The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved 2% raises across the board for campus chancellors during a closed session Thursday afternoon.
On Dec. 10, the UW System Board of Regents will meet to vote on an employee compensation increase proposed by UW System officials. The payment plan directly targets two upcoming fiscal years, during which salaries will be raised by 2 and 2.5 percent if the plan successfully passes through the legislative process.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents unanimously voted Thursday to approve its 2021-2023 pay plan request, asking Governor Tony Evers to fully fund pay increases for System employees.
As University of Wisconsin campuses face steep budget shortfalls caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UW Board of Regents approved 2% raises for chancellors in a closed-door meeting on Thursday.
South Asian organizations explain students’ connections to Punjab, how issue impacts all UW students.
In a letter to UW-Madison leadership, the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) called on the university to provide serious financial relief for students, citing university policy concerning segregated fees and international student fees, as well as the current telecommuting policy affecting international student workers, as crises that “mark the difference between eating and going hungry” for some.
On Oct. 26, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a projected budget shortfall of $320 million through June of 2021, due to lost revenues and increased expenses from the pandemic. UW says some of that shortfall has been addressed through cost-saving measures, including a first round of unpaid furloughs for employees that ran from May 15 through Oct. 31, 2020.
Thousands of University of Wisconsin-Madison students will receive their degrees this weekend. Unfortunately, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic means they will not be able to celebrate in a traditional fashion.
Yaeger posted a video on his Facebook early Thursday morning claiming the two UW representatives, who he referred to as “hatchet men,” fired him.
UW-Madison employee Rich Yaeger, who drove on a motorcycle through a group of protesters during the Nov. 6 Capitol Square protest, was terminated from his position at the University yesterday.
Rich Yaeger, a senior power plant operator on campus, was caught on video riding his motorcycle through the group on the Capitol Square.
’We have the capacity to do these tests. So if you need a test, get a test,’ Wisconsin DHS secretary says.
Dr. Mary McSweeney, the school’s assistant dean, calls it the ‘Fauci Effect’ or ‘Pothof Effect,’ named after Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert; and Dr. Jeff Pothof, UW Health’s Chief Quality Officer.
“We felt there was nothing to hide,” said Barry Alvarez, the athletic director at Wisconsin, which recorded at least 112 cases in athletics, missed back-to-back football games during an outbreak and had a third game canceled because of cases within Minnesota’s program. “We felt that it was in our best interest and everyone else’s best interest to put out accurate information, particularly if we had to cancel a game, so you wouldn’t have rumors or misinformation.”
Dr. Matt Anderson, Senior Medical Director of Primary Care at UW Health, expects the vaccine will start being administered late next week or the following week.
The treatments aim to keep high-risk patients out of the hospital.
Kenneth Mayer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin Madison, said Cicchetti’s approach is “ludicrous.”“The analysis assumes that votes are all independently and randomly distributed,” he said in an email. “This is going to be used in undergraduate statistics classes as a canonical example of how not to do statistics.”
Panelists included Dr. Darrick Hamilton, professor of economics and urban policy at The New School; Dr. Fenaba Addo, professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Tom Shapiro, professor of law and social policy at Brandeis University; Hilary Shelton, senior vice president for advocacy and policy at the NAACP; and Ashley Harrington, director of federal advocacy at CRL.
Research from the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the University of Wisconsin Madison has shown that killing gray wolves actually leads to three times more livestock attacks, a finding supported by behavioral studies elsewhere. “The wolf pack is a family,” says Adrian Treves, who runs the lab. They cooperate to defend territory and raise pups. When one is killed, the destabilizing effect ripples through the pack. Reproductive age goes down, and naive juvenile attacks on livestock go up, according to Colleen St. Clair, a biologist at the University of Alberta.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has fired an employee about one month after a viral video showed him driving a motorcycle through a group of protesters in Capitol Square in Madison on Nov. 6.
An introvert who isn’t usually a big office party enthusiast, Nicole Senter, an administrator in the German, Nordic and Slavic language department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the low-key feel of this year’s festivities come as something of a relief. Earlier this year, she had tried to host a Zoom cocktail hour for the 50-odd members of her department.
