Drinking will be banned at University of Oklahoma fraternities and residence halls under new policies announced Wednesday, two months after a 19-year-old student died of alcohol poisoning. University of Oklahoma President David Boren said the rules will go into effect January 18 at the start of the new semester. Three violations will end in a student’s suspension for one semester.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat and the Senate’s unofficial constitutional scholar, has inserted language into the final $388-billion spending bill for 2005 requiring that any educational institution that receives federal aid offer its students an instructional program on the U.S. Constitution each September 17, the anniversary of its signing. (Subscription required.)
Wisconsin officials have decided to open a statewide scholarship program to nonminority students as part of an agreement negotiated with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights. (Subscription required.)
Nicole Thompson had been at Columbia University for only a few weeks when she went out drinking with a group of friends downtown last year and became separated from them. She had skipped her medication for bipolar disorder. Now it was 3 a.m. and, crying and in a panic, she called friends; she told them, she said, that she “just wished the traffic would take me out.”
Commentary By Julianne Malveaux
Fewer African-American students were admitted to state universities this year, prompting concern that their presence is endangered on many campuses.
U.S. Education secretary: ââ?¬Å?The good news is that girls have narrowed or completely erased the educational learning gap with boys. Unfortunately, boys now seem to be falling behind, and this is particularly a problem in minority communities. The key is early support and intervention.
Girls are taking the nation’s colleges by storm. They’re streaming to campuses in greater numbers, earning better grades and graduating more often. The same phenomenal success shows in high schools, where girls dominate honor rolls, hold more student government spots and rake in most of the academic awards.
Acting quickly after a federal appeals court this week overturned a law forcing colleges to allow military recruiters on their campuses, Harvard Law School has become the first institution to once again ban the visits, on the grounds that the armed forces discriminate against gay men and lesbians. (Subscription required.)
NORMAN, Okla. – Drinking will be banned at University of Oklahoma fraternities and residence halls under new policies announced Wednesday, two months after a 19-year-old student died of alcohol poisoning.
Carl E. Gulbrandsen, managing director of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and president of WiCell Research Institute, spoke recently with WisBusiness.com’s Brian Leaf about recent developments involving stem cells and their implications for Wisconsin.
AMES, Iowa – A task force studying ways to avoid the rioting that took place during a student festival last spring at Iowa State University presented its report Tuesday to the university president.
For many people, a higher education is the ticket to a high- paying job.
But what happens when the cost of that ticket becomes a deterrent to choosing a career that will pay a modest or middle-income salary?
“My worry is that even if people can afford to take out the loans, their career choices are going to be biased in favor of paying off their loans — biased in favor of careers that will make more money,” says former labor secretary Robert B. Reich. (login required.)
WASHINGTON ââ?¬â? Handing a significant legal victory to gay-rights advocates, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that academic institutions may restrict on-campus recruiting by the military because of the Pentagon’s policy on gays and lesbians. (Login required.)
As college costs have soared in recent years, so has student aid, which now totals $122 billion a year. Given the new, more costly environment, it’s time for Congress to conduct a comprehensive updating of student aid programs to keep college opportunities open in a manner that is cost- effective for taxpayers.
This guest editorial in the 11/30/04 Capital Times concludes:
No matter how committed to diversity or recruiting of minority students universities may be, they can compensate only so much for the profound failures of the primary and secondary educational systems that generate their applicant pools. (11/29/04 Washington Post)
Universities may bar military recruiters from their campuses without risking the loss of federal money, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia barred the Defense Department from withholding funds from colleges that deny access to military recruiters. The court ruled 2-1 that a federal law known as the Solomon Amendment infringes on the free-speech rights of schools that have restricted on-campus recruiting because of the military’s ban on lesbians and gay men. Ruling in a lawsuit brought by students and professors at New Jersey law schools, the panel said that by threatening to withdraw federal funds from schools, the government is compelling them to take part in speech they do not agree with. Similar lawsuits have been filed elsewhere, but Monday’s ruling represented the first time a court blocked enforcement of the law.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26 – As California moves to begin a lushly financed program of embryonic stem cell research, medical ethicists and other skeptics are concerned that the $3 billion that state voters approved for the endeavor could become a bonanza for private profiteers. (Login required.)
The number of foreign students attending our country’s top research universities has declined for the first time in more than 30 years. Unless that trend is quickly reversed, it will damage many of our best programs, as well as the businesses that depend on the expertise of the talented scholars and researchers produced by them.
Colleges and universities in the 2003 fiscal year filed for more patents, identified a greater number of scientific discoveries with commercial potential than ever, and signed a record number of licenses with companies seeking to turn academic inventions into drugs, devices, and other products, according to a report released this week. (Subscription required.)
SEATTLE, Nov. 26 – Homecoming, the quintessentially American tradition featuring kings and queens wearing satin sashes and sparkly tiaras, is a tumultuous topic on campus these days.
Ever since he sued the University of Southern California for fraud four years ago, accusing it of misusing his $1.6 million gift for biological research on aging and then lying about it, Paul F. Glenn has put his beneficiaries on a short leash.
WASHINGTON, NOV. 28 – A proposal by the federal government to create a vast new database of enrollment records on all college and university students is raising concerns that the move will erode the privacy rights of students.
Like many kindergarten teachers, Elena Zermeno is part actor, using facial expressions and exaggerated gestures to keep students engaged and to introduce concepts.
If you allow your imagination to wander, you can imagine a world ten, 15 or 20 years from now that is quite different from what we know today. Imagine a world where we are not going to our doctors to find out how to treat heart disease or diabetes, but how to prevent them
The number of foreign students attending colleges in the Washington area has fallen by about 10 percent since September 2001, according to a report that shows the first nationwide decline in three decades.
The notion that community college students arrive fresh out of high school, study for two years and move up to a four-year college is quietly dissolving, a survey suggests. Instead, the experience for millions of students now involves spending four or more years piecing together an education at several colleges, and many never even earn an associate’s degree.
Mike M. Knetter, Dean, UW-Madison School of business: “I’m thankful for the 34,000 loyal alumni of our business chool and the many other friends of the school (who) helped us achieve our mission.”
Carle E. Gulbrandsen, manager director, Wisconsin Alumni Reserch Foundation: “I’m thankful that our mission of taking (UW-Msn) inventions to the marketplace has generated real exicitement at the university, in the Madison community and with our partners at the state and federal government.”
As president of the University of Wisconsin System, Kevin Reilly has a well-appointed, spacious office on the 17th floor of Van Hise Hall. It has a big picture window, a dark- wood desk and a more intimate, separate sitting area with a couch and two chairs.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – When it comes to its students, Harvard University policy shows little tolerance for plagiarism.
In September, ConnectU founders sued facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, saying that as a sophomore at Harvard, he illegally modeled his site on ConnectU, which they were building and hadn’t yet launched.
Gone are the days when ââ?¬Å?new facesââ?¬Â booklets were the sole directories to greet college students on campus in the fall.
Nov. 23, 2004 ââ?¬â?Ã? Much has been made of President Bush’s 2001 executive order limiting the use of federal funds for human embryonic stem-cell research. With Bush now slated for another four years in office, researchers and stem-cell supporters are seeking private investment to drive the science and the industry forward.
Foreigners who hold master’s degrees or Ph.D.’s from American universities will have an edge over other foreign citizens seeking H-1B visas to work in the United States, thanks to a provision tucked into the vast spending bill that Congress approved on Saturday. (Subscription required.)
Legislation that would eliminate a barrier to collaborative research involving universities and companies is headed to President Bush after the U.S. House of Representatives gave it final approval on Saturday. (Subscription required.)
Carnegie Mellon University once taught blacksmithing and drafting to laborers’ sons. It fit the technical school’s vision of giving Pittsburgh’s mill workers a leg up on life.
Quoted: Steve Van Ess, who directs financial aid services at UW-Madison.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Despite winning a marathon Supreme Court struggle last year to continue using race as a factor in admitting students, the University of Michigan is reporting the smallest class of African American freshmen in 15 years.
When Cara Cavacos enrolled as a freshman last year at Western Carolina College, she had every intention of staying for four years and earning a degree. But she began thinking that she wanted to be close to her home in Charlotte and to her fianc�©. She then made plans to transfer to the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
No doubt to their chagrin, opponents of embryonic stem cell experiments have only helped Wisconsin hold the high ground in this promising branch of research. But that edge is eroding fast.
FORT WORTH, Texas – (KRT) – A partial settlement of a Texas A&M University bonfire lawsuit was announced Thursday between the families of seven victims and 25 of the student leaders who oversaw the construction of the massive stack of logs that collapsed five years ago, killing 12 and injuring 27.
Quoted: Steven Cramer, a University of Wisconsin structural engineering professor
MANITOWOC ââ?¬â? The answer Thursday night from University of Wisconsin Madison economics professor Andrew Reschovsky was ââ?¬Å?No.ââ?¬Â
To help boost private funding, Milwaukee Area Technical College is on the hunt for its former students, with the goal of restarting the long-defunct MATC Alumni Association. Mentions UW endowments and the scope of the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
University of Minnesota officials say there is not a big drug culture among students, and the statistics back up their claims.
As California moves quickly toward setting up a $3-billion embryonic stem cell research agency, other states are scrambling to prevent their top researchers from being raided
Congress has given the U.S. Education Department the green light to make changes in a student-aid formula that could disqualify tens of thousands of students from receiving federal financial assistance. The go-ahead came in the vast spending bill that Congress approved on Saturday (see a related article). (Subscription required.)
People here grow, smoke, and die from tobacco at record rates. H. Maelor Davies is trying to breed a tobacco plant that can save lives. (Subscription required.)
The owners of more than 60 percent of PeopleSoft’s stock indicated on Friday that they would sell their shares to the Oracle Corporation, bringing Oracle another step closer to taking over its software rival. PeopleSoft makes a number of products used widely in higher education. (Subscription required.)
A Paralympic basketball gold medalist who has campaigned to improve access for the disabled in the developing world and a scientist-turned-political philosopher who worked on ways to control the invasive kudzu plant were among the 32 Americans selected Sunday as Rhodes Scholars for 2005.
College students supported Sen. John Kerry over President Bush by a much wider margin than did the total number of voters ages 18 to 29, according to an analysis of election data by The Chronicle and a survey of voters released this week by Declare Yourself, a nonpartisan group that encourages young people to vote. (Subscription required.)
In a move that some scholars see as a boon for research and others say could help make libraries obsolete, Google on Thursday unveiled a search engine that focuses on academic materials. (Subscription required.)
There are more Democrats than Republicans among professors at American colleges, according to a pair of studies released this week by the National Association of Scholars. (Subscription required.)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google is setting out to make better sense of all the scholarly work stored on the Web. The online search company’s new service, unveiled late Wednesday, draws upon newly developed algorithms to list the academic research that appears to be most relevant to a search request. Google previously hadn’t been able to separate the scholarly content from commercial Web sites.
Gov. Jim Doyle criticized University of Wisconsin System officials Wednesday for submitting a budget-cutting plan that would reduce enrollment and academic staff rather than trim administrative costs. (AP)
Wisconsin’s governor, Jim Doyle, announced a plan on Wednesday to spend nearly $750-million over several years on biotechnology and stem-cell research at the University of Wisconsin and several hospitals in the state.
LOS ANGELES – University of California regents Wednesday rejected a proposal to add a “multiracial” box to application forms. Critics complained the plan would make it harder to collect data on minorities.
UW-Madison School of Business professor James M. Johannes has been named senior associate dean of the school.
BERKELEY, Calif. – At the birthplace of the free speech movement, campus radicals have a new target: the faculty that came of age in the 60’s. They say their professors have been preaching multiculturalism and diversity while creating a political monoculture on campus.
Gov. Jim Doyle and UW- Madison administrators Wednesday escalated Wisconsin’s race with California for stem-cell supremacy.
They said state and private dollars will be used to build a $375 million institute on campus to centralize research aimed at curing diseases such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes.
For UW-Madison senior Nick Howard, the knowledge that national experts are predicting a banner year for news college graduates in the job market is about as useful as getting a good horoscope for the day.
WASHINGTON – While international students are entering U.S. universities at the slowest rate in more than 30 years, the percentage of Americans studying abroad has almost doubled over a year ago….The University of Wisconsin-Madison had a 7.5 percent increase this year and ranked fifth among public universities in the number of its students studying abroad.
