As a part of his 2015-’17 budget, Gov. Scott Walker edited the language in state statute outlining the responsibilities of the UW System. In essence, the role of students, faculty and staff shifted from that of policy developers to policy advisors, a move that left many in fear over the true weight of their voice.
Rep. Andre Jacque and Sen. Chris Kapenga are circulating a bill targeting an arrangement between Planned Parenthood and the university in which faculty members work part-time at the organization’s Madison clinic.
New funding for higher education in Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal would reverse years of cuts and boost University of Wisconsin System schools that have been slashing costs in recent years.But experts say two changes that System leaders and state lawmakers are considering this year could shrink the share of new funding that winds up at UW-Madison, and instead send more of that money to the System’s other campuses.
Republican legislators introduced a bill Friday that may result in UW System employees no longer being able to perform abortions or train others at Madison Planned Parenthood clinics.
Governor Walker has proposed a modest increase in state support to the UW System in the 2017-19 budget period, with the additional resources to be distributed among campuses based on how well they score on a certain set of criteria. Those measures could penalize institutions that have been most effective in enrolling underrepresented students and provide a disincentive for campuses to admit low-income students, first-generation students, or other students who may take longer to graduate.
Farmers could get a break on their student loans under a new plan at the capitol. The new measure would create a loan-forgiveness program for farmers who commit to staying in the state after they finish a tech college, short course or university degree.
We are all doing well in our golden years and enjoying our retirements; two here in Wisconsin and one in Illinois. I can unequivocally state that the reason why we are doing well is the education we received from this great university.
Noted: Republican Rep. John Nygren crafted 11 bills based on recommendations from the governor’s opioid task force. The package includes proposals that would grant legal immunity to people who overdose, allow school workers to administer overdose antidotes to students and require the University of Wisconsin System to open a school where high school addicts can continue their education during recovery. Other measures would allocate $5.5 million more over the next two years for treatment programs and four additional state drug agents.
For 43 years, I have been a proud alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
While these allocable segregated fees are only 17 percent of the total of segregated fees students pay, amounting to $88.98 per student each semester, according to UW’s Office of the Registrar, these fees fund a multitude of on-campus services. These services include, but are not limited to: the bus pass, the Rape Crisis Center, Tenant Resource Center, Badger Catholic, Sex Out Loud, SPILL, VETS Support, GUTS Tutoring and various grants for student org operations.
UW-Madison professor of virology Yoshihiro Kawaoka doesn’t teach classes on campus.
Parts of a 2015 statement from the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents supporting the open exchange of ideas on campus — including those considered offensive — would become state law under a proposal in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
As the potential ability to opt out of allocable segregated fees has created concern among students at the University of Wisconsin, members from Associated Students of Madison’s Shared Governance Committee gathered to discuss various ways to counter this proposal.
Wisconsin lawmakers have introduced a bill to help beginning farmers pay back their student loans. The New Farmer Student Loan Assistance Program would reimburse up to $30,000 of student loan debt over five years for farmers who recently graduated from college, technical school or the University of Wisconsin Farm and Industry Short Course.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s latest two-year budget proposal has been received relatively warmly by higher education leaders, considering it calls for continuing to freeze tuition and then cutting it.
A well-known Republican state legislator and possible 2018 Senate candidate expressed opposition to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition across the UW System, instead suggesting tuition increases.
A key Republican legislator says Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition would force taxpayers to pay more and lawmakers should instead consider tuition increases based on inflation or increases in family income.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A key Republican legislator says Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition would force taxpayers to pay more and lawmakers should instead consider tuition increases based on inflation or increases in family income.
Nicholas Hillman, an associate professor of education at UW-Madison, says the data on classroom hours, already duly posted by the UW System on its Accountability Dashboard, don’t tell the whole story.
A line of 70 to 80 students stretches out near the F.H. King Farm every summer in Madison, Wis., when a University of Wisconsin at Madison student organization gives away its produce.
Legislators on the Assembly Committee on Jobs and the Economy peppered speakers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in addition to officials with companies like Uber and General Motors, with questions on the emerging technology.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Wednesday she will encourage legislators to treat state employees consistently on pay increases in the 2017-2019 budget, meaning increases for UW employees should not be tied to savings from the state moving to a self-insurance model for health insurance.
As University of Wisconsin System officials across the board welcome Gov. Scott Walker’s recent push to invest in higher education after years of budget cuts, Chancellor Rebecca Blank highlighted some of the key items she plans to track in the next biennium.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Most cars on Wisconsin roads will be driverless two decades from now, a University of Wisconsin researcher says. “They’re coming, whether we like it or not,” engineering professor David Noyce said at an Assembly committee hearing on the future of autonomous cars Wednesday.
The head of the University of Wisconsin says taxpayers are going to pay for work on campus, sooner or later. UW System President Ray Cross issued a statement yesterday thanking Governor Walker for the investments in his schools. But Cross also warned that delaying or deferring a number of projects will only drive-up costs in the future.
Melander noted those funds go to organizations on campus that in many cases are professional groups for students to learn more about their chosen majors and future careers.
When UW System Student Representatives lobbied at the Capitol last Thursday, they took time to ask that legislators seek provisions for a Violence Prevention Specialist on each UW System campus.
The UW System Student Representatives lobbied state officials Thursday, following Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal. Allowing students to opt out of segregated fees was the top issue according to Jacob Schimmel, president of UW-La Crosse Student Association.
Gov. Scott Walker unveiled an $803 million capital budget Tuesday, laying out a series of building projects ranging from a veterans home in King to a crime lab in Milwaukee.
He rejected about $93 million in projects at UW-Madison and $31 million for a new, 72-bed skilled nursing facility in Madison for veterans, which was recommended in 2015 by a state veterans task force.
The bill, co-authored by Sens. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, would allow the UW System’s Office of Educational Opportunity to seek bids for a charter school operator to start a school for no more than 15 students who are recovering from addictions.
“When I saw that Governor Walker was proposing a tuition cut and further investment in our UW system, I was overjoyed. It’s time we helped students and families struggling to afford a quality education. I am writing to ask that you CUT UW TUITION,” reads one letter.
Multiple UW-Madison building project requests have been deferred, according to Gov. Scott Walker’s capital budget proposal.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday recommended spending $803 million on building projects across the state, which would be the smallest total spent on new construction, repair and renovation since he took office in 2011.
There are many reasons that Prent Corp., founded 50 years ago by my father in Janesville, has grown into the world’s leading designer and producer of custom thermoformed packages for the medical device industry. I can honestly say, however, that without the contributions by our employees, our company would not have been able to achieve the success that we have enjoyed in these five decades.
The state Department of Administration has released Governor Scott Walker’s proposed Capital Budget. The proposal for the 2017-19 budget period calls for $803 million in total projects, with about $450 million in new bonding.
As Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget moves through the state Legislature, Associated Students of Madison has one chief concern.
Noted: The digital ads encourage citizens to write to lawmakers to tell them to approve the proposals in Walker’s budget such as nearly $600 million in tax cuts over two years, an additional $649 million for K-12 schools and a 5% cut to in-state tuition for the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin System officials and faculty leaders say they’re reviewing Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to monitor the workloads of university faculty, including the number of hours they spend teaching.
The governor’s companion budget bill calls on the UW Board of Regents and the campuses across the state to “guarantee all members of the System’s community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge and learn.”
Quoted: Pamela Oliver, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, said divisive political speech has a trickle-down effect, and the 2016 presidential campaign could have contributed to the uptick.
Walker’s budget simultaneously requires the UW System to create new three-year degree pathways while also adding on a requirement like this that only serves to lengthen the amount of time that students are in school.
A proposed science and technology center near the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will get a significant boost Friday when Gov. Scott Walker announces $5 million in funding for the project.
“A disaster,” is how Sally Rohrer, a student government leader, described the provision in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal to make allocable segregated fees optional.
Board members of Wisconsin’s for-profit college watchdog said Wednesday they’re concerned by Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to eliminate the board in the next state budget.
I am very appreciative of the new investments Gov. Scott Walker is proposing for the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin students considered what a future with reduced segregated fees would look like in light of a proposal in the Wisconsin state budget.
State Rep. Joel Kitchens, R-Sturgeon Bay, applauded Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget proposal and answered students’ questions about the proposal at an Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Committee meeting Tuesday.
Though expressing reservations about possible performance-based funding in the UW System, an Assembly Republican came to campus Tuesday to meet with student leaders and primarily voiced support for the state biennial budget proposal.
Two years ago, Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal had University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank warning about possible layoffs. This week, she called Walker’s 2017-2019 proposal “a very promising budget.”
The Back from the Front seminar is open only to first-year students who are veterans or currently enlisted. The course helps the students put the skills they learned in the military to use in the civilian world.
University of Wisconsin officials may be prevented from punishing students or faculty who express sentiment or ideas that may be troubling or deeply offensive, according to a provision in Gov. Scott Walker’s 2017-19 state budget.
“I would prefer to see us — and I think I’m hearing that from a lot of my colleagues as well — more of a targeted approach where we target dollars to programs that can help students graduate within their four year period and also target dollars towards financial aid,” said Nygren, a Republican from Marinette.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is slowly unveiling details about his funding plans for University of Wisconsin System schools.
In his final state budget before facing another election, Gov. Scott Walker is proposing significant investment in Wisconsin’s public schools and universities.That’s a welcome change from his past state spending plans that cut funding for K-12 and higher education by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Think of prospective University of Wisconsin students as consumers shopping for a car they can count on to get them where they want to go, when they need to get there, without guzzling too much gas.
As political polarization across the country fuels ideological confrontations on college campuses, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gov. Scott Walker is proposing a law to require UW officials to protect offensive speech.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently released the Badger First-Generation Transfer Promise Program, which would offer one or two years of free tuition at the university for first-generation college students who meet academic requirements and transfer in with an associate’s degree from UW Colleges or Wisconsin Technical College System school. However, the program is contingent upon additional state funding for the UW System in the 2017-19 biennial state budget.
Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year budget proposal for the University of Wisconsin System is drawing mixed reactions from faculty and students.
Gov. Scott Walker’s latest budget proposal has left little doubt that he plans to run for re-election in 2018 and may telegraph his strategy for winning a third term.
