Tag: UW-Madison
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At UW-Madison, a $77 million ‘athletic village’
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UW-Madison is beginning to build an “Athletic Village,” a $76.8 million hub around Camp Randall stadium where student athletes can study and train together. Read the Wisconsin State Journal report here.
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UW’s Ward defends silence in Chadima case
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UW-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward is defending the university’s silence about an investigation involving a top Badgers athletic official accused of misconduct. In a statement Wednesday, Ward said he understands the public has questions about what led to the investigation of John Chadima, who resigned as senior associate athletic director Friday, but he asked for…
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Nass calls for more transparency in investigation
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Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, head of his chamber’s higher education committee and a frequent critic of the UW System, is calling on UW-Madison to make public the general nature of the misconduct allegation against Badgers assistant AD John Chadima. Read more.
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Jump up, jump up and get down(loading): Badger fans get creative for Rose Bowl
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Wisconsin football fans were down but not out when they heard that, for the second consecutive year, they won’t get to hear the classic Badgers anthem “Jump Around” during Monday’s Rose Bowl. Last year, reports the Wisconsin State Journal’s Deborah Ziff, fans jumped and yelled “Jump!” sans music, but this time — thanks to the…
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Upon further review: Hundreds of rehired UW-Madison retirees are long-term
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More than half of the 447 people UW-Madison rehired after they retired have been on the job for more than one year, the limit set by the university under a new policy last month, according to a Wisconsin State Journal analysis of data provided by the school.
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Madison’s David Ward talks candidly about American higher ed
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In an interview with The Guardian, one of Great Britain’s’ leading newspapers, Interim Chancellor David Ward of UW-Madison speaks candidly about the state of higher education in America, and globally. Interestingly, the former Brit admits top research institutions aren’t the be-all, end-all in terms of “deepening the talent pool.” Read the story here.
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UW-Madison loses big-name professor
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A highly regarded UW-Madison faculty member, one who has guest lectured previously at UW-Green Bay, is leaving for a job outside Wisconsin. Jeremi Suri, a history professor, is taking a faculty position at the University of Texas at Austin. His new job, the Mack Brown Chair of Global Leadership, endowed with money raised by the…
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Green Bay’s Harden, Madison’s Martin speak out on UW System’s future
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The Green Bay Press-Gazette devoted an entire page of its Opinion section Sunday morning to the debate involving the UW System and competing plans to deliver more management flexibility. In side-by-side guest columns, UW-Green Bay Chancellor Tom Harden advocates for the Wisconsin Idea Partnership that would loosen the red tape on all UW institutions including…
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Former President Lyall: Don’t hold Madison back
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We linked last night to a former UW System Regent blasting UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin for seeming to propose secession from the UW System. Tonight, it’s a former UW System president, Katharine Lyall (1992-2004) who says “The New Badger Partnership proposed by UW-Madison is essential, whether as phase one of a systemwide public authority or…
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Board of Regents appeals for flexibility amendment
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The UW System on Wednesday (April 6) released a letter from Board of Regents President Chuck Pruitt and Vice President Michael Spector to the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance. The Regents are formally asking the legislators to add the Wisconsin Idea Partnership as an amendment to the state biennial budget. “…All UWS institutions, including UW-Madison,…