Out of the thousands of sociological details Wolfe gets right, you pick out some he gets wrong (thus establishing your superior hipness). Wolfe takes risks in his novels to describe the moral climate of the age.
Category: Higher Education/System
UW: Budget cut would lead to fewer students
Wisconsin State Journal
Freshmen will have a tougher time getting into the University of Wisconsin System next fall if the university must take a sizable cut in the next two-year state budget, System officials said this week.
UW official Bazzell fears harmful impact
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will deal with budget cuts if they come, but they could certainly harm student access and research, a top campus official said today. Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell said it’s unclear how the campus would digest another massive budget cut, or how big that cut would be, but it would have undesirable impacts for the university’s mission. (11/16/04 Capital Times print edition)
UW plan would cut students and faculty
Enrollment cuts and faculty reductions would be necessary under a new round of base budget cuts, the University of Wisconsin warned today. The warning was part of the UW System’s answer to Gov. Jim Doyle’s request for ways to cut 10 percent of administrative costs at each agency. (11/16/04 Capital Times print edition)
Salary hikes needed to preserve UW quality
Wisconsin State Journal
Much hoopla has been raised at UW-Madison over a Nov. 5 vote by the UW System Board of Regents to hike the salaries of top university figures across the state.
Many students miss opportunity for no-strings-attached financial aid
Millions of college students are passing up the opportunity for financial aid.
Selling Of Science
Wisconsin State Journal
Leaders of 33 young technology companies are practicing their pitches as they prepare for the Wisconsin Life Sciences & Venture Conference in Madison on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fewer foreign students post-9/11 worries UW
WASHINGTON — When Jack Vinijtrongjit came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from his native Thailand in fall 2001, he was excited to study in the United States….But after 9/11, things began to change for the computer science major. (Capital Times/Medill News Service, 11/13/04)
Rob Zaleski: Free college could be reality, activist insists
Capital Times
Josh Healey just doesn’t buy it. Neither, he says, do most of his peers on the Student Labor Action Coalition and the Multicultural Student Coalition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We’ve done our homework,” the 20-year-old junior from Washington, D.C….And having done so, they don’t buy the argument put forth by UW administrators and the Board of Regents and the state Legislature that it would be next to impossible to actually lower tuition at state universities.
Stadium Name Ruling Upheld
Wisconsin State Journal
A state appeals court Thursday upheld a decision that UW-La Crosse didn’t violate the state open meetings law in naming Veterans Memorial Stadium and its field after a former coach.
Scientists Surprised By Squid’s Trick
Wisconsin State Journal
You’ve heard the old saying that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure?
It’s Lucrative at the Top
Chronicle of Higher Education
Compensation at public research universities is stagnant these days for just about everyone, except for the person in the presidency.
The compensation of public-university presidents has soared, in a year of continuing financial strains –Ã? tight state budgets for public higher education, hefty tuition increases, and paltry or nonexistent raises for faculty and staff members. (Subscription required.)
Undergraduates Study Half as Much as Professors Expect, Survey of Student ‘Engagement’ Says
Chronicle of Higher Education
Only about 11 percent of full-time students say they spend more than 25 hours per week preparing for their classes — the amount of time that faculty members say is necessary to succeed in college. Forty-four percent spend 10 hours or less studying.
Yet students’ grades do not suggest that they are unprepared for their academic work: About 40 percent of students say they earn mostly A’s, with 41 percent reporting that they earn mostly B’s.
Enrollment of Foreign Students Drops in U.S.
Chronicle of Higher Education
The number of foreign students on American campuses declined last year by 2.4 percent –Ã? the first drop in enrollments of students from abroad since the 1971-72 academic year. The figures, which confirm widespread predictions, appear in the latest edition of “Open Doors,” an annual report on academic mobility. The decline came after a year of almost no growth. (Subscription required.)
University leaders take it to the bank.
Wisconsin State Journal
Sharp tuition increases and tight state budgets have not stopped salaries from continuing to climb for higher education leaders at top public and private institutions nationwide.
Today’s collegians light on discussion, studying
USA Today
Students in Karla McDermid’s popular biology classes at the University of Hawaii don’t just listen to her lecture about the structure of DNA ââ?¬â? they get up and perform a dance about it.
SAT, finances: From point A to B
USA Today
The new SAT doesn’t arrive until March and won’t affect this year’s seniors, but it’s on the minds of readers who queried USA TODAY.
Studying abroad hasn’t lost its appeal
USA Today
More U.S. college students are studying abroad, but for shorter periods than in the past, says a report out today.
U. of I. considering tuition hike (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Tribune
A tentative 9 percent tuition increase for incoming freshmen next fall at the Chicago and Urbana-Champaign campuses of the University of Illinois was proposed Thursday by university officials. (Login required.)
UW will help its staff start businesses (WSJ)
The UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations will launch a program today that aims to create and support start-up companies that would capitalize on the research and technology produced at the university.
The ABCs of student IOUs
USA Today
For years, the federal student loan program has helped millions of college students finance their education with low-interest, low-cost loans. But, increasingly, students are discovering that federal loans won’t cover their college costs. In today’s Managing Your Money, we look at the pros and cons of private student loan.
New UW System chief ‘still fired up’ about job (WSJ)
UW System Prsident Kevin Reilly told members of the Rotary Club of Madison that his first 2 1/2 months on the job have been “a little bit like drinking out of a fire hose.”
Applicants should seek assistance
USA Today
As daunting as the college admissions and financial aid process is, there’s help out there for those who aren’t afraid to ask.
Navigating college admissions
USA Today
As the college application and financial aid season swings into gear, millions of high school students will take their first plunge ââ?¬â? by pen and paper or electronically ââ?¬â? into complex paperwork.
Foreign students turn away from USA
USA Today
Visa delays, fears of government red tape and growing competition from universities in Europe and elsewhere are keeping thousands of international college students from studying in the USA, a study being released today says.
California stem cell initiative should wake up Washington and Madison (Wisconsin Technology Network)
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. You’ve got to hand it to those risk-addicted Californians: Saddled with a debt running into the tens of billions of dollars, they don’t slice up their credit cards and pinch pennies. They borrow even more money to invest in their future.
Retiring dean praised for growth of research (Wisconsin State Journal)
Elton D. Aberle will end a 38-year academic career next year when he retires as dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UW-Madison announced Monday.
UW regents hike top salary ranges
Capital Times
Despite student protests, the UW Board of Regents has raised executive salary ranges and declined to commit to a 5 percent tuition cap.
Regents Support Construction Of Research Center Near Uw Hospital
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW Board of Regents approved construction of a $133.9 million research center Friday near UW Hospital and the recently opened Health Sciences Learning Center.
UW Students Object To Raises For Chancellors
Wisconsin State Journal
Student frustration about proposed raises for university chancellors boiled over briefly at the start of Friday’s UW Board of Regents meeting.
California Universities Start Preparing for Windfall in Stem-Cell Research
Chronicle of Higher Education
California scientists and university officials last week celebrated a major victory after voters there approved a ballot measure to provide $3-billion in state funds over 10 years for stem-cell research. Officials were already planning to set up a mechanism to distribute the money.
GOP Looks to Put Its Mark on Higher Education
Chronicle of Higher Education
With the re-election of President Bush last week and the Republicans expanding their majorities in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, the GOP will have almost a free hand to put its stamp on national higher-education policy for at least the next two years. (Subscription required.)
When Private Colleges Come Knocking
Chronicle of Higher Education
Warding off private institutions has always been a problem for state universities. But it has become particularly acute as the financial disparity between the two types has deepened in recent years
Regents give 7 UW chancellors raises
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Seven chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System will get pay raises after regents approved plans Friday to adjust salary ranges of top executives and recommended a new pay plan for other UW staff. Regents also approved construction of a $133.9 million Interdisciplinary Research Complex at UW-Madison.
Stem cell study at U faces competition
Star Tribune
Quoted: Robin Alta Charo, a medical ethicist and assistant dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Youth Turnout on Election Day Exceeded 1992 Peak, Scholars and Voting Groups Say
Chronicle of Higher Education
Initial reports that college students voted in underwhelming numbers on Election Day were based on incomplete and incorrect conclusions about the student turnout, according to experts on student voting who have been studying the election results since Tuesday.
Film Industry Pledges to Begin Suing Suspected Online Movie Swappers This Month
Chronicle of Higher Education
The film industry announced on Thursday that it will take a page out of the record companies’ playbook and begin suing people it suspects of trading movies illegally online.
Fewer students attend American colleges than in past
Badger Herald
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, universities across the nation are having trouble maintaining high levels of international applications. The study also found that increasingly restrictive visa policies ordered by the Department of Homeland Security deter many applicants.
Fewer Foreign Grad Students Enroll in U.S. (AP)
Yahoo! News
A new survey indicates the number of foreign graduate students enrolling for the first time at American universities is down 6 percent this year ââ?¬â? the third straight decline after a decade of growth. Educators worry the trend is eroding America’s position as the world’s leader in higher education.
Josh Healey: Affordable higher ed needn’t be a dream
Capital Times
….Because of the unwillingness of our elected and unelected officials to take a stand for struggling students, we are organizing to stand up for ourselves. We have formed a growing coalition of student organizations, unions, PTAs, local Green parties and progressive Democrats around the state to demand that the state reinvest in the UW System.
Calif. takes stem-cell spotlight (San Jose Mercury-News)
Embryonic stem-cell research was born in Wisconsin. It matured in Massachusetts.
But it will grow up in California, nourished by the passage of Proposition 71, which authorizes $3 billion in spending over 10 years, science-policy experts predict. (Login: clipsheet@news.wisc.edu, pass: badgers)
Stem cell initiative aids Calif. (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco Chronicle
Passage of the $3 billion stem cell research initiative, Proposition 71, could help California repeat one of the most celebrated chapters in its business history if one of its most eminent supporters is right.
Affirmative Action Hurts Black Law Students, Study Finds
Chronicle of Higher Education
Affirmative action hurts black law students more than it helps them, by bumping applicants up into law schools where they are more likely to earn poor grades, drop out, and fail their states’ bar exams, according to a forthcoming study by a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.
US business schools reinvent the MBA (Christian Science Monitor)
Christian Science Monitor
Since the master’s degree in business administration first appeared decades ago, critics have rapped the MBA as an ivory tower creation with little relevance to real life. Indeed, many MBA graduates barely set foot in a workplace before they land a six-figure salary.
California’s $3-Billion Stem-Cell Measure Passes
Chronicle of Higher Education
A proposal on the California ballot to raise $3-billion in state funds for research involving embryonic stem cells appears headed for approval. But in other states, ballot initiatives that would support colleges met mixed fates. (Subscription required.)
Student Voters See Long Lines on Many Campuses; Few Problems Are Reported
Chronicle of Higher Education
Carrying boxes of pizza, iPods, and textbooks, college students formed long lines outside many polling places across the nation on Tuesday, according to campus officials, student leaders, and voter-registration groups. (Subscription required.)
High hopes, dashed dreams: Class of 1999 recovers from dot-com bust
Capital Times
…To survive the workplace now, many young people have had to start over on the bottom rung – not exactly the position many expected to be in five years after graduation. According to Alexandra Levit, a Northwestern University graduate who recently wrote the book “They Don’t Teach Corporate in College,” her age group has aspirations that are “way out of whack with reality.”
When Hackers Attack
Chronicle of Higher Education
While tracking down the source of a minor glitch in their campus network last month, computer officials at Purdue University made a disturbing discovery: They’d just been hacked.
James Thomson plans to stay in Madison (Wisconsin Technology Network)
Wisconsin Technology Network
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? James Thomson avoided talking politics in a public lecture on the eve of the presidential election, explaining instead the science behind his research into stem cells.
California stem cell measure could steal UW scientists (wisbusiness.com)
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MADISON ââ?¬â?? That giant sucking sound you hear on Wednesday might be a good chunk of the countryââ?¬â?¢s stem cell scientists ââ?¬â?? including some from Wisconsin – being drawn to California.
After the big game, why is there a riot going on? Experts blame a volatile mixture of youth, alcohol and hype
USA Today
Just five years ago, the nation watched in disbelief as students from Michigan State University performed what was then a shameful rarity in American sports: rioting at the outcome of a big game.
Approved Stem Cells’ Potential Questioned (Washington Post)
Washington Post
All of the human embryonic stem cells available to federally funded scientists under President Bush’s three-year-old research policy share a previously unrecognized trait that fosters rejection by the immune systems, diminishing their potential as medical treatments, new research indicates. (Login required.)
Drownings haunt Wis. college town: Police say the ââ?¬Ë?serial killer’ is alcohol
USA Today
The last time anyone saw Jared Dion alive, he was trying to beat last call at a Third Street bar on Easter weekend.
For ex-GIs, fitting in on campus a struggle (Chicago Tribune)
Yahoo! News
Lying on the hood of the Humvee he used as his bed for much of the war, Brandon Nordhoff would put on his earphones, turn up the volume on his Discman to drown out battlefield noises, and imagine himself at a party back on the Indiana University campus.
Researchers face opposition in use of embryonic cells (Purdue Exponent)
Quoted: Ted Golos, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Stem Cell Research Program,
The Dorms May Be Great, but How’s the Counseling?
New York Times
A few weeks ago, the parents of a Harvard student told Dr. Richard Kadison, the chief of the university’s mental health service, that they suspected their daughter had a serious drug problem.
Grad School’s International Glow Is Dimmed by Security Concerns
New York Times
WHEN the World Cup soccer tournament reached the quarterfinal round in the late spring of 2002, Prof. Paul Alivisatos noticed a particularly fervent interest among his doctoral students in chemistry at the University of California. He eventually realized why. Of the eight countries competing, countries stretching around the globe from Brazil to Turkey to South Korea, Professor Alivisatos had a prot�©g�© from every one except Senegal.
The stressful college years
USA Today
Undergraduates’ sense of psychological well-being declines significantly during college years.
A spiritually inclined student is a happier student
USA Today
Study finds link between faith and mental health.
Why does National Institutes of Health spending matter so much to biomedical researchers?
USA Today
NIH is the 800-pound gorilla of biological research. Of the $25.4 billion in federal research money that went to academic and private ââ?¬Å?life sciencesââ?¬Â research in 2002, for example, $19.7 billion came from NIH.