University of Wisconsin System faculty members have expressed outrage after the UW Board of Regents voted recently on tenure changes and an email surfaced from UW System President Ray Cross stating tenure should not protect faculty “who are no longer needed in a discipline.”
Russell Wilson played at the University of Wisconsin for just one year, but apparently that one year was enough to make him a commencement speaker for Saturday’s commencement ceremony.
UW System President Ray Cross says he accepts the criticism after faculty at five UW campuses declare they have no confidence in him.
While Seahawk quarterback Russell Wilson’s commencement speech Saturday at the University of Wisconsin drew the expected enthusiastic response from its intended audience, it’s been met with some tilted eyebrows from some at his first school, North Carolina State.
Never far from his mind. Super Bowl winner Russell Wilson gave a shout out to his fiancée, Ciara, when he delivered the commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday, May 14.
And for seniors at University of Wisconsin this weekend, it was time to say goodbye to textbooks and hello to a college degree. But first, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was on-hand to deliver the commencement speech that featured both funny and moving moments.
Super Bowl XLVIII champion Russell, 27, said: ’If you’re dating a woman that’s way out of your league, ask her to marry you.’
Every parent wonders at some point: How do you get kids to eat their vegetables? The answer: You make them grow the vegetables too!
In a recently publicized private memo, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross compared tenured faculty “who are no longer needed in a discipline” to railway brakemen who, he claimed, demanded “a job for life even when that job was no longer necessary.” Cross’ analogy fails on two counts: First, it’s bad history. Second, and more importantly, it misses the point; Professors are not asking for a “job for life.” We are concerned that shortsighted and misinformed policies threaten to undermine the university and its mission.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson will get an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is being cited for his dedication to the university and the Wisconsin Idea.
MADISON, WI — Seahawks’ quarterback Russell Wilson told students to stay ready and keep things in perspective “when life tells you ’no’” at a University of Wisconsin–Madison graduation ceremony Saturday.
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson delivered the commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday.
U.S. Senator Russell Wilson delivered a great commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday.
Russell Wilson had some sage advice off his own experience for his fellow Badgers: try not to blow the Super Bowl. The Seahawks quarterback delivered the commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday.
MADISON—Nothing to worry about—really. But just to be sure, scientists will be collecting mosquito eggs in Rock, Walworth and other state-line counties this summer to make sure the Zika virus can’t creep north. They’ll set traps in June, said Susan M. Paskewitz, a professor of entomology at UW-Madison.
Not to get all inside-baseball, but news releases issued by Gov. Scott Walker are usually pretty plain, like the white chalk lines that meet at home plate.
SOMERS — University of Wisconsin-Parkside faculty and staff voiced their frustrations with the leaders of Wisconsin’s public university system on Friday.
On Saturday, Jessica Furrer was the first in her family to graduate from college — with $45,000 in student loan debt.
Noted: When Simon F. Haeder of the University of Wisconsin and his colleagues studied the plans sold on the California exchange, they found that they included 34 percent fewer hospitals than those sold on the open market and tended to exclude the priciest medical centers, like Cedars Sinai, a highly regarded hospital that runs the largest heart-transplant program in the country.
Too often, service learning prioritizes students over the people with whom they work, Randy Stoecker argues in a new book.
For three years, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have been working toward adding more summer courses to the school’s curriculum.
Russell Wilson had a lot to say about Tom O’Brien and N.C. State during a commencement speech the Seattle Seahawks quarterback gave at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday.
Last Wednesday, after the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty voted no-confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the regents, Gov. Scott Walker used the discussion to enter misleading claims about faculty salaries and state support for higher education.
A University of Wisconsin law professor will give a lecture at the U.S. Supreme Court.
MADISON, Wisconsin — The University of Wisconsin-Madison will award a posthumous degree Friday for just the second time in the school’s 168-year history to a student who faced enormous obstacles on his way to a doctorate.
Wildlife authorities around the world have long turned to culls — a polite word for hunting — to reduce the populations of wild animals living too close to people or livestock.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay became the fifth campus in the UW System where faculty voted to declare no confidence in President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
Hunters in Finland took to the forests this year to kill nearly 20 percent of that country’s 250 or so wolves. They did so as part of a controversial, government-approved “cull” that officials said was intended to prevent illegal poaching of the wolves.
The first spoken weather forecast on U.S. radio came out of St. Louis? Not so fast.In a recent post, historian Frank Absher wrote that St. Louis University aired the first spoken (as opposed to Morse code) weather broadcast on American airwaves. Shortly after we published that item, however, an email came from Wisconsin Public Radio questioning the assertion.
GREEN BAY, Wis — – Faculty across the UW System have taken a stand against the actions of system leaders with a symbolic no confidence vote.
Governments often take on the job of killing problem wolves that attack livestock in order to increase public tolerance for the predators and, in theory, to reduce poaching by frustrated citizens.
A new study challenges the notion of government hunts as a conservation tactic to limit poaching of large carnivores such as wolves, big cats, and bears.
Twelve stories above State Street, a half-moon-shaped infinity pool circulates crystal-clear water over the vanishing edge of a rooftop deck with a panoramic view of downtown Madison and Lake Mendota. Sunbathers recline on poolside lounge chairs, basking in the unseasonably warm spring sunshine. Some are relaxing, but others glance at computer screens and note cards — it’s almost finals week, after all.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Faculty Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution expressing no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
Quoted: “A relatively high willingness to pay for quality drinking water” among Madison residents made the lead-removal project easier for officials to sell, said Greg Harrington, a University of Wisconsin engineering professor who served on the Madison water utility’s board during the project.
Listen: the US has had bad policies when it comes to wolves, and a very earnest French man would like to explain why, using what appear to be Playmobil figurines.
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson will return to college Saturday in a new role, giving the spring commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin.
What’s two plus five? Three times nine? The square route of 16? Now name a vegetable. Chances are, you picked a carrot. Why? Because when we do math, we tend to think of the color orange. And which vegetable is indelibly linked to orange? The humble but ubiquitous carrot.
Dane County has rich farmland, dedicated farmers and gardeners, and some of the best homegrown food in the country. But not everybody is able to enjoy the region’s bounty.
Bill Mulligan, a valedictorian and Eagle Scout, from the Lake Mills High School Class of 2012 was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Rhodes Scholarship. The Rhodes Scholarship is an extremely competitive award. It is the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship award in the world. Each year only 32 students from the United States are selected as Rhodes Scholars. These Scholars are chosen for their outstanding scholarly achievements, character, commitment to others, and potential for leadership. UW-Madison is allowed to submit two students for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships.
The findings of a new study co-authored by a UW-Madison researcher challenge the conventional wisdom that hunting is an effective tool for the conservation of predators. It could have implications for Wisconsin’s wolf hunt as well as wildlife management efforts around the world. The authors anticipate a backlash.
The University Senate at UW-Eau Claire has tabled the discussion on whether it should make a vote of no confidence against UW System leaders.
UW-Green Bay faculty plan to take a “no-confidence” vote Wednesday afternoon in UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents, while Gov. Scott Walker says university faculty “fail to grasp reality.”
Government wildlife authorities and some conservation groups have for years argued that allowing some legal hunting can help reduce the illegal killing of threatened carnivores like wolves and grizzly bears.
t’s not often that a college student publicly accuses professors of immaturity and poor judgment. Yet Jacob W. Wrasse, a senior who this week finished his term as president of the student body at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, has done just that as his campus’s University Senate considers whether to rebuke top university-system officials for failing to better shield professors’ tenure protections from a legislative assault.
Fearing that staff at UW-Eau Claire would appear to support sustained budget cuts and changes to the Wisconsin Idea, some members of the university’s Senate called for opposing them through a resolution that didn’t make it to the floor for a vote.
Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, wrote in a March email to the vice president of the system’s Board of Regents, who was chairing a task force on controversial changes to layoff policies concerning tenured faculty members, that tenure should not mean “a job for life,” according to public records first obtained by the The Cap Times. “That is a ‘union’ argument,” Cross wrote to Regent John Behling, comparing faculty members to railroad brakemen whom he said were kept on the job for years after they were no longer needed.
Noted: Timothy M. Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, said he’s willing to take the job-loss trade-off that might follow an increase to $10.10. “But $15 is too high,” he said. “Job losses would be much higher and employment would fall for the lowest-skill workers.”
Scientists unveiled the gene in carrots that gives rise to carotenoids, a critical source of Vitamin A and the pigment that turns some fruits and vegetables bright orange or red.
Interviewed: In a May 6 interview on Wisconsin Public Television’s “Here and Now,” University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural and applied economics professor Brian Gould pointed to several factors driving the slumping prices. Most importantly, Wisconsin’s dairy production has increased about 30 percent since 2004, and dairy producers in the state have kept on increasing that after having a very good year in 2014. So, when supply outstrips demand, a lot of milk ends up sitting around in the form of cheese, butter, and in powdered form. More specifically, most of Wisconsin’s milk goes straight to cheese production, so as goes the price of cheese, so does the fortune of the state’s dairy industry as a whole.
Mark Stephenson, the director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at UW-Madison, told WPR’s “Central Time” in August 2015, when milk prices were already falling, that Australia and New Zealand also are increasing production, contributing to “a worldwide oversupply of milk.” The UW-Extension Dairy Team has also been tracking the falling prices, among other developments in the state’s dairy industry.
Quoted: Julie F. Mead, a law professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at UW-Madison, said the leading case on the issue of school districts being held liable for the sexual misconduct of an employee is from 1998.
Several weeks ago, I completed five bracing years in Washington, D.C., as president of the Association of American Universities. What have I learned about research universities and their place in American life? Three things stand out: undergraduate education, crucial to liberal democracy, is showing signs of getting better; federal regulation of universities, an issue to which I had previously paid little attention, is stifling and out of date; and big-time intercollegiate athletics, incredibly popular, are also incredibly perilous for universities, as their moral and physical hazards multiply rapidly.
Next week, the University of Wisconsin-Extension will start planning to absorb $3.6 million in budget cuts to the agency’s county and university educational services.
Noted: Gousha also asked Vos about the impact of “no confidence” votes faculty members at UW-Madison and other UW campuses have taken in recent days. Vos said he thought the impact would be “minimal.”Some UW faculty opposed to budget cuts and changes to tenure have taken votes of “no confidence” in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.”It’s not about the faculty,” Vos said. “When I look at the UW System, I look at the students who are there, the economic engine that happens across the state, quite frankly, and every campus.”
Here’s a story that defines “modern romance.” A social media storm rained down on the UW-Madison campus last week, as two students used the Snapchat app to make a romantic connection.
MADISON (WKOW) — Two UW-Madison students have created a new fitness tracker that’s quickly being adopted by local football coaches.
In an April 22nd interview, Black Voice writers Jordan Gaines and Alexandria Mason sat down the Chancellor Rebecca Blank to ask some of the student bodies most pressing questions. Members of the UW-Madison community sent in questions ranging in topic from the university’s ties to prison labor to recent hate and bias incidents on campus all to ultimately figure out “Becky, what’s good.” A video of the interview and partial transcripts can be found below.
When University of Wisconsin–Madison freshman Launa Owens reported that someone slipped a racist note underneath her dorm room door last month, one of the first things university officials did was explore the possibility that Owens created the note herself.
It’s easy to understand why the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse would vote in unison — and in frustration and anger — about what has happened with higher education in our state during the past few years.
Faculty at two more University of Wisconsin campuses have passed resolutions saying the have no confidence in the public university system’s leaders. UW-Madison faculty passed a resolution earlier this week saying they don’t have faith in the actions of UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents. Following suit, UW-River Falls and UW-La Crosse passed similar resolutions.
