Rebecca Blank, the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has her work cut out for her if she is to position her taxpayer-built institution as a prime mover for the state’s prosperity.
There is a growing concern that part of the state’s laggard economic performance can be put at the doorstep of its flagship campus. The massive taxpayer inputs to that powerhouse campus don’t seem to match the outputs. Put succinctly, the state has been losing GDP share for four decades or more. And it’s not getting better. The state ranks in the bottom ten year after year in job and business creation.
Read more in Wednesday’s Milwaukee Biz Blog by John Torinus.
