Invoking the spirit of the “uprising” that occupied the Wisconsin Capitol in 2011, UW-Madison faculty and staff are planning a rally and march on Saturday, Valentine’s Day, to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System.
The brief disagreement happened outside the meeting on the second floor of the Union South building in Madison. Once the 92-person seating capacity was reached, police denied further entry, redirecting people to a different room where the meeting was being broadcast live, said Alex Hummel, UW System spokesman.
I really hope the state budget wraps up soon, because I don’t know how much more flippant politicking I can take from Wisconsin’s governor/presidential candidate — nor how much more righteous indignation I can take from the officials of multimillion UW-Madison and its billion-dollar parent institution, the UW System.
Can you imagine UW-Madison after it has been decimated by Gov. Scott Walker’s budget cuts?
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.
It’s probably only fair to point out, though, that UW-Madison profs might also be suffering from comparatively low wages because so darn many have been promoted to the highest pay category, but there’s only so much money to go around.
Between today and 2020, Wisconsin will have approximately 75,000 job openings that require educational credentials beyond the bachelor’s degree. These include 12,000 jobs in science, technology, engineering and math, plus 22,000 jobs in managerial and professional office work, according to a Georgetown University study.
Greenler is a Madison resident and an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Jo Ellen Fair recalls being shaken when she read through Gov. Scott Walker’s 1,800-page budget bill this week and saw that the state law creating shared governance and tenure at the University of Wisconsin would be wiped out if Walker’s plan is approved by the Legislature.
Kudos to conservative professors James Baughman and John Sharpless for defending UW-Madison in the face of the severe cuts Gov. Scott Walker is proposing to the University of Wisconsin System. It is great to hear such dedicated teachers, scholars and citizens defend UW-Madison, which is a state treasure regardless of any warts it bears.
[T]he proposal by the Walker administration to strike statutory language directing the UW to focus on “public service” and “the search for truth” has turned out to be a healthy development for the state.
A “drafting error” of this scope, defended initially by the governor, is not really an error at all. Sadly, it is a look into the values and beliefs of the governor and those around him. It is good that he backtracked, after the public outcry. Let this be instructive to us in the days, weeks and months ahead as his full budget comes under public scrutiny in the light of day.
For starters, lawmakers should ease the university cut. The governor pitched his historic reduction to the 26-campus System as a trade. UW would lose state aid in exchange for more autonomy from state rules.
In a TV interview on “UpFront with Mike Gousha,” Cross said that the cuts proposed in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget could “seriously damage the whole system,” and that he doesn’t think they are inevitable.
Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal was probably going to be responsible for a number of the top stories last week regardless, but a section rewriting the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement made the administration circle the wagons.
McWilliams is a former chair of the Associated Students of 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.
Something called “The Wisconsin Idea” got a lot of attention this week when a nonprofit discovered that Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal would have removed it from the University of Wisconsin’s mission statement. It’s since been restored.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross said on Friday he doesn’t know how Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut would be spread across the 26 campuses.
University of Wisconsin-Superior will continue to receive financial support from the UW System, despite proposed cuts from Gov. Scott Walker.
MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker is fond of comparing his proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System to Act 10, his signature legislation that restricted collective bargaining for public workers and sparked massive protests.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal could result in fewer classes and jobs at University of Wisconsin-Rock County.
WHITEWATER–UW-Whitewater Chancellor Richard Telfer cautions people from reading too much into Legislative Fiscal Bureau figures that show the university would be hit the hardest by the governor’s proposed budget.
UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer said Tuesday night that the higher education cuts proposed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker “will present significant challenges for our campus and the entire UW System.”
Editorial board says: “The Wisconsin Legislature must resist the governor’s ideologically driven thrust at the state university system.”
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.
“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.
Over the next few weeks, the Legislature will receive the full text of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget, along with the analysis of the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. As I review those documents, I will be interested to see more details on Gov. Walker’s proposed changes to the University of Wisconsin System, including a $300 million budget cut over two years.
University of Wisconsin Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank delivers a fiery speech to the UW System Board of Regents about the expected $91 million budget hole. She said it would be the result of Governor Scott Walker’s proposed two-year spending plan, which calls for $300 million in cuts to the UW System.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday that the news of the past week involving Gov. Scott Walker’s budget will prompt other universities to “raid” her best faculty.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was able to kill collective-bargaining rightsfor state workers, but he can’t kill the Wisconsin Idea, the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin. Not yet, at least.
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.
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.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s new budget proposal reads like a modern day Republican manifesto: reductions in property taxes, expansion of school vouchers, elimination of Common Core and implementation of drug testing for food stamp recipients.
Governor Scott Walker backed away Wednesday from an effort to end the University of Wisconsin’s mission to search for truth and improve the human condition — at least on paper.
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.
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.
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.
But under Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 budget, public broadcasting in Wisconsin faces a sharp 34 percent budget cut next year and an additional 1.4 percent in 2017.
As part of a broader attempt to diminish the state’s support for, and ties to, the University of Wisconsin System, Walker wants to strike “Wisconsin Idea” language from state statutes — including references to public service and a commitment to “search for truth.”
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said Wednesday that more borrowing for road projects, historic cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and flat funding for K-12 schools are the top concerns so far among caucus members.
The head of the board that oversees Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television says he has “a lot of work” ahead of him as he fights a $5 million state funding cut that Gov. Scott Walker proposed Tuesday when he unveiled his two-year budget plan.
The term “drafting error” may be enshrined as a legendary Wisconsin phrase after Wednesday’s events.
Wisconsinites swooped in to defend the Wisconsin Idea Wednesday from Gov. Scott Walker’s budget bill rewrite of the University of Wisconsin’s mission.
Facing a massive backlash, Gov. Scott Walker retreated Wednesday from a proposal to wipe out language at the foundation of the Wisconsin Idea — the long-cherished principle that the state’s public universities exist to seek truth and serve the people of the entire state.
You might think that one of the nation’s leading academic communication programs would be a good place to make a long-distance phone call.
In his 2015 budget proposal, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker R offers an unusual change amid the details of how and where he proposes spending the state’s money. As noted by the watchdog site PR Watch and brought to our attention by journalist Abe Sauer, Walker would like to change the statement of purpose and mission for the University of Wisconsin system. Less talk about searching for truth; more talk about meeting the state’s workforce needs.
Gov. Scott Walker abruptly backed off Wednesday from a contentious plan to eliminate the University of Wisconsin System’s public service mission statement known as the “Wisconsin Idea” and replace it with the charge of meeting the state’s workforce needs.
Governor Scott Walker backed away Wednesday from an effort to end the University of Wisconsin’s mission to search for truth and improve the human condition — at least on paper.
