Tag: UW-Madison
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Regents hear Thursday from UW-Madison’s Blank
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UW-Madison, hosting Thursday’s opening day of the UW System Board of Regents, took advantage of the standard opportunity for the host campus chancellor to address the board. Rebecca Blank said top students and faculty will go elsewhere if proposed state budget cuts go through, and leading faulty candidates are already withdrawing from consideration for open…
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WISCAPE site tackles policy issues related to budget
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The Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE), a center at UW-Madison, is posting a series of largely non-partisan articles to its blog to promote informed analysis of Gov. Walker’s proposal to grant the UW System more autonomy while also trimming $150 million from the annual taxpayer allotment to the System’s budget. A…
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For women, it’s archrival Wisconsin, at the Kress
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After trailing by double digits late in the game, the Green Bay women’s basketball team stormed back on the road to take down South Dakota State 77-75 in the Jackrabbit State on Wednesday night. The Phoenix (7-2) returns home to host rival Wisconsin at 7 p.m. Saturday (Dec. 13) at the Kress. The first 500…
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Diversity Forum is Nov. 10, 11 in Madison
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For the 16th year, UW-Madison is hosting its annual Diversity Forum. The dates are Nov. 10 and 11, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, with sessions at the Memorial Union Theater on the first day, then the Pyle Center and Wisconsin State Historical Society on Tuesday. The hosts say they hope “our sister campuses…
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College kid makes good: Top doctor returns to serve region’s children
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Ask Dr. Tina Sauerhammer about the seminal moments in her life, and the answer may surprise you. She won’t, as one might rightly expect, start with being part of the surgical team that performed the first-ever full face transplant in the United States in 2011. She’ll gloss over the fact that she entered college at…
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Wardle talks about Phoenix-Badgers series
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The UW-Green Bay men’s basketball team will play at Wisconsin on Nov. 19, but the future of the series remains in doubt. In a newspaper interview, Coach Brian Wardle talks about the series that has seen the schools meet each year since 1999. “I understand being at Green Bay a long time now the importance…
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Power restored in Madison, D2L is back in service
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Staff members in UW-Green Bay’s Office of Academic Technology Services report that the power outage and related problems with the servers in Madison have been corrected and the widely used Desire 2 Learn software is again up and running, statewide. The outage temporarily affected UW System access to applications including Shared Financial System and the…
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Patience requested with D2L outage
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D2L (Desire2Learn) has been out of service since approximately 7:50 am today (Wednesday, June 18). The widely used online-learning software is instrumental to many summer courses, online and otherwise, being offered not only at UW-Green Bay but across the UW System. The outage is being blamed on lightning strikes from the heavy storms that hit…
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Outgoing UW-Madison chancellor says Legislature had cause for UW cuts
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Speaking candidly to a meeting of the Madison Rotary Club, outgoing UW-Madison chancellor David Ward said Wednesday he believes the university was “rightfully dinged” by the Legislature for not being forthcoming about a $650 million surplus. Less than a month before he retires as chancellor for the second time, Ward said he understood why lawmakers…
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Madison percussion group, including UW-Green Bay alum, to perform Friday
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A UW-Madison percussion ensemble will bring a rarely played work to UW-Green Bay Friday as part of a Friday (Feb. 3) guest concert in Theatre Hall. The UW-Madison Graduate Percussion group will play “Pleiades,” by Iannis Xenakis, a composition that requires performers to make some of the instruments used. It includes six pairs of sixxen,…