Blank’s Slate

Today the university released information in response to open records requests from several news organizations regarding complaints and investigations of sexual harassment over the past decade. I understand the interest in how our university has… Read More

It was a heartbreaking ending Friday night at the semi-finals of the women’s hockey Frozen Four in Minneapolis. As you might know, the Badger women fought through two overtimes, but finally lost to Colgate 4-3…. Read More

I wrote an op-ed about Bucky’s Tuition Promise and it recently appeared in several local newspapers around the state. We launched the program as one of many efforts to dispel the myth that UW-Madison is… Read More

One of the things I requested when I arrived in 2013 was a short and straightforward document that showed where our money comes from at UW-Madison and how we spend it. The result was the… Read More

As prepared for delivery, Feb. 8. (See Chancellor Blank slides.) There are a lot of good things happening at UW-Madison. We’ve been focused on expanding revenues through entrepreneurial efforts of our own, and we have… Read More

In these past weeks, it’s been horrifying to listen to the testimony of over 100 young women about the sexual abuse they experienced from a doctor associated with one of our fellow Big Ten campuses…. Read More

I want to take a moment to reflect on past year and some successes here at UW that are worth savoring. Let’s start with a few items on the education and research front side that… Read More

As prepared for delivery, Sun. Dec. 17, 2017: Good morning, and welcome to the winter 2017 commencement of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Congratulations to the new graduates, and a special welcome this morning to… Read More

Last month, the National Science Foundation released its FY2016 Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey results.  This survey indicates how much each university spends on research and is commonly used as a measure of… Read More