{"id":3662,"date":"2012-07-05T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2012-07-05T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T19:52:45","slug":"campus-connection-lessons-for-uw-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3662","title":{"rendered":"Campus Connection: Lessons for UW-Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Finkelmeyer has an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/ct\/news\/local\/education\/campus_connection\/campus-connection-lessons-for-uw-madison-from-university-of-virginia\/article_f175a290-c23d-11e1-b3d6-001a4bcf887a.html\">piece<\/a> about the University of Virginia <a href=\"\u201cThere is widespread agreement in academia that the world is rapidly changing and that the political and fiscal challenges are mounting,\u201d Grant Petty, a UW-Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, writes in an email to me. \u201cIt is widely understood that universities have to evolve, possibly in radical ways, to face these challenges. But solutions need to be formulated and implemented by those who actually understand what is and is not possible in the short term without being destructive.\u201d  Read more: http:\/\/host.madison.com\/ct\/news\/local\/education\/campus_connection\/article_f175a290-c23d-11e1-b3d6-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz1zlQZUYu6\">crisis<\/a> in this week&#8217;s <em>Capital Times<\/em>. Finkelmeyer notes that while the Virginia crisis failed to attract much local attention, several UW-Madison faculty followed the situation with interest and concern:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Judith Burstyn, former University Committee chair and member of PROFS Steering Committee: \u201cThere is a troubling recent trend toward viewing all public  institutions in market terms, where value is measured by dollars  produced.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Bill Tracy, former University Committee chair and president of PROFS: \u201c(w)e do want parts of the university to run like a business. We want  purchasing to run like a business. We want building management and  construction to run like a business. But we should not be making  academic decisions based on the bottom line. I don\u2019t think the  Department of Agronomy here generates a lot of revenue compared to,  perhaps, biochemistry. But there are mission and academic reasons why we  want a Department of Agronomy in Wisconsin.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Grant Petty, University Committee and PROFS Steering Committee member: \u201cThere is widespread agreement in academia that the world is rapidly  changing and that the political and fiscal challenges are mounting. It is widely understood that universities  have to evolve, possibly in radical ways, to face these challenges. But  solutions need to be formulated and implemented by those who actually  understand what is and is not possible in the short term without being  destructive.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Finkelmeyer has an excellent piece about the University of Virginia crisis in this week&#8217;s Capital Times. Finkelmeyer notes that while the Virginia crisis failed to attract much local attention, several UW-Madison faculty followed the situation with interest and concern:&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3662\">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":[10],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-national-context","tag-public-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","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=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}