Fearless Sifting

As embarrassing as it is having a new chancellor selection resign after the college he was the dean of comes under federal investigation, learning that we can’t even properly inform Board of Regents of all of the relevant information before they decide to hire someone makes it even worse. In light of recent events that [...]

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Check it out. It’s worth a read, the comment section is quite entertaining too.
I’d also like to point out that this paragraph sounds very similar to recent comments on this blog.
In recent years, UW leaders have repeatedly raised alarms about the loss of talented faculty and administrators to universities that pay more, but almost nothing [...]

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I’ve talked about it in general before, but here is a great specific example of it happening, keeping quality professors pays for itself in the end.
University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Doug Weibel may not be able to bend or shape cells any way he wants to — yet.
However, Weibel’s efforts to uncover the molecular choreography within [...]

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The introduction in the official UW-Madison news releases makes the new UW Foundation fund raising initiative, entitled “Great people. Great place.”, sound like it’s definitely on the right track.
Three synergistic components define a world-class university: the most promising undergraduates, top graduate and professional students, and stellar faculty. Take away any of the three and what [...]

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Maybe you’re tired of hearing about Steve Nass and his criticism of Biddy Martin, I’ve certianly discussed it enough on this blog, but I feel there is one last post to be made. It looks like chancellor-to-be Biddy Martin and Rep. Steve Nass will have a chance to work out their differences face to face.
Who [...]

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The Cornell student paper ran another story today about the article Steve Nass had circulated about Biddy Martin. Remarks in the article sounded very similar to remarks I made after the Nass rebuttal.
Whether her degrees qualify her to analyze German literature, write essays on homosexuality, design nuclear reactors, interpret economic data or discuss ancient civilizations, [...]

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One of the features available on the new site but not on the old was the ability to place Google custom searches on the blog. I’ll let my description from the UW Student Blog Search page explain what exactly this new custom search does.
The UW Student Blog Search is a Google custom search that will [...]

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We’re joining the growing number of universities to disconnect the landlines from dorm rooms in order to save money.
UW-Green Bay, UW-Madison, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Parkside, UW-Whitewater and Marquette University are eliminating landlines in most or all student rooms this coming fall. Other campuses have already made the change. Alverno College and UW-Eau Claire disconnected landlines last fall, [...]

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First Steve Nass took a shot at Biddy Martin. Then Madison Reps. Terese Berceau and Spencer Black publicly took issue with Nass’ actions. Now Steve Nass has fired back. From a press release entitled “Assembly Democrats Blinded by Shine of UW Ivory Towers”
“It is interesting that some liberals in Madison believe that the Martin appointment [...]

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From a student who attended today’s 12 noon meeting:
There are 12 reps in the meeting, and 12 with leave of absences filed. I wasn’t keeping notes during the questioning portion of the process, but she did say that her priority was structural changes, visibility, and accountablity.
The debate over her appointment has not been over is [...]

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