In the days leading up to a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents vote on a controversial new tenure policy, system President Ray Cross wrote that the debate “has exposed the real value of removing tenure related policies from statutory language.”
Jim Villa, a long-time ally of Gov. Scott Walker who has led the University of Wisconsin System’s communications and lobbying efforts for the past two years, will leave UW later this month.
UW-Madison Assistant Professor Kathleen (Katy) Culver has been named the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
UW-Madison students marched on campus this week to demand better action by police to prevent sexual assault.
Declaring “no confidence” is cantankerous and irresponsible for anyone with a future invested in this institution.
Noted: “The Democrats are in the driver’s seat in Wisconsin,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden. “Trump does not have a constituency here — not enough to put him over the top. In a general election he’s not going to have a lot of appeal with the broad Wisconsin electorate.”
Flarup has most recently served as the director of website services for UWBadgers.com. Flarup first joined UW’s athletics department in 1977 and has worked in numerous roles in her 39 years with the Badgers.
University of Wisconsin senior pitcher Taylor-Paige Stewart was named to the 2016 Academic All-District team in the sixth district, the College Sports Information Directors of America announced on Thursday.
A meet-cute romance that played out in real time on a University of Wisconsin-Madison Snapchat channel last week seems to have charmed not only students around campus, but the national media as well.
An anticipated wave of no confidence resolutions against University of Wisconsin System officials, in the wake of a similar measure passing at UW-Madison, has begun.
Planet Mercury’s transit, or crossing, of the sun on Monday would be next to impossible, and dangerous, to see with the naked eye, so the Washburn Observatory at UW-Madison will open its doors to the public for safe viewing of the event.
Former UW-Stevens Point student Jeff Decker has long protested the use of student fees at the system’s schools, crossing the line into harassment and leading UW officials to bar him from entering campuses, according to court rulings.
Madison Area Technical College trustees voted Wednesday to begin the process of leasing the land beneath the college’s downtown facility and investing in a comprehensive campus in south Madison.
The Badgers had an average of 17,287 fans per home game in the 2015-16 season, ranking second in the Big Ten and sixth in the NCAA for the year. It was also the best average attendance in program history. Advertisement (1 of 1): 0:13
Johnson was a custodian at UW for nine years.
A “no confidence” resolution targeting University of Wisconsin System bigwigs and passed Monday by UW-Madison professors is “more than just us whining about tenure, it’s not that at all,” according to atmospheric and oceanic sciences professor Dan Vimont, as quoted by Wisconsin Public Radio.
The Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot will appear at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in November as part of the just-announced Wisconsin Union Theater 2016-17 season.
Column: On May 1, UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote about the great pain that has been caused on the UW campus, particularly to students of color, by the string of hate and bias incidents that have recently occurred. She said she believes the incidents reflect a lack of understanding, not just on campus, but in our increasingly diverse nation. Blank wrote of addressing these issues with training programs in cultural competency and community building, more mental health counseling, and UW’s Diversity Framework. The UW community responded to a request for ideas with over 100 proposals that a committee is reviewing and prioritizing.
The Memorial Union Terrace will likely reopen May 20 after months of construction, officials announced Tuesday, and parts of the iconic campus spot along Lake Mendota will be open for UW-Madison’s graduation weekend.
Letter to the editor: By their actions, the governor, Republicans in the Legislature, the UW Board of Regents, and the University of Wisconsin System administration have shown “no confidence” in the UW faculty and in the long-term reputation of the university in recent years.
A UW-Madison student who could have faced a dozen criminal counts for a series of political graffiti messages spray-painted on campus buildings won’t be charged, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Tuesday.
John Behling was not commenting. Reporters were eager to talk with him in February after the controversial faculty tenure policies he shepherded through a months-long drafting process were endorsed by a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents committee without debate.
A competency hearing was ordered for a Madison man after he was charged Tuesday with tagging buildings and electrical boxes in the Downtown and UW-Madison campus areas with symbols representative of white supremacist groups.
Letter to the editor: One way for baseball to return to UW-Madison is with the help of big-time alumni such as Bud Selig, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball and former Milwaukee Brewers owner. Imagine Selig contributing to a baseball stadium in the manor Herb Kohl contributed to the Kohl Center. Considering Selig’s continuing commitment to UW, maybe someone like Athletic Director Barry Alvarez should ask him.
“The time has come to be fearless and united,” Cynthia Burnson told a packed meeting of the Faculty Senate. Burnson, co-president of the Teaching Assistants Association, urged faculty to stand up and say “enough is enough.” UW-Madison faculty held the opportunity to lead a statewide uprising against leadership that has failed to protect adequate funding and academic freedom, she said.
Professors at UW-Madison declared Monday that they have no confidence in the leaders of the University of Wisconsin System to uphold their cherished outreach mission in the wake of budget cuts and changes to tenure policies that weakened faculty protections.
Let’s take the time to do this right. Otherwise, we may be not only putting a new south Madison campus in a financial hole, but damaging what still is a key element in providing technical and vocational training for thousands of our young people.
In 11th-hour fashion, Mayor Paul Soglin is telling Madison Area Technical College officials they should retain their Downtown campus in addition to expanding on the South Side.
Student activists pushing to improve the experiences of minorities at UW-Madison say the wind is at their backs.
When University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty take up a “no-confidence” resolution Monday aimed at the system Board of Regents and president Ray Cross, they will be part of a growing trend, says one university governance researcher.
Emergency room doctors are inclined to see you quickly if you have a simple problem such as an ankle injury or allergic reaction, but they may take longer if you have a complex complaint like numbness or vaginal bleeding, a study at UW Hospital’s ER found.
Gary Bennett wants to assure you he’s not out to destroy the Madison School District. The former legislative staffer leads the new Office of Educational Opportunity at the University of Wisconsin System. That makes him the unofficial “charter czar,” the guy who now has the ability to bypass local school boards and authorize independent charter schools in Madison and Milwaukee.
Under dull gray skies, thousands of revelers celebrated spring and the coming end of the school year Saturday in a mix of beer, rain and mud with no major incidents at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
The string of hate and bias incidents that we’ve been responding to reflects a lack of understanding on our campus, but also a set of broader issues facing all of us in a nation that is becoming increasingly diverse.
Steineke is too oblivious to know it, but he’s providing the very reason why tenure is so important to a faculty that requires the freedom to embark on controversial research, offer scholarly opinions and produce academic papers that may not be politically popular at any given tim
UW-Madison design studies professor Jennifer Angus’ large-scale artwork titled “In the Midnight Garden,” along with installations by eight other nationally known artists, has taken the U.S. capital by storm in the show “WONDER” at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. “WONDER” was expected to draw 200,000 people during its six-month run — but that estimate has been upped to 500,000, Angus said. Huge lines of visitors snake through the museum on most days.
Documents obtained under the state’s open records law by the Wisconsin State Journal include a memo that sharply critiques a version of the civil service bill passed by Republican legislators and signed by Walker in February.
Letter to the editor: Recently UW-Madison provided a lesson in racial disparity, institutional racism and unconscious bias. This past year has seen racist and anti-Semitic threats, as well as verbal and physical assaults on students.
Mathilda Vandenbergh Schwalbach, age 98, retired faculty member of UW’s School of Human Ecology, passed away Oct. 17, 2015.
Letter to the editor: UW-Madison has disclosed it is considering mandating “cultural competency training” for all university students, staff and administrators. This is likely a fine idea.
Letter to the editor: We should listen to the professor’s concerns about the difficulties faced by minority students and not reflexively condemn the messenger. The university was right to quickly apologize. Let’s hope the university learns from its mistakes. If the student is guilty, I hope he learns from his.
Linda Scott, associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named dean of UW-Madison’s School of Nursing.
Letter to the editor: The resolution is before the Faculty Senate, a group of faculty elected or coerced to serve, charged only with advising UW administrators. In short, it has absolutely no power and governs nothing.
Expect traffic snarls throughout Downtown Saturday morning, as thousands of people first converge on Capitol Square for the start of the event, then wind their way west to the Camp Randall Stadium finish line.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and other top UW-Madison administrators will take part in cultural competency training this summer, a university spokesman said, after a semester in which student activists have criticized their response to racist incidents on campus.
A group of donors has pledged $10 million to match contributions to a UW-Madison scholarship program aimed at low-income and minority students. The Chancellor’s Scholarship Program pays for tuition, fees and up to $800 worth of textbooks for 255 UW-Madison undergraduates.
The UW-Madison Police Department is looking for two men who damaged property inside the Memorial Union early Tuesday morning, according to authorities.
Chris Solinsky said he has “always kind of had the mentality of just fading off to the sunset.” Even a state high school legend, one of the greatest athletes to compete for the University of Wisconsin and one of the most accomplished distance runners on the national stage, can’t run fast enough into the sunset to pull that off.
In Madison, there are more than 160 years of records on the freezing and thawing dates of lakes Monona and Mendota. But it was centuries of data on a lake in Japan and a river in Finland that helped a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus and a team of researchers show climate change trends since the Industrial Revolution.John J. Magnuson, the former director of the UW’s Center for Limnology, co-led the study into how records of freezing and thawing dates have changed. The results, published Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports, showed that “global processes including climate change and variability are driving the long-term changes in ice seasonality.”
Letter to the editor: With all due respect to a UW-Madison student who spray-painted several buildings and was arrested on vandalism charges — costing taxpayers thousands of dollars to clean up — my suggestion, learned in kindergarten, is: Let he who makes the graffiti erase the graffiti.
Letter to the editor: The responses of faculty in support of McDonald reveal we inhabit different planets — or different Madisons. Through #TheRealUW campaign, the Race to Equity report, and other narratives of racial inequality in Madison, it is clear people of color experience the city differently than their white counterparts. McDonald’s messages reflect these experiences, as well as the frustrations of living under a university structure that has done little to protect and support its students of color.
On Tuesday, Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, defended Cross and the Regents, described the changes to tenure as “minor” and criticized faculty for bringing the no confidence vote.
Despite a recent stretch of toned-down, relatively tame celebrations, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval is worried that this year’s Mifflin Street block party on Saturday may be a bad one, and increased police presence is planned as alternative programming put on by UW-Madison to divert attention from the spring party shrinks.
The concept of “two Madisons” separated by race and class divisions that has shadowed civic discourse in recent years now has entered the debate around whether Madison Area Technical College should close its downtown facility and expand in south Madison.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party will likely see an increase in police presence, coinciding with a scaled back music festival sponsored by the Wisconsin Union. Koval said the police department will continue efforts to downsize and eventually eliminate the event, saying the unsanctioned block party has “all the earmarks of a very real public safety concern.”
UW-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace should reopen in May, officials say, but it’s still unclear whether the major reconstruction project that has kept it closed for months will be finished in time for the university’s graduation weekend in less than three weeks.
City officials should seriously consider creating a pedestrian mall the entire length of State Street, from the UW-Madison campus to the Capitol Square.
The company, at 3571 Anderson St., has 37 employees. It was founded in 2002 based on UW-Madison research and has forged partnerships with several major companies including Cargill, Shell, Coca-Cola and Honda.
The governing body for UW-Madison faculty is moving forward with a vote of no confidence on University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross and the System’s Board of Regents — despite a warning from Chancellor Rebecca Blank that approving the resolution could prompt a backlash from state lawmakers.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling and others faced tough questions and listened to recommendations about improving the campus’ climate at a community meeting at the Urban League of Greater Madison on the South Side.
