A Republican state senator says a new diversity outreach program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is “sinister.”
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State senator decries UW diversity outreach as ‘sinister’
WKOW-TV 27
A Republican state senator says a new diversity outreach program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is “sinister.”
State support for UW drops by one-third over 15 years
Capital Times
State support for the University of Wisconsin System has dropped more than a third over 15 years, says a new report by the Wisconsin Budget Project.
State spent $9.7M on merit bonuses, retention and pay equity payments in last year
Wisconsin State Journal
State agencies granted pay increases or one-time bonuses worth an estimated $9.7 million for 4,638 state employees — or about 15 percent of the state workforce — the State Journal found using data provided under the state’s open records law. Fiscal 2016 was the first year in which University of Wisconsin System employees were removed from the state’s civil service system.
Another bad rap for Wisconsin startup activity draws both jeers and grim affirmation
Wisconsin State Journal
Is Wisconsin really in the cellar when it comes to new business creation?
Experts disagree on value of ‘performance-based’ funding Scott Walker will seek for UW
Wisconsin State Journal
Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to provide new funding for the University of Wisconsin System based on its performance in measures such as graduation rate and job placement would subject the System to a budget model that critics say has failed to deliver on its promise to improve higher education.
Competitive neighboring states poach Illinois college students
Illinois News Network
Hoping to benefit from Illinois’ economic hardships, public universities in states bordering Illinois have aggressively sought to recruit Illinois students in recent years.
Wisconsin’s Veterans Law Center finds a new way to go where it’s needed
Big Ten Network
It was a phone call that Laura Smythe was tired of receiving. Every week, Smythe was fielding numerous calls from veterans or their family members or their friends, all with a similar refrain. While they had heard about the University of Wisconsin’s Veterans Law Center and were in need of its help, they lacked a means of transportation to get to one of the monthly clinics the center held in Madison.
Our view: Increase investment in UW
LaCrosse Tribune
It’s time for Wisconsin to increase its investment in its public universities. After too many years of huge cuts by both Democrats and Republicans, the University of Wisconsin System deserves the additional $42.5 million investment it is seeking in the next state budget. The key word is investment.
Scott Walker says performance-based funding is working at tech schools, but is it too soon to tell?
Capital Times
Gov. Scott Walker has been declaring his intention to impose performance-based funding on the University of Wisconsin, saying it is working well at the state’s technical colleges.
UW-Madison advocacy group hires first executive director
Milwaukee Business Journal
In light of ongoing political pressure on the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a group of influential alums plans to boost lobbying the state Legislature for support and hired Matt Kussow — who recently lobbied for UW in the state capitol — as the first executive director for the group called Badger Advocates.
DNR pushes back reorganization
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: One example cited earlier this year would be to transfer forest genetics work to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The DNR could also merge some duties involving boat and snowmobile registration with the Department of Transportation.
Critics howl in response to Ron Johnson’s call to replace college instructors with videos
Capital Times
Sen. Ron Johnson’s call to replace college classroom instructors with videos sounds like a corporate refrain that celebrates efficiency in education at the cost of effectiveness, said University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Clif Conrad.
Ray Cross in La Crosse: Investing in UW System is an investment in the future
La Crosse Tribune
Investing in the University of Wisconsin System is an investment in the state’s human capital, President Ray Cross said during a visit Monday with the La Crosse Tribune’s editorial board.
Appeals court allows early voting
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl said early voting will start in her city on Sept. 26. Officials are hoping to make voting available to people around the city, including at public libraries and on the campuses of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College, she said.
Medical residency programs expanding
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The best hope for averting a projected physician shortage in Wisconsin is starting new residency programs in rural areas and filling them with graduates from the state’s medical schools.
Walker considers lifting UW tuition freeze
Badger Herald
Gov. Scott Walker is considering lifting the University of Wisconsin tuition freeze for the 2018-19 school year.
Commentary by UW Regents: UW System is the state’s best return on investment
Racine Journal-Times
As Regents, we have a strong responsibility to keep the University of Wisconsin System affordable and accessible for Wisconsin families. We feel just as strongly about protecting the quality and excellence for which the UW System is known the world over. The reasons for ensuring this are compelling.
Board of Regents approves $42.5 million operating budget increase
Daily Cardinal
The Board of Regents approved the UW System’s request to increase the operating budget by $42.5 million for the 2017-’19 biennium budget. The regents also passed two other proposals, both unanimously: a strategic framework for the system titled 2020FWD and a capital budget request that calls for $454.6 million in general fund-supported projects.
What we know so far about voter ID in the 2016 election
Badger Herald
Last week saw two rulings by federal judges on Wisconsin’s contentious voter ID laws.
Regents unanimously approve plan to bolster state economy
Badger Herald
Amid a series of power outages, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously approved the a plan to help further connect UW students to the Wisconsin economy, in addition to both the 2017-19 operational and capital biennial budgets.
Walker says UW System leaders ‘comfortable’ with 1-year tuition freeze
WISC-TV 3
Gov. Scott Walker says he’s entertaining multiple options for a possible tuition freeze at the UW, and that leaders have indicated to him they are “comfortable” with a one-year freeze.
DOJ tells insurance board not to cover gender reassignment surgery
Wisconsin State Journal
The debate comes after Shannon Andrews, a transgender researcher at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, filed a complaint July 26 against the insurance board, the medical school and an insurance company, saying she was unfairly denied coverage of gender reassignment surgery.
Scott Walker: ‘Sideshows’ make it tougher for Donald Trump to win
Wisconsin State Journal
Walker spoke to reporters after an event at UW Hospital in Madison.
Future of UW tuition freeze unclear as Scott Walker won’t commit to 2-year extension
Wisconsin State Journal
The future of the freeze on University of Wisconsin System tuition is becoming murkier after UW officials said Gov. Scott Walker is open to ending the cap after a one-year extension in the next state budget, and the governor did not commit Thursday to a longer limit.
UW regents vote to ask state for $42.5 million to better educate future workforce
Capital Times
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents endorsed a budget request Thursday asking the state for $42.5 million more in funding to support a package of initiatives designed to help students earn degrees more quickly with skills for a 21st century workforce.
UW System seeking money to remodel, repair
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System is asking for one new building in its 2017-’19 capital budget request; the rest of the $455 million request approved Thursday by the Board of Regents would renovate, remodel or repair buildings.
UW Board of Regents Approve Budget
WBAY-TV
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is asking Governor Scott Walker for millions of dollars in additional funding after a four year tuition freeze and $250 million was cut from the system last year.
Walker Leaving Options Open on UW Tuition
WSAU-TV
Governor Scott Walker says no decision has been made yet on how his budget will address the future of a University of Wisconsin tuition freeze.
Walker Won’t Commit On Length Of Tuition Freeze
Wisconsin Public Radio
Gov. Scott Walker won’t say whether he plans to freeze tuition at state universities for one year or two in the next two-year state budget.
Regents approve UW System budget
Wisconsin Radio Network
The University of Wisconsin system’s Board of Regents has approved a budget request for $42.5 million in new funding. Regent Tony Evers voted no. “This budget in my estimation falls short of what the university system needs,” Evers said. “I understand the politics of asking for money.”
Walker leaving options open on UW tuition
Wisconsin Radio Network
Governor Scott Walker says no decision has been made yet on how his budget will address the future of a University of Wisconsin tuition freeze.
UW Regents Approve Request For $42.5M In New Funding
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents approved a request for $42.5 million in new state spending on Thursday.
Random Lake lawyer to feature in UW campaign
Come Sept. 5, a billboard featuring attorney John Hawley will be erected on 14th Street and Niagara Avenue in Sheboygan.
Delayed UW Building Projects Could Cost State An Extra $30 Million
Wisconsin Public Radio
The state Legislature’s nonpartisan budget office says the state could have to spend roughly $30 million more on several University of Wisconsin System building projects that were delayed in the last budget.
Fiscal bureau: Capital projects delayed in last state budget now cost $30 million more
Wisconsin State Journal
Seven University of Wisconsin building projects Gov. Scott Walker delayed in the current budget to keep borrowing down now cost $30 million more, according to the state’s nonpartisan budget office.
UW budget request includes new cultural competency program for students, faculty
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin System’s request for the next state budget includes a new initiative that would require all students, professors and staff members to take part in training programs designed to instill “cultural fluency.”
UWRF drafts 2017-19 budget proposal
River Falls Journal
UW-River Falls was one of the 26 Wisconsin college campuses affected by statewide budget cuts to higher education made two years ago. This month the budget for 2017-19, that will hopefully repair some of that damage, will be reviewed by the Board of Regents.
UW System President Cross Discusses 2017-19 Budget Request
The Wheeler Report
UW System President Ray Cross is getting ready to present the UW System 2017-19 budget request to the Board of Regents and Governor Walker. In total, Cross said the UW System will ask for $42.5 million in new state GPR. In June, the UW System and the Board of Regents approved asking for $19.2 million in funding for the Wisconsin Grant administered by the Higher Educations Aids Board (HEAB).
UW System seeks $42.5 million to cut student costs, develop workforce
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is asking the Board of Regents to approve a budget request that asks for $42.5 million in state funding for a package of expanded efforts to keep college affordable and develop the state’s future workforce.
Another tuition freeze without state investment would hurt, not help, UW students
Capital Times
Letter to the editor from Carmen Gosey, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying political science and legal studies.
Keep tuition freeze but increase state aid to University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
UW System is an engine for economic growth that needs investment after years of cuts, layoffs and lower staff morale.
On Campus: UW budget request seeks new outreach programs, $4M for student advising
Wisconsin State Journal
University of Wisconsin System officials say they will spend millions of dollars on new programs meant to push educated students into the workforce if lawmakers approve their request for a $42.5 million funding increase in the next state budget.
UW System details new initiatives
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System’s 2017-’19 biennial budget request hits on all the major themes for meeting the state’s workforce needs and helping more first-generation students earn a college degree, but it offers few details about how an additional $42.5 million requested from the state would be spent.
Editorial: UW System budget request reasonable
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
Years of budget cuts under both Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his predecessor, Democrat Jim Doyle, have made for a lean UW System.
Rep. Dana Wachs: Higher education cuts jeopardize Wisconsin’s future
Capital Times
Column: In 1974, General Electric was headquartered in New York City, and was looking for a new home. Many of GE’s executives had already moved to Fairfield, Connecticut, drawn by the good schools, small-town atmosphere and suburban lifestyle.
Impacts of Walker’s UW performance funding plan remain unclear
Badger Herald
Gov. Scott Walker will include new funding that is tied to how University of Wisconsin System campuses perform in certain areas in his next budget proposal.
UW System budget could lift the in-state tuition freeze
NBC-15
The in-state tuition freeze has been in place for years. Now, as part of the University of Wisconsin System’s budget request, it could be lifted.
Scott Walker: Next budget will include new performance-based funding for UW
Wisconsin State Journal
Gov. Scott Walker will include new funding for the University of Wisconsin System that will be tied to how it performs in certain measures as part of his next budget proposal, a spokesman said Tuesday after UW officials laid out their request for tens of millions of dollars in new state support.
Will Walker nix new borrowing by UW?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System wants to borrow $455 million in the next budget to construct one building and repair others, bringing it into potential conflict with Gov. Scott Walker’s strict limits on new state debt.
UW-Green Bay chancellor to appeal to public
Green Bay Press-Gazette
GREEN BAY – University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s top leader hopes the community will support increased funding for state campuses as Wisconsin lawmakers begin to piece together a 2017-19 budget.
UWL chancellor among those asking governor to reconsider tuition freeze
WKBT-TV, LaCrosse
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says he wants to extend the tuition freeze for state universities, but UW System leaders are asking him to reconsider.
Lawmaker says UW tuition freeze ‘key component’ of next state budget
Wisconsin Radio Network
The vice-chairman of the state Senate Universities and Technical Colleges Committee says continuing a tuition freeze for University of Wisconsin campuses for another two years is a “clear choice” for state lawmakers to make.
More Funding For UW System Vital To Maintain Quality, UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Says
Wisconsin Public Radio
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt’s message is simple, “More state investment is needed to maintain the quality of the student experience.”
UW seeks $42.5M funding increase, end to tuition freeze
AP
The University of Wisconsin System is poised to ask lawmakers to lift the cap on in-state tuition and reverse years of declining support for higher education with a funding increase of $42.5 million in the next state budget.
UW System chief seeks state funding increase
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is proposing a $42.5 million increase in the 2017-’19 budget, despite Gov. Scott Walker’s warning to expect zero growth in the next two years.
UW to ask for additional money and an end to tuition freeze
WKOW-TV 27
University of Wisconsin System leaders plan to ask Gov. Scott Walker to lift a tuition freeze and give them about $40 million more in aid in the next state budget.
UW to ask for additional money and an end to tuition freeze
Madison.com
University of Wisconsin System leaders plan to ask Gov. Scott Walker to lift a tuition freeze and give them about $40 million more in aid in the next state budget.
UW seeks $42.5M funding increase, end to tuition freeze in next state budget
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin System is poised to ask lawmakers to lift the cap on in-state tuition and reverse years of declining support for higher education with a funding increase of $42.5 million in the next state budget.
Regent: Wisconsin ‘Has To Get Serious’ About Investing In UW System
Wisconsin Public Radio
A former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and a member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is calling on the state to take a no-nonsense approach to funding the UW System.