….Compared to every organization I’ve been associated with, the UW-Madison is administratively lean and mean. Extremely so. Budgets are tight, strangling even, but not because our ivory towers are stuffed with fat-cat administrators. Far from it. Take an honest look at this, please.
Despite hard times, astonishing things happen here. This is one of the world’s greatest universities, a fabulous resource for the people of Wisconsin. Who in their right minds would abandon or micro-manage to oblivion this world-class engine of science and scholarship, which trains our kids to exceptional standards while willy-nilly spinning off knowledge, professionals and private-sector enterprises for the entire state, region and nation?….