After touring Milwaukee last week, new UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank spent this week reaching out to various groups in Madison. Below are comments from her Monday conversation with the State Journal at her Bascom Hall office, which still contains many unopened bankers boxes as she tries to get things arranged after moving with her husband and daughter from the Washington, D.C., area.
News3?s Michelle Li interviewed UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank Tuesday. Michelle asked Blank questions submitted by viewers.
Rebecca Blank jokes that if she really sought the biggest public relations boost possible for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she would have stayed longer in her old job.
News3?s Michelle Li interviewed UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank Tuesday. Michelle asked Blank questions submitted by viewers.
Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison?s new chancellor and the former U.S. commerce secretary, says one of her top priorities is ensuring UW remains central to the state?s economic growth.
Attention Badger alumni: You?ll be hearing soon from new University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
A video interview by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, with Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
Noted: Hall was bullish about WEDC?s future, praising a meeting he had on Tuesday with the new University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank where they discussed ways to partner on economic development. Blank came to UW this summer after working as the acting U.S. Commerce secretary.
What is surprising: the University of Wisconsin System?s ranking in both categories. It?s a behemoth in getting money, ranking ninth nationally in 2011 with $594 million in federal money. But it?s a relative pipsqueak in shelling out the cash its peers do to win influence and feed the D.C.-to-Madison pipeline. — Also: With Rebecca Blank starting as UW-Madison chancellor, it?s time to announce awards to her fellow finalists for the job, who made high-profile visits to campus in the spring:
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank greeted prospective students and members of the media during her first day on the job Monday in front of Bascom Hall.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank arrived on campus Monday for her first day on the job and a week of immersion before taking a a long-planned family vacation.
When incoming University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank officially enters Bascom Hall on Monday, July 22, she?ll face a steep learning curve.
Babcock Hall Dairy store, owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1951, will honor incoming Chancellor Rebecca Blank by creating an ice cream flavor in her name.
Rebecca M. Blank, the economist stepping down from the post of U.S. Commerce Secretary to become UW-Madison?s next chancellor, is relishing the thought of escaping D.C. for a city as quietly cultured as Wisconsin?s capital. The former dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy has a sturdy bipartisan reputation (Republican Gov. Scott Walker hailed her appointment) and friends in a lot of high-profile universities, but a third dimension of her background has so far gone overlooked: her Christian faith.
Incoming chancellor Rebecca Blank is in Madison this week for two days of advisory meetings, but the next leader of the University of Wisconsin-Madison won?t start here full-time until the end of July.
Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward provided clarification about the university?s recently discovered surplus funds in Monday?s Faculty Senate meeting, saying a majority of the balances will be used as financial aid resources.
David Ward first arrived on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in the ?60s, and says he remembers fellow students taking on the civil rights movement and Vietnam War.
Chancellor David Ward selected ?A Tale for the Time Being? by Ruth Ozeki for the fifth Go Big Read book at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On Monday, as a dozen protesters staged a sit-in at Interim Chancellor David Ward?s office, the dispute over labor violations by Palermo?s Pizza was thrust into the campus spotlight.
Police arrested and detained a University of Wisconsin-Madison student Monday after he engaged in a sit-in protest and rally with student and community groups to encourage the university to cut ties with Palermo?s Pizza following allegations of labor violations.
University of Wisconsin police arrested 12 students after they barricaded themselves in the chancellor?s office while protesting against Palermo?s Pizza, officers say.
The University of Wisconsin and the City of Madison are slated to begin construction on a redevelopment of the 700 and 800 block of State Street and Library Mall at the end of 2013.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously confirmed Rebecca Blank as the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Friday, according to a university press release.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved Rebecca Blank as the next UW-Madison chancellor.
The University of Wisconsin Systems Board of Regents will meet on Friday to consider if Rebecca Blank will be the next chancellor of UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is expected to vote in La Crosse today on the appointment of two new chancellors for state universities.
The University of Wisconsin System?s Board of Regents will meet to consider whether to approve Rebecca Blank as the next chancellor of UW-Madison.
WASHINGTON ? President Obama?s acting Commerce secretary is heading to the University of Wisconsin.
Pending approval from the UW System Board of Regents, Rebecca Blank will become the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As always, expectations of the universitys new leader are high. Conversations with faculty members on campus turned up two broad efforts theyd like to see the new chancellor adopt as priorities.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? The woman selected as the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s next chancellor says her top priorities will include a strong emphasis on fundraising.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s newly selected chancellor said she is not interested in splitting the UW System.
A little more than a year ago, Rebecca Blank visited the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus to listen to faculty members, entrepreneurs and business leaders. Her topic: What?s working and what?s not when it comes to the role of the university and the economy?
The search committee has recommended Rebecca Blank to be the new UW-Madison chancellor. Assuming the Board of Regents accepts her, I have some unsolicited advice for Dr. Blank. It?s worth what she paid for it (Isthmus is a free weekly publication).
Students called for Interim Chancellor David Ward to cut the University of Wisconsin?s ties with Palermo?s Pizza at an administration luncheon on Wednesday in an ongoing workers? rights dispute which has sparked controversy from student groups.
University of Wisconsin?s student government hosted a student regent Wednesday, giving student representatives the opportunity to ask about the recent recommendation of Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank for chancellor.
Students called for Interim Chancellor David Ward to cut the University of Wisconsin?s ties with Palermo?s Pizza at an administration luncheon on Wednesday in an ongoing workers? rights dispute which has sparked controversy from student groups.
Rebecca Blank, pegged to become UW-Madison?s next chancellor, outlined some strong priorities during her recent campus visit:Keeping UW-Madison affordable and accessible, especially for Wisconsin students.
Rebecca Blank will draw on deep Midwestern roots and an impressive résumé that includes work for presidents of both parties and long academic experience when she begins work this summer as the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A little more than a year ago, Rebecca Blank visited the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus to listen to faculty members, entrepreneurs and business leaders. Her topic: What?s working and what?s not when it comes to the role of the university and the economy?
For many on campus, Rebecca Blank, acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, was an economically-focused choice for the University of Wisconsin?s chancellor recommendation, an angle that has raised some concern for the future of the university.
Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank has been recommended to be the next chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Rebecca Blank, acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, has been recommended as the next Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin.
Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank may serve in the Obama administration, but her recommendation to be the new chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has an enthusiastic Republican proponent: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
UW-Madison will turn to a familiar face as its next leader, announcing Monday that acting U.S. Commerce secretary Rebecca Blank will be its next chancellor.She was a finalist in 2008 when the job went to Biddy Martin.
WASHINGTON — Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank, who has held the job since John Bryson resigned for medical reasons in June, is stepping down to become chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, she said Monday.
When Rebecca Blank interviewed with members of a subcommittee of the University of Wisconsin?s Board of Regents, she finished 20 minutes early, having succinctly and adroitly made her points, according to sources.
Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank will leave the department this summer to serve as the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
As President Obama announced another choice on Monday for his second term Cabinet by choosing a new Secretary of Labor, one position in his Cabinet remains curiously unfilled, as it has for now for almost nine months.
Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank has reportedly been tapped as the next chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON ? Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, a finalist to lead the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, was selected Monday to be its next chancellor starting in July.
Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank may serve in the Obama administration, but her recommendation to be the new chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has an enthusiastic Republican proponent: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Gov. Scott Walker says Rebecca Blank is a great pick for chancellor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?She has excellent academic credentials and strong leadership experience. Equally as important, she has a keen knowledge of economic issues that can help the UW promote great prosperity in the state,? Walker said after announcement Monday of Blank?s selection by search committee.
UW-Madison on Monday announced it has chosen Rebecca Blank as its new chancellor, turning to a familiar face who also was part of the final field of four in 2008 when Biddy Martin got the job.
Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank has been offered the job of chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university system announced Monday afternoon.
The acting Commerce secretary, Rebecca Blank, will leave her post in July to become chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(0) CommentsThe University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents acknowledged a spelling error Thursday in the contract for the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor position that gave the job to singer Rebecca Black and not Dr. Rebecca Blank.
The four finalists for the UW-Madison chancellor position are Rebecca Blank, Michael Schill, Nicholas Jones and Kim Wilcox. Below are details on their current and past work. Click on their names for transcripts of their interviews with The Daily Cardinal. Below their biographies, click the link to read about their visits to campus.
he Education Optimists has weighed in on Rebecca Blank. And she?s not quite right for UW-Madison chancellor, writes blogger Sara Goldrick-Rab.Goldrick-Rab, a faculty senator and associate professor of educational policy studies who has been handicapping the four finalists for the top spot at UW-Madison, says Blank failed the litmus test that finalist Michael Schill aced when she met him at a reception March 7.
The last finalist candidate who could become University of Wisconsin?s next chancellor visited campus Wednesday to lay out her priorities of maintaining funding for the university, leveraging new educational technologies and expanding community outreach.
If you ask The Education Optimists, Michael Schill is the guy for UW-Madison.Sara Goldrick-Rab, faculty senator and associate professor of educational policy studies, pledged to assess each of the four candidates for chancellor.
