University of Wisconsin System faculty who responded to a controversial survey about tenure overwhelmingly supported the policy, with nearly 90 percent of them saying they would consider leaving Wisconsin if the state moved them from a tenure system to one based on contracts.
After a decade of producing her own spin on Tchaikovsky’s wildly popular holiday ballet, JoJean Retrum has dropped the “Fantasy” and gone back to her beloved traditional “Nutcracker.”
More than two months after the U.S. Senate blocked an effort to extend the life of the Perkins loan program, lawmakers struck a deal on Wednesday that could revive the program that provides need-based, low-interest loans to low-income college students. Leading the push was Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat.
Junior setter Lauren Carlini was named Wednesday to the American Volleyball Coaches Association first-team All-America squad for the second consecutive season. She also earned second-team honors her freshman season.
Despite seeing some numbers favorable to the cause of preserving tenure at the University of Wisconsin, David Vanness says he doesn’t have confidence in the results of a controversial survey unveiled Wednesday in Madison. “I would love to have confidence in some of the results,” Vanness, an associate professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health, said after University of Chicago professor William Howell released the numbers at a media event at the Madison Club.
Noted: A quarter of one percent is “very, very small,” said James Johannes, director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education at the UW School of Business. “If this causes capital flows into U.S. financial markets, the price of U.S. assets will go up and interest rates on U.S. assets will go down,” defeating the purpose of raising the rates, Johannes said…. UW professor Mark Ready, academic director of the Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, said the rate increase is the beginning of “a very long path toward what looks to be normal.”
Gard woke up on Tuesday as the associate head coach of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team. When his head finally hit the pillow early Wednesday morning — it didn’t remain there for long — he was the Badgers’ interim coach, a promotion that followed the retirement of longtime mentor Bo Ryan.
Freshman members of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band won’t make the trip to San Diego for the Badgers’ Dec. 30 game against USC — a result, the band’s leader said, of the Holiday Bowl’s lower payout to participating universities.
Columnist delves into race and free speech issues.
Letter to the editor: The real culprits are the legislators who made the requirements for student voting so onerous. The student ID used for voting cannot be valid for longer than a two-year period. UW-Madison issues IDs for a five-year period.
William Howell, the University of Chicago researcher behind a controversial survey of University of Wisconsin faculty’s views on tenure, is hosting a media event at the Madison Club Wednesday to release his findings.
Bo Ryan has believed for a long time that Greg Gard is ready to run a program. Gard will get that chance on an interim basis after Ryan announced Tuesday night that he’s stepping down as the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach.
Bo Ryan turned an ordinary Tuesday night after a nonconference Wisconsin men’s basketball game at the Kohl Center into an extraordinary outpouring of emotions.
The letter, which was written by three UW-Madison scientists, contends that the bill “would severely restrict promising avenues of biomedical research for conditions such as diabetes, Down syndrome, heart failure, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury and more.”
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced his retirement following the Badgers’ 64-49 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tuesday night.
Jordan Gaines, a senior from Milwaukee, launched The Black Voice — blackvoicesuw.wordpress.com and @BlackVoicesUW on Twitter — earlier this month as an online media outlet to collect students’ news coverage, opinion writing, art and poetry.
Gov. Scott Walker is on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2015 “Influence List,” one of 10 who “shook up higher education in the classroom, on campus, and beyond,” according to the publication.
Noted: UW limnology professor John Magnuson says Mendota could soon go the way of other large lakes in the region and occasionally miss winter freezes.
The regents’ education committee unanimously approved changes to UW-Extension’s mission statement on Thursday allowing it to grant business certificates, associate degrees and bachelor’s degrees in businesses through the UW System’s Flex Option program.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee unanimously approved a resolution Thursday affirming a commitment to free speech, following the lead of schools around the country that have faced protests over racial tensions and other social issues.
University of Wisconsin and former Monona Grove offensive lineman Jaden Gault will end his football career after doctors found blood clots in both his lungs during a hospital visit Wednesday night.
UW Band director Mike Leckrone announced Tuesday that some 85 freshmen and a handful of staff members won’t make the trip. He said that he was not notified until Monday that he could only send 225 members on the trip.
Freedom of expression at the University of Wisconsin does not need to be protected from black student movements and a free speech resolution before the UW Board of Regents should not be weighed as such, says the head of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The resolution, which was written by a group of Regents with help from some UW-Madison professors, states that the university may not suppress the free exchange of ideas, even if some on campus find those ideas “offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed.”
Families are invited to experience the campus holiday event at a new matinee held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Sunday at Union South. Children can dress up, sing out and revel in old English traditions given a kid-friendly spin.
Part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison band will be left behind when members make the trip to San Diego in a few weeks for the Holiday Bowl.
Eight UW-Madison doctoral students have won Fulbright scholarships to study overseas, more than any other school in the country.
The regents’ education committee is expected to vote on the resolution Thursday afternoon during a meeting on the UW-Madison campus. Approval would send the resolution on to the full board of regents for consideration on Friday.
As African-American students at UW-Madison join others at universities across the country in demanding inclusive campuses, the UW System Board of Regents developed a statement reaffirming its commitment to free expression that also sets limits on acceptable responses to offensive speech.
The Regents will take up a proposed resolution reaffirming the board’s commitment to academic freedom and free speech when its education committee meets Thursday in Madison. The move comes weeks after UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent students and faculty a controversial message about speech, which critics said was contrary to First Amendment principles, and as colleges across the country weigh how to handle sensitive debates on campus.
Q&a with Sir Williams, UW Law School’s director of admissions, who came to Madison to attend UW-Madison Law School, it was his first time living away from his mother’s home on Chicago’s South Side.
Langdon Street on the UW-Madison campus will reopen on Friday and stay open all winter, but will close once again in spring for more construction.
The report, prepared for regent review at their meeting Friday, found 74 percent of UW System in-state graduates in 2014-15 had an average debt of $30,650.
The Wisconsin Education Approval Board announced Monday that 933 adult students who enrolled at four EDMC institutions — the Art Institute of Wisconsin and online programs through Argosy University, South University and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh — will have more than $916,500 in loans from the institutions forgiven under the settlement.
The UW System is conducting an open online survey to gauge public opinion through Dec. 14. The five-minute survey touches on issues identified in a series of public listening sessions held around the state this fall.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team strengthened its hold on the top spot in this week’s USCHO.com poll with its weekend sweep of Minnesota.
Baldwin met with the University of Wisconsin System Task Force on Sexual Violence and Harassment for an hour on Friday. The discussion came as the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — of which Baldwin is a member — discusses changes to the Higher Education Act, a sweeping 1965 law that covers the federal financial aid system.
The UW-Madison professor of folklore and Scandinavian Studies and Mount Horeb resident was nominated Monday morning in the category of Best Album Notes for one of the annual music awards presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Leary’s project, “Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946” was released by the University of Wisconsin Press and Dust-to-Digital in July. It includes five CDs of folk recordings made decades ago, and his book includes lyrics for all the songs and translations in more than 25 languages.
With only the Holiday Bowl to play, the Badgers are being perceived from two dramatically different angles. Some see UW as a team that was 2 yards away from being 11-1 and earning a spot in the Big Ten Conference Championship Game. Others see a team that has underachieved because, despite its respectable 9-3 record, it doesn’t have an attention-grabbing, signature win on its resume.
The project is researching the size and behavior of packs of coyotes and foxes on and around the UW-Madison campus by capturing the animals and putting radio collars on them. Physical examinations and bio-testing of anesthetized animals provides data for the eventual mapping of the transmission of disease from wild canids to domestic dogs, said David Drake, a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and UW Extension wildlife specialist.
The Badgers, the No. 6 seed, raised their game another notch Friday night to sweep Iowa State 25-18, 25-15, 25-21 in a second-round NCAA tournament match before a rowdy crowd of 5,578 at the UW Field House.
Shirley was on the staff of WisTEP of the UW-Madison campus for 12 years, where she and others developed and facilitated graduate level Science summer courses for classroom science teachers.
Bob joined the staff of the Astronomy Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1958 and retired as professor emeritus in 1994. His dedication to astronomy education extended far beyond the academic community and helped set a pattern of outreach to the general public now widely followed by NASA and other institutions. The clearest manifestation of that dedication was his founding, in 1990, of UW Space Place.
Letter to the editor: It is an encouraging statement from academia. Generally, pronouncements from that arena feature political correctness and demands to quash any speech which disagrees with them.
Lavelle was named a first-team All-American by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, becoming the first UW player to garner first-team honors since 1991.
More than half of community college students surveyed at 10 schools in seven states are at risk of hunger or homelessness, according to a new study released Friday by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Feature on UW-Madison dance professor Li Chiao-Ping, who in April was named a Vilas Research Professor, one of the top honors bestowed by the university.
The squash, corn, peppers, carrots, kale — just about all of the ingredients that went into the dishes — were some of the early results of a UW-Madison program that has brought professors, plant breeders, organic farmers and some of the city’s top chefs together with the goal of creating more flavorful fruits and vegetables for local agriculture.
Q&A with Werner, professor and now the head of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Afro-American Studies department. He and co-author Doug Bradley, a UW professor who served in Vietnam, have published a book. “We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War” looks at the songs that soldiers listened to while serving in Vietnam, and what they meant to them.
“Just Bust!” is billed as the longest-running open mic in Madison. It is a monthly event hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives.
The 9-3 Badgers, as nearly every media outlet and sports analyst predicted, will travel to San Diego to play in the Holiday Bowl at 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 30.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team is one win away from the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.
Construction on an expanded music performance building at University Avenue and Lake Street is expected to start next fall thanks to a $25 million gift from the Mead Witter Foundation announced Thursday by UW-Madison. The UW School of Music will be renamed the Mead Witter School of Music in acknowledgment of the gift from the Wisconsin Rapids-based foundation.
UW-Madison students will speak Thursday in support of a Dane County Board resolution calling on UW-Madison to alter student identification cards to put them in compliance with state Voter ID laws.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has extended the deadline to fill its managing director position until June, a WARF spokeswoman said Wednesday.
It’s not clear how clearly University of Wisconsin System task force will define the future of tenure at the state’s public universities and colleges, but its members are hoping to have a draft copy to consider when they meet later this month.
When it comes to setting goals, Lauren Carlini is all about “go big or go home … So as Carlini embarks on her third NCAA tournament run with the University of Wisconsin volleyball team, it’s safe to assume she’s aiming high.
The Milwaukee-based AIDS Resource Center, which has 10 locations around the state, is contracting with UW Health to provide medical care at its Madison site, at 600 Williamson Street. Dr. Robert Striker and Dr. Ryan Westergaard will oversee the care.
Susan was a research assistant at the UW-Madison plant pathology department, retiring in 1984.
Letter to the editor: Short of putting up a dome over the stadium, what was the UW Athletic Department supposed to do? With respect to snowballs — even a moron should know it’s dangerous and just stupid to throw a snowball or ice ball when so many people are in the area. W
