(WisBusiness) FRI News Summary — 24 Apr. 2009

From WisBusiness.com …

— Office of Recovery and Reinvestment Chief Gary Wolter kept his day job as MG&E CEO because his brief role in the Doyle Adminstration that began last fall was “to start up” the process to tap into federal recovery funds. Now he’s ready to leave May 8.

“We are at the point now to develop what the structure will be for the next three years. That is for a different set of people than those who set it up initially,” Wolter told the Downtown Madison Breakfast at the Madison Club.

Wolter said high-speed rail and health records digitization may quickly bring a positive impact to the Madison area, in addition to money for Madison schools, city planning, and local road repairs paid with the federal recovery funds.

“I’m sure the Epic people are looking into how that will affect them. Epic is well positioned to capture that share of the market,” he said of the money for health care records.

See more from Wolter: http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=156526

— UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Linda Hunt Bunnell will return to her Denver-based consulting firm after stepping down from her post next month following a series of controversies.

Bunnell has been under fire for her relationship with the school’s private fundraising arm and a February hit-and-run accident she was involved in. She acknowledged ordering several drinks before the accident, but said she drank only one of them.

The Student Senate unanimously approved a resolution expressing no confidence in her leadership after details of the crash came to light.

Bunnell did not give any reasons for her departure in a university-issued statement.

“We can all be proud of our university’s many accomplishments in recent years,” she said. “UW-Stevens Point is now ready and poised to proceed to the next level,” she added.

UW System President Kevin Reilly did not address the problems in a statement but said, “Moving forward, we hope that these diverse stakeholders will unite under a shared commitment to the university and its vital, enduring mission.”

Mark Nook, the campus provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, will serve as interim chancellor starting June 1.

See more: http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2009/r090423.htm

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