A Republican lawmaker asked the attorney general Tuesday to investigate the University of Wisconsin System?s decision to give a high-level job to Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle?s top aide.
A Republican lawmaker asked the attorney general Tuesday to investigate the University of Wisconsin Systemâ??s decision to give a high-level job to Democratic Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s top aide.
A state lawmaker asked Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to investigate the UW Systemâ??s hiring of a former cabinet member to Governor Doyle, alleging the hiring did not comply with system hiring policies.
A lawmaker is asking the attorney general to investigate the University of Wisconsin Systemâ??s decision to give a high-level job to Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s top aide.
A Republican lawmaker is asking that Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen investigate the University of Wisconsin Systemâ??s hiring of one of the stateâ??s top officials, Michael Morgan.
In a letter to Van Hollen, Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, alleges that the UW System violated its own policy by hiring Morgan for the position of senior vice president for administration and fiscal affairs without the proper search and screen process.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Republican candidate for governor Mark Neumann says his goal is to attract 300,000 jobs in 10 years by working closely with University of Wisconsin campuses to attract more businesses and research.
Neumann unveiled his plan to create three “research triangles” that would match expertise on the campuses with businesses that create jobs.
Neumann says his plan can succeed even if the universityâ??s budget is cut as part of his plan to reduce the budgets of all state agencies. His plan even calls for offering a tax break to businesses that create jobs.
As usual, thereâ??s a controversy in Madison thatâ??s divided along political lines, with each side saying they represent the gospel truth and the other guys are being partisan hacks. And, as usual, the actual truth lies somewhere in between the combatants.
The row has to do with the University of Wisconsin System hiring state administration secretary Michael Morgan to be its chief operating officer….But the circumstances of his hiring are unusual.
….the UW folks admittedly knew how the hiring would be perceived. Yet they went ahead and made it look exactly like that. You’d think those in charge of the state’s public higher education would be, you know, smarter.
Like we said, the truth is caught in between the two sides, much like the public usually is.
Advocates who are pushing for more changes say the law taking effect Thursday is a good first step but doesnâ??t go far enough. “People need to believe that they could get caught,” Nina Emerson, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Resource Center on Impaired Driving, said Monday. “Right now the perception is there is a very low possibility of apprehension.”
Dairy farmers are being squeezed out of business as other sectors of the food industry demand a greater share of the consumerâ??s dollar, farmers attending a federal hearing testified Friday.The current system leaves dairy farmers with little or no profit, several said at a U.S. Department of Justice hearing on antitrust issues in the dairy industry. The hearing attracted hundreds of farmers from around the country to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: Nina Emerson, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Resource Center on Impaired Driving, said drunken driving carries a certain degree of social acceptance in the Badger State.
Dairy farmers from across the nation will get a chance to voice their complaints about farm milk prices and antitrust issues Friday at a hearing organized by the U.S. Department of Justice. Hundreds of farmers are expected to attend the hearing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Others expected to attend include Assistant U.S. Attorney General Christine Varney, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Democratic U.S. Sens. Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold, and Gov. Jim Doyle.
Aides to State Rep. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) confirmed Wednesday they plan to reach out to the state Attorney General asking him to look into a controversial hiring at the UW System.
Dairy farmers frustrated with ever-eroding profit margins and possible antitrust violations in the industry will get a chance Friday to voice their concerns to federal regulators in “Americaâ??s Dairyland.”
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney, the departmentâ??s chief antitrust investigator, were scheduled to host the roundtable discussion in Madison, Wis., a state where dairy is a $26 billion a year industry.
The University of Wisconsin System offered a $245,000 per year position to Wisconsin Department of Administration secretary Michael Morgan without requesting his resume, records show. The hire was criticized as political patronage by Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater. Morgan would have been out of a job when Gov. Jim Doyle left office next year. The university offered Morgan the job as vice president for administration and fiscal affairs without conducting a national search.
The University of Wisconsin System president offered Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s top aide a high-level job without reviewing his resume or conducting a background check, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Documents released under the public records law shed new light on the unusual and speedy process in which Administration Secretary Michael Morgan landed the $245,000-per-year job as the systemâ??s chief operating officer.
In a region of the world where religion and government are still tightly tied, one Madison native has found a way to empower a population with a growing, but still comparatively quiet, political voice.
â??Bringing more women to elected office is a way to start to diffuse power â?? power that right now is in the hands of a small minority of men in the Middle East,â? says Katie Croake, a 1992 graduate of West High and a 2003 graduate of UW-Madisonâ??s La Follette School of Public Affairs. â??When these new voices of women are heard, you really start to change the culture.â?
While the number of victims seeking sexual assault services is rising, the Office of Justice Assistance reports that sexual assaults reported to law enforcement in Wisconsin dropped in 2009, with two counties, Iron and Buffalo, reporting zero sexual assault cases.
E-mails released by UW-System officials in connection to the recent selection of former Doyle administration cabinet member Michael Morgan to a highly paid, senior vice presidentâ??s job include a frank assessment of the worth of searching far and wide for administrative talent in higher education.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin System president offered Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s top aide a high-level job before even receiving a copy of his resume.
Records obtained by The Associated Press show Administration Secretary Michael Morgan didnâ??t turn in his resume until hours after he was offered the $245,000-per-year job as senior vice president on June 1.
UW System spokesman David Giroux said President Kevin Reilly didnâ??t need his resume because he was already familiar with Morganâ??s work in the Doyle administration.
(Wisconsin dairy farmer Joel) Greeno and other Wisconsin farmers are calling on the Obama administration to aggressively pursue existing lawsuits involving market manipulation and to get serious about enforcing antitrust laws that were designed to protect farmers, consumers and communities from the excesses of corporate speculation and manipulation.
Theyâ??ll get a chance to do so directly this week, at a remarkable antitrust workshop that will be held Friday, June 25, at the UW Memorial Union. One of five workshops around the country sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Justice, the Madison workshop will focus on consolidation of control over the dairy industry.
….The state has received 4,063 retirement applications through April, up 5.7 percent from a year ago.
….both of the leading candidates to replace Gov. Jim Doyle have talked about changing the way state pensions are handled. As it stands now, most public workers contribute nothing to their own retirement, but the Legislature does have the power to make changes going forward, including moving back the retirement age or increasing years of service requirements.
Trying to cut existing benefits, however, could prove far more difficult and would likely face a legal challenge. Financial commitments to public workers have long been seen as sacrosanct and courts have generally agreed.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said Monday he fully supports embryonic stem cell research and criticized his Republican opponents in the race for governor for their opposition to the potentially life-saving research.”My concern is you have candidates for office .â??.â??.â??who want to inject politics into science,” Barrett, a Democrat, said after touring the stem cell labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s Waisman Center.
The Boldt Co. of Appleton and the British consulting firm AMEC have been selected as the engineering and construction contractors for the conversion of the coal-fired power plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to burn natural gas and biomass.
Milwaukeeâ??s education gap mattered less during the boom years for heavy manufacturing, when a high school diploma was enough to guarantee years of good paychecks. But old factory towns are wilting under the white hot heat of the worldâ??s competition and canâ??t rely on the old ways any longer. Itâ??s notable that Cleveland, St. Louis, Detroit – along with Milwaukee – were all in the bottom 10 in educational attainment among the nationâ??s largest 50 cities.
Democratic candidate for governor Tom Barrett spoke about his support for embryonic stem cell research, and criticized his competitorsâ?? opposition to it, on Monday during a visit to UW-Madisonâ??s Waisman Center. “This is an institution that can provide huge benefits to the people who live in this society, but it can only do so if we allow it to continue its mission,” Barrett said. “And my concern is that you have candidates for office at the state level… who want to inject politics into science.”
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison was ranked 20th out of 141 U.S. medical schools for fulfilling its social mission. In the study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, medical schools were ranked by three criteria: the percent of graduates who practice primary care, work in health professional shortage areas, and are underrepresented minorities.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says he will back stem cell research just like Gov. Jim Doyle if heâ??s elected governor. Barrett says itâ??s wrong for opponents of embryonic stem cell research to suggest the work is unethical. Barrett says he will be a champion for stem cell research being done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and will stand up to attempts by lawmakers to limit it. Barrett spoke after touring the Waisman Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday.
The Department of Administration on Monday announced that it will proceed to negotiate a contract with The Boldt Co., Appleton, and AMEC, United Kingdom, to engineer and construct the Charter Street Heating Plant rebuild project on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, according to a press release from Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s office.
The Democratic candidate for governor is defending UW research using embryonic stem cells. Thereâ??s been groundbreaking work on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, or IPS cells, derived from adult stem cells, at the University of Wisconsin
The Boldt Co. of Appleton has been selected by the state to convert a power plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from coal-burning to biomass.
Democratic candidate for governor Tom Barrett spoke about his support for embryonic stem cell research, and criticized his competitorsâ?? opposition to it, on Monday during a visit to UW-Madisonâ??s Waisman Center.
“This is an institution that can provide huge benefits to the people who live in this society, but it can only do so if we allow it to continue its mission,” Barrett said. “And my concern is that you have candidates for office at the state level… who want to inject politics into science.”
Steve Ingham, a Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection official responsible for enforcing the stateâ??s raw-milk policies, has resigned. Ingham, administrator of the Division of Food Safety, is returning to his previous faculty position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, effective July 7, DATCP officials confirmed Monday.
Despite having a lineup of political heavy hitters, the heart of next weekâ??s dairy industry workshop in Madison will be the words that come from farmers, said a UW-Madison law professor who will be a panelist. Fridayâ??s event at Union Theater on the UW-Madison campus will feature a roundtable discussion with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Christine Varney, U.S. assistant attorney general for the Justice Departmentâ??s Antitrust Division. It has been organized by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The elaborate, enclosed structures that businesses have constructed for smokers, described and shown in Sundayâ??s State Journal, are not in keeping with the intent of the Wisconsin Statewide Smoke Free Air Law, writes Dr. Theresa Guilbert, pediatric pulmonologist, American Family Childrenâ??s Hospital, UW-Madison.
Gov. Jim Doyle on Friday named longtime prosecutor Ismael Ozanne the new Dane County district attorney. Ozanne takes the job vacated by Brian Blanchard, who was elected in April to the District IV Court of Appeals. Ozanne received his undergraduate degree from UW-Madison and his J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
When Gov. Jim Doyle was elected in 2002, he pledged to put Wisconsin in the forefront of stem cell research nationally and internationally. He has kept that promise by:
â?¢ Increasing Wisconsinâ??s investment in this critical field with a goal of capturing 10 percent of the stem cell market by 2015.
â?¢ Launching a $750 million initiative to develop stem cell research and biotechnology in Wisconsin, highlighted by the construction of the Institutes for Discovery, which is scheduled to open in December
Is it anything to worry about? Freshman enrollment at UW campuses is not growing as fast as many other campuses around the country.
The state commits to collaborating with California on stem cell research. Wisconsin signs an agreement with California to help scientists in both states to combine forces and more quickly discover better treatments for patients.
UW-System vice presidents hired before the increasingly-criticized decision to handpick Doyle administration cabinet secretary Michael Morgan for a system vice president position were chosen through a nationwide search and screen process.
A new report says enrollment in Wisconsin colleges isnâ??t growing as fast as it is in other states. The Pew Research Center says Wisconsin colleges and universities had 50,000 first-time, full-time freshman in 2008. That was about a 1% increase over the previous year.Wisconsin Public Radio reported that the entire nation had a 6% increase over the same period.
A state lawmaker accused University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly of engaging in political patronage for giving a high-paying state job to Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s top lieutenant without considering other candidates. State Administration Secretary Michael Morganâ??s new job as the systemâ??s senior vice president for administration and fiscal affairs provides him with a 79% boost in pay.Morgan, who makes $136,944 as administration secretary, will receive $245,000 a year when he takes the new job July 6. It is the same pay as that of the current person in the position, Tom Anderes, who has 30 years of experience in higher education and is leaving to head the University of Arizona system.
University of Wisconsin System gadfly Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, sent off a news release this morning calling the hiring of Michael Morgan as UW Systemâ??s top finance administrator inappropriate and demanding that the job offer be revoked. Morgan is the secretary of the state Department of Administration and will earn $245,000 a year in his new role as UW System vice president for administration and fiscal affairs. The UW System did not conduct a search for the position after Tom Anderes took a job with the University of Arizona System.
A Republican lawmaker accused the University of Wisconsin System of political patronage Thursday for appointing Democratic Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s top aide to a high-level position. Department of Administration Secretary Michael Morgan was appointed as the systemâ??s chief operating officer last week. Morgan will start the $245,000-per-year job next month. The appointment has come under scrutiny because Morgan is getting a $108,000 salary increase and the UW System deviated from normal practice by not conducting a nationwide search to fill the job. On Thursday, Republican Rep. Steve Nass of Whitewater called for the appointment to be rescinded.
The University of Wisconsin System must follow state contracting laws for UW-Madisonâ??s Gordon Commons project despite arguments that to do so threatens timelines and student safety. Wisconsin law requires state building projects follow a multiple-prime contracting system, under which the state contracts with each major construction discipline and opens all bids at once to ensure projects are awarded fairly.
A Republican lawmaker accused the University of Wisconsin System of political patronage Thursday for appointing Democratic Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s top aide to a high-level position.
A Republican lawmaker blasted the University of Wisconsin System today for filling a top post without opening the hiring process to outside candidates.
A new report says college enrollment among freshmen was up significantly in many states for 2008, the first year of the recession. Wisconsinâ??s enrollment was comparatively modest for the same period.
A state lawmaker accused University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly of engaging in political patronage for giving a high-paying state job to Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s top lieutenant without considering other candidates.
Dear Editor: As Wisconsinâ??s economy continues to show signs of returning vigor, it is important to take stock of the distance we have traveled in a short time. The past two years have been challenging for every state, but Wisconsin has continued moving forward on the path to economic success. Nowhere is this clearer than in the stateâ??s sustainable industries.
Sustainable jobs hold the promise of strengthening our communities, improving our environment, and increasing profits for businesses. However, the question remains how to best prepare a work force to take advantage of these business opportunities. The answer is in programs such as the University of Wisconsinâ??s Sustainable Management Program.
Gov. Jim Doyle will sign an agreement today that is expected to spur collaboration between California stem-cell researchers and those at UW-Madison, the governorâ??s office announced Wednesday. No specific research projects or funding have yet been identified for researchers from California and UW-Madison.
Legally, itâ??s a step the PSC may be hesitant to take, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But it is an argument that is absolutely important to make. The PSC canâ??t just dismiss this out of hand,” Orton said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Andy Reschovsky said most of the basic assumptions used in the report were reasonable. The big question, he said, is whether the incentives were always needed. “Itâ??s very difficult, if not impossible, to provide definitive answers,” Reschovsky said.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists recently surveyed Doctors Park in Bayside for the presence of deer ticks and found evidence suggesting that ticks were not just present in the county, but were living and reproducing there, too.”As far as I know, this is the first demonstration of an established population in Milwaukee County, although ticks have been getting closer and closer,” said Susan Paskewitz, a UW professor of entomology who led the survey.
A University of Wisconsin doctor who was central to plans to provide late-term abortions is leaving for a job at Harvard University. Caryn Dutton, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UW-Madison, will join the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Womenâ??s Hospital in Boston. Sheâ??ll leave UW this summer.
A University of Wisconsin doctor who was central to plans to provide late-term abortions in Madison is leaving for a job at Harvard University, officials said Monday, adding that they still plan to offer the procedure. Caryn Dutton, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, will join the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Womenâ??s Hospital in Boston. Dutton performed abortions at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and was heavily involved in plans to offer second-trimester abortions at the Madison Surgery Center.
Door County, with its majestic homes, long stretches of shoreline, boathouses and galleries, conjures a welcoming atmosphere for the soothing harmonies of chamber music. Look to the areaâ??s Midsummerâ??s Music Festival as proof.
….David Perry, first violinist with the Pro Arte Quartet at UW-Madison, has played at the Midsummerâ??s Music Festival for 10 summers.
University of Wisconsin officials keep claiming that they need to hike tuition and otherwise collect additional revenues in order to meet the salary demands of the most talented professors and administrators.
But now comes the announcement that Department of Administration Secretary Michael Morgan has accepted a position as the UW Systemâ??s chief operating officer.
The nonprofit Teach for America, which recruits bright college graduates to teach in urban and rural schools, has faced challenges in its first year in Milwaukee. But as the academic year winds to a close, data shows that 70% of Milwaukeeâ??s TFA teachers are on track to attain a year or more of academic growth with their students. Rodney Lynk Jr., 23, seems to be one of those people. An MPS graduate, Lynk was on his way to becoming an investment banker after the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Then he saw that TFA was coming to Milwaukee.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved plans on Friday to spend $245 million to convert a coal-fired power plant on the Madison campus to a new plant that burns waste, such as tree trimmings and agricultural crops. The project – one of the largest in the UW Systemâ??s history – stems from a federal consent decree that aims to lower air pollution in Madison.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said Saturday there is a “substance gap” between him and his Republican opponents for governor because he is the only one to have issued detailed plans on creating jobs and slimming down the state budget. Barrett raised a new issue in his convention speech, saying he supported embryonic stem cell research at the University of Wisconsin and said the two Republicans want to “shut that science down.”
