collaboration is practically our middle name — it’s built into our mission. Yes, it’s trendy. It’s often touted as part of the future of journalism. But how do you do it? We’re still working out the infinite variety of forms a collaboration can take. WCIJ’s Kate Golden describes collaborating with Wisconsin Public Television — and plugs the show tonight.

Westwood College Online has temporarily stopped enrolling Wisconsin students, but maintains it doesn’t need approval from the Wisconsin agency that sent it a cease-and-desist letter.

A for-profit college that is providing online classes without approval in Wisconsin was ordered Thursday by state regulators to immediately stop enrolling students in the state or face possible fines of up to $500 a day.

BadgerLink — the state’s online full-text library collections — now has access to five years of complete PDF pages from more than 250 Wisconsin newspapers, dailies and weeklies. This is a major breakthrough for those of you who need to search back issues of newspapers, as very few weeklies have any searchable archives and most dailies have extremely poor ones.

Melissa Willes has $25,000 in student loans and no degree to show for it. Now she’s suing Westwood College for operating in Wisconsin without the required state approval.

As elections draw nigh, librarian and WisconsinWatch blogger Ron Larson provides some tips on how to follow Wisconsin political money and keep tabs on the candidates.

Every action that sanctions official secrecy creates opportunities for abuse.

Wisconsin InfoLink is an almanac of Wisconsin facts and resources compiled by Ron Larson. Each week on the WisconsinWatch blog, Larson introduces us to one of these gems.
I know I am biased, but libraries are great. Libraries of all kinds – public, academic and special – provide a deep offering of resources that can [...]