Almanac
(Almanac lists facts, figures and miscellany of campus interest. Know something, or want to know? Call us: 262-3846, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.)
UW ranks high again
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine ranks UW–Madison sixth-best among the top 100 values in state universities. The magazine’s October issue compares cost, quality and financial-aid measures in calculating the rankings.
“Ratings always should be taken with a grain of salt, but this latest ranking used straightforward cost data and took into account our outstanding reputation,” says John Torphy, vice chancellor for administration. “To be in the top 10 certainly makes sense.”
Once again topping the list was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Following UW–Madison were peers such as the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of California-Berkeley and University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana.
Regents honor teaching
Two faculty members and one department on other campuses received UW System Teaching Excellence Awards. Each receives $5,000 to be used for professional development. This year’s recipients are:
- Professor Joan E. Thron, Department of Education and Humanistic Studies, UW-Green Bay
- Professor Charles R. Young, chair, Department of Music Theory and composition director, Computer Music Center, UW-Stevens Point
- Department of Geography and Geology, UW Colleges, professor Keith Montgomery, chair, UW-Marathon County.
The Board of Regents instituted the awards in 1992 as a way of recognizing and rewarding the UW System’s finest teachers and departments.
Cassidy memorial planned
Frederic G. Cassidy, chief editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, who died in June at age 92, will be remembered by friends and colleagues at a memorial service Thursday, Sept. 21, at 4 p.m. in the Alumni Room of the Pyle Center.
Show memorializes graduate
An exhibition of photographs by Kin Lop Tse will be shown beginning Thursday, Sept. 14, at the Memorial Union Craftshop. Tse, who received a university doctorate in education policy studies in 1998, died in June in Hong Kong. Tse worked at the Craftshop during his studies and was known for his talent in photography.
Video auditions announced
UW–Madison students and alumni are invited to tell video producers about their favorite campus locations for possible inclusion in a video being made to help acquaint prospective students with the university.
Brief, taped auditions will be held Monday, Sept. 18, from 2-7 p.m., Wisconsin Union Theater, Memorial Union. Appointments are not needed. Those auditioning may come anytime during the five-hour tryout period. Acting experience isn’t required.
Five storytellers will be chosen for full-length interviews.
John Roach Projects of Madison is producing the video.
For more information: 259-0600.
Backward glance
From Wisconsin Week, Sept. 12, 1990: The campus will consider a smoking ban in all campus buildings. … The Physical Plant has started diverting its fly ash from the landfill, instead sending it to a local utility, which burns the substance. The move saves $75,000 a year. … Arnold Brown will step aside as medical dean. … Licensing UW–Madison symbols is yielding about $250,000 a year, much of it going to programs that benefit students.