With the 2010-11 academic year winding to a close, UW-Madison?s faculty senate passed a resolution supporting Gov. Scott Walker?s controversial proposal to award Wisconsin?s flagship institution some long sought freedoms from state oversight by granting it public authority status and breaking it away from the UW System.
“I am very happy about the senate?s support of the public authority model,” UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin — who was unable to attend Monday evening?s meeting at Bascom Hall due to a “health problem” — said in an email to the Cap Times. “I appreciate the hard work of the University Committee and the serious deliberations of the faculty.”