The co-chair and another Republican member of the Legislature’s powerful budget committee panel said Wednesday that they don’t support giving the University of Wisconsin more independence from state oversight, in another sign of dwindling support for Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to do just that.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposals to cut the University of Wisconsin system budget and to issue bonds for an arena in Milwaukee are among topics likely to be discussed during a state budget hearing Friday in Milwaukee hosted by the state Legislature’s influential Joint Committee on Finance.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh’s top administrator says more flexibility in planning for the future will help weather the storm of proposed budget cuts in the long term.
The state Assembly has passed a Republican bill that would require the University of Wisconsin System to complete a report tracking the origin high schools of students taking remedial courses.
When does a 13 percent cut in the University of Wisconsin System’s budget become a “modest” 2.5 percent? When this cabal of truth-challenged Republicans running Wisconsin government says it is.
Other Republicans — and some Democrats — joined Joint Finance Committee co-chair Rep. John Nygren in saying that Walker’s plan is in serious jeopardy as faculty, staff and students at UW-Madison, for example, are opposing the reorganization of the UW System as a public authority.
The Republican co-chairman of the Legislature’s budget committee says Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to detach the University of Wisconsin System from state oversight appears to be on life support.
At a meeting between the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and state legislators in the fall of 2013, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos questioned the role of UW faculty in decision-making. Vos declared that changes to the universitys system of shared governance — the set of practices under which faculty, staff and students participate in significant decisions concerning the operation of their institutions — were a matter of “when, not if.”
A Democratic state lawmaker says she’s taking only some comfort in a top Republican’s calls for smaller cuts at the University of Wisconsin System in the next state budget.
A central Wisconsin professor’s Facebook prediction that humanities courses will be the first casualties of University of Wisconsin System budget cuts has gone viral.
College and university presidents largely think their campuses are free of problems with sexual assault, a new Inside Higher Ed survey shows.
Following potential budget cuts, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students and administration are seeking permission to charge students differential tuition. Regular tuition is paid to UW System, which distributes those dollars to individual campuses. Differential tuition is a cost above and beyond regular tuition. That money would stay on campus for specific purposes.
Chancellors at the University of Wisconsin’s Eau Claire and Whitewater campuses are making cost-cutting plans to deal with a proposed $300 million reduction in state funding for the UW System included in Governor Scott Walker’s budget, even though the Wisconsin Legislature has yet to consider the cuts included that proposed budget.
University of Wisconsin alumni love their university. But their affection leads them to very different conclusions on Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to slash state funding and award the university greater autonomy to carve out savings in operating costs.
Dear Readers, I’m writing this from the SweetSpot, where people come for coffee, muffins, and conversation. Many regulars are lifelong residents of the city pop. 15,000. Others are students at the University of Wisconsin campus here, just up the road. Lacey Reichwald, the cafe’s owner, bought the place a while back to give those very different neighbors — who often misunderstand one another — a place to gather under the same roof.
The mood in the JCI conference room was both celebratory and anxious as Juhong Chen and five others were recognized with bronze plaques describing their new patents.
Chancellors at the University of Wisconsin’s Eau Claire and Whitewater campuses are making cost-cutting plans to deal with a proposed $300 million reduction in state funding for the UW System, even though the Legislature has yet to consider the cuts included in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
The two Oshkosh-area lawmakers who serve on Wisconsin’s budget panel admit they are polar opposites when it comes to politics, but both are in agreement about concerns they have with portions of the state’s proposed 2015-17 spending plan.
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni in the Fond du Lac area will celebrate the founding of the university with a talk from an expert on government relations on Wednesday, April 15.
Many University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire faculty and staff will be offered an incentive to retire, as the university prepares to deal with an estimated $7.6 million reduction in state funds.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’d like to see a smaller cut to the University of Wisconsin System’s budget and less autonomy for the system.
Chancellors at the University of Wisconsin’s Eau Claire and Whitewater campuses are making cost-cutting plans to deal with a proposed $300 million reduction in state funding for the UW System, even though the Legislature has yet to consider the cuts included in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
In a move that could portend cost-cutting in higher education statewide, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Chancellor James Schmidt announced Thursday that voluntary separation incentives will be offered to about 325 eligible faculty and staff — including faculty with tenure.
The Dean of Students Office invited UW-Madison students to give feedback on proposed changes to the UW System’s policy on sexual assault and other misconduct Thursday.
The head of the Assembly said Thursday that he was backing off support for giving the University of Wisconsin System more autonomy because university leaders don’t appear willing to make dramatic changes in areas such as tenure and shared governance.
A lawmaker on Thursday unveiled bills that would direct Wisconsin circuit court judges to consider combat-related post-traumatic stress when sentencing veterans and require the University of Wisconsin and technical college systems to accept credits earned through military training.
A national group representing university professors is opposing Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to give the University of Wisconsin System more autonomy from state oversight and laws.
“If you don’t believe anything needs changing, then why are we giving you an authority,” said Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, the Assembly Speaker. “I don’t understand the System’s rationale to say, ‘Give us all this authority to do things differently and to save money,’ but then they basically said, ‘We’re not going to do anything differently.’”
The campus community explained their concerns about Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System at a forum Thursday at Van Vleck Hall.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to shift control of the University of Wisconsin System away from the state and onto a public authority controlled by the Board of Regents met turbulence Thursday, with a top Republican lawmaker saying he’s now skeptical and a national faculty association calling it “a radical assault” on the statewide system.
ssembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’d like to see a smaller cut to the University of Wisconsin System’s budget and less autonomy for the system.
Sen. Fred Risser and Reps. Therese Berceau, Chris Taylor and Lisa Subeck will hold a session from 4-7 p.m. Thursday in Room B130 of Van Vleck Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
The university is ranked 38th in the world when it comes to reputation, according to British website Times Higher Education.
Tied to teams of horses pulling in opposite directions.Thats how Troy Cross — an associate professor of philosophy at Reed College in Portland, Ore. — sees his dad, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross.
Born on a farm and still most comfortable on the land, Ray Cross brings a down-to-earth approach to the job of bringing together the UW System and the governor and Legislature.
Several Democratic lawmakers from Madison are holding a listening session Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to gather public input on the governors proposed $300 million budget cut and new public authority for the UW System.
There has been considerable debate over the past month on the role of a public university and the meaning of The Wisconsin Idea. Recent commentary has ranged from historian John Gurdas eloquent definition of The Wisconsin Idea, to blogger Rick Esenbergs question: “What is it”?
Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services Robert Cramer and his team are preparing for an additional $5 million cut to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville budget in addition to the ongoing $5 million structural deficit base cut already in place.
Harvard is still on top, but two British schools, Cambridge and Oxford, have pushed MIT and Stanford out of the No. 2 and 3 slots. Still, American institutions dominate the ranks of the most admired universities in the world, according to a list just released by Times Higher Education THE, a London magazine that tracks the higher education market. UW is 38th.
I paid $17,000 in state income tax in 2014. I sometimes wish I lived somewhere without income tax, but I enjoy Wisconsin and feel our government usually invests my tax dollars to create good jobs and improve the quality of life.
There has been considerable debate over the past month on the role of a public university and the meaning of The Wisconsin Idea. Recent commentary has ranged from historian John Gurda’s eloquent definition of The Wisconsin Idea to blogger Rick Esenberg’s question: “What is it”?
As a UW student I am concerned for the future of the UW System with the recent release of a $300 million cut in the next two years. With a $2.2 billion deficit across the state, it is going to be difficult to find room to make these cuts, and the UW System does not have any “fat” to trim.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly has joined the growing opposition on UW campuses to state lawmakers creating an independent public authority for the UW System without it first being studied by a blue ribbon committee.
The Associated Students of Madison said Tuesday that its requests to speak at University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meetings have been denied because the regents have been “too busy.”
Though the UW System’s proposed autonomy measures would mean removing state mandates for minority scholarship funding, both university and UW System officials said those scholarships will be unaffected.
Following Gov. Scott Walker’s call for a $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System for the 2015-’17 biennium, southeastern Wisconsin UW campuses are busy preparing to meet the worst-case scenarios.
Students from throughout Madison left school and took their rage, sorrow and demands to the city’s power centers on Monday, rocking the state Capitol rotunda with chants of “Justice for Tony” then demanding a meeting with Mayor Paul Soglin and Police Chief Mike Koval while massed outside the City-County Building.
Some 1,500 protesters, many of them students from Madison high schools and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, filled the Capitol rotunda Monday to protest the killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer, sending the iconic chant “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” echoing through the statehouse.
As Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential star continued to rise, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, challenged him on how his budget treats the University of Wisconsin System.
Much criticism of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal for the University of Wisconsin System has focused on the $300 million in cuts envisioned for the coming two years.
Noted: Innovation campus has an advantage over any other facility in the state because of the major corporate employers located in this region. Southeast Wisconsin actually holds more patents than Dane County, the home of UW-Madisons $1 billion research engine. How is that possible? Because corporate giants in this region generate patents as their own research and development realize what the market demands.
Some University of Wisconsin chancellors brought rough estimates of how many jobs they may have to eliminate under the governor’s proposed budget at a Board of Regents meeting on Thursday.
As Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential star continued to rise, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, challenged him on how his budget treats the University of Wisconsin System.
Chippewa Valley WQOW – Some UW System employees are concerned about a plan that could end their status as state employees. It’s part of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal and his plan to allow the UW System Board of Regents to have public authority.
Faculty members from across the University of Wisconsin’s campuses are clamoring to halt plans for the schools to sever ties with the state and become more autonomous, even as administrators are urging lawmakers and the system’s governing board to move forward, saying the shift will help the 26-campus system operate more efficiently.
Gov. Scott Walker plans to eliminate $8.1 million in funds to the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative implemented by the Wisconsin Energy Institute, one of multiple cuts to environmental projects at the University of Wisconsin System.
A new resolution asking state Legislature to reduce the proposed $300 million biennial budget cuts and provide the UW System with greater flexibility over operations, passed unanimously at the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
The first time for the long-planned, but new, Wisconsin Public TV door-to-door campaign, at the same time as their usual membership drive, comes as Governor Walker, who himself has appeared on Sesame Street, proposes cutting the state agency and the UW System — that partner to run public broadcasting — by millions.
The investigations are being handled by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Federal investigators have asked UW-Madison for all of their files regarding sexual assault cases and policies from 2012 to 2014. Investigators are trying to get a better sense of how the university handles sexual violence cases on campus.
Is removing protection for the 11-acre research and recreational forest on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukees campus a conspiracy to make way for development, or a technicality to shift rules governing the UW System from state statute to Board of Regents policy under a proposed UW System Public Authority?
