Wisconsin companies with 500 or fewer employees could receive as much as $4,000 each for hiring an intern from the University of Wisconsin-Madison next summer, the state commerce agency said.
Noted: The group writing the plan includes representatives from agricultural organizations and businesses, environmental groups, the University of Wisconsin, state, federal and tribal governments.
A bill to ban the sale and use of aborted fetal tissue in Wisconsin could halt important medical research, UW-Madison and biotech leaders say, but sponsors of the bill say such research could continue with other tissue.
Noted: The two medical schools in the state — the Medical College of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin-Madison — take in about 17 new psychiatry residents each year. Residents have already completed four years of medical school education.
Rebecca Blank: When Gov. Scott Walker proposed $300 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, his most outspoken critic was UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. It’s not just that she was outspoken, it was the impact of her advocacy — particularly the competitive disadvantages created by associated faculty changes — that helped turn public opinion against the governor’s plan.
Noted: Dave Gagnon is the program director for Field Day, which is housed within the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s in charge of about a dozen software engineers who help produce physical and nonphysical experiences aimed at helping students learn new topics.
Noted: Wisconsin has already turned down $560 million from the federal government to pay for Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health care law, which Walker has steadfastly opposed and wants to repeal. That’s enough money, Democrats and supporters of the law point out, to undo a $250 million cut to the University of Wisconsin approved in the recently passed budget and increase funding for K-12 public schools.
Noted: Panelists at the summit expressed doubt at the notion that records could be withheld because they were deliberative, as Walker’s administration has claimed in a dozen instances this year.
“My own view is that there isn’t a deliberative process privilege that’s available,” said Raymond Taffora, the vice chancellor for legal affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The bill would go further than existing law and ban donations of such tissues or research on long-standing tissue lines — an alarming development for some medical researchers … University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have raised similar concerns. In some cases, it might no longer be possible to determine the origins of certain long-standing tissue lines, according to Tim Kamp, a medical doctor and co-director of the UW-Madison’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are researching which habitats encourage native bumblebees to forage in fields and thrive, and honeybee population declines have driven up the costs of renting nonnative bees for pollination. Quoted: Jeremy Hemberger, graduate student in entomology.
Ray Taffora, general counsel for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he doesn’t believe the law currently allows for a deliberative process exemption, but said it’s important to preserve a “fairly nimble, flexible” exclusion for drafts and notes under the law.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is not a particularly wealthy school.
Quoted: Tim Kamp, a medical doctor and researcher and co-director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, said the proposal could affect research on the campus and in private biotechnology companies.
Noted: But Eric Sundquist, managing director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative, warned against thinking “the only solution is turning on the spigot for more, more, more.” The group is housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and advises states on sustainable transportation policy.
Column from Bill Leuders distributed by the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, a nonprofit group dedicated to open government. Bill Lueders, associate editor of The Progressive magazine, is the group’s president.
Wisconsin’s “cheeseheads” might someday have a wealth of local options to pair with the state’s most popular food. And they may have Nick Smith to thank for it.
Leaders at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse are concerned about the effect changes in state law on shared governance and tenure will have on the campus.
Noted: Writing for the Forbes opinion site, UW-Madison Economics Prof. Noah Williams insists that under Scott Walker Wisconsin has prospered and people need to keep that in mind in 2016. Williams, who is an adviser to Walkers presidential campaign, claims that those who say Wisconsin is lagging the rest of the country are wrong and that the state is actually outperforming its neighbors.
Noted: Walter was with the DNR from 2011 until this week. He has a master’s and doctorate degrees in wildlife ecology from the UW-Madison, and was a biology professor at the UW-Richland Center from 1999 to 2011.
The 2002 discovery of chronic wasting disease in wild white-tailed deer near Mt. Horeb was a watershed event in Wisconsin wildlife history. Tom Heberlein, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referred to it as “Fire in the Sistine Chapel.”
UW Colleges Chancellor Cathy Sandeen says that two-year schools will keep their traditional close ties to local communities, despite the sweeping reorganization announced Tuesday.
Nearly 30% of administrative positions will be cut on campuses as leadership and management of the state’s two-year public colleges are consolidated into regions over the next several months.
The pending layoffs — estimated at the equivalent of 83 full-time positions — are in response to state budget cuts and two more years of a tuition freeze handed down by state lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker, announced University of Wisconsin Colleges and UW Extension Chancellor Cathy Sandeen on Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin Colleges will lay off more than 80 employees in a cost-cutting move that will see the network of two-year schools consolidate administration of its 13 campuses into four regions of the state, officials announced Tuesday.The move is one result of a $5 million cut to the college system’s funding — its share of a $250 million reduction in support for the University of Wisconsin System in the state budget Gov. Scott Walker signed last week.
The University of Wisconsin is eliminating 83 administrative and staff positions at two-year college campuses across the state in a sweeping reorganization that was announced Tuesday.
Professor Bill Tracy got right to the point when asked for his thoughts on a controversy that arose this week involving statements from University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab on Twitter.
“It’s a mess,” said Tracy, a member of the steering committee for PROFS, an advocacy organization for UW-Madison professors.
UW-Madison professor Sara Goldrick-Rab’s tweets comparing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler and suggesting the governor and “many” state lawmakers are “fascists” are the kind of thing you’d expect to see in anonymous online comment sections and other gutters of the Internet.
So it’s a good thing her colleagues at the university are willing to stand up for a smarter, more civilized form of political discourse.
The state budget signed by Gov. Scott Walker last week envisions broad changes to how the University of Wisconsin System is run, experts say, allowing for a more corporate management structure that empowers chancellors while professors with fewer protections take a back seat.
It’s a model that has incensed faculty, drawing national attention to the UW System as legislators stripped tenure from state law, weakened shared governance and expanded justifications for laying off professors.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor emeritus Donald Downs said no-knock searches are only allowed if surprise is needed, for example to protect officers or prevent destruction of evidence. He questioned whether searches, as described by conservative media, were “proportional to the type of crime and what they (authorities) knew about the type of people involved.”
Noted: The county is most concerned about indirect impacts of a $250 million cut to UW-Madison and level K-12 funding, said Josh Wescott, chief of staff to county executive Joe Parisi. Over time, a lack of investment in education, job training and other areas creates “a risk to stunting the growth we’ve seen here locally,” he said.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone told faculty, staff and students at a campus forum Thursday that he remains bullish and confident about the future, though realities of the new state budget will make the next two years “immensely challenging.”
With the $5.2 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin Extension, officials say there’s no doubt programming will be impacted at UW-Extension Rock County.
Gov. Scott Walker signed the biennial state budget in Waukesha July 12, revealing the exact effects it will have on the UW-Madison community.
UW System professors no longer have tenure defined by state statutes as a result of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-’17 budget, which has left some worrying that university faculty and researchers will leave to find more secure jobs elsewhere.
It may not be as familiar of a sight as corn, or soybeans, but the potato season is underway in parts of the area. It’s also a big business in the state. Researchers and growers in Central Wisconsin are looking for an above average year. Quoted: Amanda Gevens, associate professor of plant pathology.
The $5.2 million reduction is part of the state budget signed by Gov. Scott Walker. It represents an 8 percent cut in state funding for UW Extension, a university system whose mission includes educating communities that lack a four-year campus.
University of Wisconsin student leaders are relieved that Gov. Scott Walker has vetoed parts of a policy to scale back shared governance at state universities. They say things like shared governance and tenure aren’t safe in the hands of state lawmakers.
Vacant job openings will remain unfilled, and some staff cuts are coming, as the result of a reduction in state spending for the University of Wisconsin Extension.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker – who announced a 2016 presidential bid Monday – faces intense criticism from higher education activists, after signing a $73 billion state budget that makes hefty cuts to the University of Wisconsin system and significantly reduces tenure protections for faculty.
One of the prime examples of UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Idea, sharing knowledge in all parts of the state, will be on display starting this week, courtesy of the university’s Agricultural Research Station.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank asked Gov. Scott Walker on Friday to veto provisions in the state budget that strip tenure protections from law and weaken shared governance principles.
As he prepared to kick off his presidential campaign, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed the state budget Sunday after using his veto powers to excise grants for conservation groups and a provision that would have given payday lenders new authority.
Among other provisions, the budget plan extends a freeze on in-state UW tuition for another two years, removes tenure protections for UW professors from state law and imposes no sales or income tax increases.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to come up with the millions of dollars needed to keep the Wisconsin Energy Institute — a hub for UW energy research — operating.
About 24 positions will be eliminated from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, mostly in the areas of academic advising and support services, to address a nearly $3 million annual reduction in state funding.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will see one of the largest budget increases of any University of Wisconsin System campus next year, up nearly $3.9 million.
The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point will feel the impact of additional cuts made by Governor Scott Walker’s veto pen.
After Governor Scott Walker proposed a $300 million cut to the UW System, the legislature reduced the proposed amount by $50 million.
Gov. Scott Walker signed the next two-year state budget on Sunday, just a day before he’s expected to announce his bid for the Republican nomination for president.
Gov. Scott Walker signed Wisconsin’s budget on Sunday afternoon, more than a week after the new budget year began and only hours before he was to announce his presidential campaign.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a $6 billion budget Thursday that incorporates millions of dollars in cuts from the Legislature. Before voting, the regents worried about the effects of deep cuts on the UW System.
“At what point do we say ‘ouch’?” Regent Jose F. Vasquez asked.
Noted: So far this week, police in the Madison area have responded to three threats. On Saturday, a man claimed he was armed and inside a UW campus building. Wednesday, a bomb threat forced an evacuation at the Capitol, and later, a woman claimed she had a bomb at the Dutch Mill Park and Ride near Stoughton Road. All of the threats were determined to be unfounded.
Vintage movie fans enjoy stories about the bizarre screenplay changes during the late 1930s and early ’40s after Hollywood studios imposed the Motion Picture Production Code, in an effort to clean up their image and remove content some audiences would find objectionable.
It now seems our Republican legislators have adapted the same philosophy in crafting their state budget bill. In the past couple months we’ve seen them propose and then summarily discard language that would abolish the Legislative Audit Bureau, eliminate the Wisconsin Idea from the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, weaken the state’s pioneering open records law and politicize the board that oversees the nation’s best-run public pension system.
A task force that will work to add tenure protections to University of Wisconsin System policy will meet for the first time later this summer after legislators voted to remove tenure from state law.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday approved a budget that will absorb the first of two years of deep cuts in state aid to higher education and reduce funding for UW-Madison by nearly $60 million.
A proposal to weaken faculty tenure protections in the University of Wisconsin System remains among the many controversial issues in the budget now headed to Gov. Scott Walker’s desk.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student president said his school is bearing too much of the UW-System’s $250 million budget cut, ultimately threatening the school’s core mission.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a nearly $6.2 billion budget Thursday in a voice vote.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents hasn’t forgotten about possible changes to tenure policy: At its meeting Thursday, regents checked in on the progress of a tenure task force created earlier this summer.
Cuts to the University of Wisconsin system as part of the proposed budget will mean layoffs and the reduction of positions through attrition at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh faces a $7.4 million budget cut, but administrators have taken action to divvy up the cut over three years.
