No one knows yet how Walker?s administration will react to the court?s order, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and expert in voter ID laws who testified at the federal trial.
At UW-Madison, there are 21 full-time staff in the University Communications office, according to news and media relations director John Lucas, although they perform duties in addition to media relations, such as ?creating news stories about campus for internal and external audiences. ?I think there are generally more outreach roles on campus than there were a decade ago,? he said.
Sadly, as I enter my senior of college, I?m watching my current school, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, become Whitefish Bay High ? a great public school that promises success after graduation but whose access is determined less and less by a student?s hard work and innate ability and more than ever before by a student?s capacity to pay for school.
Two former UW Foundation executives are leading a new effort to create an osteopathic medical school in Jefferson after a separate group?s proposal fizzled.
As people age out of the workforce, state job growth will depend in part on young educated professionals staying in Wisconsin. However, many young graduates are leaving, joining a trend commonly referred to as the ?brain drain.?
MADISON ? A frequent University of Wisconsin System protester?s antics clearly crossed the line into harassment but an injunction banning him from UW property or contacting UW personnel is too broad and must be rewritten, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
UW-Madison paid out the most of any agency, approving 1,743 payments worth about $6 million. The average payment at UW-Madison represented about a 7.8 percent increase over the employee?s prior salary. Spokesman Bob Lavigna attributed the higher spending to the university?s large budget and said the school spent about the same percent of its budget on merit raises as Corrections did.
Noted: The three are identified as Alison Alter of Austin, Texas, her son Zack Suri, and a relative, Thomas Alter of Highland Park, Illinois. Alter is a former Madison resident whose husband, Jeremi Suri, was a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving to Austin. Alter had worked at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters as well as at the UW-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE).
The University of Wisconsin System cannot charge high school students taking courses offered in their schools for college credit, known as concurrent enrollment classes, the state?s attorney general says.
More controversial will be the possible sale of 32 heating and cooling plants, an idea that was previously debated and dropped. One of the plants is UW-Madison?s Charter Street facility. Is selling the plants and contracting for their operation a good deal for taxpayers in the long run? That will require more convincing.
Latino youth activists from around Wisconsin have re-launched their campaign for what they call ?tuition equity? in Wisconsin.
When Burke unveiled her jobs plan in March she made a point of saying that she would veto any legislation banning stem cell research ? which is vitally important at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the state Department of Natural Resources have started updating the state?s land cover map.
Madison ? Former Gov. Jim Doyle is teaching Harvard students this fall and may teach graduate students at Wisconsin?s flagship university next spring, his latest steps to ease back into public life.
The Walker administration has released a list of state assets it might consider selling, including state-owned power plants throughout Wisconsin.
While the record $1.2 trillion in student loan debt has attracted election-year calls for reform in Madison and Washington, D.C., Wisconsin is ending a program that has helped students like Toshia Spindler go to UW-La Crosse.
Quoted: Richard Monette, law professor and director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center.
Cited: Center for Dairy Research.
Cited: UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research.
A tuition freeze at a time when higher education is too costly is at best a Band-Aid, not a cure. If elected officials and UW System administrators are serious, they must address the onerous burden created by student loan debt, as President Obama and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., are attempting to do at the federal level.
The University of Wisconsin System appears to be prepared to extend the current tuition freeze, and rightly so.
Quoted: Marianne Smukowski of the UW-Madison Center for Dairy Research.
Quoted: Susan Zahner, associate professor of nursing; Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health (SMPH).
Quoted: Arlin Brannstrom, farm management specialist for the Center for Dairy Profitability (not in experts list)
Miss: The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents just can?t seem to get it right. After reluctantly being forced to accept a two-year tuition freeze imposed by a Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Scott Walker, regents last week approved higher fees for students in its latest budget proposal.
Gov. Scott Walker contends that four people who have quit a state drunk driving task force didn?t contact his office or the office of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb.
Four members of a working group studying ways to reduce drunken driving in Wisconsin ? a state with notoriously lax laws ? resigned Thursday and said bar and tavern owners have too much influence on the committee and are not interested in actually combatting the problem.
University of Wisconsin System students and their families won?t have to shell out any additional money for tuition next year, but they?ll face higher fees and room-and-board costs under a budget proposal system leaders approved Thursday.
The extended tuition freeze would mark another significant departure from recent practice at the System. Prior to the tuition freeze mandated by the Republican-controlled state Legislature starting with the 2013-2014 school year, the System had hiked tuition at four-year campuses 5.5 percent annually in each of the previous six years, the maximum annual increase allowed by law. System spokesman John Diamond said Wednesday that tuition now is viewed as ?a revenue source of last resort.?
Each date represents a day to set aside five minutes to pull one credit report from one credit bureau, according to J. Michael Collins, UW-Extension family and consumer economics specialist and director of the UW-Madison Center for Financial Security.
The popular science conversation series Science on Tap takes a different approach this week in tackling a controversial topic. Instead of hosting one speaker at a brewpub, it?s assembled a panel at a large venue to discuss the proposed iron mine in the Penokee Hills.
A panel of scientists and scientists, engineers and regulators is set to gather in northern Wisconsin this week to discuss a potential iron mine just south of Lake Superior.
Noted: The group is scheduled to meet in Minocqua on Thursday. Panelists will include Craig Benson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor; Ann Coakley, a state Department of Natural Resources regulator; Cyrus Hester, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewas environmental specialist; and Dominic Parker, an assistant professor in UW-Madisons agriculture and applied economics department.
Wisconsin is looking again at self-insuring state employees, as the state Department of Employee Trust Funds seeks a consultant to study switching more than 200,000 state workers and family members from an HMO model to self-insurance.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross on Thursday proposed a one-year plan to cover tuition for students in Wisconsin public high schools who take UW courses through a dual enrollment program aimed at jump-starting their college careers.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced Zoey Brooks, of Waupaca, has been chosen as the state?s 67th Alice in Dairyland.
Gov. Scott Walker will be giving his first commencement address when he addresses graduate students at Concordia University in Mequon.
In Wisconsin, he will perhaps be remembered most for pushing to merge the University of Wisconsin in Madison with the state college system, a fierce battle that created today?s system of 13 four-year state colleges.
In an effort to improve financial transparency and management, the Legislature?s Joint Finance Committee unanimously approved the University of Wisconsin System?s proposed financial reporting policy.
The Legislature?s finance committee approved a new policy governing University of Wisconsin System surpluses on Tuesday, wrapping up a nasty clash between Republicans and UW officials over the system?s massive balances.
Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that the University of Wisconsin Systems decision to hire a close confidant of Gov. Scott Walker raised concerns among at least two members of the Board of Regents.
As both graduation day and Election Day rapidly approach, Democrats and Republicans alike have turned their attention to a national trend toward increasing student loan debt.
Seeking to replace scores of aging IT systems, state officials are proceeding with a $138.7 million overhaul of the state?s financial, payroll and purchasing systems.
The Legislature?s finance committee is set to vote on the University of Wisconsin System?s new policy for reporting surpluses.
New policies to govern how both UW-Madison and other University of Wisconsin System campuses manage hiring and a range of other personnel dealings won legislative approval last week after hitting a legislative roadblock last summer, when some of the changes were scheduled to start taking effect.
The rally kicked off the 80th annual Wisconsin Association of School Councils state student council conferences, which conclude Monday. The students involved were members of their schools? student council or student government organization.
Affirmative action in America appears to be dying by degrees.
Should those who apply for college be required to reveal their race on their college application? Affirmative action has been banned in Michigan ? meaning race cannot be taken into consideration when deciding college admissions. The Supreme Court says affirmative action is constitutional, so what could that mean for racial minorities applying to college in Wisconsin?
Noted: Matt?s younger brother, Alex, 18, is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Legislature?s Joint Audit Committee unanimously approved the University of Wisconsin System?s proposed financial reporting policy Thursday, opening it up to final legislative approval in the Joint Finance Committee.
The Legislature?s audit committee has unanimously approved new guidelines for reporting the University of Wisconsin?s financial reserves, but some of the big decisions are yet to come.
State lawmakers approved two measures relating to University of Wisconsin pay and personnel Monday: the UW will have its own personnel systems separate from the rest of state government, and senior executives could get big pay increases.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW System will have their own personnel systems separate from the state, starting July 1, 2015.
The Legislature?s audit committee is set to vote on the University of Wisconsin System?s new policy for reporting surpluses.
State Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, wasted no time after the U.S. Supreme Court struck a blow to affirmative action Tuesday, promising to resurrect his effort to ban such policies in Wisconsin.
Tuesday?s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action has prompted state Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, to call for ending all race and gender preference programs in the state.
Dozens of applicants denied admission to UW-Madison have contacted a non-profit legal group soliciting clients for a potential lawsuit because race is among the many factors the state flagship takes into account in its admissions decisions. The potential lawsuit is looming against a backdrop of a major U.S. Supreme Court decision Tuesday upholding Michigan’s ban on using race as a factor in college admissions.
In the wake of Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision, Glenn Grothman said he would seek to bring back legislation to ban affirmative action policies in the state, which he has proposed in the past without success.
UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said that generally, adjunct positions at UW System schools require a bachelor?s degree. However, departments and deans can make exceptions, he said, and ?the university would most likely make that exception for non-degreed individuals with significant real-world accomplishments.? Given that UW System faculty and officials weren?t shy about signing the Walker recall petition, though, that still might be a tough nut for an aspiring Professor Walker to crack.
Another billion-dollar University of Wisconsin System surplus calls for another two-year tuition freeze. At least that?s the view taken by Gov. Scott Walker.
