Gov. Scott Walker is indicating he may increase funding for the University of Wisconsin System and technical colleges, possibly tied to performance measures.
Walker suggests performance-based funding increase for UW
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Scott Walker: UW System could see performance-based funding increase
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin’s public colleges and universities could see their funding increase in the next state budget based on how they do in certain performance measures, Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday.
With open records at stake, editors favored activism, not nuanced strategy
Capital Times
Letter to the editor: In writing about professor Dietram Scheufele and his take on conflict surrounding the UW, editor Paul Fanlund sides with Scheufele’s belief that rhetorical framing is more important than the hard work of activism. Did Fanlund feel the same when the governor and Legislature tried to rewrite open records laws?
UW English chair’s departure for better job is what happens in the private sector daily
Capital Times
Letter to the editor: With all due respect to UW English chair Caroline Levine, her comparison makes zero sense.
Chris Rickert: Robin Vos’ ‘job for life’ is only the tip of the tenure iceberg
Wisconsin State Journal
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is pointing to data from the University of Wisconsin System showing only six tenured professors have gotten the boot over the last 20 years.
Vincent on ballot for College Football Hall of Fame
Wisconsin State Journal
Former University of Wisconsin defensive back Troy Vincent was among 75 players and six coaches from the Football Bowl Subdivision placed on the 2017 ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Rice, Frank J.
Madison.com
Frank came to the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1970 serving as the University’s Director of Physical Plant until retiring in 1990. He was well respected in his field and was the President of the American Public Works Association.
Badgers women’s hockey: Wisconsin sets complete 2016-17 schedule
Wisconsin State Journal
The Badgers, who are scheduled to play 28 league games in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, will face Clarkson, Cornell and Lindenwood in the nonconference portion of the schedule.
Russ Feingold campaign, UW students push student loan refinancing proposal
Capital Times
Demonstrating that Wisconsin Democrats believe student debt is an issue that resonates with voters, former Sen. Russ Feingold’s campaign will share stories this week of borrowers who say they would be helped by a policy that would allow them to refinance their loans.
Credit most UW professors for staying
Wisconsin State Journal
Politicians come and go. UW-Madison is here to stay — and so are the vast majority of its professors. That’s reassuring.
Editorial: Scott Walker got caught attacking the Wisconsin Idea, lied about it and then got caught lying
Capital Times
Walker’s attempt to eliminate language detailing that “Wisconsin Idea” pledge caused a lot of controversy in Wisconsin, and nationally. It was embarrassing for Walker because it reinforced an impression of him as a political careerist who had little interest in public education or public service.
Evjue Foundation awards $1.2 million to UW, area nonprofits
Capital Times
The UW-Madison grants, which include a $29,800 grant for the university’s Odyssey Project that gives low-income adult students a chance to attend college, totaled $300,000. The 94 community grants totaled $930,500.
Badgers women’s basketball: Wisconsin will host North Carolina in ACC/Big Ten Challenge
Wisconsin State Journal
New University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Jonathan Tsipis will get a chance to coach against his alma mater this season, as the Badgers will play host to North Carolina on Dec. 1 in the 10th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
UW-Madison Professor: Why I’m Staying
Wisconsin Public Radio
Prof. David Canon will be a guest on WPR program “Central Time” today.
Gov. Scott Walker: Despite doom-and-gloom rhetoric, we didn’t eliminate UW tenure
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by Gov. Walker: As the parent of a junior at UW-Madison, I want my son to have a great education for a reasonable price. As governor, I want that for every college student in Wisconsin.
Stem cell scientist says industry poised to boom
WisBusiness.com
Twenty years after UW-Madison scientist Jamie Thomson began work to isolate human embryonic stems, research has advanced so far that the field is now poised to boom and create Wisconsin companies that could rival Epic, the Verona-based electronic healthcare records company with more than 9,000 employees.
Meet the expert witnesses testifying in Wisconsin’s federal voter ID trial
Capital Times
Noted: Witnesses include Barry Burden, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Director, UW Elections Research Center.
What’s the Real Cost of Budget Cuts in the UW System?
WORT-FM
What’s The Real Cost Of Budget Cuts In The UW System?MAY 24, 2016 BY A PUBLIC AFFAIR2With the state cutting funding to the UW system and the restructuring of the tenure system, APA asked, “What are the effects?”
Annie Pankowski, 4 former UW players invited to USA Training Camp
Wisconsin State Journal
Former Badgers Brianna Decker, Meghan Duggan, Hilary Knight and Alex Rigsby along with current UW sophomore Annie Pankowski were invited to the camp, which is primarily focused on strength and conditioning, nutrition and mental skills.
Purdue shows how to tackle student debt
Wisconsin State Journal
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, who served as Indiana’s governor from 2005 to 2013, just launched “Back a Boiler,” which is accepting applications for the fall semester in West Lafayette. The innovative program lets students avoid borrowing tens of thousands of dollars in loans — debt that forces many young people to put off buying homes and getting married.
New fitness tracker made by UW-Madison students, adopted by local coaches
WKOW-TV 27
Two UW-Madison students have created a new fitness tracker that’s quickly being adopted by local football coaches.
Madison ranked No. 1 college football town
WISC-TV 3
UW-Madison took the top spot because of its famous party atmosphere in and around Camp Randall, Jump Around and Fifth Quarter, according to the ranking.
Geoffrion will hold third annual Hockey Classic June 18 to benefit UW Health Burn Center
WKOW-TV 27
Former Badger and Hobey Baker Memorial Award-winner Blake Geoffrion will host the third annual Blake Geoffrion Hockey Classic on Saturday, June 18 at LaBahn Arena. The event will raise money to benefit the UW Health Burn Center.
MATC hopes free tuition program will help local students ‘see that college is possible’
Wisconsin State Journal
Hundreds of low-income high school students across south-central Wisconsin could attend Madison Area Technical College without paying for tuition under a new program that officials hope will help more young people see that college is open to them.
Robin Vos: UW faculty no-confidence votes ‘a big mistake’
Capital Times
Votes of no confidence by faculty at several University of Wisconsin campuses were “a big mistake,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said earlier this month.
Wisconsin will host Syracuse in ACC-Big Ten Challenge, report says
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will host Syracuse at the Kohl Center in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge during the 2016-17 season.
Dicken, Shay E.
Madison.com
He worked for UW-Madison Housing as a building superintendent.
UW-Madison team develops wind turbine for cell towers in rural India
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With the aim of helping make electricity more available in rural parts of India, a team of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has designed a wind turbine that could provide power to cellular phone towers.
2 charged with vandalism at Memorial Union construction
Wisconsin State Journal
Two men who were sought by UW-Madison police after vandalism was discovered at a construction site at the Memorial Union were charged Monday with four misdemeanors each.
On Campus: UW-Colleges faculty approve no confidence vote
Wisconsin State Journal
Faculty from the University of Wisconsin System’s two-year colleges joined their peers at several four-year campuses Friday by approving a resolution declaring they have no confidence in the System’s president and Regents.
UW-Madison scientist says flu virus mapping could improve vaccine
Wisconsin State Journal
The development by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka follows research he did last year suggesting another way to improve flu shots: manufacturing them with dog or monkey cells instead of the current, lengthy process using chicken eggs.
Thousands more trail cameras coming to Wisconsin
Madison.com
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Department of Natural Resources researchers hope to place as many as 6,000 motion-activated trail cameras across the state. Photos will be uploaded to a crowd-sourcing website; viewers will be asked to view them and try to identify the animals in them. The project, dubbed Snapshot Wisconsin, should provide the best idea yet of the size of animal populations and their movements, said Phil Townsend, a UW-Madison forestry professor and one of the project leaders.
Smail, Laura Woolsey Lord
Madison.com
Laura worked as an editor at the University of Wisconsin Press and later at the UW Oral History Project.
Tom Still: UW’s economic impact means policymakers must make it a priority again
Wisconsin State Journal
It would be a mistake to believe higher education’s financial woes in Wisconsin began the day Gov. Scott Walker took office in 2011.
Scott Walker, Democrats preview election arguments on UW budget cuts, tenure, tuition freeze
Wisconsin State Journal
Democrats have spent recent weeks drawing attention to budget cuts that have led to reduced services and layoffs on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Buggy whip makers is poor metaphor for UW faculty
Capital Times
Column by Lisa H. Cooper, an associate professor in UW-Madison’s English department.
Homes for sale as UW staff head to greener pastures
Capital Times
Column by state Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison: “Oh, he’s been gone for a year to the private sector. They waited for the real estate market to get better and when the house sells, they’ll join him.” This was the explanation from a constituent when I mentioned all the For Sale signs in front of houses owned by UW-Madison employees.
Casual use of racist slurs was routine at fraternity suspended by UW-Madison
Capital Times
Members of a fraternity that was suspended at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week for race discrimination told a campus investigator that they did not use the word “nigga” in a derogatory way, but as slang or a term of endearment, according to records released by campus officials.
Small nuclear reactors will help cut carbon
Wisconsin State Journal
Column by Paul Wilson, a professor of nuclear engineering at UW-Madison’s Engineering Physics Department, and the interim chair of the Energy Analysis and Policy program of the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies
UW Nursing School hosts new film series looking at health care on the screen
Capital Times
The series is a partnership between the UW Arts Institute (which sponsors the Wisconsin Film Festival) and the UW School of Nursing, the UW School of Medicine and UW Health. Called “Through the Hollywood Looking Glass: PTSD and Beyond,” the series features three movies looking at soldiers coming home from three wars.
No easy answers to UW’s financial woes
Capital Times
Letter to the editor: While UW-Madison professor Caroline Levine’s (Enough With Scott Walker and the GOP — I’m Leaving) concern about the erosion of state financial support for UW-Madison is justified, her narrow solutions are problematic. She suggests large increases in student tuition at the same time another article in Cap Times states that the average student graduates from the UW System with $29,000 in debt. She bemoans that only 27.5 percent of students can be admitted from out-of-state (who pay significantly higher tuition).
Access, cost and quality tough balancing act for public universities
Capital Times
Letter to the editor: UW English professor Caroline Levine’s opinion piece on UW brings to light a major challenge faced by public universities: the obligation to serve residents of the states that created and partially fund them versus maximizing the quality of their product.
A wish for our kids as they enter UW
Capital Times
Column from state Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison: I’m about to embark on a journey that parents all over Wisconsin celebrate. My oldest son, Devin, is graduating high school and will be attending UW-Madison this fall.
Rebekah Paré helps students focus on a career path early on
Capital Times
Q&A with Rebekah Paré, executive director of the L&S Career Initiative and of head L&S Career Services.
Market right to stop selling nicotine products around campus
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor: As UW-Madison updates its policies to further prohibit smoking on campus, the grocery store’s removal of nicotine products — including e-cigarettes — greatly supports the many students who want to live and attend classes on a campus where smoking doesn’t exist.
Letter to the editor: Welding and UW are not comparable
Wisconsin State Journal
The letter in Tuesday’s paper “Phil Hands cartoon insulted trade workers” was comparing apples to oranges. It does take a lot of training in a trade or technical school to become a welder. However, this writer has no idea what it takes to maintain a world-class university such as UW-Madison.
Ideas flow in for improving campus climate at UW-Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
More than 100 proposals for how to improve campus climate poured in from students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after Chancellor Rebecca Blank called for an all-hands-on-deck approach this spring to curb hate and bias incidents.
College graduates entering strong job market, but burdened by record debt
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
After four years at Marquette University, Molly Mead is graduating Sunday with a bachelor’s degree in women and gender studies and history — and student loan debt totaling more than $28,000. In the fall, she plans to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where she expects to borrow another $20,000 as she pursues a master’s in social work.
Costs of celebrity college commencement speakers can add up
Madison.com
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison paid $3,100 for first class flights taking Katie Couric to and from New York.
CoffeeBytes expands into second campus-area location
Wisconsin State Journal
For more than seven years, CoffeeBytes has been a steady presence for the UW-Madison community at University Square, serving up coffee, sandwiches, soups, salads and bakery. Now its owners are planning a second campus-area location.
UW community proposes training, dialogue on race
AP (via Madison.com)
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proposing everything from mandatory diversity classes to a board game to address issues of race and discrimination on campus.
Forest, Laverne Bruce
Madison.com
He served as a county extension agent in Washington and Rock Counties, Minn. Professor Forest worked for 24 years as a faculty member in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the Department of Continuing and Vocational Education.
Longtime Russ Feingold adviser and Madisonian Sumner Slichter dies
Wisconsin State Journal
Slichter’s familial link to UW-Madison ran deep. He was great-grandson of Charles Sumner Slichter, a mathematician and physicist, and namesake for Slichter Hall on the UW-Madison campus. Slichter graduated from the university in 1980 with a degree in mathematics and having been first chair violist of the UW orchestra.
The UW-Madison community asks for training, seminars, and security to improve campus climate
Wisconsin State Journal
Offering mandatory courses in cultural studies, improving campus housing security and formally addressing the larger community about bias incidents are a few of the ideas put forth for improving the climate on the UW-Madison campus, according to proposals released Thursday by university officials.
Badgers women’s rowing: Wisconsin head coach Bebe Bryans named Big Ten Coach of the Year
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin women’s rowing coach Bebe Bryans was named the Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year, the conference announced on Wednesday.
Wineries across area reeling from weekend’s hard frost
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Amaya Atucha, a UW-Madison assistant horticulture professor, said temperatures dipped below freezing in much of those areas late Saturday and early Sunday, wiping out grape shoots that had emerged early due to a warm spring. The cold turned the water in the shoots’ cells to ice, killing the tissue.
The quality, value and prestige of a UW degree are at risk
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor from David Vanness, associate professor of population health sciences in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and president of the UW-Madison chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
Rebecca Blank: ‘Dueling op-eds’ with Scott Walker dangerous for UW’s future
Capital Times
The adversarial relationship between the University of Wisconsin and Gov. Scott Walker is perilous, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Tuesday.
Know your Madisonian: Professor Christopher Walker extends Wisconsin Idea worldwide
Wisconsin State Journal
Professor Christopher Walker says the Wisconsin Idea — the revered notion that the University of Wisconsin should work to better the lives of this state’s citizens — is one of the main reasons he has stayed at UW-Madison for the past decade.
More retail opens on State Street; Jenifer Street Market to take credit and debit cards
Wisconsin State Journal
While there is much concern over the balance of retail and bars, restaurants and coffee shops on State Street, a big addition to the retail scene opened its doors Thursday.