With almost certain state funding cuts coming down the pike, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin recently took the unusual step of holding campus forums to give faculty, students and staff a chance to float ideas on how best to absorb revenue reductions.
Perhaps even more unusual, people showed up — approximately 400 in all attended three mid-December forums, despite blistering cold and snow that, on one occasion, threatened to close down the university.