Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal would cut University of Wisconsin System tuition by 5 percent in the 2018-19 school year and provide $100 million in new funding for the System, the governor’s office announced Tuesday.
Gov. Scott Walker’s executive budget would hand the University of Wisconsin System more than $100 million in new state aid. He also wants to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition by 5 percent, let students opt out of paying some fees and grant the system’s request for additional state aid.
After years of deep cuts, K-12 public schools and the University of Wisconsin stand to be big winners under Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student government arm is none too pleased with Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to let students opt out of paying certain fees.
A $100,000 funding stream the Dane County Rape Crisis Center receives from the University of Wisconsin-Madison could be in jeopardy under a proposal in Gov. Scott Walker’s 2017-19 budget.
Gov. Scott Walker is proposing a five percent tuition cut for in-state undergraduate students and more state money for the UW System as a whole in the 2017-19 state budget.
Governor Scott Walker’s latest budget proposal aims to support UW System students with tuition cuts and other degree options, but one measure could cut student programs and services.
Along with its call for a tuition cut and increased funding, Gov. Scott Walker’s executive budget for 2017-19 includes a range of new spending and policy changes for the University of Wisconsin System.
Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday his long-anticipated budget proposal for the University of Wisconsin System, which includes a 5 percent decrease for in-state tuition as well as the possibility for students to opt out of segregated fees.
After extending a tuition freeze into a fifth year for resident undergraduates at University of Wisconsin System campuses, Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday that he wants to cut tuition by 5% beginning in fall 2018.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker proposed Tuesday cutting the University of Wisconsin System’s resident undergraduate tuition by 5 percent, allowing students to opt out of paying some fees and handing the system $42.5 million in new state aid contingent upon meeting certain performance standards. Other UW proposals Walker unveiled include:
Governor Scott Walker’s proposed state budget will include a tuition cut for University of Wisconsin resident undergraduate students, while also increasing funding for the UW System
While Governor Scott Walker has been previewing parts of his two year spending plan for the past several weeks, lawmakers and the rest of the state will get their first full look at the proposal later today.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s proposal to offer first-generation transfer students free tuition has potential, but it faces some more hurdles, an analyst said.
Gov. Scott Walker wants to allow University of Wisconsin System students to opt out of some student fees, but opponents are warning of dire potential effects for campus services.
As Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal nears its unveiling, the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Associated Students of Madison met to discuss the upcoming biennial budget.
Gov. Scott Walker is expected to announce tuition cuts for the UW System.
MADISON — Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he doesn’t see a “lot of excitement” for Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed tuition cut at the University of Wisconsin.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: Walker promised to cut tuition for all in-state undergraduates in the UW System, but he hasn’t said by how much. Walker said he would give more details on Tuesday. He also hasn’t said whether he will fulfill UW’s request for $42.5 million in additional funding. But Walker has said any new money would be contingent upon the university meeting performance measurements not yet specified.
MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker has revealed some of the high points of the state budget he will release on Wednesday. But many of the details await, as do almost certainly a few surprises. Here is a look at what’s known and unknown about the two-year spending plan he will deliver to the state Legislature on Wednesday.
Officials of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have proposed to offer at least one year of free tuition to first-generation students transferring from one of the several two-year colleges in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker may be grabbing headlines with a call to lower tuition as part of a campaign to cut the cost of attending University of Wisconsin, but UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has an ambitious proposal of her own.
UW-Madison is at a “crucial point” as Wisconsin prepares to debate its next state budget, and badly needs new public funding to stay competitive with its peers and reverse a slide in research rankings, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday.
Students in the state’s college system say they’re looking forward to the possibility of free tuition.
Students transferring to the University of Wisconsin Madison campus who are the first in their families to attend college would get a tuition-free year at the school, under a proposal outlined Thursday by Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) — Akstin Pasert is a first generation college student. She’s a sophomore at UW Marathon County studying special education. For her, college is more than just getting an education, it’s setting an example.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking at free tuition for certain students.
(WISC) — University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chancellor wants more first-generation students coming to campus and has announced an effort to offer some of them free tuition if they do.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials want to provide at least a year of free tuition to students who transfer from one of several two-year colleges and who would be the first in their family to get a degree.
The University of Wisconsin would offer one or two years of free tuition to academically strong, first-generation college students who transfer from UW colleges or technical college partners with associate’s degrees to UW-Madison, according to an announcement coming Thursday from Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials want to provide at least a year of free tuition to students who transfer from one of several two-year colleges and who would be the first in their family to get a degree.
Students who transfer from one of several two-year colleges to UW-Madison, and would be the first in their family to get a degree, will receive at least one year of free tuition at the flagship campus under a proposal officials will announce Thursday — but only if the state provides enough new funding to make it happen.
The governor highlighted an announcement made this fall that he said would give more student loan borrowers the opportunity to refinance their loans. UW Credit Union announced in September it would expand its membership eligibility to include any current or former college students who currently live in Wisconsin.
With Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget proposal on the horizon, a fresh group of future Badgers await letters from the financial aid office; funding is also on the university’s mind. UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke candidly to the University Affairs committee Monday about her thoughts regarding state funding and scholarship disbursement.
Walker alerted lawmakers on Tuesday that he will unveil his two-year spending plan that day. The speech will be at 4 p.m., breaking with the tradition of nighttime addresses.
Governor Scott Walker plans to release his state budget plan early next month.
Two weeks after Gov. Scott Walker pledged to cut in-state tuition for all University of Wisconsin System undergraduates, some lawmakers, experts and university leaders wonder if a more targeted approach might be more beneficial.
Mildly dissing fellow Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut UW System tuition, Vos said he’d rather increase financial aid for needy students because “just cutting tuition across the board means you are going to give the same assistance to somebody who could write a check without even blinking.”
Assembly Republicans are calling for at least $300 million in tax cuts in the upcoming biennial budget to offset up to the same amount in new transportation revenue, including a possible gas tax increase.
A push to cut tuition at University of Wisconsin campuses could face resistance in the state Assembly.
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.
