…Madison has its own reasons not to feel warm and fuzzy where the New Yorker is concerned, and yet, next month, the magazine’s 2005 “College Tour” is coming to town, to the UW-Madison campus, for three days of lectures and readings featuring the magazine’s writers and editors.
(Professors Robert Enright, Don Nichols and James Baughman are mentioned in this column about the upcoming New Yorker event.)
Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona criticized the lack of local broadcast coverage of election campaigns Tuesday and submitted legislation that would tighten the Federal Communications Commission’s process of licensing broadcasters. McCain’s remarks coincided with the release of research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison showing that local evening and late-night news broadcasts spent far less little time covering 2004 political elections than they did reporting on sports, weather and accidental injuries.
The first Laurie Carlson Progressive Ideas Forum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of South Africa’s constitution by featuring South African Ambassador Barbara Masekela, U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold and UW-Madison constitutional expert John Kaminski in a conversational discussion on the UW campus.
It will begin at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 11, in room 2260 of the Law School and will be followed by a public reception.
Gaylord Nelson, the father of Earth Day, would have been thrilled to be in Tripp Commons Friday to see how a new generation of Wisconsin university students channeled his environmental vision and passion into ideas for a campus center here named in his honor.
An internationally recognized software developer Thursday disparaged the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as he explained his decision to leave and take his technology lab with him.
The UW School of Music kicks it up a notch.
Imagine in a decade another Cesar Pelli arts palace at the campus end of State Street
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has decided to allow controversial University of Colorado-Boulder professor of ethnic studies Ward Churchill to speak March 1 about ââ?¬Å?Racism Against the American Indian.ââ?¬Â
Let’s hope Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts was posturing for a national audience of conservative Republicans when he came out strongly for a ban on some of the most promising stem cell research planned at prominent institutions in his state.
Budgets, as they are proposed by the executive branch of government at the federal and state levels, are at best frameworks for structures that will end up looking very different from the initial plan.
…Unfortunately, the Legislature is not likely to improve on what Doyle has come up with.
Gov. Jim Doyle’s plan to provide domestic partnership benefits to University of Wisconsin employees would cost more than triple the $1 million he has budgeted, according to new figures from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
Governor Doyle’s 2005 Budget Address: Protecting Taxpayers, Investing in Priorities
The University of Wisconsin would have to gut $35 million in administration under Gov. Jim Doyle’s executive budget.
That amounts to cutting about 200 administrative positions at the university, far more than UW officials previously believed they would have to cut. The cuts would help fund 125 new faculty positions at the university in 2006, as well as help balance the university’s overall budget, said state Budget Director Dave Schmiedicke.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.456-billion as of December 31 (increase of $134.2-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007
Restoration was the theme of Gov. Jim Doyle’s approach to funding public schools over the next two years in the proposed budget he released Tuesday. Doyle also called for reallocations that would boost UW System faculty and cut 200 administrative positions.
Gov. Jim Doyle on Tuesday gave the Legislature a balanced budget that includes no tax increases and imposes tight limits on local government – restrictions that he insisted would virtually “freeze” December property tax bills.
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate is asking the American Association of University Professors, a national organization representing academic freedom, to censure the UW System Board of Regents for the “questionable terms” surrounding the 2001 dismissal of former UW-Superior journalism professor John Marder.
Dan Flynn, author of the book “Why The Left Hates America.” applied his critique to ideologues of all stripes Monday night.
Gov. Jim Doyle today will propose boosting state aid for public schools by $850 million over two years – enough to push state support back to the 66% promise that the governor and Republican legislators had to break to fix the last budget deficit.
Kites on Ice was flying high Saturday, an unusually warm day that brought out an estimated 45,000 people and saw hundreds of colorful kites launched in the sky above Lake Mendota.
Sunday was a sadder story. The wind was light and sporadic, and for a while there was none at all. The rain held off until the festival was over, but a rainy forecast and gray skies kept the crowds at bay.
he UW System announced Friday that System President Kevin Reilly appointed Donald Mash, the current chancellor of UW-Eau Claire, to be the UW System executive vice president.
The Iowa State University Foundation must open its records to the public, the state’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday, but the court left room to interpret which records will be subject to public scrutiny.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced Friday the restructuring of four vice president positions into two in order to decrease costs and boost efficiency.
Effective interest rates for Wisconsin Retirement System participants for 2004 are 8.5 percent for the fixed fund and 12 percent for the variable fund, state pension officials announced today.
Those rates affect the accounts of more than 264,000 actively employed state and local workers, according to the Department of Employee Trust Funds.
The students of Chadbourne Residential College, while happy about their community, are mostly unaware of the rich history their dormitory has, or of the drastic changes it will go through in upcoming years.
The two ideas floated so far for merging higher education systems in Wisconsin represent a starting point for an important discussion about how Wisconsin should restructure public education to meet future educational and economic challenges.
The construction of a new campus axis, the East Campus Mall, is on a fast track, a top University of Wisconsin-Madison official told a crowd at the first of three town hall meetings on UW’s new 20-year master plan.
Associate Vice Chancellor Alan Fish said Wednesday night that most of the blocks from Regent Street to the Library Mall could be redeveloped within the next five to six years.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is telling legislative leaders that the UW System could save $21.6 million annually if the state gave it more freedom, including the power to join discount buying organizations.
Reilly also defended the university’s current operation, saying it has the lowest administrative costs among its 18 peer institutions “and we want to build on that record of efficiency.”
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly announced yesterday to the state�s Joint Legislative Audit Committee an estimated $15 million could be saved annually through the aid of more than 250 cost-saving measures.
OK, you’re taking a year to write a 20-year master plan for the UW-Madison campus and you need to hear from everyone. That means a lot of meetings.
…Who schedules all these meetings? Who finds the meeting halls and gets the word out? Calling Gwen Drury.
Here is the list of recent, current and near-future building projects on the UW-Madison campus.
Although universities struggle with the issue of increasing diversity on their campuses, Texas A&M University (TAMU) challenged itself to recreate its student population through several initiatives not driven by race-based-only practices.
Van Hise Hall, the tallest building in Madison, could be demolished under the long-range campus master plan now being crafted for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gary Brown, the director of UW’s Office of Planning and Landscape Architecture, told The Capital Times that Van Hise – along with many other buildings that date from the 1960s and 1970s – has such basic problems that it would be cheaper to tear it down than to try to fix it.
This spring, the University of Wisconsin�s new West Campus Cogeneration Facility plans to launch a gas-can-exchange program to reduce pollutants in Dane County. The initiative is part of an agreement with several West Side neighborhood associations to offset emissions from the power facility.
MEDFORD – The University of Wisconsin-Madison Varsity Band put on a show beyond music.
The investigation of former University of Wisconsin student Meng-Ju ââ?¬Å?Markââ?¬Â Wuââ?¬â?¢s suicide in the Dane County Jail continues as the families of the triple-homicide victims and the investigation team continue to search for answers to an occurrence that is not uncommon throughout the Wisconsin jail system.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly recently announced the finalists for the chancellor�s position at UW-River Falls.
For Mary Rouse, the fact tht UW-Madison was again at the top of its game in producing Peace Corps volunteers in 2004 proves something she has felt for years: The Peace Corps here is much bigger than any individual.
Skycable/AOL, SBC, and InSite Wireless, three internet service providers, submitted proposals Tuesday to construct Madison’s Downtown Internet hotspot.
Hotspots already exist at UW-Madison and some area businesses, restaurants and residences.
Nearly a decade ago, Marcella Darvin was a doctor working at a public health clinic in Santiago, Chile.
Her sister was attending UW- Madison in an exchange program with Catholic University of Santiago. When Darvin arrived in Madison to visit her sister, she met her future husband, Shae. They returned to Santiago but came back to Madison 6 years ago to live permanently.
A gift of almost $500,000 worth of stock in Cisco Systems, a giant high-tech company based in California, will allow students from Milwaukee’s Bradley Technical and Trade High School to attend the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on scholarships covering all of their tuition.
Republicans and Democrats of the Wisconsin State Assembly clashed on the viability of this yearââ?¬â?¢s agenda a week following Gov. Jim Doyleââ?¬â?¢s promise to return ââ?¬Å?fiscal sanity to state government.ââ?¬Â
Perry Karp, will perform Friday as part of the UW Faculty Concert Series at 8 p.m. Mills Hall.
UW must take cuts like rest of state I was disappointed that the Wisconsin State Journal would publish a guest column earlier this month suggesting the university be protected from budget cuts. At the very least you owe it to the readers to point out that the university employs more than half of all those state employees which your paper and the politicians complain about.
Can the UW System offer enough money to get the kind of chancellor it wants at UW-Whitewater?
UW Regent Roger Axtell of Janesville, who will help pick the replacement for UW-W Chancellor Jack Miller, said chancellor pay levels have become a concern.
Today $10 will not even fill the gas tank on the smallest of cars. In 1917, when Irene Newman graduated from UW-Madison, that now-paltry amount paid for an entire semester of college.
An aide in the UW-Madison chancellor’s office has been charged with felony child abuse after allegedly stabbing her 5-year-old son in the hand with a pen.
University of Wisconsin faculty members earn, on average, lower salaries compared to other peer universities, which could be a disadvantage in recruiting qualified staff, according to Vice Chancellor of Administration Darrell Bazzell.
State Assembly Speaker John Gard wants to subject state contracting to more sunshine, and the plan should help make sure state officials can’t cut backroom deals to funnel state tax money to politically connected private firms.
A man charged with second-degree sexual assault after being caught by a citizen shortly after allegedly assaulting a young woman on Bassett Street on New Year’s Day has been charged with similar assaults on four other women in the downtown area.
Hotel Downtown is going upscale, switching to Hilton’s DoubleTree brand and carrying out a $3 million renovation.
MADISON, Wis. — A liquor license shortage has some city leaders nervous about future new business in Madison.
(MADISON) — Some might say Madison’s liquor licensing is on the rocks.
The city has a handful of certain licenses left for new taverns. Madison could run out of these licenses early this year.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.322-billion as of December 7 (increase of $14-million in the last month); the goal is $1.5-billion by 2007
The state’s Historical Society holds papers belonging to a one-time University of Wisconsin-Madison student from New York who was beaten and fatally shot 40 years ago for helping register black voters.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will celebrate the “Year of Languages” by offering a series of programs throughout the year aimed at promoting multilingualism. The “Year of Languages” is a nationwide observance of the use of foreign language education to build ties to other cultures.
One of the most controversial and colorful members of the City Council is not seeking re-election. Ald. Steve Holtzman, the District 19 alderman since 1995, did not submit nomination papers to the City Clerk’s Office by Tuesday’s 5 p.m. deadline.
Had Holtzman decided to stay in the race, he would have faced political newcomer Noel Radomski, who already has the endorsement of City Council President Brenda Konkel and is widely perceived to be a favorite of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz.
I find it troubling that some college students today seem to want to decide for themselves what they should or should not read or study.
With the death toll still rising in the aftermath of Sunday’s earthquake and tsunami in southeast Asia, the Madison area received good news Thursday with word that all students from UW-Madison studying abroad in the area of devastation were unharmed.
Madison’s annual celebration of the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. will feature some changes this year. Residents will gather at a new location for the 20th annual City-County King Recognition Day on Jan. 17. And a new event is being added to the weekend of commemorative events, to provide a forum for anti-war advocates to link their issues to the legacy of King.
Since the former Oscar Mayer Theatre is undergoing renovation, the City-County King Recognition Day program will be held this year at the Wisconsin Union Theater….
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and his wife were among those killed Sunday when the tsunami that killed thousands struck Sri Lanka, a relative says.
