SOMERS – University of Wisconsin-Parkside employees objected to the governor?s budget repair bill Tuesday, calling it “short-sighted” and “draconian” and claiming it will ultimately make the state ill-equipped for future challenges.
UW professor emeritus Dennis Dresang from the La Follette School of Public Affairs talks about Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to strip most state and local workers of collective bargaining rights. (Video.)
Thousands of people came to the Capital City with the hope Governor Walker would hear their message — of opposition. “I think we?ve lost the sense of democracy,” Terry Ferriss says, “I feel like what people in Egypt are fighting for right now. That?s exactly what I feel like I?m fighting for right now is basic democracy and our basic rights.”
There was no shortage of passion or emotion inside the Capitol Tuesday, with nearly every Capitol observer describing the scene as crazy or unbelievable.
Quoted: Inclusion in treatment guidelines may help expand sales of Pradaxa, which was approved in the U.S. in October. While doctors aren?t obligated to follow today?s advice, the opinion may influence prescriptions, said Craig January, a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who headed the writing subcommittee for the drug.
Thousands of protesters gathered on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol here on Tuesday to voice their opposition to a fast-moving proposal that would strip the union bargaining rights for University of Wisconsin faculty and staff members, while almost eliminating bargaining rights for nearly all other state workers, including graduate students.
MADISON, Wis. — Republican co-chairs of a legislative committee are considering cutting off public testimony on a proposal to erase most collective bargaining rights for nearly all public workers.
A 30-year University of Wisconsin-Madison light research project would be terminated under President Barack Obama?s 2012 budget blueprint.
Noted: The Republicans have also named Representative Stephen Nass chair of the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee. The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater alumni has made it a priority to cut funds from the UW system and defund the Havens Center at UW-Madison because, as he says, it is “too far to the left.”
Hundreds of Wisconsin?s public employees clogged a hearing for hours and camped out in the state Capitol overnight in a desperate attempt to delay action on Republican Gov. Scott Walker?s plan to strip away most of their collective bargaining rights.
Union workers who oppose Governor Scott Walker?s repair bill, some shouting ?When I say Walker you say stupid,? convene at the state capitol by the thousands. In fact, according to Department of Administration estimates, 3,000 inside the building and 10,000 outside.
Testimony before the Joint Finance Committee on Governor Scott Walker?s budget repair bill stretched into the early hours of Wednesday morning, with many protestors camping out in the Capitol rotunda waiting for their turn to speak.
Despite having hundreds of people still wanting to speak on the Governor?s budget repair bill, the Legislature?s Finance Committee wrapped up its public hearing at three this morning.
Madison ? Although the final figures are not in, University of Wisconsin officials project to record a surplus of more than $94,000 from the football team?s appearance in the 2011 Rose Bowl.
Monday morning, the Associated Students of Madison sent an e-mail to the student body attacking Gov. Scott Walker?s ideas to solve the budget crisis. The message claimed to be informative and representative of the stance that is supposedly in the best interest of the students.
Senate President Mike Ellis says the Republicans have the votes to pass Walker?s budget repair bill:
The Teaching Assistant Association (TAA) calls on Chancellor Biddy Martin to take a strong stance in opposition to Gov. Walker?s budget repair bill. Her response to the bill to this point has been anything but.
Many of you have likely read the guest article in the Badger Herald today. If not, take a moment and do so.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department is seeking an operating budget for 2011-12 that is $5 million more than its predecessor, but one that projects a surplus of $142,100.
The UW should and must be a major job creator. It needs greater flexibility, autonomy AND accountability to do so. We support The New Badger Partnership, to Unleash the UW.
Governor Scott Walker on Friday proposed a “budget repair” bill that may fix the state budget but could do some real damage to the personal budgets of faculty members and others who work at the University of Wisconsin System. The plan proposes changes in benefit contribution requirements that would cost university employees in excess of 5 percent of salaries and could reach as high as 10 percent, according to some faculty advocates.
After then-No. 1 Ohio State lost at Wisconsin on Saturday, we brought you the news about Buckeyes freshman Jared Sullinger claiming on his Twitter account that he had been spit on before and after the game at the Kohl Center.On Monday during the Big Ten coaches? teleconference, both coaches were asked about the incident. They offered decidedly different answers in return.
Oates met her husband, Raymond Smith, editor of the highly regarded literary journal The Ontario Review, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and married in 1961.
Another year, another $10,000 idea from UW-Madison senior Tom Gerold. For the second year in a row, Gerold won the Schoofs Prize for Creativity – worth $10,000 – for coming up with an innovative and marketable idea at UW-Madison?s Innovation Days.
Noted: Don Nichols, UW-Madison professor emeritus of economics and public affairs.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin.
Happy quasquicentennial, UW Marching Band!UW-Madison is celebrating 125 years since the earliest rendition of the UW Marching Band. It was called the Wisconsin Regimental Band when it was first authorized in fall of 1885.
Dan Vimont, a UW-Madison professor involved in the study on warming trends.
Junior guard Jordan Taylor, who scored 27 points during the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team?s 71-67 victory over then-No. 1 Ohio State Saturday afternoon at the Kohl Center, was named the Big Ten Conference?s player of the week, the Big Ten announced Monday.
Some University of Wisconsin System schools are trying to lure out-of-state students by giving a discount to the children of alumni, under a program known as Return to Wisconsin. The program has been operating as a pilot, but the UW Board of Regents voted to make it permanent Friday. The Return to Wisconsin program gives up to a 25 percent discount off the price of out-of-state tuition to the children or grandchildren of alumni who don?t live in Wisconsin. Currently, seven institutions participate in the program. But don?t count on UW-Madison joining any time soon. It?s not cost-effective for the state?s flagship university, said Joanne Berg, vice provost for enrollment management.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and their teachers are telling Gov. Scott Walker to drop a bill that would strip most public workers of almost all their collective bargaining rights.
Gov. Scott Walker refused to back down Monday from his proposal to remove collective bargaining rights for most Wisconsin public employees, saying he needed all the concessions he was seeking. Protests popped up around the state over the weekend and into Monday at the homes of state lawmakers, the Capitol, University of Wisconsin campuses and elsewhere. Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and their instructors surged into the Capitol over the noon hour Monday, chanting “kill this bill” and “stop the law, stop the hate, don’t Walker legislate.” Peter Rickman, a 28-year-old UW-Madison law student who led the march, poured out hundreds of homemade Valentine cards outside the governor’s office asking Walker not to break their hearts.
Researchers at UW-Madison have developed a smart phone app for people who are dealing with addiction. The system gives people access to an online support group, counselors, and a ?panic button? that can be called, when cravings or triggers kick in.
Gov. Scott Walker refused to back down Monday from his proposal to remove collective bargaining rights for most Wisconsin public employees, saying he needed all the concessions he was seeking.
Union workers organized protests throughout the state yesterday against Governor Scott Walker?s plan to end most collective bargaining rights for public employees.
In a lab at the Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research, they?ve captured a certain kind of cancer cell without harming it. It?s something they say no one has been able to do before, and their search could revolutionize the way doctors treat cancer.
What could happen under Governor Scott Walker?s budget proposal has many local families thinking about their options. As primary bread winners this proposal is so scary for an office full of women at UW-Whitewater, they don?t know how they?ll make ends meet.
More than five hundred chanting demonstrators marched into the state capitol Monday, vowing to advocate to kill Governor Walker?s proposal to strip public employee unions of most of their ability to collectively bargain.
After three days of marches and protests around the state, union groups are preparing for the biggest counter-attack yet against Governor Walker?s budget repair bill: a massive rally outside the capitol.
In response to his budget repair bill, about 1,000 University of Wisconsin students, faculty and staff fill the state capitol building shouting, ?Spread the love, stop the hate; don?t let Walker legislate.? The crowd delivers thousands of valentines to Governor Scott Walker asking him ?not to break their hearts? with budget cuts.
Governor Scott Walker is indicating there?s no room for compromise on his budget repair bill, especially on provisions that remove the collective bargaining rights of most state workers.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and their teachers turned out Monday to tell Gov. Scott Walker to drop a bill that would strip most public workers of almost all their collective bargaining rights.
The Legislature?s Joint Finance Committee plans to hold a public hearing and then vote on Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed changes to public workers? benefits and union rights on Tuesday.
Public and private sector union leaders in Wisconsin are coming together to oppose Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to take away collective bargaining rights for nearly all public employees in the state and force them to pay more for their pensions and health insurance.
President Obama released a budget on Monday that would make millions of dollars in cuts to student aid to preserve the popular Pell Grant program.
Madison – State workers signaled Monday they could accept benefit cuts proposed by Gov. Scott Walker even as they prepared to battle with Walker over his plan to cut most of their union bargaining rights.
A rally of more than 300 people at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee called for an end to a plan to cut wages and benefits for state employees.
It?s Sunday morning. I?ve just finished breakfast and called my parents to tell them I am not coming to brunch. The rest of my family, all private-industry employees, are there, enjoying Dad?s specialty: menudo.
The state Legislature should take a thoughtful look at Gov. Scott Walker?s attempt to neuter state public employee unions. Walker?s proposals, part of a budget repair bill, shouldn?t come to the floor until opponents have had a chance to be heard and until legislators fully understand what they are being asked to do.
Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal to sell heating and cooling plants could generate hundreds of millions of dollars, but stronger pollution rules that govern the aging facilities could make them less attractive to potential buyers.
There?s the student voice for you. Two groups that aggregate campus opinion without direct ties to self-interested political groups. They recognize the reasonable nature of the plan, lack of coherent alternatives from opposition, and general need to give UW-Madison flexibility.
A mechanical engineering senior has for the second year in a row claimed the top prize in the University of Wisconsin – Madison?s Schoofs Prize for Creativity, the school said Monday.
In a 2012 budget blueprint that administration officials portrayed as austere and Republicans derided as profligate, President Obama kept his promise to privilege spending on education and research — though not without some potential pain for programs important to colleges and students.
Federal money for science research would continue flowing next year under President Obama?s spending plan for 2012, which was released Monday.
Whether he meant to or not, Ohio State center Jared Sullinger did us all a huge favor over the weekend.
A controversial plan to privatize state-owned power plants, a plan that last caused a stir in 2005 before being vetoed by then-Gov. Jim Doyle, has been revived by Gov. Scott Walker in his budget bill. The provision would give the state Department of Administration the authority to sell the plants or contract for their operation. The proposal calls for net profits from the sale of the plants to be deposited in the budget stabilization fund. In 2005, a Republican-approved budget included a provision to sell all of the state?s 32 heating and cooling plants, including the Charter Street plant, which provides service to UW-Madison.
The UW Board of Regents wants the authority to raise tuition without getting approval from the state Legislature, one of several areas of flexibility the University of Wisconsin System is requesting from Gov. Scott Walker. UW System President Kevin Reilly sent a letter to Walker on Tuesday asking for more freedom from state regulations to build facilities, purchase goods, hire people and set tuition. Bracing for budget cuts, university officials are hoping to trade state support for more autonomy.
Should Gov. Scott Walker focus on cutting state spending ? rather than raising taxes ? to balance Wisconsin?s $3 billion-plus shortfall? The state?s fiscal house is in trouble. That is undeniable. Suggestions to balance the books through large-scale cuts to the university, however, are misguided. Every dollar spent on the UW returns $21 into the state?s economy, according the 2010 NorthStar Economic Impact Study of UW-Madison.
Quoted: Steve Kimball of the UW-Madison Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
