The endowment, the first to be created in honor of Blank, is funded by donations from alumni and supporters.
UW-Madison creates endowed professorship named for former Chancellor Rebecca Blank
Wisconsin State Journal
February 17, 2023
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Higher Education/System
Wisconsin Tuition Promise ‘probably not’ something Republicans will fund in upcoming budget, Vos says
The Daily Cardinal
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Wednesday that Republicans are unlikely to fulfill the University of Wisconsin System’s $24.5 million request to cover tuition and fees for an estimated 8,000 low-income students.
Micro-internship gives students experience without barriers
Inside Higher Ed
In 2021, only 21 percent of college students completed an internship, compared to pre-pandemic numbers—50 to 60 percent of students—according to the National Survey of College Internships from University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions.
Temple’s tuition withdrawal for striking was not unprecedented
The Washington Post
First, graduate assistant unions have been around for more than 50 years, starting with the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966. The TAA has engaged in collective bargaining since 1969, so the movement is hardly a “nascent” one.
Campus life
UW-Madison fraternity mourns the loss of a brother, victim of the Michigan State University shooting
WKOW – Channel 27
Stephen Kacena is the President of the UW-Madison Chapter. Last month, he met Fraser at a conference and remembers him well. “He was super outgoing, super nice. I definitely enjoyed the brief conversation. We said our names and where we’re from, talked a little bit about school and a little bit about sports,” Kacena said.
Public History Project to build Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History
The Badger Herald
“You can only tell so many stories in a small space,” Lucchini Butcher said. “So one of the big things I think is that we want to do more research, we want to make more stories available. We want to create more curricular materials, do more public events. Just more is kind of the theme.”
Public History Project to become the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History
The Daily Cardinal
After a successful “Sifting and Reckoning” exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art, staff will continue work in a new center named after the former University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.
State news
Gov. Evers’ 2023-25 budget spends big for UW System, tech colleges
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Democratic governor on Wednesday proposed a $305 million increase for University of Wisconsin System campuses over the next two fiscal years. That’s less than the $435 million UW System asked for, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Even so, top UW leaders praised the proposal, saying it would help schools educate the state’s future workforce.
Crime and safety
UW-Madison officials acknowledge stickers with ‘language designed to provoke’
WISC-TV 3
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW Police Department say they are aware of transgender pride stickers that recently appeared to have been defaced.
UW-Madison dormitory evacuated after battery pack ignited
WISC-TV 3
Crews were called to Smith Hall just before 1:30 a.m. for reports of smoke coming from a fifth floor room. The building was being evacuated when they arrived.
Anti-trans graffiti found in Science Hall
The Daily Cardinal
“UW-Madison and UWPD are aware of the defaced stickers recently reported in Science Hall,” a statement released by the university read. “The meaning or intent of the messages remains unclear.”
Arts & Humanities
Whitney Names Its First Latino Senior Curator
The New York Times
Guerrero, who holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, came to the Whitney from the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where she helped organize the 2017 exhibition “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985.”
Athletics
How a one-day gig turned into 25 years as Wisconsin men’s hockey PA announcer
Wisconsin State Journal
His public address announcer voice carries through the Kohl Center speakers with a signature phrase before the band breaks into “On, Wisconsin!” as the Badgers skate onto the ice. “All right fans, it’s time for period number two, are you ready? Because here cooooommmme the Badgers!”
Opinion
Opinion: A reckoning for the Audubon Society
The Capital Times
Muir, the UW alum who inspired President Teddy Roosevelt to create the national park system and is credited with founding environmentalism, was discovered to be a racist who disparaged native Americans and Negroes as “dirty and lazy.” He founded the Sierra Club in 1892, serving as its president until he died in 1914, but during all that time only whites could be admitted as members.
Letter: Candidates’ law schools are telling
Wisconsin State Journal
According to U.S. News rankings, the UW-Madison Law School is ranked No. 43 in the nation. That’s candidate Everett Mitchell’s alma mater. Farther down the list is Marquette University Law School, ranked No. 105 — that’s where Janet Protasiewicz graduated. Both Daniel Kelly and Jennifer Dorow list Regent University as their law school. It ranks considerably lower, at No. 142 nationally.
UW Experts in the News
The EPA is updating the social cost of carbon to better fight climate change
The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR
I called up a philosopher to help me make sense of this. His name is Paul Kelleher. He’s a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin.
Invasive Rusty Crayfish Appear to Be Dying Off and It’s Not Clear Why
Newsweek
“It can be tough to get an actual population estimate because there’s so many rusty crayfish in a lake,” lead study author Danny Szydlowski, a Ph.D. researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology, told Newsweek.
Expanding paid family leave ‘critically important’ to attracting workers, Gov. Tony Evers says
Wisconsin State Journal
“Having access to paid family leave makes it more likely that people will stay in the labor force after having a child,” said Sarah Halpern-Meekin, a UW-Madison associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Rusty crayfish disappearing from some northern Wisconsin lakes — and that’s a good thing
Wisconsin State Journal
Many of the lakes have seen steady declines of the crustacean, with a handful of lakes falling to nearly zero. Szydlowski, who is now working on a PhD in freshwater and marine science at UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology, said that the declines could be caused by a fungal disease and by crayfish destroying their own habitat.