NEW Busy Beaver Series - "Taking our City of Milwaukee Back"

Distrust mounts as UW Regents and UW-M Leadership (Chancellor, Cabinet, Senate) refuse to communicate

Milwaukee, WI - Office of the Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association, will continue to document the unwillingness of those in leadership roles and others representing various capacities that impact stakeholders of Milwaukee. They include:
-- UW Board of Regents
-- President Kevin Reilly
-- Secretary of Board Jane Radue
-- Senor Counsel Jennifer Lattis
-- UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell
-- Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Johannes Britz
-- UW-M Cabinet
-- UW-M Secretary
-- Director of Legal Affairs Robin Van Harpin
-- Legal Custodian of Public Records Amy Watson.

Regents
UW-Milwaukee has made decisions with the blessings of the Board of Regents that have taken MILLIONS of public dollars for administration, staffing, construction, procurement, media and marketing - outreach to encourage education attainment, academic excellence in research, encourage the growth of the economy, encourage business venturing with research and development as well as creating economic empowerment; yet they have looked-pass the major stakeholders in Milwaukee in crisis. Why?

It is a case of "high-jacking" large amounts of government and donated funding on pretense.
It is a case of "identify-theft" - stealing in the name of MILWAUKEE and URBAN.
It is a case of "conflict of interest" with philanthrophy for name-recognition.

In other words, wealthy donors offer millions for their favor - usually it appears to be name on buildings. We are curious about some recent donor-funding giving the appearance of "quid pro quo".

The Protagonist-Advocate
Mary Glass is the Protagonist for All Hands on Deck, WE, Not Me Initiative.
An initiative to re-define, re-brand and un-trap over a half-million Milwaukeeans from Enduring Concentrated Poverty.

It is a BOTTOM-UP Recovery plan to change the majority per capita income from below poverty to Middle Class. Therefore, the success is in the fruits of the name, ALL HANDS on DECK, WE.

Our target audience is increasing by the day.
They are African American, other People of Color and the Work-Challenged.
The Work-Challenged consist of all races and nationalities.
They are:
** un- and under-employed
** un- and under-skilled (education and technology attainment)
** un- and under-funded/capitalized businesses (for-profit and non-profit)
** disabled
** re-entry from WAR
** re-entry from INCARCERATION
** re-entry from Boomerang employment
** re-entry from Boomerang retirement

Call to Service
Over the next six (6) months, we will call upon those who are benefitting and have benefitted from the spoils to step up and help "re-structure" and "re-purpose" the way we do business - the way/reason we elect-appoint-hire-volunteer leaders for administering our local-state-national business.

Some of the key questions for UW-Milwaukee that is related to All Hands on Deck, WE, Not Me are centered around:

-- the lack of transparency and accountability
-- outreach and "interaction" to African American
-- outreach and "interaction" to other People of Color
-- outreach and "interaction" to Work-Challenged population for research and case method of learning at the neighborhood-level

-- "questionable" process of selection of Dr. Lovell
-- massive funding of the NEW projects and schools
-- purchasing with philanthrophy
-- Senate Bill 514 appropriations
-- partnerships with Medical College of WI-Marquette-Blood Bank of Wi-MSOE and others
-- lack of partnership at the "neighborhood-level"
-- recent outreach to "east side" neighborhood-level but refuse to meet with MPA
-- procurement prime contractors that are caucasian only
-- lack of contracting to African American and People of Color
-- employment/hiring practices that exclude African American-People of Color-work challenged

-- deans and administrative position are caucasian-based
-- "questionable and abrupt" leaving of Steve Percy
-- recommending that the Founding Dean position encourage outreach for African American and People of Color to apply - unlike recent Chancellorships and deans

"The reluctance is a testimony to why UW-Regents Board and staff of UW-Milwaukee 'do not get it' regarding the culture of discrimination that is in-your-face disrespect to African American, other People of Color and the Work-Challenged population of the City of Milwaukee", said Glass. "My office have made attempts-after-attempts to engage perspectives-dynamism in social justice, offer thought process, provide input for strategic planning as well as evaluations".