Madison – The next two-year budget for the University of Wisconsin System will be the first since the 1980s that isn?t built around state funding cuts or expected state budget lapses if the Legislature doesn?t dramatically change what?s been proposed by Gov. Scott Walker.
The University of Wisconsin System board of regents is meeting to discuss the governor?s proposed two-year budget.
The University of Wisconsin System board of regents is meeting to discuss the governors proposed two-year budget, which includes $181 million in new taxpayer investments in the UW System.
More than 80 University of Wisconsin-Madison students gathered Tuesday to listen to two Indonesian workers from an adidas-contracted factory share their struggles to get severance pay, in an event hosted by the Student Labor Action Coalition.
On general principle it?s reasonable to expect people who engage in risky behavior to pay more for their health insurance. On the other hand, that (surcharge) increases the cost of smoking quite a bit. I?m not a smoker and I have a limited amount of sympathy for them, but the amount employees should pay for their health insurance should be subject to negotiation between the state and their union.?
Longtime participants in the Wisconsin Retirement System will see another cut in their monthly pension checks as the state continues to smooth out losses from the 2008 stock market plunge.
No one can say with certainty how the automatic spending cuts that kick in Friday will affect Wisconsin. Some federal services will continue uninterrupted; others will be scaled back as furloughs begin, likely next month. Here are some of the changes officials say are likely over the next few months if Congress doesnt reverse the cuts.
Gov. Scott Walker and other Republican governors criticized the president?s across-the-board spending cuts scheduled to take effect this week during a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
Legislators from both parties have reacted positively to including a tuition cap in the state?s biennial budget, a measure University of Wisconsin System officials said may not be necessary.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? University of Wisconsin students asked state legislators Monday to renew a tuition cap, fearing that failure to do so would put higher education out of reach of many families.
MADISON, Wis. AP — The University of Wisconsin-Madison is celebrating conservationist Aldo Leopold this weekend.
A member of Gov. Scott Walker?s administration touted greater flexibility and the availability of new funding for the University of Wisconsin System, but did not voice support for setting a cap on tuition increases in a meeting with students on Monday.
The Teaching Assistants? Association at UW-Madison has informed members that its staff will be laid off due to hardships resulting from Gov. Scott Walker?s 2011 collective bargaining law.
University of Wisconsin students are asking legislators to cap tuition increases.
University of Wisconsin students are asking legislators to cap tuition increases.
If Congress does not reach a compromise before Friday, Wisconsin?s national security employees and the public education system could be the target of massive federal spending cuts known as the sequester, according a White House statement released Sunday.
The University of Wisconsin Systems president says Gov. Scott Walkers budget proposals would keep tuition costs down and improve economic development programs at various campuses across the state.
At first glance, Gov. Scott Walker?s budget provision to do away with residency requirements for city and school employees makes for some strange bedfellows ? aligning the governor made famous for slashing the power of public worker unions with police officers, firefighters and other city workers who have long sought an end to residency requirements through collective bargaining.
The University of Wisconsin System?s president said Gov. Scott Walker?s budget proposals would keep tuition costs down and improve economic development programs at various campuses across the state.
Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed $181 million in investments for the University of Wisconsin System would help ensure tuition increases are ?very modest,? a UW System spokesperson said Thursday.
Gov. Scott Walkers proposed income tax cut would give more money back to the rich than it would the poor, despite his billing it as targeting the middle class.
Gov. Scott Walker called for a $343 million income tax cut, education reform and economic development initiatives in his biennial budget address Wednesday.
Gov. Scott Walker proposed an income tax cut targeted to the middle class as part of a state budget introduced Wednesday that would keep property taxes nearly flat, expand the private school voucher program, continue a public school spending freeze and tighten Medicaid income eligibility.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced plans Sunday to include in his proposed state budget a $475.6 million investment in public education and other opportunities for Wisconsin students.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Gov. Scott Walker planned to release details of his income tax cut on Wednesday as part of his state budget that also expands the private school voucher program, continues a freeze on spending in public schools, tightens income eligibility for Medicaid and puts state properties up for sale to pay for roads projects.
University of Wisconsin System officials explained their progress on the flexible option degree to a Senate committee Tuesday, allowing legislators to clear concerns they had over the new program.
After taking in no state funding the past two years, University of Wisconsin?s cancer center will receive nearly $4 million through 2015, according to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker?s budget proposal.
Gov. Scott Walker will release his biennial budget and will give an address at the Capitol about his budget priorities today. Over the past few weeks, he has released parts of his budget, and below is a preview of what he will include in several areas.
Gov. Scott Walker announced a $129 million investment in public education and an additional $181 million in funding for the University of Wisconsin System would be included in his upcoming budget announcement on Monday.
For 16 years, I had the honor of representing western Wisconsin in Congress. But in so many ways, that experience was a prelude to current times.
David McDonald, the Russian history professor who chairs the search committee to find the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s next chancellor, says he?s happy to be handing off the top five names to a committee of the UW Board of Regents this week.
The upcoming release of Gov. Scott Walker?s proposed state budget draws our attention to the future and, in particular, to Wisconsin?s children.
A Senate committee held a public information hearing Wednesday to address education initiatives in the state and look at the issue of meeting workforce needs.
Blame the weather.
Blame the economy.
Blame Scott Walker.
No matter the reason, Wisconsin is among the top 10 states for people moving out, according to the annual survey from United Van Lines. Forbes reported the story recently and it has been widely circulated ? although probably not by many chambers of commerce.
A Senate committee held a public information hearing Wednesday to address education initiatives in the state and look at the issue of meeting workforce needs.
A University of Wisconsin professor and the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin filed a federal lawsuit against Capitol Police over their permitting process Monday.
A student government committee held a training session for student lobbyists Monday on how to meet with elected officials in an effort to achieve tuition protection and to increase need-based financial aid in the upcoming state biennial budget.
As part of an almost $100 million investment on workforce training, Gov. Scott Walker announced Sunday he plans to invest $22 million in the University of Wisconsin System in the upcoming state budget.
The exhibition opening Saturday at the Chazen Museum of Art was ? fittingly ? put together by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as a way to cope with an economic downturn.
Marshfield Clinic and University of Wisconsin Health have won approval to participate in a Medicare program designed to test new ways of paying hospitals and doctors.
Starting next fall, the University of Wisconsin system is offering the first competency-based online degree program in the nation. This program, called the ?UW Flexible Option,? will allow adult students to earn a bachelor?s by passing a series of assessments that determine competency in a field of study.
By now, you may well have read Wall Street Journal report Caroline Porter?s article on the University of Wisconsin?s new Flexible Option, a competency-based credentialing initiative that will allow students to gain credit for what they know rather than how long they?ve sat in a classroom.
The University of Wisconsin student government, in cooperation with a System group, reviewed a biennial budget campaign to lobby for tuition protection to be included the state?s new funding cycle.
Last year was a rough year for students at public universities, as state legislatures throughout the country continued to cut funding to their universities. Nationwide, states underwent one of the largest divestments in higher education in American history, slashing funding by 7.6 percent. And in 2011, for the second consecutive year, state and local funding to public universities reached a quarter-century low despite the fact that enrollment and the cost of educating students reached near-record highs.
Sher Minn Chong will graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this Spring with no student debt and a clear post-graduation plan. But unlike many students, Chong, a government scholar from Malaysia, signed on to this plan before she even arrived in Madison.
Wisconsin?s budget picture brightened Thursday, with new estimates that show a surplus will grow to $484 million, giving Republicans and Gov. Scott Walker even more room to pursue their tax cutting agenda.
One of the findings of Gannett Wisconsin Media?s ?What We Pay? series on public employee compensation is that pay for Universityof Wisconsin System professors averages about $86,000 a year, trailing the $90,000 average of technical college instructors.
Sarah Gillmore grew up in rural Eau Claire, but now works to make things better for people in the city. Gillmore, 33, oversees Dane County?s new temporary warming house for homeless men and women on East Washington Avenue.
University of Wisconsin System faculty are earning 18 percent less pay than the national college and university average, UW System President Kevin Reilly revealed to the Board of Regents in December.
Legislators scolded University of Wisconsin System leaders Tuesday during a hearing in Madison over what they called a troubling pattern of mismanagement and lack of oversight for employee payroll and benefits processing.
Quoted: UW-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky.
Tuesday?s public hearing at the State Capitol about mismanagement of $33 million in University of Wisconsin System health and pension funds is actually a twin bill. Also on the agenda: so-called “double dipping” by public employees including thousands in the UW System.
A legislative committee is scheduled to hold a hearing today (Tuesday) to discuss mismanagement at the University of Wisconsin payroll and benefit processing. The nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) is being asked to conduct a comprehensive review after an audit released earlier this month found the UW had made over-payments in the last two years for health insurance premiums and retirement benefits totaling $33 million.
A new controversy regarding the future of a nonprofit cooperative that provides high-speed Internet services to most public schools and libraries in Wisconsin stems from an old debate about the public and private sectors competing with each other.
MADISON, WI (WSAU) – A state legislator believes a University of Wisconsin senior vice president needs to be fired. Wisconsin Rep. Steve Nass says a recent audit leaves him with no faith in senior vice president for administration and fiscal affairs Michael Morgan.
MADISON ? Sometimes sorry isn?t enough. Ask the legions of Lance Armstrong fans, the same Lance Armstrong who only takes his doping mea culpa to Oprah Winfrey.
A legislative committee will hold a hearing Tuesday as part of a probe of the University of Wisconsin System?s human resources practices after learning of the universities? overpayments of nearly $33 million for health insurance premiums and retirement benefits.
Gov. Scott Walker said during his State of the State speech that hes doubling down on efforts to meet his 2010 campaign promise to create 250,000 jobs over four years.
The co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee are calling for an independent audit of the University of Wisconsin payroll and benefit processing systems after overpayments totaling almost $33 million were found.
Earlier in the day, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden said that, politically, Walker has to address the concerns of two groups of people ? the general public who will be voting in 2014 and the conservative GOP base who will largely be the ones choosing a Republican presidential nominee for 2016.
