Education

Technology transfer is an essential job-creating process, and some believe that one way Wisconsin can improve economic conditions is to increase the rate at which research discoveries are transferred from its universities to the business community. In this WTN guest column, Kurt Waldhuetter, a regional...

President-elect Barack Obama doesn't take office until next week, but he's already received a homework assignment from the nation's K-12 teachers. That message is to help them build 21st Century skills like technology and innovation, according to a national K-12 Priority Survey of teachers by...

For the second consecutive year, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation will fund up to $500,000 in new catalyst grants at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The university's catalyst grant program, which has received support from the Bradley Foundation and from Rockwell Automation, provides seed funding...

Madison, Wis. - University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly today announced that Dr. Thomas K. Harden, President of Clayton State University in Georgia, has been recommended as the next chancellor of UW-Green Bay. Reilly and the Board of Regents' Special Committee for the UW-Green...

Patrick Farrell has stepped down as Provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and will return to teaching, the university announced. Interim provost Julie Underwood, who most recently served as UW-Madison's education dean, will work with new Chancellor Biddy Martin on research infrastructure and fiscal issues...

Giving more money to K-12 education, without fixing its strategic direction, is like spending more money to build another Titanic after the first one sank, observes columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini’s Comments, he predicts public education will be the next entity to...