Madison: Public financing for elections has been around for quite a while. In Wisconsin you can check off a box on your state income tax returns to put money into a fund.
But a crowd of Professors gathered at the Fluno Center Saturday were skeptical. “It’s pretty clear that the Wisconsin system doesn’t work. The amounts of funding just aren’t enough to make it worthwhile for candidates to take them,” says UW Political Science Professor Ken Mayer.
Members of the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections heard testimony Wednesday about merging the state Elections and Ethics Board into one entity, a step lawmakers say is the first substantial move toward cleaning up Wisconsin politics.
A University of Wisconsin System committee finalized recommendations for a new disciplinary process to remove employees in egregious situations Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin has joined the ranks of North American universities with endowments surpassing $1 billion, according to a survey released Monday.
It wasn’t so long ago when a highly connected campus was one where each dorm room had its own phone line. But in order to remain competitive in the 21st century, a college has to support wireless networking, provide ultra high-speed connections to classrooms and even allow students to take classes online.
UW-Madison is on the list.
KIMBERLY ââ?¬â? A crowd of about 1,300 clapped, shouted, and danced through a performance by 160 members of the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band on Sunday in the Kimberly High School gym.
Band director Craig Gall said Kimberly has hosted the UW band 14 of the last 15 years.
Each show has been sponsored by Gib and Donna Schoen in memory of their daughter Sherry, a Kimberly graduate and four-year member of the UW band who was killed in a car accident in 1990.
The number of North American colleges with endowments topping $1 billion has jumped to 56, a new study says, with nine schools joining the elite club in what was an average year for university investments overall.
Included: University of Wisconsin Foundation.
One of the three finalists for the provost position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has taken a job elsewhere.
Kumble Subbaswamy, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, has accepted the position of provost at the University of Kentucky, according to the latter university’s Web site.
For more than a decade, the Wisconsin Seasonal Residents Association has been fielding questions from nonresident parents looking for a price break on undergraduate tuition, the logic being they supported Wisconsin schools through property taxes for years.
When I was an undergraduate at UW-Madison 30 years ago, I was surrounded by students from families of modest means who were able to go through four years of college, graduate, and go on to a more prosperous life than that of their parents, with no loan debt.
A UW-Madison graduate student was injured early Wednesday morning as he was robbed while walking home on the near West Side, according to Madison police.
If the coal phase-out goes according to plan, that will leave just two small coal-fired operations left inside city limits: UW-Madison’s Charter Street plant and the state’s Capitol Heat and Power Plant east of Capitol Square.
When remembering Martin Luther King, Jr., many people recall his powerful speeches, or an image of him leading a throng of people in a civil rights protest.
Campus police officers in the University of Wisconsin System say their resources are limited due to underfunding. Limited resources have led to staffing shortages and a lack of crime-prevention outreach programs, which the UW Board of Regents plans to review soon.
In her Dec. 14 Opinion piece, “Why not all executions deter murder,” Joanna Shepherd suggests that executions deter homicides in only one in five states that impose death sentences.
Author: Steven Durlauf, Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As Ellen Johnson Sirleaf begins her first days as president of Liberia, she probably won’t have time to reflect on how far she’s come since her days as a busgirl in Madison.
Sirleaf is the first female leader of an African nation. But before making history, she got an accounting degree from the now defunct Madison College of Business back in 1964.
When she was first elected last year, former UW Dean of L&S Phil Certain looked her up to see if she attended the University of Wisconsin. “Her name was not in the records but her husband’s name was in the records. He was a master’s degree student at the University at the time.”
Quoted: LaMarr Billups, special assistant to the chancellor at UW-Madison.
Not too many children and grandchildren of University of Wisconsin System alumni are taking up an offer for discounted non-resident tuition under a three-year pilot program.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly wants comments from the public on a developing plan to draw the proper line between resident assistants’ rights as students and their responsibilities as state employees supervising other students in campus dorms.
Madison police and city streets were tied up Wednesday as a vigilant public reported at four suspicious objects in the wake of recent pipe bomb attacks.
“Takes Five” interview with UW-River Falls chancellor Don Betz. Mentions UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley’s attendance at a summit on international education.
….In 1980, the year of one of Burr’s most famous prosecutions – the Barbara Hoffman murder case – he had 25 trials. He has long since stopped counting, but the total must be 500 or more.
….His first jury trial involved four defendants in what became known as the Gordon Commons food riot. “It had anti-war overtones,” Burr said….
Move over, buckyball & biotech: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is about to become famous for, believe it not, cars.
Yup, cars.
The university is leasing three new cars as part of a program that will surely bring, if not fame at least the sincere appreciation of local environmentally conscious types who care about things like energy conservation and global warming and the basic quality of life-as-we-know-it energy issues.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is launching a $100 million fund-raising campaign and has recruited four of Milwaukee’s most prominent businessmen to spearhead it.
Faculty, administrators and others associated with the University of Wisconsin gave $374,054 to political candidates or parties in last year’s federal election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Ninety-six percent of those contributions went to Democrats, the center says.
Gloria Johnson-Powell, associate dean at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will be the featured speaker at Madison’s annual commemoration of the life and legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Johnson-Powell was a student of civil rights hero James Lawson, one of several young leaders King trained to carry the struggle for civil rights throughout the country. She later became the first black female full professor at Harvard Medical School.
A Latin dance club and sports bar is coming to the vacant Luther’s Blues nightclub space near UW-Madison.
And more options to drink, dine and dance in the city are coming, too.
I just finished watching the Badgers on television and couldn�t believe my ears. We, the taxpayers, are paying $600,000 per year for an athletic director and $750,000 a year for a football coach, and these salaries go up every year for the next five years?
Paul Barrows, the University of Wisconsin-Madison administrator who says he was wrongly demoted, will finally get to face his accusers at an appeals hearing. The former vice chancellor for student affairs learned on Dec. 14 that the Academic Staff Appeals Committee granted his request for a hearing to appeal his demotion.
The burden of proof will be on the university to prove that his June demotion, from a higher-paying backup job to one that only paid half as well, was warranted.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.619-billion as of December 8 (increase of $10.9-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
The Wisconsin’s State Journal’s editorial board considers the following issues to be among the most important facing Wisconsin in 2006. Throughout this year, we’ll be writing about them and evaluating how Wisconsin is doing in these areas. We also will continue to seek your views and insight.
Following a month of calls for censorship or punishment of the student newspaper, officials at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee are refusing to do so. But they are creating a special panel on the campus that will study the issue of violence against women.
The furor arose from a series of photographs that ran in The Post, the weekly student paper.
It was, by most measures, a difficult year for the University of Wisconsin. The administration endured a series of high-profile embarrassments and budget headaches. But there were research breakthroughs and sweeping new plans for the UW-Madison campus.
The seeds for the university’s biggest problem of 2005 were planted in November 2004, when UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley announced that his longtime vice chancellor for student affairs, Paul Barrows, was stepping down to take a backup job in Bascom Hall, citing vague family considerations.
The myth of salvation through college and professional sports is a blight on poor communities all over the country. Suckered into chasing a chimerical “ticket out of the ghetto,” young people devote every waking moment to athletics while neglecting studies that would actually prepare them for reachable careers. Those who get to college at all often play their hearts out until they are no longer eligible and end up back on the streets – without hope, prospects or even college degrees.
MADISON, Wis. – A lack of funding means police and security units on University of Wisconsin campuses are understaffed and cannot afford crime prevention programs, a new UW System report warns.
Visiting the UW-Madison campus Friday, U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold tore into what he called attacks on Americans’ civil liberties, then laid out how he’ll decide whether to make a much-speculated-on presidential bid in 2008.
Madison Gas and Electric needs to pump pond water into the underground aquifer to replenish what its new co-gen plant currently takes out of Lake Mendota. The efficient co-generational facility opened on the UW campus earlier this spring. MG&E would like to start pumping by late spring 2006.
It’s all about supporting everyday heroes and reaching out to fellow emergency communicators. That’s why police dispatchers in Fitchburg and Middleton and on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are sending holiday gifts to 911 professionals in New Orleans.
….To make this happen, a connection was made through a national 911 CARES project, which is part of an organization called Public Safety Training Consultants. Helping to coordinate the project here is LeAnn Krieg, communications supervisor with the UW-Madison police department.
The site now hosts the South Madison Health and Family Center – Harambee, UW-Madison, Madison Area Technical College, Edgewood College, a city library branch, Yue Wah Oriental foods and others.
WASHINGTON – A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools. What they didn’t know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military
It’s time for a boozer tax on Madison’s annual Halloween party on State Street.
Nadeem Siddiqui, a Madison resident and Pakistani native who, along with his wife, Catherine Sheskey, recently returned from a two-and-a-half week visit to the devastated mountainous region.
Quoted: Alfred McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert in CIA torture methods.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents held its last meeting of the year Friday, with much of the discussion focused on a need to make salaries for top administrative positions more competitive.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is right to look for ways to help low-income students attend college.
MADISON, Wis. — It was once a happening spot for music, but in July the popular Luther’s Blues closed its doors.
Now two brothers plan to open a Latin nightclub in the space formerly occupied by Luther’s Blues, reported WISC-TV.
“Right now there’s many places but they’re not running these places as full-time,” said future co-owner Javier Palacios. “We’re going to do it as a full-time (business).”
In its semester-long saga to establish a desirable job-security practice, a University of Wisconsin Board of Regents committee voted Thursday to seek the opinion of its chancellors in a possible transition to fixed-term contracts for top administrators.
The tally for Halloween police costs is in, revealing that spending was on par with pre-event estimates released by Madison officials.
David Wilson, associate provost and vice president for outreach at Auburn University, has been recommended to serve as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Extension and the UW Colleges, which includes 13 freshman-sophomore campuses.
A committee designed to evaluate candidates for Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin two-year college and extension schools, recommended David Wilson for the position Monday, according to a UW-System statement.
As the University of Wisconsin football team begins preparation for the Capitol One Bowl against Auburn University next month, the UW System may have wrestled away one of the Tigers� top administrators in the mean time.
Dear Editor: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center offers its appreciation to The Evjue Foundation for giving a grant of $17,000 for the 2005-2006 academic year.
This funding will allow us to continue providing high-quality individualized writing instruction to members of the local community – many of whom would not otherwise have access to university resources – at two public library branches, the Lakeview Branch on the northeast side of Madison and the South Madison Branch on South Park Street.
UW-Whitewater removed a dean from his administrative post Friday, saying he had misused university funds.
UW-Whitewater hired a dean months after he resigned from Florida State University, where auditors contended he spent thousands of dollars of school money for personal benefit, The Associated Press has learned.
Wisconsinites are among the most tightfisted charitable givers in the country, according to a new national report.
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater took its first step toward terminating Graduate Studies Dean Lee Jones Friday, demoting him to his contractual concurrent position as a faculty member in the department of educational foundations.
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater removed a dean from his administrative post Friday and took the first step to strip him of his tenure, saying he had misused university funds.
On one side, there’s the risk: one of the plotters in the first World Trade Center bombing was on a student visa. On the other, there’s the benefit: last year, 565,039 foreign students contributed about $13.3 billion to the United States economy.
Hemmed in by a desire to keep tuition affordable and by a tight state budget, campuses in the UW System have been turning to another source for money to cover the cost of running a college – student fees. A proposal circulating on the UW-Eau Claire campus would take the trend too far.
In the past two years the Busta Tournament has raised more than $50,000 for spinal cord injury research. All proceeds from the auction and tournament will be donated to the Waisman Center through the University of Wisconsin Foundation for research in the areas of spinal cord injuries, as well as other debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS.
