Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Information technology managers in healthcare received a heavy dose of reality about IT integration in their field during the opening session of WTN Media’s Digital Healthcare Conference.
The conference, which is being held May 3 and 4 at the Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, featured an opening panel discussion in which there was very little self-congratulation about how far the industry has come with information systems.
Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Information technology managers in healthcare received a heavy dose of reality about IT integration in their field during the opening session of WTN Media’s Digital Healthcare Conference.
The conference, which is being held May 3 and 4 at the Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, featured an opening panel discussion in which there was very little self-congratulation about how far the industry has come with information systems.
A three-year push in the Legislature to amend the Wisconsin Constitution to control government spending died late Thursday.
AS A grizzled veteran from the front lines of the urban parking war, I am always interested when new technology enters the fray.
The fray I am referencing is our effort to park our cars, usually downtown or on campus, matched against the effort of various government and private entities to make certain we pay for the privilege.
On Wednesday, USA Today reported that the University of Wisconsin-Madison is on the cutting edge of this battle.
After the University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate approved a revised version of university policy regarding the suspension of faculty members Monday, one professor is questioning what will happen should the Board of Regents disagree.
Campus administrators in the University of Wisconsin System are raising student fees without appropriate oversight by students and the Board of Regents, according to an audit set to come before the regents today.
But Regent Thomas Loftus, who called for the audit, doesn’t want to limit the fees or make other major changes to them. He said that with dwindling state support, the UW System needs to be able to raise fees as it sees fit.
“We might find ourselves in a situation in which the system has to rely on tuition and fees a lot more,” he said.
Chancellor John Wiley approved $145,000 of funding Tuesday for the UW Roman Catholic Foundationââ?¬â?a UW-Madison student group whose segregated fee funding was in question because of the religious nature of the group.
Chancellor John Wiley signed off on the University of Wisconsin Roman Catholic Foundation budget, passing the controversial decision of whether to fund the religious student organization on to the Board of Regents.
MILWAUKEE (AP) – The University of Wisconsin System has stopped implementing new payroll software that cost $26 million in tax and tuition funds, the system’s executive vice president says.
Don Mash told the state Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities that the software, which was made by Lawson, may be scrapped altogether in favor of software made by Oracle or the 30-year-old homegrown software the system now uses.
“We couldn’t make this work,” he told the panel Tuesday. “We’ve got to dig ourselves out of this hole.”
….On Friday and Saturday, Shain will be honored with two days of activities, highlighted by the dedication of the Irving Shain Chemistry Research Tower, the most modern of the three chemistry buildings. It is located at the corner of Johnson and Charter streets.
Billed as “an exciting weekend of science and celebration,” the tribute will include educational, social and artistic events, including a little classical music.
“I am delighted, I’ll tell you that,” said Shain in an interview this week.
MILWAUKEE – The University of Wisconsin System has stopped implementing new payroll software that cost $26 million in tax and tuition funds, the system’s executive vice president says.
Don Mash told the state Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities that the software, which was made by Lawson, may be scrapped altogether in favor of software made by Oracle or the 30-year-old homegrown software the system now uses.
UW-Madison is again No. 1 this time for its concrete canoe.
Student engineers beat 11 other schools Friday by building and racing the best and fastest concrete canoe across Monona Bay.
Milwaukee, Wis. – Abbas Ourmazd could look 80 miles to the west and be extremely jealous of the pace of building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s not.
MADISON, Wis. — Nearly a year after WISC-TV found a massive and expensive UW System computer project mired in delays, project management problems and cost overruns, there is still no finish date or final price tag in sight.
A proposed constitutional amendment to limit state spending, passed last week by the Assembly, ran into trouble on two fronts Monday.
A fiscal report said it would have produced virtually no change in state revenue growth over the last decade, and a Senate committee hammered it for not going far enough.
The limits would have capped annual revenue growth at 4.6 percent between fiscal years 1995 and 2004, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau report said. Actual annual revenue growth over those years was 4.5 percent.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley today delayed the question of how much latitude to give a Catholic organization in receiving student-funding dollars.
He “provisionally” approved the student budget but said he will not allow funds to be released until the issue is sorted out.
Wiley said in a memo he believes the university is not authorized to give money to explicitly religious activities, but noted that religious organizations can receive some funding for secular or educational programming.
Just when you think you know everything about Madison, along comes Gwen Evans.
The Madison native has produced a nifty guide to the city that will be an excellent resource for longtime residents as well as clueless visitors. “Madison: The Guide” ($13.95, Jones Books) offers a new look at the festivals, quirks, businesses and unique diversions that make the capital city distinctive, attractive and endearing.
The new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges and UW Extension, David Wilson, completed his first day in office Monday.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students voted to keep their university�s name as it is, according to voting results revealed late Sunday.
At least a dozen local businesses closed, hundreds of students stayed away from school and thousands of people rallied at the state Capitol Monday to highlight the contributions that immigrants make to the local economy and society.
The Madison event was part of a nationwide “Day Without Immigrants,” designed to pressure lawmakers to change U.S. law to provide a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. They were urged to take the day off work and school.
MILWAUKEE – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students have voted and they say they don’t want the school’s name changed.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.73-billion as of April 20 (increase of $74.6-million since March 3); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
ANYONE WITH an interest in Madison history and a free moment on Tuesday should consider stopping at the Italian Workmen’s Club on Regent Street, where a daylong conference, “The Greenbush: Past, Present, Future,” is being held.
This free-to-the-public event is a culmination of a yearlong project on the Greenbush – the triangular neighborhood formed by Park Street, Regent Street and West Washington Avenue that was undone by “urban renewal” in the 1960s – undertaken by Mark Wagler’s fifth-grade class at Randall School, with considerable assistance from the UW’s Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, local organizations and historians including Catherine Tripalin Murray, Carol and Iza Goroff, Joe “Buffo” Cerniglia and Anne Paratore Dinsmore.
….(Gary) Tipler’s efforts toward preserving our community’s historic heritage as well as its architectural treasures will be recognized when he receives the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation Personal Advocacy Award this week.
….As a senior project at UW-Madison, Tipler wrote and produced a walking tour booklet on Williamson Street. He went on to do similar publications for the Mansion Hill and First Settlement neighborhoods.
Roberta Sladky says there was no “ah ha!” moment when she realized she’d just made a career change, one that led her this month to the director’s office at Olbrich Botanical Gardens.
Perhaps not; but Sladky’s college buddies from Chadbourne Hall at UW-Madison noticed something. At a get-together not long ago, they all remembered “how Bobbie loved that botany class!”
A UW-Madison professor dismissed earlier this month for a felony conviction collected pornographic images on his school computer for a decade, according to documents released Friday.
It’s not uncommon to hear administrators at public universities joke that their institutions once were “state supported,” then became “state assisted,” and now are merely “state located.”
The farm gate is always open at the West Madison AgriculturalResearch Station, and this Saturday people of all ages are invited to come outto Family Horticulture Day to get their hands dirty in the garden.
A steady April shower dampened, but didn’t dull, the Mifflin Street Block Party Saturday afternoon.
But the heavier, persistent rain later in the day did ensure that police had the streets clear before 7 p.m.
Assembly Speaker John Gard proclaimed in a news release that, with the passage of the Wisconsin Taxpayer Protection Amendment early Friday, Assembly Republicans had kept their promise to taxpayers. If he was able to put that news release together with a straight face, he deserves to be commended.
At best, the GOP kept only part of its promise to taxpayers to place a constitutional limit on the ability of state and local governments to spend and raise money. And it did even that in a manner that showed only disdain for voters and for the state constitution.
Transport 2020 began with representatives from Madison, Dane County, the state and UW- Madison developing a transportation plan to cope with traffic growth projections. The plan envisions a commuter rail system running from Middleton through Madison’s Isthmus to East Towne Mall, with connecting express bus service to suburban areas.
But investing more money in updating the water system will be a challenge. Madison’s water utility is entirely supported by money that comes from rate payers – homeowners, businesses and public institutions such as UW-Madison.
Key Republican senators oppose an Assembly-passed constitutional amendment to limit state government spending – opposition that will make it hard, if not impossible, for the Senate to approve it in the final week of the legislative session.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students voted overwhelmingly in favor of their hyphen, stifling an attempt to change the name of the school.
Republicans who run the Legislature have marched in step on legalizing concealed weapons, barring gay marriage and banning human cloning, but when it comes to amending the constitution to limit taxes, they are a fractious group.
Ten years ago, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was taken to court by several of its law students who challenged a requirement that all students pay a fee to fund student organizations on campus.
The university said the goal of the student fee program was to expose students to a variety of opinions and activities. The law students argued that it violated their free speech by forcing them to support groups they found offensive, such as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Campus Center.
The case – Southworth vs. The UW System Board of Regents – was litigated all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in 2000, the court ruled that UW-Madison’s student fee program was constitutional, but only if the money was distributed to student organizations regardless of their viewpoints.
The decision, which affected public universities across the country, is now being tested on the campus where it began.
Editor’s note: Due to a technological error, the top four paragraphs of this story did not appear when it ran in Thursday’s edition on Page A1. The story is reprinted here in its entirety.
The long-standing efforts of unions, students and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to improve the lot of limited term employees could be coming to a successful end.
A proposal to raise 400 of the 1,300 LTEs on campus to full-time status and guarantee a living wage of $10.23 an hour to all LTEs was made Thursday by the LTE collaboration committee to UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley at a closed-door meeting in Bascom Hall.
The United States is emerging as the prison guard of the world, Angela Davis told a UW-Madison audience Thursday.
Between the prisoners the U.S. is holding in Iraq and Afghanistan and in secret CIA prisons, the county is promoting strategies of incarceration based on torture, said Davis, the former Black Panther Party� member who now is chair of feminist studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz.
The evidence of torture in military prisons only highlights what is already going on in domestic prisons, she said.
The state Assembly narrowly approved a hastily crafted, stripped-down version of a constitutional amendment to limit state spending shortly before dawn this morning after an all-night session.
The Republican-controlled Assembly voted 50-48 to approve the measure shortly after 4:30. Lawmakers struggled to keep their eyes open and several dozed in their seats. Democrats railed against Republicans for trying to pass a constitutional amendment they drafted in the wee hours without a public hearing or committee review.
Chancellor John Wiley addressed the Limited Term Employee Collaboration Committee Thursday morning, thanking them for their hard work and calling the information he has heard thus far about their upcoming proposal encouraging.
Chancellor John Wiley and other University of Wisconsin officials met with students and workers from various campus organizations Thursday morning to continue discussion on a proposal regarding university limited-term employees.
Just two weeks after announcing its first acquisition, Imago Scientific Instruments said it has raised $3.4 million of funding.
That Imago was able to pull in funding from a number of investors, none of them local, is another sign of the value being created at many of the companies that have been spun out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said John Neis, senior partner at Venture Investors, a Madison venture capital firm.
In an unprecedented move, Chancellor Carlos Santiago is moving from the official residence that comes with the top post at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and into one of Milwaukee’s priciest condominium buildings.
Santiago said in an interview Thursday that he and his wife, a professor at UWM, had purchased a condo in Kilbourn Tower, where the average unit costs $900,000. He said they would move in after commencement.
“My wife said it’s time to move out of public housing,” he said.
The state Assembly this morning called for the first constitutional limit on state spending but refused to recommend similar controls on local governments.
The Assembly voted, 50-48, to limit growth of state government’s general fund – its single biggest account, which will spend more than $19 billion this year – to 90% of the average growth in personal income over the previous three years. The general fund includes $11.8 billion in state taxes, fees, and about $6.5 billion a year in federal aid.
The longstanding efforts of unions, students and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to improve the lot of limited term employees could be coming to a successful end.
A proposal to raise 400 of the 1,300 LTEs on campus to full-time status and guarantee a living wage of $10.23 an hour to all LTEs was made today by the LTE collaboration committee to UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley at a closed-door meeting in Bascom Hall.
While Wiley wouldn’t comment to the press, committee member and Dane County Board Supervisor Ashok Kumar told The Capital Times that the meeting went very well, and that Wiley seemed very receptive to the proposal.
Supporters of a plan to reconstruct the student unions have said they will aim to re-educate students about the proposal when the measure goes on the ballot this fall.
MADISON ââ?¬â? University of Wisconsin-Whitewater demoted a longtime dean on Wednesday after an audit questioned his use of university money on language lessons, a personal cell phone and an Internet dating site.
Chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System would stop receiving $700-a-month car stipends and start leasing cars through the state Department of Administration under a recommendation by the system’s president that could cost Wisconsin taxpayers more money.
There are currently 1,783 University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni living or working in La Crosse who may have noticed over the past year the University of Wisconsin has received a considerable amount of bad press. From the UW�s reputation as the No. 1 party school to its lack of diversity, criticism of the university is the highest it�s been in recent memory.
Republican legislators who want constitutional limits on state and local spending will offer a fallback plan today – a strict cap only on state spending – if they can’t get the Assembly to also restrain municipalities and school districts.
Assembly Republicans today unveiled yet another version of a proposed constitutional amendment to limit taxes and spending as leaders acknowledged that no version has enough votes to pass.
The latest version of the so-called Taxpayers Protection Amendment was outlined this morning by Rep. Frank Lasee, R-Bellevue.
Take my money – please.
You’d think they’d find a way to spend it, but the folks at the supposedly cash-starved University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are sitting on a $1 million grant from the Indian Community School of Milwaukee.
Spending a million bucks, now that’s the type of problem most university bosses would die for.
Instead, the two sides are only now making progress in this most unusual spat over who’s going to be stuck with the 1999 grant: UWM has finally agreed to keep the loot, which was earmarked to train teachers in educating Indian students.
The University of Wisconsin�s Department of Economics now has funds to establish a new professorship thanks to a $1 million donation announced Monday.
Hoping to keep a handle on the easy flow of beer and liquor, Madison police plan to double their efforts to crack down on illegal alcohol sales at house parties during Saturday’s Mifflin Street Block Party.
Recently, and without a public hearing, the Assembly Ways and Means Committee passed on a 7-6 vote a new version of the Taxpayers Protection Amendment that would rewrite Wisconsin’s constitution to create a revenue limit restricting the amount of revenue state and local units of government can raise from taxes, fines, fees and other sources.
A program that helps breast cancer patients is giving a whole new meaning to computer support. The Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System, or CHESS for short, helps patients communicate online.It is an alternative to face-to-face support groups.
CHESS was created by UW-Madison faculty 15-years ago, before Internet as we know it now existed. Now it is getting natio
Rumors of a federal crackdown on illegal immigrants in the Madison area spun out of control Sunday, causing fear and panic in the Hispanic community and keeping many children out of school today.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said that Mario Mendoza, a Spanish-speaking aide, was preparing a statement for Spanish-language media.
“There’s no truth to the rumors,” Cieslewicz said. “People should just go about their normal daily lives.””We don’t know how it started, but it ran like wildfire in the Latino community,” said Luis Montoto, program director for La Movida radio, the area’s only Spanish-language station.
It may be a record: 109 special-interest groups have told the state Ethics Board they are lobbying on a proposal that would amend the Wisconsin Constitution to put limits on state and local government spending.
And 81 of them – including local governments, unions, health care providers, the Wisconsin Catholic Conference and AARP – are trying to kill what Republican legislators call the Taxpayer Protection Amendment.
An all-but completed agreement between Milwaukee Area Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison promises to achieve at least two worthwhile objectives: making a first-class college education more affordable to local students and promoting racial diversity at Madison. The plan has only one minor shortcoming, but this is likely to be corrected soon.
As an alumnus (64, 66,70), joining other alumni in the struggle to make sense of this the very public battle on the Madison Campus, I was enriched by your editorial entitled ââ?¬Å?Vindicatedââ?¬Â in the April 18 issue of The Badger Herald.
