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.
Wisconsin Democratic legislators are greeting the news that Gov. Scott Walker wants to freeze tuition at UW System schools for another two years with a rallying cry of sorts: Fund the freeze!“I think a tuition freeze is good for the state of Wisconsin and for students. However we have to fund the freeze,” said state Rep. Dianne Hesselbein, D-Middleton, a member of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities.
In recent years, conversations between the University of Wisconsin System and the state Legislature have been contentious, with the two groups butting heads over issues like funding cuts and challenges to tenure.
A possible funding increase for the University of Wisconsin System that would be tied to UW’s performance in certain metrics is still on the table for the next state budget, a spokesman for Gov. Scott Walker says.
When people in Wisconsin think of the dangers that farmworkers face, they might envision extreme heat, malfunctioning machinery, or even unruly livestock. But they might be unaware of another serious threat: Hearing loss.
UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer said after hearing that Gov. Scott Walker spoke highly of UW-Stout and UW-Eau Claire during a recent visit to the Chippewa Valley he was hopeful that a tuition freeze would be lifted.
Eau Claire (WQOW) – Governor Scott Walker told state agencies he plans to extend the University of Wisconsin tuition freeze in the next two-year state budget he will introduce in early 2017.
Gov. Scott Walker says he wants to extend the freeze on University of Wisconsin System tuition for another two years. The Republican governor also told UW and most other state agencies they should not anticipate new funding in his next budget.
Gov. Scott Walker is telling state agencies he plans to extend the University of Wisconsin tuition freeze in the next two-year state budget he will introduce in early 2017. Walker says in a letter to state agencies last week that most should submit budgets for the next two years that don’t spend any more money than they were allotted this year.
A transgender researcher has filed a complaint against the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Wisconsin and an insurance company for denying her coverage of gender confirmation surgery.
A transgender researcher at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has filed a complaint against the state, the medical school and an insurance company, saying she was unfairly denied coverage of gender reassignment surgery.
About this time last year, Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler were at the forefront of a newly charged-up effort to cement a burgeoning game development scene in Madison. As of this January, they’ll be taking their efforts to California instead.
Flooding in northern Wisconsin has been devastating for many who live in the area but a group at UW-Madison is offering some help.
There is a new pathway for Wisconsinites who can’t get a photo ID to vote in the November election after a federal judge ruled Tuesday that voters can swear to their identity and use affidavits instead of IDs at the polls.
Among the new board members is R.D. Nair, a UW-Madison professor of accounting and information systems.
UW-Madison’s Molecular Archaeology Group performed the tests for the Veteran’s Museum for free.
A Wisconsin Republican is threatening UW-Madison’s funding because he doesn’t want racism on Grindr talked about in classes.
Quoted: As many continue to deal with the aftermath, Professor Patty Loew from UW-Madison says things have actually taken a turn for the worse.
A group from UW-Madison’s Department of Life Sciences Communication is in Ashland County working on a month long outreach program. They weren’t expecting their travels to take such a dramatic turn.
“How do we find a good career path for everyone and how do we attract more people into those high demand areas?” says Governor Scott Walker, after he spoke with local business leaders, Monday, at the Eau Claire Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Altoona.
A Republican legislator said Thursday that the entire UW System could face consequences for an article on gay men’s sexual preferences assigned to a class of UW-Madison sociology students this week.
Wisconsin’s government transparency laws don’t require public bodies such as the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents to immediately disclose the documents that their members plan to discuss at upcoming meetings, a Justice Department official said Thursday.
A Republican legislator warned Thursday that a University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor’s decision to assign an “offensive” essay on gay men’s sexual preferences could have budget ramifications for the entire UW-System next year.
Gov. Scott Walker said he’ll look at whether the University of Wisconsin System needs more money to make major repairs on buildings at various campuses.
MADISON – Wisconsin’s public university system has wasted more than $100,000 on airline tickets in recent years that ultimately were never used and allowed to expire.
Letter to the editor from Rep. Daniel Riemer: The UW is one of the best deals in the United States. UW-Madison’s in-state tuition is the third lowest of the top 50 universities in the U.S. Meanwhile, according to the Goldwater Institute, UW-Milwaukee, now a Carnegie top-ranked Research One (R1) university, has among the lowest costs to educate per student of any R1 or R2 university in the country. In short, both research universities are low-cost models for the nation, especially UW-Milwaukee. Both of these great research universities now also get less than 20 percent of their funding from the state budget.
Again the great state of Wisconsin has mothered a class through her university, and sends it forth to serve. The test of culture is not in how much you may know, but how much you may do with your knowledge.
State budget crunches and political turmoil have set off rumblings about a mass faculty exodus from public colleges in some states. High-profile defections stoke the rumors. But have professors really fled in droves?
The University of Wisconsin System will increase student fees and continue tapping controversial reserve funds under a $6.2 billion operating budget that UW’s governing Board of Regents approved Thursday afternoon.
A job for life. ”Those are the words Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is using to describe tenure. It may be a terrible tact to take for his state’s university system, but it’s a smart move politically.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is asking the Board of Regents to approve a $19,152,300 increase to the Wisconsin Grant-UW program over the next two years.
At a time when UW-Madison continues to face deep state cuts and legislative attacks on its mission and integrity, a group of prominent alumni, donors and supporters has formed a new, independent advocacy organization that will lobby state government on behalf of the internationally renowned research institution–and fund candidates for office.
AZTALAN — Ancient Aztalan was a prehistoric Native American village in southern Wisconsin occupied by Mississippian and Late Woodland peoples 800 to 1,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence suggests it was an ethnically diverse community — some residents were local to the area, but others were newcomers who brought their exotic beliefs, practices and ways of living with them.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are looking to give students an additional $12.7 million in financial aid over the next biennium.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are looking to give students an additional $12.7 million in financial aid over the next biennium.
Noted: ?UW System tenure: Changes to the tenure process in the UW System have sparked angry reactions across the state’s four-year campuses in recent months, with faculty at many campuses passing resolutions of no-confidence in UW System leaders.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross this week will urge the Board of Regents to seek a 33% biennial boost in need-based financial aid from the state to help resident students better afford to attend a public university in Wisconsin.
Retired Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin CEO Tom Hefty has long called for a major strategic planning effort on the future of Wisconsin higher education.
Gov. Walker’s claim is judged “half true.”
After hinting this week that the state’s public higher education systems could see more support in the next budget, Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he’s considering tying any funding increases to performance.
Gov. Scott Walker is indicating he may increase funding for the University of Wisconsin System and technical colleges, possibly tied to performance measures.
Wisconsin’s public colleges and universities could see their funding increase in the next state budget based on how they do in certain performance measures, Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday.
Consider the stories a bowling pin from Antigo’s Vulcan Corporation might have to tell. While the average person might think in terms of the confines of a single bowling alley, another might consider its role in Wisconsin’s lumber industry, Milwaukee’s former title as “The Bowling Capital of America,” and Japan’s mid-20th century bowling boom.
It can be hard for Green Bay Packers fans to remember a time without consistency at the quarterback position.
Gov. Scott Walker hinted Wednesday that additional support may be heading to Wisconsin’s public higher education providers.
Politicians come and go. UW-Madison is here to stay — and so are the vast majority of its professors. That’s reassuring.
Gov. Scott Walker says a court order that directed his office to release records on proposed changes to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement has clarified what his administration must share with the public.
Since the announcement of the University of Wisconsin-Extension reorganization in February, counties across the state have begun to indicate they do not support the proposed changes in theory or monetarily.
Gov. Scott Walker has released 82 pages of records he wanted to keep secret after a judge ordered them to be made public.
Records released Friday by Gov. Scott Walker’s office in response to a judge’s order make clear he sought controversial changes in 2015 to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, known as the Wisconsin Idea.
Area farmers didn’t have to replant corn fields that were touched by frost just after the plants emerged from the soil earlier this month, but their ability to fully recover is dependent on getting timely rain at least through the early summer, a UW-Extension crops and soils specialist said.
Noted: Both Hoffmann and Borowski obtained undergraduate degrees from UW-Milwaukee and law degrees from UW-Madison, Hoffmann in 1991, Borowski in 1990.
On orders from a judge, Gov. Scott Walker on Friday released emails showing he wanted to simplify guiding principles for state universities last year as part of a sweeping higher education proposal that would have dropped the long-standing Wisconsin Idea from their mission statement.
A high school student from Fond du Lac and a team of middle school students from Berlin grew the best overall crystals in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s third annual crystal-growing contest.
Despite the budget cuts, weakened tenure protections and the general acrimony between state lawmakers and University of Wisconsin System staff, a UW-Madison professor is making the case for why faculty should stay at the school.
Amid budget cuts, weakened tenure protections, and a chilly atmosphere between UW faculty and staff and Governor Walker, some of the UW System’s faculty have been looking for jobs elsewhere or receiving offers from other universities. We hear from a professor and department chair who makes the case for staying at the UW.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will likely be the last campus this spring to hold a vote of no-confidence in the Board of Regents and UW System President Ray Cross.
Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still explains how budget cuts will continue to affect the University of Wisconsin System’s ability to contribute to economic growth in Wisconsin. Still says a bipartisan effort is necessary in order for both the state economy and UW System to thrive.
Amid budget cuts, weakened tenure protections, and a chilly atmosphere between UW faculty and staff and Governor Walker, some of the UW System’s faculty have been looking for jobs elsewhere or receiving offers from other universities. We hear from a professor and department chair who makes the case for staying at the UW.
Column by Gov. Walker: As the parent of a junior at UW-Madison, I want my son to have a great education for a reasonable price. As governor, I want that for every college student in Wisconsin.
