Despite impassioned pleas from Milwaukee officials, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved changing the name of its Madison-based medical school to also reflect its status as the state’s public health school.
Mayor Tom Barrett visited the regents on Thursday, imploring them to hold off on the name change. Milwaukee, with its rampant health problems, needs a public health school, he said, and the Madison designation would effectively kill any prospects of that happening.
….The name change, from the UW Medical School to the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, will take effect Nov. 11.