UW-Madison and its School of Human Ecology have announced that Elliot and Frances Lehman have provided a $1 million lead gift for a teaching and research preschool laboratory, a key component of a new addition to the school’s historic building.
Among institutions with endowments of $1 billion or more, the second-strongest growth in the overall endowment was posted by the University of Wisconsin — 26.7 percent — followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with 24.7 percent growth after a year of strong investment returns.
To combat technology distractions, some universities are relying on educational campaigns to make students more sensitive to classroom etiquette. The University of Wisconsin at Madison provides information via links to Web pages that faculty members can note in their syllabi.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema is on the cusp of receiving a larger raise than originally expected after a highly successful first season at the helm, and pay increases for at least some other assistants have already been approved.
Athletic director Barry Alvarez declined on Friday to discuss the terms of the revised contract for Bielema, who made $761,600 in total compensation this season as he guided the Badgers to a 12-1 record, a Capital One Bowl victory and the No. 5 ranking in the final Associated Press poll.
If the proposed update of the University of Wisconsin System admissions policy is to be up for debate, the UW Board of Regents wants to take it public and will do so with a videoconference forum on Jan. 29.
Name: Janet Parker.
Job: Community gardens organizer with Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin Inc.
(Parker has a master’s from UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.)
Forget professorial pontificating. Peter Sands prefers another approach to teaching.
The English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee used to gather his students in a classroom twice a week. He would stand in the front lecturing for an hour and a half. Also quotes Clif Conrad, a professor of higher education at UW-Madison.
WASHINGTON – Wisconsin Democrats such as Russ Feingold and Tammy Baldwin are hopeful the change in political control of Congress will benefit the state, but back in Madison those in charge of running Wisconsin, the Dane County and the city say they are still in desperate need of federal money.
The MadFest Juggling Extravaganza this weekend gives jugglers and non-jugglers alike a chance to both see top-notch performers in action. The centerpiece “Extravaganza” show takes place at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Wisconsin Union Theater, 800 Langdon St.
U.S. colleges and universities continued a three-year streak of “pretty good returns” on their endowments by earning 10.6% in 2006, a report shows. That’s lower than the return from the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, which gained 15.8% last year with dividends reinvested.
The proposed Alcohol License Density Plan has been given the mark of approval by the Public Safety Review Board. Captain Mary Schauf with the Madison P-D says the measure is not a “magic bullet” that will solve all of the problems associated with downtown drinking.
UW-Madison may be delivering less bang for the buck these days than it used to.
At least, that’s the message offered in the annual rankings released Monday by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, which placed UW-Madison as the 25th-best value in American public higher education for resident students.
UW-Madison may be delivering less bang for the buck these days than it used to.
At least, that’s the message offered in the annual rankings released Monday by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, which placed UW-Madison as the 25th-best value in American public higher education for resident students.
As big Wisconsin rivalries go, this one may lack the intensity of the Packers vs. the Bears or Miller Lite vs. Bud Light.
Nevertheless, the state’s two biggest schools – the University of Wisconsin campuses in Madison and Milwaukee – have years of mutual distrust and animosity behind them. In the constant jockeying for state funding, backers of each often act resentful that a dollar that goes to one means one dollar less to the other.
During a break in the Badgers’ victory in the Capital One Bowl, a short feature promoting UW-Madison reminded us that the UW System’s flagship campus also ranks high in many other categories. UW-Madison ranks number one among universities in the U.S. in both the number of CEOs heading S&P 500companies and the number of Peace Corps volunteers. While these may seem like strange bedfellows, they only underscore how little most of us really know about UW-Madison and the UW System.
Over the years we have come to raise a skeptical eyebrow when we hear the words ââ?¬Å?scientific breakthroughââ?¬Â.
Often those promises are accompanied by qualifications and the fine print talks of the number of years it will be before there are practical application, etc., etc., assuming every goes well, etc., etc.s
Still, it�s human nature to get our hopes up and we�re hopeful indeed that the announcement this week that stem cells in amniotic fluid appear to have the same benefits of embryonic stem cells is good news indeed.
Re: ââ?¬Å?Wisconsin Cityââ?¬â?¢s Revival of Downtown Has a Downsideââ?¬Â (news article, Jan. 1):Our national research involving 120 colleges in 40 states has shown that the greater the number of alcohol outlets near colleges, the higher the rate of student binge drinking, and the higher the rate of secondhand effects in neighborhoods surrounding the college.
Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge Paul B. Higginbotham, the first black to serve as a judge on the appeals court and the first black to serve on the Dane County Circuit Court bench, will receive a 2007 Excellence in Leadership program award for outstanding achievement from a nationally-known power company.
Dominion’s Strong Men and Women program tabbed Higginbotham to receive the award along with eight others, including Billy K. Cannaday Jr., the first African-American state superintendent of public instruction in Virginia; Marc H. Morial, president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League and actor and producer Blair Underwood.
UW-Madison students were assigned to write profiles of businesses in the vicinity of State Street, Downtown Madison’s unique cultural and shopping zone, where 80 percent of businesses are locally owned. The stores and restaurants the students chose — ranging from a chocolatier to an import store to a landmark watering hole — reflect State Street’s claim as the place Madisonians go to shop, dine and play. This is the last article in the series.
Mark Mulligan is selling what appears to be a shiny glob of tangled fishing line for at least $8,500.
These 8-millimeter thin threads are worth more than $600 an ounce because they are .999 percent pure gold.
Each year nearly 300 students transfer from Milwaukee Area Technical College to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. But many transfers find that some of their credits do not. Students are forced to retake classes.
MATC and UWM want to change that. On Thursday, they announced three blueprints designed to ensure transfer students a smooth and successful transition.
Dear Editor: The Dec. 29 letter of Michael Bousquet describing traffic on Regent Street exemplifies the somewhat self-centered expectations of motorists that the city should turn all streets into highways, thereby destroying the character of street commerce so that people can rocket their vehicles to and from work.
….Unfortunately, the city and one of its main constituents, the University of Wisconsin, only seem to pay lip service to sustainable living.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.848-billion as of December 8 (increase of $13.1-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
The Latin Palace Club….An early morning fire damaged the Latin Palace Club on University Avenue. No one was injured in the blaze, reported shortly after 2 a.m.
Once seen as a leader who could bring diversity to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, a former dean fired for financial mismanagement has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that he was ousted because he’s black.
On Jan. 12, the Meyers expect to sign closing papers for the residence at 850 E. Gorham St., between the UW-Madison and MATC campuses. If all goes according to plan, four male students in recovery plus a live-in counselor will call the place home when Aaron’s House opens its doors in August.
1/1/07 – As we head back to work to start the new year we’re struck by the magnitude of the issues before us. We’re also struck by the opportunities.
….We expect big developments with transportation, health care, the UW, the Collaboration Council, and Schools of Hope to name a few. We’re optimistic, and think you are, too.
MADISON – It would take about $290 from every man, woman and child in Wisconsin to make up the shortfall in spending requested by state agencies over the next two years.
How that shortfall will be addressed is the $1.6 billion question heading into the 2007 legislative session.
Police don’t often ask the State Crime Lab to move their cases to the front of the lab’s considerable backlog, but when they do, it can help crack cases in which the public’s safety is at risk.
Fast work on DNA samples led to the arrest earlier this month of Antonio Pope, 31, for two strikingly similar UW- Madison campus-area rapes that happened within 10 days of one another.
Madison police are investigating another home invasion in which a young woman was sexually assaulted by an unknown intruder who got in through an unlocked door.
Similar to a Dec. 5 attack on the Far East Side, the assault at a house in the 2900 block of Harvey Street on the Near West Side was committed early Thursday.
Race should be taken out of the admissions euation at UW, writer says.
Lauren Woods, a UW-Madison senior and former president of the Wisconsin Black Student Union, is running for the 8th District City Council seat.
News that a suspect in two recent rape cases on the UW- Madison campus is in custody may have many people breathing easier, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t still looking over their shoulders.
….When former University of Wisconsin Press director Robert Mandel left the press in May 2005, he cited budgetary constraints and decreased funding from the university as key reasons for his departure.
Under Mandel’s tenure, the press grew rapidly, but it accrued debt as it did so. According to an article on the Cork University Press Web site, Mandel left behind a $2.9 million deficit, “up sharply from the roughly $1 million deficit he faced when he took over in 2000.”
….The press still faces debt, but 2006 has been a year filled with recognition (locally, nationally and internationally), awards and successes.
Certainly, it’s a relief that police have arrested and charged Antonio Pope with kidnapping and raping two UW-Madison students.
Despite Pope’s arrest, troubling questions remain.
Madison City Council President Austin King said today that he will not run for re-election.
“This time in my life has been endlessly rewarding, and for that I owe a huge debt of gratitude to my constituents, my colleagues, and the wonderful employees of the City of Madison,” King said in a news release. “I am ready to move on to new challenges and opportunities, but I will take with me the lessons Ive learned and the remarkable experiences Ive had for the rest of my life.”
The 31-year-old man charged with raping two University of Wisconsin-Madison students taunted police that they couldn’t charge him if the victims hadn’t seen his face.
But a DNA match allowed police to identify and arrest him.
A Madison criminal defense attorney drowned over the weekend while vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
St. Croix police said William J. Remington’s death was accidental, according to the Virgin Islands Daily News. Remington, 49, was a 1995 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Capping the number of liquor licenses for bars in Downtown Madison won’t solve a surge in alcohol-related crimes there.
Two terrified UW-Madison students told police they were pulled into a car at knifepoint, tied up and driven to an apartment where they were raped, according to charges filed Tuesday.
WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) — A Marine helicopter pilot from West Bend is dead in Iraq, only weeks after beginning his second deployment there.
He’s 27-year-old Captain Kevin Kryst.
Kryst was a 1997 graduate of West Bend West High School and a 2001 graduate of U-W Madison. He is believed to be the first UW alum to die in Iraq.
Despite a backlog of cases at the state Crime Laboratory, a triage process enabled investigators to identify a suspect in two recent sexual assaults of UW-Madison students, state Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager said Monday.
Police on Friday arrested a suspect in two campus-area sexual assaults on Nov. 29 and Dec. 9.
Antonio L. Pope, 31, of Madison was picked up about 2 p.m. and arrested without incident, according to a brief statement issued about 5 p.m. Friday by Madison and UW-Madison police.
LIKE so many other women who entered corporate America in the 1970s, Carol Bartz simply wanted to make a little money. She did not harbor secret desires to run her own company or become chief executive of a large corporation. She just wanted to do a good job.
After working her way through college at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as a cocktail waitress (required uniform: red miniskirt, black fishnets and red feather in hair), Ms. Bartz graduated with a computer science degree in 1971. Tall, blonde, boisterous and ambitious, she entered the work force at a time when the promise of new professional opportunities for women was in the air.
Meg McCall with the University of Wisconsin Information Technology department likens it to a technology arms race. She said UW’s servers that handle e-mail accounts for 80,0000 people are almost full. “It is getting near capacity,” said McCall. “I think we have the ability to process about six to seven million message a day, and so we are getting up to that point.” McCall said about 80-percent of the e-mail at UW is spam.
Rob Kohlhepp with the campus’s engineering department said as long as spammers keep making money, there will always be spam. “We just bought servers last year, they were not very busy at all, now we’re seeing that they’re busy,” said Kohlhepp.
A foundation has donated $5 million over five years to UW-Madison with the aim of spurring entrepreneurship across the campus and boosting commercialization of research around the state, the UW announced.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation named the UW one of its “Kauffman Campuses.” The Kansas City-based foundation launched the initiative in 2004 to “transform the way colleges and universities prepare students for success in the American economy.”
Taking its first step to combat University of Wisconsin System policy, the Associated Students of Madison decided Wednesday to reinstate a combined $87,700 for six student organizations with offices located off campus.
UW-Madison has been named one of nine new Kauffman Campuses and will receive a $5 million grant to help make entrepreneurship education a campuswide opportunity, rather than just for business students.
A Kansas City foundation has chosen the University of Wisconsin-Madison as one of nine campuses that will receive funding to help breed entrepreneurs and spur more commercialization of research around the state.
A UW-Madison student returning home from class surprised two burglars emptying his house of electronics while two of his roommates were asleep in their bedrooms and a third was taking a shower.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has announced a total of $25.5-million in grants to nine universities to further entrepreneurship education on their campuses. UW-Madison is among them.
The Madison Streetcar Study Committee’s list of streets where streetcar tracks might be installed are talking points to get a public conversation going, not recommendations, said David Trowbridge, the city’s streetcar project manager.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, the committee and its staff are starting that discussion tonight at a streetcar directions neighborhood workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. at Monona Terrace.
Burglars apparently are getting ready for Christmas along with the rest of the population and have struck� numerous residences and businesses this week.
….Laptop computers also were the target of burglars in the campus area this week.
The Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is proposing paid maternity leave for research assistants as a way of ensuring that more women advance to faculty status.
The department’s 40-member faculty – which includes four women – voted in May to approve the idea for a 12-week maternity leave with pay, but it remains under consideration by the university’s attorneys and the Office of Human Resources.
A legal battle between University of Wisconsin-Superior and a Christian student group may be over, since the Board of Regents agreed to change the wording of a policy.
According to a recent Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance report, Madison families make on average nearly $30,000 more than Milwaukee families per year.
Controversial UW-Madison administrator Paul Barrows has retired from the university, but is continuing� legal claims stemming from a forced leave from his position there, his attorney said.
The State of Wisconsin Claims Board denied a claim today in which� Barrows asked for $124,521 in accrued benefits used while he was on unpaid leave due to allegations of sexual misconduct. He also was seeking compensation for lost income because he was placed in a position at a lesser salary than he said he had been promised.
There’s a common misperception that unusual ideas are good ideas. If it’s something people have never heard before, they’re more likely to greet a concept with a smile than the scowls they reserve for the same old status quo.
Unfortunately, while thinking outside of the box is good, that doesn’t necessarily mean the thoughts themselves are always good. That’s why the proposal of tying free tuition in the University of Wisconsin system to a state residency pledge sounds great but is actually a bad idea all around.
THE PROBLEM HAS been expressed in many ways, such as a ââ?¬Å?brain drain,ââ?¬Â or the notion that ââ?¬Å?Wisconsin’s biggest export is its educated young people.ââ?¬ÂSo we applaud a study panel’s bold idea to examine whether Wisconsin should offer free college tuition in exchange for students agreeing to stay and work at least 10 years in the state after graduation.
It was the summer of 1996 and Money magazine had just made Madison famous.Across the Atlantic Ocean, Rebekah Rickner and her then-husband had been living in Germany for five years and were interested in returning to the States. They were seeking a suitable place to raise children when they stumbled across the Money magazine article ranking Madison the No. 1 city in America to live.
Rickner was reluctant to move to a “smallish” city like Madison, having grown up in Baltimore before living in San Francisco and Boston. But move here they did.
(Business professor emeritus Jon Udell is quoted in this article.)
