Despite giving some good grades, a new report card on higher education in Wisconsin sounds alarms the state should heed.
The share of young people who attend college is shrinking in Wisconsin, and faster than in the nation as a whole, according to the analysis, conducted by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, an independent think tank
Someone could have been hurt. And the three 19-year-old college students accused of being involved could face stiffer charges. Instead the three were each charged Thursday with two counts of criminal damage to property, a misdemeanor.
A 1955 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Human Ecology and her husband say they will donate $8 million to help expand and modernize the school’s 90-year-old main building.
At the end of a rousing speech in Madison Wednesday night, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader turned the podium over to a protege who worked the room with the skill of an auctioneer and the passion of a preacher at a revival meeting. Greg Kafoury managed to raise about $10,000 from a hall filled largely with UW students.
An $8 million gift to the University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology is the largest private donation given to the school in its hundred-year-old history, and perhaps the largest given to any Human Ecology school in the country, according to the school�s dean, Robin Douthitt.
Nancy Johnson Nicholas, a 1955 graduate of the school, and her husband, Ab Nicholas of Milwaukee, donated $8 million Wednesday for UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology. University officials will use it to kick-start a $40 million campaign to expand and modernize the school’s 90-year-old main building at 1300 Linden Drive.
A 63-year-old UW dance instructor was killed on Madison’s east side when he was run down Tuesday by a hit-and-run driver.
Police said John Gesinski was walking from the Sentry grocery store on Cottage Grove Road at about 5 p.m. when he was struck in the crosswalk by a driver turning right on Vernon Avenue. The car continued north.
Brown University announced yesterday that it had received its largest donation ever, $100 million for financial aid, continuing a series of record-breaking gifts to major American universities this year. With the gift, Brown will eliminate loans for its neediest students, much as the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina have committed to doing in the last year.
When asked why he sought and received five deferments to avoid serving in the military during the Vietnam War, Dick Cheney said “I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service.” (Excerpts from “Dick: The Man Who Is President” in the Capital Times 9/14/04 print edition.
Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, will tour a stem-cell research laboratory in Madison. She also will make stops in Racine and Eau Claire, where she will stress health care issues.
Gov. Jim Doyle joined the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Friday in recognizing the system�s top educators.
Regent Danae Davis introduced the three award winners in the presentation of the 2004 Regents Teaching excellence awards.
Although Anthony Shadid won the Pulitzer Prize earlier this year for his coverage of the war in Iraq, and even though he’s writing a book on the subject, he likes to tell people he really doesn’t know much about what is going on there.
An eager crowd of students, faculty and community members spilled into the aisles of the Howard Auditorium at the Fluno Center Wednesday night to hear Anthony Shadid, University of Wisconsin graduate and Pulitzer Prize winner, deliver the Ralph O. Nafziger lecture.
The Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity honored Richard Daluge as a “Brother Of The Century” during their 58th annual National Convention and celebration of 100 years as a fraternity. The convention was held last month in Columbus, Ohio.
The University of Michigan has received its largest gift ever, $100 million, from a New York real estate magnate.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association will host a trip to Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, despite calls for a boycott on tourism in the country due to the nation�s poor track record on human rights.
It has been nearly 30 years since John Biester strutted his stuff out in front of the UW Marching Band as drum major. Although he has been the announcer for the band’s football halftime shows since 1994, and a member of the alumni band since leaving the UW band in 1978, Biester will get the chance to stand out in front again Saturday.
Wisconsin’s governor has forced the University of Wisconsin to abandon plans for a fiber-optic computer network connecting the system’s 13 campuses and other educational institutions across the state, deciding that they must use a state-government network instead. (Subscription required.)
Anthony Shadid, Islamic affairs correspondent for The Washington Post, has braved bombs and bullets in the pursuit of some brilliant stories. In 2003, Shadid covered the U.S. invasion of Iraq. His articles from that country, distinguished by their many stirring human portraits, won a Pulitzer Prize. Shadid, 35, earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he’s scheduled to deliver the Ralph O. Nafziger Lecture today.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Bruce Ellig feels quite fortunate to be able to make a rather significant contribution to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the institution that led to his successful 36-year career with Pfizer Inc., a leading pharmaceutical corporation.
Opponents of embryonic stem cell research fail to distinguish research conducted for the purpose of finding therapies for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases from research directed to producing human beings. (Last item.)
Officials in Madison and Dane County have been talking about developing a commuter rail system for decades, and area residents have justifiably come to doubt that this train will ever leave the station.
Carlos Santiago has been chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for just about a month, and already the community’s list of expectations for his agenda is long.
Microsoft Corp.’s decision to release a major upgrade for its flagship operating system in the same month that hundreds of thousands of students are reporting to college campuses across the nation is causing a major headache for some universities. (From the Washington Post)
STEVENS POINT – Chancellor Linda Bunnell came to her first State of the University address Wednesday prepared to outline her plans for the future.
The first female chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has several goals for the year. Her first is a simple one: to walk the campus and meet staff, faculty, students and community members – listening and learning from each of them. After a series of lunches, receptions and drop-in visits, that goal is well on its way to attainment, faculty members said.
Margaret Cleek has been named interim chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, the UW System’s network of 13 two-year campuses.
Madison isn’t the drunkest city in the country, but it almost makes the top 10.
The costs of a University of Wisconsin education have been increasingly shifting from taxpayers to students and their families – setting in motion two alarming and related trends:
Fewer students from middle- to lower-income brackets are enrolling than they used to.
A smaller share of the state’s high school grads of color are winding up as UW freshme
“Once again, the chancellor and provost of the UW-Madison protected the old boy network of their upper level administration.” (On page 10A in the 8/20/04 Capital Times print edition)
While experts worry that loosely guarded nuclear materials in foreign countries might fall into the hands of terrorists, six civilian research reactors at American universities continue to use weapons-grade uranium that could go a long way toward making a nuclear bomb. Although the reactors may not be particularly tempting targets for terrorists or criminals, they are disturbingly accessible ones – their security is far less rigorous than that imposed by the government for its own bomb-grade uranium stockpiles. It is time for the Energy Department to accelerate the universities’ conversion to less dangerous fuels.
The last Quonset hut on the University of Wisconsin campus is scheduled to be demolished on Monday.
Stem cell research moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign last week. The Democratic candidates said they would ease the Bush administration’s restrictions on federal funding and quadruple the money available. Republicans retorted that they were the first to finance embryonic stem cell research and that the Democrats were cruelly inflating expectations for instant cures. Just as the debate was heating up, two developments suggested that the Democrats were right to call for expansion of this important research.
MADISON, Wis. – It cannot be easy to arrive here in the wake of Tommy G. Thompson, Wisconsin’s governor for 14 years, the everyman who sometimes clad in leather pants rode a motorcycle, the author of changes in the welfare system that were held up as a national model.
Political scientist Don Kettl is quoted.
When Scott Ashmann graduated 16 years ago with a bachelor�s degree in chemistry and education from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, he never thought he would return there years later as an assistant science education professor.
Madison’s Alcohol License Review Committee wants to eliminate drink-special bans at a handful of establishments and will soon consider what, if any, restrictions should be imposed city-wide.
Washington – Today’s teens: They don’t like the idea of a military draft, they’re stressed out about grades and they regard their parents as practically awesome.
Those were among key findings unveiled Tuesday from a national survey of American young people aged 13 to 19.
Jessica Rose was rushing to dinner on State Street to celebrate her 21st birthday when she spotted Carrie Haese in a light blue T-shirt with the words “Register to Vote” printed in large red letters.
WAUSAU, Wis. – A former University of Wisconsin-Superior professor who was fired three years ago amid allegations of sexual harassment and other ethics violations won a new chance Tuesday to get his job back.
MADISON ââ?¬â? William Messner, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, is officially ending his tenure on Aug. 31 to accept the presidency of Holyoke Community College in western Massachusetts.
Nino Amato became the first sitting president since 1911 to be denied a second term as leader of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board. Instead Brent Smith of La Crosse will be board president and will represent the state’s 16 technical colleges on the UW Board of Regents
The new president of the University of Wisconsin System will be paid $320,000 a year, about $12,000 more than the outgoing system leader. The UW System Board of Regents approved the contract with Kevin Reilly on Thursday afternoon.
This week’s defeat of a proposed constitutional amendment to rein in state spending is only the first battle in a long and likely costly political war, say the leaders of a zealous conservative group backing the measure.
MADISON, Wis. – A federal judge has tossed out a $400,000 sex discrimination award for a former University of Wisconsin-Platteville assistant chancellor, ruling the jury reached its verdict in error.
Amato also loses his position on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents to Smith.
Skip the on the job training for the University of Wisconsin�s likely newest administrator. The nomination of UW Extension Chancellor Kevin P. Reilly to become president of the entire UW System means this soldier will enter battle prepared and ready.
Dane County Circuit Judge Gerald Nichol was picked late Monday to replace Judge Stuart Schwartz in the triple murder case in which three men were killed in a Verona home last year.
The biggest challenges for the next president of the University of Wisconsin System boil down to two things: money and love.
MADISON, Wis. — A recent wedding has caused yet another delay in a Dane County triple homicide case, News 3 reports.
Reilly participates in a question-and-answer session with a Wisconsin State Journal reporter.
Shortly after learning late Monday morning that he was the recommended pick to be president of the University of Wisconsin System, Kevin Reilly opted for a little “me” time.
Kevin Reilly is a choice both safe and smart to run the University of Wisconsin System.
Letter to the Editor: Austin Evans, economics student.
After a nationwide search, the University of Wisconsin System’s next president has been found – in Madison. Kevin P. Reilly, chancellor of the UW Extension, is the nominee for the job, a committee of UW regents announced Monday.
Kevin Reilly, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Extension, is the top choice of the UW System Board of Regents committee that interviewed finalists for the presidency of the system, a source close to the regents confirmed Friday
UW Board of Regents
After a day’s worth of interviews, the University of Wisconsin System regents charged with picking a nominee for the system’s presidency went home without confirming if they had made a decision.
Steve Gunderson lacks a doctorate and hasn’t spent a day in his life running a college or university, let alone a system.
Elizabeth Capaldi, an academic from out East, has never worked in Wisconsin.
And Kevin Reilly, while steeped in statewide outreach education since 1996, has never led a traditional undergraduate campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior on Thursday unveiled its plan to raise $17.5 million during the next five years.
(Madison) The University of Wisconsin System will need to wait another week before it gets a new president.
