Some of Silicon Valley’s largest firms, including Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., joined forces with big-name universities like UC Berkeley and Stanford on Monday, announcing a new set of guidelines intended to expedite research collaborations on new technology and eliminate legal wranglings over intellectual property rights.
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The homepage of CollegePoker.com profiles ââ?¬Å?Chad F.,ââ?¬Â a student from the University of Minnesota, who, according to the site, won a $41,000 cash scholarship in 2005 through a competition the site sponsors.
It’s moving day for the Mays.
“I’ll be leaving Sunday morning, heading back to New Orleans,” said Shane May.
Shane May hasn’t been back to New Orleans since hurricane Katrina hit … destroying his house, and canceling his semester of law school.
A former UW-Madison sociologist whose research on romantic attraction was the first Golden Fleece Award from Sen. William Proxmire never got another government grant after that, she said Thursday.
Educational benefits from a GI bill passed over a year ago have been severely delayed, causing many to question the bill�s implementation and seek alternate methods of educational funding.
Chuck Goranson, a Vietnam veteran and veterans benefit specialist with the local organization Vets for Vets, said the bill, called Chapter 1607, gives extra benefits to members of the National Guard and military reservists who were called to active duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and other operations concerning the war on terrorism.
The average American college graduate’s literacy in English declined significantly over the past decade, according to results of a nationwide test released yesterday.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy, given in 2003 by the Department of Education, is the nation’s most important test of how well adult Americans can read.
The competition to get into the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus is tougher than ever this year, with the number of freshman applications expected to set a record for the fourth year in a row.
As of last week, applications were up 26 percent compared to the same time last year. Almost 18,700 students had applied for 5,300 freshman slots. By the time all applications are in, officials expect there will be between four and five applicants for every opening.
Contending that they are illegally charged higher tuition and fees than undocumented immigrants, a group of out-of-state students and parents filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against California’s public university and community college systems.
Rachel Friesen was on track to graduate debt-free from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs when she made a leap in 2004 that would instead land her about $40,000 in debt on commencement day. In her junior year, she transferred to Azusa Pacific University, an evangelical Christian college near Los Angeles. Her reason: Christian community.
Sixteen students at the University of Minnesota have committed suicide in the past five years, and antidepressants are now the second-most-often prescribed medication at the student health center pharmacy.
As demand for mental health services increases and the problems that students bring to college grow more severe, the university’s Boynton Health Service is working to keep up.
MADISON, Wis. — A new apparel policy on the UW campus may bring the school and Student Labor Action Coalition closer to a compromise.
For months, the Student Labor Action Coalition has requested that the university stop buying licensed collegiate apparel from companies that run sweatshops.
It is usually my practice to refrain from public displays of religious belief. I am a professor and it would be unfair for me to use my position to sway young people in their religious journeys.
The people of Wisconsin pay my salary. They expect me to help students to acquire the tools and knowledge necessary to have rewarding lives – not to expound on my personal religious beliefs.
….The university can best serve the people of Wisconsin by staying neutral in the matter of religion while encouraging students to ask questions and pursue knowledge.
(Edward G. Young is chair of the UW-Eau Claire economics department.)
ST. PAUL, Minn. ââ?¬â? The University of St. Thomas is trying to give the creator of the next Microsoft or Best Buy a leg up on competitors with its new Schulze School of Entrepreneurship.
The university’s $22 million school in downtown Minneapolis not only aims to lecture to students about entrepreneurship, but also to give them virtually all the tools they’ll need to start a business.
The University of Minnesota has lost ground in the competition for federally funded science and engineering research, the school’s research czar said Friday.
Imagine it: Tomorrow, in Southeast Asia, a bird-flu virus gains the ability to spread quickly among human beings. Patients begin to flood the hospitals.
UW-Madison law student and long-time blogger Zachary Wyatt, 27, thinks the recent suspension of Marquette dental student Theodore Schrubbe for comments made on his personal blog is “tyrannical.”
A University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health research team has found a chemical compound common in many fruits, lupeol, which proved promising in preventing prostate cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer death among men.
Longtime Madison energy executive Erroll B. Davis has a new job that will take him out of Wisconsin and into academia. Thursday morning, in a unanimous vote, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved the appointment of Davis as the system’s new chancellor.
Davis becomes both the first African-American and the first person from outside academia to hold the chancellor’s job, though he told The Capital Times last month that academia “has always been an interest of mine.” Davis served for seven years (1987-94) on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and also served on the boards of trustees of Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Chicago.
One of Madison’s most prominent black leaders and an influential corporate executive will leave the area next year to become chancellor of the University System of Georgia.
Alliant Energy chairman Erroll Davis, who has spent 27 years in senior management positions at Alliant and the old Wisconsin Power & Light, was selected Thursday by the Georgia regents to lead the 35- campus system and its $2 billion yearly budget.
After a nearly three-year impasse with the state, teaching assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have officially relented on the state’s demand that they pay for health insurance.
The Teaching Assistants Association ratified a contract with the state covering the 2003-05 and 2005-07 bienniums, the association reported Tuesday. The contract requires the teaching assistants to pay for health insurance for the first time in their history.
(UNDATED) As the Wisconsin Legislature debates gay marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court is deciding an issue involving gays in the military. At issue is whether colleges can protest the governmentââ?¬â?¢s ââ?¬Å?Donââ?¬â?¢t Ask, Donââ?¬â?¢t Tellââ?¬Â policy by banning military recruiters from campus. (Third item.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 – The military wants access to law schools on the same basis as other potential employers seeking to recruit students, although openly gay law students, of course, need not apply. The law schools insist that only those employers who pledge not to discriminate, against gay men and lesbians or anyone else, are welcome.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 – The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the government may withhold Social Security benefits in order to collect old student loan debts.
If Charles Miller has his way, the national panel he leads for Education Secretary Margaret Spellings could be in for some rough going. The Commission on the Future of Higher Education gathers in Nashville today for the second of five meetings. Miller, whose push for greater accountability in the public schools forged a national movement, is preparing to repeat his efforts in higher ed.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the government can seize a person’s Social Security benefits to pay old student loans.
Retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote the decision that went against a disabled man, James Lockhart, who contends he needs all of his $874 monthly check to pay for food and medication.
His government benefits had been cut by 15 percent to cover debts he incurred for college in the 1980s.
A former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater dean filed a racial discrimination complaint against campus officials on Tuesday, saying he was subjected to intense scrutiny and demoted because he is black.
Lee Jones filed the complaint at the state’s Equal Rights Division, which handles discrimination complaints against state agencies, alleging UW-Whitewater officials singled him out for an audit because of his race.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court appeared ready today to uphold a law that says colleges cannot turn away military recruiters in protest of the Pentagon’s policy on gays if the universities also want to receive federal money.
New Chief Justice John Roberts said schools unhappy with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy have a simple solution: Turn down federal cash.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday over whether colleges can bar military recruiters from their campuses without jeopardizing their federal funds. Among the justices whose views could be discerned, a majority appeared to favor the government’s arguments over those of the colleges.
The case, Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (No. 04-1152), pits the Defense Department against a coalition of 38 law schools and law-school faculties in a fight over the constitutionality of a decade-old law that allows the federal government to withhold funds — millions of dollars, in some cases — from colleges that limit military recruiting.
BOSTON ââ?¬â? Melissa Taylor said she had never heard the terms “last call” or “closing time” until she came to Boston from New Orleans, with its never-ending nightlife.
When Hurricane Katrina forced Tulane University to cancel its fall semester, Taylor found herself enrolled in what she and about 13,000 other Tulane students have come to think of as “our domestic semester abroad.”
The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to rule that Congress can withhold money from colleges that protest the Pentagon’s ban on gay men and lesbians by denying military recruiters access to campuses.
Trying to anticipate the outcome of U.S. Supreme Court cases based on the content and tone of the oral arguments is risky business ââ?¬â? the justices tend to pummel both parties in a case with questions, to test the limits of the lawyersââ?¬â?¢ positions (and their own), and the discussions often veer off on tangents, giving short shrift to the central issues in the case.
What is it about the concept of privatization that makes the brains of public officials turn to jelly?
….Last week I heard Katharine Lyall, former UW System president, push her new book, “The True Genius of America at Risk.” The subhead suggests that our public universities are headed toward “de facto privatization.” It almost sounds like she is opposed to privatization but after listening carefully and looking over her handouts, it was my conclusion that her message really is, “Hey, it’s inevitable so why fight it?”
The University of Wisconsin at Whitewater has demoted a black dean who has been at the forefront of the campus’s efforts to diversify, and it is starting proceedings that could lead to his termination.
Friday’s action resulted from a November 2 audit report of alleged misspending by the dean — Lee Jones, who in 1999 helped found Brothers of the Academy, a nationwide group aimed at increasing the number of black men who earn Ph.D.’s and work in higher education (The Chronicle, November 29, 2002).
The Wisconsin Alumni Association is working to mobilize its graduates in an effort to improve the university’s situation at the other end of State Street.
The association announced the creation of Alumni for Wisconsin, a coalition designed to inform alumni about the latest challenges facing the university at the Capitol, and help them get their voices heard.
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater removed a dean from his administrative post Friday amid questions about his use of university funds.
The school demoted Lee Jones, the school’s dean of continuing education and summer session, one day after The Associated Press reported that he had faced allegations of misspending while an associate dean at Florida State University.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? He rises at 5 a.m. for two-hour workouts and brings stacks of reading material to sporting events to read during down time.
Colleagues and friends describe him as an intense intellectual who remains approachable and down to earth despite his driven nature.
As chairman and former CEO of a $3 billion energy company, Erroll Davis might not seem the obvious choice for Georgia’s next University System
chancellor.
Quoted: Bernice Durand, associate vice chancellor for diversity and climate at the University of Wisconsin.
University of Kentucky President Lee Todd believes he has a solution to many of the economic problems that have plagued the state: Turn the commonwealth’s flagship institution into a Top 20 research university by 2020.
Today, he will unveil a plan that will ask for state funding increases of between $15 million and $23 million a year for UK through 2020, totaling $260 million over the next 15 years. The exact amounts will vary according to state allocations and tuition increases.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider whether the U.S. government may withhold funds from colleges that limit military recruiters’ access to campus to protest the Pentagon’s policy of barring openly gay people from serving in the armed forces. The dispute between the Defense Department and a group representing about 30 law schools tests whether a law known as the Solomon Amendment ââ?¬â? which could allow government to withhold billions of dollars from colleges that inhibit military recruiting on campus ââ?¬â? violates the schools’ First Amendment speech rights.
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater hired a dean months after he resigned from Florida State University where auditors contended he spent thousands of dollars of school money for personal benefit, the Associated Press has learned.
UW-Whitewater officials said Thursday they were unaware of the audit when they hired Lee Jones to be a high-ranking dean in May 2004. They said they were surprised to learn about it Thursday from the AP, which obtained a report detailing auditors’ concerns with Jones’ use of university funds while he was associate dean of Florida State’s College of Education.
The Recording Industry Association of America today filed a new round of lawsuits against 754 people, including at least one person in Madison, for illegal music sharing using the Internet.
….Despite a suit being filed in Madison, in its list of 12 colleges where network users are targeted, it did not include students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
colleague’s summary of her forthcoming book, he thought he was hearing an echo of his own work.
Today that echo has become an uproar, a dispute that’s set scholar against scholar and led researchers at some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges to choose sides.
The charge? “Conceptual plagiarism.”
The New York Times last Sunday printed an expose on a “high school” that turns athletes with poor grades into players with academic records good enough to qualify for a college scholarship.
The school is University High School in Miami, which has no educational accreditation and no classes, but athletes who are struggling at their regular schools are able to take correspondence courses from it which, in turn, are recognized by major colleges for scholarships.
….The NCAA, not surprisingly, is oblivious.
“We’re not the educational accreditation police,” the NCAA’s managing director for membership services told the newspaper.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student government has voted in favor of charging students a fee to fund raises for professors and instructors, which are normally paid for with tax money and tuition.
Aaron Olson, the president of campus Student Senate, said the $20 annual fee is needed to draw attention to what he views as the Legislature’s underfunding of the UW System.
“Either we do the job of the Legislature or watch the quality of our education go down,” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
NEW YORK – As a student at Davidson College in North Carolina, art-lover Drew Crawford saw business potential in the small college town. The nearby suburbs of Charlotte, N.C., were growing, and the town saw a steady stream of students and their parents each year.
Teaching assistants from the University of Wisconsin System came to the State Capitol on Tuesday to tell legislators why they should reject a bill that would take away their collective bargaining rights.
Sen. Tom Reynolds, R-West Allis, said he proposed the bill because of an illegal strike by the UW-Madison Teaching Assistants Association last year.
….Reynolds said after the hearing that he is not sure when the committee might vote on the bill, but that even if the panel votes against it, he would try to bring it before the Senate by other means.
BOSTON, Nov. 29 – Harvard Law School announced Tuesday the creation of a center to study legal issues raised by advances in genetics, health care and technology.
The University of California on Monday unveiled its next big thing in innovation: a huge new institute that partners academia and industry, with the goal of speeding products to patients.
The days are numbered for a Board of Regents that is almost entirely made up of the governor’s appointees, says former University of Wisconsin System President Katharine Lyall.
Speaking to the Dane County Democratic Party at a lunchtime event on Monday, Lyall told the group of about 30 that with state support for higher education declining, those who are picking up the slack may reasonably expect a greater voice.
“What sense does it make for the governor to appoint 100 percent of the governing board when the state is paying less than 20 percent of the bill?” said Lyall, who retired last year. “The governance process here is going to change for public higher education to come more into alignment with the funding structure.”
When UW-Madison leaders brag about the “holistic” approach they use to choose “well-rounded” students for admission — putting good grades in a mix of other desired traits such as community service and different life experiences — junior Ashok Kumar could be their poster boy.
Since virtually the day he arrived as a freshman, from a poor school district in Yuma, Ariz., Kumar, 21, has stirred things up.
Minneapolis, Minn. ââ?¬â? Congress clamped down on schools that denied military recruiters on campus last year. It tightened restrictions under the so-called Solomon Amendment, which requires schools that receive federal funding to give recruiters the same access to their career placement offices as other employers.
When the Air Force came to Harvard Law School in October to recruit students for its Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Adam R. Sorkin, a second-year student, signed up for an interview.
Mr. Sorkin, who is gay, knew he would be turned down for the job under the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. But he went anyway, to argue for an end to the ban on homosexuals in the armed services.
At many colleges, students flash a photo ID at a food-service worker to get into a dining hall. Things work differently at the University of Georgia, where Gavin Beck, a senior, places his hand on a sensor that determines if the person waiting to eat really is Gavin Beck.
By the end of his junior year at Miami Killian High School, Demetrice Morley flashed the speed, size and talent of a top college football prospect. His classroom performance, however, failed to match his athletic skills.
He received three F’s that year and had a 2.09 grade point average in his core courses, giving him little hope of qualifying for a scholarship under National Collegiate Athletic Association guidelines.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 – American universities are warning that rules proposed by the Defense Department and expected soon from the Commerce Department could hurt research by limiting the ability of foreign-born students and technicians to work with sensitive technology in laboratories.
In-depth State Journal report on the rise of activism and community-based volunteer work among UW-Madison students. Story not available online.
As the temperature drops on many campuses, there�s probably an extra little chill in the air for the facilities managers and budget officers responsible for making sure that buildings are heated and energy bills paid.
Colleges created a record number of start-up companies based on the inventions of their professors and students in the 2004 fiscal year, and they collected more than $1-billion in revenues from licenses on a host of new drugs, agricultural products, high-tech components, and other breakthrough technologies, according to a survey scheduled for release today.
College students who have already suffered negative consequences of drinking and driving are more likely to drink and drive again than are their peers who have not dealt with such consequences, a study has found.
According to the study, which was published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol, it’s hard to break the habit of drinking and driving, even though college students who have experienced a drunken-driving accident or arrest show a better understanding of the risks involved than those who have not.
If Angie Gratzl could make kids understand one thing about the dangers of underage drinking, it’s that bad things can happen to you. She knows, because they happened to her son. Some 15 months ago, during move-in time last year at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, her son Jason, then 18, drank too much at a house party and fell from a second-floor balcony, where a friend told police he had gone to vomit.
Research by Pennsylvania State University professor Rob Turrisi suggests that parents who talk with their child about alcohol can influence his or her drinking habits in college. And it can make a difference even if parents don’t start until the months before the start of the freshman year.
