"Parkside finalists named," Journal Times, April 20.
The first of five finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside chancellor position will participate in a public forum later this week, according to a news release. Full story not available online.
The University of Wisconsin System on Monday announced its five finalists to take over as the Parkside chancellor...Under safeguards put in place after the Felner decision, the search committee is required to send all information on the candidates to the Board of Regents. (Gregory Mayer, the search committee chairman who is an associate professor of biological sciences) said a more in-depth background search on each finalist will continue in the coming weeks, and the committee members will share that information, their own thoughts and feedback from the community with the regents...
Charisma. Energy level. Passion. All were mentioned Monday as a presidential search committee looking for Florida International University's next president pared the list down to four candidates...While many have expected Rosenberg to inherit the mantle from his mentor, Maidique, it was clear Monday that it was an outsider, (UW-Milwaukee chancellor Carlos) Santiago, a 1973 University of Miami graduate who was wowing the room. ''He is the complete package in terms of raising money, experience and leadership skill and charisma. He's just wonderful,'' one search committee member said before voting...
Chancellor Linda Bunnell wants to move fundraising for the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point under the supervision of the university. That would leave the current body in charge, the UWSP Foundation, in a mostly passive role, as university staff members assume primary responsibility for fundraising...
...There was also talk of a double standard about the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point chancellor who left the scene of an accident that occurred after she had been drinking. Chancellor Linda Bunnell admitted to consuming drinks on Feb. 17, before she hit a parked car in Madison and left the scene. Police said that because Bunnell, 66, wasn't available for a sobriety test, there was no way to know if she was impaired at the time. She paid a fine for leaving the scene. Some readers immediately compared that incident to the arrest of former Milwaukee Area Technical College President Darnell Cole, who was fired by the MATC board after his drunken driving arrest. The heavy coverage of Cole's arrest and his subsequent firing had some suggesting a double standard for high-ranking black officials. I think double standards are present in both the UW-Milwaukee drug matter and the Bunnell case, but it doesn't do a lot of good to complain about it...
Chancellor Martin, I’ve read with great interest your Undergraduate Initiative. Enhanced student services are mentioned several times. I think that is code for better academic advising. As someone who spends a lot of time — and I mean a lot — talking to students, I am thrilled to hear that. A cautionary note: Misperceptions abound around the topic of advising. Good advising is happening all over campus, but advisers need your help. Here’s what you really need to be checking on...(Author: Don Woolston, Assistant Dean, UW-Madison College of Engineering Academic Affairs)...
Megan Rebers will have something equally important to go with her degree when she graduates next month from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. A job. Rebers, 22, of Campbellsport, who launched her job search in earnest last fall and accepted an offer from Target Corp., is one of the fortunate grads this year. CareerBuilder's annual college job forecast, which polled about 2,500 employers, learned only 43 percent of them plan to hire recent grads this year, down from 56 percent in 2008 and far lower than the 79 percent the year before...
Early on the afternoon of April 1, Adam Wilson posted a message to Twitter. But instead of using his hands to type, the University of Wisconsin biomedical engineer used his brain. "USING EEG TO SEND TWEET," he thought. That message may be a modern equivalent of Alexander Graham Bell's "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you." Brain-computer interfaces are no longer just a gee-whiz technology, but a platform for researchers interested in immediate real-world applications for people who can think, but can't move...
If the United States is going to change its energy use habits, research coming out of places like the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at UW-Madison will surely help. So says Molly Jahn, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the university...
...Last August, the Higher Education Coordinating Board asked Cyndie Shepard, wife of Western’s President Bruce Shepard, to create a mentoring program based on one she had started seven years ago in Green Bay, Wisc...Shepard started the Phuture Phoenix program at University of Wisconsin – Green Bay after hearing a fifth-grade boy say he expected to end up in prison like his father when he grew up...
...The Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee joined with the MultiCultural Student Coalition to put on the event, called “In the Wake: Plan 2008” during their hip-hop conference, which began last week. MCSC Financial Specialist Jamie Yancovitz said they named the event “In the Wake” because it reflected on the need to surge forward in ensuring diversity at UW after the failure of Plan 2008, a 10-year diversity initiative that concluded in the fall of 2008. MCSC stresses the entire campus must rally around a comprehensive shift toward inclusive diversity so every student can receive an education with a world-class college experience, accoriding to Steven Olikara, chair of the ASM Diversity Committee...
UW-Madison campus leaders reframed and broadened the image of diversity on campus through speech and performance Monday as part of the Multicultural Student Coalition’s Hip Hop as a Movement Week...Damon Williams, vice provost for diversity and climate, said the rigid structure of Plan 2008 discouraged people from creating new diversity efforts that may not have fallen under the plan’s specific goals...
