Send in nominations for the Chancellor Search

If you would like to nominate individuals to apply for the Chancellor position, please contact David Musolf (Secretary of the Faculty) and the Search and Screen Committee. No e-mail nominations will be accepted due to confidentiality/privacy requirements. However, paper mail, confidential fax, telephone, or in person are options.

David Musolf
133 Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Dr
Madison, WI 53706

Confidential fax: 608-265-7806

Be sure to include the complete address information for each nominee: name, title, institution, street address, city, state, zip, work telephone, and e-mail address (if possible).

Nominees can really be anyone, both inside and outside of UW-Madison. The one major requirement is that he or she must be tenurable. An official position description will be posted early next week at chancellorsearch.wisc.edu.

If you have questions, comments, concerns, please e-mail the entire Search and Screen Committee at chancellorsearch@bascom.wisc.edu.

Note: NextChancellorIdeas@gmail.com has been discontinued.

Chancellor Search and Screen website

A website with the official news and information about the Chancellor Search and Screen is now on-line at http://chancellorsearch.wisc.edu/

Just a reminder, if you have input (questions, comments, concerns) about the search and qualities you would like to see in Mr. Wiley's successor, please contact Erik and me at NextChancellorIdeas@gmail.com.



**Edit 2/2/08: Please use "chancellorsearch@bascom.wisc.edu" for e-mail correspondence. NextChancellorIdeas@gmail.com has been discontinued.

Athletic Board

The Athletic Board met on January 25th. We had a good meeting and the Chancellor was in attendance. Business we took care of included approving exceptional achievement awards for coaches whom qualified, receiving an update from our faculty representative to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, receiving an update from the NCAA convention, reviewing athletics fall gpa summary, evaluating Director of Athletics Barry Alavarez, and taking action on coaches whose contracts required action.

I will bring copies of all of the documents I can to our next meeting for those of you who are interested to review. Some items to note include: at the NCAA convention some representatives attempted to override the ban on text messaging recruits. The override vote was strongly defeated. Alvarez's evaluation spoke very highly of the job he is doing. The chancellor thought it was especially appropriate to comment on the strong academic performance of student-athletes, something he believes is very important. We approved all contract extensions that came before the board for current coaches. Anyways, if anyone is interested in more material or information please feel free to contact me or approach me at the next meeting.

For those of you who do not already know, me and Logan are attempting to implement some type of sports-oriented undergraduate program. We have already begun working very hard on this effort. If anyone is interested in helping or has any advice please feel free to contact us.

I am looking forward to attending our next meeting. It has been a while for me, but I can tell Shared Governance is doing very well.

1/29 Health Care Advisory Committee

The HCAC is the entity that reviews and voices approval for the UHS budget before UHS presents to SSFC. This afternoon's meeting covered only the review of that budget.

The budget's major changes reflect the U-Square building project and operational/supply costs associated with that, including hiring new custodial staff, installing additional telephone lines, upgrading antiquated technology, etc. Thus, there will be a significant operating deficit for this 08-09 budget that will dissipate over the next 4 years. The decision was made to run a deficit rather than increase student segregated fees.

Physical Therapy programs will be expanded and moved into a contract with the Dept of Physical Therapy at the UW Hospital and Clinics. The cost of the expansion will be recouped by patient (student) billings, but the overall costs for students will decrease because administrative costs will be subsidized by the seg fee budget. Currently, a student who utilizes UWHC physical therapy does incur those administrative costs.

As UHS moves into the new U-Square development this coming winter (Dec 2008, Jan 2009), they expect that the utilization of services will go up because of proximity. This will also unpredictably increase the operating expenses.

UHS will present to SSFC on February 14.

Question: Would you be more likely to use University Health Services after it has moved into its new location at University Square?

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting

January 23, 2008

Local Agency Updates

Shorewood- a proposed 70000 Gross Square Feet (GSF) office building has been proposed for the 800 block of University Bay Drive and Marshall Court. The building will be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified and will have three levels of underground parking. Building is still awaiting approval. If all goes well, construction should start sometime in August of 2008 and finish the following fall (2009). Plans for the proposed building will be posted on the Shorewood website: http://villageofshorewood.org/.

City of Madison/UW Campus Updates

Regent Street and South Campus status Report can be found on the city of Madison website: http://www.cityofmadison.com/neighborhoods/rsscPlan/.

Underground work of the West Campus Utilities Project should be finished by fall 2008.

Pedestrian Bike Path is almost finished; there will be an opening ceremony in late spring.

Bio-Chemistry II proposals will be back in Joint SE Campus Committee later this year.

Charter Street Coal Plant is already burning 15% less coal than was previously used. Currently the plant uses around 128000 tons of coal per year; goal is to reduce this usage by 20000 tons of coal per year. A new study will be completed by July; the purpose of this study is to analyze how to update and make the plant more energy efficient. New boilers and burners will be brought to the plant; this opportunity will allow the University to test new fuels and sources of bio-energy such as bio-mass. The first wave of improvements will come no later than 2012. Two public scoping meetings will be held: early spring 2008 and late spring 2008.

School of Medicine and Public Health Faculty Office Building

UW –School of Medicine and UW-Hospital are proposing a faculty office building be built to relieve the over cramped offices currently located in the UW-Hospital; two offices currently being used by staff are actually meant to be Operating Rooms. This proposed building will consist of between 100000-132000 GSF and will be no more than eight stories high. Substantial completion of project will occur by December of 2009. This development is part of the major research and healthcare core in this area. Projected costs are 20-30 million dollars, which is coming from the Medical Foundation Fund. Approval was made to move School of Medicine concept plan to the Shorewood community.

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting
December 5, 2007

• Lakeshore Residence Halls were not included in the approved state budget thus the project is currently put on hold but hope to reintroduce the matter in the next state budget.

• New band practice field is well under way, base has been graded.

• The new proposed Bio-Chemistry II building is currently in the planning stages and awaiting city approval. This project will save and restore the Ag Journalism and old Bio-Chemistry buildings. Two new classrooms are included in the redevelopment and restoration of these buildings.

• Wisconsin Institute of Discovery/ Morgridge Institute of Research (WID/MIR) project is progressing well; deconstruction of the 1300 block of University Avenue is slated to begin in January 2008. Alan Fish provided presentation. WID/MIR as a collaborative science center is placed in the center of several important science departments in the center of campus. The building will also provide opportunities for science outreach to the community. The building will also complement the new social center in the south campus area- that being the new student union in the south campus area. Union South will provide guest rooms, meeting rooms, more food service, recreation, and the such for not only the campus but also WIS/MIR and the entire south campus area.

• Charter Street Heating Plant has reached a settlement with the Sierra Club and will cut back on coal usage by January 15^th 2008 via alternative fuels and energy conservation programs. Current study of the plant will be completed by mid-2008 with scoping meeting in February and a presentation of draft alternatives in May at another public meeting.

• Next meeting is scheduled for January 23, 2008.

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting

September 26, 2007

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Campus Drive Bike and Pedestrian path - project is in construction. Some delays are occurring based on issues working around an existing sanitary sewer near Walnut Street. Still hope to have asphalt laid before the plants close this fall.

Great Lakes Bio-Energy Facility - several sites still under discussion with CALS and university administration. The Forest Products Lab is also considering a facility on their property west of WARF that could be a joint Bio-fuels plant.

Athletics Master Plan - the draft plan has been presented to the Regent Neighborhood Association and to the Athletic Board publicly. Details of the final plan will be out later this fall. All proposed projects will continue to come through this committee as they are designed and developed well into the future.

Randall/Dayton utilities are in preliminary planning. Starting discussions to coordinate with the city and Madison Gas & Electric

Biochemistry II - Action Item

Mitchell Fox from Flad Associates presented the current plans for the Bio-Chemistry II project. Overall, the project will have 245,000 gross square feet which is not only an addition but a significant renovation of existing historic buildings. Site is bounded by University Avenue on the south, Henry Mall on the east, the 1998 Biochemistry building on the west and Bock Labs on the north. The 1912 Biochemistry building is on the National Register of Historic Places individually and as part of the Henry Mall historic district. The original 1912 building wing had an addition put on in 1937. In 1956, another addition was added with a single story seminar and vivarium space to the north and west. Another addition was built to the north in 1985 which is connected to the 1956 wing. In 1998, Flad designed the Bio-Chemistry I project west of the 1912/37 building. With this new project, the 1956 building will be removed in its entirety and renovations will be made to the 1912/1937 buildings as well as the adjacent Ag Journalism building.

The John Steuart Curry murals in the 1937 building will be saved and restored as part of the overall project. Curry was the artist in residence at the university at the time, actually one of the first artists in residence in the country.

The building is being designed to be light and airy as opposed to a more heavily grounded building. It needs to sit within the context of all the other existing buildings that will remain. The Wisconsin Historical Society has also been involved in the discussion and agrees that the new building should be different enough from the existing and act more as a soft backdrop to the historic buildings on Henry Mall.

A new pedestrian mall has been opened up east-west as a public space harkening back to the 1908 Campus Master Plan by Laird & Cret. The mall opens up the site for easier pedestrian travel both east-west and north-south around the 1912/37 building. Henry Mall will be preserved and restored to meet the overall goals of the campus master plan. Limited traffic on Henry Mall is also sought such that the existing service traffic access point on the mall will be moved behind the buildings to the west of Bock Labs. A new service access drive will come in off of Linden Drive from the north.

The new tower will be mostly a research facility with the older 1912/1937 being the instructional facility with more classrooms, essentially being a more public building. Ag Journalism will house more administrative functions and a café on the lower level that spills out into a south facing courtyard. Terracotta panels will be used on the exterior of the building in a panelized system along with a series of terracotta baguettes that act as sun screens on the building, laid in a linear fashion. An overhead pedestrian connection will connect the new tower with the older buildings at the second floor. This crosses above the new east-west pedestrian mall. Heat recovery units are included on the roof of the building which helps from a sustainability standpoint.

Mark V. asked about the difference in new to old space. What is the net gain of space with the new building?

Sherwood M. asked about noise impacts about the terracotta and if weather impacts the material from a sound standpoint. He also asked about the vivarium for building. What are the projections for cross discipline use with the WID/MIR project? The vivaria will be separate with researchers in each building using their respective vivarium spaces. There will be no cross moving of animals from one building to the other.

Mark Shahan asked about the new entrance off Linden Drive and the pedestrian vehicular separations. A standard curb will be implemented. He further noted that bicycle parking is also important and asked how many will be on the site. A total of 160 bike parking space will be provided around the site which is about a 10% increase over the existing number of spaces. He has some concerns about making sure bike parking is visible enough for the users.

I,Michael Nemmetz, asked about the status of the architectural design. He thought that the new building doesn’t quite fit with the rest of the new and existing buildings in the area. Consensus from the university and the historical society was that the building should be more of a backdrop building rather than something that mimics the existing architecture, especially if it was all in brick. The project is also trying to do as much day-lighting as possible in the new building. Michael also felt that the windows were being too covered by the building materials.

Liz V. asked if the new building could be more like the 1998 building which everyone seems to like. Actually, many of the pieces and rhythm of the new building are from the 1998 building. Flad designed both the 1998 building and the new building architecture, in fact, the same architect, David Black, has been involved.

Campus Planning Committee, 2009-2011 Project Priorities

In the December 17th, 2007 meeting, the Campus Planning Committee approved Facilities, Planning & Management's (FP&M) suggested project priorities for funding requests in the 2009-2011 state biennial budget. These priorities will largely dictate FP&M strategy in applying for state funds in the next budget. They are as follows:

1. 21 North Park Street Purchase, $38.60 million
2. Utilities, $31.71 million
3. Integrated Dairy, Phase III, $2.76 million
4. Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research Middle Tower, $67 million
5. High Density Remote Shelving Facility, $9.7 million

The 21 North Park Street Purchase would save the university $3-4 million per year in lease fees currently paid to a third party owner of office space presently housing such campus operations as the registrar and bursar's offices. The utilities project involves upgrades and replacements throughout the campus utility system. The Integrated Dairy, Phase III and Medical Research Middle Tower (UW Hospital) projects are continuations of current construction projects. Finally, the High Density Remote Shelving Facility would allow the campus library system to relocate seldom-used materials to an off-campus location where the could be stored in climate-controlled conditions until requested.

In the course of deliberations, I expressed a strong belief that the Remote Shelving Facility be given greater consideration due to the direct potential positive impact it would likely bring to students. At peak times such as mid-terms and finals, the libraries are generally packed to capacity. Such a facility would allow the library system to free additional space for added student study areas. Since the facility would also include on-site scanning capability, library users seeking particular sources could conceivably get them quickly and conveniently in an electronic version. Lastly, the facility would be built concurrently with a similar Historical Society facility, thus taking advantage of economy of scale in both construction and long-term staffing and operation. FP&M claimed it's low ranking of the Remote Shelving Facility was based on a lack of articulation of the project's ultimate value. I personally do not see that argument, especially in light of the other much more expensive and seemingly less needed projects.

LGBT Issues Committee

Important Student Input Needed:
We are looking for student input on LGBTQ issues (especially Trans issues) in student housing that should be addressed by the University. Such things may include facility issues or resource issues. Also, we are gathering information to help reassess SOAR and recruitment issues with LGBTQ students. If you would like to contribute, feel free to comment on this blog, or e-mail me at erezny (at) wisc (dot) edu and I will compile them for a report at the next committee meeting. Thanks!

As for a summary of our meeting:
We discussed the need for a report that assessed progress made on campus LGBTQ issues, along with a similar report from Housing. This would allow the committee to better focus on issues that still needed work.
We decided to test out the new Allies program "Opening Doors" for ourselves, hoping that it may be a great way to train students, house fellows, and even faculty in LGBTQ inclusivity.
We also discussed the LGBT certificate program and it's future needs. More information will be gathered for the next committee meeting.

To be discussed next meeting are: SOAR and Recruitment issues, trans-inclusivity, housing issues, and the LGBT Certificate program

Union Council, January 22nd, 2008

Among this meeting's more notable items were the news on a coffee house for Memorial Union, a prolonged discussion and decision on building hours, approval of a new officer position, and an update on the building project.

By this coming summer, Memorial Union should have a Peet's coffee and tea franchise in the former STA Travel location. Peet's beat out other competitors, including Starbucks, largely on the bases of their commitment to quality and significantly greater operational flexibility. Their locations are predominantly on the East and West Coasts but they do have another franchise in Madison at the Sundance Cinemas in Hilldale Mall. The Union was hoping to have the coffee house open by spring break but complications first in the contract negotiations and now with navigating minor building improvements will delay the opening. Currently, plans call for entrances from the exterior near the main east doorway to the building, through the trophy room (by the bathrooms), and a new doorway where the game room currently sits (it will be removed). The facility should greatly expand on campus programming opportunities, particularly during nighttime hours.

Those nighttime hours will be extended during finals period at both Memorial and Union South beginning this semester, at least from Monday through Wednesday. This change resulted from calls for additional options for late night studying. A further call for extended hours on Thursday nights was rejected, primarily due to a current lack of programming and overall student use. Union staff does, however, have the ability to extend these hours without Union Council approval.

A proposal for an additional officer, a Vice President for Project Management, was also approved. As the title indicates, this officer will be in charge coordinating the Union South and Memorial Building projects. Specific responsibilities for the estimated 30 hours per week position will include chairing the Design Committee, coordinating special events, developing and promoting programming related to the building project, serving as the official representative and spokesperson for the building project, and engaging Union Directorate in the development of a long term strategic plan. This officer will also be the primary liaison between the building project and ASM, as well as the rest of the campus community.

Finally, we received an update on the building project. The partnered firms of Moody Nolan and Workshop Architects, selected back in December, will be holding their first meeting with the Design Committee this evening, January 28th, in the former STA Travel location. Despite the major delay imposed by the state's budget problems last fall, the project is still scheduled for completion, meaning the design concept will be done by May 5th of this year. TRANSLATION: this project will move incredibly fast over the next couple months. The official project kickoff will be February 25th in Memorial Union. Much more information will be forthcoming in the next couple weeks. I also sit on the Design Committee so please feel free to contact me (dcornelius@wisc.edu) with any questions.

Misconduct Board Begins Second Semester Hearings

The Misconduct Board has already begone hearing cases (started the 01/22/08), and will continue to work through out the spring and summer. The Misconduct Board is comprised of two staff members and one student member. Together, we hear cases on both academic and nonacademic misconduct. Misconduct can range from cheating to theft. Once a case reaches the misconduct panel, we will determine as students guilt and the penalty the student should receive. There are very few limitations on sanctions, and our decision can be appealed. We are always in the company of legal council when we are in a hearing (to insure correct and legal procedure).

If there are questions about the panel or operations, don't hesitate to respond. All individual cases are confidential under FERPA, so naturally I can't answer question on individual hearings.

~Ben Beduhn

Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee Update

Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee

November 26, 2007

1. Review of the PUD for Wisconsin Institute of Discovery

- Research facility

- Additional bike paths and ped pathways

- Historic preservation on N. Randall

- Increased collaborative and inviting open space

- Will not be the “home” to any specific department

- Green construction implementation

- Demolition begins Feb. 1

2. Peterson Building Demolition

- Recycle and reuse 75-85% of building

3. Charter Street Heating Plant

- Reduce coal usage by 15% in January

- Cannot close Charter St as it heats and cools campus, but there will be more efficient 21^st century updates

4. Education Building Addition and Remodeling

- 1974 historic building district

- Will work to protect and enhance historic character

- There will be an east wing addition and a center courtyard

- Views to Mendota enhanced

- Underground parking with green terrace on top

If you have additional questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks!

University Honors Committee Assessment

The University Honors Committee is looking to assess all UW Honors programs. The main goal of this assessment is to determine what the results of an honors education are at UW as a whole and within specific colleges (Letters & Science, Nursing, Education, etc.). A sub-committee of the University Honors Committee will be meeting to begin formulating the assessment; though I am not the student representative on this sub-committee, I'd be happy to pass along any ideas or comments students have about University Honors.
The Committee also recently rewrote their mission statement and discussed the importance of the upcoming 2008 Undergraduate Symposium.