven Avery received $25,000 in compensation from the Wisconsin Claims Board Thursday.
A man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit will get a damage award of $25,000 plus attorneys fees from the state.
He was released last year after the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a group of UW-Madison law students headed by Findley.
Last school year Kristen Berman and her roommates spent way too much on beer to pay their neighbor for fixing their spyware-riddled computer. This school year the UW-Madison junior and marketing business major is running a thriving business fixing computers.
A 20-year-old UW-Madison student took on two much older, academically distinguished professors Wednesday night in a debate about reproductive choice.
The debate at the Pyle Center during Social Justice Awareness Week pitted Erica Christenson, a sophomore majoring in business and political science, against sociology Professor Myra Ferree and Christina Greene, a professor in the department of African-American studies.
The Board of Regents has repeatedly voted to increase salaries of UW senior administrators. These increases occur while students are faced with tuition hikes and fewer enrollment options.
Kassie Hauser is fully clothed in winter gear, from warm boots to a scarf wound tightly around her neck. She is practically breaking a sweat, bundled up, while standing inside of the Social Science building.
Yet, the UW-Madison freshman feels naked… and uncomfortable.
“I don’t have my laptop with me,” Hauser says, clearly frustrated. “I just got out of work and I didn’t have the time to go back to my dorm room to get it. It just doesn’t feel right.”
Recent improvements on Lakeshore Path were completed in an attempt to make it safer for students while preserving its natural ambiance.
According to UW-Madison Facilities Planning and Management director Al Fish, such improvements include raising the path to prevent flooding, adding mulch for erosion control and adding black top in certain areas.
After three years of investigation, the federal government has told the state Department of Public Instruction that it must restructure the requirements of a minority-targeted scholarship program so it is not exclusively based on race and ethnicity.
The DPI will instead adopt new eligibility standards – the ones used for free and reduced lunch programs – for the Minority Precollege Scholarship Program. It also will rename it the DPI Precollege Scholarship Program.
Students attending the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee may soon have to watch how they behave off-campus or risk getting punished by the folks on campus.
Ongoing complaints from neighbors living near the campus have prompted UWM officials to consider expanding conduct codes to cover student activities in surrounding neighborhoods. The neighbors’ frustrations hit a high note this fall.
Many University of Wisconsin students� hopes of traveling to Pasadena died with the Badger football team�s loss to Iowa Nov. 20. However, the UW athletic department began accepting requests for student tickets Wednesday for Wisconsin�s game against the University of Georgia New Year�s Day in the Outback Bowl.
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NORMAN, Okla. – Drinking will be banned at University of Oklahoma fraternities and residence halls under new policies announced Wednesday, two months after a 19-year-old student died of alcohol poisoning.
In an effort to raise accountability standards among the country�s institutions of higher education, the U.S. Department of Education is considering a proposal to dramatically change the way it collects data on college students.
AMES, Iowa – A task force studying ways to avoid the rioting that took place during a student festival last spring at Iowa State University presented its report Tuesday to the university president.
They’re not your father’s dorms.
UW-Madison is moving ahead with an ambitious plan to build student housing, digs that will have more bathrooms, larger common areas, classrooms, kitchenettes, high-speed internet and even a little deli.
Looking at 8,000 small red flags – representing the number of lives lost every day to AIDS worldwide – Oliver Barry remembered the terror of waiting for his HIV test results.
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For all its advantages, the UW-Madison campus is not very diverse. The administration has made attempts to devise programs to attract students of different backgrounds and lifestyles to UW System campuses. The fact remains, however, that most students here are middle class white people.
UW System President Kevin Reilly emphasized student access to the UW System and outlined UW System initiatives, including a budget exercise that proposes UW institutions cut 10 percent of spending, in a teleconference Tuesday.
ach year, University Health Services sees one to two students newly infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to Craig Roberts, manager of UW-Madison’s Blue Bus STD clinic.
University of Wisconsin students often face the problem of paying the high prices for textbooks and finding tickets for sold out sports events.
In a teleconference with student journalists across the University of Wisconsin System Tuesday, President Kevin Reilly outlined his recent activities and initiatives for the future, including a new center focusing on entrepreneurial growth.
Sex Out Loud staff member and World AIDS Day coordinator Amy Martin points out issues surrounding the HIV/AIDS Day seem distant to students� daily lives until one considers University Health Services diagnoses two or more University of Wisconsin students with HIV annually.
For many people, a higher education is the ticket to a high- paying job.
But what happens when the cost of that ticket becomes a deterrent to choosing a career that will pay a modest or middle-income salary?
“My worry is that even if people can afford to take out the loans, their career choices are going to be biased in favor of paying off their loans — biased in favor of careers that will make more money,” says former labor secretary Robert B. Reich. (login required.)
WASHINGTON ââ?¬â? Handing a significant legal victory to gay-rights advocates, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that academic institutions may restrict on-campus recruiting by the military because of the Pentagon’s policy on gays and lesbians. (Login required.)
I’m a marching band wannabe. I bet you are too, if you’ve ever been to a Badger game.
Fortunately, Wisconsin Public Television’s “Spring Fever: 30 Years With the UW Varsity Band” finally lets me feel like I’m a part of it, from rehearsal to performance. The documentary airs tonight at 7 on WHA (Ch. 21).
“Without love, compassion and tolerance … CHURCH SUCKS!” That message is being stapled to bulletin boards and phone poles, as a new faith community sprouts near Camp Randall Stadium, next to Urban Pizza and within walls of bright yellow and red.
This is where The Journey begins for seven Seattle and two Kenosha transplants. They want to provide a safe harbor for college students and young families who are in search of Christian meaning and growth.
New apartments for more than 300 students would become available near the corner of Broom and Gorham in August 2006 if the plan of two Madison developers passes the scrutiny of Madison Plan Commission members and the City Council. Some are objecting, however.
Worried about a reduced focus on diversity initiatives at UW-Madison, students from the Multicultural Student Coalition, Associated Students of Madison and other campus groups met with Chancellor John Wiley, Provost Peter Spear and Associate Vice Chancellor Bernice Durand to discuss the recent closing of the Department of Student Affairs.
As many as 84,000 college students could lose financial aid eligibility because a provision prohibiting changes in a student aid formula was not part of the spending bill Congress recently approved for the 2005 fiscal year, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Chancellor John Wiley, Provost Peter Spear and Associate Vice Chancellor Bernice Durand met with the representatives from several UW student organizations Monday afternoon to respond to the students� concerns regarding the dismantling of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs position following the resignation of Paul Barrows Nov. 4.
The biggest ski and snowboard resale in the Midwest begins Saturday in the second floor Tripp Commons at Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
The fearsome computer programming team at the UW-Madison had everything they needed to crush the competition. Their brains were swimming with math smarts. They were experienced with various computer languages. They were patient and poised in front of a keyboard. But earlier this semester, they were missing one thing — a name.
The number of foreign students attending our country’s top research universities has declined for the first time in more than 30 years. Unless that trend is quickly reversed, it will damage many of our best programs, as well as the businesses that depend on the expertise of the talented scholars and researchers produced by them.
Last summer, the Wisconsin Legislature was mulling over a proposal for a Taxpayer Bill of Rights. TABOR is a Republican-led initiative intended to constrain state spending through the adoption of a constitutional amendment. TABOR stems from the aspiration for fewer and lower taxes, but it is a drastic proposal that spares no consideration for those reliant upon state services. The proposed TABOR would strip the UW System down to its bare bones and force UW-Madison to become a private university.
A 19-year-old UW-Madison student sustained minor injuries after a man allegedly sexually assaulted her shortly after midnight Nov. 21, according to the Madison Police Department.
Increasing numbers of college students are eating breakfast cereal as a meal, citing it as a low-cost, easy alternative to uncertain dining hall meals, according to the New York Times.
As University of Wisconsin students continue registering for spring 2005 classes, many UW students and officials have found the process to be convenient and successful.
In colleges across the country, admissions strategies are undergoing a number of changes in respect to examining extracurricular activities ââ?¬â? particularly when it comes to a record of volunteering.
The UW Dance Program put on its annual Fall Faculty Concert at Lathrop Hall�s H�Doubler Performance Space Nov. 18-20. After weeks of rehearsal, hours of tech rehearsal and three nights of production, the show came off effortlessly. Works choreographed by faculty members Jin-Wen Yu and Li Chiao-Ping, and academic staff Marlene Skog, Maureen Janson, and Peggy Choy, were joined by guest artists-in-residence Allen and Karen Kaeja. Renowned modern dancers, choreographers and film-makers, the co-directors of Kaeja d�Dance were honored to be a part of this year�s concert. Spending the past two weeks in Madison, the experts of contact improvisation and partnering shared their knowledge of modern dance with students in the dance program. Additionally, Kaeja choreographed a piece performed by several UW dancers.
A 19-year-old University of Wisconsin female student was sexually assaulted just after midnight Nov. 21. The attack occurred on the 100 block of Langdon Street after the victim walked home alone from a downtown bar.
The number of foreign students attending colleges in the Washington area has fallen by about 10 percent since September 2001, according to a report that shows the first nationwide decline in three decades.
In September, ConnectU founders sued facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, saying that as a sophomore at Harvard, he illegally modeled his site on ConnectU, which they were building and hadn’t yet launched.
Gone are the days when ââ?¬Å?new facesââ?¬Â booklets were the sole directories to greet college students on campus in the fall.
Members of the Joint Southeast Area Campus Committee met Monday to discuss plans to replace Ogg Hall with a new 600-bed residence to be built on Dayton Street, across from Sellery Hall.
The construction around the newly renovated Chamberlin Hall is almost complete, meaning pedestrians will soon be able to use the whole of the sidewalk and not listen to a jackhammer as they walk.
UW-Madison made the decision to redo the current building instead of constructing a brand-new one because of its stunning structure, according to Al Fish, UW-Madison associate vice chancellor of facilities planning and management.
Construction of the new Dayton Street dormitory continues to be a work in progress in Madison, officials determined Monday. Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee members met to better visualize the new and upcoming addition to the dorm community during a meeting Monday night.
An organizer of the first apparel company to unionize in the country of El Salvador spoke with student, faculty and staff members of the University of Wisconsin Labor and Licensing Policy Committee Monday.
People who packed the Union Theater on Monday night expecting to hear about the best-selling book “Fast Food Nation” were instead served a diatribe from the author about his thoughts since the presidential election.
Foreigners who hold master’s degrees or Ph.D.’s from American universities will have an edge over other foreign citizens seeking H-1B visas to work in the United States, thanks to a provision tucked into the vast spending bill that Congress approved on Saturday. (Subscription required.)
