Category: Higher Education/System

The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week that it would review a lower-court ruling that would allow colleges to restrict military recruiting on their campuses.

A conservative Catholic organization chided Edgewood College and 12 other Catholic colleges and universities for inviting commencement speakers who publicly oppose “fundamental Catholic teachings.”

The Cardinal Newman Society, a self-described “national organization dedicated to the renewal of Catholic identity” at Catholic colleges and universities, noted that Edgewood invited Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge Paul Higginbotham to speak at commencement on May 15. The organization drew on past comments by the judge in determining his views on abortion.

A group of about 50 student protesters at the University of Hawaii-Manoa declared victory on Tuesday and ended their six-day sit-in at the office of the university system’s interim president, David S. McClain.

May 5, 2005 ââ?¬â?Ã? Educators across the country are buying into a new technology that finally allows professors to answer questions that sometimes drive them up the wall. With class sizes getting ever bigger, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, it’s hard to keep in touch with the students. Thus the old haunting questions:

Is anybody out there listening? Is any of this sinking in? Is anybody awake?

When UW-Madison professor Jeffrey Henriques began his Introduction to Psychology class Wednesday morning, he asked students to answer a multiple-choice question displayed on a large screen at the front of the room.

Students considered the question and quickly began weighing in with their answers.

But they didn’t do it by raising their hands. In this class, that’s old school. Instead, nearly all of the 200 students in the lecture hall pulled out small, remote control-like “clickers” and began punching in their answers.

States are moving, in a variety of formal and informal ways, toward privatizing public higher education systems. Most of the discussion about the wisdom of the trend has centered on the relative merits of colleges� greater independence from state regulation and whether tuitions will rise excessively if state support drops off.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would review a lower-court ruling that would allow colleges to restrict military recruiting on their campuses without risking their federal funds.

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the U.S. government may withhold funds from colleges that deny military recruiters access to their campuses to protest the Pentagon’s ban on openly gay people from serving in the military.

Every Friday afternoon, four undergraduates from Columbia University put on military uniforms and travel to the Bronx campus of Fordham University.

There, the students – cadets in the Army’s Reserve Officers Training Corps, a military leadership program that has been banned from Columbia’s own campus since 1969 – study topics not listed in the course catalog, including land navigation and marching in formation.

To Phyllis Schlafly, the longtime conservative activist and author, there are few bigger threats to freedom than the creation by the government of databases that hold detailed personal information about American citizens.

“Databases give the government extraordinary powers to monitor the daily activities of law-abiding Americans,” she stated in testimony to Congress in 2000, adding that only “totalitarian regimes” engage in such activities.

Read most business-management books (something we do, by the way, with pleasure) and you’ll find theories of top-down management and bottom-up action. In strategic-planning exercises, too, you’ll see much ado about which things come from the top (i.e., the administration) and from the bottom (i.e., the faculty).

About 50 student protesters have been occupying the president�s office at the University of Hawaii since Thursday, demanding that the interim president call off plans for a new research center affiliated with the Navy.

After eight months on the job, Daniel Carey’s big moment comes today when he is officially inaugurated as Edgewood College’s 11th president.

It’ll be a daylong, swanky affair with solemn rites, robed delegates and speeches by state and local notables, including Mayor Dave Cieslewicz.

U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, will be the featured speaker at University of Wisconsin-Madison commencement ceremonies next month. Baldwin will speak at the 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. ceremonies on Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15.

By San Francisco State University standards, it was a small protest. Early last month some 100 students turned out at a campus career fair to demonstrate against the presence of military recruiters. A few protesters were removed by university police officers for allegedly violating the student-conduct code on rallies

Nationwide enrollment in the Army’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps has slipped more than 16 percent over the past two school years, leaving the program, which trains and commissions more than six of every 10 new Army officers each year, with its fewest participants in nearly a decade.

Ten UW-Madison faculty members will be honored for teaching excellence Tuesday at the Distinguished Teaching Awards.

The awards include a $5,000 stipend funded through a variety of sources.

After nearly splitting apart last year, the University of Georgia and its private fund-raising foundation appeared on Thursday to be finally bringing an end to their stormy relationship — a breakup that experts said would be without precedent in American higher education.

The master of business administration degree just isn’t what it used to be, thanks to a reinventing of the way executives are trained at more than 50 business schools nationwide.

MONTREAL ââ?¬â? Your local teachers’ college may be no Harvard, but new research suggests it produces teachers that are just as good.

Stanford University researchers examining the test scores of more than 130,000 students in Houston public schools found that teachers with state-approved certification, usually obtained through up to four years at a teachers’ college, helped produce better scores than those without it. In many instances, they also outperformed those who came through Teach for America, a well-regarded program that recruits graduates of Ivy League colleges and other elite schools.

When George W. Bush, then governor of Texas, signed legislation in 1997 that automatically admitted to a public university the top 10 percent of graduates from each high school in the state, he hailed it as a race-neutral way to diversify enrollment.

The University of Colorado regents appointed on Friday a former U.S. senator as interim president, as the state system struggles to right itself following allegations of sexual assaults linked to the football team and backlash from an essay by a professor who likened some victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks to a top Nazi.

More adults are seeking college degrees, and some money managers see an opportunity in a small but growing industry: For profit, post-secondary education.

THERE’S A very good piece, worth seeking out, in the April 12 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, written by UW-Madison associate professor of education and Jewish studies Simone Schweber. The topic: finding a balance between work and family.