Rebecca Blank said she?s had enough of the political battles in Washington, D.C., stressing in her visit to UW-Madison on Wednesday that she?s always considered college campuses her home and promising to use lessons learned as a top official in the U.S. Commerce Department if chosen as chancellor at UW-Madison.
In its ongoing struggle with the University of Wisconsin chancellor?s office, Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group gathered signatures from 10 percent of the university?s population for its petition asking the chancellor to respect the organization?s allotted funding.
The last finalist to be the next chancellor of UW-Madison will be on campus on Wednesday.
Five years ago, Rebecca Blank came to UW-Madison as a finalist for the chancellor job that went to Biddy Martin. Now Blank is back as a finalist for the same job after serving in Washington, D.C., as a top official in the U.S. Commerce Department.
The third finalist for the University of Wisconsin?s top job visited campus Monday and emphasized the importance of taking risks as a leader.
Kim Wilcox was greeted at UW-Madison Monday by intermittent snow flurries and, in one case, a massive hug from an old friend as the Michigan State provost made the rounds as a finalist for chancellor.
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.
Kim Wilcox was greeted at UW-Madison Monday by intermittent snow flurries and, in one case, a massive hug from an old friend as the Michigan State provost made the rounds as a finalist for chancellor.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly has announced four finalists who are being considered for the position of chancellor at UW-Madison. Read the press release from UW System.The finalists are: Rebecca M. Blank Nicholas P. Jones Michael H. Schill Kim A. Wilcox
As the outgoing provost of Michigan State University, Kim Wilcox may be well positioned to understand the culture at UW-Madison, another land-grant public research university with a high-profile athletics program.
Chancellor finalist and current dean of the University of Chicago Law School Michael Schill laid out his vision to keep college accessible and to empower University of Wisconsin students through communication and shared governance in a visit Thursday.
Michael Schill looks at the Wisconsin Idea and sees himself reflected in it.”I immediately became enamored because it fits a lot of what I did with my life prior to going into administration,” said the candidate for UW-Madison chancellor, who will be on campus Thursday for a day of interviews and meetings.
Nicholas Jones knows bridges. As an engineer, the finalist for UW-Madison chancellor has published dozens of studies on the durability of different types of spans in withstanding wind and vibrations. But he points to another type of bridges, those the engineering dean at Johns Hopkins University has helped build between academic departments, to make his case for the Madison job.
UW-Madison chancellor candidate Nicholas Jones spent a busy day on the snowy, sloppy campus Tuesday, noting that he felt a similar intellectual energy and spirit of cooperation he feels at Johns Hopkins University, where he?s dean of the engineering school.
UW-Madison welcomed one of four finalists to be its next chancellor.
Nicholas Jones is currently the dean of the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University.
Nicholas Jones knows bridges. As an engineer, the finalist for UW-Madison chancellor has published dozens of studies on the durability of different types of spans in withstanding wind and vibrations. But he points to another type of bridges, those the engineering dean at Johns Hopkins University has helped build between academic departments, to make his case for the Madison job.
This week and next, the four finalists for chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be interviewed by a committee of the UW Board of Regents with a selection expected in April.
Madison community leaders and the public will get their first chance to meet the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s chancellor candidates starting this week.
University of Wisconsin chancellor search finalist Nicholas Jones, the current dean of the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, is no stranger to UW or Badger sporting games.
UW-Madison may lose one of its four finalists for chancellor as Kim Wilcox, provost at Michigan State, will find out as early as today if he?s the new president at the University of Wyoming.
University of Wisconsin chancellor search finalist Kim Wilcox, current provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Michigan State University, finds collaboration to be key in his leadership style.
Allow us, for a moment, to indulge our journalistic predisposition for cliché: The University of Wisconsin finds itself at a crossroads.
For chancellor search finalist Michael Schill, a dean and law professor at the University of Chicago Law School, fundraising and alumni engagement are essential for the future of the University of Wisconsin.
Four out-of-state finalists have emerged in a national search for the next leader of Wisconsin?s flagship university, including acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca M. Blank.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced the finalists for the position of chancellor at UW-Madison on Thursday after a 25-member search and screen committee winnowed the field of candidates.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced the four finalists for the chancellor position Thursday.
The four finalists are Dr. Rebecca M. Blank from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Dr. Nicholas P. Jones from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Michael H. Schill from University of Chicago Law School and Dr. Kim A. Wilcox from Michigan State University, according to a UW Communications statement.
The University of Wisconsin System announced the four finalists being considered to be the next chancellor at UW-Madison.
The finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s chancellor position speak
Four finalists will be interviewed for the position of University of Wisconsin chancellor, according to a release from the UW System.
The names of four finalists to become the next chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were made public Thursday, and the thing that jumps out is the absence of either a sitting president or any internal candidate from the UW campus.
David McDonald, the Russian history professor who chairs the search committee to find the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s next chancellor, says he?s happy to be handing off the top five names to a committee of the UW Board of Regents this week.
The president of the University of Wisconsin System told The Badger Herald this week that the committee charged with finding a replacement for Interim Chancellor David Ward has interviewed 10 semifinalists so far.
The search for UW-Madison?s next chancellor continues on schedule, and seven of the 69 candidates? names are now known. They include no big names and no comically underqualified applicants, as happened when a pharmacist, Fed Ex courier and Epic analyst threw in their names for the football coaching job.The university released the names in response to a State Journal open records request for all candidates who did not opt out of public disclosure.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward released a statement Thursday updating campus groups about the university?s involvement with Palermo?s in light of a new report that claims the pizza company violated UW-Madison?s codes of conduct.
The vigil outside the chancellor?s house Wednesday to protest the University of Wisconsin?s alleged exploitation of former Palermo?s Pizza employees appears not to have changed the status quo.
Frustrated Palermo?s Pizza employees and members of two workers? rights groups held a candle vigil outside the University of Wisconsin chancellor?s mansion Wednesday to protest alleged university code of conduct violations.
Out-of-state admissions and the developing proposal for a College for the Arts that would merge together departments from different colleges within the university were highlighted at a meeting of the Faculty Senate Monday night.
Like many on the UW-Madison campus these days, neuroscientist Ron Kalil is following closely the search for a new chancellor.
At UW-Madison?s winter commencement ceremony Sunday, former Athletic Director Pat Richter cleared up one of legendary football coach Vince Lombardi?s famous quotes. ?He?s been misquoted as saying, ?Winning isn?t everything, it?s the only thing.? But what he really said was, ?Winning isn?t everything, wanting to win is.? There?s a tremendous difference,? Richter said during his speech to graduates at the Kohl Center.
UW interim chancellor David Ward started the graduation ceremony by asking for a minute of silence for the people of Newtown, Conn., two days after a massacre at an elementary school there.
Twenty-four UW-Madison engineering seniors and graduate students who had enrolled in a mechanical engineering course in fluid power recently received an email that read, in part: “Unfortunately, due to budget reductions, the mechanical engineering department will not be able to hire an instructor for ME 545 for spring 2013.”
Members of the University of Wisconsin community began the search for the university?s next chancellor this semester in effort to find a replacement for Interim Chancellor David Ward by July 2013.
UW-Madison?s next chancellor could be the campus? first paid more than half a million dollars per year, if the University of Wisconsin?s Board of Regents approves a salary bump for the position. One faculty and staff representative was concerned that pushing the chancellor?s pay past $500,000 each year ? along with perks like a university car, a generous health and retirement package and living cost-free in Olin House ? could send the wrong message on a campus tightening its belt amid cuts in state funding, increasing tuition and stagnated faculty and staff wages.
Interim Chancellor David Ward knows what to expect in the search for the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s next chancellor.
After all, Ward has done the job – twice. From his perch inside Bascom Hall, the energetic, English-born academic has seen the nation?s higher education landscape transformed and buffeted by economic challenges, social change and political turmoil.
The University of Wisconsin?s Chancellor Search and Screen Committee met with members of the city?s business community Wednesday as the group reaches a transitional point in its process to find a replacement for Interim Chancellor David Ward.
The Search and Screen Committee for the next University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor met with Madison community members earlier this week to further its outreach efforts to university constituencies, according to the committee?s chair David McDonald. McDonald said the committee met Wednesday with the greater Madison city and business community because the university relies heavily on its support and partnership.
The Milwaukee Common Council voted Wednesday to support University of Wisconsin-Madison activist groups in urging Chancellor David Ward to terminate the university?s contract with adidas.
The University of Washington and Rutgers University announced plans Tuesday to cut ties with adidas following allegations of labor violations from a factory contracted by the apparel company, a move some members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have encouraged Interim Chancellor David Ward to pursue. The issue began January 2011 when a factory contracted by adidas suddenly shut down without compensating over 2,700 workers. Since then, other colleges and universities, including Cornell and Oberlin, have cut ties with the company for violating contracts with the schools to ensure all workers are paid.
After a years-long fight to renovate the historic Edgewater hotel that saw countless revisions, legal challenges that reached the state?s highest court and city meetings that stretched well past midnight, there was a prevailing attitude at the project?s ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday morning: This was a long time coming. “We shouldn’t waste any time getting this project started,” project developer Robert Dunn said to open a program inside one of the hotel’s ballrooms. “Someone might change their mind.”
Interim Chancellor David Ward released a statement Wednesday stating the University of Wisconsin-Madison will review its contracts with Palermo?s Pizza following a request by a university committee to cut ties with the pizza company….In the statement, Ward said he will review the committee?s request to cut ties, but the university currently has no plans to take action. Ward said while certain parties within the university, including the athletic department and the Wisconsin Union, have sponsorship agreements with Palermo?s, UW-Madison as an institution is not ?a party to this dispute.?
The Chancellor Search and Screen Committee held a public forum on Wednesday evening, providing Madisonians with the chance to add input before the committee decided what traits to look for in the new University of Wisconsin chancellor.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison labor licensing committee plans to send a letter to Chancellor David Ward early next week urging him to give Palermo?s Pizza, a sponsor of UW-Madison athletics, a 30-day ultimatum to meet the requests of the company?s striking workers, which include union recognition and priority rehiring.
A University of Wisconsin committee announced a new forum scheduled for Wednesday to aid their search for candidates to be the next chancellor.
I know it?s common for major corporations and major universities to hire outside search firms to help them find top leaders. But corporations aren?t spending millions in tax dollars. And am I wrong to wonder why a tax-supported organization such as UW-Madison ? which has its own human resources department and thousands of learned people of sound judgment ? can?t find its own boss? UW-Madison history professor and search committee chairman David McDonald emphasized that “this is a really important position,” and the search firm, Storbeck/Pimentel and Associates, has expertise and connections “that none of us on the committee really has.”He also said hiring search firms to identify chancellor candidates is standard practice in the UW System.
The University of Wisconsin?s search for a new chancellor officially kicked off Tuesday when the committee charged with finding a new leader for the university posted the position opening online.
UW-Madison will pay a search firm about $167,000 plus additional expenses to help the university identify and recruit candidates to be its next chancellor, according to a contract obtained by the State Journal. The company, Storbeck/Pimentel and Associates, is a household name in recruiting top university executives nationally and touted its record in placing non-traditional candidates in top jobs.
University of Wisconsin?s Chancellor Search and Screen Committee has commissioned an outside firm in hopes of alleviating difficulties in the search process.
Chancellor search: UW-Madison will continue its search for a new chancellor with an online chat including members of the search committee from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. All are welcome to join the chat, offering suggestions and questions for the panel about the chancellor search. Go to wisc.edu to join the chat.
Are there particular characteristics or skills you think UW-Madison?s next chancellor should possess? Or would you simply like to learn a bit more about the chancellor search process? The university is hosting a web chat from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday that?ll feature members of UW-Madison?s chancellor search-and-screen committee, including chair David McDonald, who is a history professor.
In a concluding round of public forums, University of Wisconsin?s Chancellor Search and Screen Committee held its third and final town hall meeting Friday, focusing primarily on the importance of the Wisconsin Idea in looking for a chancellor candidate.
The University of Wisconsin furthered efforts to involve the public in the search for the next UW chancellor with the Search andScreen Committee?s second open forum held Wednesday afternoon.
In an effort to involve campus and community input in the search for a new chancellor, the University of Wisconsin?s chancellor search and screen committee hosted its first public forum Tuesday morning to address the characteristics and qualifications the candidates should have.
