It is very unlikely the state legislature will restore much of the $300 million proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System in the state budget. That’s what Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) told WKOW TV in Madison, but UW System President Ray Cross isn’t buying it.
Citing a strong partnership with UW-Manitowoc, the County Board came out against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
Vice President Joe Biden stood in front of a room of University of Illinois students Thursday and talked candidly about a subject that has long been taboo on college campuses.
As we continue to wrestle with potential cuts to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, I am reminded of a quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Herbert Swope: “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.”
Stanford and Harvard have long competed to be the most elite American university. Harvard may lead in longevity (379 years to 130 years) and the number of presidents it’s graduated (8 to 1). But Stanford is kicking Harvard’s butt in one vital area: energy efficiency and emissions reductions.
When the word “Muslim” is in the news lately, it’s often connected with the word “terrorist.” A group of experts gathered recently at the University of Wisconsin to grapple with this problem and to promote a more nuanced view.
Quoted: Peter Carstensen, emeritus professor of law at the University of Wisconsin, says they’re not competing for broadband customers—but they are competing when they buy programming. A merger could have given them sizable market power, and Senator Al Franken says competing TV networks complained to him in private, fearing reprisals.
Quoted: Russell Groves, a University of Wisconsin entomologist who closely tracks imidacloprid, notes that neonics are not the sole cause of bee die-off. Mites play a role, he says, as does a poor diet. Still, Groves is worried. “Here in Wisconsin,” he says, “neonics are showing up in measurable levels in our riverine systems, and in our lakes, and it’s a little spooky to think about the unintended consequences they may bring.”
Quoted: R. Alta Charo, co-author of Science moratorium; professor of medical history and bioethics—University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nearly two-thirds of respondents in the new Wisconsin Survey are against a proposed $300 million cut in the state budget for the University of Wisconsin System. Support or opposition to the idea appears to break down along party lines.
Quoted: To be sure, more physicians are aware of the risk now than in the 1970s, and the standard doses and durations of corticosteroid treatment have been reduced in part because of this risk, said Dr. Douglas Coursin, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. He, too, advises medical alert bracelets for patients on long-term or high-dose treatment.
Quoted: UW-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton says the federal government was throwing up red flags. He says the justice department and the FCC were sending signals that significant changes would be made.
Quoted: “If you’re a Democrat, you don’t like the way he gets out of bed in the morning, and if you’re a Republican, you think the way he brushes his teeth will make him a great leader,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Walker supporters think the press has been horribly mean to him, and Democrats in Wisconsin can’t believe the national press hasn’t figured this guy out yet.”
UW–Platteville is cutting $3.7 million from its 2015–16 budget and increasing revenues by $1.5 million to address the university’s existing structural deficit and expected state aid cuts in the state’s 2015–17 budget.
APPLETON (AP) – Gov. Scott Walker says new tax collection forecasts coming out in May will not provide a windfall, but any additional revenue should first be directed to help K-12 schools.
LSU and many other public colleges in Louisiana might be forced to file for financial exigency, essentially academic bankruptcy, if state higher education funding doesn’t soon take a turn for the better.
The leader of Wisconsin’s largest private university says he’s worried that proposed budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin System might harm collaborations with his school.
Two University of Wisconsin campuses are seeing more than one-third of employees seek voluntary buyouts among faculty and staff members who are eligible for early retirement.
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside knows it has to plan for some cut in state funding over the next biennium, but there’s been no word yet on exactly how much, and administrators are doing the best they can to minimize the impact on campus.
Noted: That does not mean health officials won’t be watching it, said Keith Poulsen, a veterinary scientist at the University of Wisconsin. Influenza viruses are “dynamic,” he said, and can spread from one species to another quickly if they mutate. But there have been no such cases reported so far.
Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on the Wisconsin Idea did not end with his botched attempt to re-write the University of Wisconsin’s mission statement. The substance of the attack is ongoing in his state budget.
Quoted: Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says the collection of ideas espoused in the new document couldn’t come at a better time. (He was not involved with writing the manifesto.)
Veronica Berns digs science. She gets it. She speaks its language. Veronica Berns. But not everyone is like that. There are people who don’t know how to talk about quasicrystals in casual conversation. People like … oh I don’t know, the person writing this blog post, for instance. Just one example!
An astronomy project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made inroads on two questions: how to track neutral hydrogen in the “distant” universe and how to scale up the capacity to maintain and manage the data generated through such work.
A new study shows poverty rose slightly in Wisconsin from 2012 to 2013, despite some job gains. The report released Tuesday by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers said the Wisconsin Poverty Measure rose to 10.9 percent in 2013, up from 10.2 percent in 2012. That measure was roughly 2.5 percentage points lower than the official Wisconsin poverty rate from the federal government.
A leading researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates that he is two years away from formal testing of his Ebola vaccine, and he is now hoping to get a drug company’s financial support for clinical trials.
The current outbreak of bird flu is a different strain from the one that caused an uproar in the scientific community in 2012, but a University of Wisconsin researcher at the center of a debate over biosecurity said it underscores the need for more experiments that some critics consider risky.
Can all colleges everywhere please talk about sexual assault prevention like this?
Defending state employees has been an invitation to argue over the last several years as a fair number of our elected leaders have found it politically expedient to demonize state workers. And so the value of the services we need and value and pay for gets lost in self-serving government bashing.
Every Wisconsin legislator knows how they want to spend any unexpected windfall in tax collections in the two-year budget cycle that ends in mid-2017. Their wish lists include more money for K-12 schools, especially rural schools; reducing Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300-million cut in state aid to the UW System; borrowing less to put more cash into highway construction and maintenance statewide, and maintaining current programs that help seniors and the disabled.
Quoted: Michael Wagner, a political science and journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees that the state’s politics “look pretty schizophrenic to people on the outside — and the inside, too.”
To date, researchers have not found direct support for the claim that dogs look “guilty” in the absence of concurrent scolding, but this doesn’t necessarily mean nothing’s going on. In her book “For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend,” Patricia McConnell, Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison comments on what numerous clients have said: “So often people think their dog ‘knows’ she shouldn’t potty in the house because she greets them at the door looking ‘guilty,’ with her head and tail down, her eyes all squinty and submissive” p. 17.
MENASHA – Faced with $6.5 million in budget reductions, leaders and staff members at University of Wisconsin Colleges — including the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley — searched for answers Monday at a town hall meeting.
Nearly 50 positions at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will be cut in order to balance an estimated $7.6 million reduction in state funding.
Nancy Wong, the app’s designer and professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said on the institution’s website that in many people what looked like a lack of concern for the environment was really “a failure to connect individual action to that bigger picture.”
Language-lovers across the U.S. have the mulligrubs this month, and with good reason. The Dictionary of American Regional English DARE, which has cataloged vernacular terms and idioms from around the country since it was founded in the early 1960s, does not currently have the funding to continue operations after June 30, 2015.
Researchers led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found people who live in countries that have benefited from migrants from a wide range of countries over time, are more emotionally expressive.
MADISON, Wis. AP – Late last spring, a doctoral student worked late into the night. As she doodled, her chemistry thesis took on a life of its own, transforming into a comic book.
A lively debate underway in Wisconsin and across the nation questions the value of public research universities to the state taxpayers who help support them. This debate indicates that many do not understand the role these universities play in driving innovation and keeping the state and U.S. competitive.
Pet owners beware: dog flu exists and it’s spreading. At least 1,000 dogs in Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana were infected in the last month, according to research from the University of Wisconsin and Cornell University.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison will cut 400 positions, merge or close academic programs, and reduce support programs in response to anticipated state budget cuts, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The announcement, from the flagship’s chancellor, Rebecca M. Blank, is the latest development in a battle over funds between the university system and the state government.
A 50-year odyssey to chart the dialects of America – from the toad-stranglers very heavy rains of Indianapolis to rantum scooting going on an outing with no definite destination in Nantucket – is due to come to an end this summer when funding for the Dictionary of American Regional English runs out.
Noted: To find out, I spoke with Maryellen MacDonald, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies how the brain processes language. She said that even though your brain knows the grammar rules, other forces override that knowledge. The brain doesn’t just store words like a dictionary does for easy retrieval, it’s more of a network. You start with a concept you want to express and then unconsciously consider several options from its associative grouping and quickly select one. For instance, if you’re explaining how you hit a ball, you might cycle through the concept of a stick, a pole and a bat. Next, your brain will use sound to aid its expression. Here’s where things can get tricky.
Wisconsin’s flagship university will eliminate some 400 jobs, curtail support services and cut or combine certain programs in response to a multimillion-dollar budget cut proposed in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget.
Sixteenth Street Community Health Center staff was on hand along with scientists from UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology to talk about hydrology and even dip residents toes – covered with waders – into the river. They found fish, a few fish eggs and experienced what algae feels like.
A new DARPA-sponsored company would like replace needles and make blood testing way more convenient in one fell swoop. Tasso Inc., an affiliate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has just received a $US3 million federal grant to continue developing a pingpong ball-sized disposable device that allows users to painlessly administer their own blood tests in just two minutes.
Noted: Petrowski says the bigger and more controversial things often get dealt with later in the budget process. That’s why he doesn’t see the University of Wisconsin budget cuts getting immediate attention. He is concerned about what that UW budget is going to do to the smaller, two-year campuses like those in Marshfield and Wausau. “When you get to a lot of the two-year schools, there’s not a lot of places that they can cut other than personnel, you know, like when you’re dealing with Madison of course, you have a lot of the research coming in, a lot of those dollars coming in through research, and other activities, and like in UW Marathon County, there’s not that option there.”
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a package of drastic program and staffing cuts on Friday, as a response to Governor Scott Walker’s $300 million, two-year cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she has a plan to cut about 400 staff positions if the Legislature approves Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the UW System.
KIMBERLY – With $300 million in budget cuts looming for the University of Wisconsin System, community leaders and educators discussed challenges and brainstormed ideas Wednesday for making public higher education more sustainable in the state.
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Platteville leaders will make $3.7 million in budget cuts over the next two years through a series of cost-saving measures, including the elimination of some staff positions and the creation of an incentivised early retirement program.
Quoted: At its best, says Simone Schweber, the Goodman professor of education and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research has focused on Holocaust education, teaching the Holocaust challenges students to examine their own deeply held ideas.
Thank you Wisconsin State Journal for Wednesday’s article “Campus pumps economy.” It is clear the University of Wisconsin System generates money for the state, lots of money, and at better returns than most stocks.
A new poll says the Wisconsin public doesn’t support the size of the Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and public K-12 education.
A proposal that would have hid University of Wisconsin research from public view has been removed from Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, making it more difficult to pass the Legislature this session.
SOMERS — Heads turned and people stopped to stare as about three dozen students and staff chanting “up, up with education, down, down with legislation” marched on the University of Wisconsin-Parkside campus on Wednesday, protesting proposed state budget cuts.
SOMERS — A small but loud group of students and staff marched through the University of Wisconsin-Parkside campus Wednesday afternoon, calling attention to budget cuts they believe will come if legislators approve Gov. Scott Walker’s budget as is.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine says the virus has sickened at least 1,000 dogs in Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana. Recent tests from the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory have identified the strain as H3N2. Clinical assistant professor Keith Poulsen says it’s not yet known how effective current vaccines are against this strain, which is believed to have come from Asia.
MADISON – A harsh sentence for a man who ran a revenge porn website in California could deter others from posting intimate photos of people without their consent, but more is needed to address what one expert believes is the root of the problem.
If Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed higher education funding cuts pass, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could nix as many as 300 positions, between buyouts, attrition and layoffs.
