Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied fluorescent pink’s visibility for the bill’s authors, backed up that assertion. He told the committee pink stands out more than orange in a fall landscape.”If pink is more visible, shouldn’t it be a good choice? Shouldn’t it be allowed to save lives?” Sarmadi said.
Switching employees to a self-insurance model either could save the state $42 million or put it at risk of losing much more than that, depending on which of two consultants makes the prediction.
UW-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied fluorescent pink’s visibility for the bill’s authors, backed up that assertion. He told the committee pink stands out more than orange in a fall landscape. “If pink is more visible, shouldn’t it be a good choice? Shouldn’t it be allowed to save lives?” Sarmadi said.
Two pro-life organizations have launched a television advertising campaign to encourage legislative action on the fetal tissue research ban. However, it was reported Monday that at least two TV stations have refused to air the ads during prime viewing times.
An anti-abortion group has started airing a television commercial calling on Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to hold a vote on a bill that would prohibit research using tissue taken from aborted fetuses.
Madison — A federal judge has thrown out portions of a challenge to Wisconsin’s voting laws but is allowing a key part of the lawsuit to proceed that could allow more types of identification to be used under the voter ID law.
As National Impaired Driving Prevention Month draws to a close, the coordinator of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School’s Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project says that excessive drinking is at the root of Wisconsin’s drunken driving problem — something she thinks local governments can play a major role in addressing.
MADISON –Wisconsin lawmakers, back in Madison for a brief session before focusing on their own jobs for the rest of 2016, will consider one bill making it easier to hire and fire state workers and another banning the use of fetal tissue from abortions.
A bill that would allow concealed carry permit holders to bring guns into college and university buildings probably won’t come up for a vote during this session of the state Legislature, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Tuesday.
Changes to Wisconsin gun laws are unlikely to happen during the spring legislative session, according to a top Republican in the state Legislature.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says a bill allowing concealed weapons in college buildings probably won’t get a vote before the legislative session ends early next year.
A center that focuses on clean energy research will continue operating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after a $3.5 million grant from the school’s research foundation.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s grant to the Wisconsin Energy Institute was announced Tuesday [Dec. 22].
A University of Wisconsin System task force has finalized new tenure rules. The Wisconsin State Journal reported Thursday that the task force wrapped up work Wednesday. The task force is expected to forward the policy to the Board of Regents’ education committee by February. The full board is expected to vote on the plan in March.
A contentious rewrite of tenure rules for the state’s public university faculty has advanced to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, months after lawmakers stripped tenure protections from state law.
A task force charged with recommending a UW System policy to replace tenure provisions wiped from state law in Gov. Scott Walker’s latest budget wrapped up their work Wednesday uncertain if they had restored protections to academic freedom.
UW-Madison officials say the campus has seen an increase in the number of professors entertaining job offers from competing universities.
The UW System Tenure Policy Task Force, the body charged with writing new faculty protections, plans to meet Wednesday afternoon to review draft policies that outline layoff protections for tenured faculty and the review process professors must go through after they have received tenure.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will provide $3.5 million to fill a budget hole and help a hub for energy research keep operating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Funding for the Wisconsin Energy Institute had been cut in the state budget lawmakers approved this summer. Gov. Scott Walker removed the funding as part of a proposal to cut back state support for the university system and give it more autonomy.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s police chief is taking a Republican state representative to task after the lawmaker called for more citizens to become armed with guns and to end gun-free zones.
Representatives Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton) and Terese Berceau (D-Madison) held a news conference on Monday to announce a proposed piece of legislation that would bring back shared governance to the University of Wisconsin System. This proposed bill aims to improve the status of faculty, staff, and students within the UW System. If passed it would mean a return to students, faculty, and staff being decision makers on campus, not simply advisers to campus chancellors, as is now the case.
Shared governance in the UW System was removed by Wisconsin state legislators during the last passed budget.
The bill will bring statutory language back to what it was before it was changed in Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-2017 budget to downgrade the role of faculty, staff and students from “active participants” to advisory.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls has survived another legal challenge after a federal judge Thursday dismissed portions of a wide-ranging lawsuit alleging the mandate burdens the right to vote.
Despite seeing some numbers favorable to the cause of preserving tenure at the University of Wisconsin, David Vanness says he doesn’t have confidence in the results of a controversial survey unveiled Wednesday in Madison. “I would love to have confidence in some of the results,” Vanness, an associate professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health, said after University of Chicago professor William Howell released the numbers at a media event at the Madison Club.
The letter, which was written by three UW-Madison scientists, contends that the bill “would severely restrict promising avenues of biomedical research for conditions such as diabetes, Down syndrome, heart failure, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury and more.”
Gov. Scott Walker is on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2015 “Influence List,” one of 10 who “shook up higher education in the classroom, on campus, and beyond,” according to the publication.
Noted: The UW System anticipates that its inspector general office might cost as much as $3 million if it rings in at the size of its existing internal audit office. But Craig and Mikalsen said the inspectors general could save the state money in the long run by ferreting out fraud and waste.
Noted: State Rep. Kevin Peterson (R-Fond du Lac) says his bill is designed to support the kinds of advanced nuclear technology that’s being researched at nuclear engineering programs at institutions including the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MIT.
Citing what it sees as systematic abandonment of the state’s largest city, faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Monday called for an immediate change to the way state funding is divided among Wisconsin’s two research universities.
If UWM’s per-student funding from the UW System were increased to just half the level that UW-Madison receives, it would yield an additional $23.6 million and eliminate UWM’s structural budget deficit, according to the UWM chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
While UW-Madison receives more than $12,400 per student, UWM receives less than $5,200 per student — 40% of UW-Madison’s per-student allocation.
The Wisconsin Education Approval Board announced Monday that 933 adult students who enrolled at four EDMC institutions — the Art Institute of Wisconsin and online programs through Argosy University, South University and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh — will have more than $916,500 in loans from the institutions forgiven under the settlement.
The Dane County Board of Supervisors voted 32-2 in favor of a resolution for UW-Madison to modify their student ID cards to have a two year expiration date to comply with voter ID criteria.
Currently, students at UW-Madison cannot use their Wiscards for voting purposes. While in-state students can use their government issued driver’s licenses, out-of-state students do not have a readily available ID to take to the polls, as out-of-state driver’s licenses and other IDs are not valid voter IDs in the state of Wisconsin.
A grant will fund collaborative research between Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction and the University of Wisconsin-Madison [WCER] to narrow gaps in student opportunity and achievement levels, according to a release.
The $5.2 million U.S. Department of Education grant will fund research on data from all state public schools over the next four years, officials said. The goal of the research is to identify proven techniques that teachers can use to narrow gaps in student opportunity and achievement levels across all racial and ethnic backgrounds and family incomes.
Faculty leaders on three University of Wisconsin System campuses objected to proposed new tenure policies ahead of a systemwide task force meeting on the new guidelines Monday.
The latest figures on academic research spending in the United States provide, on the surface, some reassuring news for Wisconsin. For starters, the University of Wisconsin-Madison held its position as the nation’s fourth-largest research and development powerhouse. Lurking under the waves, however, are currents that should send a chilling message to policy-makers who believe the state can continue to reduce support for higher education — especially basic research — without taking on water over time.
A new website has been launched to help educators teach their students about Wisconsin’s Native American tribes.
A $5.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will fund a collaboration between the state Department of Public Instruction and the University of Wisconsin-Madison aimed at helping schools narrow the achievement and opportunity gaps among Wisconsin students, the DPI and the university announced Tuesday.
A $5.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will fund a collaboration between the state Department of Public Instruction and the University of Wisconsin-Madison aimed at helping schools narrow the achievement and opportunity gaps among Wisconsin students, the DPI and the university announced Tuesday.
Top biological research institutions in Wisconsin fought a proposal to ban the use of fetal tissue obtained through abortion and nearly half the state’s voters agree it’s a bad idea, according to the latest Marquette University Law School Poll.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Association has sent an email to parents of current students telling them how to lobby on a bill allowing concealed weapons in campus buildings.
The email, sent Friday morning, tells parents about the bill and why UW System leaders oppose it. There’s no explicit request to lobby against the bill, but the email encourages families to discuss campus safety and the impact the legislation might have on learning.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni group has sent an email to parents of current students telling them how to lobby on a bill that would allow concealed weapons in campus building.
The UW Alumni Association sent the message Friday morning. The email tells parents about the bill and how UW System leaders oppose it. The message doesn’t explicitly ask parents to lobby against the measure but encourages families to discuss campus safety and the impact the legislation might have on learning.
In ways big and small, those who work and study at UW-Madison are feeling the sting of a 2015-17 state budget that reduced funding for the University of Wisconsin System by $250 million over two years, with $58.9 million of that cut falling on the flagship campus this year.
The alumni association sent an email to UW-Madison parents Friday morning encouraging them to “have a conversation in your family about campus safety and the impact this legislation might have on learning.” Although the email does not directly encourage parents to lobby against the proposal, it points them to an alumni association website that asks visitors to contact their state representatives and “express your concerns about the proposed concealed carry legislation.”
Noted: Experts testified that work on new reactors that would recycle nuclear waste into energy isn’t far off. China and Russia are already testing models and the technology is also being worked on at UW-Madison.
Every chief of police in the University of Wisconsin System opposes a proposal in the Legislature to allow concealed carry permit holders to bring weapons into college and university buildings, the law enforcement officials said this week.
Nestled in the northern Wisconsin woods, Peter Lake once brimmed with golden shiners, fatheads and other minnows, which plucked algae-eating fleas from the murky water. Then, seven years ago, a crew of ecologists began stepping up the lake’s population of predatory largemouth bass. Today, largemouth bass still swim rampant. “Once that top predator is dominant, it’s very hard to dislodge,” said Stephen Carpenter, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led the experiment.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state could save more than $40 million annually by moving to a self-insurance model to cover public workers’ health care costs, according to a report that a consulting firm handed to the state insurance board Tuesday.
Former UW-Madison Spanish professor Birute Ciplijauskaite won the 2015 Wednesday, a unanimous selection by the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board.
At a cranberry marsh where more than 2 percent of the world’s cranberries are grown, Wisconsin’s officially designated state fruit sat in two bowls available to guests.
On Tuesday, an hour before the GOP presidential candidates’ debate about the economy in Milwaukee Theatre, the Milwaukee Bucks will tip-off their NBA game in the soon-to-be-replaced Bradley Center, directly across the street. As a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and for most Wisconsinites, the symbolism surrounding the debate’s location is almost too fitting.
Quoted: “It does mean Paul Ryan (as speaker) needs to continue to pay attention to the district,” says political scientist David Canon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If Ryan is “painted into a corner” by conservatives in his caucus, “that might not play very well back home,” says Canon.
Assembly Republicans quashed an effort by Democrats on Tuesday to pull a student loan refinancing proposal from committee and take it up on the floor.
UW-Madison professors took a formal stand Monday against Republican-backed state legislation that would allow concealed carry permit holders to bring guns into university buildings and ban research on aborted fetal tissue.
UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling said she hopes a proposal to revoke a ban on guns in campus buildings doesn’t even get to the point where she would have to testify against it at a hearing.
Noted: Perhaps the ACLU should pick a new target. Say, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which refuses to make the changes necessary to make its student ID cards acceptable for voting, despite a joint request to do so from the College Democrats and College Republicans.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has come under fire from faculty and a high-profile administrator for his changing stance on how the system should address tenure in light of recent changes to its legal status in the state. Faculty members and Chancellor Rebecca Blank of the University of Wisconsin at Madison have criticized Cross’s recent directive that new tenure polices can’t be written at the campus level, saying that the guidance contradicts Cross’s earlier assurances that tenure as it’s known would be preserved at the campus level — even though the Wisconsin state Legislature changed the law to make it easier to fire tenured faculty members.
Allowing concealed firearms on campus would make the University of Wisconsin-Madison less safe, declares a resolution faculty members will be asked to endorse Monday.
The benefits of the research, teaching, learning and discoveries of the UW affect the world and humanity. That’s the mission. That’s what Walker decided he wanted explicitly stated in state statutes no longer.
Let us just put it this way: Never has the Wisconsin Idea been more relevant, more important, and more worthy of our support.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied blaze pink’s visibility for Milroy and Kleefisch earlier this year, assured the committee earlier this month that blaze pink would be safe in the woods, saying it stands out better than orange against Wisconsin’s orange-brown fall landscape. He also said deer have an easier time seeing blaze orange than blaze pink, suggesting the color might camouflage hunters.
The Assembly began a floor session Tuesday by honoring the band’s director, Mike Leckrone. A couple dozen band members dressed in red sweaters marched into the chamber and began pumping out “On, Wisconsin.”
A contingent from the University of Wisconsin-Madison band is serenading the state Assembly.
A contingent from the University of Wisconsin-Madison band is serenading the state Assembly.
