The Clinton Foundation will get new leadership in the form of longtime Clinton ally and former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala as it continues to face ongoing questions about its foreign fundraising practices, former President Bill Clinton announced in Coral Gables, Florida, on Friday.
The first time for the long-planned, but new, Wisconsin Public TV door-to-door campaign, at the same time as their usual membership drive, comes as Governor Walker, who himself has appeared on Sesame Street, proposes cutting the state agency and the UW System — that partner to run public broadcasting — by millions.
According to the UW-Madison Police Department, a UWPD officer was responding to a report of a truck swerving and running stoplights at approximately 2:20 a.m. The driver would not stop and took officers on a chase that lasted more than 20 minutes. At times, the driver reached speeds that exceed 100 miles per hour.
From the outside, [UW–Madison Biological Safety Officer] Jim Turk looks like a regular guy, but he’s fighting the autoimmune disease that he describes as invisible.
UW Police spokesperson Marc Lovicott says the execution of search warrants Tuesday is part of a months-long investigation into bicycle thefts.
The University of Wisconsin’s Faculty Senate passed resolutions Monday for shared governance and public authority, and members said they were unable to support a public authority until a commission has had time to evaluate its implications.
With little debate, the Student Services Finance Committee approved the Wisconsin Union 2015-16 budget of $10,586,316 with a vote of 11-0-1. The budget includes a 2 percent increase in segregated fees for the organization which provides recreational, cultural and educational opportunities through offering events and services around campus.
As president of UW Health’s American Center, Sheehan shares the goal of providing the health care that you’d like loved ones to have with his associates. Sheehan said his wife’s experience taught him a lot about health care.
It is time we check our preconceptions about Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts at the door and actively try to understand both sides.
Madison has become a hub for creative entrepreneurs for a variety of reasons, such as a relatively low cost of living compared to big cities; the university, which attracts creative people; and resources for young families. “Artists have always been entrepreneurial in their nature,” agreed Sarah Marty, who teaches an arts entrepreneurship class, launched in 2008, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s very rare that an artist has been able to just exist and someone else takes care of figuring out their audience … who’s going to buy what they’re doing.
To WOECF Graduate Project Assistant David Lassen, the fellowship is a way to make the Wisconsin Idea manifest locally for communities around the state. “There’s a lot of folks that are interested in this idea of taking the university to the state,” Lassen said. “I think there are a lot of people who are anxious to actually do it but don’t know how.”
Quoted: Joshua Morrill, senior evaluator in DoiT’s Academic Technology; Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute.
Although varying in political disposition and opinions on the budget cuts, members of the panel consisting of UW-Madison faculty and Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Derek Field agreed on the effects a public authority model would have on undergraduate education. Quoted: Noel Radomski, director of WISCAPE; Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology
The end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th saw times of transition for the Wisconsin State Journal and the University of Wisconsin.
The Walker administration has focused more on offering tax cuts and credits to the traditional manufacturing sector. Gov. Scott Walker rarely mentions Epic Systems, the most successful tech firm in Wisconsin history, and its 8,000 employees, when touting the state economy. There are also hurdles due to the type of research being conducted at the UW. Of the roughly $1.1 billion in federal grants coming into the university annually, some $700 million is related to biotechnology or biomedical research – two areas that are expensive to commercialize.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department has equipped one officer with a body camera on a trial basis and plans to outfit more when a delivery of 10 more cameras arrive. Until then, UWPD is exploring privacy issues through developing a new policy.
The proposed budget cuts and move to a public authority for the University of Wisconsin System will hurt low-income students, low-wage workers and low-enrollment campuses most, said a statewide students group that vowed on Monday to fight against the changes.
A new audit shows the University of Wisconsin System generated nearly $5 billion in revenue during the last fiscal year, down slightly from the year before.
In response to stark inequalities that remain for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, female leaders at University of Wisconsin are moving forward with steps to address these issues.
Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget proposal released last month includes a drastic shift of authority from the state to the UW System – especially with regard to tuition, procurement and construction – the implications of which remain unclear even to system officials.
Edgewood College forum last week was among several venues in which Walker’s attack on the progressive ideals of the Wisconsin Idea was dissected in light of his likely bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
Down one spot from last year, University of Wisconsin was recently ranked second among the nation’s universities as one of the top producers of Peace Corps volunteers, with 69 active graduates in six disciplines.
Wire story from the St. Louis Dispatch, hometown paper of Maya Warren, who is completing her doctorate in food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Educational Approval Board will meet Friday morning to discuss Walker’s proposal, which the governor’s spokeswoman said will remove a costly and overly burdensome regulatory process for the schools and put in place enhanced consumer protections for students.
Wisconsin legislators should drop provisions creating a new UW System Authority from the biennium budget and take time to analyze the impact of such a drastic move, says Noel Radomski, director of WISCAPE at UW-Madison.
Democrats said Thursday it’s not UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank who’s bringing Washington, D.C.-style politics to the University of Wisconsin System funding debate. Instead, they said, Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP leaders of the state’s powerful budget committee are playing politics.
Dennis Lloyd, one of two finalists for the job along with Kathy Borkowski, Wisconsin Historical Society Press director, has been named the director of the 78-year-old publishing enterprise, UW-Madison said in a news release.
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank has said certain UW-Madison graduate programs are underpriced. She’s partially right. What she’s not saying is that some UW System programs and majors are overpriced.
Gov. Scott Walker has cited his experience battling unions here four years ago as proof that voters appreciate a political leader willing to “go big and go bold.” So as he woos supporters around the country for a possible presidential bid, Walker (R) is once again picking a fight against a powerful institution at home — public universities.
Gov. Scott Walker wants the treasurer of his new political committee to serve on the board that oversees the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics even though Democrats say the appointment is inappropriate.
The national higher education funding trend shows states putting more money into campuses.
After a paper found that biomedical research is “an unsustainable, hyper competitive system,” the University of Wisconsin began a campus-wide conversation Monday launched by Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
A provision in Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget would allow the University of Wisconsin System to keep the details of its research secret.
David Nelson is the new director of purchasing services at UW-Madison, the university announced on Tuesday. He will start his new job on Monday, Feb. 23.
“TAA is ready to fight tooth and nail against these cuts,” UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association treasurer Travis McArthur told Chancellor Rebecca Blank at a packed forum on proposed state budget cuts Thursday.
On WKOW-TV’s “Capitol City Sunday,” the board’s executive director tried to clarify what state dollars to the public broadcasting and communications agency support.
Despite a -13 degree wind chill, several hundred people gathered at the UW-Madison’s Library Mall on Saturday afternoon to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cuts to the UW System.
In a just-released study, UW-Madison researchers found that kids who had participated in the curriculum were less selfish and exhibited better social skills and greater mental flexibility than children who did not do the exercises. And in an added bonus, the kids who did the kindness curriculum earned higher academic marks at the end of the school year.
They rallied on campus Saturday on the fourth anniversary of the beginning of large-scale demonstrations against a Walker plan that eliminated collective bargaining rights for most of Wisconsin’s public employees.
State budget headlines have focused on massive cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and an attack-then-retreat on the Wisconsin Idea, which, we must infer, is that rare concept still popular across both blue and red Wisconsin.
A mere 2.5 percent budget reduction is what is being asked of the University of Wisconsin System. With a $6.1 billion annual budget, 35,000 employees for reference, the city of Manitowoc has 34,000 residents, 26 campuses and $700 million in cash reserves, the System has many opportunities to get lean, find efficiencies and make your tuition and tax dollars stretch further.
Last month, I was on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at a talk on race. The facilitator began by apologizing for being a white man. I went quiet
Defend the Wisconsin Idea? Sure, but let’s get real about how intellectually and politically radical it is.
Several hundred UW-Madison students, faculty members and other employees braved sub-zero wind chills Saturday afternoon to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut in funding to the UW System over the next two years.
Eleven years after the state of Texas deregulated tuition at its public universities, soaring tuition bills have both university and state officials rethinking the more autonomy/less public money proposition.
The day after Gov. Scott Walker released his budget, I attended a forum on entrepreneurship hosted by the UW-Madison Business School where Lt. Gov. Kleefisch spoke. During her talk she shared a famous Reagan joke: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ’I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” The room went silent. Kleefisch chuckled, “I didn’t get a single laugh!” Did it occur to her that no one laughed because many of us felt personally insulted?
The announcement about the raise suspensions, “effective immediately,” was made in a Feb. 5 memo to state agencies’ human resources directors.
Laura Wyatt promotes urban outdoors as administrative program manager of UW-Madison’s Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
Archival images pair with contemporary photos from the December 2014 “die-in” in two galleries on campus.
The state’s biennial budget may not be finalized until May or June, but layoffs as a result of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System could hit UW-Madison as soon as April, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Wednesday.
While the shift isn’t generating the amount of publicity as Walker’s plan to make the Natural Resources Board advisory, the change is significant since it consolidates key borrowing decisions within the Department of Administration, including bonding for transportation purposes. Under the Walker budget, the Building Commission would no longer meet in order to approve projects or the borrowing to make them happen. The commission — which by statute includes members of both political parties and is chaired by the governor — has traditionally met monthly. Instead, the commission would operate under what the budget proposal calls a “passive review process” where items are considered approved unless a majority of Building Commission members request a meeting.
The governor is proposing a $2.5 million cut in state funding each year over the next two years to the Educational Communications Board, which spends about $19 million a year.
Column by April McHugh, a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
New technology is leading us to be able to print a tangible 3D object. The process of 3D printing has infiltrated its way into the Madison area more and more, proving to make life easier for some.
Editorial board says: “The Wisconsin Legislature must resist the governor’s ideologically driven thrust at the state university system.”
The Madison metro area ranked first in the nation for having the highest percentage of graduates in STEM fields.
Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he never intended to dramatically rewrite the University of Wisconsin Systems mission statement, even as a December email showed his administration clearly ordered that it drop a guiding principle known as the “Wisconsin Idea.”
The governor’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System has UW-Madison officials looking more than ever at alternative solutions to compensate for the anticipated loss in state funds.
Exact Sciences is giving credit to University of Wisconsin graduates and Madison locals who are now employed there for the company’s recent expansion and success.
In the past couple of weeks, the landscape of Wisconsin politics has been filled with politicians, students, university officials and other university stakeholders screaming into microphones, each trying to proclaim that they hold the key to the future of the UW System. One side loves to tout the flexibilities that the UW System would have under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, while the other shrieks in terror at the drastic budget cuts to public education.
But under Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 budget, public broadcasting in Wisconsin faces a sharp 34 percent budget cut next year and an additional 1.4 percent in 2017.
