Chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System are harnessing the power of the Internet to rally their campuses, alumni and parents of students for what could be a long battle over proposed state budget cuts.
I admit to being agnostic when it comes to whether Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin system are a good idea. I want the university to thrive, as I suspect most Wisconsinites do.
Something called “The Wisconsin Idea” got a lot of attention this week when a nonprofit discovered that Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal would have removed it from the University of Wisconsin’s mission statement. It’s since been restored.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross said on Friday he doesn’t know how Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut would be spread across the 26 campuses.
University of Wisconsin-Superior will continue to receive financial support from the UW System, despite proposed cuts from Gov. Scott Walker.
With the UW’s financial and philosophical future under attack, it is really tempting to go march on the Capitol. Dig the blue fist shirts from the back of the closet, polish the old vuvuzela.
MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker is fond of comparing his proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System to Act 10, his signature legislation that restricted collective bargaining for public workers and sparked massive protests.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal could result in fewer classes and jobs at University of Wisconsin-Rock County.
What is the purpose of a great University? In Wisconsin, our answer is that universities exist to apply knowledge to the benefit of every citizen of the State, not just those who are privileged to attend. Rather than an ivory tower, the mission of the UW System is to search for truth and serve society. Put another way — the boundaries of the UW are the boundaries of the state. This is the essence of the Wisconsin Idea, and it’s been enshrined into state law for over a century:
WHITEWATER–UW-Whitewater Chancellor Richard Telfer cautions people from reading too much into Legislative Fiscal Bureau figures that show the university would be hit the hardest by the governor’s proposed budget.
UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer said Tuesday night that the higher education cuts proposed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker “will present significant challenges for our campus and the entire UW System.”
As a senior at Wausau East High School in 2000, I made the decision to attend the University of Notre Dame. My friends’ parents questioned this move, asking me both seriously and in jest why I’d pay the hefty tuition of a private university when the University Wisconsin System was just as good and far more affordable.
Editorial board says: “The Wisconsin Legislature must resist the governor’s ideologically driven thrust at the state university system.”
In the aftermath of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget address, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke to the Board of Regents Thursday, saying Walker’s proposed cuts are “just too big.”
Enough is enough! I’ve been watching Gov. Scott Walker attack the beating heart of Wisconsin — the University of Wisconsin System — and it needs to end: now.
Governor Scott Walkers recent state budget announcement has been the talk of the town on UW-Madison campus this week. Tuesday afternoon Chancellor Rebecca Blank explained the situation to the UW Board of Regents.
A new report estimates University of Wisconsin campuses in Madison and Milwaukee would see the largest cuts of the UW System schools in the first year of Republican Gov. Scott Walkers state budget.
Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he never intended to dramatically rewrite the University of Wisconsin Systems mission statement, even as a December email showed his administration clearly ordered that it drop a guiding principle known as the “Wisconsin Idea.”
“These cuts are too large. They’re too large for our university, and they’re too large for the state.”
Statement from Gov. Scott Walker:“We encourage a vigorous debate over the idea of an authority to govern the University of Wisconsin system or the status quo, as well as a debate about what is the real amount of savings that can be generated by an authority, which we believe is worth $150 million a year. However, there is no debate over the principles contained within the Wisconsin Idea. We are, and have been, in agreement.
Gov. Scott Walker acknowledged Thursday his administration botched the rewrite of the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement in state law, blaming it on a miscommunication between his top aides and the state budget director’s office — which pushed the changes through even as top university officials objected.
On the dumb scale, dissing “The Wisconsin Idea” while youre governor of Wisconsin is somewhere just to the south of suggesting that the Green Bay Packers are such a suck on the states resources that they should move to the U.P. Now, of course, that notion might gain purchase if Mike McCarthy settles for a few more field goals from the one-yard line but thats another column.
Carl Gulbrandsen, whose job is to convert research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into commercial businesses, needed less than a nanosecond Thursday to begin itemizing specific ways the school has enhanced the states economy.
Over the next few weeks, the Legislature will receive the full text of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget, along with the analysis of the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. As I review those documents, I will be interested to see more details on Gov. Walker’s proposed changes to the University of Wisconsin System, including a $300 million budget cut over two years.
EDITOR: I am a conservative when it comes to high debt levels and spending. I’ve been a supporter of Gov. Scott Walker supporter for the most part because we needed an elected official willing to take a stand on controlling government spending.
While the big kerfuffle in Madison this week was over Gov. Scott Walker’s budget attempt to redefine the Wisconsin Idea and turn state universities into jobs programs, there remains in the budget an even more outrageous proposal that would put a black veil over public oversight of university operations.
University of Wisconsin Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank delivers a fiery speech to the UW System Board of Regents about the expected $91 million budget hole. She said it would be the result of Governor Scott Walker’s proposed two-year spending plan, which calls for $300 million in cuts to the UW System.
We call upon our state legislators, Rep. Al Ott and Sen. Frank Lasee, to vocally and forcefully oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s devastating cuts to the University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday that the news of the past week involving Gov. Scott Walker’s budget will prompt other universities to “raid” her best faculty.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was able to kill collective-bargaining rightsfor state workers, but he can’t kill the Wisconsin Idea, the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin. Not yet, at least.
The chancellor of the state’s flagship university warned Thursday that top faculty and best students will go elsewhere if proposed state budget cuts go through because they will harm the quality of education and lead to program cuts.
Gov. Scott Walker and aides scrambled Thursday to respond to revelations that his administration had insisted to University of Wisconsin officials on fundamental changes to the Wisconsin Idea, which has been the guiding principle for the states universities for more than a century.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s new budget proposal reads like a modern day Republican manifesto: reductions in property taxes, expansion of school vouchers, elimination of Common Core and implementation of drug testing for food stamp recipients.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal to cut University of Wisconsin funding by $300 million was called “devastating” by UW-Oshkosh employee groups.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said on Wednesday that Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal is “a good place to start,” but that he’s concerned about the magnitude of the funding cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
Governor Scott Walker backed away Wednesday from an effort to end the University of Wisconsin’s mission to search for truth and improve the human condition — at least on paper.
Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, said late Wednesday that his proposal to remove the public-service focus of the public university system’s mission was a “drafting error.”
In quickly restoring the Wisconsin Idea on Wednesday to its central place in the states public university system, Gov. Scott Walker said its mission statement of searching for truth had only been proposed for removal from state law because of an oversight or drafting error in his budget bill.
Following an unexpected change to the Wisconsin Idea in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget bill, Walker said in a statement Wednesday a drafting error led to several sentences being cut.
The governor’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System has UW-Madison officials looking more than ever at alternative solutions to compensate for the anticipated loss in state funds.
Gov. Scott Walker’s suggestion to ask professors in the University of Wisconsin System to teach one more class raised concerns among faculty that the university could lose some of its prestige in research.
In the past couple of weeks, the landscape of Wisconsin politics has been filled with politicians, students, university officials and other university stakeholders screaming into microphones, each trying to proclaim that they hold the key to the future of the UW System. One side loves to tout the flexibilities that the UW System would have under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, while the other shrieks in terror at the drastic budget cuts to public education.
Chanting “no ifs, no buts, no education cuts” a group of around 100 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students, faculty and staff protested the governor’s budget proposal that would cut $300 million from the UW System.
In the past few weeks, there has been much discussion regarding the University of Wisconsin System, its budget and access to higher education. But this discussion has missed some important points:
During his tenure as Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker has gotten a lot of ink for things he has done. But far less attention has been paid to the things he hasn’t been able to accomplish.
On the one hand, the Wisconsin Idea is a relic of Progressive-Era gasbaggery. The idea that the Wisconsin public university system could reach its fingers into every corner of the state was cooked up by university leaders like Charles Van Hise when he wasn’t trying to rid the state of “defectives” through the practice of eugenics. In the past 100 years, anyone who rightly criticized any wasteful practices at the UW were met by howls of “but the Wisconsin Idea!,” as if the mere invocation of the term constituted the last word.
Stunned educators accused Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday of trying to kill the Wisconsin Idea, which has guided the mission of the states public higher education system for more than a century.
But under Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 budget, public broadcasting in Wisconsin faces a sharp 34 percent budget cut next year and an additional 1.4 percent in 2017.
As part of a broader attempt to diminish the state’s support for, and ties to, the University of Wisconsin System, Walker wants to strike “Wisconsin Idea” language from state statutes — including references to public service and a commitment to “search for truth.”
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said Wednesday that more borrowing for road projects, historic cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and flat funding for K-12 schools are the top concerns so far among caucus members.
The head of the board that oversees Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television says he has “a lot of work” ahead of him as he fights a $5 million state funding cut that Gov. Scott Walker proposed Tuesday when he unveiled his two-year budget plan.
The term “drafting error” may be enshrined as a legendary Wisconsin phrase after Wednesday’s events.
Wisconsinites swooped in to defend the Wisconsin Idea Wednesday from Gov. Scott Walker’s budget bill rewrite of the University of Wisconsin’s mission.
Facing a massive backlash, Gov. Scott Walker retreated Wednesday from a proposal to wipe out language at the foundation of the Wisconsin Idea — the long-cherished principle that the state’s public universities exist to seek truth and serve the people of the entire state.
As Wisconsinites continue to review and make sense of Governor Walker’s budget, economist Steven Deller discusses how the proposals will affect the economy.
It appears that Gov. Scott Walker does not actually intend to end the “Wisconsin Idea” in his executive budget.
Gov. Scott Walker said his decision to cut funding to public broadcasting is about balancing priorities.
You might think that one of the nation’s leading academic communication programs would be a good place to make a long-distance phone call.
In his 2015 budget proposal, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker R offers an unusual change amid the details of how and where he proposes spending the state’s money. As noted by the watchdog site PR Watch and brought to our attention by journalist Abe Sauer, Walker would like to change the statement of purpose and mission for the University of Wisconsin system. Less talk about searching for truth; more talk about meeting the state’s workforce needs.
Gov. Scott Walker abruptly backed off Wednesday from a contentious plan to eliminate the University of Wisconsin System’s public service mission statement known as the “Wisconsin Idea” and replace it with the charge of meeting the state’s workforce needs.
