Fearless Sifting

At least he makes coherent arguments. I think I might have found someone even worse:
State Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) is raising concerns about Biddy Martin’s support for bringing domestic partner benefits to UW faculty and staff. Grothman says it’s disappointing that so soon after the voters of Wisconsin rejected same-sex marriage in a Constitutional [...]

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Somehow I don’t think so, but if it were brought to UW it might be the first proposal ever that Steve Nass would favor increasing UW funding to support.
That the University of Colorado is raising $9 million to endow a professor of conservative studies is rather delicious in its ironies. It smacks of affirmative action [...]

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Over the past week or so this blog has started to discuss the issue of the collective bargaining for a faculty and academic staff union. The original article that inspired the post features comments from the AFT-Wisconsin union president Bryan Kennedy. In an email correspondence, I asked him how the issue affected students and [...]

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For all the talk about fixing relations with the state legislature on the UW side of things lately, you’d think that everything was our fault and to fix things all we need to do is apologize for whatever we did. Then they would begin to fork over the millions of dollars in funding that the [...]

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She may have not been my first choice, but the callings for “Biddy or Blank” were answered. I have to say I can’t complain about the choice.

Carolyn Martin has been named the next UW-Madison chancellor, pending Board of Regents approval, an informed university source told The Capital Times.
Martin, the provost at Cornell University in Ithaca, [...]

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An idea that has been talked about as one solution to help alleviate some of the universities financial woes is getting a vote from the Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is reviving a proposal that would require engineering students to pay $1,400 more in tuition than other undergraduates.
The Board of Regents is expected to [...]

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Tim Mulcahy, who spent 20 years in Madison before leaving to become vice president for research at the University of Minnesota in February of 2005, has withdrawn his name from consideration.
“I was deeply honored to be selected as one of four finalists for the position of chancellor at UW-Madison, an institution with which I have [...]

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One month ago, on April 27 at 1:46 pm I made my first post on this blog. Back then I never realized how much I would enjoy blogging or how much of my life it would begin to consume. 31 days, 34 posts, 111 comments and 3,816 hits later it has exceeded all of my [...]

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I’ve shared some of my thoughts on recent comments by Rebecca Blank and Timothy Mulcahy on UW faculty labor organization. I really didn’t think too much of the issue at the time, but I recently came across this letter that had been posted on another blog.
Subject: New Chancellor must respect democratic workplace rights
From: [...]

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While we on the UW side of the chancellor search are blogging about the prospects of hiring Biddy Martin, it’s natural that bloggers from Cornell are doing the same about potentially losing her. I must confess I only found this blog when they linked to me today, but it was still pretty interesting to read [...]

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