Students at UW-Milwaukee are getting lower grades than at any time in the past decade, but most students are still averaging almost a B, as grade inflation scandals have erupted at other schools, particularly in the Ivy League. Even with the slight dip in GPA, students still averaged a 2.90, which is better than a B-. And 55 instructors gave their students all A’s. Altogether, those instructors had 1258 students.

• Listen to the team of student journalists discuss this investigative project on blog talk radio.
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• Review the UW-Milwaukee Fact Book on student grades.
  
• Read teacher grade reports here.
  

Students from UWM’s Advertising and Public Relation Campaigns class recently were awarded second place in a national competition to develop a marketing campaign for the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). The challenge: To develop a campaign that encourages young adults to see transit as a green option.

Just under one hundred UWM students joined together on Saturday April 21st, to collect as many signatures as they could in a campaign to get paid sick days in Milwaukee. Julie Tenpas, an intern at 9 to 5, National Organization of Working Women, helped lead the campaign. Saturday was the kick off day, also known as student day. Story by Maggie Lund.