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UW-Madison faculty hiring hits 15-year high, but pay remains a problem
Wisconsin State Journal
Data provided by UW-Madison earlier this month show the extent of the university’s rebound in faculty recruitment and retention in the three school years since 2015-16 when officials said budget cuts and controversial changes to tenure policies led to a decline in the number of new faculty hires and a spike in other institutions poaching UW-Madison professors.
Stanford Beats Wisconsin In Volleyball National Championship
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin fell short of winning its first national championship in volleyball Saturday.
Committee approves 2% pay raises for UW, state employees
Wisconsin State Journal
Lawmakers on a Republican-controlled legislative committee approved a state compensation plan Wednesday giving University of Wisconsin and state employees a 2% pay bump next year and in 2021.
100 UW-Madison, Oregon students and alumni to take part in service project before Rose Bowl
WISC-TV 3
One-hundred University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Oregon students and alumni will take part in a service project supporting senior nutrition in the Los Angeles community before next month’s Rose Bowl game.
Coming up roses: UW launches Rose Bowl website
NBC-15
Badger fans don’t need a ticket to take in the Rose Bowl experience. A new UW-Madison website can take fans to Southern California virtually.
2 kids, 2 jobs, a deployment to Afghanistan. That didn’t keep her from a UW-Madison degree
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison nursing student Cassie Dietrick graduates Sunday, and she cannot pinpoint the School of Nursing building on campus.
Student speaker spins songs from Hamilton at UW-Madison’s 2019 winter commencement
Wisconsin State Journal
Raise a glass to freedom. Raise a glass to all of us. Telling the story of today. Those slightly modified lyrics to “The Story of Tonight” from the musical “Hamilton” kicked off Lisa Kamal’s speech to her fellow graduates and a crowd of more than 7,000 people Sunday at the Kohl Center for UW-Madison’s 2019 winter commencement ceremony.
Malaysian student shares story at UW-Madison Winter Commencement
NBC-15
Lisa Kamal shared the story of how she got to UW-Madison in front of her classmates, as the chosen student speaker at the commencement ceremony.”I came here on a scholarship, a long way from my home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,” Kamal told her peers.
Graduates fill Kohl Center for winter Commencement
WKOW-TV 27
Student speaker Lisa Kamal shared her story, of how she get a full-ride scholarship from the Malaysian government.”I think in college, truthfully there’s going to be a lot of times where you get bummed down, things get really hard. You just have to keep going. Take it one day at a time, and you’ll get to the end,” Kamal said.
Nearly 1,800 students graduate at UW-Madison winter commencement
WISC-TV 3
The University of Wisconsin-Madison conferred 1,770 degrees Sunday to undergraduate, graduate and professional school students at the winter commencement in the Kohl Center.
Sports columnist Jason Gay urges 2019 graduates to embrace life’s chaos
Badger Herald
The keynote speaker Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal sports columnist and University of Wisconsin alum, began his speech by taking a selfie with the graduates.
UW South Madison partnership expanding
WKOW-TV 27
Renovation at the new site will begin in January of 2020. Work is expected to be finished in late spring.
Madison tops list to grow tech jobs in the Midwest, say 2 national think tanks
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison is primed to become the next great technology hub in the country if it receives federal financial help to drive such economic growth, according to a new report.
Most new tech jobs concentrated in just five U.S. metropolitan areas
The Washington Post
The explosion of top-tier tech jobs has clustered in a handful of coastal hubs, expanding the wealth and innovation differential that’s draining talent from the rest of the nation, new research shows. Madison is noted prominently in the study as an area that could become a major tech hub.
A Few Cities Have Cornered Innovation Jobs. Can That Be Changed?
The New York Times
There are about a dozen industries at the frontier of innovation. They include software and pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and data processing. Most of their workers have science or tech degrees. They invest heavily in research and development. While they account for only 3 percent of all jobs, they account for 6 percent of the country’s economic output. Madison is noted prominently in the study as an area that could become a major tech hub.
Brookings: 90 percent of high-tech job growth happened in 5 metro areas
Vox
Brookings suggests intensive government investment — direct funding, tax preferences, workforce development — to stem future regional economic divergence. The report lists a number of areas like Madison, Wisconsin; Albany, New York; and Provo, Utah, that have existing assets like universities that could potentially make them future innovation hubs, but this will only happen if there’s a concerted effort.
‘No silver bullet’ to reverse UW-Madison’s slide in national research ranking
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s national research ranking, cemented for nearly 45 years as one of the top five in the country, has dropped in recent years, with the latest figures placing the university eighth among hundreds of institutions.
Grad Students To UW-Madison: Fire ‘Toxic Lab’ Professor
Wisconsin Public Radio
Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding the university fire a professor who reportedly created a toxic work environment in his lab.
Madison, University Of Wisconsin Collaborate To Face Down Climate Change Future
Wisconsin Public Radio
The city of Madison is teaming up with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to identify the problems that come with climate change and ways to adapt to them.
UW-Madison seeks new target in how many in-state freshmen it must enroll
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wants to revise an undergraduate admissions policy requiring the university to admit at least 3,600 Wisconsin residents in each freshman class, calling it “not a good indicator of our commitment to in-state students.”
UW-Madison job title, pay review project approaches final stages before 2020 implementation
The Capital Times
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison closes in on nearly two years of working on a project to review employee job titles and pay, it hopes to begin implementing its findings in the spring of 2020.
UW Regents won’t expand presidential search panel despite pleas from all 13 campuses
Wisconsin State Journal
Faculty at all 13 University of Wisconsin System campuses have called on the UW Board of Regents to expand its presidential search committee and include representation from the faculty, staff and students whom the next president will oversee.
Interview: Cartoonist Lynda Barry, Author Of ‘Making Comics’
NPR
It’s always a surprise to see who the MacArthur Foundation selects to receive its annual fellowships — the six-figure awards known as Genius Grants — but one of this year’s picks was particularly exhilarating: comic artist Lynda Barry. For anyone who read alternative weeklies from the ’80s through the ’00s, she was the eternally wise and strange mind behind Ernie Pook’s Comeek.
Interview: Cartoonist Lynda Barry, Author Of ‘Making Comics’
NPR
It’s always a surprise to see who the MacArthur Foundation selects to receive its annual fellowships — the six-figure awards known as Genius Grants — but one of this year’s picks was particularly exhilarating: comic artist Lynda Barry.
UW-Madison brain scan studies seek to pinpoint signs of Alzheimer’s
Wisconsin State Journal
Every weekday, a steel machine inside the concrete vault basement of a research building near UW Hospital produces radioactive atoms used to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
UW-Madison Saw Second Highest Big Ten Voter Turnout In 2018
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin-Madison had the second highest voter turnout in 2018 of any Big Ten university in the nation. With the help of a concerted volunteer effort to increase political engagement, voting increased on campus by nearly 20 percent compared with turnout in 2014.
How MacArthur ‘genius’ Lynda Barry is exploring brain creativity with true artists: Preschoolers
The Washington Post
As an associate professor of interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Barry is pushing the envelope on understanding how the brain creates and responds to words and pictures — a scholarly envelope that, in her mind, should be positively covered with illuminating doodles.
‘Toxic’ Professor Won’t Be Teaching Next Semester
Inside Higher Education
Akbar Sayeed, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, won’t return to the classroom next semester, according to the Wisconsin State-Journal, if he returns to campus at all following his two-year suspension for creating a “toxic” environment for students in his lab.
UW sees voter increase, wins awards for voter turnout
Badger Herald
The Big Ten Voting Challenge was created in 2017. It’s a nonpartisan initiative in which 14 universities of the Big Ten Conference compete to see who has the highest voter turnout.
UW-Madison professor at center of ‘toxic’ lab won’t teach next semester
Wisconsin State Journal
The tenured engineering professor, Akbar Sayeed, has been reassigned from teaching to unspecified administrative duties in the Dean’s Office while officials continue to develop specific oversight and monitoring procedures if he returns to working with students, College of Engineering Dean Ian Robertson said Wednesday.
UW-Madison student voter turnout strong in 2018 midterm elections
WKOW-TV 27
Students at UW-Madison had the second highest voter turnout among the Big Ten schools in the 2018 midterm elections.
Brenda Gonzalez acts as a bilingual bridge by removing barriers, helping underserved populations
WISC-TV 3
When Brenda Gonzalez joined the board of directors of Access Community Health Centers in 2017, she wasn’t looking to shake things up.
UW-Madison to raise minimum wage for workers to $15 an hour
NBC-15
The UW-Madison will raise the minimum wage to $15 for the university’s hourly employees, according to a release Friday. The raise will be effective in the spring of 2020.
First class of UW Health’s medical assistant registered apprenticeship program
NBC-15
A monumental feat for 19 brand new graduates at UW Health.
UW-Madison announces $15 minimum wage for hourly employees
WISC-TV 3
The announcement follows a proposal released Friday by Gov. Tony Evers to raise state employees’ minimum wage to $15.
UW to increase minimum wage to $15 an hour
Badger Herald
Increase to affect workers in custodial, food service, animal care, not student workers.
State of Wisconsin, UW-Madison to raise minimum hourly wage for employees to $15
Wisconsin State Journal
The state of Wisconsin, including UW-Madison, intends to increase the minimum wage for its hourly employees to $15 an hour, according to statements issued Friday by the university and Gov. Tony Evers.
Wisconsin Badgers will honor Howard Moore before Friday night’s game
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball fans are encouraged to be in their seats 15 minutes early for the home opener against Eastern Illinois on Friday night.
Breaking precedent, UW System presidential search panel has no faculty, academic staff
Wisconsin State Journal
The head of the UW Board of Regents has broken decades of precedent by appointing a search committee for the next University of Wisconsin System president that does not include any faculty members or academic staff.
Wisconsin School Settles Windsurfer Death Lawsuit for $850K
AP
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has settled a lawsuit by the family of a windsurfer killed in a collision with a university boat.
With so much emphasis on the cost of higher education, UW students are graduating faster than ever
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
New data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows students at the state’s flagship campus are getting out faster than ever, in light of mounting national concerns and conversations about the rising cost of college.
In wake of ‘toxic’ lab story, UW-Madison plans to start centrally tracking bullying complaints
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison plans to start centrally tracking complaints of hostile and intimidating behavior to better identify patterns of bullying, such as the “abusive” conduct graduate students experienced in an engineering professor‘s lab.
Starship Technologies to deploy 30 delivery robots on UW-Madison campus
FreightWaves
Robotic delivery company Starship Technologies is deploying 30 robots at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, giving more than 66,000 students, staff and faculty access to autonomous food delivery.
Starship Robots Roll Out to University of Wisconsin-Madison, Can They Survive the Winter?
The Spoon
This type of inclement weather was actually the first thing I thought about when Starship sent me a press release today announcing that its robots are now rolling around the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M), delivering food.
UW-Madison: Average Graduation Time For 2015 Freshman Less Than 4 Years
wpr
“This is excellent news for Wisconsin families concerned about the cost of higher education,” said Blank, “We know that students who take longer than four years often accrue additional debt. It is our goal that as many undergraduates as possible complete their program of studies in four years.”
UW-Madison failed to inform federal agency of ‘abusive’ professor’s conduct, unpaid leave
Wisconsin State Journal
Over 800 new UW-Madison students to receive free tuition through Bucky’s Tuition Promise
WISC-TV 3
Over 800 new University of Wisconsin-Madison students are receiving free tuition through Bucky’s Tuition Promise.
Ray Cross to retire after five years leading UW System, 42 years in higher education
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is leaving his job after five years overseeing public universities and colleges across the state — stepping away from a career in education spanning more than four decades.
‘Toxic’ lab lasted for years. UW-Madison had little idea until a student died by suicide
Wisconsin State Journal
By the time UW-Madison realized something was wrong in the Wireless Communication and Sensing Laboratory, it was too late for John Brady.
After 5 years overseeing UW campuses, System President Ray Cross announces retirement
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross announced Friday his intention to retire from his position overseeing the state’s public universities and colleges.
Hamel Center celebrates opening, bringing “Wisconsin touch after Wisconsin touch” to music school
The Capital Times
After nearly three years of anticipation and extensive construction, students, donors and faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gathered Friday evening to celebrate the Hamel Music Center, a state-of-the-art facility that promises improved performance and recital venues for the Mead Witter School of Music.
Google opens new Madison office, expands to over 100 local employees
NBC-15
Jeff Naughton, Principal Scientist and Google Madison Site Lead, says Google can thank the UW-Madison for the office’s growth. “The connection has created a strong pipeline of talent that has allowed us to create more jobs here,” Naughton says.
UW-Madison Students Of Color Form Coalition To Fight For Equity For Marginalized Students
Wisconsin Public Radio
A group of students of color at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created the Student Inclusion Coalition with a goal of fighting for “equity, inclusion and cultural humility across campus.”
New Hamel Music Center to open
Madison Magazine
When the Overture Center for the Arts opened in 2005, Madison obtained a crown jewel of a performance venue that remains the envy of many a larger city. Meanwhile, the students, faculty and guest artists who are part of the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison remained trapped in Mills Music Hall, and the other inadequate facilities in the outdated Humanities building.
Wall Street Journal columnist to speak at UW Winter Commencement
WKOW-TV 27
A sports columnist from the Wall Street Journal will be the keynote speaker at Winter Commencement at UW-Madison.
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay to give UW-Madison’s 2019 winter commencement speech
WISC-TV 3
“Chancellor Blank must have meant to ask J.J. Watt again,” Gay said, “but when she typed in the first ’J,’ my name came up in the email address, and she didn’t notice until it was too late.”
Jason Gay to be winter commencement speaker
Badger Herald
In a video announcement, Gay said he is “honored and somewhat shocked” to be asked to give the commencement speech this winter.
Wall Street Journal columnist to speak at UW-Madison winter commencement
Wisconsin State Journal
Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay will deliver the keynote address at UW-Madison’s winter commencement ceremony, the university announced Wednesday.
‘UW-Madison did not create a home for us’: Students behind inclusion video lead charge for change
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. – A video made by a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students has thousands of views as the students behind it push for more inclusion on campus for people of color.