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.
About 63 percent of undergraduate students at the university will receive some form of financial aid through his office each year, Kindle explained, though the source of that aid varies.Nearly 50 percent of UW-Madison’s aid comes from the federal government, 32 percent stems from the school itself and just 6 percent is provided by the state, according to the 2016-’17 Budget in Brief.
Investment in the University of Wisconsin is paramount for the state’s institutions of higher learning maintain their quality of education, the chancellor of the state’s flagship university told a lunch-time gathering in Wisconsin Dells Tuesday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System officials Thursday approved raising tuition for out-of-state, graduate and professional school students by hundreds of dollars at more than a half-dozen campuses as they grapple with a Republican-imposed freeze on in-state undergraduate tuition.
University of Wisconsin System leaders have approved asking legislators for an additional $78 million to bulk up employee raises over the next two years.
A November report from the National Science Foundation showing UW-Madison is no longer a top five research university prompted a lot of concern here in Dane County.
Earlier this year a prominent Republican business executive said to me that even as a conservative he recognized it was time to once again invest in the University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin System officials are poised to raise out-of-state and graduate tuition rates again to help offset Gov. Scott Walker’s resident undergraduate tuition freeze and give their employees raises for the next two years.
University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will consider two years of 2 percent raises for UW System employees at its meeting Thursday. The increases are an effort reduce the faculty turnover rate.
Faculty turnover across the University of Wisconsin System averaged 8% last fiscal year — up from an average 5.9% over the preceding five years, according to a report released Monday.
As the University of Wisconsin awaits its fate in the latest in a series of budgets that have cut state funding by some $800 million over six years, UW-Madison students decided it was time to get proactive and work to head off further cuts by the legislature.
Leaders of two U-W System schools, including U-W Oshkosh, hope lawmakers will consider the benefits of increased funding for the system. Last budget cycle, the U-W System had to cut spending by $250-million. U-W-O Chancellor Andrew Leavitt and U-W Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank say they’ve made the cutbacks work. But they say the time has come to look at state funding of higher education as an investment for the state.
Many UW faculty are questioning what this means for them. Self-insurance does not affect how employees pay for insurance. Instead, the state would pay the benefits directly to the Department of Employee Trust Funds rather than paying health insurance companies a fixed premium. The ETF then has more control of how funds are spent and could potentially improve member care and quality of services.
UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said, “We’ve been cut in five of the last six budgets. That’s 10 out of the last 12 years. It’s showing up across the system in reductions, in quality, in a number of ways for our students, and we’re here to talk about the importance of investing in the University of Wisconsin.”
UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and UW Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt met with officials and alumni on Wednesday to discuss the Wisconsin state budget and its role in public higher education.
Chancellors within the UW System are expressing concerns over the upcoming budget. They’re asking state legislators for more money after years of seeing cuts.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross made the case Tuesday for more funding at a higher education forum on the UW-La Crosse campus.
UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said that while his university took a major hit in the last budget, both Gov. Scott Walker and former Gov. Jim Doyle have consistently cut funding for the UW System in the past decade.
For the first time since records have been kept, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has fallen out of the nation’s top five universities in terms of dollars spent on research and development.
Spending on research at UW-Madison declined by more than $100 million between 2012 and 2015, leading the university to fall from the top five of the National Science Foundation’s ranking of research institutions for the first time in more than four decades.
