School is almost out for summer, but that’s not stopping a Madison non-profit from raising awareness about wellness in education communities. Breathe for Change started as a passion project for UW Madison Ph.D. student, Ilana Nankin. Now it’s helping educators in Madison and around the world.
Close to 70 percent of UW-Eau Claire faculty, or 227 staff members, voted in favor of a resolution saying they have no confidence in UW-System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
What’s The Real Cost Of Budget Cuts In The UW System?MAY 24, 2016 BY A PUBLIC AFFAIR2With the state cutting funding to the UW system and the restructuring of the tenure system, APA asked, “What are the effects?”
The 2015-’16 academic year ended with pomp, circumstance — and skirmishes between Gov. Scott Walker and professors in the University of Wisconsin System.
Votes of no confidence by faculty at several University of Wisconsin campuses were “a big mistake,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said earlier this month.
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Department of Natural Resources researchers hope to place as many as 6,000 motion-activated trail cameras across the state. Photos will be uploaded to a crowd-sourcing website; viewers will be asked to view them and try to identify the animals in them. The project, dubbed Snapshot Wisconsin, should provide the best idea yet of the size of animal populations and their movements, said Phil Townsend, a UW-Madison forestry professor and one of the project leaders.
Wisconsin scientists have launched an ambitious new project that uses trail cameras to inventory wildlife and tamp down simmering questions about how many deer really roam the state.
Democrats have spent recent weeks drawing attention to budget cuts that have led to reduced services and layoffs on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Column by Paul Wilson, a professor of nuclear engineering at UW-Madison’s Engineering Physics Department, and the interim chair of the Energy Analysis and Policy program of the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies
Political storm clouds are forming over how much state aid the UW System will get in the next two-year budget. And, if Republicans keep control of the Legislature in November elections, those clouds could easily turn into a red-flag storm warning.
Some members of the University of Wisconsin System’s faculty have been actively looking for jobs elsewhere after the latest state budget cuts from the Legislature and ongoing tension between faculty and staff and Gov. Scott Walker.
Wisconsin’s Group Insurance Board will seek bids in July for a company to manage a possible self-insurance program.
A Wisconsin law school graduate who was denied a license to practice here over academic misconduct and honesty issues won conditional admission to the bar Wednesday from a divided Supreme Court.
Quoted: “Something like this has never been done before, not for such a large area,” said UW–Madison Professor of Forest and Wildlife Ecology Phil Townsend, a leader on the project, in a statement released Tuesday by the university. “The number of trail cams and the spatial scale we’re working on will make this project unique.”
The adversarial relationship between the University of Wisconsin and Gov. Scott Walker is perilous, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Tuesday.
Tommy Thompson still knows how to work a room. The former Wisconsin governor thanked faculty members during a graduation ceremony last week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calling them “some of the greatest professors in the United States of America.”
In the wake of budget cuts and sparring between the legislature and UW faculty and staff, faculty retention has become an issue at UW-Madison. We hear from the chair of UW-Madison’s English department about her choice to leave and why she says the UW is expected to run like a business but isn’t allowed to do the things that businesses have the freedom to do.
Anyone with computer access can now take part in conducting wildlife research in Wisconsin.Snapshot Wisconsin, a collaboration between UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is recruiting the public to help track the state’s wildlife population.
Wisconsin election laws on trial in federal court this week likely violate the federal Voting Rights Act by disproportionately affecting voting by minority, young and low-income voters, a report by a UW-Madison professor concludes.
Testimony continued Tuesday in the federal trial on Wisconsin’s voter ID law, with an elections researcher outlining the effects he see the legislation having on access to the polls.
Reductions in public funding for higher education will negatively impact Wisconsin’s economy, according to a report released today by the Wisconsin Technology Council.
A new Wisconsin Technology Council report warns further state budget cuts to higher education “will prove costly over time.”
MENOMONIE — UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer said Tuesday he understands the no confidence vote in UW System leaders approved by the university’s Faculty Senate, but he doesn’t agree with it.
Continuing to cut higher education funding will hurt Wisconsin’s economy by reducing research and innovation on college campuses, according to a new report from the state organization that advises lawmakers on science and technology.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson showered UW-Madison professors with praise at a graduation ceremony last week, striking a different tone from the sharp criticism of faculty members fellow Republican Gov. Scott Walker has leveled in recent days.
Noted: Gov. Scott Walker is taking swipes at University of Wisconsin faculty who have recently been passing no-confidence resolutions targeting the Board of Regents and system president Ray Cross.
Walker said Saturday at the state party convention that faculty are upset because changes to the law affecting tenure took away what he calls “job for life” protections. The faculty argue that’s a mischaracterization of tenure and that the law changes make it too easy to fire someone without justification.
Walker is also saying he “gets a kick” out of Democrats who talk about student loan debt. Walker asks why they didn’t support his tuition freeze at UW which has been in place for four years.
Former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson was honored at spring commencement at the University of Wisconsin Friday night.
He received an honorary degree.
It’s not only this weekend’s graduates who are saying goodbye to UW-Madison. Budget cuts and politics have combined to convince faculty — some who thought they would retire at the campus — to accept offers of the kind they’ve declined in the past and take their expertise and grant funding elsewhere.
Politifact rated Scott Walker “pants on fire” for his claim that the ratio of faculty to students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was only 2.8 to 1.
UW System President Ray Cross says he accepts the criticism after faculty at five UW campuses declare they have no confidence in him.
Not to get all inside-baseball, but news releases issued by Gov. Scott Walker are usually pretty plain, like the white chalk lines that meet at home plate.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay became the fifth campus in the UW System where faculty voted to declare no confidence in President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
When Wisconsin lawmakers considered a bill last year to allow deer hunters to wear fluorescent pink for safety, in addition to blaze orange, their deliberations were informed by University of Wisconsin-Madison research.
GREEN BAY, Wis — – Faculty across the UW System have taken a stand against the actions of system leaders with a symbolic no confidence vote.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Faculty Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution expressing no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
UW-River Falls and UW-Madison are also participating in parts of the June 12-17 trade mission, according to a statement from Walker’s office.
UW-Milwaukee became the fourth University of Wisconsin System campus to see professors declare they have no confidence in UW’s leaders Tuesday, in a vote that prompted Gov. Scott Walker to weigh in with sharp criticism of the faculty.
The University Senate at UW-Eau Claire has tabled the discussion on whether it should make a vote of no confidence against UW System leaders.
UW-Green Bay faculty plan to take a “no-confidence” vote Wednesday afternoon in UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents, while Gov. Scott Walker says university faculty “fail to grasp reality.”
t’s not often that a college student publicly accuses professors of immaturity and poor judgment. Yet Jacob W. Wrasse, a senior who this week finished his term as president of the student body at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, has done just that as his campus’s University Senate considers whether to rebuke top university-system officials for failing to better shield professors’ tenure protections from a legislative assault.
Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, wrote in a March email to the vice president of the system’s Board of Regents, who was chairing a task force on controversial changes to layoff policies concerning tenured faculty members, that tenure should not mean “a job for life,” according to public records first obtained by the The Cap Times. “That is a ‘union’ argument,” Cross wrote to Regent John Behling, comparing faculty members to railroad brakemen whom he said were kept on the job for years after they were no longer needed.
Noted: The two species known to carry Zika do not currently live in Wisconsin because they can’t handle the cold, University of Wisconsin-Madison entomology professor Susan Paskewitz said.
But the species have been found in neighboring states, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently released a map of their potential range, which includes parts of lower Wisconsin.
Noted: Agriculture Secretary Ben Brancel will be among state administrators joining the governor, as well as representatives from Wisconsin businesses and the University of Wisconsin Madison and River Falls campuses.
A newly released email from the University of Wisconsin System president praised the decision to remove faculty tenure protections from state law.
Noted: Walker also is set to participate in the 2016 CIGAL Dairy Trade Show, which focuses on the dairy production sector and draws exhibitors from throughout Mexico and the United States, the governor’s office said. The Dairy Trade Show will be held in Guadalajara June 15-17, and Walker will be joined by a delegation that includes Wisconsin businesses, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-River Falls and DATCP.
Next week, the University of Wisconsin-Extension will start planning to absorb $3.6 million in budget cuts to the agency’s county and university educational services.
Noted: Gousha also asked Vos about the impact of “no confidence” votes faculty members at UW-Madison and other UW campuses have taken in recent days. Vos said he thought the impact would be “minimal.”Some UW faculty opposed to budget cuts and changes to tenure have taken votes of “no confidence” in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.”It’s not about the faculty,” Vos said. “When I look at the UW System, I look at the students who are there, the economic engine that happens across the state, quite frankly, and every campus.”
Faculty at two more University of Wisconsin campuses have passed resolutions saying the have no confidence in the public university system’s leaders. UW-Madison faculty passed a resolution earlier this week saying they don’t have faith in the actions of UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents. Following suit, UW-River Falls and UW-La Crosse passed similar resolutions.
Faculty members at three additional University of Wisconsin campuses are planning no-confidence votes concerning Ray Cross, university system president, and the system’s Board of Regents, the Journal Sentinel reported. The proposed measures at Milwaukee, Eau Claire and Green Bay are similar to a resolution passed by the Faculty Senate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison last week, versions of which were quickly adopted by faculty governance bodies at River Falls and LaCrosse.
Last year, $250 million dollars in state funding were cut from the UW system, which also meant a loss of $3.6 million dollars in funding for the UW-Extension, which is charged with broadcast operations like WPR, providing online degrees, and working with all of Wisconsin’s counties on agricultural and economic development issues. We talk to a political writer who says that cutting funding to the extension service is contrary to the Wisconsin Idea and what it means to be a Wisconsinite.
Protesters of Gov. Scott Walker’s cuts to the University of Wisconsin system budget disrupted the Stevens Point campus’ celebration as it broke ground Thursday on its first new free-standing academic building in 40 years.
In a unanimous vote Thursday evening, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Faculty Senate supported a resolution of no-confidence in the UW System Board of Regents and the system’s president, Ray Cross.
While many UW-Madison faculty might be satisfied with an overwhelming vote of no confidence in the UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents, some Wisconsin GOP lawmakers are disappointed in the decision. We talk to WPR State Capitol Reporter Laurel White about some of the reactions from GOP legislators to the vote of no confidence.
A key Republican state lawmaker is calling the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty’s vote of “no confidence” in university leadership a sign that they’re “out of touch” with most Wisconsinites.
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate has approved a resolution of “no confidence” in UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents.
Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have overwhelmingly supported a no-confidence vote in UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents.
“The time has come to be fearless and united,” Cynthia Burnson told a packed meeting of the Faculty Senate. Burnson, co-president of the Teaching Assistants Association, urged faculty to stand up and say “enough is enough.” UW-Madison faculty held the opportunity to lead a statewide uprising against leadership that has failed to protect adequate funding and academic freedom, she said.
Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison overwhelmingly voted Monday to protest UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents, saying they had no confidence in their support for the system’s guiding principle.
Professors at UW-Madison declared Monday that they have no confidence in the leaders of the University of Wisconsin System to uphold their cherished outreach mission in the wake of budget cuts and changes to tenure policies that weakened faculty protections.
Noted: Yet another study commissioned by the DOT found that on 12 Wisconsin highways that were expanded from two to four lanes, crashes were reduced, according to Andrea Bill, a research program manager for the Transportation Operations and Safety Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
