Madison Initiative: Investing in Students. 

Investing in the State.

This site was last updated in summer 2002. It remains online as an archival record.

What is the Madison Initiative?

Overview
- Madison Initiative Q&A
- News/updates
- Getting involved
- For news media

Areas of focus
- Student learning
- Strategic hiring
- Economic development
- Maintaining affordability


News: Governor approves budget adjustments

Chancellor John Wiley

"The Madison Initiative is designed to be a partnership between the state's taxpayers, students, and our alumni and donors. The partnership benefits not only our students, but also the economy of the state and its citizens."

- Chancellor John Wiley

Progress Report

UW team to build 'quantum' computer
A team headed by scientists hired through the Madison Initiative is working on a "quantum" computer so powerful that it could solve in seconds some problems that would take the fastest existing supercomputer millions of years.
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Past progress reports