Category: Chancellor

Approximately 100 people attended a discussion with Chancellor Biddy Martin about her Badger Partnership proposal Monday at the first of three forum sessions about the new business model.

Being chancellor of a Big Ten university is not for the stuffy — at least not in Wisconsin. In addition to shaping higher education, wooing donors, and speaking to groups, these days, you may also be asked to star in a rap music video. UW-Madison chancellor Biddy Martin makes a cameo in the video for the new song “Teach me How to Bucky,” by Zooniversity.

UW-Madison launched a new anti-bullying campaign called “Stop the Silence,” designed to support L.G.B.T. students. The campaign will seek to raise awareness about homophobic harassment and bullying, in the wake of several incidents across the country, including the death of an 18-year-old Rutgers University student.

UW-Madison?s first Faculty Senate meeting of the 2010-11 academic year was held Monday evening at Bascom Hall. Following are a couple tidbits worth noting:

** Few faculty members seemed overly interested in learning more about Biddy Martin?s Badger Partnership ? which is the chancellor?s vision for a new UW-Madison business model ? or her plans to pay an outside consultant $3 million or more to examine how the university might run more efficiently and effectively.

UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is welcoming new students to campus with an event at noon on Wednesday at the Kohl Center. Promoted as a bookend to commencement, the Chancellor?s Convocation for New Students will both offer advice for kicking off one?s college career and detail some characteristics about the campus that Martin enjoyed when she was a student at UW-Madison.

A move by UW-Madison to cut ties with Nike last April proved fruitful this week — and garnered the university some positive national press. Articles in the New York Times, The Huffington Post and The Atlanta Journal Constitution, gave UW-Madison — in addition to other universities and student groups — credit for prompting the athletic apparel company to pay severance to the workers.

Several top Chinese athletes are due to arrive in Madison on Friday to kick off a new exchange program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Seven athletes and two coaches in sports ranging from track to Taekwondo will study on campus through December under the exchange with Beijing Sports University, where they are graduate students. Through the collaboration announced by UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin in March, the group will participate in seminars and internships that focus on training and coaching

Although UW-Madisonâ??s Faculty Senate passed a plan to restructure the graduate school Monday, several research groups are concerned the proposal will create a gulf between research policy and management on campus.

With the first year of â??inclusive excellenceâ? on campus coming to a close, a campus diversity committee intends to lay out a new definition and assessment of diversity within all aspects of UW.

UW-Madison students this week voted against a referendum to renovate and expand the Natatorium, a project that would cost them $54 per semester for 30 years, beginning in 2013. More than a third of students voted â?? a record, according the Associated Students of Madison â?? and the Natatorium measure was defeated 8,616 to 5,311. The result means the project likely will not move forward for approval from Chancellor Biddy Martin and the UW Board of Regents. Students also voted to name the new south campus union, which is scheduled to open in spring of 2011. They chose â??Union South,â? from a list that also included Discovery Union, Randall Union and Varsity Union.

Although only just approved in November, the first round of accepted proposals from the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates is already impacting First-Year Interest Groups on campus and learning opportunities abroad.

Chancellor Biddy Martin returned from a trip to China last night, bringing stories and new initiatives with her, including a new partnership between the University of Wisconsin and the Beijing University of Sport that will bring Chinese Olympian student-athletes to spend six months studying at UW.

UW Chancellor Biddy Martin announced the first projects to receive funding from the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates second round of proposals Wednesday.

University of Wisconsin officials announced the first recipients of funds from the second round of proposals for the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates Wednesday.