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.
Bronson Koenig’s toughest assignment as a freshman didnt come on the basketball court.
In the six weeks before word began leaking out about unprecedented budget cuts Gov. Scott Walker had in mind for the University of Wisconsin System, efforts already were underway to negotiate a deal that would satisfy the governors desire for something “BIG,” while reducing the impact on campuses.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Faculty Senate is calling for a full and open analysis of Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to give the UW System autonomy from state government.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A governor suggests that educators have a sweetheart deal, and, by golly, he’s going to do something about it on behalf of Wisconsin taxpayers. He will supply a set of “tools” to get the job done.
Once again, Gov. Scott Walker has hit the nail on the head. The proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System over a two-year period with an increase in its responsibility to self-manage its financial decisions is overdue “UW System cuts could bring layoffs,” Jan. 28.
Gov. Scott Walker announced details of his 2015-2017 budget proposal that would turn the University of Wisconsin System into a public authority, extend the tuition freeze and cut funding by $300 million. In anticipation of the governors biennial budget address on Tuesday, a dynamic conversation already has begun among policy-makers, members of the UW and citizens in the state.
Last weekend, news reports began to swirl about potentially massive budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin System. On Tuesday, Gov. Scott Walker confirmed the worst: UW System campuses are slated to take a combined $150 million base budget cut over two years, so $300 million total in his upcoming 2015-17 biennial budget proposal.
The decision to expand massively the bachelor of business administration program at the Wisconsin School of Business came down to institutional duty, recruiter demand, and simple math. WSB, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was turning down hundreds of applicants to its BBA program every year.
Noted: Lovell said in response to a reporters questions that he is worried about unprecedented budget cuts Gov. Scott Walker is proposing for the UW System.
While University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has said its too early to know whether proposed state budget cuts will lead to layoffs, he indicated on a radio talk show Thursday morning that will look first at the “back office.”
Television journalist Katie Couric will be the featured speaker at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s spring commencement at Camp Randall Stadium on May 16, the university announced Thursday.
With 160 patents issued, the University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked sixth among 100 universities surveyed around the world in 2013, according to a news release from the school on Thursday.
With less than a week to go before Gov. Scott Walker formally rolls out his proposed 2015-17 state budget, a clash of rhetoric is swirling around the governors proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross bristled on a Thursday radio talk show at Gov. Scott Walker’s remarks the day before that faculty and staff could teach more classes and work harder.
Faculty and staff in the University of Wisconsin System should be “teaching more classes and doing more work,” Gov. Scott Walker said during an interview Wednesday morning with a Milwaukee conservative radio talk show host.
Noted: Selig will spend time teaching classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Marquette University, a diversion for which he has a passion, but quitting baseball cold turkey was never an option. That void would have been impossible to fill.
Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut the University of Wisconsin System by $300 million over two years would likely lead to layoffs, but closing campuses is not on the table at this time, top school officials said Tuesday.
The UW-Madison men’s basketball team won last Saturday in overtime against Michigan but the team doesnt play again until their rematch with Iowa this Saturday.
The University of Wisconsin System will be given more autonomy, while having its state funding slashed by 13% over the next two years, under the budget Gov. Scott Walker will submit to the Legislature next week, the governor told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview on Monday.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have identified two new fluorescent agents that target tumors, lighting up brain cancer cells, a feature that could prove useful in surgery.
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.
One day after poking two Wisconsin players in the eyes and being pilloried by ESPN college basketball analyst Dan Dakich, Iowa center Adam Woodbury apologized for the incidents but insisted he did not act intentionally.
Noted: Fred Kessler earned his bachelors and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, while Joan Kessler earned her bachelors degree from the University of Kansas and her law degree from Marquette University.
Three weeks into the Big Ten Conference men’s basketball season, there were no undefeated teams and four once-beaten teams — Indiana, Iowa, Maryland and the University of Wisconsin — jostling for first place.
The University of Wisconsin officially announced the hiring of two more assistant football coaches on Tuesday.
Noted: Initially arranged by the Italian Consul General in Chicago, the Madison stop was highlighted by the ambassador speaking to UW-Madison students on campus before heading over to Porta Bella for an impressive reception and lunch served in their new and beautifully decorated Mantova Room, named for Madison’s Italian sister city, Mantova.
UW-Madison’s anti-bullying policy is only a couple of months old, but faculty members already are worried it will be employed to enforce “civility,” thereby stifling dissent and unorthodox speech and thought, says Donald Downs, a political science professor.
Wisconsin’s farm economy bucked a national downward trend and set key income and wealth records in 2014 with the help of dairy farmers who increased production as milk prices skyrocketed, according to a new report.
Noted: In January, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and National Wildlife Health Center in Madison reported that bats with white-nose syndrome use twice as much energy in hibernation as healthy bats. The paper was published in December in BMC Physiology.
Noted: Daley spoke to reporters on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus after addressing the board of the Wisconsin Technology Council, where he said he was reluctant to overturn state laws and would give deference to legislators.
Quoted: Southern Ozaukee County is one of a string of “hot spots” prone to bluff failure on the west shore of Lake Michigan, according to David M. Mickelson, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The first day of classes in the Humanities Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus got off to a smoky start after winter break Tuesday.
Noted: In college, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Klunder found a group of like-minded friends and joined the multicultural student coalition. After receiving a master’s degree in social work, she took a job at Macalester College in Minnesota, advising minority and feminist groups and working on the school’s response to sexual assault.
Quoted: “Due process has just completely gone to hell,” said Pamela Oliver, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin who has spent decades studying the states prison system. “When theyre sent back, the vast majority had no new sentence. Even if they are arrested on a new crime, they go back to prison right away, and the new crime might not even be charged.”
Noted: Ebullients technology, which uses liquid rather than air to cool computers, was developed by Timothy Shedd, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Badgers running back Melvin Gordon may have grabbed the headlines with his record-setting performance during the Wisconsin-Nebraska game in November, but the Twitter banter between @UWMadisonPolice and @FauxPelini lit up social media.
Welcome back, Frank Kaminsky. Wisconsin’s gifted 7-foot senior center from Lisle, Ill., showed in his return from injury why he is among the elite players in the nation and UW’s most valuable player.
Taylor Mehlhaff, an All-American kicker at Wisconsin as a senior in 2007, is returning to UW to help work with the team’s specialists.
Dave Aranda had no desire to leave Wisconsin, which has been a professional and personal oasis for two years.
Noted: Nominations with Wisconsin ties included Mark Ruffalo, who was nominated for best supporting actor for his performance in “Foxcatcher,” as former University of Wisconsin-Madison wrestling coach Dave Schultz; and “The Boxtrolls,” nominated for best animated feature, with West Bend native Curt Enderle as art director.
Dave Aranda had no desire to leave Wisconsin, which has been a professional and personal oasis for two years.
