Chancellors and budget cutting task forces on campuses across the University of Wisconsin System are considering a variety of options for dealing with anticipated state budget cuts.
Paul Chryst’s first staff at Wisconsin will be paid more in 2015 than the previous staff under Gary Andersen, though the increase appears to be modest.
I grew up in a family with three generations of proud UW graduates. My great-great-aunt received two degrees at UW and went on to teach here in Wisconsin for 44 years. Both of my grandpas, upon returning from World War II, decided to go back to school and were proud graduates of UW. My parents graduated from UW in the 1960s and my dad has been a local, small business owner for over 30 years.
Budget season is a busy time of year for Todd Berry — but the president of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance is quick to mention that analyzing the complex state spending bill every two years is not all his organization does.
Dear Editor: A 2.5 percent cut to the UW System is grossly inaccurate. UW-Eau Claire is facing the prospect of cutting $19.7 million from its general fund budget, currently $95.6 million, over the course of the next two years. Thats a 20.6 percent reduction: $7.6 million each year in response to the governor’s proposed budget cut, and $4.5 million in response to a pre-existing structural budget deficit. That’s the equivalent of a minimum of 126 out of 440 full-time faculty positions and 24,892 classroom seats, or 152 full-time staff/administration positions, or a 20.5 percent increase in tuition which won’t happen because of the tuition freeze. By my own estimate, the total cut is the equivalent of completely eliminating the College of Business one of our four colleges, as well as all positions within and all costs associated with that college.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team remained at No. 5 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll released Monday.
There are two words you won’t hear the members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team using to describe the 10-game winning streak .Easy. Boring.
A former UW football player and his twin brother will plead guilty next month to federal criminal charges involving a string of robberies at Madison-area businesses late last year.
University of Wisconsin students are not buying assurances that their voice in governing their campuses would be preserved if the university system is reorganized the way Gov. Scott Walker is proposing.
Noted: Heather Digby Parton in Salon argues that the evolution issue goes way beyond religion. Its embedded itself into host of issues, like academic elitism, that pits the GOP faithful against science — a nerve that Walker has tapped into by knocking UW professors and proposing painful budget cuts to the UW system.
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Noted: Conroy said about 50 percent of Exact’s scientists and lab workers are graduates of UW-Madison.
Noted: In an op-ed for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Lake Superior State University president Thomas Pleger writes that the UW’s future shouldnt be decided by the state budget. The UW is too valuable an asset not to have a full discussion on how its governance should be changed.
Jermaine Whitehead met Melvin Gordon at the 45-yard line. On fourth and 1 in the Outback Bowl, Wisconsin’s Gordon froze the Auburn safety with a juke and raced up the left sideline.
Wisconsin’s Traevon Jackson continues to wear a walking boot on his right foot and still hasnt been cleared by the teams medical staff to return to practice.
Recently, I wrote a piece at Right Wisconsin on the flap over the “Wisconsin Idea” at Right Wisconsin. Short version: the Wisconsin Idea is a common place generality that, at least in 2015, distinguishes the University of Wisconsin from nobody. No one has suggested that UW become a trade school or abandon research.
Quoted: “In some ways its the end of a very long decline of the strength of unions and a weakening of protections both at the federal and state level for unions,” said William P. Jones, a University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor.
As the representative of 14 colleges and universities across western and central Wisconsin, I know that higher education is a top priority. Every dollar we invest today in higher education will pay dividends down the road, helping ensure that Wisconsin can compete in the global marketplace.
In the few weeks since it became public, Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System budget has produced three schools of thought within the state’s business community.
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.
