Noted: “We see pets that the owners thought would never walk again,” said Kluslow, a 2001 University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary School graduate.
Holistic medicine goes to the dogs — and cats, horses, birds
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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UW regents vote to protect tenure in system policies
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to add faculty tenure protections to regents policy in anticipation of them being dropped from state law.
Missing boater feared to have drowned in Lake Mendota
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison authorities are searching for a man who is feared to have drowned in Lake Mendota on Saturday.
Kopp graduates from UW Command College
Carol Kopp, Oconto County Jail administrator, will graduate June 5 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Law Enforcement Command College, a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Residents fuming over Metro bus alerts
Capital Times
Noted: The alerts are a response to the 2011 accident that killed a longtime UW-Madison Library employee who was hit in the crosswalk by a Metro bus as she crossed University Avenue. As part of a safety initiative, Metro also has repositioned its buses’ rearview mirrors to eliminate blind spots.
UW cut wont help attract young people — Maxwell Love
Wisconsin State Journal
My great-great-grandmother, Anna Norsman, graduated from UW-Madison in 1902. More than a century after she matriculated, I graduated from that very same school. A member of my immediate family graduated from UW-Madison every generation in between.
Board of Regents approves tenure language into policy amid state budget talks
Daily Cardinal
The UW System Board of Regents centered Thursday meeting discussion around a recent update to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget, which included a detailed description of a multiple-request motion passed during the May 29 Joint Finance Committee meeting.
Ray Cross: No plans to resign as UW System president
Wisconsin State Journal
Earlier this year, University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross vowed at a UW-Milwaukee forum to resign if three conditions weren’t met by the state Legislature: a substantial reduction to Gov. Scott Walker’s $300 million budget cut and the preservation of faculty tenure and shared governance policies.
Dont hide finalists for top UW jobs
Wisconsin State Journal
Another secrecy provision has been slipped into the state budget with virtually no discussion or public input.
Doug Moe: Last notes for dual music teaching careers
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Each knew early they wanted to teach. Schneider grew up in a musical family in a suburb of Minneapolis. “I knew in 10th grade I wanted to teach music,” he said. Sanyer, raised in Madison, began playing violin in fifth grade. “I knew in high school I wanted to teach,” she said. She attended UW-Madison on a music scholarship.
State Debate: James Rowen says Regents ducked on tenure; Beloit Daily News fears for I-90/39 project : Ct
Capital Times
Political Environment blogger James Rowen accuses the UW Regents of dodging their responsibility Thursday when they voted against asking the Legislature to remove the changes in UW tenure from the state budget. Instead the board decides to set up what Rowen calls a do-nothing task force solution.
UW System Regents committee rejects proposal to fight controversial tenure changes by Legislature
Madison.com
Facing national attention and an onslaught of petitions and lobbying by University of Wisconsin professors, a Board of Regents committee on Thursday voted against formally opposing controversial changes to faculty tenure proposed by Republicans in the state Legislature, neglecting another motion asking lawmakers to strip the tenure changes from law.
Prof says Regents failure to protect tenure is the beginning of the end of UW
Capital Times
A University of Wisconsin faculty member, who presented more than 2,500 petitions to the members of a UW Board of Regents committee Thursday asking them to restore protections to tenure imperiled in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, said he was shocked when the panel voted to recommend a policy that gives administrators greater leeway to dismiss tenured faculty.
Move to strengthen hand of regents in chancellor searches advances
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Board of Regents committee advanced a policy change Thursday that gives the regents a greater role in the process of searching for campus leaders.
Struggling Lands End could see major changes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Hart Posen, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who watches Lands End, believes Marchionni was brought in mainly to focus on moving the brand upscale.
Debate over tenure roils UW Board of Regents
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
With angry faculty members from several campuses looking on, a committee of University of Wisconsin System regents voted Thursday to go along with the intent of Republican legislative leaders in broadening the reasons in which tenured faculty can be dismissed.
Monona Groves Paul Brost is among Wisconsin principals of the year
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: Brost, a Waunakee resident, earned a bachelor’s degree from Mankato State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned master’s and doctorate degrees from UW–Madison.
More reason for calm than panic in South Koreas MERS scare
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.
Medical emergency exception in Wisconsin’s 20-week abortion ban leaves room for confusion
Capital Times
Noted: In a conference call with reporters in May, Dr. Doug Laube, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physician and past president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said all pregnancies at all stages require physicians to monitor and balance the welfare of a mother with the welfare of her developing fetus.
Madison startup GrocerKey bringing online shopping to Woodmans
Capital Times
Noted: A native of St. Paul who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a history degree, Neren knows a thing or two about the delivery business. In 2006, he launched a late night online food delivery venture on campus called Madtown Munchies — later changed to Munchie Delivery — making all the deliveries himself on a bicycle.
With budget cuts, future of UW uncertain — Anne Lundin : Wsj
Wisconsin State Journal
I am writing in hearty support of John Wiley’s rousing guest column Tuesday, “UW-Madison has put Wisconsin on the world map.” Former Chancellor Wiley shows how intentionally, for over a century, our university and its state leaders have helped create a world-class university, one that is known and admired throughout the country and around the globe.
Confrontational UW column was classic Wiley — Brad Taylor
Wisconsin State Journal
The first half of John Wiley’s guest column Tuesday, “UW-Madison has put Wisconsin on the world map,” cannot be argued with. UW-Madison is positively known worldwide and its founding membership in Association of American Universities has been to its credit since 1900.
Shake the Lake to feature human cannonball, other entertainment
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: The event, which replaces Rhythm & Booms, will feature live music with headliners Shovels & Rope and Charles Bradley, performances by the UW Marching Band and Mad Rollin Dolls and a bike polo exhibition.
Badgers mens hockey: Mike Eaves adds second assistant, lands high-profile recruit
Madison.com
In a flurry of activity Wednesday, University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves rounded out his staff of assistants, added a top recruit for next season and got an official measure of the Big Ten Conference schedule for 2015-16.
Madison startup bluDiagnostics wins Governors Business Plan contest
Wisconsin State Journal
A Madison startup whose device is aimed at helping women struggling with infertility took the grand prize in the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan contest.
Susan Riseling: Student input to UW-Madison Police helps — keep it coming
Capital Times
On May 27, the Capital Times published a column by 13 students representing the Associated Students of Madison, “UW cops Tweetalong shows disregard for students realities.” Below, Susan Riseling, associate vice chancellor and chief of UW-Madison Police, responds to the students.
UW-Madison faculty: Eroding tenure will squelch core of Wisconsin Idea
Capital Times
The “fearless sifting and winnowing” that is the core of the Wisconsin Idea would be squelched by the erosion of support for tenure in state law proposed by legislative Republicans, say leaders of a lobbying organization of UW-Madison faculty.
Professors press regents to defend tenure, shared governance
Madison.com
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison professors is appealing to the UW Board of Regents to preserve tenure protections and standards of shared governance.
UW sociology professor’s landmark book called into question
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An assistant professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison is under siege amid allegations of illegality and dishonesty in her acclaimed book about the lives of young black men in urban Philadelphia.
National focus on UW System sharpening over tenure, governance
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Already dismayed by prospective cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, higher education observers now suggest the state could become an academic pariah if the Legislature scales back two treasured tenets of academia — tenure and shared governance.
Justified Anger coalition invites a necessary and urgent dialogue
Capital Times
Noted: A coalition working group co-chaired by professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, a nationally noted education expert at UW-Madison, and Dawn Crim, the dean of external relations in the UWs School of Education, proposed four goals:
Badgers mens hockey: Madison Capitols coach-GM Luke Strand to be assistant under Mike Eaves
Madison.com
Nearly two months into a labored international search, University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves has found what he’s looking for close to home.
Ray Unger: Pay part-time faculty more, full-timers less
Capital Times
Dear Editor: The letter writer who thinks that if part-time faculty at Madison College and UW are paid substantially less than full-time faculty, they can simply apply to become full time, I have two comments. First, it’s extremely difficult to get one of those full-time teaching positions because those position come with generous pay packages. Second, many of those part-timers are women, so if women do the same job as men, shouldn’t they get equal pay?
Doug Moe: A novel of New York’s mean streets
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: He benefited greatly from taking a writing class from Christine DeSmet of UW-Extension. “This isn’t a police report,” she noted of one early scene, asking him for richer detail. Chiarkas began calling her “the mean woman from the university.” But the revising and cutting paid dividends with the publication of “Weepers” this week.
UW doctors approve merger with UW Hospital
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison doctors have approved a plan to merge UW Medical Foundation and UW Hospital, which is expected to go before the UW Board of Regents later this week.
South Side community court seeks healing, path around justice system
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: If the offender chooses to take part, he or she will have to admit to the crime — anyone contesting a charge would go through the normal court system, said Jonathan Scharrer, director of the UW-Madison law school’s Restorative Justice Project. From there, Johnson and others will meet with the offender and any victims of the crime, and assign the case to a team of trained neighborhood residents who will help resolve it.
Data visualization: Evjue Foundation grants since 1989
Capital Times
The Evjue Foundation has donated more than $44 million to UW-Madison and area nonprofit organizations since 1989. Heres a look at the grants in that time, updated with more than $1.4 million distributed in June 2015.
Cap Times Evjue Foundation awards $1.45 million to UW, area nonprofits
Capital Times
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.
Critic says UW sociology prof committed major felony in the course of research
Capital Times
UW sociology professor Alice Goffman has gained rare acclaim for her scholarly work, “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City.” But with the success comes criticism.
Inaugural “Hero Games” takes place at Tomah VA
WEAU TV (Eau Claire)
Heroes serving heroes was the theme of the first inaugural “Hero Games” hosted at the Tomah VA Monday afternoon.
Jansen graduating from Command College
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
Craig Jansen, a lieutenant with the Manitowoc Police Department, will graduate June 5 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Law Enforcement Command College, a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Police lieutenants complete leadership, management class
Wausau Daily Herald
Two central Wisconsin police lieutenants will graduate June 5 from a University of Wisconsin course designed to help law enforcement officers become better leaders and managers.
Budget expands independent charter schools to more than 140 districts
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross could appoint a director to approve independent charter schools in Milwaukee and Madison, and other agencies could approve charter schools in more than 140 school districts, under a provision tucked into a Joint Finance Committee motion on higher education issues last week.
Report advocates giving UW System chancellors a stronger hand
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Several University of Wisconsin System officials and business leaders say the system would benefit from giving more authority to campus leaders, according to a report released Monday that called for decentralization of the system.
UW Colleges chancellor weathers no-confidence vote
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A no-confidence vote taken last week against new University of Wisconsin Colleges Chancellor Cathy Sandeen has failed, but the message sent by the results remains open to interpretation.
Medical College of Wisconsin plans to open a pharmacy school
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Citing a need for highly qualified pharmacists and an uneven distribution of pharmacists in the state, Medical College of Wisconsin trustees have approved development of a school of pharmacy.
Virtual home intended to break down walls in health care
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The room rotates. You stand there, shelves, walls, furniture slowly circling before your eyes. A bed decorated with throw pillows passes. The kitchen approaches. A microwave juts out from a shelf close enough to touch, a refrigerator at your back.
Food and beverage start-ups get a helping hand
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: It also would house offices for FaB Wisconsin, which has 135 companies among its members; support services, such as law and accounting firms; and possibly satellite offices for the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and other institutions, Jurewicz said.
Police seek man who walked from Madison medical facility
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Police are looking for a 55-year-old man who walked away from a university medical facility in Madison Friday morning.
GOP plan would cut UW System funding, tenure
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System would see $250 million in cuts and sweeping changes in its operations, under a proposal put forward by GOP lawmakers Friday that will still be less dramatic than changes proposed by Gov. Scott Walker.
A childhood bang of the gavel leads to Marquette law degree
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Christle was an outstanding student at Rufus King International School and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a full scholarship. She received bachelors and masters degrees in social work before heading to Marquette for law school.
Adding Us Up – How Milwaukee, Wisconsin rate: Small towns, doggy destinations
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
As America’s Dairyland, Wisconsin expectedly tops most lists related to bovine byproducts: No. 1 in cheese production, No. 2 in milk production, more master cheesemakers than any other state. Prairie du Sac even hosts the worlds largest cow chip festival.
Faculty at UW Colleges weigh no-confidence vote on chancellor
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In a rare sign of the depth of frustration at the University of Wisconsin Colleges, tenured and untenured faculty on all 13 campuses this week are being asked to consider a no-confidence vote against Chancellor Cathy Sandeen — less than six months into her tenure.
Lawmakers to take up UW System, DNR budgets Friday
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In a final push on the state budget bill, a key legislative panel is scheduled to start voting Friday on how deeply to cut the University of Wisconsin System and key natural resource programs, whether to publicly fund a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks and how to fund highways.
Career Enhancers Pursue an MBA to Move Up
U.S. News and World Report
Noted: At the School of Business at University of Wisconsin—Madison, MBA students choose a specialization, such as arts administration or real estate. They can immediately dive into classes that are of interest to them, says Blair Sanford, assistant dean for the full-time MBA program at the school.
Charter to buy Time Warner Cable, would dominate Wisconsin market
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Now, once again, it looks like Charter will gain control of Time Warner Cable and much of Wisconsins market, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Whitewater promotes provost to chancellor
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The new chancellor appointed Tuesday to lead the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is being promoted from within.
UW System faculty’s role in chancellor picks could be diminished
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Faculty would have a diminished role in searches for new chancellors and other top campus leaders — and the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents would have a more prominent role earlier in the process — under a controversial policy change floated this week by the regents.
State budget panel adds provisions affecting cities across state
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Earmark several private projects by providing $15 million in state borrowing for the Confluence Project, a proposed arts complex in Eau Claire; $5 million in borrowing to help build an agriculture education center in Manitowoc County; $3 million in borrowing to help fund a science laboratory for Carroll University; and provide $86.2 million for a new chemistry building for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
WEDC must be replaced
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Not only is Wisconsin lagging behind the rest of the country in job creation, the jobs being added in our state are mostly poverty-wage occupations, according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center on Economic Development. The job quality crisis is so severe that the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty recently found that poverty levels are increasing in Wisconsin even as employment increases.