Chancellor Rebecca Blank delivered the State of the University address to the Faculty Senate Monday, outlining her financial and academic priorities for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
New UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will kick off the 2013 fall university roundtable series with a discussion about the future of the university.
Rebecca Blank, new UW-Madison chancellor, noted recently that state support has slipped to 15 percent of overall UW-Madison spending. But, says Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris, with Walker in power, she and other UW officials must tread carefully: ?They can?t afford to take them on head-on.? (Also refers to research by Kathy Cramer.)
Rebecca Blank, the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been on the job a little more than two months.
UW-Madison produces cutting-edge science and skilled researchers. But like other institutions in the upper Midwest, it doesn?t do enough to promote itself, the university?s new chancellor said Tuesday at a Wisconsin Innovation Network luncheon.
Rebecca Blank, the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been on the job a little more than two months. Before her new position, she had an extensive career in education, economics, and politics ? most recently as the acting secretary of the U.S. Commerce Department.
New University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank already knows about Wisconsin?s political and fiscal landscape. As an economist and an experienced college administrator, she understands the finances of higher education.
The new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is promoting her campus as a partner, as opposed to a competitor, with other universities and communities across the state.
The new University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor is making the rounds to four-year college campuses ? including Green Bay?s ? in her first weeks in the top job.
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.
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.
Following state budget negotiations in the spring that were variously described as ?a few bumps in the road? by Sen. Sheila Harsdorf to ?a big blowup? by Sen. Alberta Darling, lawmakers and state university officials spent Thursday afternoon talking out their problems in surprisingly blunt terms.
Blank?s slate is fullPublished Sept. 5, 2013 at 2:29 p.m. On the day I met and interviewed Rebecca Blank, the newly appointed chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, one of the headlines of the day out of Madison was that a journalist had been arrested because he was reporting that people were being arrested for gathering and singing in the capitol building without a permit.
While new UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank seems genuinely thrilled to be back on a college campus after five years in Washington DC, it seems clear to us her perspective on her new job extends well beyond Bascom Hall and environs.
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.
The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently earned an unusual honor ? having an ice cream named after her.
The Babcock Dairy Plant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has recently named an ice cream after the new chancellor.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank sat down Monday with The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald and answered questions on a range of student issues. (Interview transcription)
In a meeting with campus press Monday in her recently unpacked office atop Bascom Hill, new University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank stressed the importance of building relationships with the campus community and legislators, upholding responsibility to the state and utilizing new revenue streams.
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.
