A new Legislature-mandated policy to set guidelines on how much cash reserves each state campus can carry forward met significant resistance at a Friday meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin System budgeted $1.63 billion in salaries for the 2012-13 academic year, a 1 percent, $16.3 million increase over the previous year, according to a State Journal analysis of System data.
A meeting between the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and state legislators last week to find common ground in the wake of recent disputes over cash reserves. But discussions during the meeting about rethinking shared governance had some faculty feeling like they were left holding the bag for administrators? actions ? and that their decision-making authority within the system was under threat.
Under a new policy being discussed by the Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin System campuses would be required to carry over between 10% and 15% of their unrestricted cash balances each year to maintain a healthy financial cushion.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The University of Wisconsin System?s next leader faces a complex financial world marked by dwindling government dollars and questions about whether a college degree is worth the cost, outgoing system President Kevin Reilly told a pair of search committees Friday.
State lawmakers and University of Wisconsin System administrators came together Thursday at an event meant to repair strained relationships following last April?s discovery of the system?s $650 million in reserves.
Madison ? The University of Wisconsin System invited state legislators to a summit on the UW-Madison campus Thursday to begin rebuilding trust and credibility with lawmakers, and to improve communication in the wake of a blow-up over the UW amassing sizable cash balances without lawmakers? knowledge.
Madison ? University of Wisconsin System officials hope to avoid future dust-ups with the Legislature over how much cash the system and its campuses carry forward from year to year through a new procedure that promises full disclosure of budget details previously not shared.
Following state budget negotiations in the spring that were variously described as ?a few bumps in the road? by Sen. Sheila Harsdorf to ?a big blowup? by Sen. Alberta Darling, lawmakers and state university officials spent Thursday afternoon talking out their problems in surprisingly blunt terms.
MADISON ? The Wisconsin Assembly?s top Republican told University of Wisconsin System regents Thursday to decide whether their job is to promote the system or protect taxpayers during a conference designed to rebuild the system?s relationship with legislators.
While new UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank seems genuinely thrilled to be back on a college campus after five years in Washington DC, it seems clear to us her perspective on her new job extends well beyond Bascom Hall and environs.
Wisconsin Badgers fans can expect “a substantially larger number of vendors in the stands” at this Saturday?s game, a UW-Madison athletic department spokesman said in an email late Tuesday. It?s not yet clear where the new vendors will come from or how they?ll be trained.
UW-Madison has hired a former Capitol Hill staffer and university administrator as interim director of federal relations, a job vacant since the July retirement of longtime director Rhonda Norsetter.
From his sun-drenched perch in the top row of Section KK in the upper deck of Camp Randall Stadium, Jeff Tracy kept one eye on the action on the field between the University of Wisconsin Badgers and their opening game opponents from UMass, and one eye on the lookout for a vendor bringing some liquid refreshment.
I had to be on the UW-Madison campus today and it was all wonderful congestion. Cars and trucks were lined up to unload stuff into the dorms. Packs of new students and parents were being led around by perky upper classman in red shirts, pointing out where to go for pizza, books and school supplies. (No mention of bars that I could overhear.) It was hot and humid amid hazy sunshine just as it should be.
Calling herself a “fellow newbie,” UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank told thousands of freshman and transfer students at a convocation Friday to leave their comfort zone as they enter college by embracing the diversity of their classmates, taking classes that intrigue them even if they?re not required and asking for help when things get rough.
For over nine years, José Madera has been working with the Academic Advancement Program (AAP), a campus-wide academic support program deeply committed to the retention of all students and enrichment of their academic experience at UW-Madison.
The city of Madison has proclaimed Friday to be John ?Vietnam? Nguyen Day, which marks the one-year anniversary of the death of the 19-year-old UW-Madison student and Chicago-raised hip-hop artist who drowned in Lake Mendota.
If you haven?t already flipped the channel by the time halftime programming starts during college football games, you may have noticed that the schools playing usually get a 30-second spot in which they can promote their institution.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will host a conference next week aimed at improving university relations with state lawmakers, which frayed publicly during the recent state budget discussions.
Navigating streets around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus could take a bit more patience Wednesday and Thursday.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank sat down Monday with The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald and answered questions on a range of student issues. (Interview transcription)
In a meeting with campus press Monday in her recently unpacked office atop Bascom Hill, new University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank stressed the importance of building relationships with the campus community and legislators, upholding responsibility to the state and utilizing new revenue streams.
Hector DeLuca, Rock Mackie and Richard Davidson have the kind of academic credentials admired by their academic colleagues at UW-Madison and far beyond.
Preliminary autopsy results showed that Richard de la Cruz, a 20-year-old UW-Madison student, died of an accidental drowning, according to Barry Irmen, director of operations for the medical examiner?s office.
In announcing the system, the president lauded specific programs throughout the country for cutting students? time to graduation and introducing innovative ways to deliver classes, including the flexible degree option being rolled out this year by the University of Wisconsin System to help adult students earn degrees with a ?show what you know? competency-based approach.
Authorities say a 20-year-old man who drowned while swimming in Lake Mendota was a new student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Divers in Dane County have recovered the body of a missing swimmer from Lake Mendota.
After touring Milwaukee last week, new UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank spent this week reaching out to various groups in Madison. Below are comments from her Monday conversation with the State Journal at her Bascom Hall office, which still contains many unopened bankers boxes as she tries to get things arranged after moving with her husband and daughter from the Washington, D.C., area.
A leaked early version of a major forthcoming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations-affiliated panel of scientists that is often cited as the world?s top authority on global warming, is grabbing headlines this week. [Includes comment from Jim Kossin, one of the report’s authors and research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.]
Rebecca Blank jokes that if she really sought the biggest public relations boost possible for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she would have stayed longer in her old job.
News3?s Michelle Li interviewed UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank Tuesday. Michelle asked Blank questions submitted by viewers.
For the third straight year, UW-Madison is ranked 19th among the world?s universities.
Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison?s new chancellor and the former U.S. commerce secretary, says one of her top priorities is ensuring UW remains central to the state?s economic growth.
An interview this week with Chris Meyer, who as a UW-Madison student developed the idea for the collaborative makerspace Sector67 ? now targeted for a proposed major start-up hub in Madison ? has me thinking about the university?s role in innovation.
Attention Badger alumni: You?ll be hearing soon from new University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
A video interview by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, with Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
A Dane County farmer is giving the University of Wisconsin?s new football coach, Gary Andersen, a big welcome. Really big.
UW Moving Days took place again in Madison to keep items that can be reused or recycled out of landfills, as thousands of students move in or out of their apartments this week.
Tammy Baldwin readily admits she has a soft spot for academic researchers and the federal dollars that often help to support them. Her grandfather was a UW-Madison biochemist who worked at the Institute for Enzyme Research for decades.
Last spring, Sam Hughes applied to college after finishing a nearly eight-year stint in the Air Force that included a tour in Afghanistan. The 27-year-old Virginian got acceptance letters from two elite schools ? UW-Madison and Columbia University ? but couldn?t believe the cost difference.
First, two teams of virologists created more dangerous versions of the deadly H5N1 flu. Now they want to give the H7N9 virus, which has already sickened at least 134 people and killed 43 people in Asia, a few new capabilities: drug resistance, faster transmission between people and the ability to sneak past the immune system.
Gov. Scott Walker announced plans Wednesday for new University of Wisconsin buildings for dairy and meat science, according to a release.
Future students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s dairy and meat science program can look forward to learning in a state of the art facility. On Wednesday, Governor Scott Walker announced renovation plans for the The Babcock Hall, Center for Dairy Research, and the Meat Science and Muscle Biology Laboratory. The work is expected to be completed by 2018.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been recognized in a number of recent college rankings, including the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) survey, “Fiske Guide to Colleges,” and Livability.com?s top college towns.
Before auctioning off cattle, pigs and sheep at the governor?s annual blue ribbon livestock auction at the Wisconsin State Fair, Gov. Scott Walker announced Wednesday that proposed renovations of University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings for dairy and meat science research will go forward as planned.
They haven?t formed a search committee yet to replace Kevin Reilly as president of the UW System, but already there are calls to hire someone with private sector credibility who can work with a Republican-controlled statehouse.
?Macabre? is not an adjective that applies to many blogs of any sort, let alone ones by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalists. In the case of Deborah Blum?s Elemental, one of Wired?s science blogs, it fits ? because her primary subject is poison, and most often poison that?s intentionally administered in the hopes of killing someone.
The pendulum has fallen off its pin and is stuck in the mud. We must find ways to stimulate and scale change across institutions?as well as to sustain those changes?if we are to create models that can serve the expanding needs of our learners.
University of Wisconsin-Madison?s titan arum ? or ?corpse plant? ? is, at this writing, in full bloom, but the time to see and smell the rare, foul-smelling plant is limited.
The Titan Arum plant began blooming inside UW-Madison?s D.C. Smith Greenhouse around noon on Thursday, August 1 and should reach full bloom sometime Thursday evening.
Camp Randall gets a major makeover ahead of football season. It?s a project that started almost three years ago, and now the crew is in stage three. It?s the final one of the $86 million dollar face-lift.
UW-Madison has selected Raymond Taffora, former chief deputy attorney general at the state Department of Justice, as the new vice chancellor for legal affairs.
UW System President Kevin Reilly will leave his position at UW to advise the American Council on Education (ACE) in January 2014 and return to teaching.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is leaving his job after nine years defined by soaring enrollment gains, steep cuts in state funding, large tuition hikes and fierce political battles. He?ll leave at the end of the year to advise the American Council on Education and return to teaching.
Just months after being lambasted by the Legislature, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced Tuesday that he will leave his job at the end of the year.
Kevin P. Reilly, whose presidency of the University of Wisconsin system has coincided with some of the state?s most contentious debates about the role of the flagship campus and the future of collective bargaining, will resign from his position in January after more than nine years at the helm, university officials announced on Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced his resignation on Tuesday, following a tumultuous six months that saw an angry backlash from the Republican-controlled Legislature over how the university was handling its money.
What is surprising: the University of Wisconsin System?s ranking in both categories. It?s a behemoth in getting money, ranking ninth nationally in 2011 with $594 million in federal money. But it?s a relative pipsqueak in shelling out the cash its peers do to win influence and feed the D.C.-to-Madison pipeline. — Also: With Rebecca Blank starting as UW-Madison chancellor, it?s time to announce awards to her fellow finalists for the job, who made high-profile visits to campus in the spring:
A UW-Madison building was partially evacuated Monday after a training grenade was found by a staff member while cleaning a desk.
