The Republican governor raised the prospect Thursday of limiting tuition increases at the state campuses to inflation, after his four-year freeze expires. Gov. Scott Walker raised the prospect Thursday of limiting tuition increases at University of Wisconsin schools to inflation after his proposed freeze expires in two years.
The Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council reviewed the biennial budget developments and brainstormed ideas to encourage student activism against the proposal.
Laura Wyatt promotes urban outdoors as administrative program manager of UW-Madison’s Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
The increase, from $45 to $48 per seat, comes in the wake of chancellor Rebecca Blank’s request that the Athletic Department up its annual services contributions to campus.
Chad Gracia left the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1980s with a degree in Russian and a confidence that he’d be able to use it to get a job with the U.S. government. And then the Berlin Wall fell.
He also says he’s open to a long-term cap on UW tuition during a conference call with local reporters from London.
The UW’s long tradition of academic excellence includes 19 Nobel laureates and more. To keep that tradition going, Badgers need to fight to stop Scott Walker’s cuts.
Noted: Jonathan Pauli is assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank urged Cross to include Darrell Bazzell, UW-Madison’s chief financial officer who’s experienced and respected at the state Capitol, on the System’s negotiating team. Cross said Tuesday that he heeded Blank’s suggestion, agreeing that Bazzell “has a good financial mind.”
Archival images pair with contemporary photos from the December 2014 “die-in” in two galleries on campus.
UW chancellor, Rebecca Blank, is inviting the campus community to come together to discuss Governor Scott Walkers proposed budget cuts to the U-W System.
To choreographer Bill T. Jones, dance programs like those at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are “the lifeblood of modern dance.”
“Your university was one of the first that gave a degree in dance,” said Jones, who will give a lecture on Thursday in Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall. “Going to the university is a place where there are fresh ears, and they are open and porous.”
We need a free-thinking University of Wisconsin now more than ever. What transpires in the next few months between our state Capitol and UW, just 2,000 human paces apart, may determine our “human condition” the next 2,000 years.
Dear Editor: Why would anyone want to destroy a $15 billion economic engine for the state? That is an absolutely great return on a $1.2 billion investment as a state we make.
Walker was also asked by Chatham House moderator, Justin Webb of the BBC, why his budget rewrote the UW’s mission statement to delete what’s known as the Wisconsin Idea. “Well how did you get in this mess though about changing its sort of — its stated purpose?” Webb asked. “I don’t want to get into too much detail and sort of bore people who don’t know a lot about the University of Wisconsin and I certainly don’t, but you’ve fiddled with something that a lot of people felt very strongly about. Do you regret it?”
Walker was asked about that prospect at the Chatham House think tank in London and floated the idea of permanent caps on tuition. “I think there’s some lawmakers in the state Legislature that want to put in the statutes — I’d be open to that — to permanently putting in place some sort of a cap on tuition,” said Walker.
The former UW tailback, projected a month ago to go with the 24th pick in the first round, is now pegged as the No. 17 selection to the San Diego Chargers.
The report by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel said Aranda met with the team before Green Bay hired Oklahoma assistant Jerry Montgomery.
The state’s biennial budget may not be finalized until May or June, but layoffs as a result of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System could hit UW-Madison as soon as April, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Wednesday.
Dear Editor: Underemployed graduates are sick of paying so much tax money to the same University of Wisconsin System that did them no favors in the labor market. Anecdotes of graduate success adorn university websites and press releases, whereas anecdotes of failure are ignored.
The blanket exemption in Walker’s budget from open records laws for UW researchers could lead to abuse and public distrust.
Quoted: Karma Chávez, associate professor of communication arts.
“We need to decide whether affordable and high-quality public universities are the vital resource they have always been to Wisconsinites, or if the UW System is worth giving up, to be replaced by something inferior, or to shut down access in some parts of the state altogether,” Chavez said. “Clearly the Walker administration has chosen the latter.”
After seeing tuition skyrocket after the public university system was given more autonomy, leaders are looking for a different strategy.
A large, standing room-only UW-Madison faculty and staff audience heard Chancellor Rebecca Blank apologize late Wednesday night as she warned layoffs under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal were unavoidable and could come as early as April.
A hybrid between Spotify and iTunes, Murfie, a company created by three University of Wisconsin graduates, allows people to build “media ownership in the cloud.”
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will host a series of forums this week to discuss Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts to the UW System budget.
New technology is leading us to be able to print a tangible 3D object. The process of 3D printing has infiltrated its way into the Madison area more and more, proving to make life easier for some.
As a busy college campus in an urban area, something is always taking place at and around UW-Madison. In response, students have banded together to create a website to help fellow UW-Madison community members never miss another important event.
Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plans to cut or consolidate state agencies includes the elimination of an obscure board that mainly regulates for-profit schools and some nonprofit institutions from out of state.
Hundreds of UW-Madison students took to Bascom Hill Sunday for a chance to win their dorms some bragging rights on campus.
A new study on autism has researchers taking a second look at the genetics behind the condition.
Editorial board says: “The Wisconsin Legislature must resist the governor’s ideologically driven thrust at the state university system.”
For the past 166 years, UW-Madison alumni have celebrated Feb. 5 as Founders’ Day to commemorate the first class held in 1849 and honor the university’s history.
The Madison metro area ranked first in the nation for having the highest percentage of graduates in STEM fields.
In the aftermath of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget address, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke to the Board of Regents Thursday, saying Walker’s proposed cuts are “just too big.”
UW-Madison unveiled a one-stop website Thursday, promoting the schools flexible and online degree programs.
Governor Scott Walkers recent state budget announcement has been the talk of the town on UW-Madison campus this week. Tuesday afternoon Chancellor Rebecca Blank explained the situation to the UW Board of Regents.
A new report estimates University of Wisconsin campuses in Madison and Milwaukee would see the largest cuts of the UW System schools in the first year of Republican Gov. Scott Walkers state budget.
Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he never intended to dramatically rewrite the University of Wisconsin Systems mission statement, even as a December email showed his administration clearly ordered that it drop a guiding principle known as the “Wisconsin Idea.”
Following an unexpected change to the Wisconsin Idea in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget bill, Walker said in a statement Wednesday a drafting error led to several sentences being cut.
The governor’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System has UW-Madison officials looking more than ever at alternative solutions to compensate for the anticipated loss in state funds.
Exact Sciences is giving credit to University of Wisconsin graduates and Madison locals who are now employed there for the company’s recent expansion and success.
Gov. Scott Walker’s suggestion to ask professors in the University of Wisconsin System to teach one more class raised concerns among faculty that the university could lose some of its prestige in research.
In the past couple of weeks, the landscape of Wisconsin politics has been filled with politicians, students, university officials and other university stakeholders screaming into microphones, each trying to proclaim that they hold the key to the future of the UW System. One side loves to tout the flexibilities that the UW System would have under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, while the other shrieks in terror at the drastic budget cuts to public education.
Police in Madison are looking for a man they say robbed a bank late Wednesday afternoon.
Gov. Scott Walker put major changes to Wisconsin’s education system on the table Tuesday as he introduced his proposal for the state budget to the state Legislature.
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate released a unanimously passed resolution Monday stating their disapproval of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the UW system.
Gov. Scott Walker laid out his $68 billion budget proposal for the next two years Tuesday, calling for major changes at the University of Wisconsin System and an extension of the tuition freeze for in-state undergraduates.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s state faced a big budget deficit. To solve it, he plans to decimate one of the most respected and productive university systems in the country. And he plans to spend hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars for a professional basketball arena.
On the eve of Gov. Scott Walker’s long-awaited budget proposal, including $300 million in cuts to the UW System, student and faculty organizations around the state are planning their reaction to the expected hit.
The UW System Board of Regents will honor a UW-Madison assistant professor Friday for his success with and support of diversity on campus.
UW-Madison scientists identified two new fluorescent tumor-targeting agents that light up brain cancer cells, according to a Jan. 22 press release.
With increasing talk about the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education in universities, some experts argue the necessity of changing the way science is taught, especially for non-science majors.
The UW System could see a shift in the source of its state funds, along with a $300 million budget cut over the next two years, if Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal is approved.
Currently being said around UW-Madison via the anonymous app “Yik Yak:” “Dear Gordon’s. I ordered my food two hours ago. Wtf,” “So much guac and no one to share it with…,” and “With the anonymity of this app I expected a lot more weirdos on here but…Nope, just me.”
The Wisconsin academic community is filled with shock and frustration after Governor Scott Walker unveiled his proposal to cut the UW-Systems budget by $300 million. Professors are just as frustrated with his recent comments that the system could find savings by adding to faculty members workload.
Seeking a person that embodied notoriety, success and philanthropy, the University of Wisconsin’s senior class officers chose Katie Couric as the 2015 spring commencement speaker.
Hoping to improve national and local understanding of sexual assault, the University of Wisconsin will be one of 28 universities that will participate in one of the largest surveys ever conducted on the issue.
Recognizing the importance of Wisconsin’s Native Americans to the state, University of Wisconsin faculty members are reaching out to those communities to strengthen the connection between the state’s flagship university with Wisconsin’s original inhabitants.
Gov. Scott Walker suggested Wednesday that the University of Wisconsin System could ask its professors to teach one more class per semester to help alleviate the $300 million in cuts he has proposed.
UW-Madison announced the featured speaker for this springs Commencement, veteran journalist Katie Couric.
