I am writing in hearty support of John Wiley’s rousing guest column Tuesday, “UW-Madison has put Wisconsin on the world map.” Former Chancellor Wiley shows how intentionally, for over a century, our university and its state leaders have helped create a world-class university, one that is known and admired throughout the country and around the globe.
The first half of John Wiley’s guest column Tuesday, “UW-Madison has put Wisconsin on the world map,” cannot be argued with. UW-Madison is positively known worldwide and its founding membership in Association of American Universities has been to its credit since 1900.
A state budget provision that makes changes to shared governance in the University of Wisconsin System is drawing fire from student government leaders.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will discuss changes to the System’s tenure policies at its meeting Thursday, a main point of discussion at a faculty and staff meeting at UW-Green Bay Wednesday.
The “fearless sifting and winnowing” that is the core of the Wisconsin Idea would be squelched by the erosion of support for tenure in state law proposed by legislative Republicans, say leaders of a lobbying organization of UW-Madison faculty.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison professors is appealing to the UW Board of Regents to preserve tenure protections and standards of shared governance.
Already dismayed by prospective cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, higher education observers now suggest the state could become an academic pariah if the Legislature scales back two treasured tenets of academia — tenure and shared governance.
Everything that affects the university affects us all, and should be of concern to every Wisconsin citizen. This state has invested a great deal in the university since its very founding, and has a lot at stake in preserving that investment.
University of Wisconsin System faculty, staff and student government groups could soon lose influence on their campuses after Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee voted last week to change shared governance laws.
University of Wisconsin student leaders say they want their power over segregated fees restored, after the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee approved rules Friday that would strip away their control over how the fees are spent.
Heroes serving heroes was the theme of the first inaugural “Hero Games” hosted at the Tomah VA Monday afternoon.
Question of the day: If Wisconsin was a corporation and not a state, would you invest in its stock? If, as I would argue, one of Wisconsin’s major assets is a world-class public university, why would management decide to undermine it?
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross could appoint a director to approve independent charter schools in Milwaukee and Madison, and other agencies could approve charter schools in more than 140 school districts, under a provision tucked into a Joint Finance Committee motion on higher education issues last week.
Several University of Wisconsin System officials and business leaders say the system would benefit from giving more authority to campus leaders, according to a report released Monday that called for decentralization of the system.
A report from a right-leaning think tank on the University of Wisconsin System’s four-year campuses calls for local flexibility in setting tuition, changes to the shared governance system and a review of tenure.
University of Wisconsin faculty are urging the UW Board of Regents to preserve tenure and reject some of the powers the board would be granted under a GOP budget plan.
This week’s University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting takes on added significance after Republicans on the state Legislature’s budget committee voted to remove tenure protections from state law.
Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham said a motion from the Joint Finance Committee that would authorize the UW System to create independent charter schools is an “alarming sign” of the Legislature prioritizing private schools and politics over public education.
State lawmakers approved reducing a planned cut to the University of Wisconsin System to $250 million, and making multiple changes to how tenure and shared governance are included in state law.
The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted to reduce Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System by $50 million. Committee members approved the change Friday evening.
The University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross made the following statement on the proposed Joint Finance Committee motion.
Noted: Aaron Olver, managing director of UW Research Park, agreed with several economic development experts who said Wisconsin also should focus on supporting small, start-up and high-tech businesses, which generate most new jobs.
The University of Wisconsin System would be able to authorize independent charter schools in Madison and Milwaukee under a proposal by Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee.
Lawmakers on the Legislature’s powerful budget committee trimmed Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million two-year funding cut to the University of Wisconsin System to $250 million, which if it stands would be tied for the largest cut in System history and would mark the fifth time in the last six budget cycles that the universities took a significant funding cut. Of perhaps even more consequence, the committee approved significant changes to faculty tenure, removing it from state law, and to shared governance that would take away some decision-making power from faculty, students and staff and give more sway to campus chancellors and the UW System Board of Regents, who are appointed by the governor.
Applicants for coaching jobs at the University of Wisconsin, and other positions, would no longer be subject to the open records law under a proposal approved by the Legislature’s budget-writing committee.
My mother, Mary Lou (Zander) Keating graduated from UW Madison’s Commerce School in 1939 with a degree in accounting, and my father, Joseph Keating with an engineering degree in 1940. The one message my 11 siblings heard loud and clear was that “your education is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.” Keep in mind, my Mom lived on a farm in the Depression and her father had to buy it back from the bank. An education, however, could not be taken away.
MADISON — The state’s budget is back on center stage in Madison. The Joint Finance Committee is taking up the proposed cuts to the UW system.
The new UW Colleges chancellor survived a symbolic no-confidence vote from faculty members Friday, but rancor remains over how the 13 two-year schools will absorb an expected $6.7 million in budget cuts.
STEVENS POINT — After the state’s budget-writing committee voted to trim Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System by $50 million, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson said the reduction could help faculty and staff avoid involuntary layoffs.
Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin were disheartened on Friday after a state legislative committee approved proposals that would limit the faculty’s role in shared governance and eliminate laws protecting tenure.
It’s been a tumultuous year for faculty members within the University of Wisconsin System, from threats to the Wisconsin Idea to a proposed $300 million budget cut to Governor Scott Walker’s suggestion that professors do more work to compensate for the slash.
The Legislature’s budget-writing committee voted Friday to cut the University of Wisconsin’s budget by $250 million and eliminate tenure protections for faculty from state law — moves derided by Democrats who argued the changes would hurt both higher education and the state’s economy.
Members of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee have restored some of the cuts Governor Scott Walker proposed for the University of Wisconsin System in his budget plan. Although, the UW will still have to absorb funding reductions of $250 million over the next biennium.
Republicans on the state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted Friday night to cut the University of Wisconsin System’s budget by $250 million, while at the same time ending tenure protections enshrined in state law.
The University of Wisconsin System would see $250 million in cuts and sweeping changes in its operations, under a proposal put forward by GOP lawmakers Friday that will still be less dramatic than changes proposed by Gov. Scott Walker.
As America’s Dairyland, Wisconsin expectedly tops most lists related to bovine byproducts: No. 1 in cheese production, No. 2 in milk production, more master cheesemakers than any other state. Prairie du Sac even hosts the worlds largest cow chip festival.
In a final push on the state budget bill, a key legislative panel is scheduled to start voting Friday on how deeply to cut the University of Wisconsin System and key natural resource programs, whether to publicly fund a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks and how to fund highways.
Editorial: The governor proposed the $300 million cut to UW System as part of a larger plan to give the state’s 13 four-year universities and 13 two-year colleges more autonomy. Freedom from state purchasing rules and construction fees could have saved UW significant money to help offset the state cut. But lawmakers have largely rejected that flexibility. So they also should reject most of the cut, especially if tuition is frozen. That’s only fair.With the economy improving, Wisconsin shouldn’t be skimping on higher education. Other states are wisely investing in their universities. Ten chambers of commerce representing thousands of businesses across the state sent a powerful letter to the Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday, urging it to reduce $300 million cut to UW. The letter stressed the positive impact the System has on the state economy and jobs.
Without scientific study, the state would return to the practice of stocking lakes with fish based on politics, said John Magnuson, professor emeritus of zoology and director emeritus, UW-Madison Center for Limnology.
The committee is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Friday, but its last several sessions have been postponed for several hours each. All remaining items in the budget are listed on the agenda, including a proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System, the Department of Transportation budget and a proposal to partially fund construction of a new Milwaukee Bucks arena.
The UW cut up for a vote Friday is one of the most controversial pieces of Walker’s two-year state spending plan. Republicans who control the budget-writing committee have already said they won’t go along with Walker’s plan to give UW more independence from state laws and oversight.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System is slated to be voted on by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee.
Quoted: “There’s a multiplier effect to this decision,” Steve Born, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison urban planner who worked with the DNR, said during a River Alliance news conference Thursday to protest the cuts. “Over time, the loss of their knowledge base … will start to erode the quality of decisions we make.”
For the coming fiscal year, Wisconsin is one of only a few states considering or enacting cuts to higher education. A reporter looks the numbers, and how Wisconsin stacks up.
When the avian flu first surfaced in Wisconsin in April 2015, the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory was testing 100 or more samples a day. On Wednesday, less than 50 samples were being tested.
The future was the focus of a public forum at the UW-Extension building in Wausau on Wednesday night.
Among other actions Wednesday, the Joint Finance Committee approved $86.2 million in bonding to renovate and expand UW-Madison’s outdated chemistry building.
Noted: Earmark several private projects by providing $15 million in state borrowing for the Confluence Project, a proposed arts complex in Eau Claire; $5 million in borrowing to help build an agriculture education center in Manitowoc County; $3 million in borrowing to help fund a science laboratory for Carroll University; and provide $86.2 million for a new chemistry building for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Higher education observers across the nation are watching this week as the Legislature’s powerful budget-writing committee takes up funding for the University of Wisconsin System.
As Illinois, Louisiana and Wisconsin threatened nine-figure reductions in higher education funding, public colleges and universities in those states made their own threats in return. System leaders warned — often and loudly — that layoffs, program cuts and the general welfare of the states’ college students were on the line if legislators went forward with the proposed cuts.
When the state of Wisconsin is facing fiscal challenges, it’s more than fair to expect the University of Wisconsin-Madison and all the campuses in the UW System to play a role in closing the budget gap. Universities across the system are already doing their part by streamlining staffing, making cuts to operations and finding ways to generate additional revenue.
Chippewa Falls (WQOW) – The Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip with 35 UW-Madison student leaders rolled into the Chippewa Valley Friday to learn from successful entrepreneurs.
A group of UW-Madison student leaders [the Wisconsin Experience Bus Tour] is touring Wisconsin this month to learn more about the state’s culture. Friday, their bus rolled into the Chippewa Valley in northwestern Wisconsin for a stop in Chippewa Falls.
The Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip with 35 UW-Madison student leaders rolled into the Chippewa Valley Friday to learn from successful entrepreneurs.
Gov. Scott Walker has appointed the son of a president of a foundation that supports conservative causes to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Noted: Moulton wrote in his column that the sportsmens caucus met with Majid Sarmadi, a textiles expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said Sarmadi conducted experiments on blaze pink and blaze orange visibility and concluded that blaze pink clothing is equally visible or more visible to the human eye than blaze orange.
Michael M. Grebe, son of Michael W. Grebe, president and chief executive of the Bradley Foundation, was appointed Friday to the Board of Regents.
There will finally be answers to some of the big questions about Wisconsin’s state budget if everything goes as planned this week at the state Capitol.
The University of Wisconsin’s network of two-year colleges plans to slash its administrative ranks — in the process cutting nearly 10 percent of its overall workforce — in response to Gov. Scott Walker’s historic $300 million proposed cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
As the state budget process runs on and legislators debate substantial cuts, a pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison economists are debating the current health of Wisconsin’s economy.
