Category: Chancellor

She?s only been tweeting with the handle @BeckyBlank for 10 days, but new University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank had racked up 1,532 followers by Thursday.

It?s called: ?Bec-Key Lime Pie.? The new ice cream flavor is named in honor of new University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca ?Becky? Blank.

News3?s Michelle Li interviewed UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank Tuesday. Michelle asked Blank questions submitted by viewers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.