The University of Wisconsin System announced Wednesday the departure of three of its top communications officials, framing the shake-up as an opportunity to improve public relations.
The Alcohol License Review Committee voted unanimously to renew Club Majestic’s liquor license.
It’s a club that’s been taking the heat for crime near the Capitol.
Melany Stinson Newby, top lawyer to three University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellors, will depart at the end of the month.
Stephen Lund, associate director of human resources, confirmed this morning that Newby submitted her resignation on Thursday in order to retire on July 31. Her last day of work will be May 31, and she will be on unpaid leave until her retirement, said Amy Toburen, a university spokeswoman.
Charles Hoornstra, an assistant attorney general, will replace her on an interim basis.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced $5 million in private donations Tuesday from Harley-Davidson Inc., Marshall & Ilsley Corp., Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., Wisconsin Energy Corp. and the dean of the university’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare.
SCOTT HAROLD SOUTHWORTH: When Chancellor John Wiley of UW-Madison recently expressed his concern with the constitutionality of funding the Catholic student organization with student fees, he sparked an interesting debate.
As with most complex issues or organizations, it’s possible to look at the same facts and characterize them in dramatically different ways. It all depends on what you focus on and what you leave out.
A “new” technology that has actually been around for 60 years is being used for applications from airline baggage checks to food products to consumer goods and even human beings.
University of Wisconsin Madison Administrator Paul Barrows has been wrongly accused.
The University of Wisconsin System has put its conversion to a new payroll system on hold after suffering years of difficulties and spending $26-million on it.
The UW-Madison Odyssey Project will hold a fundraiser Thursday to celebrate its third year.
The program is an intensive, nine-month course in the humanities aimed at low-income Madison residents. Graduates of the two-semester course receive six UW-Madison credits and are encouraged to seek higher education.
There are five different reports of either robbery or battery in the last week.
All of them happened near the UW campus last Thursday and Friday nights and they’re all similar in nature.
Dear Editor: I applaud “Sara” and her family for speaking up (“Student slams UW handling of rape charges,” May 6). Acquaintance rape is all too common on college campuses. It is our responsibility to come up with better ways to handle relationship violence issues.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison had no right to deny administrator Paul Barrows a $150,000-per-year consultant job once he accepted it and turned down an outside offer, Barrows contends in a new claim for damages.According to the claim submitted Thursday with the Wisconsin Claims Board, Barrows says he turned down a position with Hunter College in New York paying $150,000 per year because Chancellor John Wiley offered him a consultant position at that same salary.
Starting July 1, Ken Davis Jr. will be the first dean at UW- Madison to have his entire salary paid by a private donation.
The largest single reduction of a property assessment sought this year in Madison comes from the UW Medical Foundation, which, according to records, wants to drop the appraisal of a clinic by $7.5 million.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police say they will step up patrols in downtown Madison starting Thursday night.
MADISON – On Christmas Eve 1996, Christopher Ochoa pressed a razor blade to his forearm inside his Texas prison cell.
Ochoa was serving life for a murder he didn’t commit and was ready to end it all.
A United Nations official and a local cooking legend will be the speakers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison commencement ceremonies this weekend.
Florence Chenoweth, director of the Food and Agriculture Organization liaison office to the United Nations, will speak at the Saturday ceremonies. Odessa Piper, former proprietor and chef of Madison’s L’Etoile restaurant, will speak at the two Sunday ceremonies. Both women are UW-Madison graduates and will receive honorary degrees at Friday’s ceremony.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are committed to ending a rash of violent muggings in the downtown area in recent weeks, analyzing the data that they’ve collected so far and stepping up their presence on city streets.
The Paul Barrows case has exposed problems with how the University of Wisconsin handles disciplinary matters, several educators and state leaders say.
An appeals committee on Monday slammed the UW-Madison for its handling of sexual harassment and sick leave abuse allegations against the former vice chancellor for student affairs.
James Klauser, who was a member of the Board of Regents until 2003, said in an interview today that the Barrows case has turned into a “imbroglio” that shows the university has no competent system for handling charges of misconduct.
An appeals committee slams the University of Wisconsin-Madison for its handling of sexual harassment and sick leave abuse allegations against a former top administrator.
The Academic Staff Appeals Committee today (Monday) released its report on the discipline late last year of Paul Barrows, the former vice chancellor for student affairs. The committee wrote that Peter Spear, who was provost at the time, should not have disciplined Barrows for allegedly sexually harassing two women, nor should he have been disciplined and for taking five months’ sick leave.
UW-Madison students are also bringing it up, said Lori Berquam, interim dean of students. A number of the victims have been university students.
She and her staff have been meeting with students in small groups – such as fraternities, service groups and government groups – to remind them to travel safely at night and to urge them to report the crimes.
After a yearlong search, U.S. postal officials have not yet come up with a place to house the University Station Post Office, which will close at the end of business Saturday.
That means those who use the University Station, in the soon-to-be-demolished University Square, will have to make the mile-long trek up State Street and across the Square to use the Capitol Station Post Office, located in the Madison Municipal Building at 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Some of UW-Madison’s most successful graduates were to be honored Friday by the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
The University of Wisconsin at Whitewater is under pressure from state Republican lawmakers who have demanded the dismissal of one of its former deans, the second prominent African-American official at the university to have been demoted in the past six months for allegedly misusing university funds for personal expenses.
If Wisconsin is to keep its university system affordable, the state must control not only tuition but also student fees.
The dedication of the Chemistry Research Tower on the UW-Madison campus today and Saturday is a fitting tribute to former chancellor Irving Shain.
Take a deep breath and meditate on this — you can learn to be happy.UW-Madison professor Richard Davidson came to this intriguing conclusion and others after years of study, including evaluating the effects of meditation on the brains of Tibetan monk
The department of chemistry is one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s jewels, and so it was fitting Friday that the new chemistry building on campus was dedicated in honor of the man who did so much to build the department Irving Shain.
Shain, who led the department in the late ’60s and then went on to become chancellor of the UW’s Madison campus from 1977 to 1986, was feted Friday not only by Gov. Jim Doyle, naming the shiny new tower at the corner of Johnson and Charter streets for him, but by a scholarly chemistry faculty symposium and a School of Music concert that thanked him for his support throughout his years on campus.
MADISON, Wis. — The University Square Mall has been a fixture on campus for years, but it’s scheduled to be demolished next month.
That offers both good news and bad news for students. The bad news is that this is the last weekend you can see a movie at University Square Theater — and you can only eat or have a drink at other popular restaurants for another week.
On the upside, the demolition will make room for
At age 22, Leslie Shear was petrified to tell her parents she was gay. After all, they hadn’t reacted well when her brother came out.
“First my parents denied. Then they cried. Then they pried,” the UW Law School assistant professor told a crowd of about 100 during a town hall meeting of Madison’s Jewish community Thursday night at Temple Beth El on the city’s near west side. Oh, and then they sent her to a psychiatrist.
Dear Editor: Why isn’t someone protesting the proposed demolition of the A.W. Peterson Building and Humanities Building on the UW campus? Why isn’t the campus itself, the American Institute of Architects, the Wisconsin Historic Preservation Committee, the city and state being thorough? I just learned about these proposed demolitions at the Triangle Badgers Founders Day Dinner recently….
Manisha Kapil
UW Class of 1983
Raleigh, N.C.
Take a deep breath and meditate on this — you can learn to be happy.
UW-Madison professor Richard Davidson came to this intriguing conclusion and others after years of study, including evaluating the effects of meditation on the brains of Tibetan monks.
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.”
