Gov. Scott Walker?s bill to strip almost all union rights for public workers advanced out of committee Wednesday just before midnight, setting up a pivotal floor vote in the Senate that is expected for Thursday amid massive demonstrations.
Quoted: Tim Smeeding, an economist and director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty. Also noted is the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is urging the Legislature?s budget committee to delay action on Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal doing away with collective bargaining rights for public employees.
Quoted: “It?s encouraging that life expectancy continues to increase, although at a very small pace, but as we?re living longer we?re living longer with disease,” said Dr. Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. “Years added to your life expectancy are years with disease.”
Quoted: Some have even proposed mining the moon for the isotope. Gerald Kulcinski, a professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains the idea: About .01 metric tons of helium 3 exist on Earth, but some estimate that as much as a million metric tons exists on the moon, deposited by solar wind.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political expert at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said he was not surprised to see Feingold back on political ground after a short hiatus.
Quoted: ?Energy ripples through the entire economy,? said Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In the American tropics, thick woody vines called lianas are outpacing trees. They?re sucking up soil, nutrients and water, leaving less resources for the trees around them. University of Wisconsin plant ecologist Stefan Schnitzer studies these aggressive, fast growing vines known as lianas.
Quoted: ?The popular press frequently writes about students who take a gap year and the many programs arising to serve them,? writes the study?s author, Sara Goldrick-Rab. ?It is troubling that so many of those articles neglect the significant socioeconomic differences in who experiences the gap year and in what ways. It is quite possible that socioeconomically advantaged students are accruing additional advantages during their time off, while socioeconomically challenged students are experiencing a delay for less positive reasons.?
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has known for more than a month that Wisconsin?s flagship university might be splitting from the UW System ? and gaining some key flexibilities and freedoms thanks to the Walker administration ? according to a memo obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Every morning, mothers all over America leave their kids at home with nannies and au pairs or drop them off at the houses of family or leave them at daycare. With so many options, millions of working women have made this kind of surrogate parentage part of their everyday ritual. But that hand-off that may seem so simple is fraught with a range of emotions and challenges. Cameron MacDonald is the author of Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs and the Micropolitics of Mothering and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cameron joined us to talk about her research into the topic.
Wisconsin is poised to strip collective bargaining rights from most of the state?s 175,000 public employees in the boldest step by a new Republican governor and Legislature to solve budget problems by confronting organized labor.
The UW System is calling for Gov. Scott Walker to incorporate in his soon-to-be-introduced state budget an overhaul of the system?s ties to state government. The overhaul would allow the system greater control over setting tuition ? likely leading to ?significant increases,? says one expert ? as well as budgeting, purchasing and management of capital projects.
Leaders of the University of Wisconsin and UW System responded to the governor?s rumored budget plan which would separate the Madison campus from the other schools in the UW System.
Dear Members of the Board of Regents:
I write to explain why I have ventured as far as I have in promoting the ?New Badger Partnership? and why I have taken the steps I have taken. Let me begin by expressing my deep respect for the Regents, for your role in coordinating the campuses of the system, and for your efforts to do what you think best for all of our institutions.
A bill eliminating most collective bargaining rights from nearly all Wisconsin public employees passed the Legislature?s budget-writing committee just before midnight Wednesday.
A memo from University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin to a state official alludes Martin had prior knowledge of Gov. Scott Walker?s intent to provide UW with more flexibility.
The stage is set for a final showdown on Governor Scott Walker?s budget repair bill, after the Legislature?s Joint Finance Committee approved an amended version of the proposal late Wednesday night.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has called on state lawmakers to negotiate with university workers before voting on a proposed budget repair bill that would cut wages and many collective bargaining rights for state workers
University of Wisconsin System leaders are concerned Gov. Scott Walker might try to remove UW-Madison from the UW System when he releases his 2011-13 biennial budget next week.
Gov. Scott Walker?s budget may contain a provision to split UW-Madison from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System.
Quoted: Deborah Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the UW-Madison School of Business, said she was ?stunned? the location was one the company is closing.
The future of a major UW-Madison science center — the Synchrotron Radiation Center — is in jeopardy after it was targeted to lose its annual federal funding under President Barack Obama?s proposed budget.
With a key committee vote out of the way, Republican leaders plan to soon pass a bill that would effectively strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers in Wisconsin, suggesting only modest changes to the proposal introduced by Gov. Scott Walker.
Despite professing a lack of details about UW-Madison?s relationship with the state at three student forums, a drafted letter obtained by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealed Wednesday that Chancellor Biddy Martin advocated for the university?s separation from the UW system, and knew it was likely.
I wrote this in a fit of passion and the language is strong. I?ve had time to rationally think everything through and I think my feelings are more aligned with Erik Paulson?s. Read his comment down below (it?s long) for that. I was just trying to express my professional disappointment in the entire process; I feel that I have been slighted by administrators whom I trusted. So if some of this reads as a little bitter, it probably is.
University of Wisconsin leaders fear that Gov. Scott Walker will spin off the flagship UW-Madison campus from the rest of the UW System.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin sent a letter to the UW System Board of Regents Wednesday night that praises their efforts to get freedom from state rules on purchasing, pay and other areas for all UW campuses, but asks for their support of a proposal to get those benefits for UW-Madison whether other schools get them or not.
For many foreigner observers ? and, perhaps, many Americans too ? the only reason recent goings-on in Wisconsin might cross their minds was the Green Bay Packers? victory in the Super Bowl. That was a great moment for the team?s famous “cheesehead” fans and anyone who admires those who wear fake cheese triangles as hats.
Education leaders in Wisconsin said Wednesday that the forthcoming two-year state budget Gov. Scott Walker will propose next week will lead to cuts that could spell the end of Milwaukee Public Schools as we know it and changes University of Wisconsin leaders say could split the flagship Madison campus off the university system.
At 10 a.m. today, drop everything.Stand up and walk out of that classroom door to meet your fellow students at Library Mall at 10:30 a.m. Walk up State Street. Wave some signs. Yell at the top of your lungs. And protest the budget repair bill with everything you have got.
As four game wardens awkwardly stood guard, protesters, scores deep, crushed into a corridor leading to the governor?s office here on Wednesday, their screams echoing through the Capitol: ?Come out, come out, wherever you are!?
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, UW-Madison professor emeritus of political science and public affairs, said Walker?s proposals make good management sense.
Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill, which includes controversial provisions to strip some collective bargaining rights from state employees, passed the Joint Finance Committee on a partisan 12-4 vote.
Republicans on the committee amended the bill to remove a provision stripping pension and health benefits from limited term employees.
In one of the largest protests in recent memory, thousands of angry union supporters gathered at the state Capitol on Tuesday to oppose a bill by Gov. Scott Walker that would greatly weaken organized labor in Wisconsin. More than 12,000 protesters gathered in two separate rallies outside the Capitol, many of them carrying signs and chanting “Recall Walker” or “Kill this bill.” Thousands more crowded inside the rotunda and watched TV monitors broadcasting a public hearing on the governor’s proposal.
Quoted: David Ahrens, a researcher at UW-Madison?s Carbone Cancer Center and Charles Franklin, UW-Madison political science professor,
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at UW-Madison.
First impressions, second thoughts and the third degree: Whether he meant to or not, Ohio State center Jared Sullinger did us all a huge favor over the weekend. In the process of making a controversial accusation ? that someone spit in his face not once, but twice during a visit to the Kohl Center to play the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team ? he created some invaluable reference material regarding social media that we can all learn from.
A blog posted Tuesday on WordPress.com urges University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema to take a stand against Gov. Scott Walker?s “Budget Repair Bill,” which would limit the collective bargaining rights of public sector unions. The blog is written in the form of an open letter to Bielema and notes he received the approval for his “well-deserved” raise to an annual compensation of $2.5 million on Friday, the same day Walker unveiled his bill.
Former University of Wisconsin football player Jack Ikegwuonu and his twin brother, Bill, were charged Tuesday with retail theft for allegedly stealing a $150 pair of shoes from a Madison store in October.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department is seeking an operating budget for 2011-12 that is $5 million more than its predecessor, but one that projects a surplus of $142,100. The increase ? to $88.368 million from $83.219 million ? is related mainly to two capital projects: a $27.9 million hockey and swimming complex adjacent to the Kohl Center that was approved by the state, and a $76.8 million athletic performance center adjacent to Camp Randall Stadium that awaits the go-ahead from state lawmakers. The proposed budget for 2011-12, unveiled Tuesday during a meeting of the UW Athletic Board?s facilities and finance committee, must be approved by the full board at its meeting Friday.
Bob Baptist of the Columbus Dispatch blogged recently about being told that the Ohio State coaching staff has a video clip file of a certain “technique” by the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team to win jump balls.
A piece of Madison history is in pieces. Vandals struck the replica of the Statue of Liberty – which rises from the ice of Lake Mendota.
Hundreds of Wisconsin?s public employees clogged a hearing for hours and camped out in the state Capitol overnight in a desperate attempt to delay action on Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s plan to strip away most of their collective bargaining rights. The Legislature?s finance committee is preparing to vote on the measure, which would end collective bargaining for all state, county and local workers except for police, firefighters and the state patrol. “So many people are against this,” UW-Madison senior Kylie Christianson said early Wednesday as she sat in the Capitol rotunda on her blanket, putting the finishing touches on a protest sign. “His job is to help us, not to hurt us.”
Top GOP lawmakers said Tuesday that Gov. Scott Walker?s budget repair plan will pass the Legislature even as thousands of workers converged on the Capitol to protest the proposal?s cuts in employee benefits and union bargaining rights.
Andrew Welhouse, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), said Republicans had the support needed to get the bill through the Senate, where it faces its biggest hurdle. The bill makes cuts to public workers? pension and health benefits and eliminates almost all union bargaining rights.
Thousands of state union workers and their supporters blanketed the Capitol on Tuesday for a daylong demonstration to protest Gov. Scott Walker?s plans to wipe away most of their bargaining rights and reduce fringe benefits.
Hundreds of Wisconsin?s public employees clogged a hearing for hours and camped out in the state Capitol overnight in a desperate attempt to delay action on Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s plan to strip away most of their collective bargaining rights. The measure would end collective bargaining for all state, county and local workers except for police, firefighters and the state patrol. Two floors below the hearing, dozens of University of Wisconsin-Madison teaching assistants and students surged into the Capitol rotunda late Tuesday evening, putting down sleeping bags and blankets. Many were still asleep on the floor when the hearing ended.
In a 2012 budget blueprint that administration officials portrayed as austere and Republicans derided as profligate, President Obama kept his promise to privilege spending on education and research ? though not without some potential pain for programs important to colleges and students.
A mechanical engineering senior has for the second year in a row claimed the top prize in the University of Wisconsin – Madison?s Schoofs Prize for Creativity, the school said Monday.
Tens of millions of years before humanity sowed its first crops, a somewhat humbler organism was starting up its own large-scale agricultural operations. Leaf-cutter ant species depend on actively managed fungus farming to feed their teaming colonies.
Amy Lewis catches herself browsing the Internet for jobs when she should be doing homework. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse senior has a world of job opportunities at her fingertips ? and many of them are out of state.
Noted: Eaton will spend the first year of the project engaging in research and development at Georgia Tech University, the University of Wisconsin and Eaton?s innovation centers in Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. The company?s research will culminate with a demonstration at Fort Sill, Okla.
Protests have engulfed the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where students are standing against a proposed bill that threatens teacher?s unions. The outcries come as the state?s new Republican Governor Scott Walker announced a plan to end collective bargaining for most of the state?s 175,000 public employees.
No. 1 on our list: Madison, Wisc. Both a state capital and a college town (home to the University of Wisconsin), it is tops in volunteering (a full 40% of the adult population), No. 7 in the Bicycling magazine ranking and No. 6 in doctors per capita.
Former University of Wisconsin football player Jack Ikegwuonu and his twin brother, Bill, were charged Tuesday with retail theft for allegedly stealing a $150 pair of shoes from a Madison store in October.
Two days ago, the acclaimed British science journalist and blogger, Ed Yong, published a post titled I think you have all you need for a blog. This detailed an e-mail exchange with a public information officer who?d been approached for, surprisingly enough, information for a story.
One of Scott Walker?s pledges in his campaign for governor was to “strip policy and pork projects from the state budget.”
Quoted: “My inclination is to be suspect” about Apple?s new service, said Shubha Ghosh, an antitrust professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Two key questions in Mr. Ghosh?s mind: Whether Apple owns enough of a dominant position in the market to keep competitors out, and whether it is exerting “anticompetitive pressures on price.”
As students at the University of Wisconsin, we?re fortunate to be party to a strong and vibrant history of political activism, civil disobedience and an enthusiasm for social change.
Was the entire hubbub over Scott Walker?s controversial budget repair bill just a clever ruse, enabling some lecherous vandal to sneak out onto the ice of Lake Mendota and destroy the Statue Of Liberty head sculpture?
MADISON, Wis. — Lady Liberty, the plastic foam and wood structure placed annually on the ice on Lake Mendota, was damaged by vandals over the weekend.
