After suffering a recent defeat in her effort to split UW-Madison from the University of Wisconsin System, Biddy Martin announced Tuesday she will leave the university after three years as chancellor to become president of Amherst College.
Many of the protesters who gathered at the state Capitol on Tuesday already had left for the night before the Assembly even made it to the floor to begin debate on Gov. Scott Walker?s budget. And when debate still had not begun after 10 p.m. because of delays in drafting amendments to the plan, lawmakers also called it a night. The two-year budget proposal aims to balance an estimated $3 billion budget hole by cutting spending on public schools by about $800 million, limiting their ability to raise property taxes to make up the difference, cutting funding for the University of Wisconsin System by $250 million, taking some $500 million from Medicaid programs, and placing an enrollment cap on Family Care, a program aimed at keeping poor, elderly people out of nursing homes. Republican leaders announced they were backing away from a controversial plan to give back some $37 million in federal grant money awarded to the University of Wisconsin system.Supporters say that money will help extend broadband Internet to rural and under-served areas. The proposal would have meant UW-Madison could no longer support WiscNet, a statewide Internet provider.
The UW-Madison chancellor accomplished so much in so little time and will be missed on and off campus.
A measure in the state?s two-year budget proposal is drawing a lot of criticism from local government agencies. The provision would change the way area governments, schools, libraries, universities and others access the Internet, forcing many or all of them to perhaps pay more and get less.
Quoted: “This allows you to check on your situation in the cloud,” says Thomas Ristenpart, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a coauthor of the paper that described the Amazon weakness. “It?s a way of doing detection on when you actually have a physical server to yourself.”
Quoted: Nonetheless, it was painful to leave. Abigail Adams came to enjoy European culture and the mansions she lived in, said John P. Kaminski, an Adams scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been selected as the next president of Amherst College, a prestigious liberal arts college in western Massachusetts, school officials announced Tuesday.
The state Assembly is expected to undo a part of the state budget proposal that would have forced the University of Wisconsin to turn down about $40 million in federal money to help pay for broadband services.
The debate over Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s budget plan, which Democrats decry as an attack on the middle class, was delayed Tuesday night while both parties waited for a host of changes to be drafted to the $66 billion spending plan.
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been selected as the next president of Amherst College, school officials said yesterday.
AMHERST – Amherst College has selected the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as its next president, marking the first time that a woman will lead the 190-year-old liberal arts institution.
Senate action brings concealed carry a step closer in Wisconsin. The bill passed 25-8 Tuesday.
U-W Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is leaving Wisconsin to become the president of Amherst College in Massachusetts. She wasn?t looking, she says. ?I was approached by Amherst this spring and I was a reluctant invitee into the process.?
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin announced Tuesday she?s leaving the school to become president of Amherst College, a well-known, exclusive liberal arts college in Massachusetts.
In a landmark decision ending months of uncertainty, the state Supreme Court struck down the last remaining obstacle for the collective bargaining law to take effect.
Chancellor Biddy Martin announced Tuesday she is leaving UW to become president of Amherst College and assured the campus her departure is not a result of the failed New Badger Partnership.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has announced her resignation on Tuesday to become president of Amherst College.
The state Assembly is expected to undo a part of the state budget proposal that would have forced the University of Wisconsin to turn down about $40 million in federal money to help pay for broadband services.
The Wisconsin state Assembly has delayed the start of budget debate until Wednesday.
While acknowledging she has had a contentious tenure as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Carolyn A. (Biddy) Martin rebuffed suggestions Tuesday that her decision to become president of Amherst College signaled an exhaustion with the budgetary constraints and political attacks that have beset her campus and much of public higher education in the past year.
UW Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin?s resignation is depressing. And it is profoundly troubling. However you spin it, this feels very much like a state and – surprisingly a University System – that is resisting embracing the future.
Carolyn A. Martin, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a flagship public research university with 42,000 students, is resigning to become president of Amherst College, a prestigious liberal arts college with 1,750 students.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has announced her resignation on Tuesday to become president of Amherst College.
After suffering a recent defeat in her effort to split UW-Madison from the University of Wisconsin System, Biddy Martin announced Tuesday she will leave the university after three years as chancellor to become president of Amherst College.
I watched the video of fighting mice posted on the Madison-based Alliance for Animals website as part of the complaint it and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed against UW-Madison, which apparently has been pitting mice against one another in laboratory studies of aggression..It?s hard for me to see much blood lust in a pair of mice that are fighting, which in the short video looked more like a kind of bloodless wrestling. So it?s hard for me to see why it should be illegal.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor.
Assembly Republicans plan to add Gov. Scott Walker?s limits on collective bargaining for most public workers to the state budget as soon as Tuesday if the Wisconsin Supreme Court hasn?t acted by then. Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald said he expects the state Assembly to take up the $66 billion two-year spending plan on Tuesday and will add collective bargaining limits as an amendment if the Supreme Court fails to act on the plan by Tuesday afternoon. The budget cuts spending on public schools by about $800 million, limits their ability to raise property taxes to make up the difference, slashes funding for the University of Wisconsin System by $250 million, takes some $500 million from Medicaid programs and places an enrollment cap on Family Care, a program aimed at keeping poor elderly people out of nursing homes.
The UW Business School should reconsider from whom it receives money…Their “ivory tower” buildings on the UW campus on Park Street are symbols of unnecessary wealth and give good reasons for all of us to oppose UW Chancellor Biddy Martin?s and Walker?s plan to privatize the University of Wisconsin.
The Legislature?s Joint Finance Committee has voted to effectively destroy WiscNet by forbidding the university to take part, thus throwing away millions of dollars in federal aid. This isn?t about getting away from public sector/private sector competition, it?s about paying off the telecommunications industry, one of the major contributors to the majority party in the Legislature.
Wisconsin did not get to be 43rd worst in the country for broadband access by offering too much affordable access to broadband. We need more options, not fewer. But a last-minute Joint Finance Committee change to the state budget bill would reduce options, increase costs to local taxpayers, jeopardize world-class research at the University of Wisconsin and threaten the growth of jobs and businesses in rural Wisconsin by requiring UW-Extension to return $32.3 million in federal grants designed to expand broadband access and education to several underserved areas.
The Legislature will write Gov. Scott Walker?s frozen limits on collective bargaining into the state budget Tuesday if the state Supreme Court hasn?t restored them by then, the leader of the state Assembly said Monday.
Wisconsin inadvertently committed an NCAA violation related to the recruitment of former North Carolina State quarterback Russell Wilson.However, the violation appears to be minor and should not affect Wilson?s eligibility or prevent him from transferring to UW if he chooses.
Wisconsin should strive to do more to grow a renewable energy economy that creates jobs in the state, the author of a new sustainability report says. The report was published by the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business and the state Department of Natural Resources? green tier program.
Noted: “What was a surprise was when the congenitally blind people were capable, just operating with 400 pressure points on the back, they could recognize human faces. There was big noise about this in the beginning of the ?70s. Hundreds of publications around the globe wrote about Paul Bachy-Rita and his device, about how people can see from skin. That was great proof and great success,” says Yuri Danilov from the University of Wisconsin?s Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Lab.
School Board members are poised to take a stand Monday, opposing a proposal in the state Legislature could triple the Baraboo School District?s cost for Internet services.
Frederick Blattner of the University of Wisconsin, who has analyzed the new sequence information, said the toxin released by the German E. coli seemed extremely potent.
Internet costs could double or triple for every public school, library and government entity in the Oshkosh area if lawmakers approve an addition to the governor?s biennial budget bill.
We are concerned about a legislative proposal that would end the effort to extend broadband Internet access to some rural communities in Wisconsin and would prohibit most schools and libraries in the state from accessing the telecommunications system WiscNet.
LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW) – WiscNet is a member-based non-profit organization that provides affordable high-speed Internet access to schools, universities and libraries across the state. But if the budget passes as is, WiscNet will no longer exist.
Animal rights activists are up-in-arms about a state budget measure to exempt U-W Madison researchers from crimes against animals.
MADISON – It?s hard to think of an academic research field today that isn?t driven by the ability to analyze, send and receive huge sets of data.
A provision added at the last minute to the proposed state budget by the Legislature?s Joint Finance Committee would all but end inexpensive Internet services for many schools, local government and libraries in Wisconsin.
The Assembly will begin to debate Governor Scott Walker?s proposed two year budget Tuesday. Republican leaders say with confidence this is a responsible budget and it will pass.
The sight of a life-sized Spider-Man doll being hanged by its neck from a balcony of a Langdon Street home near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is prompting a stern response from school officials.
The controversial collective bargaining bill may return to the Assembly floor as early as Tuesday, and that could draw out large crowds of protesters as lawmakers debate the state budget.
The tension is building as lawmakers make last minute preparations for the state budget debate.Today Republicans announce if the Wisconsin Supreme Court does not rule in their favor on collective bargaining by tomorrow they will add it to the budget bill.
The state?s library systems could be paying a lot more for Internet access, if proposed cuts to a nonprofit cooperative run by the UW System are included in the final budget.
The University of Wisconsin?s Internet technology division and a crucial provider of ?Net access for Wisconsin?s educational system are under attack from that state?s legislature and from a local telecommunications association. At issue is the WiscNet educational cooperative. The non-profit provides affordable network access to the state?s schools and libraries, although its useful days may be numbered unless the picture changes soon.
Quoted: David Canon, a UW-Madison political science professor.
The aggressive protest tactics and arrests of late remind Charles Franklin, political science professor at UW-Madison, of other recent moments of intense political heat: tea party protests.
Quoted: Andrew Taylor, director of UW-Madison?s Bolz Center for Arts Administration.
Eight local organizations are joining forces to make summer more fun and educational for kids and more organized for their adults. And they have an agenda. Dubbed ?the FUN Agenda,? the organizations ? which include the Madison Children?s Museum, Monona Terrace, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art ? are issuing a summer activity calendar for local kids. The calendar features entertainment, hands-on activities and learning opportunities for kids and their families. Programming includes concerts, movies and presentations, workshops and interactive exhibits. The other participating organizations include the UW-Madison Geology Museum, the Wisconsin Historical Museum, the Madison Public Library-Central Library, UW-Madison Space Place and the Wisconsin Veteran?s Museum.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: Ronnie Carda, a faculty associate in kinesiology at UW-Madison.
People sometimes ask Henry Sapoznik why he is starting an institute for Yiddish culture in, of all places, Wisconsin. He responds with a surprising fact ? UW-Madison was very likely the first university in the country to teach a class on Yiddish, a language once spoken by millions of Eastern European Jews.
?The first university in America that was teaching Yiddish was Madison in 1916,? Sapoznik said. ?There isn?t one book on Jewish American history that acknowledges that fact. Every other narrative goes to the low-hanging fruit. It goes to New York or Philadelphia.? The new UW-Madison Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture ? for which Sapoznik is director ? received its first shipment of Yiddish audio records last week. It is named for Sherry Mayrent, who donated her collection of some 7,500 78 rpm records to the university. Mayrent and her wife, Carol Master, jointly donated $1 million to endow the institute. The center is unique because it focuses on Yiddish culture, not just the language. The hope is that it will become a draw for people who want to study the collection.
There are ways for universities to reduce tuition for illegal immigrants, even if state lawmakers vote to stop offering them in-state tuition, according to a lawyer for the University of Wisconsin System. Chancellors have wide discretion in offering students lower tuition rates, UW System General Counsel Tomas Stafford said Thursday. For example, schools have access to a pool of institutional aid that could be used to reduce tuition for illegal immigrants. But Kevin Reilly, president of the UW System, told the Regents Friday that ?it is our intent to comply fully with the letter and the spirit of this law, if it is passed.?
Quoted: Frederick Blattner of the University of Wisconsin.
Lauren Spierer, a bubbly 20-year-old from Greenburgh, N.Y., with a flair for fashion who friends say was drawn to Indiana University because she liked the school spirit and big campus. Spierer went missing last week after drinking with friends at one of the town?s most popular bars. She was last seen walking home alone. Her disappearance highlights the danger drinking can present in college towns and calls to mind similar cases from elsewhere. Wisconsin police have never made an arrest in the 2007 slaying of 22-year-old Kelly Nolan, who disappeared after a night of bar-hopping near the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her body was found weeks later in a ditch south of the city.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On a grassy hill spilling from the state Capitol down toward Carroll Street, two dozen protesters ? a mother and her eighth-grade daughter among them ? sat around a lantern for a nightly “town council” meeting led by a large, bearded man in a “Vets for Peace” T-shirt. A younger man with a spiked mohawk walked by on the sidewalk holding a “Free Solidarity Hugs” sign. Across the street, a UW-Madison graduate student sat beside a four-person tent brushing his teeth while reading Hunter S. Thompson by headlamp. Welcome to bedtime in Walkerville.
