University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday that the news of the past week involving Gov. Scott Walker’s budget will prompt other universities to “raid” her best faculty.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was able to kill collective-bargaining rightsfor state workers, but he can’t kill the Wisconsin Idea, the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin. Not yet, at least.
Quoted: “Parents didn’t want to role model dishonest behavior to girls,” said co-author Anya Savikhin Samek, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Maybe that’s because dishonest behavior is considered more socially acceptable for boys… It’s not a causal relationship, but the gender finding gives us something to think about how societies form and about the origins of dishonesty.”
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s new budget proposal reads like a modern day Republican manifesto: reductions in property taxes, expansion of school vouchers, elimination of Common Core and implementation of drug testing for food stamp recipients.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal to cut University of Wisconsin funding by $300 million was called “devastating” by UW-Oshkosh employee groups.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said on Wednesday that Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal is “a good place to start,” but that he’s concerned about the magnitude of the funding cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
Governor Scott Walker backed away Wednesday from an effort to end the University of Wisconsin’s mission to search for truth and improve the human condition — at least on paper.
Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, said late Wednesday that his proposal to remove the public-service focus of the public university system’s mission was a “drafting error.”
As Wisconsinites continue to review and make sense of Governor Walker’s budget, economist Steven Deller discusses how the proposals will affect the economy.
It appears that Gov. Scott Walker does not actually intend to end the “Wisconsin Idea” in his executive budget.
Gov. Scott Walker said his decision to cut funding to public broadcasting is about balancing priorities.
You might think that one of the nation’s leading academic communication programs would be a good place to make a long-distance phone call.
In his 2015 budget proposal, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker R offers an unusual change amid the details of how and where he proposes spending the state’s money. As noted by the watchdog site PR Watch and brought to our attention by journalist Abe Sauer, Walker would like to change the statement of purpose and mission for the University of Wisconsin system. Less talk about searching for truth; more talk about meeting the state’s workforce needs.
Gov. Scott Walker abruptly backed off Wednesday from a contentious plan to eliminate the University of Wisconsin System’s public service mission statement known as the “Wisconsin Idea” and replace it with the charge of meeting the state’s workforce needs.
MADISON – Last month former University of Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen told CBSSports.com that the academic standards for athletes had become more difficult in his two years in Madison, and it was a major reason he bolted for Oregon State in December. He said there were times that he promised certain kids that they would get admitted and a number of times that ended up not being the case.
Governor Scott Walker backed away Wednesday from an effort to end the University of Wisconsin’s mission to search for truth and improve the human condition — at least on paper.
Humanities is not a field of education; humanities is a way of life. My interdisciplinary education through a public institution the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has shaped my life and the lives of many others.
In most college towns, the unofficial start to next football season is National Signing Day. After months and even years of courting, athletic programs officially find out Wednesday which of recruits they’ve snagged, and which they’ve lost to rivals.
College coaches nationwide find out Wednesday if long plane rides and courting high school players and their parents will pay off in landing top football recruits.
Gov. Scott Walker, a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination, on Tuesday proposed a new spending plan for Wisconsin that relies on borrowing and spending cuts, including deep reductions to state universities, and steers clear of tax increases.
I remain very proud of the education I received here in Wisconsin, and my mom and sad, my sibs and now my kids all have degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison — public school educations for all of us. We have all had successful lives and successful careers. It doesn’t look like my family will have any more kids of the age where schools will be an issue.
UW–Platteville is facing millions of dollars in budget cuts for its 2015–16 academic year at the time it could face part of a proposed $300 million UW System budget cut.
In addition to unprecedented budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin UW system, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker struck “the search for truth” and the Wisconsin Idea from the university’s mission in his executive budget bill unveiled last night.
UW-Milwaukee will have to slash $40 million from its budget if Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System becomes law. The state faces a $283 million shortfall in the current budget, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, and a $2.2 billion structural deficit in the next two-year budget cycle.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011 fight with public-sector unions sparked huge protests—and elevated him into a national figure in conservative politics. Now, as he eyes a run for president, he is targeting another group on the public payroll: university professors. (Subscription required.)
If Gov. Scott Walker and his legislative allies support education, they have a strange way of showing it.
President Obama’s call to make community college free was one of the most sweeping proposals in his State of the Union address. It was immediately controversial, with some alarmed by its expense, some praising its ambition, and some questioning the details. We’ll feature some arguments on both sides here on Grade Point. Here, two union advocates write that a similar program in New York has been a success. Interviewed: Sara Goldrick-Rab.
With $300 million in cuts proposed for the University of Wisconsin System, it is tempting to say that the sky is falling. But saying that requires real cuts and real impacts that are felt immediately by the general public. Unfortunately, the impact of these cuts will take years to be fully felt.
Noted: But don’t expect the findings to get the food industry excited just yet. Not many food manufacturers need this refolding technique right now, says Srinivasan Damodaran, a food scientist at the University of Wisconsin. The method is more relevant for cancer researchers, who make proteins that may need to be refolded for research, says Weiss.
Gov. Scott Walker will unveil his next two-year state budget on Tuesday night, fleshing out the details on what he wants to cut to fill Wisconsin’s budget shortfall.
Much about what Gov. Scott Walker planned to propose in his state budget remained unknown Monday, but that didn’t stop Democrats from blasting details that have come to light so far and arguing the second-term Republican is focused too much on pleasing a national audience at the expense of Wisconsin as he looks at a presidential run.
A Democrat on the state legislature’s joint finance committee said she’ll lobby to reduce Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut for the University of Wisconsin System.
In December, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank met with The Gazette’s editorial board and made compelling arguments for state support. (Subscription required.)
WAUSAU — More central Wisconsin lawmakers have weighed in with views of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System in the 2015 to 2017 state budget — and they’re open to at least part of his plan.
3rd District Democrat Ron Kind believes cutting 300-million dollars from the UW and freezing tuition is a huge mistake. When it comes to education and job creation, Kind believes the Republican Governor could learn from his Democratic colleague in Minnesota. “Governor Dayton there is sitting on a billion dollar surplus, and he’s talking about increasing investment in education programs including higher education, and they’re doing laps around us today when it comes to job growth and economic growth overall, so I think there’s a lesson to be learned here in regards to economic policies what’s working and what isn’t.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking the place of Santa’s elves by building a toy car tailored to Liam Fuhrman, who was born with spina bifida and is paralyzed from the waist down. The project Go Baby Go takes toy motor cars and adapts them to help kids get rolling.
Noted: “This is absolutely a concern for campuses,” Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and president of the American College Health Association, said via e-mail. The association sent an alert to members last week urging campuses to prepare for the possible spread of measles. The latest briefing from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be found here.
Bell hooks started making waves in scholarship long before “Saved by the Bell” became a television hit. She published Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women in Feminism, one of her best-known books, in 1981, and she’s still publishing today from a base at Berea College. The sitcom aired only from 1989 through 1993 though it also had some spin-offs.
The price of freedom from state regulation has gone up for the University of Wisconsin.
Both of us came to digital teaching early but somewhat reluctantly. What we love most about teaching are the interactions with students, and 15 years ago we didn’t see clearly how adding digital tools would allow us to strengthen those interactions.
Carl Djerassi, an eminent chemist who 63 years ago synthesized a hormone that changed the world by creating the key ingredient for the oral contraceptive known as “the pill,” died on Friday at his home in San Francisco. He was 91.
Already grappling with a $4.5 million budget gap, the University of Wisconsin-Superior could face even greater financial strain if Gov. Scott Walker has his way. The governor is proposing a 13 percent cut in state funding for the University of Wisconsin System in his 2015-2017 state budget proposal. That amounts to $300 million less to spread around the state’s 26 campuses over the next two years.
Noted: The odds of the same numbers occurring twice are the same odds as winning, said Jordan Ellenberg, a math professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: As long as he isn’t formally a candidate for president, it allows them to promote him and his ideas without being subject to contribution limits or source restrictions, said Ken Mayer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert in campaign finance.
Quoted: J. Michael Collins, director of the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advises automating savings by having a fixed amount — even if it’s a very small amount — regularly transferred from your checking account to a savings account. “If it’s up to you to decide every month if you want to do it and how much,” he said, “it won’t happen.”
Quoted: “The recession taught legislators that families will bear the cost of higher tuition, so that sent a signal to the state that it is possible to transfer the buck,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of education policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Now there is little incentive to reinvest.”
January and February are part of the mating season for coyotes and foxes, which is good news for UW-Madison professor David Drake and his research team.
Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut state aid for the UW System by $150 million in each of the next two years, and then give the board that sets system policy the power to completely run it by 2017, will prompt the biggest Capitol fight over public universities in 44 years.
With blizzards in the Midwest today and returning to New England, some colleges and universities in both regions are calling off classes.
Higher education costs a lot of money. The University of Wisconsin System, which serves 180,000 students and employs 39,000 people in Wisconsin, asks a lot. Its budget includes more than $1 billion in state money; tuitions have been rising, putting pressure on many middle-class families; the system leans on federal grants and private donations and other revenue sources. It’s expensive.
Dr. Stephen Carpenter, of UW-Madison, is one of 18 international authors sharing the message that humans are impacting the world’s ecosystems and changes must be made to ensure life on Earth continues.
As I watch many valued colleagues leave the University of Wisconsin-Madison for other institutions, I react with dismay. Not at them, but at the lack of any substantive educational vision that now seems to pervade the governor’s officer and the Legislature. We do a disservice to any serious understanding of the importance of education if we simply see it as a vocational path to more money and jobs. When the governor said that he didn’t need to finish college because he already had a job, he demonstrated how limited was his view of education as a self-making process.
I am writing about University of Wisconsin System Ray Cross’s response to Gov. Scott Walker’s suggestion that UW professors should teach more classes, and therefore absorb most of Walker’s proposed funding cut in that way.
UW-Milwaukee is considering strategic budget cuts as opposed to a systemic cut to the entire institution, the provost told the Faculty Senate Thursday. And the UWM chancellor announced a plan to try to meet with 32 legislators in the next month, as well as a planned lunch with the lieutenant governor, as administrators try to counter a proposed $300 million System-wide budget cut.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor had strong words for Gov. Scott Walker over his comments that the UW System staff should be more productive.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, defending proposed budget cuts for higher education, took a swipe at university professors who he said could be “teaching more classes and doing more work.”
Noted: “The condom and pleasure variable didn’t surprise me, it’s intuitive, it makes sense, but I think the strength of its association surprised me,” said study coauthor Jenny Higgins, a public health researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Critics of soon-to-be-presidential-candidate Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin have certainly noticed the message he sent this week about what’s important in his state: professional sports, specifically an NBA franchise.
Just what do university professors do all day?
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin System president fired back Thursday against Gov. Scott Walker’s suggestion that faculty teach more classes as a way to help absorb a $300 million funding cut, saying the governor doesn’t understand professors already face a huge workload.
