Tag: UW-Madison
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Former Regent blasts UW-Madison chancellor
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David M. Hirsch admits it has been some time since he was on the UW System Board of Regents. (He served for a few years in the 1990s during the early part of the Tommy Thompson administration.) Nevertheless, in a guest op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, he pulls no punches in calling for the…
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GOP legislator questions rush on UW-Madison split
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Interesting. State Sen. Luther Olson (R-Berlin) has written a commentary piece published in central Wisconsin newspapers in which he questions Gov. Walker’s plan to spin off UW-Madison with this year’s biennial budget. The proposal is bold and arguably necessary, Olson writes, but shouldn’t such flexibilities be extended to other UW System schools, as well? Other…
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Editor: Cronon e-mail request was lawful… and not that unusual
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Bill Leuders is famous in Madison as a respected reporter and news editor of the progressive alternative publication Isthmus. He is also president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council. It’s notable, then, that he thinks the request for a UW System professor’s emails was valid and nothing to get overly upset about. See Leuders’…
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Report: Badgers interested in UW-Green Bay coach
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We pass along the following link with absolutely no inside knowledge whatsoever as to the reliability of the information, but both Madison newspapers and the Green Bay Press-Gazette are reporting that the Badgers Athletics Department has a strong interest in Phoenix women’s basketball coach Matt Bollant for UW-Madison’s vacant head coaching position. P-G reporter Scott…
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Governor says he’s willing to consider Wisconsin Idea Partnership
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Gov. Scott Walker says he’s open to a plan that would offer campuses in the UW System more flexibility, similar to what he’s offering UW-Madison. Look for the Friday, March 25, entry on the Wisconsin Public Radio website. ‘We’ll have what she’s having!’ Some notable headlines, recently, in coverage of the proposed UW-Madison spinoff: *…
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President Reilly talks budget during Friday stop in Green Bay
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During a visit to UW-Green Bay on Friday, UW System President Kevin Reilly met with members of the media to talk about Gov. Walker’s proposed budget. Reilly told reporters he is concerned that other UW schools could be hurt if UW-Madison is split from the rest of the system. “How can we, at a time…
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Editorial: Regent plan is ‘better idea’ for UW System
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An editorial in the Oshkosh Northwestern calls the plan by the UW System Board of Regents to give flexibilities to all campuses a ‘better idea’ for public higher education in the state than the proposal to remove UW-Madison from the UW System. Click here to read the piece.
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UW-Milwaukee gets vocal
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To date, UW-Milwaukee has been a relatively quiet player in the debate over the future of the UW System. The three loudest voices have been the UW System itself, Gov. Scott Walker and UW-Madison, which the governor’s budget would reestablish as a public authority separate from the system. What about UW-Milwaukee? Milwaukee Magazine says Interim…
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Editorial: Give all UW campuses flexibility
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An editorial in the La Crosse Tribune criticizes Gov. Walker’s proposal to split UW-Madison from the rest of the UW System. “It makes perfect sense for the state to quit dictating to our university campuses a number of arcane conditions,” the editorial states. “But it makes just as much sense at all campuses, not just…
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‘A new command’ for UW-Madison
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UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin makes the case for granting the state’s flagship with public authority status in a commentary in the Chronicle for Higher Education. Martin writes, “If Madison has to absorb deep cuts while remaining constrained by layers of red tape and policies designed for a completely different kind of institution, its outstanding faculty,…