We Are Wisconsin, a labor-backed advocacy group formed in the 2011 “uprising” protests of Gov. Scott Walker’s first biennial budget, is organizing a campaign to stop steep cuts to the University of Wisconsin System penciled into his third biennial spending plan.
To say the state can cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System without affecting the quality of education and research is simply not true. Far from saving money, failing to invest in higher education will results in a further lag on our already lagging economy compared to our neighbors.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cut of $300 million to the University of Wisconsin System comes as other states, nationally and in the Midwest, have inched up funding for higher education, restoring support lost during the economic recession. More increases are expected in coming years.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s recently unveiled higher education budget plans would only exacerbate the burgeoning student loan debt crisis.
Some University of Wisconsin students are concerned a proposed $300 million cut to the UW System will ultimately have a negative impact on college affordability and student input.
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Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to slash $300 million in funding from the University of Wisconsin and in return for greater autonomy would make it make it harder for low-income and minority students to go to college there, said affiliates of WISCAPE Wisconsin Center on the Advancement of Post-Secondary Education, a UW-Madison think tank on post-secondary education.
Dear Editor: On behalf of our colleagues in the department of neuroscience we write to express our appreciation for our colleague Professor Tom Yin. The false claim that the closing of Yin’s laboratory was a PETA victory reminds us of the fable of the rooster that believed that his crowing in the morning made the sun rise. The professor is 70 years old and, after a distinguished career that has lasted for 45 years, he plans to retire.
It’s probably safe to assume, however, that Aldo Leopold would be proud to know he helped inspire a free University of Wisconsin online course about the role of hunting in conservation and wildlife management moocs.wisc.edu/mooc/landethic. The four-week class — “The Land Ethic Reclaimed: Perceptive Hunting, Aldo Leopold and Conservation” — is part of UW-Madison’s “Massive Open Online Course” series MOOC.
The implication from the headline is that faculty and staff have more time and effort they can give. This is more of the “politics as usual” from the Walker administration. As Gov. Walker stated, “divide and conquer.”
Still, when I hear System officials complain that Walker’s cuts and tuition freeze could cause layoffs, I also hear the sound of the world’s smallest violin playing mournfully in the background.
“Dairy agriculture in Wisconsin is a big deal, and we have landscapes where we can maintain it. We just have to be wise in how we do it,” said Fred Madison, a UW-Madison soil science professor emeritus, who has been aware of groundwater problems in Kewaunee County for 40 years.
Those squeals of indignation you hear echoing from one end of Madison to the other are likely occasioned by Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System budget.
The governor’s proposal would grant the System greater autonomy over purchasing and the like, which, in the long run, will afford substantial savings. But it is the short-run cut in state support that should concern all of those who value the University. It’s a baffling recommendation given the state’s economic recovery and the governor’s claims to have repaired the structural deficit. Perhaps some in the governor’s circle assume UW is just another state agency. This is, frankly, akin to saying the Green Bay Packers are just another NFL team.
Conroy said even though the UW-Madison spends nearly $1.2 billion a year in research funding, the UW is at the bottom of the Big Ten schools in terms of research sponsored by corporations. That makes it very difficult to conduct clinical trials of potential drugs and medical devices, said Conroy. He said it can take nine months to go through a review by a UW panel to allow a clinical trial while the “Mayo Clinic can get it done in two months.”
Speaking on WKOW-TV’s “Capitol City Sunday,” UW-Madison Atmospheric Science professor and the president of faculty lobbying group PROFS Grant Petty said Gov. Walker’s comment about teaching more was out of touch with the responsibilities of faculty who he said work an average of 63 hours per week at UW-Madison, combining teaching, research, mentoring and more.
UW graduate Chad Gracia’s documentary “The Russian Woodpecker” won a big prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal came through with the flexibilities that University of Wisconsin System leaders have been asking for, but the catch is what drew ire last week
The private, non-profit foundation, entrusted with managing the lion’s share of UW-Madison’s intellectual property portfolio, is ranked sixth in the world in patents obtained for new technologies, with 160 patents issued to WARF in 2013.
There is only one word for Scott Walker’s comments about the University of Wisconsin faculty: demeaning.
Sen. Steve Nass of Whitewater, one of the system’s toughest critics and vice-chair of the Senate’s universities committee, has warned the plan would allow regents to raise tuition at will starting in 2017.
People don’t understand what university professors do, UW System president Ray Cross said Thursday as he panned Gov. Scott Walker’s suggestion that professors work harder to absorb his planned $300 million cut to the system.
The Republican governor’s plan to cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System is troubling. Allowing UW campuses more flexibility from state bureaucracy to save money is fine. But the governor wants the System to absorb what would amount to a 13 percent cut in state funding while maintaining a tuition freeze for two more years. No amount of efficiency, short of damaging layoffs, is going to offset that in the short run. Moreover, tuition hikes after a freeze expires could price some in-state students out of a Wisconsin school.
If the drastic cut in university funding Gov. Scott Walker will propose next week is approved by the Legislature, UW-Madison is looking at layoffs and tuition hikes for out-of-state students, Chancellor Rebecca Blank cautioned.
University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross on Thursday blasted recent comments by Gov. Scott Walker that UW faculty should teach more classes and work harder in a radio interview.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has ordered system employees to immediately implement cost-saving moves after Gov. Scott Walker announced he wants to slash the system’s funding over the next two years.
Katie Couric, the longtime “Today” show host and former anchor of “CBS Evening News,” will be the keynote speaker at commencement on May 16.
The silver anniversary of that achievement will be acknowledged Saturday night when the Badgers host Minnesota in a Big Ten Conference series at the Kohl Center.
“They might be able to make savings just by asking faculty and staff to consider teaching one more class per semester,” Walker told reporters Wednesday in Madison … Vince Sweeney, vice chancellor for university relations at UW-Madison, said the most recent survey data found UW-Madison faculty spend 50 to 70 hours per week teaching and supporting students, participating in research and other activities. “It should be noted that many also bring in millions of dollars in grant funding that is a direct boost to the Wisconsin economy,” Sweeney said. Grant Petty, president of PROFS Inc., the professional group representing UW-Madison professors, said he doesn’t know any UW faculty who don’t already spend 50 hours a week or more doing what are considered the “essential duties” of their job.
Skiers and snowboarders should wear helmets if they want to reduce their chances for a traumatic brain injury, but the practice isn’t very widespread, UW Health officials say.
Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to give the University of Wisconsin System more freedom would allow it to impose unchecked tuition increases and potentially price students out of college, one of the system’s toughest critics and student leaders said Tuesday.
It’s time we consider our high admission standards a positive asset, not a liability, and be proud of setting the bar high.
The governor has promised, in his soon-to-be-released budget, to slash funding by 13 percent for the University of Wisconsin System over the next two years. In return, the UW System will be given greater autonomy and flexibility.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed 13 percent, $300 million budget cut for the University of Wisconsin System would lead to layoffs across the UW-Madison campus, chancellor Rebecca Blank said Tuesday, even though she and others see a long-term benefit in another part of the plan to give the university greater autonomy. The proposed spending cut is believed to be the most severe in the System’s nearly 45-year history. It would be accompanied by another two-year tuition freeze and come in exchange for System control over its finances, including major building projects.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Tuesday that she has not yet seen full details of Governor Walker’s plan, adding “I am concerned about the magnitude of the proposed budget cuts and their impact on UW-Madison. “These proposed cuts are believed to be the largest in the history of the university. In the past, large cuts have always been mitigated by additional tuition revenue from resident and non-resident students,” Blank posted in a blog.
This proposed cut is especially draconian, given the election-year tuition freezes and the state’s recent parsimonious allocations to the System. Even without these future cuts, faculty — often the very best young faculty — have been leaving Wisconsin.
He joined the faculty of the Soil Science Department in 1950; he did agricultural extension work throughout the state and taught and researched in soil and water conservation. His early work in planting corn without plowing no till is now widely accepted. In 1960, he developed a unique statewide frost depth-reporting network in cooperation with cemetery officials, funeral directors and the State Crop Reporting Service to provide frost depths from November to April. This network still continues. Land application of bio-solids occupied most of his work in later years. For 30 years his Soil and Water Conservation course had a 120-mile aerial field trip to study the erosion and drainage problems associated with the glaciated and unglaciated areas of Wisconsin. He retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994.
Graphic article showing UW System fund sources, with a deeper dive on UW–Madison.
She was a librarian at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Library as head librarian in periodicals and later worked in the reference department.
Overall, there are 2,619 Chinese students at UW-Madison for the 2014-2015 school year, up 159 from last year, which had been the highest. However, the numbers of new freshmen and total undergraduates dropped a bit from last year, with applications down slightly for the coming year as well, Andre Phillips,senior associate director of recruitment and outreach, said. Enrollment of Chinese students grew 356 percent from 2003 to 2013 at UW-Madison as the world’s most populous country reaped benefits of newfound wealth. The trend mirrored national enrollment numbers for Chinese students.
The University of Wisconsin System will be given more autonomy, while having its state funding slashed by 13 percent over the next two years, under the budget Gov. Scott Walker will submit to the Legislature next week.
In coming years, the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin may become more than academic at some University of Wisconsin campuses. They may find themselves in a Darwinian struggle to remain open and relevant in the face of two more years of expected state budget cuts and a tuition freeze for state undergraduates also expected to be extended another two years.
Since UW-Madison’s founding in 1848, the university has grown to include 388 buildings spread across 936 acres, said Gary Brown, director of campus planning and landscape architecture.
UW-Madison’s Babcock Hall is home to the Department of Food Science and the Center for Dairy Research, but a corner space in the building has been transformed into a brewery. The system is designed to teach basic food science principals, train and educate would-be brewers, allow professional brewers to experiment and for academics to conduct research.
In an effort to inspire further dialogue about injustice in America, the selection committee for UW-Madison’s common-reading program is seeking book suggestions that address the theme of inequality.
Here’s hoping the debate is an honest effort to improve the performance, accessibility and accountability of the state’s largest higher education system, not a political exercise driven by perception rather than fact.
As UW System officials brace for funding cuts in Gov. Scott Walker’s new budget, an organization of UW-Madison faculty says the campus cannot absorb much more.
e took early retirement in 2004 and in 2005 took a position with UW-Madison, Police/Security where he worked for the past eight years. He spent much of his time securing the Chazen Museum of Art as well as securing the entire UW campus.
UW is the only Big Ten school without baseball. Baseball ended at UW in 1991 because of funding and gender equity. UW cannot shake gender equity. It refused to spend a few hundred thousand dollars to update the UW Field House for a Big Ten championship women’s volleyball program.
The university said that the closing of the lab was due to the impending retirement of neuroscience professor Tom Yin, not the complaints of any animal rights groups. Yin, 70, decided to retire more than a year ago when his National Institutes of Health grant was up for renewal, a UW spokesman said.
UW athletic director Barry Alvarez confirmed Friday he interviewed former Rutgers coach Greg Schiano as well as former Michigan State defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi for the opening that was created when Gary Andersen left last month for Oregon State.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has quietly halted controversial experiments using cats, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals reported Friday.
UW-Madison history professor William P. Jones, who wrote “The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights,” said it is a challenge to try and encapsulate all the nuances of the civil rights movement in a movie that takes place over two weeks. But he was impressed by how accurate it was.
Letter mistakenly listed Chryst as coaching at Penn State from 2012-14, rather than Pitt.
Max Rameau, co-author of a guide to political organizing in the aftermath of Ferguson used by the Madison coalition and a founder of Take Back the Land … will speak on “Forward from Ferguson: The case for community control over the police” at 4 p.m. Friday at UW-Madison’s Elvehjem Building, 800 University Ave., Room L160. The political education and community engagement session will be followed by a rally at 7 p.m. in front of the Chazen Museum of Art., 750 University Ave. The series is sponsored in partnership with Comparative U.S. Studies and the Havens Center at UW-Madison.
Byars-Winston, a UW–Madison professor and counseling psychologist, and her colleagues, Christine Pfund and Janet Branchaw, were recently awarded a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to assess how mentors and mentees define diversity awareness and how important it is to the mentoring relationship.
The UW-Madison Office of Student Financial Aid said in a news release on Tuesday the average student loan for students getting their undergraduate degrees in 2014 went from $26,625 the previous year to $27,711 in 2014, still below the 2013 national average of $28,400.
He worked at Gardner Bakery and then the U.W. Sheet Metal Shop from 1951 until 1989, where he retired as supervisor.
But if Ammerman is to be remembered for anything during her time as a student-athlete at UW, let it be an act of worldly selflessness that dates to the summer of 2013. That’s when she spent five weeks in Kenya as part of a women’s health education initiative called Health by Motorbike.
Also noted: The hiring of Alex Hummel as an associate vice president for communications with the University of Wisconsin System.
