{"id":221,"date":"2010-01-30T06:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=221"},"modified":"2010-01-30T06:43:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T11:43:58","slug":"staying-on-top-of-faculty-issues-at-uw%e2%80%93madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Staying on top of faculty issues at UW\u2013Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons, maybe the main reason, that PROFS decided to put this Faculty Forum at the literal and figurative center of its new website was simple: We sense that there’s a need for better lines of communication about what’s happening on campus and beyond: Even if you read the local papers (including resources like the Campus Connection<\/a> blog), the student papers, and keep up with UW’s own News<\/a>, it’s easy to feel like you’re missing a lot. While faculty concerns represent something of a gap in the vast\u00a0 network of information, we’d like to call attention to a few sources we keep an eye on for news.<\/p>\n

First, for general information about what’s happening on campus, Sifting and Winnowing<\/a> has become a valuable voice in recent months. It bills itself as “An independent news and opinion page for the UW-Madison community”.\u00a0 S&W is covering a lot of topics now, but it first got on the radar of many people on campus during the Grad School restructuring discussions. Between the posts, guest posts and comments, S&W helped a lot of us keep abreast of a rapidly changing situation.<\/p>\n

Second, a number of blogs on campus are written by people who research higher education issues. One, Education Optimists<\/a> is written by Sara Goldrick-Rab (Educational Policy Studies) together with Liam Goldrick. It has just been named one of the best education blogs in the country by the Washington Post<\/a>. Also, Kris Olds (Geography) has a good blog on global higher education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, later this semester Noel Radomski of WISCAPE tells us that they plan to go live with a blog, focusing on post-secondary education articles, reports, studies that are relevant for our campus, system, and state. We look forward to that and will let you know as we find out more.<\/p>\n

If you know of other resources, please let me<\/a> or another member of the PROFS team know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons, maybe the main reason, that PROFS decided to put this Faculty Forum at the literal and figurative center of its new website was simple: We sense that there’s a need for better lines of communication about…<\/p>\n

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