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  1. Regents consider creative approaches to tuition and financial aid pressures

    University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents March 2005 Meeting Day One News Summary

    March 10, 2005

    MADISON-As it strives to balance educational quality, access and ability to pay with its statutory limits for setting resident undergraduate tuition rates, the University of Wisconsin System needs to think and act more creatively, according to comments by several members of the UW System Board of Regents on Thursday (March 10). The remarks came during […]

  2. 2004-05 UW System Accountability Report: Remarks to the Board of Regents

    Kevin P. Reilly, President University of Wisconsin System

    March 10, 2005

    Thank you, President Marcovich. Good morning, everyone. I am pleased, for the first time as president, to present to you the annual UW System Accountability Report, which we appropriately title “Achieving Excellence.” This is the 12th year the system has issued its systemwide Accountability Report, marking more than a decade of public reporting to the […]

  3. “Good News” Remarks to the Board of Regents

    Kevin P. Reilly, President University of Wisconsin System

    February 11, 2005

    Thank you, President Marcovich. Good morning, everyone. Evidence of my first piece of Good News is in your folders today. I’m very pleased to report that COBE, the Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion, has put the finishing touches on its initial work. For those of you who may have forgotten during your month away, COBE is […]

  4. Regents to consider Oklahoma official as next UW-River Falls Chancellor

    February 11, 2005

    MADISON-Donald Betz, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Okla., has been recommended as the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. UW System President Kevin P. Reilly and the Board of Regents’ Special Committee for the UW-RiverFalls Chancellor Search announced the recommendation of Betz on Friday […]

  5. Regents approve Oklahoma official as new UW-River Falls chancellor

    University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents February 2005 Meeting Day Two News Summary

    February 11, 2005

    MADISON-Donald Betz, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Okla., will become the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, following a vote of approval Friday (Feb. 11) by the UW System Board of Regents. “My fellow selection committee Regents and I are delighted that Dr. Betz […]

  6. UW-Extension, UW Colleges consolidation to move forward following Regent vote

    University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents February 2005 Meeting Day One News Summary

    February 10, 2005

    MADISON-The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday (Feb. 9) unanimously approved a plan to consolidate the Madison-based administrative offices of two UW System institutions under the leadership of a single chancellor, a move that will strengthen university programs, while saving as much as $1.5 million per year. The Board authorized the proposal, […]

  7. Regents, Assembly speaker discuss implications of “Taxpayer Bill of Rights”

    University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents March 2004 Meeting Day One News Summary

    March 4, 2004

    MADISON— – State funding for the University of Wisconsin System could be dramatically reduced under a proposed “Taxpayer Bill of Rights,” members of the UW Board of Regents learned Thursday. But the speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly assured the Regents’ Business and Finance Committee the UW System would be treated fairly under the measure to […]

  8. UW System prepares for next budget cycle

    University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents February 2004 Meeting Day Two News Summary

    February 6, 2004

    Findings from the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents’ study of the university’s future will help shape the university’s 2005-07 state budget request, which must be submitted to the state in just six months, UW System president Katharine C. Lyall said Friday (Feb. 6.) During the second day of the Board of Regents’ February […]

  9. 2005-07 Biennial Budget Planning

    Remarks to the Board of Regents Katharine C. Lyall, President University of Wisconsin System

    February 6, 2004

    Although we are not yet through the first year of the 2003-05 biennium, we need to begin the process of developing the 2005-07 Biennial Budget because the state statute requires us to submit a request to the Department of Administration in September of 2004; that leaves just five more Board meetings to formulate this request. […]

  10. Regents to honor UW System Teaching Excellence Award winners

    September 3, 2003

    MADISON—The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will honor the winners of the annual Regents Teaching Excellence Awards on Friday (Sept. 5) during a ceremony at a full board meeting in Madison. The 2003 Teaching Excellence Award winners are: Carole G. Vopat, professor of English and women’s studies, UW-Parkside; Janna Cowen, professor of economics, […]