Starting in January 2011, students who fulfill the Wisconsin Covenant Pledge and demonstrate considerable financial need will receive a $1,500 grant from the Wisconsin Covenant Foundation, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Friday.
The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and itâ??s likely more college leaders will make seven-figure salaries once the slumping economy rebounds.
The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and its likely more college leaders will make seven-figure salaries once the slumping economy rebounds. A record 23 presidents received more than $1 million in total compensation in fiscal 2008, according to an analysis of the most recently available data published Monday by the Chronicle of Higher Education. A record one in four in the study of 419 colleges mandatory IRS filings made at least $500,000.
IN a speech last year, Drew Faust, the president of Harvard, congratulated seniors who had gone the extra mile to get their R.O.T.C. training. She meant it literally, and the extra miles they had gone were the least of it.
Susan Li’s senior year at the University of California, Los Angeles, was fast approaching, and she was running out of time. She needed at least three classes to qualify for financial aid. But a week before classes began, she had registered for only one course.
WASHINGTON, D.C. WKOW — A new report shows more young Americans than ever are in college. It found the number of 18 to 24-year-olds attending college hit a record high in October of last year, at just under 40 percent.
College campuses experienced a surge in flu cases last week just as vaccine shortages and delays were forcing many to postpone scheduled shot clinics, the American College Health Association reported on Wednesday.
Some of the increases in what the association called “influenza-like illnesses”â??widely thought to be the H1N1, popularly called swine fluâ??occurred in regions that had seemed to be recovering from severe outbreaks earlier this fall. The unexpected rebounds in the Southeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast have some health experts worried that the holiday season might bring some colleges a double dose of illness.
Most college presidents at schools with the largest athletic programs claim they are powerless when it comes to containing escalating costs associated with big-time college sports.
Really? While such a statement seems absurd, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that is just one of the key findings of a new report released by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics that focuses on the financing of major-college athletics programs.
Congress has not given final approval to legislation ending federal subsidies for private student loans for college. But Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter Monday to thousands of colleges and universities urging them to get ready to use the governmentâ??s Direct Loan Program in the 2010-11 school year.
For the first time, tuition this fall is being offered and accepted by undocumented residents within the University of Wisconsin System after Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle signed into effect a change of law that allows undocumented residents to receive in-state tuition, making Wisconsin one of 11 states that support this.
The Obama administration is calling for an overhaul of college programs that prepare teachers, saying they are cash cows that do a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the classroom.
The University of Wisconsin continued to affirm its place as a premiere research university in the nation by ranking in the top 10 in institutions by the number of Fulbright Fellowships awarded to students.
The University of Michigan has received 13 federal stimulus grants worth $6.8 million for stem cell research — a sign of the stateâ??s growing clout since voters last year eased restrictions in the emerging field that seeks treatments and cures for numerous diseases.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly wrote an opinion piece for InsideHigherEd.com titled “So what do they want from us, anyway?”
In this column, Reilly identifies “four essential items that America wants and needs from its public universities in todayâ??s globally competitive knowledge economy.” He refers to these items as higher educationâ??s “Four Pillars of Promise.”
Some on the Left Coast are miffed at the University of California-Berkeleyâ??s plan to start admitting additional out-of-state residents and international students — who pay higher tuition than the in-state students — to make up for state budget cuts.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau told the San Francisco Chronicle that his campus will be admitting as many as 600 fewer “unfunded” California students a year to offset a 20 percent cut in state funds. Those openings then will go to out-of-staters.
….Closer to home, nearly a quarter of all undergraduates on the UW-Madison campus already are paying out-of-state tuition.
Tuition and fees for four-year universities increased by approximately 6.5 percent nationally from the 2008-09 to 2009-10 academic years due to state budget cuts, according to a report released Tuesday.
U.S. medical school enrollment is up for the 11th consecutive year as colleges seek to meet a growing demand for physicians.
Average published tuition prices rose, as expected, across all types of colleges this year, says a report out Tuesday. But increases, particularly at public four-year colleges, were “lower than we might have feared” given the economy, the author says. And when grant aid and tax benefits are factored in and after adjusting for inflation, the average price residents pay for public four-year colleges is actually lower than it was five years ago.
Even as tuition and fees increased last year, the amount students borrowed in private loans declined by almost 50 percent, according to the first widely accepted estimate of that drop, which was expected to be significant.
The price of a college education rose substantially last year, despite a 2.1 percent decline in the Consumer Price Index from July 2008 to July 2009.
A new survey suggests modest movement by colleges away from standards that use strict measures of academic performance and potential. Measures of high school grades and test scores remain extremely important for most colleges in the survey, but on a series of criteria from which colleges were asked to name the ones that have “considerable importance,” some institutions appear less certain than in the past about such factors. The decline was particularly notable for standardized test scores.
UW-Madison officials continue to debate Provost Paul DeLucaâ??s plan to restructure the graduate school, and will hold another town hall meeting Friday for further discussion.
The UI is bracing for some of the worst budget misery in the Big Ten with roughly $50 million in total fiscal 2010 cuts.Across the country, a couple Big Ten universitiesâ?? budgets were spared, though most are still looking for ways to save money.
At a time when getting admitted to many flagship universities is harder than ever, a growing number are considering plans to increase enrollments — dramatically in some cases — of out-of-state applicants.
The theory behind these plans is straightforward: Public universities charge much more for out-of-state students; the parents who must pay those bills vote in other states, so these tuition dollars are much less politically costly than those gained by raising in-state rates; states have run out of money. Add those factors together, and all of the sudden everyone wants a larger national student body.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments have begun delivering H1N1 vaccines to scores of colleges and universities across the country, and those inoculations are arriving in very different climates for the illness from campus to campus.
University of Wisconsin officials recently unveiled a plan to restructure the graduate school after significant growth in the institutionâ??s research and graduate education programs.
Bright, eagerâ??and unwanted. While unemployment is ravaging just about every part of the global workforce, the most enduring harm is being done to young people who canâ??t grab onto the first rung of the career ladder.Affected are a range of young people, from high school dropouts, to college grads, to newly minted lawyers and MBAs across the developed world from Britain to Japan. One indication: In the U.S., the unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds has climbed to more than 18%, from 13% a year ago.
In a fresh demonstration of scienceâ??s newfound ability to alter the basic units of human life, researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin have turned the cells in human skin into those in the liver, work that opens new avenues for treating diseases of the liver without relying on organ transplants.
Another day. Another ranking of colleges and universities.
This time, the University of Wisconsin-Madison checked in at No. 61 tied with University of Auckland in the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. Thatâ??s a drop of six spots from last year, when UW-Madison was ranked 55th.
MADISON (WKOW) — Eight years after the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, more veterans are dropping their weapons and picking up their textbooks at college campuses nationwide.
Despite its reputation as an anti-war campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has seen a significant increase in its student veteran population. That number doubled between 2004 and 2008, and the university says 600 students claimed to have military experience on their applications.
Thomson Reutersâ?? most recent assessment lists the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the top 20 universities for research impact based on publications submitted by researchers.
The online education sector grew 13% last year and had been growing at about 20% in previous years. Nearly one in four students take at least some college courses online, up from one in 10 in 2002. Two million students, most older than the traditional 18-22 year-old undergraduates, take all their courses online and two million more take one or more online course. President Barack Obama pledged $500 million for online courses and materials as part of a multi-pronged plan aimed at expanding access to college.
Universities are creating classes to train students in how to treat combat veterans and their families suffering from war-related mental health problems. As psychologically wounded troops return from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the initiatives range from workshops to semester-long graduate courses, such as one on military culture next year at the University of Washington-Tacoma. The University of Southern California is starting a masterâ??s program in which students will interact with holographic images of troops in distress.
University of Iowa President Sally Mason said Thursday that the relocation of UI’s music and art programs after last year’s flooding and its budget issues present a chance to be stronger than before.
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“We have so much opportunity in front of us to rebuild the university better than ever,” she said before about 300 people at the Joint Service Club Luncheon at the University Athletic Club. “As I’ve said before, with adversity comes opportunity.”
Worried about finding a job after you graduate from college? During this Great Recession, there are no guarantees. Or are there?
The University of Regina, which is located north of the border in Saskatchewan, has introduced a unique program guaranteeing students a successful career launch following completion of their undergraduate degree.
From administrators to custodians, men and women employed by the universities in the Big Ten are dealing with heavy budget cuts and salary freezes.
While no two schools have reacted the same way, each has developed a plan to withstand the economic trouble without totally devastating its students and employees. But some face bigger obstacles than others.
While the state Board of Regents mull a possible bonus for UI President Sally Mason, other Big Ten institutions have already closed the issue.
Regents recently announced that Mason would not receive a pay raise for fiscal 2010 but would be eligible for incentive pay of up to $80,000.
Graham B. Spanier, president of the Pennsylvania State University system, explains why itâ??s more difficult to be president of a public university now than it was just a few years ago, and why todayâ??s college presidents are seldom inclined to speak out on political issues.
Mike Bellman got more than he bargained for when he purchased a box of old cell phones from the University of Missouri athletics department.
Bellman bought the cell phones earlier this year at a university surplus sale with the intent of reselling them for parts. He paid $190 for 25 old cell phones, figuring heâ??d sell the parts for around $1,000.
Turned out the information on the phones might be worth more than the hardware. No one at the university had deleted the text messages, e-mails and contact numbers from the phones.
BOSTON — There is a new crackdown at Tufts University — of the X-rated variety.
The Medford collegeâ??s new guest policy, revised from last year, now includes a section that bars students from “engaging in sexual activity while their roommate is present,” WCVB-TV in Boston reported.
The talk this week at an annual gathering of college admissions officers and high school counselors included the usual topics, like how to deal with â??difficultâ? parents and the names of hot student prospects. But the conversations â?? in panel discussions, in hallways and over crab cakes â?? always seemed to circle around to one subject: the economy.
Efforts to track H1N1 on college campuses this fall have focused almost exclusively on students, but the University of New Mexico has introduced Absence Tracking, a daily survey to keep tabs on the numbers of faculty and staff who call in sick.
Thousands of students and faculty and staff members at the University of California staged rallies and walkouts on Thursday on the systemâ??s 10 campuses to protest sharply rising tuition, employee furloughs, and deep cuts in state support for the university.
As president of the University of California, the most prestigious of the state-university systems, you have proposed that in-state tuition be jacked up to more than $10,000, from $7,788. Are you pricing education beyond the reach of most students?
In 2009, U.C. adopted the Blue and Gold Program, guaranteeing that no student with a family income below $60,000 would pay any fees, and this guarantee will continue in 2010. Thatâ??s the short answer.
Both UW-Madison graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship programs within the School of Business ranked among the top 25 in the nation, according to a recent survey.
Community colleges, acknowledging increased attention to their role in preparing todayâ??s workforce for a global economy, are looking for new ways to send more students abroad.”Community colleges that do not offer education abroad are not meeting their mandate of preparing for their future roles in a global economy,” says Rosalind Raby, director of California Colleges for International Education, a non-profit membership group.
Besides the brochures, application forms and give-away trinkets spread on the table in front of her, Claudia Colnar keeps a U.S. map handy. Inevitably, “Whereâ??s Wyoming?” is the first question sheâ??ll get when recruiting Vietnamese students to her community college.
Cost has increasingly become a deciding factor in where students enroll in college, but the economic downturn has made this back-to-school season tougher than usual for many families. Job losses and dwindling savings arenâ??t the only factors.Michigan lawmakers did not include a state-funded scholarship program in its budget this year, and future funding is shaky for similar programs in several other states.
The admissions scandal at the University of Illinois claimed its highest-ranking victim on Wednesday, when B. Joseph White, president of the three-campus system, announced he was resigning, effective December 31.
Ten years ago this month, my life changed. The security blanket of high school had been removed, and I was going away to college. Being a person who tends to fear the unknown, I was initially terrified. A decade later, I can honestly say that college was the best time in my life, at least so far.
From Facebook to YouTube to personal blogs, future doctors are crossing the line â?? and getting in trouble. A new study finds most medical school deans surveyed said they were aware of students posting unprofessional content online, including photos of drug paraphernalia and violations of patient privacy. Some infractions resulted in warnings, others in being expelled.
Isn’t it nice when an idea works like you hoped it would?
That’s how a trio of higher education researchers (and the many high-profile groups that supported their work) are probably feeling about the experiment they engineered (described in this 2007 article) to see if simplifying the process of applying for federal financial aid would increase the likelihood that low-income Americans apply for aid, receive it, and enroll in college.
A luxury suite for the big football game on campus just isnâ??t the status symbol it used to be, and a number of college athletics programs are paying the price for their donorsâ?? belt tightening.
Two months ago, Michael Pflanzer was hoping to take advantage of the federal governmentâ??s new Post-9/11 GI Bill to go to Madison Area Technical College.
….But Pflanzer’s college plans fizzled before classes started at MATC on Aug. 24. The more he looked into things, the more he became convinced that a growing backlog of those applying for GI Bill benefits meant the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would be unable to get living stipend payments to those who qualify in a timely manner.
Quoted: Assistant dean of students John Bechtol
(Gerald Kapinos, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran, UW-Madison student and the Midwest regional director of Student Veterans of America is also quoted in the story.)
Students who get kicked out of a University of Minnesota football game for drunken rowdiness won’t be allowed back next time unless they pass an alcohol breath test at the gate â?? one of the most extreme attempts yet by colleges to curb misbehavior in the stands.
The NCAA does not track how many schools require breath tests after a drinking offense. But Ervin Cox, assistant dean of students at the University of Wisconsin, said he believes his school and Minnesota are the only ones with such a policy.
Wisconsin officials said the “Show and Blow” program has improved the atmosphere at Camp Randall Stadium, which is also dry.
The House voted Thursday in favor of the biggest overhaul of college aid programs since their creation in the 1960s â?? a bill to oust private lenders from the student loan business and put the government in charge. The vote was 253-171 in favor of a bill that fulfills nearly all of President Obamaâ??s campaign promises for higher education: The measure ends subsidies for private lenders, boosts Pell Grants for needy students and creates a grant program to improve community colleges, among other things.
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that expands federal aid to college students while ending federal subsidies to private lenders.
In its yet-to-be-unveiled online guide for preparing for a swine flu outbreak, the Virginia Community College System offers the usual advice: cover your mouth and wash your hands. But it also links to sites that show professors and students how to use Blackboard.
College students were reporting flu-like symptoms just a few days into the start of fall semester classes but, two weeks into the school year, many area school districts serving students in kindergarten through 12th grade donâ??t report anything out of the ordinary.
The difference between the two groups of students was forecast in warnings issued by the federal government in preparation for the return of the H1N1 flu virus for the 2009-â??10 school year.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Yale lab technician was arrested Thursday at a hotel and charged with murdering a graduate student whose body was found stuffed in the wall of a research building on what would have been her wedding day.
…”It is important to note that this is not about urban crime, university crime, domestic crime but an issue of workplace violence, which is becoming a growing concern around the country,” (New Haven Police Chief James) Lewis said.
