Dennis Lloyd, one of two finalists for the job along with Kathy Borkowski, Wisconsin Historical Society Press director, has been named the director of the 78-year-old publishing enterprise, UW-Madison said in a news release.
The leaders of the state’s budget-writing Joint Finance Committee accused UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank of playing Washington politics with the current budget debate, noting her ties to U.S. President Barack Obama and her predecessor’s support for elements of Gov. Scott Walker’s plans that she opposes.
As an engineering graduate student at the UW-Madison College of Engineering, I saw firsthand the depth and reach of university research. As a member of a high-tech startup responsible for recruiting talent, I hired a number of excellent UW graduates, attracted back from high-tech companies on the coasts, to the economic benefit of Wisconsin.
Sixty-nine alumni are currently in the Peace Corps, ranking second in the nation in number of graduates carrying on President John F. Kennedy’s mission to recruit Americans to do good around the globe.
There are 23 sports programs at the University of Wisconsin and each one has a million moving parts. That’s especially the case when those teams go on the road for competition.
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank has said certain UW-Madison graduate programs are underpriced. She’s partially right. What she’s not saying is that some UW System programs and majors are overpriced.
Chancellor Blank statement: “Our recent conversations with legislators have been positive and we understand the pressures they are facing. As I have stated in the past, flexibilities offered through a public authority model are welcome and would eventually allow the System to function more effectively. However, we continue to be concerned about the impact of a proposed $300 million cut. We look forward to working with legislators throughout the budget process to reduce the impacts on the university.”
The national higher education funding trend shows states putting more money into campuses.
Julie Mead, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at UW-Madison, comments.
A similar effort is being undertaken by Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, who with County Board approval has assembled a committee of representatives from the Sheriff’s Office, the County Board and the District Attorney’s Office, a UW professor and community members to identify potential problems and offer solutions before implementing a body camera program.
“Manifestations,” a show featuring the work of 23 Bachelor of Fine Arts students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spans a variety of styles and subjects.
Devan A. McCambridge, 20, of Saukville, pleaded guilty to two counts of making threats, a felony, for incidents involving women who answered a Craigslist ad in which McCambridge pretended to be a woman looking for sex with another woman.
The Wisconsin state Senate Health Committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on Andrew Hitt’s appointment to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority Board.
Dear Editor: Many Wisconsin citizens and organizations have pointed out that Gov. Walker can save the University of Wisconsin System from huge cuts by accepting the $261 million to $315 million that is Wisconsin’s share of Medicaid money under the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare. That sounds like a great way to save the UW System, save lives and honor the Wisconsin Idea.
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank has not been shy making an argument about the university’s professional schools that boils down to this: they offer too much bang for too little tuition buck. A new report suggests that the basic storyline holds true at the business school. Among masters of business administration graduates, Wisconsin students come out making an average of about $109,000 annually, a similar but slightly lower haul as peers at more fancy schools.
David Nelson is the new director of purchasing services at UW-Madison, the university announced on Tuesday. He will start his new job on Monday, Feb. 23.
I wish I could believe it was a drafting error but, alas, that dog won’t hunt.
“TAA is ready to fight tooth and nail against these cuts,” UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association treasurer Travis McArthur told Chancellor Rebecca Blank at a packed forum on proposed state budget cuts Thursday.
On WKOW-TV’s “Capitol City Sunday,” the board’s executive director tried to clarify what state dollars to the public broadcasting and communications agency support.
Despite a -13 degree wind chill, several hundred people gathered at the UW-Madison’s Library Mall on Saturday afternoon to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cuts to the UW System.
In a just-released study, UW-Madison researchers found that kids who had participated in the curriculum were less selfish and exhibited better social skills and greater mental flexibility than children who did not do the exercises. And in an added bonus, the kids who did the kindness curriculum earned higher academic marks at the end of the school year.
They rallied on campus Saturday on the fourth anniversary of the beginning of large-scale demonstrations against a Walker plan that eliminated collective bargaining rights for most of Wisconsin’s public employees.
I could not agree more that the absolute least we should accept from animal researchers is full public disclosure of their records.
A proposal in Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year budget would likely make Wisconsin the only state without oversight of for-profit colleges, at a time when many others are ramping up their level of supervision over colleges that face heavy scrutiny throughout the nation.
State budget headlines have focused on massive cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and an attack-then-retreat on the Wisconsin Idea, which, we must infer, is that rare concept still popular across both blue and red Wisconsin.
Six faculty members and 13 students at UW-Madison have been awarded Fulbright Awards for the 2014-15 school year, putting the university among the top schools for number of faculty and students winning the award.
A mere 2.5 percent budget reduction is what is being asked of the University of Wisconsin System. With a $6.1 billion annual budget, 35,000 employees for reference, the city of Manitowoc has 34,000 residents, 26 campuses and $700 million in cash reserves, the System has many opportunities to get lean, find efficiencies and make your tuition and tax dollars stretch further.
The university’s Athletic Board unanimously voted to increase per-seat prices for season football tickets from $45 to $48 at its meeting Friday afternoon in order to meet its annual services contributions to campus, which increased from $2 million to $5.5 million this year. The request from Bascom Hall for an additional $3.5 million came shortly after Gov. Scott Walker introduced a proposed state budget for 2015-17 that seeks $300 million in cuts to the UW System.
Last month, I was on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at a talk on race. The facilitator began by apologizing for being a white man. I went quiet
Defend the Wisconsin Idea? Sure, but let’s get real about how intellectually and politically radical it is.
Jill worked for the UW Athletic Department prior to her diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s.
In 1958, the family moved to Madison, Wis., where Jim earned his Ph.D. in journalism and directed the University of Wisconsin photojournalism program until retirement in 1984, at which time the UW darkroom was given his name. He also taught magazine courses and chaired the journalism extension program.
Working with a former company member, UW dancers staged a section of “D-Man in the Waters” 1989 — the final work on Saturday’s program — in 2013.
Further, the citizens of the state need to be given more time to weigh in on those hard, specific choices than is allowed in the current timeline.
Several hundred UW-Madison students, faculty members and other employees braved sub-zero wind chills Saturday afternoon to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut in funding to the UW System over the next two years.
Among routes that weren’t altered in the last two years, none showed greater volume growth in 2014 than the UW-Madison area Route 80. Rides on that campus loop jumped by nearly 400,000 to more than 2.17 million.
Talk about putting your best foot forward only to get it stomped on.
It’s hard to believe that Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin’s budget over the next two years would allow the school to maintain its quality. Walker would prohibit the university from raising tuition during that period, but instead give university officials more flexibility in managing contracting and construction projects.
Obesity, a major risk factor for diabetes, heart disease and other conditions, costs $1.5 billion in medical expenses in the state each year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. It seems appropriate, then, that the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Wisconsin Partnership Program is committing $8.6 million over five years to the Wisconsin Obesity Prevention Initiative.
Replacing a power system destroyed last June at UW-Madison — which darkened the university’s website and disabled nearly all electronic communication for a day — cost $360,000, said a spokesman with the school’s Division of Information Technology, or DoIT.
To avoid a budget shortfall for 2015-16, UW Athletics has proposed a $3 increase in season football tickets for the second straight year, moving the per-seat price at Camp Randall Stadium from $45 to $48. That ranks seventh in the 14-member Big Ten Conference.
Eleven years after the state of Texas deregulated tuition at its public universities, soaring tuition bills have both university and state officials rethinking the more autonomy/less public money proposition.
The “Stop the Cuts-Save UW” rally will be at noon Saturday on Library Mall, exactly four years after the first protest against Act 10, the budget repair bill that gutted public unions, was held on Valentine’s Day, 2011.
UW reliably ranks among the nation’s most prestigious institutions and develops students who shape the world. Now, expand that impact to all 26 campuses that make up UW System and the 180,000 students enrolled plus the million Wisconsinites who benefit from UW-Extension services. It is immeasurable the impact that accessible education has on our communities.
The day after Gov. Scott Walker released his budget, I attended a forum on entrepreneurship hosted by the UW-Madison Business School where Lt. Gov. Kleefisch spoke. During her talk she shared a famous Reagan joke: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ’I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” The room went silent. Kleefisch chuckled, “I didn’t get a single laugh!” Did it occur to her that no one laughed because many of us felt personally insulted?
Recap of Thursday budget forum.
The suggestion might win over lawmakers concerned that more autonomy for the University of Wisconsin System would lead to runaway tuition increases, but it calls into question how much independence university officials would have under Walker’s 2015-17 budget proposal.
Vos told reporters he’s met with Blank and new UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone and is “sympathetic to the plight that they are expressing.” … Vos said if lawmakers do impose significant cuts, they need to ensure the universities are given the “maximum amount of flexibility” to absorb them. He also acknowledged that it would be difficult to implement such large reductions at the beginning of the fiscal year, July 1, because new students will have been accepted and classes will have been scheduled at that point.
The announcement about the raise suspensions, “effective immediately,” was made in a Feb. 5 memo to state agencies’ human resources directors.
University of Wisconsin faculty and academic staffers would have won the right to unionize and collectively bargain for wages, same as other public employees, in an early draft of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 state budget, a proposal that the UW System quickly moved to stop. It ultimately didn’t end up in Walker’s budget, which was released publicly last week.
During his long career in medicine, he held faculty appointments at the University of Michigan, the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Mayo Clinic and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed restructuring of the University of Wisconsin promises to send it down the path of a public university “buildings race,” a competition for students wealthy enough to pay deregulated tuition, write UW-Madison graduate students Lenora Hanson and Elsa Noterman.
Huebsch told reporters Tuesday the error is something that would have been found and corrected in the errata document that is compiled after the publication of every two-year budget.
First, take that amount out of the big surplus UW administration garnered while raising tuition to the maximum amount possible. Second, recover claw back the money given in error to UW employees because of an incompetent human resources payroll department.
Few things in the state are as revered as the “UW,” a fact Walker collided with last week when he proposed cutting $300 million from the university system’s budget and removing the century-old philosophical underpinning of the school’s mission statement.
A top official in Gov. Scott Walker’s administration defended the Republican governor’s budget proposal to cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System on Tuesday, saying that the System would soon have autonomy to deal with the funding reductions.
Worked at University of Wisconsin Stores Department until he retired in 1982.
The annual operating budget is being pieced together for 2015-16, and it’s a unique project on at least one front. Thanks to landmark autonomy legislation, championed by the Power Five conferences and approved by the NCAA last month, UW is in the process of accommodating cost-of-attendance upgrades for all its student-athletes on scholarship.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will host a series of forums on Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget that she says would leave the campus with a $91 million shortfall next year.
David Drake, an associate professor of forest and wildlife ecology and a UW Extension wildlife specialist, is leading a research team that is humanely trapping and tracking foxes and coyotes who are making the campus their home.
