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2. Educational institutions normally affiliate themselves with regional accrediting agencies that are charged with upholding educational standards. The UW-Madison has been accredited by the NCA since the Association's founding in 1913. These agencies, in part, stand between the federal government and universities to interpret and administer federal regulations. Accreditation is also a requirement for a university to receive certain kinds of federal aid, such as student loans. And universities need to renew their accreditation regularly in a process known as reaccreditation.

3. Data Digest 1998-1999 (UW-Madison: Office of Budget, Planning, and Analysis, 1999) p. 53.

4. See Data Digest, p. 4.

5. Data Digest, p. 6. The number of all ethnic minorities enrolled in 1989 was 1,976; in 1999 was 2,469.

6. Data Digest, p. 61.

7. This number indicates FTE or Full Time Employees. During the same period the instructional academic staff increased by 552 FTE.

8. Data Digest, p. 33. Associate professors salaries were 1.4% below the peer group median; assistant professor .4% above it.

9. A Vision for the Future: Priorities for the UW-Madison in the Next Decade (Madison: UW-Madison, 1995), in addition to setting goals, suggested five ways of implementing them. They are 1) maximizing human resources, 2) rethinking our organization, 3) encouraging collaboration, 4) using technology wisely, and 5) renewing the campus physical environment.

10. See Comprehensive Master Plan: Summary Report (University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1996).

11. Self-Study.

12. Donald Langenberg, et al., Report of a Visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison . . . for the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [July 1999], p. 11.

13. Report of a Visit, pp. 14-15.

14. A Vision, p. 6.

15. Chancellor David Ward, "A World of Discovery" in Research for Your World: Building on a Tradition of Excellence - Part III (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996), inside front cover.

16. A more comprehensive, if still selective, survey of world-class research that has been completed at the UW-Madison can be found in Chancellor David Ward, "150 Ways University of Wisconsin-Madison Has Touched the World" in 1997-98 Annual Report (Board of Regents, 1998), pp. 9-32.

17. This brief account of these remarkable people is taken from the 1997-98 Annual Report.

18. There are more than 50 building and remodeling projects underway at present. A complete list (as of January 1999) can be found in Self-Study, pp. 43-44.

19. Quoted in Self-Study, p. 257.

20. A Vision, p. 9.

21. James A. Sweet and Andrea Nelson of the UW Survey Center conduct this survey and publish its results in the January of each year.

22. "Report of the Subcommittee on Student Issues" in Self-Study, p. 234.

23. See "Report of the Subcommittee on Student Issues" in Self-Study, pp. 239-40.

24. "Responsible Biology" in Self-Study, p. 147.

25. "A Moveable Feast," Artes Liberales Today 5:4 (Fall 1999): 8.

26. For a discussion of new Master's programs, see the "Reports of the Subcommittee on Physical Sciences" in Self-Study pp. 175-77; and of the Social Sciences subcommittee in Self-Study, p. 191.

27. Rod Matthews, Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Associate Distinguished Scholar in the School of Business, quoted in "Business Course Links Students Worldwide," Wisconsin Week (17 November 1999), p. 1.

28. Self-Study, p. 56.

29. There are excellent examples of such initiatives being thought and rethought in the School of Education, with its courses and programs for teachers and administrators, counselors and psychologists, parents and children; in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, which implements professional development conferences, seminars, and short courses on targeted subjects; in the Engineering Professional Development Program, which educates engineers and associated specialists in developing technology, building and construction, public works, environmental engineering, manufacturing, and communications; in the Law School, which serves more than 2,000 attorneys and professionals interested in law-related matters through programs, teleconferences, and publications emphasizing tax, real estate, criminal, civil, and business law.

30. A "Comprehensive Action Plan" was formulated to advance each of these initiatives, and many parts of it have already been implemented.

31. Langenberg, Report of a Visit, p. 24.

32. Data Digest, p. 28.

33. Langenberg, Report of a Visit, p. 23.

34. See Data Digest, p. 33.

35. To this end an "Analysis of 1997 Faculty Pay Equity at UW-Madison" was released on 31 August 1999 through the Office of Budget, Planning and Analysis. Given the differences in each school and college, overall in 1997 women were "paid approximately one-half percent more than men . . . on average, after controlling for differences in rank, experience, field, and other factors in the equation. The difference is not statistically significant from zero at the 95 percent confidence level" (p. 2).

36. This has already been discussed under TODAY, The Reaccreditation Project: A Self-Study, above.

37. Self-Study, p. 1. 38. A Vision, p. 9.

39. Quoted in Summary Report / Plan 2008 / A Blueprint To Enhance Campus Diversity (UW-Madison [1999]), p. 3.

40. A Report to the Board of Regents, May 1998. This can be accessed on-line at http://www.uwsa.edu/multcult/oma-home.htm

41. Plan 2008: Education Quality through Racial and Ethnic Diversity (UW System: Office of Multicultural Affairs, 1998), p. 3.

42. Plan 2008: A Blueprint to Enhance Campus Diversity (UW-Madison: Office of the Chancellor, 1999). This can be accessed on-line at http://www.news.wisc.edu/misc/plan2008/

43. Summary Report / Plan 2000, p. 4.

44. Self-Study, p. 2.

45. David Ward, "A Progress Report on Our Priorities" (UW-Madison: Office of the Provost, January 1999), p. 3.

46. "Observations: Taking the Wisconsin Idea into the Next Century," Wisconsin Ideas 16.2 (November 1999), p. 3.

47. Quoted in Katharine C. Lyall, "Observations: It's Time to Talk `Straight and Openly' about the Value of the UW System to the State," Wisconsin Ideas 15.3 (December 1998), p.3.

48. See "Economic Impact of the University of Wisconsin System" in Self-Study, p. 45.

49. Wisconsin Ideas 15.3 (December 1998), p. 3.

50. The Legislature needs to know this because tuition increases are primarily related to decreases in state funding. "Universities are working hard to control costs. A recent General Accounting Office study calculated that 64% of tuition increases at public four-year universities have been associated with reductions in state support for higher education." Katharine C. Lyall, "Observations: Telling America's Greatest News Story," Wisconsin Ideas 15.5 (March 1999), p. 3.

51. See Alan B. Knox and Joe Corry, "The Wisconsin Idea for the 21st Century" in The Wisconsin Idea (Madison: Legislative Reference Bureau, 1996), pp. 181-92, for a wide-ranging discussion of these and other influences on the state in the 21st century.

52. Knox and Corry, p. 186.

53. Knox and Corry, p. 183.

54. Formerly The LaFollette Institute.

55. One of these forums addressed the Wisconsin Idea directly, identifying five issues that need urgent attention as the 21st century begins: 1) the changing economic framework of the state as the dairy and pulp industries rapidly change; 2) the information-based, computer-driven global economy; 3) the shifting demographics as more people retire and the work force becomes "less white and male"; 4) the emerging social issues of prisons, welfare, senior citizens, and children; 5) the work of state and local governments to manage and solve these problems. See Donald F. Kettl, "Reinvented Wisconsin Idea Must Address Real Problems," Wisconsin State Journal (7 February 1999), sec. B, p. 3.

56. Knox and Corry, p. 188.