The super-fast Internet2 network that connects universities researching the next-generation Internet is also apparently popular among college students who download pirated music and movies.
Entertainment groups are planning to sue college students who use the network for illegal downloading. But Brian Rust, communications manager for DOIT, says UW-Madison is not among the universities targeted in the lawsuits, although the university is wired for Internet2.
The University of Wisconsin System is vowing to defend a race- and ethnicity-based student-aid program that is the target of a discrimination complaint filed this month with federal officials.
WASHINGTON – Say you’ve just enrolled in college. Would you want your name and Social Security number put into a national student database in Washington?
The major record labels, in an ongoing battle about digital music piracy, on Tuesday announced plans to sue college students who use a super-high-speed campus network to share songs.
The Bush administration is attempting to undercut the law that requires publicly funded schools to offer women equal opportunities in sports.
Sure, women go into the sciences, but our choices have little to do with aptitude or confidence. We’re simply choosing career paths that we see as less isolating and more helpful to society.
Science is a subject worth going to class for on the weekend for Niabi Schmaltz and Holly Godar.
The eighth-graders rode their bicycles to the UW-Madison campus Saturday to participate in the Celebrating Women in Science program at the university’s chemistry department.
Four UW-Madison faculty members are recipients of the 2005 Hilldale Awards, which annually recognize excellence in teaching, research and public service.
This year’s recipients are Richard M. Amasino, professor in the department of biochemistry, James S. Donnelly Jr., professor in the department of history; Paul H. Rabinowitz, a Vilas Research Professor in the department of mathematics; and Karen B. Strier, professor of anthropology and affiliate professor of zoology.
Three UW-Madison professors are among 186 scholars and artists in the United States and Canada to receive prestigious fellowhips from the Guggenheim Foundation.
UW-Madison’s awardees are French professor Richard E. Goodkin, English professor Theresa M. Kelley and David Sorkin, a professor of Jewish studies and director of the university’s Institute for Research in the Humanities.
In a hyper-mediated and ultra-commercialized age, where can we find just plain old “folks?”
UW-Madison will explore that question starting Thursday with a 10-day series of music performances, museum exhibits and public lectures called “The Future of Folk.”
As state lawmakers prepare to either add or subtract from the university’s proposed budget, top leaders in the University of Wisconsin System on Friday urged members of the UW Board of Regents to lobby hard for more cash.
“I do hope you’ll keep reminding our legislators about the cuts we have made and the efficiencies we’re generating,” System President Kevin Reilly told the Regents. “We have made progress, and we will continue to make it. Now is the time for reinvestment.”
A groundbreaker The earliest feminist bookstores opened in 1969, and though A Room of One’s Own, named for the book by Virginia Woolf, began a little later than that, it was a groundbreaker, said Anne Enke, a UW- Madison women’s studies professor.
The 1970s saw a boom in feminist bookstores, but many have folded due to competition from large booksellers like Borders, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com, Enke said.
A state report finds the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater gave nearly $160,000 in financial aid to students who might not have deserved it.
The Legislative Audit Bureau report said the school had already been warned by federal officials that students had to meet certain grade point averages to qualify for the loan money.
College education costs are rising at a faster rate than household income, creating funding challenges for students but opportunities for investors.
University of Nevada at Las Vegas graduate student Lindsay Hendricks treks to the campus bookstore each semester armed with her course list, but if she doesn’t find what she wants, her next stop is the Internet.
BERKELEY, Calif. – The chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, says black and Hispanic enrollment on campus is shockingly low and he doesn’t think that’s what voters intended when they banned affirmative action.
Today, it seems, college is not just for college students anymore, according to two studies released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, a federal agency.
Many teens today are working harder than ever ââ?¬â? just not for a paycheck. Teens are studying more, are taking heavier course loads and are involved in more extracurricular activities than ever before.
Dude, not everybody’s getting a free iPod next year. Duke University, which handed out Apple iPod digital music players to all incoming freshmen last fall, has altered its program, saying it will dole out iPods across the undergraduate student body, but only for classes in which the teacher has requested it.
Imagine how far Brenda Barnes would have gone had she graduated from Harvard, Princeton or Yale. No need, Barnes says. Attending Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., ââ?¬Å?made me CEO of Sara Lee,ââ?¬Â she says. With a workforce of 150,400 and 2004 sales of $19.6 billion, Sara Lee is the largest corporation with a female CEO.
Last summer, in a move watched and copied in broad outline by several other institutions, Duke University gave iPods to all incoming freshmen, in the hope of stimulating technology use on the campus. Wednesday, based on the results of a preliminary review of the program, the university significantly altered its approach, while declaring the iPod experiment over all to be a success.
Until recently, high school juniors in Chicago routinely told college counselor Willard Dix they wanted to apply to college by the early decision process, even if they didn’t know where.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Peter Spear says he will retire in December, and he and his wife plan to move to the West.
Spear, 60, has been provost since 2001. He was previously on the faculty at UW-Madison and spent five years as an administrator at the University of Colorado-Boulder. As provost, Spear was the object of speculation about whether he would some day succeed Chancellor John Wiley as the university’s leader. Both Wiley and his predecessor, David Ward, had served as provost before ascending to the chancellorship.
About 20 years ago, the leaders of Alcorn State University, a rural Mississippi college 10 miles from the nearest stoplight, took a look at their student retention rates. They didn’t like what they saw. Only half the freshman class showed up for sophomore year, and the percentage of students sticking around to pick up degrees was even lower.
On the campus of Southern Oregon University in Ashland, the sight of cranes, excavators, and forklifts is a familiar one this academic year.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Peter Spear says he will retire at the end of this year. Spear, 60, has been provost since 2001. He was previously on the faculty at UW-Madison and spent five years as an administrator at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
It is, George Beres says, hard to believe we’ve reached this point. Sad truth is, however, an increasing number of Americans don’t understand that public relations and journalism have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
They don’t understand, he says, that a journalist’s job involves getting the facts and reporting them in a straightforward, honest way. Whereas a PR person is “essentially operating in behalf of a client and uses facts selectively to paint as attractive an image as possible.” And sometimes PR people lie.
If the computer age is continually testing how well institutions protect personal information, the nation’s colleges and universities may be earning a failing grade.
If the computer age is continually testing how well institutions protect personal information, the nation’s colleges and universities may be earning a failing grade.
The men’s Final Four basketball tournament has become a staging ground for critics of college sports. Last Friday, a public-interest group called on the National Collegiate Athletic Association to cut its ties to Anheuser-Busch to help curb alcohol problems on college campuses, and a faculty group concluded a two-day academic conference on athletes and the education they receive.
In a word, Michael Knetter is impatient.
When he took the reins of the UW-Madison Business School nearly three years ago, he made improving the quality and reputation of the school’s graduate program his top priority.
While the school had long been highly regarded in a handful of academic specialties – including securities analysis, real estate and arts administration – those programs were seen as bright spots in an otherwise solidly second-tier graduate program. The discrepancy was even more striking because the school’s undergraduate program is routinely ranked among the best in the nation.
Several UW graduate programs took top honors in an annual ranking of the nation’s best graduate schools.
U.S. News and World Report’s 2006 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools rated the UW’s sociology department the best in the nation, with first place also going to specialty programs in history and sociology.
A federal judge late Thursday dismissed two lawsuits against the University of Colorado that had sparked a wide-ranging scandal on the Boulder campus.
Colleges should not reject out of hand a U.S. Education Department proposal to create a new national database that would track the progress of every student enrolled in college, a top higher-education advocate told university administrators on Wednesday.
The board of the Iowa State University Foundation approved a policy last week that will make donor names and other once-private information public, starting in May. But on Tuesday, the Georgia House of Representatives headed in the other direction on the issue, passing a bill that allows university foundations to keep donor records private.
Two key lawmakers said Tuesday they would recommend removing a provision of Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed budget extending insurance benefits to the domestic partners of unmarried University of Wisconsin System employees.
Rep. Dean Kaufert, R- Neenah, co-chairman of the Legislature’s budget-writing committee, and committee member Rep. David Ward, R- Fort Atkinson, said the $1 million proposal was ill-timed.
Two higher-education professional organizations have jointly created guidelines that may help stem the growing controversies surrounding the relationships between public institutions and their affiliated private foundations.
It was impossible to walk through the main square of Georgetown University’s campus last week without noticing the 20-foot banner that read “Hunger Strike,” and the white, domed tent beside it. Inside, a group of students huddled in sleeping bags and vowed they would not eat until the university gave its janitorial workers a “living wage.”
NEW YORK ââ?¬â?? When David Wolach arrived at Columbia University in 1999 to pursue a PhD in philosophy, he didn’t anticipate any conflict other than a few departmental squabbles.
“I entered Columbia with the expectation that I would bury my head in my studies,” says Mr. Wolach. “I did not expect to be involved in anything political.”
Half the members of a committee that advises UW- Madison Chancellor John Wiley on labor licensing issues resigned in protest Monday, and the other half may step down pending the outcome of a planned meeting with Wiley.
Members of the university’s Labor Licensing Committee, made up of eight students, professors and academic staff, are upset because they believe their recommendations on sweatshop labor issues are not being taken seriously, said Liana Dalton, a student member of the committee.
Colleges’ rapidly rising technology costs have been driven even higher by the patchwork of disparate systems on most campuses.
The American college campus, long an oasis of scholarship and coming-of-age, is now being transformed by a more palpable force: an armada of laptops, cellphones and perpetual connectivity.
WASHINGTON – Black and Asian women with bachelor’s degrees earn slightly more than similarly educated white women, and white men with four-year degrees make more than anyone else.
A white woman with a bachelor’s degree typically earned nearly $37,800 in 2003, compared with nearly $43,700 for a college-educated Asian woman and $41,100 for a college-educated black woman, according to data being released today by the Census Bureau. Hispanic women took home slightly less at $37,600 a year. (Story appears in 3/28/05 Capital Times)
If you want to get a rise out of Louise Root-Robbins, just ask what she thinks of Harvard University President Larry Summers’ theory of why few women are among the nation’s top academic scientists, mathematicians and engineers.
In now-infamous remarks at a diversity conference in January, Summers speculated that men may have more “intrinsic aptitude” for those fields – in other words, that women, due to biologically based brain differences, can’t handle the analytical thinking demanded by the hard sciences.
Geoff Tam-Scott probably will be paying off his college education until he’s 35, but at age 22 he considers himself lucky: A year after graduating from Amherst College, he shells out only $125 a month on about $20,000 in loans. ââ?¬Å?I have friends who have like $100,000 to $120,000ââ?¬Â in debt, he says.
Graduate teaching assistants at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor staged a 12-hour strike Thursday in the hopes of disrupting the campus and pressuring administrators into concessions at the bargaining table.
Amid the usual disputes over numbers of protesters and canceled classes, leaders of the Graduate Employees Organization described the day as a ââ?¬Å?success,ââ?¬Â while a Michigan spokeswoman said the strike had resulted mostly in ââ?¬Å?inconveniences.ââ?¬Â
The American Association for Higher Education announced on Thursday that it will close at the end of May, disbanding an organization that has been an advocate for the scholarship of teaching and learning for almost 40 years.
About 500 student-athletes across the country have participated in a series of seminars co-sponsored by the NCAA and The Hartford Financial Services Group. They are aimed at teaching the basics of managing money. Good thing, too. More than one-third of 1,000 NCAA athletes surveyed said they expect to be millionaires.
Amid scarce start-up money, the number of young companies spun off by universities is tumbling ââ?¬â? pinching revenue needed to dampen tuition increases.
By now, we’ve all heard how Harvard President Lawrence Summers, a former member of President Clinton’s Cabinet and a distinguished scholar in his own right, made a politically incorrect point at a faculty seminar recently.
Opinion column by David Horowitz
Another revolution is stirring at the influential University of California system. A faculty committee there concluded this week that National Merit Scholarships ââ?¬â? the academic plums that high school strivers dream of winning ââ?¬â? should be abandoned.
The idea wasn�t terribly subtle: Money talks at research universities. So if you want to change the way science is taught there, you need to have enough money to capture people�s attention.
In a move that could make it easier for colleges to show that their sports offerings for women comply with law, the Education Department has quietly issued a new clarification of the regulations interpreting Title IX, the statute barring sex discrimination at institutions that receive federal funding.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Sometimes you can see her standing behind a red-covered table at the Dane County Farmer’s Market on the Capitol Square. Other days, you will hear her speaking lightning-paced Spanish at the Juneteenth Celebration, Africa Fest, or Fiesta HispaÃ?±a, answering questions posed by people interested in attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science new Dean Gary Sandefur made one of his first public presentations recently at the Madison Rotary Club�s monthly luncheon.
Sandefur, the first American Indian to be named a dean at UW-Madison, succeeded Phillip Certain as dean of the College of Letters and Science. The announcement was made by Chancellor John D. Wiley on Aug. 13, 2004,
Colleges will have an easier time proving that they are meeting women’s interests in intercollegiate athletics under a policy clarification issued last week by the U.S. Department of Education. The clarification appears to fly in the face of one of the most influential court rulings in the long battle over women’s opportunities to play sports in college.
In the academic world, the Chronicle of Higher Education is the newspaper of record. From stories of embattled administrators to the latest faculty appointments, its 140-plus pages have provided readers with industry news, job listings and similar information each week for nearly 40 years
Complaints from people in higher education about never having enough money are belied by the grand array of building projects at colleges across America. There is hardly an institution over which a crane does not hover, and few campuses are free of the muddy tracks of heavy equipment that herald the creation of a brand-new structure or the massive renovation of an old one. Indeed, one authority on the construction boom suggests that the acquisition of space for new buildings is more crucial than their design, pointing to the many vacant big-box retail buildings around the country as prime sites for future classrooms.
As other students open their backpacks, Milton Bliss unties the string that holds together the ragged mailing envelope containing his notebook. At 95, he’s not too concerned about fashion trends.
Bliss is one of a growing number of Wisconsin seniors taking advantage of free lectures offered by UW-Madison to those ages 60 and older. The program is intended to reward older residents for years of tax support while diversifying the campus.
The state Building Commission Friday voted 7-1 to finance a proposed $381 million biotechnology research institute at UW-Madison.
The 450,000-square-foot Wisconsin Institute for Discovery would be built on a wedge of land bordered by University and North Randall avenues and West Johnson and North Charter streets, just north of Union South.
The commission also approved $137.5 million in new bonds for the project that will become available over the next 10 years and reallocated to the institute $50 million of previously approved bonding, said Rob Kramer, secretary of the commission.
