Along with more than 70 other faculty from across the University of Wisconsin-System, I believe that UW System President Ray Cross should publicly oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to transform the University of Wisconsin System to a public authority.
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.
If proposals by two Republican governors are approved, public universities in Illinois and Wisconsin could soon experience sweeping layoffs, program eliminations and possible campus closures.
Public higher education in Wisconsin always has kept a strong focus on the future. That is why it is encouraging to me to see the elements in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal that reinforce the University of Wisconsin System’s concentration on and commitment to shaping our identity of tomorrow while we deal with the challenges of today.
With a focus on diversity and scholarship programs and students “starving to study and studying to starve,” the United Council of University of Wisconsin Students addressed Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts at the state Capitol Monday.
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.
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.
Take a look at the stories from around our area and world that are making news today.
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.
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.
University of Wisconsin student government representatives from across the state are calling on legislators to reject Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut in the UW System budget.
Governor Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million dollars in cuts to the University of Wisconsin System over the next two years, along with an offer of greater autonomy and flexibility, through creation of a public authority. The United Council of UW System Students oppose those cuts, as well as making the UW System a public authority.
The proposed budget cuts and move to a public authority for the University of Wisconsin System will hurt low-income students, low-wage workers and low-enrollment campuses most, said a statewide students group that vowed on Monday to fight against the changes.
A new audit shows the University of Wisconsin System generated nearly $5 billion in revenue during the last fiscal year, down slightly from the year before.
The $300 million for UW that Gov. Scott Walker proposed in his state budget would be crippling to UW and our state. And really, this isn’t about partisanship, politics, your side or mine; it is about pride. The gutting of our UW campuses has nothing to do with either party; it has everything to do with protecting a pillar of Wisconsin.
Edgewood College forum last week was among several venues in which Walker’s attack on the progressive ideals of the Wisconsin Idea was dissected in light of his likely bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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.”
MILWAUKEE WITI — Shopping for the right college comes with all sorts of questions. Can you afford it? Does it offer the classes you want? How’s the nightlife? For parents, there is one more important question. Is the campus safe?
Amanda Collins blames a state ban on concealed handguns on public-college campuses for leaving her vulnerable to the stranger who raped her in a parking garage eight years ago at the University of Nevada at Reno.
The Educational Approval Board will meet Friday morning to discuss Walker’s proposal, which the governor’s spokeswoman said will remove a costly and overly burdensome regulatory process for the schools and put in place enhanced consumer protections for students.
Prominent alumni of major colleges and universities across the country are taking bold steps, including trying to divert donations away from their alma maters and joining student-led protests at the campuses, to pressure the schools to divest from fossil fuel companies.
Wisconsin legislators should drop provisions creating a new UW System Authority from the biennium budget and take time to analyze the impact of such a drastic move, says Noel Radomski, director of WISCAPE at UW-Madison.
Recent comments about the state budget by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank are drawing criticism from two top Republicans in the Legislature.
Democrats said Thursday it’s not UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank who’s bringing Washington, D.C.-style politics to the University of Wisconsin System funding debate. Instead, they said, Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP leaders of the state’s powerful budget committee are playing politics.
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.
Saying that the university’s mission should be to serve Wisconsin’s workforce isn’t needed — the university already serves the state’s workforce. Anything less means crippling Wisconsin’s economy. To survive, Wisconsin manufacturers have to compete successfully in the global economy.
An advisory panel of the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors has recommended closing three academic centers, including a poverty center and one dedicated to social change, inciting outrage among liberals who believe that conservatives in control of state government are targeting ideological opponents in academia.
UW-Madison officials are turning to the workers to come up with ideas on how to cut costs, with $300 million in budget cuts staring them in the face.
The leaders of the state’s budget-writing Joint Finance Committee accused UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank of playing Washington politics with the current budget debate, noting her ties to U.S. President Barack Obama and her predecessor’s support for elements of Gov. Scott Walker’s plans that she opposes.
Chancellor Blank statement: “Our recent conversations with legislators have been positive and we understand the pressures they are facing. As I have stated in the past, flexibilities offered through a public authority model are welcome and would eventually allow the System to function more effectively. However, we continue to be concerned about the impact of a proposed $300 million cut. We look forward to working with legislators throughout the budget process to reduce the impacts on the university.”
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker . . . Republican presidential hopeful . . . wants to cut deep into his state’s prized public university system, and maybe its vision. On Point hears the debate.
Gov. Scott Walker has cited his experience battling unions here four years ago as proof that voters appreciate a political leader willing to “go big and go bold.” So as he woos supporters around the country for a possible presidential bid, Walker (R) is once again picking a fight against a powerful institution at home — public universities.
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.
The national higher education funding trend shows states putting more money into campuses.
The University of Wisconsin would be exempt from revealing the details of its research under a new provision in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal.
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.
Dear Editor: Many Wisconsin citizens and organizations have pointed out that Gov. Walker can save the University of Wisconsin System from huge cuts by accepting the $261 million to $315 million that is Wisconsin’s share of Medicaid money under the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare. That sounds like a great way to save the UW System, save lives and honor the Wisconsin Idea.
The Great Room of the Yellowjacket Union at the University of Wisconsin-Superior was less than half-filled for a forum on Monday, but at one point about half of those in attendance had their hands raised.
SUPERIOR, Wis. — Wisconsin lawmakers, and the University of Wisconsin–Superior Chancellor listened as faculty, students and alumni voiced their concerns about proposed University of Wisconsin System budget cuts Monday night.
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker has cited his experience battling unions here four years ago as proof that voters appreciate a political leader willing to “go big and go bold.”
Some UW System deans and chancellors are speaking out against Gov. Walker’s budget cuts and inaccurately portraying net effects on campuses.
We knew that relatively lean regional and two-year campuses would bear the brunt of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin System. Now we know what it would mean for Stevens Point and the region.
My father and his two sisters graduated from UW-Madison in the mid-1920s. My two brothers and I graduated from UW schools in the ’60s. My three children graduated from UW schools in the ’80s. My three sons-in-law graduated in the ’80s. Two grandchildren attend UW schools.
MADISON, Wis. — Atop a steep hill on the University of Wisconsin campus is a granite boulder affixed with a bronze plaque commemorating the university system’s lofty mission: to benefit the entire state by promoting public service and a search for truth.
I wish I could believe it was a drafting error but, alas, that dog won’t hunt.
Gov. Scott Walker’s University of Wisconsin System budget proposal could give the UW more autonomy over a number of systems which are currently run by the state, including the Minnesota reciprocity system, which provides residents of Minnesota near in-state tuition rates at UW schools and vice versa.
“TAA is ready to fight tooth and nail against these cuts,” UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association treasurer Travis McArthur told Chancellor Rebecca Blank at a packed forum on proposed state budget cuts Thursday.
On WKOW-TV’s “Capitol City Sunday,” the board’s executive director tried to clarify what state dollars to the public broadcasting and communications agency support.
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.
Despite a -13 degree wind chill, several hundred people gathered at the UW-Madison’s Library Mall on Saturday afternoon to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cuts to the UW System.
A proposal in Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year budget would likely make Wisconsin the only state without oversight of for-profit colleges, at a time when many others are ramping up their level of supervision over colleges that face heavy scrutiny throughout the nation.
State budget headlines have focused on massive cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and an attack-then-retreat on the Wisconsin Idea, which, we must infer, is that rare concept still popular across both blue and red Wisconsin.
A mere 2.5 percent budget reduction is what is being asked of the University of Wisconsin System. With a $6.1 billion annual budget, 35,000 employees for reference, the city of Manitowoc has 34,000 residents, 26 campuses and $700 million in cash reserves, the System has many opportunities to get lean, find efficiencies and make your tuition and tax dollars stretch further.
The university’s Athletic Board unanimously voted to increase per-seat prices for season football tickets from $45 to $48 at its meeting Friday afternoon in order to meet its annual services contributions to campus, which increased from $2 million to $5.5 million this year. The request from Bascom Hall for an additional $3.5 million came shortly after Gov. Scott Walker introduced a proposed state budget for 2015-17 that seeks $300 million in cuts to the UW System.
