The conversation about the funding of public higher education continues in the classroom next semester. PROFS steering committee member Sara Goldrick-Rab will teach a course focusing on the issues facing students today — admissions, funding and financial aid. The course,…
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PROFS to Cosponsor Higher Education Panel
PROFS is pleased to partner with the Wisconsin University Union (WUU) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to cosponsor a panel discussion featuring AAUP President Cary Nelson. Nelson, an English professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,…
New Badger Partnership Open Forum Saturday
The entire university community is encouraged to participate in an open forum and discussion about public higher education and the New Badger Partnership. An Open Discussion about the New Badger Partnership, will be held from 9-11 am on Saturday, March…
Finkelmeyer Interview with Terry Hartle of ACE
Todd Finkelmeyer, higher education reporter at The Capital Times, published a very nice interview with Terry Hartle, a senior vice president at ACE, the American Council on Education. Hartle, who works with all sectors of higher education to provide a…
Cap Times Campus Connection
Chancellor Biddy Martin’s proposed Badger Partnership is gaining wider attention. Todd Finkelmeyer writes about tomorrow’s Funding Higher Education forum and how it relates to possible new funding models for the university in today’s Capital Times online. The forum, which is…
Orszag Column Highlights Importance of Wednesday’s Forum
Peter Orszag, writing in yesterday’s New York Times, points to rising health care costs as the primary reason why states have had to reduce their commitment to higher education in recent years. Orszag, former director of the White House Office…