Tag Archives: Faculty Senate

Why Act 55’s changes don’t make sense for UW

The UW-Madison Faculty Senate as well as the Board of Regents are grappling with the challenge of responding to the provisions of the Legislature’s Act 55. That legislation calls for wholesale change in policies that deal with tenure, post-tenure review, … Continue reading

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Madness in Madison: The University of Wisconsin’s latest diversity plan calls for “equity” in high-demand majors and the distribution of grades

July 16, 2014 The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy Many American colleges and universities are in the thrall of “diversity,” but none more so than my institution, the University of Wisconsin. This spring, the university adopted a … Continue reading

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Why the Rush to Endorse the New Diversity Plan?

May 3, 2014 Submitted to The Daily Cardinal What accounts for the “rush” to vote at Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting to approve a new UW-Madison diversity plan, FORWARD TOGETHER, developed by the Provost-appointed Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee? The effects … Continue reading

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Letter to the editor: New campus Diversity Plan is deeply flawed

May 1, 2014 The Badger Herald What is the meaning of “diversity” and “Inclusive Excellence” in the new Diversity Plan that will be voted on at next Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting? This plan offers a radically different and much expanded … Continue reading

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Concerns about Forward Together diversity plan: Memo to University Committee

Members of the University Committee: With time growing short before the next Faculty Senate meeting when, as I understand it, the Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee will be submitting its new diversity plan and seeking Senate approve of it, I … Continue reading

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Letter to the editor: Madison’s Diversity Plan since Plan 2008 ended

February 26, 2014 The Daily Cardinal Your news report (Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee releases UW-Madison Diversity Draft plan, Feb. 20, 2014) is wrong in repeating the assertion that UW-Madison has gone without a diversity plan since Plan 2008 ended … Continue reading

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