Category: State news

The first votes on Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year state budget will come this week, but the most difficult decisions, including whether to reduce cuts to public schools and the University of Wisconsin, aren’t expected to be made until later in May.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is the latest UW school to offer employee buyouts to help absorb massive cuts Gov. Scott Walker has proposed for the system.

A bedspread that may have covered Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying will be tested for his blood in Wisconsin on Tuesday, 150 years to the day after the 16th US president was fatally shot while watching a play in Washington. University of Wisconsin textile expert Majid Sarmadi will test the cotton bedspread to determine if human blood is on the Wisconsin Historical Society artefact.

I am a fiscally conservative Republican and I support Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television. The proposed state budget includes cuts to the Education Communications Board that are just plain wrong.

Wisconsin’s of two-year UW College campuses, along with UW Extension, will struggle if Republican Governor Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts are implemented. Cathy Sandeen, who was officially inaugurated last week as Colleges and Extension chancellor, said the 13 freshman-sophomore campuses located around the state offer an important educational gateway

WAUSAU – Leaders from across the state — across businesses, governments and educational systems — will assemble this week to talk about the future of Wisconsin education.

MARSHFIELD, Wis. WSAU — State Representative Katrina Shankland and a number of other officials will be holding a roundtable discussion this morning at UW-Marshfield/Wood County to talk about the proposed cuts to the UW-System’s budget.

Current and former players on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh men’s soccer team say plans to eliminate the program are “short-sighted.”

A University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents committee approved plans to raise nonresident and graduate student tuition at nine campuses to help offset $300 million in cuts Gov. Scott Walker has proposed for the system.

UW System President Ray Cross is working closely with state lawmakers and the governor’s office, in hopes of reducing funding cuts to the system. An English professor last month in a public forum asked Cross point blank whether he’d resign if he couldn’t achieve that goal. Cross replied emphatically, “Yes.”

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is considering merging its College of Fine Arts with its College of Letters and Science as it struggles with a proposed 25 percent cut in its state aid.

The proposed 300 million dollar cut to the University of Wisconsin System budget would be too hard on the state’s two year campuses, like Marshfield and Wausau. That’s according to State Representative John Spiros, who says he is working with other lawmakers including Representative Dave Heaton of Wausau to try saving the two year campuses from the budget cuts.  “In our two year schools, I know that we have one in the campus here at Marshfield, there’s campuses throughout that would be hurt immensely from those budget cuts.”

UW-Madison’s first choices for director of the Carbone Cancer Center and a top-level faculty researcher in the nursing school turned down the jobs in early February because of concerns about declining funding and clout at the university, according to records obtained by the State Journal under the state’s open records law.

Civic and business leaders, legislators, members of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, UW staff and campus shared governance leaders will participate in a discussion on the future of public higher education in Wisconsin next week.

MILWAUKEE WITI — The University of Wisconsin System campuses are searching for ways to plug the $300 million budget cut Governor Scott Walker has proposed. It could mean certain students will soon be paying more to go to college.

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students are speaking out against what university officials say amounts to a $7.5 million funding cut in the proposed state budget.

Ray Cross’ stated willingness to resign as president of the University of Wisconsin if the GOP-controlled legislature and Gov. Walker don’t relent on the $300 million cut to his budget demonstrates just how much he needs to reposition the university in strategic terms.

University of Wisconsin officials are caught between different constituencies: communicating to legislators, students, faculty and the public. This week’s cover story explores the balancing act of campaigning for the best possible outcome while preparing for the deepest possible cuts and endeavoring to protect core academic offerings.

As the University of Wisconsin System seeks to pare back its spending wherever possible, one means of mitigating the cuts is likely off the table: the often-floated possibility of merging the two-year UW-Waukesha and four-year UW-Milwaukee campuses.

The rally, and statewide letter writing campaign against the cuts, has been organized by a student group called UW Students Against Education Cuts.

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students — angered by proposed university system spending cuts — invited other UW students from throughout the state to participate in a rally Thursday in Madison.

Gov. Scott Walker proposed a biennial state budget in early February that called for large cuts to education.  So what does that mean for Madison College and our students?

UW-Oshkosh officials hope an early retirement option will help the school deal with Governor Scott Walker’s proposed funding cuts.

Two campuses within the University of Wisconsin System announced Tuesday they are offering employees a voluntary retirement buyout with a one-time payout equal to 50% of an employees annual base salary.

Four University of Wisconsin System schools (Oshkosh, Eau Claire, Superior and Green Bay) are offering employees buyouts to help absorb their shares of a $300 million system-wide cut in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.

The proposal to eliminate the Educational Approval Board is part of Walker’s proposed 2015-17 budget. Since its unveiling in February, the board’s Executive Secretary David Dies has been trying to persuade state lawmakers to reject the idea.