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.
The first in a series of forums about University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin?s proposed Badger Partnership provided faculty, staff and students with a venue to ask questions and receive answers directly from the chancellor Monday.
The first in a series of forums about University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin?s proposed Badger Partnership provided faculty, staff and students with a venue to ask questions and receive answers directly from the chancellor Monday.
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.
Former University of Wisconsin Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala was in Madison Friday to highlight the future of nursing.
When the Badgers battle top-ranked Ohio State at Camp Randall Saturday in this year?s biggest game, the person who started UW?s two-decade football ascent will be in the crowd.
Donna Shalala, who as University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor hired athletic director Pat Richter, who then hired coach Barry Alvarez, who then won three Rose Bowls, says she plans to attend with current Chancellor Biddy Martin.
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.
Being chancellor of a Big Ten university is not for the stuffy. 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.
Research expenditures at UW-Madison topped the billion-dollar mark for the first time according to figures for fiscal year 2009 released by the National Science Foundation.
UW-Madison expenditures in science and engineering in 2009 were at $952 million, while those in other areas — including business, education, arts and the humanities — totaled $62 million.
To keep his state?s current budget balanced, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland?s administration plans to give colleges and universities in the Buckeye State only 11 monthly payments instead of 12 in fiscal year 2011, which wraps up June 30. According to the Columbus Dispatch, that means June?s scheduled payment of $127.5 million would be pushed into July.
….With the budget situation in Wisconsin far from rosy, one has to wonder how the next governor is going to handle this state’s deficit and what impact those decisions will have on public higher education here.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin formally introduced two of her ideas on how to move the university forward at the Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
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.
Would it be all right if the Leader of the Free World stopped by your campus for a little while?
Chancellor Biddy Martin, former Kimberly-Clark Executive Kathi Seifert and UW Board of Regents President Charles Pruitt held a panel to discuss financing public higher education Wednesday at a Public Representation Organization of Faculty Senate event.
University of Wisconsin students may not pay the cost of increased UW autonomy with extra tuition dollars if the university is able to set its own tuition levels, Chancellor Biddy Martin said Wednesday at a forum.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin headlined a forum Wednesday evening on campus examining the many challenges associated with funding public higher education. For those who pay close attention to this topic, little new ground was tilled ? although Martin shed some more light on The Badger Partnership, which is the chancellor?s vision for a new UW-Madison business model.
In a recent address to the Associated Students of Madison, Chancellor Biddy Martin summarized a lengthy PowerPoint presentation she plans on selling around the state. While glossing over the substantive changes she ultimately sought, Martin spent most of her 30 minutes in front of ASM lauding UW?s substantial impact on Wisconsin?s culture and economy. However, flipping through the slide packet that was temporarily distributed to council members, one could see the eerie outlines of Martin?s master plan. The overall objective was to sever UW?s ties with the rest of the UW System to become independent while still benefiting from an umbilical tether to state coffers.
Chancellor Biddy Martin will moderate a panel featuring four UW-Madison professors to discuss social issues September 29 in New York City.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin will headline a public forum Wednesday which will examine how states fund institutions of higher learning. Martin will be joined by Charles Pruitt, the president of the UW System?s Board of Regents, and business leader Kathi Seifert. The free event begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Idea Room of the newly renovated Education Building at 1000 Bascom Mall.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin may hire a consultant firm to look at the efficiency of the entire university, which may cost millions of dollars, but could potentially save tens of millions.
Let?s face it. Madison is more often than not deemed a fabulous university on account of its outstanding academic reputation and its plethora of beer. Yet, there is more to the University of Wisconsin than high GPAs and a nice, cold brew. The unique, passionate, and truly creative minds and personas of the students that bring this campus to life are something to observe with awe. It seems to me that Chancellor Biddy Martin agrees, as this past week she has deemed this fresh school year ?The Year of the Arts?.
Chancellor Biddy Martin emphasized the importance of the University of Wisconsin gaining more independence to decide important issues like tuition increases to a student government group Wednesday night.
It is not everyday University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin pops up online for all of Madison to chat with, but on Sept. 1, she did just that.
If UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin was interested in talking with you about a new business model for the university that would give the UW the ability to raise more of its own money and become less dependent on the state budget would you be interested in talking to her? Well, she is, and you can.
In this month?s issue of Madison Magazine Chancellor Martin makes the case for what she?s calling the new Badger Partnership that would give the university greater freedom to generate revenue, acknowledging that the UW, as she puts it operates in a very different environment from other state agencies, one that is increasingly market driven. Chancellor Martin has agreed to a live web chat on the idea, Wednesday from 6 to 7 p.m. hosted by madisonmagazine.com. You?re welcome to join in the discussion about the future of the UW and the state.
On a campus where botany students go to the art museum to view historic paintings of vegetables, social sciences majors study films with autistic main characters and science students draw cartoon versions of fungi, a campus-wide celebration of the arts is long overdue.
This year, violinist Hilary Hahn, scientist/playwright Carl Djerassi and “The Rocky Horror Show” are all part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Year of the Arts, a Kicked off by Chancellor Biddy Martin and the head of the National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman (UW ?69) at noon on Thursday, Sept. 16, the Year of the Arts focuses on interdisciplinary connections – dance and literature, film and history, science and theater.
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.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin and history professor Jeremi Suri will appear on Wisconsin Public Radio?s Joy Cardin Show on Wednesday from 8 to 9 a.m. to talk about online education at the university.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has approved a budget request that includes more than $22 million targeted to boost undergraduate enrollment by 5,900. However, regents and Madison campus chancellor Biddy Martin expressed concerns that the budget proposal as passed Thursday does not include an estimate of how much it will cost to meet current expenses. New spending is more than $83 million.
While addressing faculty senators this spring about pressing issues facing UW-Madison in the near term, Chancellor Biddy Martin noted the critical importance of finding a quality replacement for Sandy Wilcox, who announced last fall his plans to retire as president of the UW Foundation.
By all accounts, that item was successfully crossed off the to-do list Wednesday when Mike Knetter, the popular and highly regarded dean of UW-Madison?s School of Business, was named the next president and chief executive officer of the UW Foundation, the private, nonprofit corporation that raises funds for the university.
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.
In a move praised by labor activists, Nike Inc. agreed Monday to spend $1.5 million to help workers abruptly laid off last year by two subcontractors in Honduras. The announcement came amid mounting pressure from universities and student groups, who had urged Nike to pay the workers the severance they should have received when the factories closed. Nike had refused for months, saying the workers? compensation was the responsibility of subcontractors. In April, UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin made the school the first to end a licensing agreement with Nike, which meant the firm could no longer produce Badgers apparel.
University of Wisconsin chancellor Carolyn ?Biddy? Martin was roughly 30 minutes and 20 questions into an interview when she casually invoked the name of her celebrated predecessor. Donna Shalala was the school?s chancellor from 1988 to ?93 whose tenure is remembered for kick-starting a process that took the UW Athletic Department from punch line to national prominence.
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
Nine elite Chinese athletes and coaches will be greeted at the Dane County Regional airport Friday night in true UW-Madison fashion – by Bucky Badger and the UW Marching Band. UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin, other university administrators and Chinese students will be there as well. The athletes will spend the fall semester here as part of the UW-Madison Chinese Champions Program, a formal exchange with Beijing Sports University.
Christina Garcia had her heart set on going to the University of Washington in Seattle.
But with annual out-of-state tuition topping $25,000, the recent Cedarburg High School graduate and her family calculated it would cost more than $40,000 per year to go to school at her first college choice. In the end, it only made sense to head to another UW ? the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
….UW-Madison officials say they are committed to making their institution accessible and affordable to all, with Chancellor Biddy Martin playing a leading role in ratcheting up efforts to raise more need-based aid to ensure those who most require financial assistance are being ?held harmless? from tuition increases. And compared to other Big Ten Conference schools, Wisconsin?s flagship remains a steal for in-state students, with only those attending the University of Iowa paying less in resident tuition and fees ($6,824 in 2009-10).
Dear Editor: In a recent Wisconsin State Journal guest column, UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin listed several examples in which the use of animals has helped solve medicine?s most vexing problems.
What she failed to mention, however, is the abuse suffered by some of the animals.
It?s been nearly two years since Carolyn ?Biddy? Martin left as provost at Cornell University to become chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A scholar in German literature with her Ph.D. from UW-Madison, Martin made the rounds in the summer of 2008, including here at The Cap Times, describing her vision for leading a world-class research university and sharing a bit of her personal story, playfully revealing herself as a low-profile Yankees fan here in the heartland.
Today, Martin readily reflects on themes where she sees progress since she came. But in a wide-ranging interview at the chancellor?s near west side residence last week, she seemed loath to frame those bullet points in anything resembling personal terms.
A persistent, passionate and growing group of local activists took another step toward scoring a major victory that could shine some unwelcome light on the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On Tuesday night, the County Health and Human Needs Committee voted 5-2 to pass a resolution which asks the chair of the Dane County Board to appoint a citizens advisory panel to examine whether or not experimenting on monkeys is humane and ethical. The resolution moves on to the Executive Committee at a yet-to-be-determined date, with the possibility that the full board will vote on it at some point during the summer.
Quoted: Eric Sandgren associate professor, School of Veterinary Medicine
The only problem with Saturdayâ??s guest columnist by UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is that she seems to consider our species the only species that really counts.
UW-Madison chancellor Biddy Martin used the words “positive” and “enthusiastic” to describe a Friday afternoon conference call involving the 11 members of the Big Ten Conferenceâ??s Council of Presidents/Chancellors. The group was elated to welcome Nebraska as the leagueâ??s 12th member and showed it by voting unanimously to accept the Cornhuskersâ?? application for admittance into the Big Ten. “I think this is a great thing for the Big Ten,” Martin said. “I think it stabilizes things and enhances the league. I hope that our fans will feel great about it.”
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin called a Dane County Board proposal on monkey research “not a productive one” in a letter to board supervisors. “The proposal that a panel be constituted to continue a discussion on a topic that has been exhaustively debated – and where reasonable people will continue to disagree – is not a productive one,” she wrote in a letter this week.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin called a Dane County Board proposal on monkey research “not a productive one” in a letter to board supervisors.
“The proposal that a panel be constituted to continue a discussion on a topic that has been exhaustively debated – and where reasonable people will continue to disagree – is not a productive one,” she wrote in a letter this week.
Unlike his old office overlooking the football field at Camp Randall Stadium, Vince Sweeney doesnâ??t have a scoreboard outside his window at Bascom Hall. And that has made it tougher to track progress â?? or keep score â?? from an administrative standpoint .â??But there hasnâ??t been one day where I woke up and thought, â??What the heck did I do? I had such a great thing going â?? why did I leave?â?? â? Sweeney said. Ten months ago, he made the move from Monroe Street to Bascom, from reporting to University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez to serving UW chancellor Biddy Martin.
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.
Amid reports the Madison Surgery Center will no longer pursue performing late-term abortions, University of Wisconsin Health released a statement Wednesday refuting the claims.
Political officials and leaders from 30 Midwest research institutions, including University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin and Gov. Jim Doyle, attempted to find solutions to the mounting monetary challenges of conducting research at the university level at a meeting Wednesday.
Public university leaders from around the Midwest are meeting at UW-Madison today to discuss how to strengthen their research capacity with federal funds in the face of dwindling state support. The meeting is one of five this month hosted across the country by APLU, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. Among the speakers at the Fluno Center will be John Morgridge, chairman emeritus of Cisco Systems, E. Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University, and Biddy Martin, UW-Madisonâ??s chancellor.
Professor Ken Mayer calls it the UW-Madison version of “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”
Every spring he invites Josh Reinekingâ??s kindergarten class into his 350-student lecture, Political Science 104: Introduction to American National Government, to the amusement of his students, the kindergartners and himself.
A day earlier Mayer goes to their classroom at Stephens Elementary School on the West Side and challenges them to come up with questions to stump him.
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.
The Labor Licensing Policy Committee announced its plan to end UW-Madisonâ??s contract with Nike Friday, saying the company failed to address several alleged labor violations in Honduras.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martinâ??s office announced Friday it will end its apparel contract with Nike after the companyâ??s failure to respond to a series of labor law violations.
My personal spring break is over, so itâ??s time to catch up on a couple higher education-related items:
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.
Go Big Read announced â??The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksâ? will be the next all-campus read for the 2010-11 school year Tuesday with the book weaving together a story of cell research, diversity and medical ethics.
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.
Recent reports reveal that Nike, a UW-Madison licensee, violated several workersâ?? rights laws in India and Honduras.
