The president of Northwestern University said Thursday that he was ?troubled and disappointed? by a psychology professor?s decision to present his students last week with a demonstration outside class that featured a couple engaging in a live sex act using a prop.
The proposal to split the flagship University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from the rest of the UW System has taken a backseat to Gov. Scott Walker?s other budget plans, but it nonetheless merits careful consideration because of what?s at stake.
Among the provisions in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker?s controversial budget is one that would strip public university faculty and staff of collective bargaining rights. For Americans who don?t follow the world of higher education closely, this might be the most surprising provision. After all, who knew that university faculty even had collective bargaining rights? Aren?t unions more the stuff of blue-collar workers than Ph.D.s? Over the past decade, unions have become increasingly common on campus. Data collected from 2008 to 2010 by the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions show that about 440,000 faculty and graduate students are members of collective bargaining units, a 17% increase from five years ago.
Protesters who have turned out en masse for the past two weeks to oppose Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s budget repair bill are now fighting a second battle: Just getting through the Capitol doors. Also on Wednesday, testimony continued for a second day in Dane County Circuit Court to determine if current restrictions on public access to the Capitol are legal. UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling, who is among the officials leading law enforcement efforts, testified that the protests have been “unprecedented” in their peacefulness.
Noted: Harry Webne-Behrman, a training officer at UW-Madison who specializes in mediation and conflict resolution and co-owns a mediation business.
A cover story in this week?s Sports Illustrated takes a look at crime in college football.During a six-month investigation, SI/CBS News ran criminal background checks on 2,837 players on the teams in its preseason Top 25, finding 7 percent had criminal records. The University of Wisconsin tied for seventh on the dubious list with Oklahoma and Florida State with nine players who were charged. Pittsburgh topped the list with 22 charged players and Texas Christian was the only one of the 25 schools with no players charged.
Meghan Duggan, Brianna Decker and Hilary Knight are point-producing machines, and they say they’re geared up for this weekend’s WCHA playoffs and then the NCAA tournament.
Ivan Preston, a UW-Madison journalism professor once called the “world?s greatest expert on pure baloney in advertising,” died Tuesday. He was 79. Preston, who taught principles of advertising and other media courses from 1968 to 1999, when he retired, was often consulted on issues related to intentional exaggeration and “puffery,” which went to the heart of consumer fraud.
A cover story in this week?s Sports Illustrated takes a look at crime in college football.
Quoted: The study raises new questions about what besides estrogen drives tumours, suggesting a possible role for other growth factors or inflammation, Amy Trentham-Dietz of the University of Wisconsin said in a statement.
Wisconsin?s budget stalemate over union bargaining rights shows no sign of resolution — and it could be a long wait.
Having recently read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks I was looking for more “science for laypeople” books. Deborah Blum won a Pulitzer Prize for science journalism and is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. One of her former students recommended The Poisoner?s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, and I?d also heard from several mystery readers that it was a really fun book, if you don?t mind a little chemistry with your drama.
Chancellor Richard Telfer addressed UW-Whitewater faculty and staff this morning regarding the governor?s budget repair bill and the 2012-13 biennial budget.
Governor Walker?s proposed biennial budget calls for separating U.W.-Madison from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System so it can operate on its own — and remove more than 20,000 employees from the state payroll.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin says Gov. Walker?s budget proposal will give the school more flexibility, but it will result in higher tuition.
Governor Scott Walker?s proposed budget means major changes for the state, especially its longtime flagship university.
Along with local governments and school districts, the UW-System will also see large cuts in state aid.
How do you think a perfect strange would react if you asked him for illegal drugs? Now imagine you?re on a college campus, and the drug you?re seeking is adderall. FOX6 hidden cameras expose how easy it is to get so-called study drugs without a prescription.
In the wake of the debate over Gov. Scott Walker?s budget repair bill, UW Oshkosh faculty, staff and union workers universally noted their concern and discontent with the plan.
Although Chancellor Richard Wells used a metaphor to illustrate his stance on the idea of UW Madison separating from the system, how he felt about the issue was clear.”There is no flagship without a fleet,” was the highlight of his March 1 statement speaking out against UW Madison?s plan.
Quoted: ?The combined effects of flat and declining state aids to local municipalities, coupled with limits on the property tax, mean that Wisconsin municipalities are facing difficult financial times? said Steve Deller, community development economist with Cooperative Extension, professor of applied and agricultural economics at UW-Madison and co-author of the report.
The UW System would be forced to tighten its belt under Gov. Walker?s new state budget, especially UW-Madison which will absorb half of the $250 million cut to the UW System.
UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling, who is among the officials leading law enforcement efforts, testified that the protests have been “unprecedented” in their peacefulness.
Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday the state government could send initial layoff notices to public workers by the end of this week.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will shoulder half of the $250 million cut to the UW System in the governor?s budget. As many begin to digest Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed cuts, UW-Madison officials are trying to answer questions.
Among the many provisions in his proposed state budget, Gov. Scott Walker wants to repeal a law that allows some undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
Three students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provided the solution for many people around the world who, in recent weeks, wanted to donate food to the protesters at the state Capitol.
I wrote this yesterday in response to the Governor?s budget proposal:
Dear members of ASM,Today, Governor Walker released his proposal for the state?s budget for the 2011-13 biennial.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin probably would have preferred lesser cuts her university?s budget. However, the $125 million of cuts Gov. Walker proposed in his budget yesterday comes with a big present: The separation of UW-Madison from the UW System.
They have filled Madison?s Capitol Square and spilled down State Street, a sea of Wisconsin Badger red. They have jammed the Capitol rotunda, remaining around the clock, dozing on hard marble floors in sleeping bags, testifying before the Assembly, and transforming the beautiful Capitol building into a house of the people.
With states providing a dwindling share of money for higher education, many states and public universities are rethinking their ties.
The public universities say that with less money from state coffers, they cannot afford the complicated web of state regulations governing areas like procurement and building, and that they need more flexibility to compete with private institutions.
Gov. Scott Walker, whose push to limit collective bargaining rights and increase health and pension costs for public workers has set off a national debate, proposed a new budget for Wisconsin on Tuesday that called for deep cuts to state aid to schools and local governments, provoking a new wave of fury.
As protesting public employees encircled the Capitol on Tuesday, Republican Gov. Scott Walker proposed a two-year budget that would cut $1.5 billion to schools and local governments. Walker also proposed making the University of Wisconsin?s Madison campus autonomous and eliminating 735 jobs that have been vacant.
Rutgers University will allow co-ed friends to live together in some “gender neutral” dormitories next year, a change many feel is in response to student Tyler Clementi?s suicide last year.
With a federal budget battle showdown underway, science looks like collateral damage, say former federal officials, with proposed cuts to research that they consider severe. At stake, they warn, is the nation?s long-term economic growth.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would receive a slightly deeper cut than other state universities in Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed budget, but would split from the UW System and be given more freedom to chart its future development.
UW-Milwaukee would be placed on a path to also break from the rest of the UW System. Walker?s proposal calls for spending $250,000 over the biennium on developing a planned split.
Gov. Scott Walker vowed Tuesday to close a $3.5 billion budget gap by remolding Wisconsin government at every level: slashing aid to public schools and local governments while setting up increases in private school aid; eliminating 1,200 state jobs; and placing the tightest limits on property taxes that the state has seen.
To balance the budget without raising taxes or fees, the Republican governor is calling for sacrifices and changes affecting residents across the state, from students and participants in the SeniorCare prescription drug plan to poor families receiving health care or welfare from the state.
The two-year, $59.2 billion budget proposal also has a host of effects on Milwaukee, including ending the requirement that Milwaukee Public Schools teachers live in the city; expanding the use of voucher schools; and studying the possibility of converting the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee into a separate authority – a shift already being targeted for UW-Madison in the bill.
A poll released Tuesday by Public Policy Polling found 51 percent of Wisconsin residents surveyed said they side more with unions “in the current conflict,” while 47 percent said they side more with Walker. Quoted; UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin, an expert on political polling
Quoted: Harry Argue, a former banking executive and retired president of the Graduate School of Banking at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Susan Lederer, a medical historian at the University of Wisconsin.
Gov. Scott Walker just gave a boost to the Urban League of Greater Madison?s intriguing proposal for an all-male charter school.As part of his state budget address late Tuesday afternoon, Walker said he wants to let any four-year public university in Wisconsin create a charter school for K-12 students. That gives the Urban League of Greater Madison a second potential partner for its proposal, should the Madison School Board reject the League?s idea. Partnering with the Urban League on the innovative school could potentially help UW-Madison attract more minority students.
Quoted: ?When someone seems like they?re operating at the wrong speed, [and] they appear to be grandiose and somewhat irritable and irrational, there are a number of things that would need to be considered,? says Kenneth Robbins, MD, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.
Quoted: “How much of a financial center can they be if they insist on continuing to control the financial sector?” asks Menzie Chinn, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin. Until Beijing frees up its financial markets, “who wants to have a lot of assets denominated in renminbi?” he says.
Quoted: After the unsuccessful treatment with methotrexate, Honeycutt found Dr. John Siebert, professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in Madison. Siebert has performed a special type of microsurgical reconstruction on about 120 people with Parry-Romberg Syndrome.
At UW-Whitewater, every student, faculty and staff member is part of a community. Likewise, UW-Whitewater is a member of a greater family: the UW System.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a professor emeritus at La Follette?s namesake Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a ready answer: “He?d be standing with the protesters, screaming ?Right on!? “
Quoted: ?He?s identified with the modern Republican Party as much as anyone aside from Ronald Reagan,? University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden said in an interview. ?He was the first of the young conservatives to stand up to a Democratic president and say we?re just not going to spend any more money.?
Quoted: Timothy Donohue, director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Joule must demonstrate its technology on a broad scale.
Quoted: “I think it?d be fair to categorize the proposal (to cut union bargaining) as an overreach,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor David Canon. “Maybe the biggest reason for that claim is the fact that he didn?t campaign on this.”
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will unveil a new budget for Wisconsin today that will reportedly include big cuts to education and public services. As the protests in Madison wind down, we?re looking back at the spectacular showing in and around Wisconsin?s Capitol building. Matt Wisniewski, a 23-year-old college student, filmed the protests as they happened and set the action to the sound of Arcade Fire?s “Rebellion (Lies).”
Noted: For Madison a 5.5 percent reduction in revenue translates to about a $15.7 million cut next year, according to an estimate by Andrew Reschovsky, UW-Madison professor of public affairs and applied economics.
What they will turn up is unknown, but there are doubtless more unethical studies from the past that have never been publicly reported, said Susan Lederer, a medical historian at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. (WFRV) — When it comes to higher education the budget cuts aid to UW-Madison by $125 million and another $125 million to the other 25 campuses.
Universities around the state will be forced to take a big hit if Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed 2011-2013 budget is enacted.
The recent buzz about UW-Madison?s possible separation from the UW System has generated significant negative reactions. In a move that has been seen by some as an attempt by Gov. Scott Walker to politicize public education, it is not surprising that students and staff are outraged.
While some are optimistic, others remain hesitant about substantial changes to the UW System proposed in Gov. Scott Walker?s 2011-?13 budget. In an effort to combat the budget deficit, Walker proposed a plan to remove UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee from the UW System, in addition to cutting $250 million in state aid from the system, $125 million of which will be directly from UW-Madison.
As faculty leaders in research and discovery at UW-Madison, we are writing to share our support for the additional flexibility that Chancellor Martin has been seeking through the New Badger Partnership.
After the governor unveiled funding reductions for higher education and plans to establish the Madison campus as a public authority, the chancellor said University of Wisconsin officials will use the new flexibilities to combat ?painful? budget cuts.
University of Wisconsin women?s hockey coach Mark Johnson has already built one dynasty. Will he consider the opportunity to try his hand at another?
In December, when the divide between Madison and the rest of Wisconsin felt a lot more playful, I wrote a column about Kathy Cramer Walsh, a UW-Madison political scientist who had researched negative attitudes toward Madison and Milwaukee among residents in other parts of the state.
