Gov. Walker says he will veto a budget amendment crafted by ham-handed GOP members of the Joint Finance Committee that would have kicked the non-profit Center for Investigative Journalism out of its UW-Madison campus office space and obstructed its relationships with Journalism school faculty.
MADISON, Wis. AP – – The head of the Center for Investigative Journalism in Wisconsin says he is grateful to Republican Gov. Scott Walker for vetoing a provision in the state budget that would have kicked the center off the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The University of Wisconsin System has rescinded a new contract with its broadband provider.
The University of Wisconsin System has rescinded a new contract with its broadband provider.
Editorial: The journal Nature opposes the bill ? to ban research with ?any material derived from any cell or tissue of an unborn child? ? introduced by André Jacque, a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
If reporters needed one more reminder that they still badly need a reliable replacement for the outmoded home subscriptions-and-advertising revenue model to stay in business, Wisconsin legislators are supplying it.
Vital Signs 2013, the third in a series of annual reports commissioned by Wisconsin Rapids-based Incourage Community Foundation that focuses on the vitality and economic health of the region, gives the community a basis for making informed decisions about how to change the economic climate for the better, said Laura Dresser, associate director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MADISON ? Most Wisconsin state workers and employees at the University of Wisconsin System will receive a 1 percent pay raise starting Sunday, after a legislative committee unanimously approved Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal.
MADISON, Wis. ? A committee of legislative leaders is scheduled to vote on Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal increasing the pay for most state and University of Wisconsin workers by 1 percent in each of the next two years.
Legislation being proposed at the Capitol seeks to encourage students at UW System campuses to call for help for intoxicated friends, even if they themselves are underage and have also been drinking.
Gov. Scott Walkers administration is recommending a 1 percent pay raise for state and University of Wisconsin workers in each of the next two years.
The Wisconsin state budget that would cut income taxes for all taxpayers, allow private school vouchers to expand statewide and freeze tuition at the University of Wisconsin is now in the hands of Gov. Scott Walker.
Outgoing UW-Madison chancellor David Ward said Wednesday he believes the university was ?rightfully dinged? by the Legislature for not being forthcoming about a $650 million surplus.
Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward says that a legislature-mandated tuition freeze without any larger debate is wrong.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will review a harassment case brought by the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents against a former UW student.
Two years ago, the state Legislature moved to sever the University of Wisconsin?s ties to a provider of Internet service. Now some lawmakers are outraged that the UW System has picked this same provider to continue serving its campuses.
Taxpayers and employees of state and local governments next year are likely to see yet another increase in the contribution rates they pay to the Wisconsin Retirement System.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) ? A review of the nation?s teacher-training programs released Tuesday suggests that many University of Wisconsin System education schools are of middling quality.
Two years ago, the state Legislature moved to sever the University of Wisconsin?s ties to a provider of Internet service. Now some lawmakers are outraged that the UW System has picked this same provider to continue serving its campuses.
Once upon a time, we were told that Wisconsin was all about job creation.?Wisconsin is open for business,? said the bumper stickers, the signs on the Wisconsin-Illinois border, the press releases, the elected officials and the actions of state government since January 2011.
The state Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed two nominees to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
The state?s Republican-led budget committee may have done no greater favor for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism than voting to evict it from two tiny offices in UW-Madison?s Vilas Hall.
Days after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) appointed the student who would sit on the state Board of Regents, the administration announced that it would keep looking.
The official student government of UW-Madison says a recent incident involving a student regent selection highlights the need for a change in state law. The Associated Students of Madison (ASM) is supporting a bill (SB 157) that would require the governor to only nominate student regents who are suggested by student-elected organizations. Current law only allows the governor to nominate these student vetted candidates.
Thursday, it was a tug-of-war between state democrats and republicans after UW-Platteville student, Joshua Ingletts nomination was withdrawn from the UW-Board of Regents.
MADISON ? Gov. Scott Walker refused to say Thursday why he withdrew his nomination to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents of a UW-Platteville student who signed a petition to recall him from office.
The current state budget as proposed makes no sense. The Legislature, in a desperate effort to make themselves look good, plans to give back hundreds of millions of dollars in tax cuts that will cost the taxpayers dearly in the future.
Gov. Scott Walker has withdrawn his appointment of a University of Wisconsin-Platteville student to the UW System?s Board of Regents ? a student who signed a petition calling for a recall election of the governor two years ago.
A bill approved on Wednesday (after a raucous roll call vote) by the State Senate requiring women seeking abortions to receive ultrasounds represents only one of several battles being waged by abortion foes in Wisconsin this year.
Gov. Scott Walker has withdrawn the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents nomination of a UW-Platteville student whose name appears on the petition to recall Walker.
Gov. Scott Walker has withdrawn the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents nomination of a UW-Platteville student whose name appears on the petition to recall Walker.
MADISON ? Gov. Scott Walker said he wants to increase transparency and accountability in Wisconsin?s embattled public higher education system in his latest round of appointments to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents,
A former lieutenant governor and a former state auditor ? the first women in state history to serve in their respective posts ? are among three new appointments made by Gov. Scott Walker to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer whose works appear in a variety of publications, including Time and the Wall Street Journal.
Gov. Scott Walker has made three appointments to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
For the last four years, I?ve taught an investigative reporting class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Not typical, you might say, for a long-time science writer who spends most of her time telling stories about our chemical world.
The Wisconsin state legislature?s attempt last week to evict the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from the campus on which it operates poses a threat to one hopeful model for the future of journalism, and suggests that a long history of journalistic innovation at American universities may be in trouble.
A proposal by the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee to boot the Center for Investigative Journalism off the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus should be removed from the state budget.
Gov. Scott Walker has made three appointments to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
Madison ? Wisconsin Historical Society officials say they now have more than 3,000 digital versions of rare maps and atlases online.
The University of Wisconsin System regents voted today to pursue pay raises for all UW employees.
MILWAUKEE ? The University of Wisconsin System regents approved a proposal Friday that could eventually lead to pay raises for all UW System employees.
And once again there is a nation full of journalists wondering what?s going on in Wisconsin?s state legislature.This week, a legislative committee approved a measure that would not only evict the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its offices on the University of Wisconsin campus, but also bar any university staff from working with the center.
The UW System Board of Regents is expected to vote Friday on a proposal that could eventually lead to pay raises for all UW System employees.
The regents of the University of Wisconsin System are expected to vote on a proposal that could eventually lead to pay raises for all UW System employees.
At their meeting in Milwaukee today, University of Wisconsin regents talked about the latest proposed budget cutbacks for the university system.
The bipartisan freeze will keep tuition rates at the University of Wisconsin-Superior steady for two years. A surplus of nearly $650 million in the University of Wisconsin system has Gov. Walker confident in the higher education system going forward.
It?s hard to know what, if anything, Republican legislators were thinking when the budget committee voted, 12-4, to boot the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its offices at the University of Wisconsin. For starters, the legislators won?t reveal their motives to the public or to the leaders of the journalism center. That?s disturbing in itself.
Early this week, I awoke to learn that University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism student Mario Koran had won a prestigious scholarship named for a brave and talented young journalist who died last year while reporting in Mexico City.
THUMBS DOWN: Among the budget-cutting items approved in Wednesday?s pre-dawn voting by the Republican-dominated Joint Finance Committee was a motion that costs the state?s taxpayers almost nothing: The eviction of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from UW-Madison facilities and a ban on UW employees working for or with the organization.
A conservative radio talk show host and a moderate Republican state senator on Thursday both bashed a move to quash an investigative journalism center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Officials with the University of Wisconsin System say it will be a challenge for UW universities to deal with expected budget cuts, but they?re committed to figuring out a way to make things work.
A conservative radio talk show host and a moderate Republican state senator are both bashing a move to quash an investigative journalism center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The regents for the University of Wisconsin System will be meeting for the first time since a legislative committee voted to slash the UW budget.
Republicans? bid to cut the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism off from the state?s flagship university made me sad ? and not because the award-winning center puts out a quality product at a time when traditional news organizations face increasing difficulties.
A last-minute budget amendment would prevent the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from operating out of an office on the UW-Madison campus. That would have implications far beyond just the center and the university?s journalism school, says Greg Downey, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Students enrolling next fall in the University of Wisconsin?s new flexible degree programs for working adults will pay $2,250 for a three-month ?all you can learn? block of time, allowing motivated students to zip through multiple courses much faster than allowed in the traditional semester-based model.
The Joint Finance Committee?s measure booting the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from Vilas Hall, the beating heart of UW-Madison?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has turned into the little surprise story that could today, but it?s still unclear to what extent the loss of the nonprofit news group?s office on the campus would have on the plucky operation.
The legislature?s Joint Finance Committee voted early this morning to prohibit the UW from housing WCIJ, and to bar any UW employee from doing work related to the organization. WCIJ is a nonprofit investigative news organization that?s funded through grants and private donations.
