In addition to serving as UW-Madison’s dean of students and vice provost for student life, Lori Berquam will take on an additional role as the interim vice chancellor for student affairs, a new position within campus administration.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank delivered a lecture Wednesday about the role of Christian faith and morality in market economics and business, and how she’s balanced living as an active Christian in a market economy.
Blank, devout Christian, spoke about ways to reconcile Christian morality with amoral nature of market economics.
Blank, devout Christian, spoke about ways to reconcile Christian morality with amoral nature of market economics.
Blank, devout Christian, spoke about ways to reconcile Christian morality with amoral nature of market economics.
The University of Wisconsin System regents approved a plan to merge the system’s two-year schools with its four-year campuses.
This year’s Go Big Read selection is “Hillbilly Elegy: a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J. D. Vance. Chosen by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, the book is the ninth Go Big Read title since the program was initiated by Chancellor Biddy Martin in 2009.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank will now serve on the board of directors for the Association of American Universities, an organization that influences policy for higher education.
The University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension is a natural fit with University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Wednesday about news that the agency would be absorbed by her campus as part of a sweeping reorganization of the UW System.
After transferring from the two-year UW-Baraboo/Sauk County campus, where tuition and other expenses were low enough that jobs on and off campus covered his bills, Luke Moat had accepted that he’d need to take out loans to attend the more expensive UW-Madison.
Blank appeared on a recent segment of Sunday political talk show “UpFront with Mike Gousha” with UW Colleges and UW Extension Chancellor Cathy Sandeen. The pair weighed in on the budget, a new one-year free tuition program for first generation students and the proposed Foxconn plant, expressing optimism about all three.
The new program, Badger Promise, seeks to give first-generation in-state college students who transfer to UW-Madison a year of free tuition.
After a 15-year hiatus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching a hiring program to recruit clusters of faculty from different disciplines who will work together in emerging areas of research.
As the nation’s secretary of education announced plans to change the way colleges and universities handle allegations of sexual violence on campus, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Thursday defended practices on her campus.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank released a statement Thursday in response to the Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ announcement a review of Obama-era sexual assault guidelines on college campuses.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank released a statement Tuesday opposing President Donald Trump’s proposed repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Quoted: “What difference does having a major research university in a place like Wisconsin make?” said University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank. “It’s the future of the state.” If Blank is right, then current trends put that future in doubt for much of the Midwest. Many of these same universities have suffered some of the nation’s deepest cuts to public higher education. Illinois reduced per-student spending by an inflation-adjusted 54 percent between 2008 and last year, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The figure was 22 percent in Iowa and Missouri, 21 percent in Michigan, 15 percent in Minnesota and Ohio, and 6 percent in Indiana. While higher education funding increased last year in thirty-eight states, Scott Walker’s 2015–17 budget cut another $250 million from the University of Wisconsin system. The University of Iowa recently had its state appropriation cut by 6 percent, including an unexpected $9 million in the middle of the fiscal year.
There’s a new effort at UW-Madison to review how the Ku Klux Klan was connected to campus after recent violence in Charlottesville.
The University of Wisconsin System is looking to “streamline” its process for filling top posts on campuses to speed up hiring and attract applicants from the private sector and government.
A University of Wisconsin System group is expected to recommend changes later this year that would overhaul how UW chancellors are hired and aim to recruit more leaders from outside of higher education, officials said Monday.
Rebecca Blank, the UW-Madison chancellor, has already proposed strategic partnerships with Foxconn that could result in funding for research and development at the university.
Hiring chancellors for University of Wisconsin System campuses with non-academic backgrounds appears to be a priority for John Behling, the new president of the UW Board of Regents.
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank also said Wednesday she met with Foxconn officials recently “to promote the State of Wisconsin as a possible destination and illustrate the advantages of having an internationally ranked research partner like the University of Wisconsin-Madison nearby.” “Today’s decision by Foxconn Technology Group, a top international manufacturer, to locate a plant in Wisconsin is a major leap forward for our state’s economy,” Blank said in a statement. “It also illustrates the importance of a culture of innovation, along with a strong public research university, to regional economic development.”
A spokesman for Chancellor Becky Blank would not confirm a meeting had taken place, but said in a statement that ” UW-Madison supports economic development efforts in the advanced manufacturing or tech sectors that will provide more opportunities for Wisconsin and its citizens.”
The new head of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents wants UW institutions to recruit leaders from the private sector, and said Friday that the System is launching a new effort to “streamline” its process for hiring chancellors and other top officials.
UW-Madison is hard at work trying to whittle down the alarming cuts to higher education and research spending in President Donald Trump’s proposed $4.1 trillion 2018 budget, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a blog post Tuesday.
A slate of Republican-authored changes to the state budget includes new rules to ensure University of Wisconsin System chancellors can come from non-academic backgrounds and a requirement that lawmakers weigh in before any taxpayer money can be sent to UW- Oshkosh’s troubled private foundation.
The Trump administration’s 2018 budget plan sent to Congress this week calls for major cuts to funding for medical and science research, and that has research universities — including the University of Wisconsin-Madison — defending the work of scientists.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank makes the case for continue federal funding for research done at colleges and universities.
Column by Rebecca Blank, chancellor, and Marsha Mailick, vice chancellor for research and graduate education at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank got a couple of tough questions about free speech during an hour-long conference call with more than 6,000 alumni Monday. Her responses were impressive and should reassure conservatives that the state’s flagship university is committed to encouraging diverse views on campus.
Some members of the UW-Madison’s student government and other campus groups demanded Thursday that Chancellor Rebecca Blank step down following the university’s condemnation of the Associated Students of Madison’s divestment legislation.
Excessive federal regulation of research is “seriously impeding the productivity of our scientists,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday.
The Daily Cardinal sat down with Chancellor Rebecca Blank to discuss budget, freedom of speech, direct admits and more.
The Daily Cardinal sat down with Chancellor Rebecca Blank to discuss budget, freedom of speech, direct admits and more.
The Daily Cardinal sat down with Chancellor Rebecca Blank to discuss budget, freedom of speech, direct admits and more.
System President Ray Cross and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday that letting the Board of Regents decide how to measure UW institutions would be more effective.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has endured several years of budget cuts and a stronger hand by the state government in its policies. Chancellor Rebecca Blank discusses winning back some funds, repairing dings to its reputation, and navigating the Trump administration.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is joining several top Republican lawmakers in questioning Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Wednesday she will encourage legislators to treat state employees consistently on pay increases in the 2017-2019 budget, meaning increases for UW employees should not be tied to savings from the state moving to a self-insurance model for health insurance.
As University of Wisconsin System officials across the board welcome Gov. Scott Walker’s recent push to invest in higher education after years of budget cuts, Chancellor Rebecca Blank highlighted some of the key items she plans to track in the next biennium.
Along with science, literature and foreign language, first-year students at UW-Madison will have an opportunity to also study inclusion, diversity and equity through an inclusion program to launch Fall 2017.
I am very appreciative of the new investments Gov. Scott Walker is proposing for the University of Wisconsin System.
Two years ago, Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal had University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank warning about possible layoffs. This week, she called Walker’s 2017-2019 proposal “a very promising budget.”
Following UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s unexpected tuition proposal last Thursday, chancellors from UW System universities largely praised the opportunity it would provide to students on their campuses, while some questioned if the plan would decrease enrollment at smaller system schools.
Officials of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have proposed to offer at least one year of free tuition to first-generation students transferring from one of the several two-year colleges in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker may be grabbing headlines with a call to lower tuition as part of a campaign to cut the cost of attending University of Wisconsin, but UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has an ambitious proposal of her own.
UW-Madison is at a “crucial point” as Wisconsin prepares to debate its next state budget, and badly needs new public funding to stay competitive with its peers and reverse a slide in research rankings, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday.
Students in the state’s college system say they’re looking forward to the possibility of free tuition.
Students transferring to the University of Wisconsin Madison campus who are the first in their families to attend college would get a tuition-free year at the school, under a proposal outlined Thursday by Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) — Akstin Pasert is a first generation college student. She’s a sophomore at UW Marathon County studying special education. For her, college is more than just getting an education, it’s setting an example.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking at free tuition for certain students.
(WISC) — University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chancellor wants more first-generation students coming to campus and has announced an effort to offer some of them free tuition if they do.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials want to provide at least a year of free tuition to students who transfer from one of several two-year colleges and who would be the first in their family to get a degree.
When Chancellor Rebecca Blank suggested that UW-Madison may begin considering criminal history in its admissions process, backlash from students swiftly ensued.
The University of Wisconsin would offer one or two years of free tuition to academically strong, first-generation college students who transfer from UW colleges or technical college partners with associate’s degrees to UW-Madison, according to an announcement coming Thursday from Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials want to provide at least a year of free tuition to students who transfer from one of several two-year colleges and who would be the first in their family to get a degree.
Students who transfer from one of several two-year colleges to UW-Madison, and would be the first in their family to get a degree, will receive at least one year of free tuition at the flagship campus under a proposal officials will announce Thursday — but only if the state provides enough new funding to make it happen.
On the same night roughly 200 students protested white supremacy following the university’s response to a possible ‘alt-right’ group on campus, Chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke at an open panel, addressing student concerns regarding felony records and free speech.
