Trudging through the bitter cold of his first Wisconsin winter, 18-year-old Pablo Cardona decided that leaving his native Puerto Rico was a huge mistake. “Get me . . . out of here,” he recently recalled pleading with his parents. Thirty winters later, Cardona is still here along with dozens of other transplanted Latinos who came to the Midwest for the chance to attend Carroll College during the 1970s and early ’80s.
A UW-Madison professor was arrested this week in suburban Milwaukee, accused of trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old boy, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.
Lewis Keith Cohen, 59, a professor in the department of comparative literature, was being held Thursday in the Milwaukee County Jail on two tentative felony charges of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and one tentative felony charge of exposing a child to harmful materials, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department. His cash bail was $20,000.
If you ask Karl Mahlburg about his mathematical breakthrough, he will, typically, smile a very shy smile, duck his head, and say something self- effacing.
But Mahlburg, a 25-year-old UW-Madison graduate student, has solved what may be the last part of a historic mathematical problem that has challenged the brightest minds in the field of number theory for 75 years. It is a feat that has drawn praise from the elite in the math world.
Errors in the federal database that tracks foreign students enrolled at American colleges can take months or even years to correct, according to a Government Accountability Office report released on Thursday.
UW System President Kevin P. Reilly and Lic. Carlos Brisefio, Secretary General, University of Guadalajara System sign a joint agreement between the University of Wisconsin System and the University of Guadalajara.
On Tuesday, Feb. 22, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute sponsored a panel discussion at the Madison Central Public Library on multilingualism in schools. The event was part of the Voices of Wisconsin series, which seeks to raise awareness and foster public discourse on the diversity of language and cultures in our local communities. The series also celebrates 2005 as the Year of Languages in the United States.
Steve Van Ess, who has helped connect thousands of UW-Madison students with their financial aid checks for 30 years, is retiring by Sept. 1. Van Ess, 55, has led the office of student financial services for the past decade.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Wednesday for records about what it described as the federal government’s policy of excluding foreign scholars who have criticized United States policies.
The prospect of wild monkey sex, even among wild monkeys, apparently diminishes in allure if the consenting primates are parents. UW-Madison researchers focusing on marmoset fathers found their testosterone levels “barely wavered” in response to the scent of a female, while hormone levels erupted in the nonparent males. The results, released in a report Wednesday and published in the January issue of Hormones and Behavior, surprised the scientists because not only was it a unique demonstration of testosterone response to a social situation, it was not the response everyone expected.
Arwen Sheridan felt terrible. She had a sore throat, swollen glands and a fever that came and went for weeks.
“Even brushing my hair hurt,” she said.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – Harvard University President Lawrence Summers on Tuesday lost a symbolic vote of confidence by undergraduate faculty who censured him over his comments on women and his general leadership of the Ivy League school
Justin Becknell became an environmental science major because he wanted to help solve ecological problems. He is so determined to get results, in fact, that he’s developing a subspecialty in ethics.
Quoted: Frances Westley, director of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gov. Jim Doyle signed off on an agreement between the University of Wisconsin System and a Mexican college that allows them to exchange students and faculty and possibly conduct joint research projects.
A key state lawmaker said Friday that the University of Wisconsin System should not expect a big dollar increase — or perhaps any increase at all — in the new two-year budget starting July 1.
Dane County is losing young professional residents at a rate faster than 80 percent of other counties across the nation, and almost half of people age 25 to 34 who have left the county have moved to surrounding counties, a study to be released today shows.
Most of the college-level programs that train public school principals award ââ?¬Å?the equivalent of Green Stamps,ââ?¬Â allowing them to trade in primarily useless credits for raises and promotions without giving them the practical training they need, says the president of Columbia University’s Teachers College.
As colleges expand entrepreneurship education, more are giving hands-on schooling in the rarefied world of start-up finance.
Parents and boards of education probably feel comforted when they see the title ââ?¬Å?Dr.ââ?¬Â preceding the name of the superintendent of schools. Unfortunately, though, ââ?¬Å?doctorates of educationââ?¬Â are relatively lightweight degrees. The dissertation and research expectations are far lower than those required for a Ph.D. in other fields.
The Colombia Support Network, a Madison group dedicated to working for human rights in Colombia, is hosting three speakers today starting at 10 a.m. on the UW-Madison campus at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
The University of Wisconsin System’s annual accountability report, released at this week’s UW Board of Regents meeting, showed System campuses making progress in several desired goals, while still lagging badly on diversity.
PRINCETON, N.J. – For Michael Sandberg, it started a few years ago with nickel-and-dime games among friends. But last fall, he says, it became the source of a six-figure income and an alternative to law school.
This fall, when a freshman at Drexel University’s School of Education wonders what courses he should take or what to do over the weekend, he won’t have to thumb through orientation brochures or hunt down a sympathetic upperclassman. Instead, he can simply reach for the iPod strapped to his side, put on his earphones, and listen to information provided by the university as he walks to class.
State universities looking for more money should make sure their fiscal houses are in order before reaching for the pockets of taxpayers.
In the small roped-off area designated for smokers outside of Maloney’s bar, students from the University of California at Los Angeles are packed like cattle in a holding pen.
PRINCETON, N.J. – For Michael Sandberg, it started a few years ago with nickel-and-dime games among friends. But last fall, he says, it became the source of a six-figure income and an alternative to law school.
Lily Cao took the old SAT in January and scored 1520 out of 1600, a worthy complement to her nearly 4.0 grade-point average at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda.
She will take the new SAT tomorrow. She expects to tank.
After being drilled in a test-prep class, Sheryl Nagy wasn’t fazed by the new essay section of the revamped SAT exam. She just wasn’t sure the test ââ?¬â? 45 minutes longer this year and nearly 4 hours in all ââ?¬â? would ever end.
Kids also cite trouble focusing. About 330,000 college-bound high school students got their first taste Saturday of the new SAT Reasoning Test, and some already have advice for their peers: Get ready for both a marathon and a sprint.
NCAA schools gladly tap the financial keg of beer companies, as TV ad money flows in like a smooth lager. Meanwhile, drinking problems still plague college campuses. This hypocrisy is hard to swallow.
On Saturday morning, 330,000 American teenagers began their march into meritocratic adult life by taking the SAT. The test was new and improved, the first significant changes to the SAT in a decade. Analogies disappeared. A new writing section debuted. And math got a little harder.
First the Internet turned colleges upside down, extending classrooms and changing the way people learned. Next came Napster and other file-sharing tools, then Web logs. Now blogs are morphing into the next big thing on campus: wikis.
BOULDER, Colo. – The University of Colorado’s governing board is trying to negotiate the resignation of a professor who compared victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to Nazis, a television station reported Wednesday.
Commentary writer Patrick Welsh’s fears of oversaturation of Advanced Placement (AP) coursework are greatly exaggerated. What all college-bound students need more than anything else today is a healthy exposure to rigorous academic curricula while in high school.
Author: Patrick F. Gould, associate researcher, UW-Madison Center on Education and Work School of Education
Foreign applications for graduate study in the United States are down 5 percent this year, the Council of Graduate Schools reported on Wednesday. The drop follows last year’s 28-percent decline and suggests, the council said, that “despite significant efforts by the federal government” and graduate schools, “international interest in graduate study in the U.S. is not rebounding.”
Two years after the University of California�s Education Abroad Program suspended its study abroad trips to Israel, UC Berkeley students are working to get the program reinstated.
In April 2002, UC and other major universities suspended their study abroad programs in Israel after heightened terrorist activity in and around the state led the U.S. Department of State to issue a travel warning to Americans going to Israel, the Gaza Strip or the West Bank.
UW-Parkside students and a number of faculty members rallied Wednesday in support of Xun “George” Wang, an associate professor of sociology who reportedly faces dismissal in a dispute over teaching weekend classes.
Near the end of a trip with a missionary group building a church in a remote part of Haiti, Richard Anderson felt a gentle tug at his sleeve. One of the Haitian clergy politely asked the American visitor to take a look at another project that the villagers were considering: a college.
Students may be sweating the new essay portion of the SAT, but college admissions officials say the essay is unlikely to make or break an applicant’s chance of getting in.
DENVER ââ?¬â?? Elizabeth Hoffman would rather be remembered for the two faculty members that won Nobel Prizes during her five year tenure as at the helm of the University of Colorado, for new state-of-the-art facilities for CU’s medical school, and for a $100 million rise in research funding.
This Saturday, 330,000 sweaty-palmed high schoolers will head out to take the new SAT college admissions test. At some point, nearly all of those students will ask: Is this really necessary? Good question.
If you’re a college student, a child-care provider, a hunter or a crook, you’ll have to pay more under Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed budget.
The NCAA the other day released its first “academic progress rate,” a sort of report card on the academic achievements of each of the university athletic departments.
The whole idea behind the APR is to encourage – no, force – the member schools to do a better job graduating their athletes.
University of Wisconsin students launched a three-day hunger strike this morning, trying to draw attention to spiraling tuition costs that they say threaten to price low-income residents out of an education.
The protesters are calling for Gov. Jim Doyle and the Legislature to roll back tuition to 2003 levels, before they raised it 37.5 percent.
DENVER, March 7 – The president of the University of Colorado, Elizabeth Hoffman, resigned Monday after struggling with a football recruiting scandal and a firestorm over a professor who likened some Sept. 11 victims to Nazis.
Most universities don’t need legal help to protect the safety of their faculty members, much less construction workers. In November, however, a High Court in Britain barred certain animal-rights activists from coming within 50 yards of a research laboratory under construction at the University of Oxford, except during scheduled weekly demonstrations.
The National Institutes of Health has been quietly overhauling several of its diversity-oriented grant programs, largely to avoid lawsuits accusing it or its grantees of discriminating against white or Asian-American researchers.
Giving to colleges and universities increased by 3.2 percent in the 2004 fiscal year, the first growth in contributions since 2001.
At 19, Jessica Pollard has learned the hard way how important regular exercise is. In her first semester at the University of Missouri-Columbia last year, Pollard gained 15 pounds from all-you-can-eat dorm dining and by not keeping up the exercise she got as a high school athlete growing up on a farm.
PHILADELPHIA ââ?¬â?? This weekend marks the unveiling of the latest variable in the nation’s college admissions equation – the new and possibly improved Scholastic Aptitude Test, to be offered for the first time Saturday, March 12.
College can be unnerving, especially if your roommate has hair on his knuckles and howls at the moon. But for many young adults, the biggest shock comes after graduation, when they’re confronted with thousands of dollars in student loans that must be repaid.
The nation’s high schools are being flooded with AP, or Advanced Placement, courses. You’d think that would be a good thing. Think again.
Tucked, dropped, rolled or crammed between coupon mailers and utility bills, 4,000 copies of The New Yorker magazine land in Madison-area mailboxes each week – a special delivery of cosmopolitan wit, muck-heaving investigative reporting and the best in new American fiction.
Job prospects are improving for students earning master’s of business administration degrees, said Blair Sanford, director of MBA career services at the UW-Madison School of Business.
Sanford cited UW-Madison employment data, along with a new survey of 57 business schools conducted by the MBA Career Services Council, the association for MBA career services professionals.
For the past 35 years, one of the issues confronting higher education has been how to increase the number of black and other minority group faculty members. It has proved to be a discouraging task.
The hunt for a new chancellor at UW-Whitewater is on — and so is a Web site dedicated to showcasing the search for the university’s next leader.
Ting Luo, a junior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, had been doing poorly on the new essay question of the SAT. But his practice score shot up after he took a $900 test-preparation course and received some age-old advice on how to outfox the examiners:
“Write larger.”
Leiszle Ziemba had watched her three older siblings make their way through the college-admission process the old-fashioned way: they took their SAT’s and that was that.
In an effort to outdo its rivals, Yale University said yesterday that it would no longer require parents earning less than $45,000 a year to pay anything toward their children’s educations.
The family of a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student who drowned in the Mississippi River a year ago is now suing the school and the city.
Jared Dion disappeared after a night of drinking in downtown La Crosse. His body was found five days later in the river.
Dion’s family claims the city fostered a culture of binge drinking that led to Dion’s death.
BOSTON — Are parents pushing college-bound students too hard? Are students taking on more activities than they can handle just to look good on a college admissions form?
In recent years, the college admissions process has become so competitive that some parents say it has become a public health crisis, Boston television station WCVB reported.
“We know kids have ulcers, stress disorders, eating disorders, sleeping disorders and where is it coming from? From the need to constantly perform,” said parent Marilee Jones.
Jones is the mother of a college applicant and the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
