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Green Bay Press-Gazette
College graduates in area owe less than average
What are your thoughts, concerns or questions about college graduation, student loan debt and the job outlook for recent graduates? Patti Zarling will chat live at 11 a.m. today at www.greenbay pressgazette.com about all things college graduation, and wo...
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AZ Central.com
Some schools removing valedictorian title
As graduation season gets underway, thousands of high school seniors in the Valley will march across stages, smiling for cameras as they receive hard-earned high school diplomas. For the highest-achieving students, there will be honors bestowed, awards g...
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The South End
Drinking games can turn into dangerous games
Drinking games are as common at college parties as chips and salsa are at a Super Bowl party. Beer pong, never-have-I-ever, waterfall: most of them end up in laughter, some embarrassing admissions and a pounding headache the next day. Sometimes, though,...
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The Badger Herald
From the desk of the editor: Spirit of experimentation lives on
A researcher recently contacted The Badger Herald about a project assessing threats to college newspapers. I ran him through the typical information researchers want to know: Yes, we are entirely independent. No, the university cannot censor us. Yes, the...
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The Stevens Point Journal
UWSP to seek provost to replace Mark Nook
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will search across the country to find a replacement for a top administrator who took a position with the UW System. A UWSP search and screen committee will begin in September to search for Mark Nook's successor....
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Business Journal of Milwaukee
Wisconsin higher education programs to receive $3.8 million
This was printed from The Business Journal The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee received an Upward Bound grant of $444,128. Eleven higher education programs in Wisconsin will receive a total of $3.8 million through the Department of Education’s Upward B...
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Madison.com
Student diversity improves at Edgewood College, but officials say more work needed
This story first appeared in the Sunday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper. Ten years ago, Edgewood College officials struggled to bring minorities to the small liberal arts college. Only one student showed up for the Madison school's first...
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The Badger Herald
Reilly talks UW System's future in light of budget cuts
During the past year, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly has led the UW System in the face of $300 million of funding cuts and budgetary lapses. The Badger Herald sat down with Reilly to discuss the impact of these trends and possible...
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The Badger Herald
Campus Idea Scholarship solicits students' ideas for improving UW
As part of a newly launched scholarship initiative, one student could win up to $3,000 for creating a plan to solve a problem on the University of Wisconsin campus. The Associated Students of Madison Foundation is now accepting submissions for the Campus...
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The Fond du Lac Reporter
Fond du Lac area college news
n The Art Momentum college art exhibit will be available for public viewing from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, May 11, in the Center Commons of University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac, 400 University Drive. The free exhibit includes student art pieces in oils, wate...
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Madison.com
Dave Zweifel's Madison: 75 local kids join Urban League's ACT classes to get jump on college
Editor Emeritus Dave Zweifel has been with The Capital Times since he graduated from UW-Madison in 1962, serving as the paper's editor in chief from 1983 to 2008. He was president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council for 15 years, served as a...
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University Business
UW-Madison Should Dissolve The Division Of International Studies, Panel Recommends
A UW-Madison faculty committee is recommending major changes to the structure of UW-Madison’s international programs and suggests that campus leaders eliminate the main organizing body: The Division of International Studies. The committee’s report cited...
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Guardian Unlimited
The Bologna process has been key to European universities' success
Last week ministers of education from 47 European countries met in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, to agree the next steps in the long-running Bologna process, the crab-like progress towards creating a European higher education area (EHEA) spanning half...
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Daily Princetonian
Talking with the plumber
Some years ago the writer (and former Yale English professor) William Deresiewicz wrote an elegant essay on “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education.” He began, as essayists do, with an anecdote. Having bought a house that needed work, he had called a pl...
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Campus Entrepreneurship
Yale Innovates (kind of) | Online Lectures Reformatted to Print | Wired Campus
It is clear from my database of high impact student startups that Yale University is an incredibly entrepreneurial campus. Its interesting because Yale, in my mind, has been and continues to be a leading ‘defender’ of delivering a classic British style l...
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