It took years of hard work to achieve, but now, newly tenured faculty members in the University of Wisconsin System aren’t exactly sure what they have earned.
Just got tenure? UW faculty not sure whether to celebrate
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Scott Walker: No problem supporting Donald Trump, despite differences
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: ?UW System tenure: Changes to the tenure process in the UW System have sparked angry reactions across the state’s four-year campuses in recent months, with faculty at many campuses passing resolutions of no-confidence in UW System leaders.
UW leader Ray Cross to seek 33% bump in student aid funding
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross this week will urge the Board of Regents to seek a 33% biennial boost in need-based financial aid from the state to help resident students better afford to attend a public university in Wisconsin.
Rare condition no match for boy’s love of music
NBC-15
Noted: Recently, that method of playing changed thanks to the help of engineers at UW-Madison. They made a device for Roy so he’s able to play the instrument by himself.
Wisconsin men’s rowing 10th at 2016 IRA National Championships
NBC-15
The Wisconsin men’s rowing team wrapped up its 2016 season with a 10th-place team finish on the strength of its depth.
PGA Champions Tour a big deal for Madison
WISC-TV 3
Noted: Nate Pokrass has logged some 10- to 12-hour days in his job as tournament director for the American Family Insurance Championship. No stranger to event administration, Pokrass worked various jobs in the athletic department at the University of Illinois and was a senior director of development at UW–Madison.
State needs strategic planning effort on future of higher education
WISC-TV 3
Retired Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin CEO Tom Hefty has long called for a major strategic planning effort on the future of Wisconsin higher education.
More banks look to wealth management services to boost bottom line
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “There’s two sides to a bank — there’s the interest side and the non-interest side. Because of Fed monetary policy and because of trends in competition in banking, the margins on the interest side of the bank are shrinking,” said banking expert James Johannes, a finance professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison drama school ranked as one of the best in the world
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
For aspiring thespians, the coasts typically offer the best opportunities in both training and job prospects.
Bedtime stories help connect incarcerated parents with their children
WISC-TV 3
Quoted: For both child and parent, the best way to improve reading skills is by practicing, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Associate Director Michele Besant.
Professor talks about science to traveling, airport lines
WISC-TV 3
Believe it or not, there is a science to airport lines and some logistics that can help travelers. Laura Albert Mclay, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about it on Live at Four.
Badger women’s hockey unveils 2016-17 schedule
NBC-15
Coming off of a record-breaking season that included an undefeated home slate, a sweep of the WCHA regular season and tournament titles and its ninth NCAA Frozen Four appearance, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team announced its schedule for the 2016-17 season on Tuesday.
Shortage of homes for sale in Dane County inspires unique realtor tactics
WKOW-TV 27
Quoted: UW-Madison Real Estate Professor Andra Ghent says we as a society have grown leery of phone calls and door-knockers. It’s why she encourages people to be skeptical, but also open to these offers because deals can be had.
Globe University consolidating Madison campuses
WKOW-TV 27
Globe University is consolidating its campuses in Madison.The plan is to merge the East and West campuses into the East location, effective at the end of June.
Honoring the fallen by supporting the future
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Written by Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System.
Officers, firefighters rescuing ducklings in distress are big hit on Facebook
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The tales of duck rescues continued over in Madison, where University of Wisconsin-Madison officers on Sunday saved another seven ducklings — not from a storm drain this time, but from the middle of a city street.
‘Deck Z’ writers take big leap forward with young adult novel ‘The Giant Smugglers’
Capital Times
Noted: The process of collaborating on a novel is unusual enough that Pauls and Solomon will be guests at the Write-By-The-Lake writers’ retreat in June, talking about their process at the Pyle Center as part of the UW Center for Continuing Studies.
Way to go! UW Madison PD officers rescue stranded ducklings –
WKOW-TV 27
Officers with the UW Madison Police Department helped seven ducklings.
Walker releases records following court order
NBC-15
Gov. Scott Walker has released 82 pages of records he wanted to keep secret after a judge ordered them to be made public.
UW-Madison students create device to help teen fulfill musical dreams
NBC-15
An eighth grader from Wausau, with dreams of playing in his high school band, is getting some help from a group of engineers at UW-Madison.
Wisconsin finishes ninth at NCAA rowing championships
NBC-15
The Wisconsin women’s rowing team saved its best for last in the final races of the season on Sunday at the 2016 NCAA Rowing Championships, and earned the team its first top-10 finish since 2011 in the process.
Daniel P Kunene
WISC-TV 3
Daniel P Kunene, emeritus professor of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died peacefully at his home on the evening of May 27, 2016 surrounded by his family. He was 93.
Lawmakers are ‘more equal’ than faculty
Wisconsin State Journal
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos talking tough about UW faculty reminds me of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” where: “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
Men’s college hockey: Mike Eaves named coach at St. Olaf College
Wisconsin State Journal
Former University of Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves was named coach at Division III St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota on Friday.
Badgers men’s hockey: Adam Rockwood, 4 other players leave UW program
Wisconsin State Journal
Five players have left the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program, a UW spokesman confirmed Friday.
Tech and Biotech: UW students enter national wind energy contest; local companies sign collaborations
Wisconsin State Journal
What if the power of the wind could help villagers in rural India stay in touch via cellphone?
Scott Walker sought changes to Wisconsin Idea, emails show after judge orders release of records
Wisconsin State Journal
Records released Friday by Gov. Scott Walker’s office in response to a judge’s order make clear he sought controversial changes in 2015 to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, known as the Wisconsin Idea.
’40: Collages by Kevin Henkes’
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: “40: Collages by Kevin Henkes” is the first exhibition of its kind for him. Henkes’ need to be productive with his hands between books yielded 40 abstract paper collages in four years. Components of the collages were created from paper he saved from the 1980s when he was an undergraduate at UW-Madison working with Walter Hamady.
Contrary to contrasting pictures from politicians, state economy crawling along
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Noah Williams, an economics professor at UW-Madison, noted Wisconsin’s population has also grown very slowly — from 2010 to 2015 Wisconsin grew 1.5 percent while the country grew 3.9 percent.
Connecting children to nature initiative builds off current city programs
Wisconsin State Journal
A pack of Sherman Middle School students gathered in a circle at Warner Park to share their constructions of cattails, grass, mud and sticks.Anke Keuser, a doctoral candidate in the Nelson Institute’s Environment and Resources program at UW-Madison, pulled out boxes of blue, pink and yellow candy Peeps, saying she thought they made a fitting prize for a bird-nest-building competition.
Serial entrepreneur distills success at UW-Madison and at his home orchard
Wisconsin State Journal
In a purple building on the UW-Madison campus that once housed Luther’s Blues night club, innovative ideas get a push forward toward the marketplace.
Growing a beer brand ingredient by ingredient
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: After graduating from Monroe High School in 2002, and later UW-Madison, Jeremy Beach took a job as a statistician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Portland, Oregon, a region of the country bursting with craft beer. In 2009 he returned to UW-Madison for a master’s degree in rural sociology and then in 2011 returned to the USDA but at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. where he was a survey methodologist.
Tom Still: Entrepreneurs’ Conference will help answer ‘Why Wisconsin’ question
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: One might not expect to see an innovative gaming company in Wisconsin, but that’s exactly where you can find PerBlue. It grew from its roots on the UW-Madison campus to become the first mobile gamer to use GPS technology for a location-based, role-playing game.
Cross has failed to protect UW System
Wisconsin State Journal
Ray Cross’s selection as UW System president in 2014 sounded promising. He had a Ph.D. in university administration and experience as an engineer, business owner, consultant, professor and college president. He’d been with the System since 2011 and seemed to be well regarded by colleagues, legislators and Regents.
Cuts will cost the state in the long run
Wisconsin State Journal
I am always amazed when the people of Wisconsin are angry at the staff of our wonderful university over salaries and tenure.
Ask the Weather Guys: What can we learn from the recurrence of extreme weather events?
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
UW African prof Daniel Kunene remembered as ‘loving,’ ‘humble’ and ‘regal’
Wisconsin State Journal
Every evening, Marci Kunene shared dinner and a glass of wine with her husband, Daniel Kunene. And every night, for the past three months, he told her, “I love you and thank you for being my wife.”
Only the best professors get tenure
Wisconsin State Journal
Most faculty and staff at UW do not have tenure and accordingly can be easily dismissed for unwelcome criticism or imagined “arrogance.”
Timely rains key for recovery of frostbit corn |
Wisconsin State Journal
Area farmers didn’t have to replant corn fields that were touched by frost just after the plants emerged from the soil earlier this month, but their ability to fully recover is dependent on getting timely rain at least through the early summer, a UW-Extension crops and soils specialist said.
13 startups advance to finals in Governor’s Biz Plan Contest
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The company already has scored two significant cash awards on the UW-Madison campus. WeightUp won the Perkins Coie Innovative Minds Challenge, with an $11,000 prize, beating out seven contenders.
Wisconsin needs a blue ribbon commission on higher education
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Almost 35,000 students graduated from college in Wisconsin this month. They and their families were proud of that accomplishment. They believed that their own investment in higher education would pay off in a better life.
Gov. Walker appoints 2 lawyers with Milwaukee ties to Sheboygan judicial seats
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Both Hoffmann and Borowski obtained undergraduate degrees from UW-Milwaukee and law degrees from UW-Madison, Hoffmann in 1991, Borowski in 1990.
Former Badgers hockey coach Mike Eaves going to St. Olaf
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mike Eaveswill be coaching hockey in 2016-’17.Eaves, removed in March as Wisconsin’s head coach after 14 seasons, is taking over the program at Division III St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn.
UW-La Crosse leader hopes for end of acrimony, elects to stay
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow says personal reasons drove him to consider a job opportunity in South Dakota. He has since withdrawn his name from consideration.
Records: Scott Walker wanted Wisconsin Idea changes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
On orders from a judge, Gov. Scott Walker on Friday released emails showing he wanted to simplify guiding principles for state universities last year as part of a sweeping higher education proposal that would have dropped the long-standing Wisconsin Idea from their mission statement.
Museum exhibit details U.S. propaganda effort to sell country on WWI
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “We see propaganda take on an unprecedented importance and influence in girding public opinion against the chosen enemy of the U.S.,” said John Hall, a U.S. military history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Crystal clear: Winners emerge in crystal-growing contest
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A high school student from Fond du Lac and a team of middle school students from Berlin grew the best overall crystals in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s third annual crystal-growing contest.
Bernie Sanders fundraising for Russ Feingold
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said that because Feingold has made it clear he is not taking sides in the nomination contest between Clinton and Sanders, it’s not clear whether the fundraising plea was instigated by the Sanders campaign or the Feingold campaign.
Despite challenges, Madison’s BCycle eyes expansion
Capital Times
Noted: Laugen’s presentation to the commission showed a clear intent to make Madison’s BCycle program an indispensable part of the city’s transit system. And to do that, the bike share has to expand. Currently anchored by UW-Madison and downtown traffic, BCycle wants to embed itself on the larger community.
County walls off water near beach to keep it clean
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The town of Westport, UW-Madison engineering staff, MG&E and the sewage district collaborated on the project.
Johnson Controls expands battery research partnership with UW-Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Expanding its research collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, Johnson Controls Inc. is funding projects in Madison that will research improving fuel efficiency for both start-stop and battery-electric vehicles.
Showrooming Remains Unpopular With the Majority of Customers
TheStreet.com
Noted: Retailers are attempting to reverse the trend of showrooming and brick and mortar companies have fought back by offering to match prices, said Neeraj Arora, a marketing professor at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Why We Are Better At Making Decisions For Other People
Fast Company
If you’ve ever started a sentence with, “If I were you . . . ” or found yourself scratching your head at a colleague’s agony over a decision when the answer is crystal-clear, there’s a scientific reason behind it. Our own decision-making abilities can become depleted over the course of the day causing indecision or poor choices, but choosing on behalf of someone else is an enjoyable task that doesn’t suffer the same pitfalls, according to a study published in Social Psychology and Personality Science.
Paul Fanlund: For embattled UW, is blasting back smart?
Capital Times
In March 2013, Rebecca Blank had to know the touchy political terrain onto which she was stepping.
Study: Diversity program at UW-Madison falling short
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A pre-college program started in the 1990s to improve student diversity primarily at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has seen declining retention and graduation rates, according to an independent evaluation of the program released Thursday.
Report finds shortcomings in UW-Madison program for disadvantaged students
Wisconsin State Journal
Participants in one of UW-Madison’s most well-known outreach programs for disadvantaged students of color graduate from the university at lower rates than other low-income and minority students, according to an evaluation that also found the program has been hampered by a lack of data and coordination.
UW faculty and staff labor union behind ‘no confidence’ movement sees opportunity for growth
Capital Times
Public labor unions may not have much power in Wisconsin these days, but a local at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been trying to flex its muscles recently.
Badgers’ Nigel Hayes stops by Boys & Girls Club the day after big decision
WKOW-TV 27
A day after announcing his return to the University of Wisconsin, Nigel Hayes is giving back in a big way.
Madison non-profit aims to enhance wellness in education
WKOW-TV 27
School is almost out for summer, but that’s not stopping a Madison non-profit from raising awareness about wellness in education communities. Breathe for Change started as a passion project for UW Madison Ph.D. student, Ilana Nankin. Now it’s helping educators in Madison and around the world.
Gard speaks about Hayes returning to UW
NBC-15
Badger head coach Greg Gard met with the media on Wednesday to discuss the return of forward Nigel Hayes. Gard remained mostly hands off in the process, but believes everyone has benefited.