A state legislative leader is critical of UW-Madison faculty members who want a vote of no confidence on UW System leadership. “This faculty group seems to be having a hissy fit over some pretty minor charges, which bring us in line with most of the nation’s universities, and do very little to chang the overall idea of tenure,” said Assembly Majority Leader, Representative Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna)
The UW-Madison campus is divided over a proposed ’no-confidence’ vote led by university professors. The resolution was written to speak out against UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents.
Spokesman Alex Hummel said he never saved the video of chancellors rehearsing their presentations because the talks were canceled, and later deleted the files to clear space on a camera so he could record the Board of Regents meeting where the chancellors planned to speak.
Noted: Manure irrigation workgroup member and UW-Madison urban planning professor Ken Genskow, in a separate “Here And Now” interview on April 15, replied to criticisms about the scope of the report’s health inquiries.
Members of the University of Wisconsin Band played to a packed gym on Saturday at Mauston High School.
Noted: Recent work by Tessa Conroy and Steven Deller of the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed that start-ups here accounted for a smaller share of job creation than in all but three states.
Reductions to student advising, some academic programs, and the loss of teachers and a security officer were among the changes the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay made to accommodate state cuts to higher education, according to a new report.
What is this, the academic version of “The Gong Show”? What’s next? Will UW System President Ray Cross tell Becky Blank and other chancellors to sit in a corner and count to 10 because they’re being “whiny”?
The $250 million budget cuts that started in 2015 at the UW system schools are impacting students and faculty.
In early January, UW-Madison economists Steven Deller and Tessa Conroy released a study on Wisconsin job creation that sank beneath the waves with barely a ripple, despite its insight into the Badger State’s sluggish economy.
Students from UW schools around the state got a chance to show off their research projects and learn from others as part of an event officials call “UW Day at the Capitol.”
Mark us as seriously concerned about the impact of reductions in the levels of state funding for the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin – Madison officials say budgets cuts brought upon by the $250-million deficit facing the entire UW System will lead to cuts in the number of work hours for student employees. The students use the income from these jobs to pay for tuition, room and board.
The University of Wisconsin released new information Tuesday about how the loss of $250 million in state funding will affect each college campus.
The University of Wisconsin System has released details of how all of the state’s campuses are managing the $250 million reduction to their state funding in the current budget. The documents were first published by the Wisconsin State Journal.
Summaries outlining the impact of state funding cuts to higher education say University of Wisconsin System campuses have laid off employees, consolidated administration, reduced advising services and cut course offerings over the past year.
Student employment hours have been drastically cut back because of state funding cuts, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials reported last week to UW System administrators. Those cuts came in addition to paring of undergraduate advising services and reductions in information technology services to students, according to a campus budget impact statement that was to have been presented to the Board of Regents when it met last week in Green Bay.
Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings, cuts to academic advising, potentially increasing how long it takes to finish a degree, loss of student jobs on campus, inability to grow high-demand programs, and outdated academic facilities that aren’t being maintained.
The chairman of the Assembly’s higher education committee says he won’t hold a hearing sought by Democrats on the impact of cuts to the University of Wisconsin System’s state funding.
Institutions across the University of Wisconsin System have laid off employees, consolidated administration, reduced advising services and cut course offerings over the past year, according to documents released Monday summarizing the impact of state cuts to higher education funding.
Campuses across the UW System are cutting dozens of positions and resorting to larger class sizes to deal with state budget cuts, according to a new UW System report.
Long lines at polling places on several college campuses during last week’s primary election had at least one thing in common: students who waited until the last minute to register to vote.
Last spring, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt got word that, as part of $250 million in GOP-backed cuts to the UW System, his campus would be hit by a 16 percent reduction in state aid. It was the third-largest cut of all UW schools.
A group of Democratic state lawmakers are slamming a decision to scrap a presentation on how budget cut are affecting University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Chancellors at UW-Eau Claire and UW-Stout in Menomonie made their cases to the UW System Board of Regents on Thursday, explaining how budget cuts have hurt their campuses this year and how they could have long-lasting impacts.
MADISON — The huge voter turnout in the Wisconsin primary could have been even higher without the state’s new photo identification requirement, voter advocacy groups said Wednesday.
Wisconsin’s controversial voter identification law is getting its first major test Tuesday as residents head to polls for the state’s presidential primary election.
MADISON, Wisconsin — Alfonzo Noble, a senior at Madison West High School, was excited to vote in this year’s Wisconsin primaries — but his state’s strict voter ID law posed a problem. Without a driver’s license, Noble would need to get a special voter ID card at the DMV, about 45-minutes away by bus. And for that, he’d have to provide his birth certificate, his social security card, proof of his address, and even documentation of his name change after he was adopted.
MADISON, WISCONSIN — Tuesday’s presidential primary will the first in Wisconsin’s history to require voters to present photo identification at the polls, and an estimated 300,000 people in the state do not have one.
“This is another tool for us in the state,” Walker said before signing the bill at the Wisconsin Energy Institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
On a rain-soaked weekday morning in Wisconsin’s capital, Madison, Molly McGrath is on a mission.
Johnny Randle, a 74-year-old African-American resident of Milwaukee, moved to Wisconsin from Mississippi in 2011, the same year the state legislature passed a law requiring a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot. Randle, with the help of his daughter, petitioned the DMV to issue him a free ID for voting because he could not afford to pay for his Mississippi birth certificate.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich couldn’t help but bring up college football in the city of one of Ohio State University’s biggest rivals over the last decade.
The four bills increase grants for technical college students; create grants to help two-year students deal with financial emergencies; require the Department of Workforce Development to coordinate internships with colleges and employers; and require colleges to provide students annual information about their debt levels.
Noted: During a speech Monday afternoon on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Clinton took aim at Republicans who have erected a blockade against President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Clinton singled out GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin for his part in preventing the confirmation of Merrick Garland.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was all business Monday, signing a student internship bill into law in La Crosse, one of several pieces of legislation designed to increase college affordability.
The furor from the Planned Parenthood sting videos is driving a tide of bills, which range from outright bans on research using aborted tissue to prohibitions on donating the tissue. Story quotes UW-Madison’s Alta Charo and Robert Golden.
Gov. Scott Walker has had a bigger impact on Wisconsin’s public universities than any governor in decades, and he is among the most aggressive governors in the country in reshaping higher education, experts say.
UW–Madison spent $9 million to keep top faculty from being poached, but the damage has been done.
The fight over the University of Wisconsin system’s tenure and layoff policies is not over yet. Faculty leaders there hope to regain at the campus level what they just lost at the state level: a guaranteed say in any decisions to jettison academic programs and their tenured professors.
In lawmakers’ final floor period of this session, most of the governor’s proposed college affordability package was approved — absent a key proposal that served as a cornerstone for the initiative. That bill, authored by Rep. John Macco, R-Ledgeview, and Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, would have eliminated the cap on the state’s tax deduction for student loan interest. But with a price tag of $5.2 million, it wasn’t brought to the Senate floor despite being approved by the Assembly.
The Senate approved bills that would increase grants for technical college students; create grants to help two-year students deal with financial emergencies; require the state Department of Workforce Development to coordinate internships between colleges and employers; create coordinators within the UW System to help students find internships; and require colleges to keep students apprised of debt levels.
Four bills in Gov. Scott Walker’s college affordability package passed the state Senate on Tuesday night, but lawmakers didn’t vote on the centerpiece of the governor’s highly-touted agenda.
Gary Bennett, chief of staff for Republican Sen. Alberta Darling, has been tapped to lead the University of Wisconsin System’s school chartering agency, which lawmakers created last year to authorize new independent schools in Milwaukee and Madison.
In its final scheduled floor session, the state Senate on Tuesday won’t take up a bill key to Gov. Scott Walker’s college affordability plan that would have eliminated a cap on the deduction borrowers can claim for paying their student loan interest.
Noted: In July, the GOP governor and Republican legislative leaders spearheaded an effort to gut the open records law, but they backed off within days after facing a public backlash. Walker has defended a decision to withhold some records about a budget provision — a proposal later disavowed by the governor — that would have rewritten the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, removing from it the Wisconsin Idea that says its purpose is to improve people’s lives beyond the classroom.
In advance of Sunshine Week, Gov. Scott Walker is ordering his administration to improve its handling of public records requests, speed up response times and provide mandatory records training for all state workers.
A piece of Gov. Scott Walker’s college affordability plan may be on thin ice.
University of Wisconsin System officials signed off on new, weaker tenure protections Thursday despite warnings from faculty that the move will chill academic freedom in classrooms and lead to mass layoffs.
The chief of staff for state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, has been hired by the University of Wisconsin System to oversee the creation of independent charter schools in Madison and Milwaukee.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents votes today on new tenure, posttenure review and faculty layoff policies to close gaps in tenure protections created by a new state law.
At its meeting Thursday, the Board of Regents will take up the proposal as part of a package of three policies on tenure, post-tenure review and layoffs due to financial emergency or program discontinuance.
Gov. Scott Walker signed new legislation today that will let districts hire vocational education teachers who do not hold traditional teachers licenses.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison last semester doled out $726,436 in raises and $8 million in research support to retain 40 faculty members who brought outside job offers to the central administration, according to information obtained by the Journal Sentinel through an open records request.
A host of bills pushed by Gov. Scott Walker that are aimed at making college more affordable passed a Senate committee on party-line votes Thursday.
Noted: UW Hospital and Madison’s Veterans Hospital haven’t had any cases, and Meriter Hospital has had two since 2014, spokespeople said.
Noted: One of the president’s guests will be Donna Friedsam of the UW Population Health Institute.
She believes Milwaukee’s victory among 20 cities to increase health enrollment will have significant future benefits.
“It saves our employers money. It saves our communities money and it improves our quality of life overall. So, it is very important that we have people get enrolled in the coverage, so they they can get the care they need.”
Friedsam adds Milwaukee’s health coverage victory is a result of a coordinated effort throughout the city by a wide range of organizations.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse could be cutting up to 10 teaching positions before the fall. University officials will decide which positions to eliminate in the next month. UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said this is the first time the university will be eliminating teaching positions since last summer’s state budget cuts.
UW-Madison Assistant Police Chief Kari Sasso said her campus already has a similar policy in place, which has proven helpful in letting students know they can come forward and don’t have to worry. “We need to do all we can to encourage survivors of sexual assault to come forward to report the crime, so we can do our jobs as law enforcement to hold the perpetrator accountable for their actions,” she said.
A bill that aims to remove barriers to reporting sexual assault on college campuses in Wisconsin had a hearing before a state Senate committee on Tuesday.
