Nate Beck, Staff Writer
March 7, 2013
Student Senate voted 28-2 Monday to buy $18,000 worth of Spectator advertising — money that will keep The Spectator in print through next year. The ad buy will allow The Spectator to stay in print through next year, although The Spectator is expected to continue to accumulate debt, Jennifer Homeyer,... Read more »
Chris Reinoos & Bridget Cooke, Editor-in-Chief & Staff Writer
March 7, 2013
The UW-Eau Claire Office of Institutional Research’s 2012-2013 Factbook lists Eau Claire’s current four-year graduation rate at 29.3 percent. While that number may seem low, it has increased by more than eight percent in the last seven years. Associate Vice Chancellor Mike Wick said while the university... Read more »
Brittni Straseske, Staff Writer
February 14, 2013
UW-Eau Claire often boasts being “excellent.” Living up to this claim, Eau Claire is one of 150 colleges that made The Princeton Review’s “Best Value” list for 2013. The list is composed of 75 private and 75 public colleges. Eau Claire and UW-Madison, both public schools, are the only universities... Read more »
Haley Zblewski
April 5, 2012
The Funding Analysis Committee for the Blugold Commitment has approved to continue funding for several multi-year proposals, but has also decided to discontinue or suspend five of the multi-year programs. At the Student Senate meeting on Monday, Academic Affairs Director Jacob Bernardy gave a presentation... Read more »
Devan Schuneman
March 7, 2012
The Blugold Visiting Writers’ Series is a reading series dedicated to bringing nationally recognized writers to the UW-Eau Claire campus. Fiction writer Lorrie Moore will be reading various pieces of her work at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Phillips Recital Hall in the Haas Fine Arts Center. Eau Claire... Read more »
Haley Zblewski
September 29, 2011
For the 2011-2012 year, the Blugold Commitment differential tuition spending plan has allocated $5,018,556 to 64 different proposals that will benefit the students of UW-Eau Claire. Since 1996, the differential tuition that students at Eau Claire paid stayed the same every year: $169 added... Read more »
Breann Schossow
December 9, 2010
The financial aid portion of the Blugold Commitment now has more concrete guidelines, said UW-Eau Claire Provost Patricia Kleine. The differential tuition increase, $1,200 phased over four years, which was approved by Student Senate and UW System Board of Regents last semester specified that the financial... Read more »
Debora Biasutti
October 7, 2010
Up to 30 students at UW-Eau Claire now have the opportunity to explore the Middle East by living for up to a month in Turkey during summer 2011 through a new program funded partially by the Blugold Commitment. Paul Kaldjian, associate professor of geography and one of the program’s founders, said... Read more »
Frank Pellegrino
March 11, 2010
Student Senate passed a resolution on Monday recommending changes to the Board of Regents’ policy on differential tuition initiatives. The resolution was similar to one that was recently passed by UW-La Crosse and to ones being worked on by other UW System schools. They have all come in response... Read more »
Collin Hawkins
February 25, 2010
Allow me, if you will, to begin this editorial with an apology. I was one of the three students who drove down to the UW Board of Regents meeting in Madison on Feb. 4 and 5, a meeting time clearly scheduled with little deference to student schedules or involvement. We attended these meetings to argue... Read more »
