Joint Statement Regarding CivilityNovember 23, 2010This fall, a number of our University of Wisconsin System campuses and surrounding communities have experienced incidents of violence and intolerance.
Biddy?s real agendaIf there is any question what more authority for the UW-Madison would mean for working people (“Biddy?s Bold Agenda,” 11/12/10), the restaurants at the soon-to-open Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery provide an example. The UW has contracted with Food Fight to run these restaurants. Workers at Food Fight start around $8.50 an hour and, if they choose to have health insurance, pay almost $400 for a single plan.
Noted: It means still greater autonomy for the UW. It means divorcing the UW further from the useless meddling of the state legislature and much closer ties with the business community and business organizations, including economic development entities.
UW-Madison?s Chancellor says the research university is in “the fight for its life” because of global competition, budget issues, and a worldwide scramble to hire the best young minds to replace retiring faculty.
On Wisconsin! Those words greeted me during my ascent of the Great Wall last summer while studying abroad in Tianjin, China. After I was mobbed by Chinese tourists eager to take a picture with me and get an autograph from a “real” American, those two words were as welcome as an Ian?s pizza on Friday night. What made me more ecstatic was this person, one of the few foreigners I saw outside of Beijing, was an alumnus of UW-Madison.
One can?t avoid the irony in Biddy Martin?s words as she speaks of her youth in rural Virginia some 50 years ago. She?s recalling the post-Jim Crow era of the South, a time when the shackles of segregation and separate-but-equal were loosening yet racism remained rampant. In her words, “virulent racism.”
The Film Studies Center of National Central University will show a series of Taiwan-made films on several university campuses in the United States, promoting local cinematic art and Taiwan studies through film, NCU announced Nov. 10.
UW-Madison faculty and students assembled at the Bascom Hill Telepresence Classroom in the Education building to unveil a video-conferencing device new to the university Friday.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is visiting China for a second time this year to promote collaboration between the university and China with a new focus on economic development.
Dear Editor: Regarding your recent article in which UW primate researcher Michele Basso said ?I had right on my side?: She certainly did, seeing as how a UW faculty committee conducted its own investigation.
…This whole research lab is a blight on the UW and Wisconsin. Perhaps Basso would like to take a primate?s place for a month if it is so right.
For the second time this year, UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is traveling to China. She is scheduled to leave today, according to a news release from the university, stopping in Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong. Her trip will focus on academic collaborations, raising UW-Madison?s public profile in China and economic development.
For the second time this year, UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is traveling to China. She is scheduled to leave today, according to a news release from the university, stopping in Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong. Her trip will focus on academic collaborations, raising UW-Madison?s public profile in China and economic development.
The dean of UW-Madison?s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Molly Jahn, will step down as of Jan. 1. “Now is the time for a change in leadership for the college,” said Chancellor Biddy Martin in a news release.
UW-Madison announced in a news release that Molly Jahn will step down as dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences on Jan. 1.In the release Chancellor Biddy Martin thanked Jahn — who has led the college since 2006 — for her work. But Martin stated that “now is the time for a change in leadership for the college.”
The Charter Street Heating Plant project is an exciting one. Instead of burning more than 100,000 tons each year of dirty coal ? which pollutes the air, contributes to climate change and sends money out of state ? the UW-Madison power plant is being converted to run on biomass including wood waste, corn stalks, switchgrass and other farm-grown fuels from Wisconsin. Yet the project?s huge price tag can?t be ignored or dismissed. It?s more than $250 million to provide enough power to heat and cool some 300 local buildings.
UW-Madison has hired 11 new faculty members and will be able to hire about 44 more because of the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, a tuition surcharge now in its second year. Chancellor Biddy Martin proposed the initiative to improve undergraduate education while providing more financial aid to students.
UW-Madison has hired 11 new faculty members and will be able to hire about 44 more because of the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, a tuition surcharge now in its second year. Chancellor Biddy Martin proposed the initiative to improve undergraduate education while providing more financial aid to students.
Scientists had no idea the cells they took from a Baltimore woman?s tumor in 1951 would be so valuable some day. Before she died of cervical cancer at age 30, the woman had no idea the cells were taken, and, until years later, neither did her family. Monday night at the Kohl Center, science writer Rebecca Skloot shared with hundreds of people the story about the woman whose family she spent 10 years working with to write her book, ?The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.? Skloot?s visit was part of UW-Madison?s Go Big Read program, a book program meant to engage students, faculty, staff and community members. It was initiated by Chancellor Biddy Martin.
UW-Madison is paying author Rebecca Skloot $15,000 to come to campus for its common book program, Go Big Read. Skloot, author of the “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” will be here for three days, including a speech at the Kohl Center tonight.The funds are coming from the chancellor?s office.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin met with the Chancellor?s Panel of Student Leaders for the first time Oct. 20 to hear the concerns of 20 students.
Chancellor Biddy Martin focused on the economic factors of her proposal in the final installment of her three-part “New Badger Partnership” discussion forum at the Waisman Center Wednesday.
Chancellor Biddy Martin focused on the economic factors of her proposal in the final installment of her three-part “New Badger Partnership” discussion forum at the Waisman Center Wednesday.
Chancellor Biddy Martin held the second of three forums on the Badger Partnership Tuesday to further inform the UW-Madison community of the proposed business model.
A UW-Madison professor did not get due process when the university suspended her animal research last year, according to a report from a faculty committee. The University Committee found that the university suspended professor Michele Basso from working with animals without a formal investigation. Further, the committee that suspended her, the All Campus Animal Care and Use Committee, did not have the authority to do so, according to the report. UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin declined to comment Tuesday night while she reviews the report.
Chancellor Biddy Martin held the second of three forums on the Badger Partnership Tuesday to further inform the UW-Madison community of the proposed business model.
The animal care committee on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that temporarily shut down a researcher?s lab in a high-profile case violated her right to due process and failed to follow established procedures, a faculty committee says after conducting its own investigation.
The seven-page report, which was obtained by The Capital Times, was dated Oct. 4 and addressed to Chancellor Biddy Martin. It outlines the University Committee?s findings from an investigation into a grievance filed by Michele Basso, an associate professor of physiology whose neurological research using monkeys was the subject of a long letter to the entire campus from Martin earlier this year.
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
