New this afternoon from PolitiFact Wisconsin: Amid the uproar over Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System, we check a claim by UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank. She says UW-Madison “spent down reserves” as it was told to do two years ago and, facing the new cuts, has “no more reserves to spend down.”
Quoted: David Vanness, a health economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calculated that if the average payments for the procedures were purely random across metro areas, the odds of one metro areas being among the seven most expensive for all three were about one in 1,400.
Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon was effervescent, direct, determined and refreshingly realistic at the podium Thursday as he fielded questions from a group of about 40 reporters at the NFL scouting combine.
The partisan rhetoric is heating up in Madison around proposed state budget cuts for the University of Wisconsin System, and today, it’s the Democrats taking names.
John Settle has emerged as the leading candidate to take over as Wisconsin’s running backs coach, according to a source close to the UW program.
Upset after seeing Traevon Jackson’s senior season put on indefinite hold because of a broken foot, Bronson Koenig sent a text message to his Wisconsin teammate.
Gov. Scott Walker took to social media to downplay the scope of his cuts in funding to the University of Wisconsin system in his 2015-’17 budget proposal.
Running backs coach Thomas Brown, one of two assistants retained by Paul Chryst when he took over the Wisconsin program, is returning home.
A community group aligned with Democrats is spearheading a rally near Gov. Scott Walker’s home in Wauwatosa Monday afternoon to protest the governor’s proposed cuts to education.
More than 70,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni who live in Wisconsin will get a robo phone call at about 7 this evening from Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
Quoted: “From the numbers I’ve seen, Valentine’s Day is a more than $14 billion love juggernaut each year, with individuals spending more than $115 on flowers, candy and other symbols of their love,” says Christine B. Whelan, Director of MORE: Money, Relationships and Equality and Consumer Science Faculty in the School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It’s easy to spread Bucky love this Valentines Day.
Schools and colleges within the University of Wisconsin-Madison likely will have to cut an average 6% from their budgets over the next two years, and administrative units will face deeper cuts, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Friday during a campus forum.
Several hundred University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty and staffers braved subzero temperatures to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut $300 million over the next two years from the UW system.
It’s hard to believe that Gov. Scott Walkers proposal to cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System’s budget over the next two years would allow the system to maintain its quality. Walker would prohibit the university system from raising tuition during that period, but instead give university officials more flexibility in managing contracting and construction projects.
University of Wisconsin officials are poised to raise football ticket prices $3 per game for the 2015 season.
Dave Aranda, the defensive coordinator at the University of Wisconsin, was interviewed last week by the Green Bay Packers.
New today from PolitiFact Wisconsin: With Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 budget introduced, we turn to the Walk-O-Meter for an early look at several education-related promises from the 2014 campaign, including ones on private-school vouchers, Common Core standards and college tuition freezes for tech schools and the UW System.
While Gov. Scott Walker is on a trade mission in London, his administration threw a curveball at University of Wisconsin System leaders upset by $300 million in proposed state budget cuts over the next two years.
The Wisconsin State Journal Editorial Board captured the prevailing opinion last weekend when it called the jaw-dropping $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin “inexplicable.” Unfortunately, the board is wrong. There is a plausible vision behind what Gov. Scott Walker is trying to do, which makes his proposal much more dangerous than a simple misunderstanding of university operations.
It’s not a done deal that the University of Wisconsin System will have to find $300 million in cuts over the next two years if Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget stands in the Legislature.
His team was losing to Nebraska and the capacity crowd of 15,998 fans inside Pinnacle Bank Arena was standing and roaring, but during an early break in the action Wisconsin’s Josh Gasser took a few seconds to soak in the atmosphere.
Quoted: Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes the potential medical benefits outweigh most of those concerns.
Among the many other non-budgetary and bad policy items in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed biennial state budget, theres this: The governor is asking for a measure that could be used to hide certain research in the University of Wisconsin System. Two previous efforts in the last two years to thwart public access to such research failed, one rejected by the Joint Finance Committee and one by an Assembly committee.
Noted: The governor has not explicitly explained his wish to switch to not just one new state exam in the next biennium but also an undetermined amount of other exams approved by an education research entity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In a week that Gov. Scott Walker’s “drafting error” claim for his budget re-write of the UW System mission statement drew a Pants On Fire rating from fact checker PolitiFact Wisconsin, the 2016 GOP presidential aspirant drew plenty of national attention.
A few dozen protesters showed up at the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents this morning in Madison to respond to news of potential layoffs and what they consider a proposed “privatization” of the state public higher education system.
Guess the source of this quote: “There is no profession in the world, anywhere in the world, where if you work for seven years you get a lifetime guarantee of a job. Except at a university…If you have tenure at a university, by the time you are 35 you never have to prove yourself again.”
Chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System are harnessing the power of the Internet to rally their campuses, alumni and parents of students for what could be a long battle over proposed state budget cuts.
I admit to being agnostic when it comes to whether Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin system are a good idea. I want the university to thrive, as I suspect most Wisconsinites do.
A college student from Cedarburg has been arrested as a suspect in an October sexual assault in Madison.
With more than $1 billion spent in 2013 on research at UW-Madison, the university has maintained its ranking as one of the top U.S. universities in research expenditures.
UW-Madison is making it easier for those wanting to explore how to earn advanced degrees or certificates.
After topping 30,000 student applications last year for the first time, UW-Madison will set another record this year with applications up 8 percent over last year.
“These cuts are too large. They’re too large for our university, and they’re too large for the state.”
Statement from Gov. Scott Walker:“We encourage a vigorous debate over the idea of an authority to govern the University of Wisconsin system or the status quo, as well as a debate about what is the real amount of savings that can be generated by an authority, which we believe is worth $150 million a year. However, there is no debate over the principles contained within the Wisconsin Idea. We are, and have been, in agreement.
Gov. Scott Walker acknowledged Thursday his administration botched the rewrite of the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement in state law, blaming it on a miscommunication between his top aides and the state budget director’s office — which pushed the changes through even as top university officials objected.
On the dumb scale, dissing “The Wisconsin Idea” while youre governor of Wisconsin is somewhere just to the south of suggesting that the Green Bay Packers are such a suck on the states resources that they should move to the U.P. Now, of course, that notion might gain purchase if Mike McCarthy settles for a few more field goals from the one-yard line but thats another column.
Carl Gulbrandsen, whose job is to convert research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into commercial businesses, needed less than a nanosecond Thursday to begin itemizing specific ways the school has enhanced the states economy.
While most people still think of college as a bastion for young adults fresh out of high school, a new effort by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Continuing Studies gives evidence to the evolving role of higher education by making courses for working adults easier to find online.
The chancellor of the state’s flagship university warned Thursday that top faculty and best students will go elsewhere if proposed state budget cuts go through because they will harm the quality of education and lead to program cuts.
Gov. Scott Walker and aides scrambled Thursday to respond to revelations that his administration had insisted to University of Wisconsin officials on fundamental changes to the Wisconsin Idea, which has been the guiding principle for the states universities for more than a century.
In quickly restoring the Wisconsin Idea on Wednesday to its central place in the states public university system, Gov. Scott Walker said its mission statement of searching for truth had only been proposed for removal from state law because of an oversight or drafting error in his budget bill.
Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst on Wednesday signed 21 scholarship players and nine walk-ons, representing his first recruiting class as new coach. Following is information on each, including a link to their YouTube recruiting video.
Chanting “no ifs, no buts, no education cuts” a group of around 100 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students, faculty and staff protested the governor’s budget proposal that would cut $300 million from the UW System.
In the past few weeks, there has been much discussion regarding the University of Wisconsin System, its budget and access to higher education. But this discussion has missed some important points:
During his tenure as Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker has gotten a lot of ink for things he has done. But far less attention has been paid to the things he hasn’t been able to accomplish.
They were raised in different regions of the country.
On the one hand, the Wisconsin Idea is a relic of Progressive-Era gasbaggery. The idea that the Wisconsin public university system could reach its fingers into every corner of the state was cooked up by university leaders like Charles Van Hise when he wasn’t trying to rid the state of “defectives” through the practice of eugenics. In the past 100 years, anyone who rightly criticized any wasteful practices at the UW were met by howls of “but the Wisconsin Idea!,” as if the mere invocation of the term constituted the last word.
Stunned educators accused Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday of trying to kill the Wisconsin Idea, which has guided the mission of the states public higher education system for more than a century.
Theres no shortage of foot traffic on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A former student who has spent years protesting how University of Wisconsin System officials manage student fees was acquitted Tuesday of a disorderly conduct charge filed after he tried to enter a disciplinary hearing for a student with similar views in 2013.
When scientists studied Albert Einstein’s brain they discovered he had more astrocytes, star-shaped cells, in his brain than other people. But our understanding of what these cells do is poor.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police on Monday arrested a man suspected of being a well-known area drug dealer following a two-month investigation.
Noted: ? Cut state funding for the University of Wisconsin System by 13%, freeze tuition for two years, and starting in July 2016 free the system from some state rules on personnel, procurement and building projects.
To preserve his past property and income tax cuts and avoid a gas tax increase, Gov. Scott Walker’s budget would cut state universities by $300 million over two years and borrow the more than $1billion needed for state roads.
Noted: Kirsten Kukowski, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, will serve as “Our American Revival” communications director. Kukowski previously worked for the Republican Party of Wisconsin in 2007-2008 and since 2011 has been Republican National Committee press secretary.
As the two football coaches walked through the halls of Bay Port High School, the conversation turned to recruiting on the home front.
Regarding “UW System defends importance as Walker says professors can work more,” imagine a worker at Briggs & Stratton Jan. 29.
After a day-long blizzard, University of Wisconsin-Madison students could have gone to bed Sunday night with visions of a snow day, dancing in their heads.
