The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took a more proactive stance to prevent the spread of meningococcal meningitis last week by issuing a recommendation that all children over the age of 11 be immunized against the potentially fatal disease with a newly licensed vaccine.
College athletes have been noticeably absent from Congressional debates over performance-enhancing drugs. New legislation pending in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, however, could trigger government oversight of drug testing in college sports.
On the 16th floor of the Boston University School of Law building one recent afternoon, three law students took a break from their studies to eat lunch and reflect. They discussed classes that could have been better, the impending bar exam, and the foremost question in their minds: how to pay off their student loans.
Each was looking at the attractive option of consolidating her debt by locking in the current low interest rate for up to 30 years, either with the U.S. Education Department or a private lender that provides government-backed loans. But the students had plenty of questions and concerns.
A committee at the University of Oregon unveiled the first draft of a diversity plan, to the dismay of many faculty members who object to its approach and the surprise of some members of the committee that prepared it.
WASHINGTON, May 26 – As the Senate moves to complete the spending bill for the Higher Education Act next month, a growing number of organizations concerned about privacy rights are fighting a Department of Education plan that would require colleges and universities to place personal information on individual students into a national database maintained by the government.
A majority of college students frequently use plastic for purchases, but they are carrying slightly lower credit-card balances than they did four years ago, according to a study released on Tuesday by Nellie Mae, a major provider of student loans.
When she applied to 13 colleges last year, Carly Chase thought she was wise to all the possible responses she would get: deferment, early acceptance, regular acceptance, or rejection.
But when she opened up the envelope from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., – her top choice – she thought, “Oh, that’s a new one.”
With a backdrop of poster-sized front pages blaring headlines like ââ?¬Å?House fire kills 3 studentsââ?¬Â and ââ?¬Å?Penn State student fies in house fire,ââ?¬Â several members of Congress gathered Wednesday to say that they were teaming up to push a package of legislation aimed at improving fire safety on college campuses.
Assessing their weeklong trip around Wisconsin last week, new faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison kept choosing the same word: passion.
They found it in the farmers and businesspeople and teachers they met across the state. But they also felt it in the history of Wisconsin and in their fellow faculty members – the phenomenal Bill Cronon, a font of knowledge about the state’s history and geology, and the incomparable Ada Deer, a lifelong fighter for American Indian rights – who revealed that history to them while they rode on the bus from stop to stop.
…Tagging along on the trip, I witnessed why the UW-Madison has earned its reputation as a top university. The handful of faculty and staff I met from the sprawling campus astounded me with their devotion to research, their deep curiosity and their dedication, ultimately, to making this world a better place.
A change in Forbes magazine’s criteria for selecting its seventh annual “Best Places for Business and Careers” helped push Madison from the top spot last year to No. 10 this year.
Forbes this year replaced doctoral degrees per capita with engineers as one of the nine statistical measures it uses in ranking the 150 largest U.S. metro areas. Madison was No. 1 in the former, but is just No. 50 in the latter.
Edgewood College welcomed Thai royalty to campus Tuesday, hosting a visit by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn that was intended to highlight ties between the college and Thailand.
Princess Sirindhorn, 50, is the third of four children of King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. She was described Tuesday as a hard worker for poor people and the environment, pushing reforms in education, conservation and health care.
The chancellor at UW-Stout says the military, which does not accept openly gay recruits, is not acceptable on his campus.
The University of Wisconsin System on Monday began a review of Chancellor Charles Sorensen’s decision to reject an Army ROTC program as a means of protesting the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays, instituted by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
WASHINGTON ââ?¬â? A House bill passed Tuesday that would loosen President Bushââ?¬â?¢s restrictions on medical research on human embryos would be a boon for scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the nationââ?¬â?¢s leader in the field.
After years of complaints from universities, the State Department has issued final regulations that permit some visiting scholars from abroad to obtain visas to work in the United States for as many as five years, up from the current limit of three years.
College students who get drunk regularly are likelier than other students ââ?¬â? even those who drink alcohol ââ?¬â? to physically injure themselves, or to be hurt by other drinkers, according to researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Palmyra, has made it his mission to be the Legislature’s attack dog against higher education.
The bombastic Republican never misses a chance to pick on the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other campuses in the UW System. For the most part, everyone recognizes that Nass is just chasing headlines, and his outbursts are treated accordingly. But every once in a while, he gets out of line.
That’s what happened last week when Nass denounced UW President Kevin Reilly for urging the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee to avoid further cuts in the system’s 2005-2007 budget.
The accelerating growth of colleges’ spending on athletics drew criticism on Monday from the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which used a meeting here to highlight the findings of recent reports and to make clear that its members do not consider their work done.
SPOKANE, Wash. – Over the course of his adult life, Jeff Martinelli has married three women and buried one of them, a cancer victim. He had a son and has watched him raise a child of his own. Through it all, one thing was constant: a factory job that was his ticket to the middle class.
CHILHOWIE, Va. – One of the biggest decisions Andy Blevins has ever made, and one of the few he now regrets, never seemed like much of a decision at all. It just felt like the natural thing to do.
A recent survey found that college seniors are more worried about debt than terrorism, a finding that probably says more about the size of student loans than the state of homeland security. The numbers tell the story: 45% of the seniors said they expect to graduate with $10,000 or more in student loans. Nearly 21% said they expect to graduate with more than $20,000, according to the Partnership for Public Service.
Washington – President Bush vowed Friday to veto legislation intended to ease the restrictions he imposed on stem cell research in 2001, setting up a potentially divisive battle with Congress over the morality of modern science.
For Jen Kraus, joining thousands of other Jews to usher in the Sabbath as the sun set over Jerusalem’s Western Wall was the pinnacle of her four-year college career and a spiritual affirmation that no other semester abroad could offer.
Seven universities–including the University of Wisconsin, Michigan State and Ohio State University–recently have reinstated their programs with the caveat that students must sign a waiver clearing their schools of any liability in case of violent unrest.
Do you really know who is working on your campus? Are you perhaps employing a day-care worker who molested children, an accountant who declared personal bankruptcy, or a bus driver who was convicted of drunk driving? You won’t be in the position to know unless you conduct background checks.
Students once saw computer-science classes as their ticket to wealth. Now, as more technology jobs are outsourced to other countries, such classes are seen as a path to unemployment.
States awarded $7.3 billion in student financial assistance in 2003-4, up 6 percent from the previous year, according to a new survey from the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs
The number of undergraduates signing up for computer degrees is falling fast, making IBM and other tech companies worry that there soon won’t be enough skilled U.S. workers to meet demand.
Some might crack. But you get the impression Tom Keefe isn�t freaking out with his $11.7 million to, say, $18 million assignment at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
A conservative lawmaker (Rep. Steve Nass) is denouncing University of Wisconsin President Kevin Reilly for urging the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee to avoid further cuts in the university’s 2005-2007 budget.
In a letter Wednesday to the committee, Reilly said there are elements in the proposed state budget that would help the university, but added “there are also several aspects that are already challenging us, such as having to cut at least 200 jobs and the lack of funding for a competitive pay plan, which is seriously affecting our ability to recruit.”
Jim Weinert, a prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist, and Bob Pricer, a longtime teacher of entrepreneurship, were inducted into the UW-Madison Business School’s Entrepreneur Hall of Fame at the eighth annual celebration of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship.
A large group of academic associations is urging the federal government to take more action to welcome international students, researchers, and scholars to the United States by overhauling the visa process and taking other steps to remove hurdles to foreigners.
Attacks by two extremist groups, one of which has been tied to numerous acts of vandalism against research facilities at universities, are growing in both frequency and size and represent one of the most serious domestic-terrorism threats today, federal law-enforcement officials told a Senate panel on Wednesday.
A new report by four professors at the University of California, Davis, has found that despite an unusual hiring wave and a steady increase in the number of women in the Ph.D. applicant pool, the University of California still lags in hiring women.
The generation that came of age after Sept. 11, 2001, fears college debt and joblessness more than another terrorist attack. That’s according to a new survey of college seniors and graduates of the class of 2005, most of whom were just weeks into their college careers that fateful Tuesday.
In Greek mythology, the Golden Age was a time without war, property or labor. Gentle breezes rendered clothes unnecessary. Death came as painless as a catnap. At Marquette University, the Gold Age lasted about a week, and it was not quite as serene.
DENVER, Colorado (AP) — A University of Colorado professor facing possible dismissal after being accused of plagiarism and lying about his American Indian heritage denied the allegations again in a report he submitted Monday to a committee investigating his actions.
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Professor Ross Cheit put it to the students in his “Ethics and Public Policy” class at Brown University: Are you morally obliged to report cheating if you know about it?
College students who say they can’t safely express conservative views on campus are taking their case to a setting they hope will be more hospitable: state legislatures.
More than 57% of the freshly robed graduates parading across podiums this graduation season will be female, up from 43% in 1970. In Minnesota this year, women outperformed men in every degree category, earning more than two-thirds of the master’s degrees and more than half the doctorates. That’s good for the girls, but what about the boys?
The UW-Madison School of Business was ranked 15th in the U.S. and 26th in the world in the Financial Times’ annual list of top executive education providers for the fourth consecutive year.
Last year, UW was rated 17th in the U.S. and 32nd in the world. In 2003, UW was rated 17th in the U.S. and 34th in the world.
A UW-Madison student was charged Monday with breaking into a physics professor’s office on three occasions to steal exams.
Nicholas Z. Hanson, 22, faces three counts of burglary in the failed Dec. 17 theft from a Sterling Hall office, as well as two earlier burglaries during which he allegedly took exams from the same office.
BOSTON – Harvard University will spend $50 million over the next decade to support initiatives on women scientists and faculty that were recommended Monday by two task forces formed in the wake President Lawrence Summers’ comments on female aptitude in science and math.
Early this morning, 40 professors, administrators and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison boarded a bus on campus and embarked on a weeklong discovery of what makes Wisconsin special.
The Wisconsin Idea Seminar bus tour rolled off for its 21st year of providing new faculty and staff (and a few longtime faculty who come along) with a heightened appreciation of the unique and ongoing experiment known as the Wisconsin Idea.
Jian Yang stood with his wife and their friends early Friday evening in front of the Kohl Center, proudly wearing the cap and gown of a University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. candidate, about to get his doctorate in civil and environmental engineering.
“This is one very important day,” the 28-year-old from China said, ready to join hundreds of other graduate students inside the Kohl Center for the 152nd commencement of the state’s largest university Friday night.
More than even the graduates, the Wisconsin Idea took center stage Sunday in graduation ceremonies at UW-Madison.
The Wisconsin Idea is the tradition-steeped notion that the boundaries of the university extend to the boundaries of the state and beyond – that the University of Wisconsin has a duty to share its knowledge to make the state a better place.
Colorado, a concerned citizen in Oklahoma writes, is a land of crippled job growth, low immunization rates and poorly funded classrooms: “Its universities are in shambles.”
Colorado, a Wisconsin state representative writes, is a land of student excellence, a booming economy and low crime: “Their university system is highly regarded.”
After wrestling with the politically delicate issue for more than four years, the NCAA may be close to rendering a verdict on the use of Native American mascots and nicknames ââ?¬â? from Indians and Braves to Redmen and Savages ââ?¬â? by 30 of its member universities.
He was a no-show at college basketball’s Final Four last month in St. Louis, but make no mistake: Illinois’ headdress-bedecked Chief Illiniwek was not forgotten.
Year after year, Steve Munch has watched his tuition bill at the University of Kansas increase by double-digit percentages. He wants state policy makers to do something about it.
But Mr. Munch is not clamoring for lower rates. Instead, he is pressing for predictability — a goal increasingly being trumpeted by state and college leaders across the nation who are looking for better ways to manage the erratic ups and downs of tuition rates.
HOUSTON, May 13 – Students attending the University of Texas at Austin will find something missing from the undergraduate library this fall.
Books.
Three years after the College Board increased students’ anxieties with its decision to add a handwritten essay to the SAT, and three months after the test made its debut, many universities are still grappling with how, when and even if they will use the new scores.
MERCED, Calif. — The high school seniors visiting the University of California campus here this spring got a typical sales pitch — about the small classes taught by top professors, the spacious living quarters, the exquisitely fresh food served by a dining hall that pipes in the hottest new music.
The Fair Labor Association, an anti-sweatshop group that includes nearly 200 colleges, endorsed the workplace-compliance programs of six major apparel and footwear companies on Thursday, saying their labor practices around the world met the group’s standards.
Anti-Israel activity on US campuses this spring has been at its highest level since the outbreak of the second intifada and has successfully pushed through three divest-from-Israel resolutions, according to Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC) Executive Director Wayne Firestone.
In two state systems, Michigan and Wisconsin, a spate of resolutions yielded some victories for the pro-divestment camp.
Texas appears likely to change its law guaranteeing the top 10 percent of graduates of state high schools admission to the public college of their choice ââ?¬â? though isnââ?¬â?¢t clear yet just how extensive the changes might be.
Civil engineering major Nate Haugen was juggling four attractive job offers as classes at UW-Madison finished up this spring, but in the end he chose the company that would let him start late.
About two years late.
Haugen, 23, of Aurora, Ill., will join the Peace Corps first, building water systems and sanitation improvements in Central or South America. He does have to work six months for his new employer, M.A. Mortensen Co. in Minneapolis, before leaving – but even that commitment, to start in July, will come after a monthlong trip to Europe he begins Wednesday.
The Marquette University Board of Trustees has scheduled an emergency meeting today to review the flood of angry e-mails, letters and phone calls from concerned alumni, faculty and students upset over last week’s decision to adopt Gold as the school’s nickname.
American universities should work harder to encourage international students to come to their campuses to study science and technology, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Academies.
The University of California at Berkeley has banned alcohol consumption at all events held by campus fraternities and sororities.
The ban, announced on Monday followed numerous alcohol-related violations at Greek events over the past few months.
Boston College administrators have agreed to change the school’s statement of nondiscrimination to make it more welcoming to gay students and employees, but the revision stops short of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
By now it seems written into the academic calendar: With spring come the police barriers, the bullhorns, and the sandwich boards. Every April campus labor activists across the country head outside. Strikes, teach-ins, and rallies bloom like daffodils.
