A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of the University of Wisconsin’s Cool Science Image Contest, some of those words are going to be a bit lengthier than usual.
Wisconsin art contest makes science ‘cool’
Big Ten Network
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Dennis Keeney: The changing university
Ames Tribune
Betty and I attended our granddaughter’s graduation ceremony in mid-May. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in four years, high GPA and no debts. It was a grand day, as graduation should be. The weather threatened early but cleared up for a few hours before the storms rolled in.
Walker moves show strategy — Governor generally consistent before recent policy shifts, experts say
Racine Journal Times
Noted: His 2006 run for governor was an indicator of how strategic Walker is, said Dennis Dresang, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus of public affairs and political science.
Editorial: Don’t hide finalists for top UW jobs
Madison.com
Another secrecy provision has been slipped into the state budget with virtually no discussion or public input.
Oh, Wisconsin
Inside Higher Education
Until I was sixteen-years-old, I thought the University of Wisconsin – Madison = “college.”
Exchange Program Expands Horizons of African-American Males
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Noted: Increasingly, more and more colleges and universities are exposing Black males to experiences abroad. In recent years, Dr. Jerlando F.L. Jackson, the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has sponsored the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education to explore issues that impact Black males across the globe. Now in its fourth year, the colloquium will be held in Kingston, Jamaica, in October.
Nash: UW is a real job creator
Baraboo News Republic
UW–Madison is the fourth-largest research institution in the nation, with awards in 2013 reaching more than $1.1 billion. For the past 20 years, it has ranked among the top five universities overall for research funding from various sources. It also ranks sixth of all the nation’s universities for patents received.
Alice Goffman’s Heralded Book on Crime Is Disputed
New York Times
Since her book “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City” was published last year, Alice Goffman has achieved a measure of fame that is rarely visited on a young sociologist.
Ward to stay on at UW for 6 more months
Wisconsin Radio Network
David Ward will continue serving as interim senior vice president for academic and student affairs for the University of Wisconsin System.
Regents Add Tenure Protections To UW Policy
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted on Friday to add faculty tenure protections to its policies, as Wisconsin lawmakers consider eliminating similar protections from state statutes.
Editorial: Wisconsin Idea may be in danger of being destroyed
WISC-TV 3
And to think we started this year with the goal of reinvigorating The Wisconsin Idea. Now we are afraid it is in danger of being destroyed.
Editorial: Scott Walker’s Effort to Weaken College Tenure
New York Times
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal for weakening tenure at Wisconsin’s highly respected state university system and undermining the faculty’s role in campus governance will appeal to conservative voters whose support he needs to win the Republican presidential nomination.
Editorial: Tenure concept is not embraced
Beloit Daily News
The campus set is roiled again because state leaders have dared to challenge the concept of tenure for professors within the University of Wisconsin System.
Professor Tenure Battle Heats Up in Wisconsin
Wall Street Journal
The Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin system moved closer to overseeing tenure rules for faculty, a week after a key legislative committee agreed to strip them from law in an escalating battle over higher education in the state. (Subscription required.)
Robert Kuttner: The Tenure Conundrum
Huffington Post
Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, thinks he’s hit political pay dirt with his proposal to gut faculty tenure protections at his state’s public universities, notably the flagship University of Wisconsin, long one of the nation’s best state universities. His idea is to remove tenure protection from state law, and leave the actual policy to the Board of Regents, his political appointees.
Professors demonstrate to urge University of Wisconsin regents to preserve tenure
AP
A Republican plan backed by Gov. Scott Walker to remove tenure for University of Wisconsin professors from state law has emerged as the latest battleground for public employees in Wisconsin.
Killing Tenure Is Academia’s Point of No Return
Al Jazeera America
Under Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin has become one of the great laboratories of conservative governance, with a record of union-busting, abortion-restricting, voter-ID-enacting policies that are at odds with the state’s tradition of progressivism. Unlike neighboring Minnesota, which has remained far more liberal — and whose economy is doing far better than Wisconsin’s — the Badger State has seen its Republican establishment increasingly entrenched by enacting policies of fear, resentment and suspicion of the sort that were so well described in Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”
Is Gov. Scott Walker putting the University of Wisconsin system in jeopardy?
The Washington Post
Are Gov. Scott Walker and the Wisconsin legislature on their way to doing serious harm to the respected University of Wisconsin system?
Move to undermine tenure in Wisconsin has national implications
Inside Higher Education
What happens in Wisconsin will not stay in Wisconsin. Lawmakers here are moving quickly to hollow out the definition of tenure and strip away due process rights for faculty members and academic staff. For legislators in other states who want to dismantle public higher education, they might look here to find new plays for their playbooks.
Unions Subdued, Scott Walker Turns to Tenure at Wisconsin Colleges
New York Times
CHICAGO — Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who began building a national profile four years ago by sharply cutting collective bargaining rights for most government workers, has turned his sights to a different element of the public sector: state universities.
Faculty members protest tenure, shared governance changes to Board of Regents
Inside Higher Education
With Wisconsin legislators poised to remove public university tenure from state statute, many faculty members were hopeful that a Board of Regents committee would respond forcefully Thursday. But the committee meeting ended with faculty leaders feeling that they had been let down.
UW Board Of Regents Candidate Suggests Eliminating Degree Programs On Some Campuses
Wisconsin Public Radio
Gov. Scott Walker’s latest appointment to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents told a state Senate panel on Thursday that the UW should consider eliminating duplicative degree programs on some campuses.
UW System President Says He Won’t Step Down
Wisconsin Public Radio
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross said Thursday he intends to stay in his job.
Educators Worry Tenure Policy Changes Will Harm UW System
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is expected to finalize a policy on tenure for UW System faculty by the end of this week, after lawmakers proposed changes to the state’s tenure laws last Friday. Proponents say the changes would give university leaders better oversight of their employees, but the proposal has also made educators worried about the future of the state’s schools.
Prof. Alice Goffman, ‘On the Run,’ and driving a gang member around, looking for a mutual friend’s killer
The Washington Post
Prof. Alice Goffman’s “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City” has drawn a great deal of attention, mostly very positive (though some critical). But recently Prof. Steven Lubet has called attention to a particular passage from Prof. Goffman’s book that, on its own terms, sounds troubling.
More reason for calm than panic in South Korea’s MERS scare
AP
Quoted: Viruses like MERS “remind us all that the globe is indeed a small place when it comes to the rapidity with which infected people can move over large geographic distances, bringing viruses they may be incubating with them,” Christopher Olsen, a virus expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an email.
UW-Madison researchers hope frac-sand impact study will help railroads improve ballast maintenance
Progressive Railroading Magazine
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers will spend the summer and fall studying the damage that frac sand can do to ballast after sand particles leak out of rail cars and onto railroad tracks.
Faculty Outraged Over Wisconsin’s Proposed Tenure Changes
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Members of the Wisconsin legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted last week on a bill that, if it passes the legislature, would cut $250 million from the state’s higher ed budget ($50 million short of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s request), eliminate tenure protections as a state statute and limit faculty participation in a highly-valued shared governance system at the state’s public universities.
McBride: Are Republicans trying to turn the UW into the University of Phoenix?
OnMilwaukee.com
Yes, I’m being a bit hyperbolic but not by much. When I read the so-called UW “reforms” that passed the Joint Finance Committee the other day, that’s what popped into my mind: The Republican vision for the UW sort of reminds me of University of Phoenix.
Wisconsin’s Fight Over Faculty Rights: What’s at Stake, and What’s Next
Chronicle of Higher Education
Faculty advocates are up in arms over proposed legislation in Wisconsin calling for a sweeping overhaul of the state’s public-university system. The measure, passed by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance as part of negotiations on the state budget, would greatly reduce faculty members’ say in the University of Wisconsin system’s affairs and scrap state laws providing them job protections such as tenure.
UW student group worried about fate of shared governance
Wisconsin Radio Network
A state budget provision that makes changes to shared governance in the University of Wisconsin System is drawing fire from student government leaders.
UW Faculty Look To Regents For Answers On Tenure And Shared Governance
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will discuss changes to the System’s tenure policies at its meeting Thursday, a main point of discussion at a faculty and staff meeting at UW-Green Bay Wednesday.
Cap Times’ Evjue Foundation awards $1.45 million to UW, area nonprofits
Madison.com
The Capital Times’ charitable arm, The Evjue Foundation, announced Wednesday that its directors have approved more than $1.4 million in grants to 86 area nonprofits plus funding for 27 programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
How Do We Get More People to Have Good Lives?
New York Times
Noted: “It very clear that children’s chances for a good life are highly dependent on their social origins or socioeconomic status,” write Markus Jantti, professor of economics at Stockholm University; Timothy Smeeding, professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Robert Erikson, professor of sociology at Stockholm University, in “Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting.”
Ballot laws mean only half of Assembly races are contested, Libertarian says
PolitiFact Wisconsin
Noted: We heard a more skeptical view from Barry Burden, an expert in election administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Shared Governance At UW Schools Would Be Altered Under Budget Plan
Wisconsin Public Radio
University of Wisconsin System faculty, staff and student government groups could soon lose influence on their campuses after Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee voted last week to change shared governance laws.
UW Student Leaders Oppose Changes to Segregated Fee Policy
Wisconsin Public Radio
University of Wisconsin student leaders say they want their power over segregated fees restored, after the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee approved rules Friday that would strip away their control over how the fees are spent.
Free breakfast, lunch at Jefferson summer school
Daily Jefferson County Union
Noted: For example, one day, the district has invited Bucky Badger and representatives of the University of Wisconsin athletics program to meet the children. The district has also contacted the Milwaukee Brewers Racing Sausages for a visit.
Report From Conservative Think Tank Calls For Changes At UW 4-Year Campuses
Wisconsin Public Radio
A report from a right-leaning think tank on the University of Wisconsin System’s four-year campuses calls for local flexibility in setting tuition, changes to the shared governance system and a review of tenure.
UW Faculty Press Regents To Reject New Firing Authority
Wisconsin Public Radio
University of Wisconsin faculty are urging the UW Board of Regents to preserve tenure and reject some of the powers the board would be granted under a GOP budget plan.
Medical College of Wisconsin Plans Pharmacy School
Wisconsin Public Radio
Milwaukee’s Medical College of Wisconsin has plans to open what would be the state’s third pharmacy school. Administrators say it could open as early as the summer of 2017.
Training May Be Valuable, But Few Governments Measure Its Success
Governing
Quoted: “In human resources, it’s an article of faith that training is valuable,” says Bob Lavigna, assistant vice chancellor for Human Resources at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. At the same time, there’s little question that training budgets are one step from the guillotine when states are under fiscal pressure.
Future Of UW Tenure Now Rests With Board Of Regents
Wisconsin Public Radio
This week’s University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting takes on added significance after Republicans on the state Legislature’s budget committee voted to remove tenure protections from state law.
When it pays to stay quiet
BBC News
Quoted: “Your obligation is to learn more before jumping to conclusions,” said Maria Triana, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s management and human resources department.
Chinese Students Caught Cheating Is Bad News for American Schools
The Atlantic
A startling number of Chinese students are getting kicked out of American colleges. According to a white paper published by WholeRen, a Pittsburgh-based consultancy, an estimated 8,000 students from China were expelled from universities and colleges across the United States in 2013-4. The vast majority of these students—around 80 percent—were removed due to cheating or failing their classes.
Football was Chris Borland’s life. But at what cost?
Isthmus
The beginning of the end of Chris Borland’s football career came as he sat on the sidelines and witnessed the University of Wisconsin Badgers blow a two-point-conversion attempt late in the 2011 Rose Bowl, en route to a 21-19 defeat by Texas Christian University.
Gwen Jorgensen wins 10th-straight triathlon
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gwen Jorgensen, a Waukesha native and former swimmer and standout runner at the University of Wisconsin, picked up her 10th straight win in the ITU World Triathlon Series, leading a U.S. podium sweep Sunday in London for the second time this season.
Commencement roundup
NBC Nightly News
In a salute to the graduates embarking on the next chapter of their lives, here are some of the best pieces of advice handed to the class of 2015. UW-Madison is briefly featured.
Blaze pink: More than a hunting fashion statement
Racine Journal Times
Groundbreaking news was recently announced for Wisconsin: Hunters could soon possibly wear blaze pink in the woods, as well as blaze orange.
Letter: Why the UW System is important to our family
Oshkosh Northwestern
My mother, Mary Lou (Zander) Keating graduated from UW Madison’s Commerce School in 1939 with a degree in accounting, and my father, Joseph Keating with an engineering degree in 1940. The one message my 11 siblings heard loud and clear was that “your education is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.” Keep in mind, my Mom lived on a farm in the Depression and her father had to buy it back from the bank. An education, however, could not be taken away.
Lawmakers restore some UW system cuts, critics say “it’s like squandering the investments we made before”
FOX6Now.com
MADISON — The state’s budget is back on center stage in Madison. The Joint Finance Committee is taking up the proposed cuts to the UW system.
UW Colleges faculty support chancellor — mostly
Oshkosh Northwestern
The new UW Colleges chancellor survived a symbolic no-confidence vote from faculty members Friday, but rancor remains over how the 13 two-year schools will absorb an expected $6.7 million in budget cuts.
Reduced cuts may help UWSP avoid involuntary layoffs
Wausau Daily Herald
STEVENS POINT — After the state’s budget-writing committee voted to trim Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System by $50 million, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson said the reduction could help faculty and staff avoid involuntary layoffs.
Wisconsin Lawmakers Take Aim at Tenure and Shared Governance
Chronicle of Higher Education
Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin were disheartened on Friday after a state legislative committee approved proposals that would limit the faculty’s role in shared governance and eliminate laws protecting tenure.
Wisconsin faculty incensed by motion to eliminate tenure from state statute
Inside Higher Education
It’s been a tumultuous year for faculty members within the University of Wisconsin System, from threats to the Wisconsin Idea to a proposed $300 million budget cut to Governor Scott Walker’s suggestion that professors do more work to compensate for the slash.
Panel votes to cut University of Wisconsin $250 million
AP
The Legislature’s budget-writing committee voted Friday to cut the University of Wisconsin’s budget by $250 million and eliminate tenure protections for faculty from state law — moves derided by Democrats who argued the changes would hurt both higher education and the state’s economy.
Budget panel restores some funding to UW System
Wisconsin Radio Network
Members of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee have restored some of the cuts Governor Scott Walker proposed for the University of Wisconsin System in his budget plan. Although, the UW will still have to absorb funding reductions of $250 million over the next biennium.
Budget Committee Passes $250M Cut To UW System
Wisconsin Public Radio
Republicans on the state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted Friday night to cut the University of Wisconsin System’s budget by $250 million, while at the same time ending tenure protections enshrined in state law.
Mark Tauscher and Chris Borland talk football, concussions and gladiators
Isthmus
Since I began broadcasting the Badgers football games, there have been a few players who have really stood out. Chris Borland was one of these. His preparation was always a cut above, and he was consistently in the right place, playing with a controlled recklessness indicative of a standout linebacker.
University of Wisconsin System budget cut, tuition freeze up for vote
AP
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System is slated to be voted on by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee.