Lawmakers should put money toward increasing financial aid for students at University of Wisconsin System campuses instead of cutting tuition as Gov. Scott Walker has proposed, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Wednesday.
Noted: Also Wednesday, the Assembly’s top GOP leader said he would prefer to use the money from Walker’s proposed University of Wisconsin tuition cut to increase financial aid.
Wisconsin’s biennial budget picture got $714 million brighter Wednesday, with a projected deficit turning into a small surplus, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
Governor Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) wants to cut tuition for all UW System students, but not all Republicans are on board with that idea.
Wisconsin lawmakers from both parties are waiting for more details before they stake a position on Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut undergraduate tuition for in-state students at University of Wisconsin System schools.
Gov. Scott Walker is pitching his proposal to cut—“that’s right, cut,” as Walker said in his State of the State address—tuition at UW schools as something new, and it took even Republican lawmakers by surprise.
MENOMONIE — A majority of Dunn County supervisors gave their support Wednesday to UW-Stout employees asking the state to support a 2 percent increase in wages and salaries for the next two years.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s state budget got a burst of good news Wednesday with news that tax collections will be nearly half a billion dollars more than estimated two months ago.
For many at UW-Madison, construction is a way of life. Disgruntled students ceded Memorial Union to renovations last year and buildings, such as the Hector DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Complex, dot the campus landscape when they did not exist five years prior.
Gov. Scott Walker plans to cut in-state undergraduate tuition, which many view as a move that could help ease the burden of college costs and propel Wisconsin students to a dream of receiving a higher education.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students this week applauded Gov. Scott Walker’s promise to cut tuition, but like campus officials, stressed that state funding of the cut is essential.
Gov. Scott Walker got loud applause and big headlines this week for proposing in his annual State of the State speech the first tuition cut at University of Wisconsin System schools in more than 30 years.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition at the University of Wisconsin and use taxpayer funds to pay for it is shaking up normal political alliances with some Democrats expressing support while skeptical fellow Republicans worry it could put the state on a path toward socialist Bernie Sanders’ free college tuition plan.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition for University of Wisconsin System students would be the first time that cost has fallen at the state’s flagship campus in decades.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition at the University of Wisconsin and use taxpayer funds to pay for it is shaking up normal political alliances with some Democrats supporting it while skeptical fellow Republicans worry it could put the state on a path toward socialist Bernie Sanders’ free college tuition plan.
Not even a month into 2017, and we have seen yet another outburst from Republican state Sen. Steve Nass, whose career is notable not for any significant policy accomplishment but for making news with his personal crusade of attacking the University of Wisconsin at any and every opportunity.
The University of Wisconsin System will get more state money in the next budget but it will be tied to performance, Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition at the University of Wisconsin and use taxpayer funds to pay for it is shaking up normal political alliances with some Democrats expressing support while skeptical fellow Republicans worry it could put the state on a path toward socialist Bernie Sanders’ free college tuition plan.
EAU CLAIRE — Universities around the state will get additional money to reduce tuition for in-state students, but they will have to show they earned it, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday in Eau Claire.
Any lost revenues for UW System schools from a proposed tuition reduction would be made up for with additional state dollars for the universities, Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday in Eau Claire.
Gov. Scott Walker promises the University of Wisconsin tuition cut he’s proposing will be “significant,” but he’s still not saying how much it will be. This while the UW system is asking for a $42.5 million increase in the next budget.
A day after proposing a tuition cut for University of Wisconsin undergraduate students in his State of the State address, Governor Scott Walker offered more details about the plan during stops across the state.
Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday previewed next year’s potential re-election pitch, promising to cut university tuition and touting tax and unemployment rates that are lower now than when he took office in 2011.
Gov. Scott Walker said during his seventh State of the State address Tuesday he will cut in-state tuition at all University of Wisconsin campuses in his upcoming budget proposal.
Gov. Scott Walker is promising to cut tuition for all undergraduates in the University of Wisconsin System.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said he is “open-minded” to the idea, but he is not yet convinced a tuition cut will be a priority for lawmakers as they consider the 2017-19 budget.
Walker proposed a tuition cut in his State of the State speech on Tuesday. He did not say how much it would be, but his spokesman Tom Evenson says it will be paid for.
Following years of touting a tuition freeze, Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday that he aims to actually cut undergraduate in-state tuition at all UW System schools.
Gov. Scott Walker said he wants to cut undergraduate tuition for Wisconsin residents at University of Wisonsin System schools in his annual State of the State address Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is calling on state legislators to fully fund a tuition cut Gov. Scott Walker promised in his State of the State address Tuesday.
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker promised in his State of the State address to cut tuition for all in-state University of Wisconsin undergraduates, even after the head of the multi-campus system called for him to end a four-year freeze.
Gov. Scott Walker pledged Tuesday in his State of the State speech to cut tuition for all in-state undergraduate students at UW System campuses.
Governor Scott Walker delivered a State of the State address on Tuesday which contained few surprises. But the Republican governor seemingly caught Democrats and officials with the University of Wisconsin System off guard with the one unexpected item he did include.
Gov. Scott Walker said he wants to cut undergraduate tuition for Wisconsin residents at University of Wisonsin System schools in his annual State of the State address Tuesday.
Arguing that courses and programs on UW campuses have a liberal bias, some Republican lawmakers in the state assembly have said that creating “ideological diversity” will be one of their priorities this session. A higher education reporters tells us about the call for different viewpoints on campus, and debates over academic freedom.
Gov. Scott Walker is set to deliver his seventh annual State of the State address Tuesday afternoon. “A lot of his State of the State (addresses) are less rattling off policy ideas, as compared to other governors or certainly presidents when they do the State of the Union,” said Mike Wagner, professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “When he does talk about what’s to come, it’s not always with a great deal of specifics.”
Educational watchdogs are warning that newly emboldened Republican leaderships at the state level are ramping up pressure on universities to curb programs they claim “advance the politically correct agenda of liberal administrators and staff”.
Conservative critics of higher education in Wisconsin have opened a new chapter of their long-running complaints about institutions such as UW-Madison, scrutinizing specific university courses and even a class reading they consider biased or inappropriate.
When Gov. Scott Walker delivers his seventh State of the State speech next week, standing before the largest Republican legislative majorities in decades, don’t be surprised if he busts out a pair of sunglasses.
MADISON, Wis. — At least three times in the past six months, state legislators have threatened to cut the budget of the University of Wisconsin at Madison for teaching about homosexuality, gender and race. As a faculty member who focuses on how public organizations are managed, I hear a great deal about the dangers of political correctness in higher education. Several of Wisconsin’s elected officials have joined the growing chorus of demands for better protections for free speech on campus, even as they fail to recognize how their own politicized approach to managing campuses poses a much more fundamental risk to free speech.
Today, the UW’s flagship school in Madison has a $15 billion annual impact on Wisconsin’s economy and brings in $1 billion in research funding. Then as now, I was proud to carry on the tradition started more than a century ago by Van Hise and La Follette — that the university is intricately tied to the state. While today’s challenges differ in some ways from those that we tackled in my time as governor, I believe strongly that this collaborative approach remains the most effective way to solve them and ensure prosperity and health for the people of our state.
MADISON — A UW-Madison program that explores masculinity amounts to a declaration of war on men and the university should be punished in upcoming budget deliberations, a Republican legislator said Wednesday.
Republican legislators in Wisconsin last month threatened to cut funds from the University of Wisconsin at Madison for offering a course on race relations called The Problem of Whiteness. University officials have defended the course and denied allegations that the course denigrates white people.
Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says the state doesn’t need to increase the University of Wisconsin System’s budget just to offset recent budget cuts.
With historic majorities in both the Senate and the Assembly, Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin laid out a plan on Tuesday that could affect the state’s higher-education system in many ways, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
University of Wisconsin funding: (Gov.) Walker has said his budget will not cut UW funding, and has suggested the UW System could see an increase tied to performance-based metrics. (Senate Majority Leader) Fitzgerald said each two-year budget cycle should be reviewed independently. Campus carry: Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, has said he plans to reintroduce legislation to allow concealed weapons to be carried on college campuses. University of Wisconsin-Madison students opposed to the idea have promised to protest it by carrying sex toys on campus. “That’s a good example of a bill that probably, you may have to make changes to it to get the support, but certainly I think we’ll take a look at that and probably tackle it earlier rather than later if we look at that,” Fitzgerald said.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald outlined their priorities for the upcoming 2017-18 session … The GOP now controls the executive and legislative branches of state and federal government for the first time in nearly five decades, and Republicans now hold near-unprecedented majorities in the Capitol, with a 64-35 seat majority in the Assembly — the largest since 1957 — and 20-13 in the Senate — the biggest since 1971 … But the two also were notably apart on key issues like how to fund school districts and the University of Wisconsin System for the two years starting July 1 and the possibility of medical marijuana being legalized in Wisconsin … Vos’ pledge for more transparency and to find broad public support for legislation came when asked by reporters on Tuesday whether he supports controversial legislation that would allow concealed carry permit holders to bring weapons to college campuses. “I think it’s incumbent upon the legislators who have an idea to spread across the state, find people to support it, get groundswells of support to bring an idea here, not just convince a bunch of people in our caucus to pass a bill without making sure the public is where we are,” said Vos on Tuesday. Fitzgerald said GOP senators would “take a look at” campus carry legislation but was noncommittal about its odds of passage. Vos said he’s open to the idea, but that the caucus hasn’t discussed it.
Over the last five years, the University of Wisconsin System has faced $362 million in funding cuts from the state government.
State lawmakers also will mull whether to increase gas taxes or registration fees, cut income, sales or property taxes, whether to reorganize the state Department of Natural Resources, change funding levels for public schools and the UW System, and expand school voucher options for K-12 students.
When the state’s 2015-17 biennial budget was approved in mid-2015, it brought with it a $3.6 million cut in funding to Cooperative Extension, a division of the University of Wisconsin-Extension. Upon realizing that the existing structure would be unable to sustain the same level of operations, Extension officials began working on a massive reorganization process.
As state budget writers wrap up their draft of a two-year spending plan to be unveiled early next year, the University of Wisconsin System will once again face stiff competition for public dollars.
As state budget writers wrap up their draft of a two-year spending plan to be unveiled early next year, the University of Wisconsin System will once again face stiff competition for public dollars.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, long one of the nation’s most highly regarded research institutions, is a little less well-regarded these days. For the first time in 44 years, UW-Madison fell out of the top five U.S. research universities.
Walker also said he intended to put more money into the University of Wisconsin System, although again declining to say how much.
Turning up the heat on the long-smoldering relationship between state lawmakers and the University of Wisconsin System, leading Republicans are threatening to pull any hope of more state funding unless a new course at UW-Madison called “The Problem of Whiteness” is canceled.
Walker also said he won’t cut funding to the University of Wisconsin System in his next budget, but he may try to reduce tuition. And he rejected a Republican lawmaker’s suggestion that the state withhold funding from UW-Madison if it doesn’t drop a course on race relations called “The Problem of Whiteness.”
Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that a University of Wisconsin-Madison class titled “The Problem is Whiteness” is “goofy” and “unusual,” but he stopped short of saying offering it should put UW’s funding in jeopardy.
The University of Wisconsin Madison is being called on by two state lawmakers to cancel a course planned for next semester titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”
State legislators are taking issue with a new race relations course called “The Problem of Whiteness” being offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison next semester.
Education funding has been one of the state’s most divisive issues in recent years, with Democrats crying foul as the Republican-controlled Legislature cut UW System funding by $250 million in the current budget and public K-12 school funding by $2 billlion over the past six years.
