WASHINGTON â?? When it comes to opening their wallets for their alma maters, Lawrence University alumni give at higher rates than most.
In 2006, Lawrence received donations from 38.9 percent of its 17,937 alumni who could be located, according to a report released Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education.
Prosperous alumni helped make 2006 a record fundraising year for colleges and universities, which hauled in an all-time high of $28 billion — a 9.4 percent jump from the year before.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was the top fundraiser among public universities, raising $326 million.
WASHINGTON (AP) — College students who faced lawsuits for illegally sharing large music collections over campus computer networks increasingly risk being unplugged from the Internet or even suspended over lesser complaints by the recording industry.
In a nationwide crackdown, the music industry is sending thousands more copyright complaints to universities this school year than last. In some cases, students are targeted for allegedly sharing a single mp3 file online. UW-Madison had the 10th most RIAA complaints in the nation.
American colleges and universities raised an estimated $28-billion in private donations in the 2006 fiscal year — $2.4-billion, or 9.4-percent, more than in 2005, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education. The significant jump, the biggest one-year increase since 2000, was the result of larger donations from alumni and other individual donors, many of whom were solicited through numerous major fund-raising campaigns.
The man who allegedly attacked a woman in her UW- Madison dorm room earlier this month told police he was looking for money for crack cocaine and alcohol, which he had been using before the attack.
MADISON, Wis. – The state Senate Tuesday finally confirmed a replacement for a University of Wisconsin System regent who refused to step down even after Gov. Jim Doyle took office and rescinded his reappointment.
On Monday, September 4th, 2006 â?? the first day of the fall semester, exactly one week before the fifth anniversary of the demolition of the World Trade Center â?? The Badger Herald published an editorial entitled â??Stay Classy, Barrett.â?
College presidents and chancellors across the country recently signed an agreement pledging to limit carbon emissions on their respective campuses.
Dear Editor: After taking a few days to calm down and collect my thoughts, I still feel discouraged and disgusted after attending a recent Dane County Board of Adjustment meeting.
The community presented facts supported by the University of Wisconsin, the UW Arboretum, the DNR and the Arboretum Neighborhood Association. Some members of the board, however, seemed not to listen to the facts and instead proposed a motion in favor of granting two unwarranted variances.
The issue is the proposed granting of variances on two substandard-sized, wooded, shoreland lots in the Arboretum.
Cash bail of $6,000 was set Thursday for Bradley Zika, 31, of Mount Horeb, who was arrested for his third drunken driving offense after he allegedly ran over an 18-year-old woman as she crossed Langdon Street in front of the Memorial Union.
“Mr. Zika is just out of control at this point,” Dane County Criminal Court Commissioner Jason Hanson said as he ordered bail on condition that Zika not drink or drive for the duration of the case.
MADISON, Wis. — A Mount Horeb man accused of driving drunk and hitting a college student while she crossed the street on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was in court Thursday to face formal charges.
Bradley Zika faces his third drunken-driving charge, as well as a bail-jumping charge.
Elizabeth Hitch announced Thursday she will leave her post as provost at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse for a similar position at a college in Utah.
Starting July 1, she will be vice president of academic affairs at Utah Valley State College in Orem, a city of 89,000 about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.
A tuition deal between schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota benefits students in both states and must continue.
But Wisconsin should not give in to a University of Minnesota threat to end the pact unless Wisconsin students pay more to attend it. The demand is untenable.
The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, is coming to Dane County the first week of May.
ROBERT EARL Kinyon is alive and well and living in Oklahoma City. He was stunned Tuesday by the news that letters he wrote 60 years ago – letters I wrote about in Tuesday’s column – have resurfaced.
“What a small world,” Kinyon, 80, said when I reached him by phone in Oklahoma.
The Dalai Lama will be here May 2-5 to give a public talk at the Kohl Center, teach a four-session class at the Alliant Energy Center Coliseum and bless construction of a new temple at Deer Park Buddhist Center, near Oregon.
Gov. Jim Doyle on Tuesday traded targeted tax increases – on smokers, hospitals and oil companies – for more health care and stable funding for the states transportation system.
MADISON â?? State sales and income taxes would not increase under a budget Gov. Jim Doyle unveiled Tuesday.
But those who drive, own a car or smoke would be hit by new taxes and fees.
Doyle called the two-year plan to spend $58 billion in public dollars an “opportunity budget” that provides tax relief for residents and protects the state’s priorities.
In his budget address tonight, Gov. Jim Doyle prescribed injecting more than $1.7 billion in new state and federal money into Medicaid and health programs to make medical coverage available to nearly every state resident without it.
The Democratic governor’s two-year budget, which also calls for new money for public schools and universities, would include some $1.2 billion in new taxes on cigarettes, oil companies and hospitals.
IT WOULD make a nice Valentine’s Day surprise if someone around Madison knows whatever happened to Robert Earl Kinyon, who grew up in the area and attended UW-Madison in the 1940s, after serving in the Marines.
One person who would like to know is Alice Catherine Parrish, 83, who lives in Florida. Last November, Parrish got a letter from Kinyon, postmarked from Madison. The thing is, the letter was postmarked Feb. 17, 1947.
An 18-year-old woman, who was walking from the State Street mall to the Memorial Union, suffered a fractured skull, a broken nose and abrasions when a car hit her Monday night at the Langdon Street crossing.
Police found Patricia Q. Wagner, 18, underneath the car, a Volkswagen Jetta, when they arrived on the scene at about 7 p.m.
Letter writers opine on UW admissions; UW-Milwaukee-UW-Waukesha merger.
Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, declares it â??only the beginning of the fight,â? but what we really wonder about is when the end will come. Nass was referring to the unanimous 16-0 vote by the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, to approve an admissions policy in which an applicant’s race can be a deciding factor. Nass and critics believe that is a racist policy, even if it is intended to confront and correct historic racis
No art project has ever mattered as much to Abington High School junior Lizzie Kreitschmann, and not just because she’s shooting for an A.
Instead of eating lunch most days, Kreitschmann works on her drawing of a 15-year-old Egyptian orphan with lopsided eyes, a tight-lipped smile and blue shirt.
It may be the first portrait of himself that the boy has ever had. It will surely become a prized possession – if only Kreitschmann captures his likeness, something she can’t help worrying about.
Even as critics vowed “this is only the beginning of the fight,” the UW-System Board of Regents voted 16-0 Friday to approve a comprehensive freshman admissions policy that includes race among the many factors it will consider in the decision process.
At the risk of sounding patronizing, it’s surprising that a bunch of well-educated, intelligent people can’t figure out the kerfuffle between the universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The solution appears to be rather simple.
An arrest has been made in connection with the robbery of two UW-Madison students inside their dorm room Tuesday night, Sgt. Michael Newton of UW-Madison police department confirmed.
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Stout will require athletes to undergo random drug testing, a response to December police searches that netted steroids and other drugs from the homes of two football players.
School officials said Thursday that the football team’s 100 players will be tested this spring for commonly abused drugs such as cocaine and marijuana, and a quarter will be randomly tested for steroids. Players in other sports at Wisconsin-Stout will undergo random drug testing starting in the fall.
After nine months on the job, University of Wisconsin-Extension and UW Colleges Chancellor David Wilson has a vision for the future of education in Wisconsin.
It’s how children and bureaucrats deal with things that go bump in the night: Close your eyes and don’t say anything, and maybe it will just go away. It doesn’t work well for kids, but it often does for bureaucrats. Tough issues, scary issues sometimes disappear if the bureaucracy dithers long enough.
Is that what is happening with the 2-year-old proposal to merge the four-year campus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the two-year campus at UW-Waukesha?
In Wisconsin, not only is she close to her family, but she is working with UW-Madison on developing pet-food formulas and testing their palatability.
LANSING, Mich. – A Michigan appeals court ruling that bans public universities and state and local governments from providing health insurance to partners of gay employees has alarmed gay rights advocates nationwide.
They fear the decision could encourage similar rulings in 17 other states whose bans on gay marriage could be interpreted to prohibit domestic partner benefits for same-sex couples.
The City Council adopted a $100,000 Downtown Safety Initiative Tuesday night, while a referendum to put the fate of the proposed trolley system on the April 3 ballot failed.
The Madison City Council unanimously approved $100,000 for the city�s new safety plan Tuesday night.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.864-billion as of December 31 (increase of $15.4-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AP) — Indiana wants its best students to stick around for college and afterward — and Governor Mitch Daniels proposes paying them to do so.
Daniels wants to offer $20,000 scholarships over four years. But there’s a catch — recipients who leave the state less than three years after graduation will be required to repay the money.
Numbers released Tuesday afternoon to Isthmus in response to an open records request show that the cost of running last year’s Halloween party in Madison, or FreakFest, topped those of past years, despite intense planning that reduced crowd size and disturbances.
Even with the revenue generated by the event’s new $5 admission fee, the 2006 event was more costly than in 2005, in part due to a sizable drop in revenue from citations, and in part because of higher costs to other police agencies.
New chatter abounds targeting older students for University of Wisconsin attendance and providing free tuition if graduates stay to work in Wisconsin. All I ask is: Where was this talk when I, as an “older” student, attended the UW and became a Wisconsin educator?
Chancellor John Wiley began the semester�s first meeting of the University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate Monday by relaying his optimism about Gov. Jim Doyle�s upcoming biennium budget.
Two years after an idea to merge the University of Wisconsin campuses in Milwaukee and Waukesha first materialized, its future remains uncertain.
Local lawsuits and challenges over illegal downloading have increased in southern Wisconsin.
The commander in charge of this operation is Col. Joe Brandemuehl, who grew up in Lancaster and graduated from UW-Madison.
Madison, Wis. – Ed Meachen has an interconnected vision for the University of Wisconsin System, one that would be impossible to imagine and execute without technology.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department wrapped up a month-long memorabilia auction Thursday with a gain of more than $20,000.
Joe Gow knows he can�t be in every classroom at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
But Gow, who started Thursday as UW-L�s 10th chancellor, hopes making students and staff feel valued and excited about what they are doing will lead to a great educational experience.
The Associated Students of Madison took another swing in their fight against University of Wisconsin System policy Wednesday night, with student government leaders claiming victory for students� rights.
Conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza, who has drawn outrage for his new book that blames “the cultural left” for 9/11, spent half of his talk at the University of Wisconsin Tuesday night defending the war in Iraq.
Iraq has become, perhaps unwittingly, the centerpiece for the war on terror, D’Souza told a group of about 800 in the Union Theater who had come to hear the speaker as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.
The University of Wisconsin-Marinette entered into a multi-million dollar naval ship design contract Tuesday, making it one of only two universities in the nation to offer design training.
The state will end the current fiscal year on June 30 with about $110 million, but budget shortfalls in four state programs of nearly $100 million would use up most of that surplus, according to a memo released to lawmakers on Tuesday.
The new Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates also projected how much the state will collect in tax revenue through June 30, 2009. Its estimates were just $12.8 million less, or 0.04 percent, than the $38.8 billion the state Department of Revenue projected in November.
Gov. Jim Doyle proposed an investment to create a more fuel-efficient Wisconsin among other bold initiatives he promised to address in tonight�s State of the State address.
MADISON, Wis. — Controversial conservative author Dinesh D’Souza will give a lecture at University of Wisconsin-Madison on Jan. 30 as part of the university’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
D’Souza said he will be speaking about America’s role in the world, and why America is both the most loved and most hated society on the planet. He said he’ll draw on his previous book, “What’s So Great About America,” and his new book, “The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11,” to give a talk that is both historical and connected to current events.
D’Souza’s new book is likely to garner a strong reaction from the traditionally liberal UW-Madison campus when he speaks on Tuesday.
Escalating a legal battle between the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a former dean, state lawyers have filed a lawsuit to try to recapture school money they say the dean improperly spent on computers, furniture, travel and his personal consulting business.
Gov. Jim Doyle says he will provide enough money in his budget for the University of Wisconsin System to meet its goals for graduating more students, expanding research and holding tuition down to an average increase of about 2.5% over the next two years.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chancellor Carlos Santiago wants to expand the university’s reach by adding two campuses, which he said will help ease crowding at its main campus on Milwaukee’s east side and bring academics closer to research.
In a speech to UWM officials Thursday, Santiago proposed creating a campus near the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center and the Milwaukee County Research Park and a second campus near a downtown hospital to bring clinic experience to students in its nursing care, aging support and other medical fields.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials announced Sunday their desire to expand the campus to alleviate overcrowding and to increase research endeavors.
Madison police have proposed a strong initiative to improve safety Downtown.
Devised with input from property owners and students, the safety plan will add more police patrols and two surveillance cameras at a cost of $100,000.
UW-Madison Undergraduate School of Business Dean Mike Knetter said the school needs the currently proposed tuition increase to maintain the quality of the school, at an informational meeting in Grainger Hall Thursday.
Carlos Santiago embarked on the next phase of his ambitious plan to boost the role and visibility of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Thursday, and the bare outlines that the chancellor sketched in a speech to faculty are intriguing and worth supporting.
At a time when large numbers of soldiers are returning home injured from Iraq and Afghanistan, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced Thursday that it will open a new center that uses the latest technology to help veterans who have lost limbs in combat.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago announced Thursday that he wants to establish two new campuses for the school to ease the cramped corridors of its east side campus and strengthen the region’s research infrastructure.
