The task force, which met in Madison on Thursday, is made up of faculty members from around the state and is expected to recommend new tenure policies in April.
UW tenure task force holds first meeting
Madison.com
Author: gbump
State cheese takes top honor in Dairy Expo contest
Among the winners from Wisconsin was Babcock Hall Dairy’s gouda.
On Campus: Badger athletes to receive more money for school; tenure task force meets
Madison.com
This year’s Athletic Department budget includes an additional $2 million that can be distributed to athletes to pay for expenses such as transportation, school supplies and cellphones — costs universities had previously been barred from funding. The changes mean full-scholarship Badger athletes will get an additional $3,800 to $5,200 per year from the university, associate athletic director Justin Doherty said.
Report: Bicycling fatalities down for kids, up for adult men
Capital Times
“We’re not sure that the roads have become safer,” the study’s lead author, UW professor Jason Vargo, told Bloomberg News. “We may be just putting people out on the same roads that are as dangerous as they were before.”
ESPN reporters detail Chris Borland’s place as a source of conflict in football
Capital Times
Over the course of five months, a pair of investigative reporters trailed former Wisconsin football player Chris Borland, whose decision to give up the game just one year into a promising NFL career drew national attention. Their conclusion: “In many ways, Borland is like any bright, ambitious recent college graduate who is trying to figure out the rest of his life. In other ways, he’s the most dangerous man in football.”
UW System tenure task force gets to work under pall of mistrust
Capital Times
The 20-member tenure ask force, with members from university campuses across the state as well as UW Colleges and UW Extension, is to report by April to the Board of Regents, which will have final say on the policies. The panel will recommend procedures for determining when the criteria for an economic or program change warranting layoffs is met, and who has the power to make that determination.
Harris, Marjorie
Madison.com
In the 1960s … Marj was asked by Professor Phil Curtin to join the staff of the newly developed African Studies Program at the UW. Marj took on major and minor administrative duties until her retirement in 1990 at the age of 70.
Paul Fanlund: Going in, Paul Chryst boosts UW’s football brand
Capital Times
I recently heard the new University of Wisconsin football coach speak before a service club. For a guy said to dislike public speaking, Chryst, a Madison native and former UW player, struck me as humble, likable and earnest. Humble is not a word that pops to mind to describe recent Badgers football coaches.
Q&A: Nneka Akubeze helps UW students as part of United Council
Madison.com
Profile of Nneka Akubeze, UW-Madison alum and the current executive director of the United Council.
Tech and Biotech: Burrill contest canceled for 2016
Leaders of Madison’s entrepreneurial community say they are surprised and saddened to hear the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition has been called off for 2016. A highlight of the UW-Madison’s School of Business for the past 18 years, a notice on the contest’s website says “due to budgetary constraints,” the Burrill competition is being “suspended.”
Photos: A walk along the UW Arboretum trails
Photo gallery.
UW’s Everett Mitchell recognized as a ‘Difference Maker’ for community work
Madison.com
Everett Mitchell, director of community relations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on Tuesday received the Difference Maker Award of the Madison chapter of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute. Mitchell – an attorney, pastor and community leader – brings varied experiences to his work of bridging the gap between the university and the community.
Badgers men’s soccer: Big Ten coaches see UW 9th this season
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team is predicted to finish ninth in the Big Ten Conference, according to the league’s preseason coaches poll released Wednesday.
Fees are essential to UW Foundation — Michael Knetter
Madison.com
Letter to the editor from UW Foundation President Mike Knetter regarding the Wisconsin Partnership Program endowment.
Grant Petty: UW could lead the way in cutting textbook costs
Capital Times
Column from Grant Petty, a professor and chair of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scott Walker: I will repeal Obamacare on Day 1 of presidency
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Comments from Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director for the UW Population Health Institute, on the similarity of the plan to parts of Obama’s law.
Wisconsin should be proud of program — Dr. Robert N. Golden
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the editor from School of Medicine and Public Health Dean Robert Golden regarding the Wisconsin Partnership Program endowment.
Study: UW-Madison students who drink live closer to bars, liquor stores than those who don’t drink
Madison.com
The study of 166 UW-Madison students found that, on average, students who did not drink lived nearly a half-mile further from the nearest alcohol outlet than drinkers, and that more than double the number of alcohol outlets were within a half-mile of where drinkers lived compared to nondrinkers.
On Campus: Biggest year yet for move-out donations, MATC breaks ground on new building
Madison.com
Organizers of UW-Madison’s drive to reduce waste during the busy mid-August move-out believe the project collected more than 100,000 pounds worth of donated items last weekend.
Global Jewish music project comes to Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
The project lands center stage in Madison on Aug. 30, with a full day of performances and lecture/demonstrations. Audiences can experience — for free — little-performed works just being brought to light, ranging from early 20th-century chamber music to a cabaret act written by four young Czech Jews in the Terezin ghetto. Shows will take place in UW-Madison’s Mills Hall, the First Unitarian Society Meeting House and at Overture Center.
Dittberner, Kerment H.
Madison.com
Kerment worked in the Physical Plant at University of Wisconsin for 39 years, retiring in 1998.
Johannes, Frederick “Fred”
Madison.com
Fred worked at the UW Department of Physical Plant, Planning and Transportation. He retired from the UW on Aug 2, 2011.
Wagner, Joanne Lynne
Madison.com
Joanne worked in gastroenterology research at UW Hospitals and as a cytotechnologist with the State Lab of Hygiene.
Kowal, Robert Raymond : Madisondotcom
Madison.com
Robert was a full professor in teh University of Wisconsin’s Department of Botany, retiring in 1997.
Tom Still: Fetal tissue bill can be amended to satisfy science and ethics
Wisconsin State Journal
The political reflex to the creepy possibility that people are illegally selling organs and tissue from aborted fetuses is understandable. The rush to pass overly broad legislation that would outlaw and even criminalize legitimate, longstanding medical research is not.
Textbook sticker prices soar, but expanding options keep expenses in check
Capital Times
College students are increasingly staying away from buying textbooks as a way to keep their spending down as the sticker price for books continue to soar, along with other college costs. Textbook prices have climbed some 1,000 percent over the past four decades, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with some titles now costing $400 or even $500. But students have been spending less on course materials in each of the past few years, according to a survey of the National Association of College Stores. Students’ average annual spending on course materials dropped from $701 in 2007-2008 to $563 in 2014-15, according to the association.
Mergers make future uncertain for some small UW-Madison departments
Madison.com
(Smal) departments could soon be merged with similar-size programs or much larger departments — the victims, some say, of state budget cuts that are forcing the university to reduce administrative costs. Others note such mergers have happened before and reflect the normal ebb and flow of small academic programs. The mergers don’t mean the fields of study will disappear from UW-Madison. Officials are working to merge the departments of Scandinavian, German and Slavic studies, while history of science could join the larger Department of History.
UW education professor: Tech colleges merger will be disaster without study, debate
Madison.com
A proposed merger of Wisconsin’s two-year and technical college systems will be a disaster if state officials don’t carefully study if and how to do it, argues UW-Madison professor Michael Apple. “That is what has happened elsewhere,” Apple, a professor of curriculum, instruction and educational policy, told Joy Cardin on Wisconsin Public Radio Thursday. “There are many hidden effects that appear only in the long term.”
HUD senior adviser Richard Green to keynote UW real estate conference
The daylong conference is Sept. 25 at UW-Madison’s Fluno Center, with a registration deadline of Sept. 16.
Civil rights leader Julian Bond made frequent appearances in Madison
Capital Times
Wrap-up of the civil rights leader’s visits to Madison, including several stops at UW.
Badgers men’s basketball: Bo Ryan hedges on retirement
Madison.com
Ryan left the door open to coaching beyond the upcoming season during an interview with the Appleton Post-Crescent on Wednesday night in Kaukauna, where Ryan was a guest speaker at a charity event. “Well, I needed to get a statement out there knowing I wasn’t able to tell recruits I could guarantee them four years and I wanted to be fair to our staff and (UW athletic director Barry Alvarez) and the athletic department,” Ryan said.
Wisconsin ban on fetal tissue research expected to move quickly, authors say
Capital Times
The bill, spearheaded by Reps. André Jacque, R-De Pere, and Joel Kleefisch, R-Oconomowoc, and Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, would ban selling, donating and experimenting with fetal body parts resulting from abortions in Wisconsin.
Hillary Clinton, Scott Walker trade jabs over college affordability, student loan debt
Capital Times
While incoming college roommates are haggling over who will bring the microwave and who’s responsible for the TV, Gov. Scott Walker and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are squabbling over solutions for college affordability.
Badgers volleyball: UW picked for fourth in Big Ten
Madison.com
The Badgers, who won their first Big Ten title since 2001 with a 19-1 conference record last year, were picked to finish behind reigning NCAA champion Penn State, Nebraska and Illinois.
Badgers football: UW adds home-and-home series with Syracuse
Madison.com
UW will host the Orange at Camp Randall Stadium on Sept. 12, 2020, and will travel to Syracuse on Sept. 11, 2021.
UW Foundation fees could explain medical school fund’s low value
Madison.com
A public fund at UW School of Medicine and Public Health is worth $47 million less than a similar fund at Medical College of Wisconsin, largely because UW Foundation has taken some $40 million out of the fund in extra management fees, critics say.
Steven Walters: Wisconsin legislators quietly consider realigning colleges, universities
Janesville Gazette
Wisconsin legislators have begun quietly and unofficially discussing how the state’s 42 public universities and colleges—the 26 UW System campuses and the 16 technical colleges—might be realigned to deal with dwindling state aid. If approved, any shift would be the biggest realignment of higher education since the UW System was stitched together in 1971 by merging state colleges, the Madison and Milwaukee campuses, and two-year centers.
At new Hub Madison apartment complex, detailed move-in process planned to prevent chaos
Madison.com
The new, 313-unit Hub Madison complex at State, Frances and Gilman streets opened last week for early move-ins. But Aug. 14 and 15 are the traditional moving days in downtown Madison as leases expire, so the apartment’s managers have an elaborate plan in place to get through the crush of those days.
Legislators consider merger of Wisconsin Technical College System, UW Colleges
Madison.com
A group of Republican legislators will meet this week to discuss the possibility of merging the Wisconsin Technical College System and the University of Wisconsin Colleges and Extension, lawmakers said Monday.
On Campus: Scientists work to improve solar power; UW agencies join Snapchat
Madison.com
A research team led by a UW-Madison professor has received $2.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to improve solar power technology and make the alternative energy source more competitive with fossil fuels. Also: UW Police, Athletics join Snapchat.
Ewanowski, CDR Stanley J. PhD, USN (Ret.)
Madison.com
Stan also graduated from UW-Madison and retired Professor Emeritus in 1993 holding appointments in both the College of Letters and Science, and the School of Medicine. In addition to teaching medical students, interns, residents, and staff in the Medical School he served as director of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and was coordinator of the Inter-disciplinary Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Anomalies Clinic also at the UW-Madison. He served as research advisor to grad students at the Master’s and Doctoral levels.
UW-Madison team works on ‘teaching machine’ to optimize instruction
Madison.com
A cross-discipline team of researchers at UW-Madison is working to develop a “teaching machine” that would develop ideal lesson plans, UW-Madison News reports.
Coleman, Kay
Madison.com
Kay worked at UW Hospital for many years before joining the UW Athletic Department in 1994. There she served as a member of the facilities management team.
Wisconsin Idea goes high-tech with demand for training by working professionals
Capital Times
The Wisconsin Idea is going high-tech, as UW-Madison works to leverage distance education to reach more students and generate more revenue. Outreach to non-traditional students reflects a bedrock value of the university and responds to a national trend in higher education, say UW-Madison officials.
Fetal tissue ban could impact medical research in Wisconsin
Madison.com
A bill to ban the sale and use of aborted fetal tissue in Wisconsin could halt important medical research, UW-Madison and biotech leaders say, but sponsors of the bill say such research could continue with other tissue.
Q&A: David Vanness became a spokesperson for UW faculty opposing Scott Walker’s budget
Madison.com
Q & A with associate professor in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health David Vanness.
Badgers football: Paul Chryst works on game plan for communication off the field
Madison.com
Paul Chryst was a picture of comfort on the morning of the final day of July, his legs stretched out as he sat in a booth at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago.
Robert Skloot: Removing UW bridge will further expose ugly buildings
Wisconsin State Journal
Letter to the edtor from UW-Madison professor emeritus of theater and drama and Jewish studies
Esser, Michael Peter
Madison.com
He was an employee of the UW-Madison Grounds Department and retired in 2004.
Vahldieck, Rosemary K.
Madison.com
Vahldieck is a former professor of nursing at UW-Madison.
Badgers football: Dave Aranda excited to see his veterans ‘cut it loose’
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin’s defensive coordinator has spent the past two years elevating his charges to become one of the top units in the Big Ten Conference.
Badgers football: Linebacker Kellen Jones embraces opportunity with UW
Madison.com
Jones, a senior inside linebacker, is a graduate transfer from Clemson University.
Scott Walker saves his punches for Hillary Clinton in first GOP debate
Capital Times
Noted: includes analysis from Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism and mass communication and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
John Doe target: Home search ‘like one of those bad horror movies’
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Emeritus political science and constitutional law professor Donald Downs comments.
John Wiley: Scott Walker is reversing the programs that made Wisconsin proud
Capital Times
Former UW-Madison chancellor John Wiley levels some pointed criticism at Gov. Scott Walker in an essay in Madison Magazine.
Badgers men’s basketball: UW will play Georgetown in 2K Classic semifinal in November
Madison.com
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will face Georgetown in a semifinal of the 2K Classic on Nov. 20 at Madison Square Garden in New York, and could get a rematch with defending national champion Duke if both teams win their first round games.
UW should get rid of its police department — Mark Hoover
Madison.com
UW-Madison should consider this recommendation and cut the campus police department and contract with the Madison Police Department. The same should be done for Madison Area Technical College and any other public entity that separately has established its own police units.
UW’s HOPE Lab: Low-income college students need free lunch too
Madison.com
Instituting a college free lunch program, like the one that feeds low-income students in K-12 schools, is one way to help more students access the “great anti-poverty tool” of a college education, UW-Madison’s Wisconsin HOPE Lab said in testimony submitted Wednesday to the National Commission on Hunger.
Reno, Bernard John “Buddy”
Madison.com
He worked for UW-Madison at University Hospital, UW Housing, UW Physical Plant, working as a facility repair worker, retiring in July 2013 for a total of over 28 years with the State.
Amateur golf: Badgers golfer Brooke Ferrell completes UW sweep with Brown Deer Women’s Amateur title
Madison.com
Brooke Ferrell became the third Badgers golfer to win of Wisconsin amateur golf’s three major championships Tuesday when she shot her second straight 72 to win the Brown Deer Women’s Amateur tournament.