After literally pulling his hair out during a game, Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan zip-lines, go-karts, water-skis and sings around a campfire in a new Wisconsin Department of Tourism TV commercial made by a well-known comedy film-making trio.
University of Wisconsin alumni love their university. But their affection leads them to very different conclusions on Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to slash state funding and award the university greater autonomy to carve out savings in operating costs.
Dear Readers, I’m writing this from the SweetSpot, where people come for coffee, muffins, and conversation. Many regulars are lifelong residents of the city pop. 15,000. Others are students at the University of Wisconsin campus here, just up the road. Lacey Reichwald, the cafe’s owner, bought the place a while back to give those very different neighbors — who often misunderstand one another — a place to gather under the same roof.
Chancellors at the University of Wisconsin’s Eau Claire and Whitewater campuses are making cost-cutting plans to deal with a proposed $300 million reduction in state funding for the UW System, even though the Legislature has yet to consider the cuts included in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
The two Oshkosh-area lawmakers who serve on Wisconsin’s budget panel admit they are polar opposites when it comes to politics, but both are in agreement about concerns they have with portions of the state’s proposed 2015-17 spending plan.
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni in the Fond du Lac area will celebrate the founding of the university with a talk from an expert on government relations on Wednesday, April 15.
Many University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire faculty and staff will be offered an incentive to retire, as the university prepares to deal with an estimated $7.6 million reduction in state funds.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’d like to see a smaller cut to the University of Wisconsin System’s budget and less autonomy for the system.
Chancellors at the University of Wisconsin’s Eau Claire and Whitewater campuses are making cost-cutting plans to deal with a proposed $300 million reduction in state funding for the UW System, even though the Legislature has yet to consider the cuts included in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
In a move that could portend cost-cutting in higher education statewide, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Chancellor James Schmidt announced Thursday that voluntary separation incentives will be offered to about 325 eligible faculty and staff — including faculty with tenure.
The head of the Assembly said Thursday that he was backing off support for giving the University of Wisconsin System more autonomy because university leaders don’t appear willing to make dramatic changes in areas such as tenure and shared governance.
A lawmaker on Thursday unveiled bills that would direct Wisconsin circuit court judges to consider combat-related post-traumatic stress when sentencing veterans and require the University of Wisconsin and technical college systems to accept credits earned through military training.
A national group representing university professors is opposing Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to give the University of Wisconsin System more autonomy from state oversight and laws.
“If you don’t believe anything needs changing, then why are we giving you an authority,” said Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, the Assembly Speaker. “I don’t understand the System’s rationale to say, ‘Give us all this authority to do things differently and to save money,’ but then they basically said, ‘We’re not going to do anything differently.’”
The campus community explained their concerns about Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System at a forum Thursday at Van Vleck Hall.
Letter to the editor from Rep. Dana Wachs, D-Eau Claire, the ranking democratic member on the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to shift control of the University of Wisconsin System away from the state and onto a public authority controlled by the Board of Regents met turbulence Thursday, with a top Republican lawmaker saying he’s now skeptical and a national faculty association calling it “a radical assault” on the statewide system.
ssembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’d like to see a smaller cut to the University of Wisconsin System’s budget and less autonomy for the system.
Sen. Fred Risser and Reps. Therese Berceau, Chris Taylor and Lisa Subeck will hold a session from 4-7 p.m. Thursday in Room B130 of Van Vleck Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
Tied to teams of horses pulling in opposite directions.Thats how Troy Cross — an associate professor of philosophy at Reed College in Portland, Ore. — sees his dad, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross.
Born on a farm and still most comfortable on the land, Ray Cross brings a down-to-earth approach to the job of bringing together the UW System and the governor and Legislature.
Several Democratic lawmakers from Madison are holding a listening session Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to gather public input on the governors proposed $300 million budget cut and new public authority for the UW System.
Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services Robert Cramer and his team are preparing for an additional $5 million cut to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville budget in addition to the ongoing $5 million structural deficit base cut already in place.
I paid $17,000 in state income tax in 2014. I sometimes wish I lived somewhere without income tax, but I enjoy Wisconsin and feel our government usually invests my tax dollars to create good jobs and improve the quality of life.
There has been considerable debate over the past month on the role of a public university and the meaning of The Wisconsin Idea. Recent commentary has ranged from historian John Gurda’s eloquent definition of The Wisconsin Idea to blogger Rick Esenberg’s question: “What is it”?
As a UW student I am concerned for the future of the UW System with the recent release of a $300 million cut in the next two years. With a $2.2 billion deficit across the state, it is going to be difficult to find room to make these cuts, and the UW System does not have any “fat” to trim.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly has joined the growing opposition on UW campuses to state lawmakers creating an independent public authority for the UW System without it first being studied by a blue ribbon committee.
The Associated Students of Madison said Tuesday that its requests to speak at University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meetings have been denied because the regents have been “too busy.”
Though the UW System’s proposed autonomy measures would mean removing state mandates for minority scholarship funding, both university and UW System officials said those scholarships will be unaffected.
Following Gov. Scott Walker’s call for a $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System for the 2015-’17 biennium, southeastern Wisconsin UW campuses are busy preparing to meet the worst-case scenarios.
Students from throughout Madison left school and took their rage, sorrow and demands to the city’s power centers on Monday, rocking the state Capitol rotunda with chants of “Justice for Tony” then demanding a meeting with Mayor Paul Soglin and Police Chief Mike Koval while massed outside the City-County Building.
Some 1,500 protesters, many of them students from Madison high schools and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, filled the Capitol rotunda Monday to protest the killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer, sending the iconic chant “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” echoing through the statehouse.
While University of Wisconsin’s graduation rates have steadily improved in past years, this trend could be reversed under proposed budget cuts if class offerings are reduced
As Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential star continued to rise, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, challenged him on how his budget treats the University of Wisconsin System.
Much criticism of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal for the University of Wisconsin System has focused on the $300 million in cuts envisioned for the coming two years.
Noted: Sean Dinces is the Allan H. Selig assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Innovation campus has an advantage over any other facility in the state because of the major corporate employers located in this region. Southeast Wisconsin actually holds more patents than Dane County, the home of UW-Madisons $1 billion research engine. How is that possible? Because corporate giants in this region generate patents as their own research and development realize what the market demands.
Some University of Wisconsin chancellors brought rough estimates of how many jobs they may have to eliminate under the governor’s proposed budget at a Board of Regents meeting on Thursday.
As Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential star continued to rise, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, challenged him on how his budget treats the University of Wisconsin System.
Chippewa Valley WQOW – Some UW System employees are concerned about a plan that could end their status as state employees. It’s part of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal and his plan to allow the UW System Board of Regents to have public authority.
Faculty members from across the University of Wisconsin’s campuses are clamoring to halt plans for the schools to sever ties with the state and become more autonomous, even as administrators are urging lawmakers and the system’s governing board to move forward, saying the shift will help the 26-campus system operate more efficiently.
UW-Madison’s director of financial aid said Wednesday need-based aid could be in trouble if the biennial budget passes. Susan Fischer, the Office of Student Financial Aid director, thanked the council for its advocacy on behalf of student aid with the recent announcement of the proposed budget cuts.
Gov. Scott Walker plans to eliminate $8.1 million in funds to the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative implemented by the Wisconsin Energy Institute, one of multiple cuts to environmental projects at the University of Wisconsin System.
A new resolution asking state Legislature to reduce the proposed $300 million biennial budget cuts and provide the UW System with greater flexibility over operations, passed unanimously at the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
The first time for the long-planned, but new, Wisconsin Public TV door-to-door campaign, at the same time as their usual membership drive, comes as Governor Walker, who himself has appeared on Sesame Street, proposes cutting the state agency and the UW System — that partner to run public broadcasting — by millions.
Is removing protection for the 11-acre research and recreational forest on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukees campus a conspiracy to make way for development, or a technicality to shift rules governing the UW System from state statute to Board of Regents policy under a proposed UW System Public Authority?
Creating a University of Wisconsin Public Authority isnt the only way to gain autonomy from cumbersome state rules, a member of the UW System Board of Regents adamantly pointed out Thursday.
Regents and chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System vowed Thursday to push back against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to higher education.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents says it’s dedicated to protecting shared governance and tenure if state lawmakers eliminate them in the budget process.
The funding cuts are too deep. The flexibility is welcome, but the public authority model needs much more study. Shared governance and tenure must be preserved.
Regents and chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System vowed Thursday to push back against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to higher education.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is seeking a smaller budget cut than the $300 million Gov. Scott Walker is proposing. He’s also asking for greater autonomy for the system. Joy Cardin’s guest education policy expert discusses what a UW System Authority would look like and why…
According to Joy Cardin’s guest, the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement has some serious flaws. He explains why he says the Wisconsin Idea is not unique, does not tolerate conservative viewpoints, and is committed to ideology instead of truth….
In 48 U.S. states, government spending on each college student is still below where it was before the recession that ended almost six years ago. Now, at least seven governors propose cutting deeper.
I have had communications with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, the UW Marathon County Dean Keith Montgomery, a biophysics professor of UW-La Crosse and many others on the impact proposed state budget cuts will have on our currently outstanding UW System. Their universal opinion is that the cuts will seriously, in Blank’s words, “risk the investment that generations of Wisconsinites have made to create a highly ranked university in our state.”
As a current undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and member of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Associated Students of Madison, the student association on campus, I am deeply concerned about the possible ramifications of Scott Walker’s proposed budget on students such as myself. When I was a junior in high school, I dreamed of going out-of-state for school. However, I realized that I could obtain the same caliber of education at an in-state price – at UW-Madison.
I am deeply concerned about the proposed cuts to the UW system, and the proposed loosening of public control.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is proposing to cut $300-million from the state’s university system over the next two years. Across the Great Lakes, his fellow Republican governors in Michigan and Ohio are pushing for increases in their states’ higher-education spending. (Subscription required.)
Officials say Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed biennial budget plan to whittle down the University of Wisconsin System budget by $300 million over two years could lead to devastating cuts to smaller two-year campuses across the state.
With chants of “No if’s, no but’s, just say no to budget cuts!” about 50 University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students rallied on campus Wednesday to oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to trim UW System funding by $300 million.
