December 8, 2007
UW's Wiley to step down Chancellor who has expanded fund raising, supported research will end tenure in SeptemberBy ERICA PEREZ
eperez@journalsentinel.comPosted: Dec. 7, 2007
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley announced Friday that he will step down in September 2008 - after having changed the face of the campus with an unprecedented building boom, broken records for private fund raising and attracted researchers who have kept the school as one of the top five public research institutions.
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December 8, 2007
UW regents OK policy on reporting sick leave Tuition increase at La Crosse approvedBy ERICA PEREZ
eperez@journalsentinel.comPosted: Dec. 7, 2007
Madison - The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents gave final approval Friday to a new policy requiring university employees to report sick leave when they are absent, even if they get their colleagues to cover their teaching responsibilities.
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December 8, 2007
Patrick Welsh has taught English at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia for more than 30 years. Last week, he wrote an editorial for the Washington Post called A School That’s Too High on Gizmos. Patrick relates his view of T.C. Williams as a school run by an administration consumed with…
“…technolust- a disorder affecting publicity-obsessed school administrators nationwide that manifests itself in an insatiable need to acquire the latest, fastest, most exotic computer gadgets, whether teachers and students need them or want them. Technolust is in its advanced stages at T.C., where our administrators have made such a fetish of technology that some of my colleagues are referring to us as “Gizmo High.”
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