Out-of-state students and those in UW-Madison’s professional schools could soon see another round of tuition increases after Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Monday she plans to ask the university’s governing board in the coming months to raise prices for those students.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank issued a charge Friday to members of the UW Athletic Board to support the school’s sports teams but to be a critical eye on the department’s activities.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is poised to begin a committee this fall that will share information with and seek insight from various leaders in the community regarding diversity and inclusion.
New students will discuss social differences, black students will get their own cultural center and more students will be allowed into ethnic studies courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of a multi-faceted plan to give minorities a better experience on campus, university leaders said Wednesday.
Friday, Aug. 26, 2016: Minnesota and Wisconsin university leaders, spouses and mascots enjoy the giant slide at the Minnesota State Fair.
A former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and a member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is calling on the state to take a no-nonsense approach to funding the UW System.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank ranked 84th in compensation for top executives at 258 public universities in data compiled by the Chronicle for Higher Education.
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.
The string of hate and bias incidents that we’ve been responding to reflects a lack of understanding on our campus, but also a set of broader issues facing all of us in a nation that is becoming increasingly diverse.
The discussion over race relations and cultural competency continues on UW-Madison campus. Earlier this week the Associated Students of Madison sent a letter to UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank, urging her and other administrators to undergo cultural competency training along with the students they serve.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s executives will get cultural training following a semester marked by students’ calls for a more inclusive college experience for minorities.
After a push from Associate Students of Madison leaders to increase administration cultural competency, Chancellor Rebecca Blank agreed to begin administration training which will address unconscious biases.
Kaleem Caire wrote an open letter with his wife, Lisa Peyton-Caire, both of whom are alumni of UW-Madison; Caire is the former head of the Urban League of Greater Madison. They said they’ve watched with growing concern the response of campus leaders to racially charged incidents and believe the incidents should be handled much differently.
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank says she was upset after she heard that UW police officers entered a classroom to find a suspect in a rash of graffiti cases on campus.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she is taking action after several recent cases of discrimination on campus.
In an open letter to the UW-Madison community, Blank announced several expanded or accelerated initiatives to which she intends to devote time and resources.
As part of our View from the Top conversation series, Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson talks with Rebecca Blank, chancellor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about the challenges she faces in leading the school.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank detailed data about enrollment, retention and educational outcomes for students of color on campus in a Friday blog post, saying although there is still work to be done, the university has improved its efforts in these areas.
University of Wisconsin administration and students tackled tough questions regarding race and diversity Wednesday in an effort to create a plan that could fuel changes to campus culture.
More than 400 people came together in an open discussion on diversity issues, possible solutions to incidents of hate and bias, increasing retention rates and cultural competency.
Approximately 400 students, faculty and staff members took part in the “Moving Forward: Conversations on Racial and Ethnic Diversity” event Wednesday at Gordon Dining and Event Center.
Participants joined the conversation at different themed tables, including “Building Cultural Competency, Awareness and Capacity;” “Hate and Bias Incidents and Conflicts with Free Speech;” and “Admission and Recruitment of Underrepresented Groups.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison spent $8 million the last six months of 2015 fending off attempts to raid some of its most productive and accomplished faculty after international attention over state budget cuts and possible changes to tenure protections created faculty unrest.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank said she spent $8 million in six months protecting top faculty from poaching by other universities.
UW-Madison has spent at least $8 million since last summer to retain top professors after state legislators cut higher education funding and changed faculty tenure policies, Chancellor Rebecca Blank told the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank outlined the university’s efforts to educate students on voter ID information in a Friday blog post.
Blank said in the post that after the 2011 voter ID law was implemented, she and other administrative officials worked with legislators to ensure that students across the UW System could obtain voter ID cards.
Noted: The bill is supported by Attorney General Brad Schimel and University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, who said avoiding citations for victims and their supporters is already policy on campus.
“We have been telling them if you are drinking but helping a friend we will focus on the sexual assault issue and not the drinking issue,” Blank said. “But I think being able to say under the law of Wisconsin this is not just our practice but this is the law does have a certain depth of convincingness to it.”
On the afternoon of Friday, January 17, about 30 people filled the Walnut Way Conservation Corp. (2240 N 17th St) to discuss UW-Madison School of Medicine’s TRIUMPH programand showcase its accomplishments.
Thoughts from Chancellor Blank: ‘Best upside risk: Greater consumer spending. Biggest downside risk: Even slower growth in the rest of the world.’
UW System President Ray Cross and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank shared their support in a joint statement for the two-year extension of the Federal Perkins Loan Program, passed in the U.S. Congress Wednesday.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved a resolution affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
The regents’ education committee voted unanimously to adopt the resolution Thursday afternoon during a meeting on the UW-Madison campus. Approval would send the resolution on to the full board of regents for consideration on Friday.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee is set to consider a resolution affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
The regents’ education committee is expected to vote on the resolution Thursday afternoon during a meeting on the UW-Madison campus. Approval would send the resolution on to the full board of regents for consideration on Friday.
The resolution comes after UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote a blog post last month saying that no one is entitled to express their beliefs in ways that diminish or devalue others. Blank wrote the post in the wake of protests at the University of Missouri over racial issues.
The Regents will take up a proposed resolution reaffirming the board’s commitment to academic freedom and free speech when its education committee meets Thursday in Madison. The move comes weeks after UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent students and faculty a controversial message about speech, which critics said was contrary to First Amendment principles, and as colleges across the country weigh how to handle sensitive debates on campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Rebecca Blank was recently in Washington, D.C., and stopped by the offices of Inside Higher Ed to discuss the challenges of the past year.
She talked about the impact of state disinvestment in higher education, the new tenure policy that’s being developed for UW System campuses, a temporary lifting of the cap on enrollment of out-of-state students, and the racial protests that have swept many campuses, including UW-Madison.
Here’s a link to the 25-minute podcast of the chancellor’s interview with the national higher education publication.
UW-Madison chancellor discusses the university’s difficult year, the future of public financing of higher education and racial protests on campuses.
A swarm of UW-Madison students and community members, led by the student organization Climate Action 350 and its city affiliate 350 Madison, protested in front of Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s office Thursday to demand the divestment from fossil fuels.
Divestment would include the university and the UW Foundation taking all the money that is invested in fossil fuels, which scientists have attributed as a cause of global warming, and putting that money into ethical and sustainable entities, according to the organization. Once it is removed, Climate Action 350 will have no control over where it is placed, but will have suggestions of what would be better.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sent an apology to her counterpart at UW-Milwaukee on Tuesday for a misstep she made during a Wisconsin Public Radio interview that sparked an unsettling rumor in Milwaukee.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is well positioned to work with African-American students on campus climate and other race-related concerns, chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday. “We do have students who experience real isolation on this campus. The question is what we can do to reduce those experiences,” Blank told members of the University Committee, the executive committee of the Faculty Senate.
What is it like to oversee Wisconsin’s largest and highest ranking university, with over 43,000 students, billions of dollars in research funding, and the “Wisconsin Idea” of serving the state? In this hour, Chancellor Rebecca Blank discusses the pleasures and challenges of her role as UW Chancellor.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank was elected to the Internet2 Board of Trustees this week, a panel made up of various university presidents, chief information officers, researchers and industry partners.
The “future of higher education” landscape — already ringing with cacophonous predictions from all manner of task forces, books, conferences, and self-styled disruptors — is about to get another. This week the American Academy of Arts and Sciences will announce its own Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education.
A new commission promises to assess the future of undergraduate education based on research and data, rather than the anecdotes and hyperbole that undergird many analyses of higher education these days.
The Badger Herald sat down with Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Dean of Students Lori Berquam on Oct. 28 to discuss a range of topics including sexual assault, tenure policy, concealed carry on campus and diversity.
Below is a transcript of the conversation, which has been edited for style and clarity.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she would not send her daughter to a college that allows concealed weapons in university buildings, and hopes to mobilize parents statewide to voice the same concerns to lawmakers.
“I’m the mother of a sophomore at Northwestern University,” Blank told The Badger Herald editors last week. “I wouldn’t send her to a school where she could end up in a dorm with someone with a gun in the room. I just wouldn’t do that.”
Faculty representatives at UW-Madison approved a new campus policy on Monday laying out a narrow set of circumstances under which tenured professors may be fired.
It won’t happen as quickly as hoped, but University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday she expects the UW System and its campuses will end up with a new tenure policy that offers the same protections as what the governing body of the flagship campus unanimously endorsed Monday.
UW System President Ray Cross’ about-face on a campus-specific tenure policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison makes the Board of Regents look bad, abets faculty seeking extreme provisions and potentially delays adoption of a policy, threatening faculty recruitment, said Chancellor Rebecca Blank. Cross also undermined her ability to broker agreement on tenure issues among UW-Madison faculty, Blank said in an Oct. 22 email to Regent John Behling.
In major college football, the average compensation package for coaches has gone up 110 percent in the last 10 years, USA Today reported this week … But at Wisconsin, the head football coach position pays less now than it did in 2012, a rarity in the Power Five conferences, the driving forces of big-time college sports.
Noted: UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank told the committee Thursday the waiver would push the institution to recruit harder within and outside of Wisconsin. She added her institution is “uniquely situated” to make sure Wisconsin’s best and brightest don’t leave for colleges in other states, and to bring students from other states into Wisconsin and get them to stay for work.
“I’m looking at all sorts of ways to partner with industry in the state, with professional organizations in the state, to put industry and Wisconsin businesses in front of my students in a way when they get to their senior year, they’ve heard of these companies, they know something about them, they are more likely to go work for them,” Blank said.
More than one in every four undergraduate women (27.6 percent) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report being a victim of sexual assault, according to a new survey released Monday morning by the Association of American Universities (AAU). That’s a higher rate than the 23.1 percent of female undergraduates who reported being victims in the survey conducted by 27 universities nationwide.
The data comes from a questionnaire that was sent by email to UW students in April and May. Roughly 22 percent of the undergraduate population answered the questions in the survey. It also found that of those students who were sexually assaulted, only 26.1 percent reported the incident to authorities.
Noted: The official poverty measure was developed by the Social Security Administration’s Mollie Orshansky in 1963 and defined as three times the “subsistence food budget” for a family of a given size. As former acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank (then a Brookings Institution fellow, now chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Madison) explained in 2008 congressional testimony:
University of Wisconsin System leaders are continuing to travel throughout Wisconsin to build stronger connections between businesses, citizens and higher education.
Two top leaders within the University of Wisconsin System are hitting the road this fall to make new connections and strengthen existing relationships between Wisconsin businesses, residents and the public higher education system.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison fundraising challenge has exceeded expectations, with an endowment fund generating almost $250 million for professorships and chairs.
A $200 million gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will help to attract and keep top-quality faculty, and has grown larger and faster than expected. UW alumni John and Tashia Morgridge put up $100 million dollars last year and urged UW supporters to match it. They figured that would take up to three years, but it only took seven months to raise an additional 125-million.
A record-shattering gift to help recruit and retain world-class faculty has grown to be worth a quarter-billion dollars thanks to urgent and strong support from alumni, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is poised to announce Tuesday.
The largest-ever gift to UW-Madison has turned out bigger than expected.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison fundraising drive that began last fall with a $100 million pledge has generated a quarter of a billion dollars, university officials announced Tuesday.
Facing what is sure to be a difficult retention season, given this year’s battles over the future of higher education funding and tenure in Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin at Madison is today announcing the results of a massive donation-matching campaign aimed at recognizing top faculty members with endowed chairs.
After a summer of turmoil over budget cuts and tenure protections, chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System now must convince faculty and staff that all is not doom and gloom as a new academic year begins this week.
A defiant UW-Madison Chancellor Becky Blank, who won’t address her faculty in person until Oct. 5, has vowed to do everything possible to fend off competitors who attempt to lure away her best and brightest researchers. Wisconsin’s higher education woes were widely broadcast to a national audience as Gov. Scott Walker launched his presidential bid while he and state lawmakers were cutting education spending.
I’ve been to many places in Wisconsin in my two years as chancellor, but always with a singular purpose: to meet someone, to speak to a group, to visit a company. Vacation is a time for travel with less of a purpose.
Rebecca Blank: When Gov. Scott Walker proposed $300 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, his most outspoken critic was UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. It’s not just that she was outspoken, it was the impact of her advocacy — particularly the competitive disadvantages created by associated faculty changes — that helped turn public opinion against the governor’s plan.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank weighs in on the future of tenure at UW-Madison on WPR’s Central Time.
