Sent out by ASM earlier today:
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Revise…
Apply to the newly developed Constitutional Committee that will review and amend the ASM Constitution and Bylaws
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If interested please send your resume and cover letter to Jessica Pavlic (jpavlic@wisc.edu) or bring to Room 511 of the Memorial Union.
Resume and Cover Letters are due by Friday May 16th at 5pm
Have questions visit asm.wisc.edu and click Get Involved or call 608.265.4276
What I want to know is sent out to whom? Say the Wisconsin Lounge had started a week later, how would I have heard about this? How many people randomly go on ASM’s website every day and look under the ‘Open Committee Seats and Positions’ tab? Is 2 too high of a guess? How can ASM expect to have any kind of reform when they are failing to engage students in the reform efforts. 5 members of that committee are coming from outside ASM and I would hope that there are enough applicants to at least be somewhat selective. This is not even to mention the openings on SSFC and the SAC governing board. Those weren’t positions created earlier this week, there has been time to let people know about those positions. I would like to imagine there will be something about this in both the BH and the DC tomorrow, but still, that can’t be your only way to communicate with students. This is the kind of public outreach that ASM struggles with. Coverage in the campus newspapers about ASM might not be the greatest, but I would say that’s more of the fault of the campus papers than anything ASM has done. If ASM made themselves more relevant there would be more coverage, at least I would hope so. What ASM needs the press office to do is hand them the above release and have the press office ensure that students hear about it. No matter what ASM does to advertise this, I guarantee that in a week if I were to wake up one morning and ask the 2nd through 10th person I saw if they had heard about this, they all would say ‘no’ (Note: the first person I see every morning is Sam Clegg and he already knows). A student blog that isn’t even officially affiliated with ASM should not be functioning as ASM’s primary source of communication with students.
Here’s to hoping that ASM will buck recent their recent outreach trends, get their shit together and make sure students hear about this. This is also a great opportunity to get some positive PR and communicate to students that reform is underway. I propose a contest over the next week or so between ASM and the Chancellor Search Committee to see who can do a better job advertising their opportunities for student input. As of right now, I would say Suchita has done more by herself than all of ASM. She’s been advertising via the blogs and email.
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The four candidates will participate in meetings and receptions on the campus from May 12 through May 15, where they will interact with faculty, academic staff, classified staff, students and community members. Reilly and the regent committee will interview the finalists on May 14. The final appointment of a new chancellor must be confirmed by the full board of regents.
Links to their more extensive resumes can be found here.
Rebecca M. Blank
From 1999-2007, Blank was dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, where she remains a professor of public policy and of economics and is co-director of the school’s National Poverty Center. Blank is currently on leave and is the Robert V. Kerr Visiting Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Michigan, she was a faculty member at Northwestern University and served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors from 1997-99.
Biddy (Carolyn A.) Martin
Martin became Cornell University’s provost, the university’s chief academic and chief operating officer, in July 2000. Prior to that, she spent four years as senior associate dean in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences. A professor of German studies and women’s studies, she served as the chair of the Department of German Studies from 1994-97. Martin received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been on the faculty at Cornell since 1985.
R. Timothy Mulcahy
Mulcahy has served as vice president for research at the University of Minnesota since February 2005. He is responsible for oversight and administration of an externally funded research program of more than $600 million on the university system’s five campuses. Before taking the Minnesota post, Mulcahy was associate vice chancellor for research policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for three years. From 1996 to 2002, he served as associate dean for the biological sciences at UW-Madison. He joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 1985.
Gary D. Sandefur
Sandefur was named dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in August 2004. Prior to that, he served as professor of sociology, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, and director of the American Indian Studies Program, all at UW-Madison. He has been on the faculty since 1984 and currently leads a college that has 39 departments and five professional schools.
Seems to be some pretty good choices in the group to me. The 2nd in command at the 12th ranked school in the country is not too shabby and the dean of our largest college with some experience in the UW chancellors office. I guess maybe Wiley was right after all.
Despite the five departures systemwide and a lower-than-average salary, Wiley said UW-Madison will find a perfectly capable individual to replace him. He doubts compensation will play a role in the chancellor search as whole.
[Edit] Check out the info that Suchita posted in a comment below.
Shoutout to CB commenter Ginger for finding this. I found it quite amusing.
http://www.madison.com/wsj/media/chancellor/index.html
entirely too long…but you just can’t stop watching. i especially like the SLAC animation.
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