Retention rates drop at UWM Posted on December 31, 2013December 31, 2013 by Scott Wise Campus-wide retention rates are down to 68.5 percent, according to UWM’s latest one-year retention rates. The rates have been declining every year since 2008. Keri Duce, the assistant director for student success, expressed UWM’s concern in regards to the rates. “The fact that we lose 30 percent of students for one year is troubling.” The […]
Math Department Changes Underway Posted on December 31, 2013February 7, 2014 by Scott Wise In wake of criticism that the university’s math program is “unjust,” UWM administrators will be making changes to the math department. Associate Vice Chancellor Phyllis King announced the changes during the Academic Planning and Budget Committee meeting Nov. 7 in Garland Hall. King wasted no time getting to the problem. “How can we admit 1,500 […]
Terrorist Attacks Are Barely a Memory Posted on November 23, 2013December 3, 2013 by Scott Wise Nineteen-year-old Ellen Malone, from Wales, WI, was only seven and in second grade at the time of the Sept.11 attacks. She remembers her mom driving her to school that cold, windy morning when the news broke on the radio that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. “I didn’t realize how […]
Budget Concerns Hit UWM Posted on November 16, 2013September 30, 2014 by Scott Wise UWM is in a financial crisis, according to Provost Johannes Britz. This was revealed in the Academic Planning and Budget Committee’s meeting on Oct. 24, in which Britz and the committee discussed changes to how the university distributes money to schools and colleges. Enrollment drops, problems with retaining students, and a smaller budget number than […]
Eye for Architecture Posted on June 1, 2013January 23, 2015 by Scott Wise Returning UWM student Howard Leu views the city differently because of his background in architecture.