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.
The Legislature?s petty attempt to evict the Center for Investigative Journalism from the UW-Madison campus has quickly backfired.
Legislation that would bar University of Wisconsin professors from working with a nonprofit journalism center and kick the center off the Madison campus is a “direct assault” on academic freedom, the UW journalism school?s director says.
A provision added to the state budget would mean the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism might not be housed at the University of Wisconsin anymore.
Madison ? After an all-night round of closed-door meetings, Republicans early Wednesday loaded up the state budget with a grab bag of new policies, including allowing bail bondsmen to operate in Wisconsin.
Madison — The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism would have to leave the UW-Madison campus, under a Republican motion before the Legislature?s budget committe.
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism could no longer be housed at the University of Wisconsin under a provision added to the state budget.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has requested that the state Legislature grant it an exemption to Wisconsin?s long-standing open records law. The proposed legislation, if passed, would directly limit public access to university records and sources of information and diminish independent scrutiny at a time of increasing privatization and corporate influence over the state?s flagship university.
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism could no longer be housed at the University of Wisconsin under a provision added to the state budget.
Chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System are publicly jumping into the fray of the state budget debate, encouraging their campus stakeholders to lobby legislators to roll back a proposed freeze on tax dollars and delays in new flexibilities promised in the last state budget.
Governor Scott Walker was in Green Bay Tuesday to discuss a budget provision that got approval from the committee and is moving on to the full Legislature.
Opponents of a new bill want more time to study the legislation that would require photo ID and repeal a ban on corporate campaign contributions.
Madison — The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism would have to leave the UW-Madison campus, under a Republican motion before the Legislature?s budget committe.
The University of Wisconsin System will also have its tuition frozen by state lawmakers after a controversy erupted over the university?s year-end balance. The proposal to freeze tuition was a bipartisan effort, and Governor Scott Walker recommended paring back his initial proposal to increase funding for the state?s universities. The governor?s administration secretary, in a letter to the legislature?s Joint Finance Committee, said the university system was “more interested in protecting its bank account than in ensuring a quality higher education.”
A sweeping plan to grant UW-Madison more flexibility in how it classifies, recruits, pays and evaluates its 20,000 employees has run into a legislative roadblock just a month before its planned July rollout, leaving administrators and union chiefs with the same question ? now what? ? but different reactions.
bill aimed at outlawing the use of fetal body parts in research and experiments is causing a lot of concern within Wisconsins bio-tech industry.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests there is no skills gap keeping Wisconsin employers from filling their positions.
Another Wisconsin study has emerged that concludes the state does not face a substantial skills gap.
MADISON, WI (WSAU) Do you know about the ?skills gap? that politicians keep warning us about?
Why is it that the only thing state Republicans and Democrats can agree on is a bad idea?
Military veterans would be given priority over other students when registering for classes at all University of Wisconsin campuses as well as the states technical colleges under a bill making its way through the Legislature.
A bill that would give military veterans priority registration for classes at Wisconsin universities and technical colleges will get a vote at a state Assembly committee meeting Wednesday morning.
Part of the University of Wisconsin budget approved last night would make it harder for the UW student group United Council to collect dues.
Sale of public property: The Joint Finance Committee signed off last week on a proposal to give Gov. Scott Walker broad authority to sell heating plants, highways and other state property without seeking competitive bids. It mitigated the bill somewhat by stipulating that lawmakers must approve any sale and added some limits, but this is still a bad idea. Not asking for competitive bids is a recipe for wasting taxpayer money.
Early in his tenure, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly said he felt prepared for the challenges the job brought, noting the sharp elbows he developed while working in the State University of New York system.
Dont worry, Badgers sports fans, the Kohl Center is not for sale. But parking ramps and dormitories are among the buildings at the University of Wisconsins flagship campus, and other UW System campuses, that eventually could end up in the hands of private investors under a proposal headed for legislative approval.
The Legislature?s budget committee approved a two-year tuition freeze for the University of Wisconsin System and cut state funding by $152 million from what Gov. Scott Walker had proposed.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison is seeking to keep information about research from the public until it is published or patented, arguing that a research exemption to the state?s open-records law would allow the university to remain on equal footing with its competitors, according to the Journal-Sentinel, a Milwaukee newspaper.
MADISON ? When the co-chair of the Legislature?s powerful Committee on Joint Finance says it might be best if you stepped down, you know you and your agency are in for a long, hard day.
Madison ? The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to limit the state?s open records law ? potentially through language slipped into the state budget ? to keep some research information from the public until it is published or patented.
The University of Wisconsin System moved one step closer to a tuition freeze for the next two years, in what could be the first in the system?s history, after the Legislature?s budget writing committee approved portions of Gov. Scott Walker?s budget Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. AP ? A key legislative committee voted Thursday to slash the University of Wisconsin Systems budget, venting its anger a few weeks after learning the system raised tuition for six straight years even though its currently sitting on a surplus of $650 million.
Thursday will be a day of reckoning for the beleaguered University of Wisconsin System as the Legislature?s budget-writing committee debates how much money to give public universities in the 2013-?15 state budget.
MADISON ? A broad array of state properties, including prisons, university dormitories, power plants and highways, could be sold to private buyers without going through a public bidding process, under a provision approved by the Legislature?s budget committee on Tuesday.
Madison ? Republicans on the Legislature?s budget committee largely signed off Tuesday on giving Gov. Scott Walker broad authority to sell heating plants, highways and other state property without seeking competitive bids, but stipulated that lawmakers must approve any sale.
A wide-reaching change that would allow the state to sell off properties ranging from prisons and power plants to University of Wisconsin dormitories and state highways is up for approval before the Legislatures budget committee.
During the battle over actions initiated by Gov. Scott Walker in 2011 in response to a $3.6 billion budget deficit, the University of Wisconsin system was sitting on a dirty little secret.
The Walker administration has laid out a plan that would reduce the University of Wisconsin?s (UW?s) reserves by $136 million, partly through a $94 million dollar cut in state funding.
Backpedaling on budget plans for University of Wisconsin campuses might mean more pay freezes or heftier tuition hikes later, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said Thursday.
Students in the University of Wisconsin System will get a two-year tuition freeze.
The governor has trimmed the sails on the UW?s budget. News that the University of Wisconsin System has accumulated a budget surplus of some $650 million created a furor among Republican legislators, and now the administration of GOP Governor Scott Walker has responded with a revised budget proposal for the UW, which had originally stood to receive a 181 million dollar increase.
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker submitted a revised budget for the University of Wisconsin System on Wednesday that calls for freezing tuition over the next two years and imposing additional spending cuts in light of news the university has a $650 million surplus.
Freeze University of Wisconsin UW tuition, but give the university system more state tax funds. Those are the messages from a new poll.
If state lawmakers move to freeze tuition on University of Wisconsin campuses, the public will largely support that plan. That?s according to the latest Marquette University Law School poll, which found 76 percent of those responding support blocking the UW System from increasing tuition over the next two years.
If you think public university presidents make a lot of money, check out this infographic by Deadspin of the highest-paid state employees in the country.
?New financial figures show that, while they earn more than most of us, top leaders at UW-Madison and the University of Wisconsin System, relatively speaking, slummed it compared with peers in fiscal 2012.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin?s budget surplus grew by $500 million Thursday, leading to a bipartisan call by state lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker to put some of the money toward public schools two years after funding was cut by more than $1 billion.
Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward provided clarification about the university?s recently discovered surplus funds in Monday?s Faculty Senate meeting, saying a majority of the balances will be used as financial aid resources.
Large reserve funds held at University of Wisconsin System campuses are embarrassing the Republican- controlled state government.
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker said Monday it?s still unclear how much money originally targeted for the University of Wisconsin System will instead be diverted to pay for deeper tax cuts and to help K-12 schools. Walker said he?s still talking with UW officials about how much money is needed to pay for freezing tuition systemwide while also investing in economic development programs at the university he supports.
Amid calls for a tuition freeze from state lawmakers, financial records found the University of Wisconsin System?s reserve funds are expected to grow $150 million by the end of June.
A growth in out-of-state residents attending public universities is crowding out poor and minority students and making it more difficult for people from those backgrounds to get ahead, a new report argues.
Sounds like a case of academic Freaky Friday: College students push for higher tuition prices, while lawmakers attempt to reverse the trend of rising college costs.
A state lawmaker introduced legislation Thursday to allow veteran students first priority when registering for classes at schools within the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin System officials are telling legislators they expect to have $1.2 billion in reserve by the end of June.
The University of Wisconsin System administration plans to develop a new policy to govern its cash reserves after the state Legislative Fiscal Bureau recently discovered the system held a $1 billion balance in June of last year, according to a system statement.
A tuition surplus makes up about $12 million of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh?s $37 million reserve fund, campus officials said.
?What?s happening to the UW reserve money?? the woman asked. She was concerned about criticism of the University of Wisconsin. ?It seems like they want to attack the UW,? she told attendees at the Mondovi Town Hall Meeting.
