Editor's Review - July 1, 2011 - Selection of UW-Madison Interim Chancellor

THIS ARTICLE IS A RE-RUN.


Photo: Bryce Richter

Chancellor Emeritus David Ward in foreground.

July 1, 2011

And the Process Begins . . .

Chancellor Emeritus David Ward has been selected the Interim Chancellor of University of Wisconsin - Madison. His official start date is July 18, 2011. He will have approximately a year in the position and is expected to help provide order after chaos.

Dr. Ward was selected Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1993 after serving in the deputy capacity for four years with ex-Chancellor Donna Shalala.
He was a staff member of UW-Madison for 30 years, 7 years as Chancellor and until 2009 was the President of the American Council of Education in Washington, DC.

He is well-respected for his academic and leadership abilities. His discipline is that of a Geographer. He is an author and was born in England.

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My research of Emeritus Ward brings favor with his background lineage. He comes at a time that appears to be austere. However; based on his previous experiences, he has traveled similar roads and was more than above average in his accomplishments.

Here are some traits that we hope to see from Emeritus Ward. They are:

 That, if UW-Madison is to be truly the “flagship” university of the UW system, given land to occupy and requiring massive research funding; it must earn it by empowering its Wisconsinites first and foremost – especially African American, other People of Color, Work-Challenged (un-, under-employed; un-, under-skilled; un-, under-financed neighborhood-level businesses; disabled; and those re-entering, especially those returning from WAR, INCARCERATION, boomerang employment and boomerang retirement).

 2011 “culture of inclusiveness” is a priority.

 “2011 culture must reach out beyond the UW-Madison campus” to secondary and 2-year public education pipelines for noteworthiness – to get broad acceptability.

 Create “intellectual candy stores” for the laboratories of research that draw from the “urban and rural areas” hidden talent and neighborhood-level case studies that will provide incentives and relevance to marketplace employment as well as education tuitions.

 Use the urban history (Milwaukee-Madison-Beloit-Racine-Green Bay) as the museums for which NEW economies of partnerships can be created and developed through research and collaborations.

 Transparency-customer care-best practices management-accountability that is understood and shared by students-faculty-staff-neighborhood level stakeholders as well as engaged donors (government-alumni-corporations-philanthropic groups).

 To understand that there is a strong “resentment” that is out in the public square due to an unacceptable Code of Conduct during the 2010-2011 Search and Selection of the 8th Chancellor of UW-Milwaukee and practices of “discrimination”.

 UW Regents Board, Chairman Michael Spector, Regents Vice Chairman Brent Smith, President Kevin Reilly, both selection committees, and others in-and-around the selection process of UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell have been submitted in a “Formal Complaint” to the WI Senate and WI Assembly legislature for address.

 The process is also submitted at the federal level – especially those departments that have shared massive funding and responsible for violations of discrimination.

 During the month of July, notices will begin with those businesses that have engaged in partnerships with the UW System but have failed to engage in procurement and partnerships at the neighborhood level of Milwaukee, especially with African American, other People of Color and the Work-Challenged.

 That the level of alienation has a Call for Investigation, Call of Intervention and Prevention due to the lack of public confidence derived from the 2010-2011 Search and Selection of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell. And, whereas Dr. Ward has been selected as the “Interim Chancellor” of UW-Madison and is at the behest of the UW Regents; this public outcry by my office becomes acute to his success with the “negative cloud of the selection process” in the public square. This goes to the $94 million budget and the image/brand of UW-Madison.

 That Enduring Concentrated Poverty has over a half-million people trapped and paralyzed in the City of Milwaukee - well-documented.

 That the themes of recovery for UW-Madison must include the pipeline-to-education and technology not Wisconsin Correctional System, misdemeanor, felony and the grave.

 That the themes of recovery of UW-Madison must be part of breaking down the barriers for those in the City of Milwaukee (largest city) and across the state/nation/world that seek education and technology attainment as the a way to bring to the table “hidden talents”, “emerging markets” and “submerging markets” that can create a NEW Middle Class through access-literacy-fluency, following the Constitution, state statues and stated Missions.

 That, the ideal strategic plan now and later, will include the people, especially those that have been by “design” left out for generations-decades - all the while they bring mega millions to the state for quality of life and economic development opportunities.

We will see if Dr. Ward will Un-tap the Well-of-plenty.

Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin last day is July 14 or July 15, 2011.

For the video of the Interim Chancellor Annoucement and Dr. Ward's speech, go to:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/19523