{"id":2760,"date":"2012-02-08T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T14:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2012-02-08T09:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T14:55:44","slug":"board-of-regents-to-meet-thursday-and-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"Board of Regents to Meet Thursday and Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/uw-system-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-363\" title=\"uw system logo\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/uw-system-logo.gif\" alt=\"uw system logo\" width=\"149\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will meet Thursday and Friday, February 9 and 10, in Madison. An outline agenda for the meeting is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/bor\/agenda\/2012\/february-outline.pdf\">here<\/a>, and a full agenda is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/bor\/agenda\/2012\/february.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, the regents will discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Strategies-for-Cost-Containment-and-Educational-Attainment1.pdf\">strategies for cost containment and educational attainment<\/a> and receive an update on the Legislative Task Force on UW Restructuring and Operational Flexibilties.<\/p>\n<p>The regents will also receive a <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Report-of-Ad-Hoc-Work-Group-on-UW-System-Structure-and-Governance.pdf\">report<\/a> from the Ad Hoc Working Group on System Structure and Governance. The working group was chaired by Regent Vice President Brent Smith and included Chancellors Brian Levin-Stankevich (Eau Claire), Mike Lovell (Milwaukee), and Rick Wells (Oshkosh); \u00a0Regents Judith Crain and Chuck Pruitt; and Andy Richards, chief of staff to UW System President Kevin Reilly.<\/p>\n<p>The working group had two related goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Determine whether there is a need to restructure UW System and, if so, make recommendations regarding a new governance structure<\/li>\n<li>Study governance structures from other university systems and begin a statewide conversation on campus-based\u00a0institutional\u00a0boards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After examining these issues, the group offered the following recommendations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UW System should seek greater independence from state-level restrictions.<\/li>\n<li>Institution-level advisory boards (Chancellor&#8217;s Advisory Councils) should be enhanced to provide greater advice and advocacy for individual campuses.<\/li>\n<li>A system-wide advisory council comprised of members of institution-level boards is recommended.<\/li>\n<li>Regional education councils that work to further economic development should be created throughout the state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will meet Thursday and Friday, February 9 and 10, in Madison. An outline agenda for the meeting is available here, and a full agenda is here. On Thursday morning, the regents will&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2760\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uw-system","tag-regents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}