UWM plan goes forward
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – October 27, 2008
UWM's plans to build a new engineering campus in Wauwatosa moved forward Monday after a county committee recommended that Milwaukee County negotiate a sale of the proposed college site.
Editorial: Land deal is key element of UWM plan
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – October 11, 2008
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is closer to a deal to buy land at the County Grounds for a new engineering school and business park, judging from letters sent in recent days between UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago and County Board Chairman Lee Holloway. That’s good news for an economy stuck in neutral.
Editorial: The region's economic woes demand urgency
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – September 7, 2008
The M-7 partners collectively and individually have given strong backing to Carlos Santiago's vision for a new University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The chancellor's efforts to build research muscle in engineering and freshwater sciences and break out of UWM's landlocked east side campus are all about job creation. These projects won't pay off overnight, but it's time to get them moving.
Editorial: R&D collaboration can stimulate region
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 23, 2008
Chancellor Carlos Santiago of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has pushed for the second $10 million round of funding for new faculty positions in science and engineering. The UW System Board of Regents, which fields requests from all 13 four-year UW campuses, apparently shares Santiago’s vision of a second powerful research university in the state.
Editorial: Growing Metro UWM School of Public Health; deserving a green light
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – June 6, 2008
UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett made a powerful case for creation of a school of public health at UWM, this editorial argues. "We have more than a critical mass of public health problems in Milwaukee," Barrett told the Board of Regents, who were meeting in Milwaukee.
Editorial: Freshwater Science a Natural Fit for the region
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – June 6, 2008
The UW regents should approve a proposal that could help make Milwaukee a global center of freshwater research, this editorial says. “Given the excellent work already being done at UWM's Great Lakes WATER Institute and the position of UWM and southeastern Wisconsin on the shore of the planet's largest freshwater system, the regents should have no doubts about following the lead of the Education Committee - which approved the proposal Thursday - and giving it their imprimatur.”
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee picks Tosa for new campus
The Daily Reporter, WI – June 6, 2008
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is moving quickly to buy Milwaukee County's property in Wauwatosa for a new engineering campus, said Tom Luljak, vice chancellor of university relations and communications. However, County Supervisor Gerry Broderick, who is trying to help homeowners deal with rowdy students around the main UW-Milwaukee campus, sees the land sale as a way to get some leverage on the issue of student population.
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Regents approve two new schools for UWM
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – June 7, 2008
The 18-member UW System Board of Regents unanimously approved a School of Public Health and a School of Freshwater Sciences at UWM Friday, expressing confidence that UWM can both lead the world in freshwater research and tackle the area's health care disparities. The initiatives must first pass the Legislature when it reconvenes early next year.
School may make UWM water leader
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – June 5, 2008
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will vote Friday on whether to establish a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences at UW-Milwaukee - a unique program that aims to anchor the Milwaukee region as a global center of freshwater research.
Editorial: School and Milwaukee a natural fit
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI-May 31, 2008
The case has been made for why an independent school of public health should be established at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Now the UW Board of Regents needs to take the next step and approve the blueprints.
UWM plan survives budget
$8.4 million tagged for expansion project
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Oct. 22, 2007
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's plan to build a new engineering campus and research park, hailed as one of the biggest economic growth projects in southeastern Wisconsin, remained on track Monday as university officials had their first opportunity to comb through the details of a bitterly fought state budget agreement. Santiago had requested a $10 million increase in state funding over the next two years, which would allow him to begin hiring faculty and researchers for the new engineering school.
UWM surpasses fund goal
Cudahy bankrolls purchase of Tosa land for 'innovation park'
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Nov. 17, 2007
A pair of fund-raising announcements Saturday propelled the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee closer to building a new engineering campus and research park in Wauwatosa and fulfilling Chancellor Carlos Santiago's vision of UWM as a recognized research university.
Lessons from the Asian Tiger
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Jan. 19, 2008
UWM and Medical College of Wisconsin initiatives are important and overdue. Linkages between the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Medical College, Marquette University and local companies need to be expanded. Chancellor Carlos Santiago deserves praise for aspiring to greater levels of research excellence and collaboration at UWM, but those goals need to be larger.
Chancellor calls on firms to fill UWM research park
Spurring economic development will take partnerships, he says
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Jan. 8, 2008
In Chancellor Carlos Santiago's vision, Innovation Park would be a place where engineers from companies such as Rockwell Automation work together in the same building with University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee scientists and students to generate research dollars and spin off new companies.
Tapping into fresh water
Boosters back efforts to position area as leader in emerging water industry
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Nov. 21, 2007
With water shortages stretching from Atlanta to China, and government data showing that Americans invest next to nothing in freshwater technology research, Franz Hoffmann sees opportunity. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is drafting plans for a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences - the first of its kind in this country, as far as Chancellor Carlos Santiago can tell.
Leadership is key element to building business, city
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Jan. 12, 2008
Thousands of books have been written about leadership. Each author or researcher has a different cut on what it takes to be effective as a chief executive officer, general, chancellor, mayor, governor or president. A regional leader who needs to be listened to is Chancellor Carlos Santiago of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has stepped up with a vision for new schools of engineering, public health and freshwater science. He has asked the private sector to step up on this project as well.
Schools turning broadband into cash
MPS, UWM, MATC to lease channels to private group for $100 million
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Jan. 10, 2008
UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago said at a recent University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting that the university would use the royalties to help cover a $3.2 million lapse in state funding from the 2007-'09 budget, to create a technical infrastructure allowing connectivity between the main campus and the planned regional campuses in Wauwatosa and downtown Milwaukee and to pay for scholarships to students.