Rebecca Clean

School, employees and college students are invited to attend a carillon live performance in honor of Chancellor Emerita Rebecca Clean on Oct. 2 after the studying of a memorial decision for her on the School Senate.

Free ice cream shall be obtainable starting at 4:30 p.m. close to the Social Sciences constructing by the carillon tower. The live performance will begin at 4:50 p.m. and final roughly 20 minutes.

The occasion is hosted by the Workplace of the Secretary of the School and the Workplace of the Chancellor.

Clean, an economist and educator who served in high-level U.S. authorities and educational positions, died of most cancers on Feb. 17. She was 67.

Throughout her tenure at UW–Madison, from 2013–2022, Clean targeted on enhancing instructional outcomes and the coed expertise, additional elevating the college’s world-class college and putting the college on agency monetary footing by way of a mixture of personal fundraising and ingenious methods. She was identified for her direct model, fast evaluation and dry humorousness, all whereas main one of many nation’s prime public analysis universities by way of a posh political interval and a devastating world pandemic.

The carillon live performance shall be carried out by Lyle Anderson, college carillonneur emeritus, and can embody “On, Wisconsin,” variations on “Superb Grace,” “Varsity” and “Magic Penny,” which was sung at Rebecca M. Clean and Hanns Kuttner’s wedding ceremony.

UW–Madison’s carillon tower, rising over Observatory Drive close to Bascom Corridor, has serenaded the campus neighborhood in for almost 9 many years. Inside its 85-foot-high tower, UW’s carillon includes 56 bells, starting from 15 to just about 7,000 kilos and activated by fist and foot with picket levers and pedal keys.

Summary of Memorial Decision of the School of the College of Wisconsin­–Madison

On the Loss of life of Chancellor Emerita Rebecca M. Clean

Chancellor Emerita Rebecca Clean died on February 17, 2023. She served as Chancellor from 2013 to 2022, a interval of adverse political challenges, excessive price range cuts, and the COVID-19 pandemic, main the College to emerge stronger than ever. Her achievements embody rising accessibility to UW–Madison for low-income college students; increasing undergraduate enrollment; diversifying college and pupil our bodies; lowering time to commencement; creating the College of Pc, Knowledge, and Info Sciences; main the biggest fundraising marketing campaign in college historical past; and leaving the College considerably extra financially safe than when she arrived. She was a superb scholar, devoted public servant, transformational administrator, devoted instructor and mentor, and loving household and neighborhood member whose legacy will lengthy outlast her years.