The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will hear a special presentation on Systemwide federal government relations tomorrow during its regular monthly meeting in Madison. The topic of his remarks is a recent study he undertook focusing on the design of the most effective federal relations strategy for the UW System. The study was commissioned by the UW System and carried out by Gunderson in his present capacity as senior consultant and managing director of the Washington, D.C. office of The Greystone Group, Inc., a strategic planning and communications firm headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Gunderson's presentation is a luncheon session that precedes the Board of Regents' regular committee meetings.
Interested persons are welcome to attend as observers.
The University of Wisconsin System is one of the state's major sources of federal funding. At the recent, highly successful Wisconsin Economic Summit in Milwaukee, the UW System committed itself to developing a strategy for bringing more federal dollars to all of its institutions. The Greystone Group report is a component of that strategy. UW-Madison already does this extremely well. We'd like the rest of the UW System to become more competitive for grants and more aggressive about seeking them.