Two more University of Wisconsin System campuses are looking to furloughs, retirement incentives and layoffs to address combined budget deficits of around $15 million.
The latest announcements from UW-Parkside and UW-Platteville come just more than one month after Republican state lawmakers included a $32 million cut to the UW System in a state budget signed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
UW-Platteville and UW-Parkside are projecting structural deficits of $9.7 million and $4 million, respectively, the universities’ chancellors told employees in an email Monday. A structural deficit is when ongoing expenses exceed recurring revenue.
The number of University of Wisconsin System campuses considering furloughs and layoffs to close budget gaps this school year continues to grow.
Announced Monday in emails to staff, the universities could join UW-Oshkosh in furloughing its employees starting this fall, as the University of Wisconsin System sits a collective $33.4 million in debt as of June.
But all hope isn’t lost. After all, it’s the University of Wisconsin − not Harvard, Princeton or Yale − that boasts more current Fortune 500 CEOs than any other school in America. The world’s top companies don’t care where their CEOs went to school, and you shouldn’t either
Olivia Bozich flew back to Madison Friday after her trip home to Hawaii turned into a nightmare. The rising senior said she’s thinking about her home state right now after seeing the wildfire’s destruction.
Someday, when Tina Tran has a legislative internship as part of her public policy studies at UW-Madison, she hopes it’s with a Wisconsin legislator who cares about conservation.
Brenda Yang has been named assistant director of career communities at UW-Madison’s College of Letters and Sciences, where she will help head up the SuccessWorks program.
Madison City Council District 8 Ald. MGR Govindarajan said in an email statement to The Badger Herald that the District 13 County Board seat is important because it is typically held by a student.
Ketamine has emerged as a therapeutic option for treatment-resistant depression and other mental health conditions. We talk to Cody Wenthur, an assistant professor at UW-Madison’s School of Pharmacy and director of the school’s new Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation master’s program, about how it works and why ketamine clinics have popped up across Wisconsin.
Dr. Michael Lucey, professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Wisconsin’s medical school, said those resources are an “integral part” of performing more comprehensive psychosocial evaluations.
NFL running back Dare Ogunbowale played four sports at his high school in Milwaukee, but golf wasn’t one of them.
He started getting into golf during his time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was something he could do away from football. Before college, “golf just wasn’t even a thought.”
No brand will have exclusivity when alcohol sales expand to general ticket holders for Badgers basketball and hockey games this season, senior associate athletic director Justin Doherty said. Levy, the company that manages concessions at Wisconsin venues, will work with local distributors to stock a variety of products.
Andrea Dutton, a professor of geology and sedimentologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is leading international research on climate change. Her work focuses on studying fossilized corals to track changes in sea level. It’s helping scientists better understand the impact of rising temperatures.
“A lot of what I do is reconstruct past sea levels during warm periods so that we can understand how high sea level gets as temperatures rise and how quickly those ice sheets retreat,” Dutton said.
“By November (2016) and after he was elected, Republicans really came around,” UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said. “The positive way to say it is, politicians are pretty flexible in their attitudes about candidates.”
“As expected, the dogs testing positive are generally under a year old and have only been in the shelter for a few weeks, meaning they didn’t have time to build up appropriate vaccination immunity before being exposed,” said AAC’s head veterinarian Dr. Debbie Elliott. “We are seeing a range of symptoms, from dogs that aren’t showing any signs to dogs developing seizures. We have been working with experts at the University of Wisconsin Shelter Medicine Program as well as our partners at Austin Pets Alive! to provide treatment and slow the spread of disease through the shelter.”
