The University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Search and Screen Committee held an online chat Tuesday to receive feedback from another portion of the campus community.
According to the CCS Committee Chair David McDonald, participation in the web chat was “encouraging.”
“We had a fair number of posters from off campus, which I thought was good,” McDonald said. “We did have a good representation of various constituencies.”
Many of the posts revolved around finding a chancellor who would focus on college affordability and creating a good relationship with the state legislature.
There were also a number of posts speaking out against current university research practices.
“There were a lot of people who wanted to protest the continued use of experimentation on cats on campus and they certainly made their point of view crystal clear and it's something that we'll take note of,” McDonald said.
Overall, McDonald said the feedback would be very important as the committee moves forward.
“[We heard] a lot of things we sort of already knew about,” McDonald said. “But what was really good was to get concrete verifications that these are concerns out in the community.”
