MILWAUKEE - (MPA-PPR)
It is Mardi Gras - Shove Tuesday - celebration and confession.
Mardi Gras
Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC recognizes in celebration the commitment and leadership of the 1st Chancellor, Dr. Johannes Martin Klotsche for overseeing that the University of WI-Milwaukee be an "URBAN UNIVERSITY".
The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was founded in the belief that "if metropolitan Milwaukee was to be great, it would need a great urban public university". Pressed by the growing strong demand for a large comprehensive public university that offered graduate programs in Wisconsin's largest city, the Wisconsin state legislature passed a bill in 1955 to create the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. UW-M history/Google.
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1st Chancellor J. Martin Klotsche, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 1956-1973
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| Dr. Johannes Martin Klotche - 1st Chancellor, University of WI - Milwaukee |
J. Martin Klotsche, or Joe, as everyone called him, had a career that paralleled that of UWM. A native of Nebraska, he earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin and came to Milwaukee in 1931 to teach at what was then Milwaukee State Teachers College. He became president of the college in 1946 and oversaw its renaming as Wisconsin State College in 1951 and eventually as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1956. After his retirement as chancellor in 1973, he remained on the faculty of the history department until 1978.
J. Martin Klotsche helped to define UWM as an urban university, a subject on which he wrote extensively, including the books "The Urban University and the Future of Our Cities" and "The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: An Urban University."
He saw UWM’s mission as a unique opportunity to give “new meaning to the quality of urban life".
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was founded with the belief that Milwaukee needed a great public university to become a great city.
In 1955, the Wisconsin state legislature passed a bill to create a large public university that offered graduate programs in Wisconsin's largest city; the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was established in 1956, as a result of the merger of the Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin's Milwaukee extension, a UW branch that had been offering graduate degrees in Milwaukee. The new university consisted of the WSC campus near the lakefront and the University of Wisconsin extension building downtown Milwaukee.
The first commencement of the new University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was held on June 16, 1957. On June 13, 1958, Socialist mayor Frank P. Zeidler was the first person to receive an honorary doctorate from the university.
He saw UWM’s mission as a unique opportunity to give “new meaning to the quality of urban life".
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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was founded with the belief that Milwaukee needed a great public university to become a great city.
In 1955, the Wisconsin state legislature passed a bill to create a large public university that offered graduate programs in Wisconsin's largest city; the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was established in 1956, as a result of the merger of the Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin's Milwaukee extension, a UW branch that had been offering graduate degrees in Milwaukee. The new university consisted of the WSC campus near the lakefront and the University of Wisconsin extension building downtown Milwaukee.
The first commencement of the new University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was held on June 16, 1957. On June 13, 1958, Socialist mayor Frank P. Zeidler was the first person to receive an honorary doctorate from the university.
In 2006, UW–Milwaukee was ranked as the ninth best “Saviors of Our Cities” by the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), because of its strong positive contribution of careful strategic planning and thoughtful use of resources that have dramatically strengthened the economy and quality of life of Milwaukee, and was voted by the public as one of the top ten "Gems of Milwaukee" .
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| Dr. Michael Lovell, 8th Chancellor - University of WI - Milwaukee |
In Confession, MPA LLC calls on the present and 8th Chancellor, Dr. Michael Lovell, to honor the Mission and provide a return on investments for the city of Milwaukee - Urban population, especially African American and People of Color. The "Education Funding Volume" represents huge monetary resources with NO return to the human capital - "densely populated" city of Milwaukee, over a half-million people. They include the 514 bill, approved by both the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly, released state capital building funds for four different UWM expansion projects at a total anticipated cost of $176 million (2010):
-- Construction of a School of Freshwater Sciences research building ($50 million) Targeted for the downtown Milwaukee waterfront, this building will be the home for the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences that the State Legislature and Governor Doyle approved in 2009.
-- Construction of a Kenwood Integrated Research Building ($75 million) To be located at or near the northwest corner of Kenwood Boulevard and Maryland Avenue, this five- or six-story building will house facilities that advance science, technology, engineering and math education; research; and outreach.
-- Acquisition of the Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital campus ($31 million) UWM remains engaged in negotiations to acquire and redevelop the 11-acre hospital property adjacent to the university’s current 93-acre campus.
-- Purchase of a replacement for the Neeskay research vessel ($20 million) A 120-foot research vessel capable of hosting larger scientific crews, conducting extended operations, and navigating research sites using dynamic positioning and state-of-the-art handling capabilities is proposed to replace the university’s Korean War-era transport-tug boat.
Questions for Chancellor Lovell
Unemployment, education attainment, technology attainment, health care, business research and development and environmental justices are yet part of the SOCIO-ECONOMIC "head winds" that loom over the Urban city of Milwaukee and doom its stakeholders/taxpayers to risk continuous in the direction of Enduring Concentrated Poverty.
Millions of dollars are pumped into our midst/city that go un-check for transparency, accountability and best practices.
This is the first of many MARDI GRAS (celebration and confession), "funding/revenue/outcome" check and balance, that will ask for and comment on for verification of spending - especially funds that are earmarked to empower African American, other People of Color and the Work-Challenged (un-, under-skilled; un-, under-employed; un-, under-financed neighborhood-level businesses; disabled; and re-entry - those returning from WAR, INCARCERATION, boomerang employment, boomerang retirement and college-certificated graduates unemployed) stakeholders.
We want to see how the funds are targeted and making a difference.
We want to see how the funds are being spent to impact fair share - or, if the funds are being averted to the well-known monopoly and oligopoly business model that has been formed by Caucasian power grabbers and their cronies with NO real concern to their wrongful act or how they disenfranchise and/or exploit the masses within the city of Milwaukee - The Urban city.
Press conference video - May 13, 2010
Notice that the term is mentioned by ex-Governor Jim Doyle - premier "URBAN Research University"
This event took place right before the departure of the 7th C hancellor Carlos E. Santiago.
Transparency through evidence based data, specific head counts in consultants, contractors, architects, real estate companies, partnerships (alumni-public-private), employment (hired staff-faculty-deans-consultants-human resource recruiters, advertisement ) and the many levels of procurement through the mega funding of Bill 514 and the Master Plan for building developments.
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Stay tuned.
-- Acquisition of the Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital campus ($31 million) UWM remains engaged in negotiations to acquire and redevelop the 11-acre hospital property adjacent to the university’s current 93-acre campus.
-- Purchase of a replacement for the Neeskay research vessel ($20 million) A 120-foot research vessel capable of hosting larger scientific crews, conducting extended operations, and navigating research sites using dynamic positioning and state-of-the-art handling capabilities is proposed to replace the university’s Korean War-era transport-tug boat.
Our dragnet includes the massive amounts of funding and partnerships geared toward UW-Milwaukee Master Plan. The Master Plan also EXCLUDED "urban" stakeholders in the design and planning, by-design.
- What are the "emerging markets" linked to funding from Bill 514 you have identified through collaborative "research, business development and procurement" that show promise for Urban Milwaukee?
- What are your identified "long-term" targets at the neighborhood level in Urban Milwaukee for long-term growth and Infrastructure sustainability?
- What are the clear "targets" in Urban Milwaukee, at the neighborhood level, and with African American and People of Color that have grown over the last 3 years (2010, 2011, 2012) - 12 quarters?
- What collaboratives have taken place between the city of Milwaukee urban population and nearby suburbs - West Allis, Wauwatosa, Glendale, Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, South Milwaukee and Cudahy?
- What collaboratives have taken place between the TRIFECTA of public schools (Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Area Technical College and University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) for technology attainment and education attainment?
- What collaboratives have taken place for Urban Milwaukee for assistance in the Affordable Health Care implementation in 2014?
- What impact (percentage) can you cite in procurement, new programs, employment (UW-Milwaukee and Metro area - Metro area is not Greater Milwaukee or 7 county region) - staff-faculty-deans, committee heads, steering committees, foundations, and office of equity/diversity?
- What is UW-Milwaukee portfolio of growth for Urban Milwaukee from BILL 514?
- What is UW-Milwaukee portfolio of growth for Urban Milwaukee from the Master Plan, Wauwatosa Innovation Park, and the NEW Union project?
- What role has Urban Milwaukee, especially African American and other People of Color businesses, seen in INNOVATION, product portfolio and supply chain related to NEW School of Freshwater Science, Milwaukee Council on Water, Zilber School of Health, Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, and Bader School of Social Welfare?
Millions of dollars are pumped into our midst/city that go un-check for transparency, accountability and best practices.
This is the first of many MARDI GRAS (celebration and confession), "funding/revenue/outcome" check and balance, that will ask for and comment on for verification of spending - especially funds that are earmarked to empower African American, other People of Color and the Work-Challenged (un-, under-skilled; un-, under-employed; un-, under-financed neighborhood-level businesses; disabled; and re-entry - those returning from WAR, INCARCERATION, boomerang employment, boomerang retirement and college-certificated graduates unemployed) stakeholders.
We want to see how the funds are targeted and making a difference.
We want to see how the funds are being spent to impact fair share - or, if the funds are being averted to the well-known monopoly and oligopoly business model that has been formed by Caucasian power grabbers and their cronies with NO real concern to their wrongful act or how they disenfranchise and/or exploit the masses within the city of Milwaukee - The Urban city.
Press conference video - May 13, 2010
Notice that the term is mentioned by ex-Governor Jim Doyle - premier "URBAN Research University"
This event took place right before the departure of the 7th C hancellor Carlos E. Santiago.
Transparency through evidence based data, specific head counts in consultants, contractors, architects, real estate companies, partnerships (alumni-public-private), employment (hired staff-faculty-deans-consultants-human resource recruiters, advertisement ) and the many levels of procurement through the mega funding of Bill 514 and the Master Plan for building developments.
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Stay tuned.
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