The head of one of Texas’ smaller, lesser-known university systems. The chancellor of Wisconsin’s university extension. The newly minted second-in-command at the State University of New York. And a former U.S. congressman with strong Wisconsin ties but no doctorate.
One of these folks, or maybe someone else, will be the next president of the 26-campus University of Wisconsin System. The list of finalists is expected to be released today.
Six Dane County Democratic legislators are urging the state Technical College System Board to retain Nino Amato, a Republican appointee from Madison, as its president when it meets later this month, saying “He has been an outspoken voice for students and faculty as well as a watchdog for taxpayers.” (See 7/15/04 print edition)
A spokesman for Gov. Jim Doyle on Wednesday compared next week’s election of a leader for the Wisconsin Technical College System Board to “any student council election” and said Doyle had no big stake in the outcome.
By fall, the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality is to provide cost information on the normal delivery of a baby in the collaborative’s 16 participating hospitals and the cost of a typical visit to a doctor’s office.
A vice-chancellor of the State University of New York is one of four top contenders for the presidency of the University of Wisconsin System, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported today. (An AP report in the 7/13 Capital Times print edition)
Among the five fellows inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters during ceremonies Sunday, July 11, at Monona Terrace were: Michael Fiore, who has pioneered smoking cessation at UW Hospital & Clinics; UW Professor Richard Davidson, who has pioneered Eastern spiritual practices in physical and mental health; and UW Professor Richard Davis, nationally acclaimed jazz bassist. Other inductees were Ellen Kort, Wisconsin’s poet laureate, and Tom Uttech, a renowned landscape painter who taught art for 30 years at UW-Milwaukee. (Caption only)
The Wisconsin Taxpayer Alliance released a report Friday that found tuition had increased at University of Wisconsin System schools 26.6 percent from the 1998-99 to the 2002-03 school years. Financial aid was up 16.3 percent in that same period.
Financial aid is not keeping pace with tuition increases for University of Wisconsin System students, according to a report released Friday. That has contributed to poorer families now making up a smaller percentage of the student body than they did a decade ago, said Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance President Todd Berry. Continue reading
In ways large and small, measures taken last year to eliminate a $3.2 billion budget deficit have taken a toll on services provided by state government.
A good-government group says Gov. Jim Doyle should keep his hands off the Wisconsin Technical College System Board elections. Continue reading
I had a delightful lunch this week with the new director of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Ellsworth Brown, who is impressed by what he’s seen so far of Madison. Continue reading
State governments are not backing away from their commitment to financially support public higher education, according to a new report by a group of top state higher-education officials. (Subscription required.)
It is no secret that Gov. Jim Doyle and his aides have been trying for some time to come up with a way to get Nino Amato replaced as president of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board. By all acounts, Doyle wants Amato removed from the position he currently holds because it allows him to serve on the UW Board of Regents.
A UW-Madison Law School program that helped free two wrongly convicted men from prison is pursuing new DNA testing on evidence from the murder scene of two elderly sisters.
WASHINGTON – When UW-Madison researchers established a collection of human embryonic stem cells six years ago, “Wisconsin became the epicenter of the scientific universe,” according to a recent letter sent to candidates running for state office in November. Despite the breakthrough for the university, however, many of Wisconsin’s Republican candidates view the research as a step in the wrong direction – and are seizing on the issue in their campaigns.
Keep repeating a lie long enough and the public starts to believe it…. The lie is that high taxes in Wisconsin are strangling business development here.
Quoted: UW-Madison economics professor Andrew Reschovsky
Now, the LaBatte case is being reopened by the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a University of Wisconsin Law School program that has freed two wrongly convicted men from prison. The project has won a court order for a new round of DNA tests that may, for the first time, identify who came to the Cadigans’ home.
Quoted: Gordon Baldwin, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor who advised former Gov. Tommy G. Thompson on Sykes’ nomination to the state court in 1999.
A 22-year-old man was staggering while walking north on Copeland Avenue at 1:30 a.m. April 27.
A La Crosse police officer stopped the man, who said he was on his way home to Angell Hall on the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus.
He was obviously walking in the wrong direction.
Jordan Wood, a fifth-year senior at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, tells incoming freshmen he drank in high school and came to UW-L with every intention to drink.
Two things stood out in Tribune reporter Terry Rindfleisch’s story Sunday about binge drinking.
First were the anecdotes from very drunk students trying to get home but going in wrong directions.
Third parties, such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have conducted environmental impact studies at the site in question. The studies show that water leaving the cranberry marsh is actually cleaner when it re-enters the lake in Sawyer County because of the marsh’s natural ability as a wetland to clean and filter water.
Quoted: Badger Poll conducted by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center
Quoted: Tito Izard, also an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School
The man who blew the whistle on secret pay-range raises by the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents last year appears perilously close to being kicked off the board.
The UW School of Veterinary Medicine has silenced its best-known faculty member — purportedly in more ways than one. Sandi Sawchuck, a UW veterinarian and clinical instructor, says she’s been directed not to talk about the school’s decision to pull the plug on her media appearances.
Wisconsin schools on the whole graduate the vast majority of their students. But there’s an unacceptably wide gap between white graduation rates (87 percent) and those of African-American students (44 percent) and Hispanic students (55 percent).
Cited: UW-Madison research
The UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations has created a new Web site that aims to help companies identify potential interns and employees at Wisconsin’s universities and colleges.
The white-black gap has narrowed in education in Wisconsin, while the Hispanic-Anglo gap has widened. The first trend, of course, is reason to cheer; the second, reason to fret.
State Business Leaders Want Another Trip
Wisconsin needs to send another trade delegation to China and shouldn’t wait too long to do so, business people who took part in the March trade mission agreed Monday.
Molly Jean Mcgrath Is The New Miss Wisconsin
Molly Jean McGrath is now the second consecutive Miss Madison to win the Miss Wisconsin pageant.
Quoted: Gordon Baldwin, a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
WAUSAU, WIS. – A former University of Wisconsin-Superior professor argued Monday that his due process rights were violated before he was fired amid allegations of sexual harassment and other ethics violations.
MADISON ââ?¬â? Wisconsin ranked in the bottom half of the nation in the number of residents with four-year college degrees, according to a U.S. Census Bureau survey released today.
