Governor Scott Walker is suggesting that University of Wisconsin System faculty could work harder. The Republican governor said Wednesday that may help to offset the impacts of a $300 million dollar cut in state aid to that will be included as part of his state budget proposal.
Before Gov. Scott Walker proposed cutting funding for the University of Wisconsin System by $300 million, university leaders were already trying to find ways to save money through overhauling business practices.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross said he’s not sure how the UW can avoid layoffs if Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget becomes law.
MENOMONIE — Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to reduce state spending for the UW System by $300 million in the 2015-17 state budget will face significant challenges in the Republican-controlled state Legislature, state Sen. Sheila Harsdorf said Thursday.
WAUSAU — Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System in the coming years has caused a stir in the higher education community and an indecisive response from legislators.
Noted: David O’Connor, a pathology professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, realized that digital treasure trove might also include information about GBV-C. And sure enough, he found the genetic fingerprints of that virus in the records of 13 samples of blood plasma from the Ebola study. Though six of the 13 people who were co-infected with Ebola and GBV-C died, seven survived.
The University of Wisconsin System has come under increased scrutiny from the state Legislature in recent years, with some lawmakers questioning the need for certain programs and research. To address some of that criticism, UW System President Ray Cross said he wants to take a closer look at what’s going on inside and out of the classrooms.
Under Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget, the University of Wisconsin System would be given more independence while having its state funding cut by 13%. Joy Cardin’s guest reporter lays out the details of the plan. Then, UW System President Ray Cross gives his mixed review of the pitch. …
With portions of the population leaning either “red” or “blue,” it seems both sides are growing ever further apart in Wisconsin, and the 2014 midterm election results seem to back that up. According to Kathy Cramer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, that polarization is making us a lot less willing to talk about politics.
Gov. Scott Walker said the University of Wisconsin could ask its faculty to teach more classes and do more work to offset funding cuts in Walker’s state budget proposal.
Noted: The proposals, which were floated recently by the White House and Senate DFL leaders in Minnesota, are both designed to lower the barrier to college, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, a University of Wisconsin professor who is credited with inspiring President Obama’s plan, estimated to cost $6 billion a year.
MADISON, Wis. — The name of the class, plainly enough, is Indians of Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin’s American Indian Studies department offers it regularly, and because Bronson Koenig is accustomed to identifying the correct course to take, signing up for it last spring only made sense. He can trace the Native American bloodline on his mother’s side back to a time before his ancestors had Anglicized names. As a member of the Ho-Chunk tribe, he had been exposed to the culture since he was a child, attending occasional large powwows near Black River Falls, watching from the periphery as dancers of all ages moved to the beat of the drums.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System budget over the next two years is “disturbing” and “unprecedented,” University of WIsconsin-Green Bay chancellor Gary Miller said Tuesday.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 GOP contender who never earned a college degree, has proposed a huge cut in funding for the University of Wisconsin system over the next two years.
Here is a nice thought: What if kids were taught kindness and empathy along with traditional academic skills? For 12 weeks, a Wisconsin public school district tried it out on a group of preschool kids, reports University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologist Lisa Flook in Developmental Psychology. At the end of the course, the children who’d taken the “kindness curriculum” scored better on tests designed to measure both social skills and attention; these kids also received higher grades on their report cards than their peers who hadn’t taken part in the curriculum.
Noted: But some scholars questioned any claims of censorship. Yoshiko M. Herrera, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that submitting the gift to board review was part of a necessary democratic process.
First the unions, now the university system. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is calling for steep cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, while offering the network more freedom in exchange, in a controversial plan his office says is meant to provide more financial certainty.
Faced with a massive $300 million budget cut, University of Wisconsin officials might want to revisit a radical idea: Actually making professors teach.
On some days at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Recreational Eagle Center, it’s impossible to find an open elliptical machine or bench press. The Rec Center can be packed with students trying to work out between classes, studying and jobs.
The price of freedom from state regulation has gone up for the University of Wisconsin.
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 was a visionary plan to bring the Wisconsin Idea to the People’s Republic of China — offering non-degree professional training where Chinese needs met the UW-Madison’s expertise. Add some alumni outreach, business development, research collaboration, internship opportunities and student exchanges, and Big Red meets biggest red for mutual benefit.
A group of about 20 boys sat across three rows of chairs inside a small conference room at a Nebraska Holiday Inn last March, rapt by the words coming from the man up front wearing his white Wisconsin Badgers warmup shirt. He was just a few years older, still a baby-face with a buzz cut, and yet he was worlds away on a path many seated there could only dream about.
For Guppy and thousands of others like her, research from the University of Wisconsin- Madison generated little surprise – findings that mothers of autistic children frequently suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at levels similar to those of soldiers who’ve engaged in extended combat.
Quoted: Wash scarves and gloves at least once a week, says Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control for University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.
RACINE COUNTY — Area legislators and university officials are wary of Gov. Scott Walker’s plan for the University of Wisconsin System, in which funding would be slashed in exchange for schools gaining more autonomy.
University of Wisconsin System officials and state lawmakers charged with its oversight are reacting to Governor Scott Walker’s plans for the system’s future. Walker will include the plan as part of the 2015-’17 state budget proposal which he’ll formally announce next week.
Wisconsin universities now face the largest budget cuts in their history, even as colleges in other states crawl out of budget holes.
Governor Scott Walker’s proposed structure and funding changes for the University of Wisconsin system have UW officials concerned. Walker proposes another two-year undergraduate tuition freeze along with giving the UW System more autonomous after 2017, allowing them to raise tuition based on the market and make more decisions without the Legislature’s oversight.
Several Democrats are blasting Governor Scott Walker’s UW System funding cuts.
Gov. Scott Walker is proposing a 13-percent cut in state funding for the University of Wisconsin System at the same time that he wants to give all campuses more freedom from state laws.
Quoted: “I don’t think the test measures what is most important for students to learn,” said Diana Hess, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior vice president of the Spencer Foundation, which gives grants in support of education causes. “If all we’re asking students to do is answer very simple questions, we’re not going to be working on the complex understanding that I think students need in order to participate well.”
Noted: Shobe suggested we query University of Wisconsin economist Menzie Chinn who told us by email that he considers such critiques of the rate to be “specious;” Chinn pointed us to his October 2012 blog post taking to task a similar statement by business executive Jack Welch.
A University of Wisconsin research laboratory that attracted controversy for using live cats in experiments is closing this year, the school said.
Though criticized by PETA and other animal rights groups for it use of cats in its research into how the brain localizes sound, UW-Madison said such criticism had no bearing on its decision to close the lab, saying that the retirement of neuroscience professor Tom Yin is the driving force.
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.
The national animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is claiming credit for closing a University of Wisconsin lab that conducted research on cats.
Quoted: Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism and political science at UW-Madison, says Walker can also use successes at the State Capitol to ensure he stays relevant and visible to voters in Wisconsin while exploring a presidential campaign.
MADISON – A University of Wisconsin-Madison cat research lab that was the focus of protests by animal-rights groups and a Hollywood actor quietly closed more than a month ago, a university spokesman said Friday.
The retirement of a highly respected senior neuroscientist at the center of a sustained recent publicity campaign by an animal rights group generated a victory claim on Friday when PETA realized that their target had retired.
Quoted: Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and gender studies at UW Madison, has been doing research in the area of work, life balance. She says it’s hard to say if 80 years would be the accurate measurement of time to close the gender gap, but there are some ways to accelerate the pace of change. One of those would be on employers to help alter the work, life balance. Hyde says they could do so, by offering on-site, affordable child care and three to six months of paid parental leave.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore, founder of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, said the health effects of vaping are still unknown.
MENOMONIE, Wis. WEAU- An effort by three University of Wisconsin System campuses to add engineering programs in northwest Wisconsin to address critical employer needs received a major boost Wednesday, Jan. 21.
MADISON, Wisconsin — Gov. Scott Walker will have to plug a roughly $280 million budget shortfall by the end of June, and the state faces a two-year deficit that could be as large as $2 billion, based on new estimates released Friday by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
If we are to make progress moving beyond talk to honest dialogue on racial disparities we will need to reconnect as citizens and rebuild trust in our institutions. Trust of course is that often elusive two-way street. Take the UW for example. It is, among other things, a political football. And because of that many citizens are confused about its role.
Fewer than half of the elite research institutions that comprise the Association of American Universities will participate in that group’s effort to anonymously survey students about the prevalence of sexual assault on campuses. The association said Thursday that 27 of its 60 U.S. members and one non-member college will join the effort.
Despite its record enrollment this year, the loss of instructors at UW-Stout keeps Chancellor Bob Meyer awake at night.
As the University of WIsconsin welcomes new football coach Paul Chryst and watches in anticipation as one of Bo Ryan’s finest teams makes another bid for the Final Four, I would like to issue the following statement.
Quoted: “Where you live, learn, work and play matters to your health,” said Anne Roubal, a doctoral student in population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin, who wrote the paper in Preventing Chronic Disease, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It’s truly a neighborhood measure.”
The frenzy over college sexual assault now sweeping the nation was triggered by a specific event. In 2010, a small team of investigative journalists published a report revealing, so they claimed, an epidemic of college rape. The report was a jumble of highly selective reporting and dubious statistics, as we shall see. But the reporters spread the news far and wide and no one thought to question their accuracy.
Quoted: John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison says the similarities between A. africanus and human bones are relatively convincing. “The best explanation is that the difference reflects some powerful thumb-to-finger gripping,” he says.
Richard Davidson, professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, touted the importance of being mindful, especially in the workplace.
When Theresa Sanders was an undergraduate at Wilberforce University during the 1960s, the struggles for racial equality and women’s rights were fully under way. She saw classmates at the historically black college in Ohio board a bus for Cleveland to support Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, and take part in bra-burning ceremonies. Sanders wanted in on the action. So she joined a sorority.
How would it feel for two people to live under the same roof but move in different worlds? My “Foreign” Roommate, a short film on Channel C on You Tube to be released Friday, demonstrates that having a Chinese student as a roommate can quickly answer that question.
More than 800,000 students at 28 college campuses will be asked about sexual assault this spring, one of the largest surveys ever on the topic.
Since its founding in 1980, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA has sought to end animal research. Its tactics have changed over the years, as have its targets, which have broadened to include fast food, factory farms, and the cosmetics industry. As PETA shifts gears yet again—launching a new campaign to target animal research by publishing in peer-reviewed scientific literature—Science looks back at its 4-decade crusade.
Before Gary Andersen goes on, he wants to make one thing clear. A part of his surprising departure from Wisconsin had to do with admission standards.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank this week joined an elite group of winners of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize awarded by the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Universities can no longer adopt a “one size fits all” approach to higher education. The reality, says David Ward, is that today’s universities are living in a era of revenue stress, coupled with a digital revolution and an increasingly diverse student population.
Whenever 11-year-old Meg Heinzen plays piano, she can anticipate the notes. Yet as a young child, her family could never have anticipated her habit of rolling her eyes at them could mean something more serious.
