Category: State budget

The University of Wisconsin System is poised to ask lawmakers to lift the cap on in-state tuition and reverse years of declining support for higher education with a funding increase of $42.5 million in the next state budget.

In recent years, conversations between the University of Wisconsin System and the state Legislature have been contentious, with the two groups butting heads over issues like funding cuts and challenges to tenure.

A possible funding increase for the University of Wisconsin System that would be tied to UW’s performance in certain metrics is still on the table for the next state budget, a spokesman for Gov. Scott Walker says.

UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer said after hearing that Gov. Scott Walker spoke highly of UW-Stout and UW-Eau Claire during a recent visit to the Chippewa Valley he was hopeful that a tuition freeze would be lifted.

Eau Claire (WQOW) – Governor Scott Walker told state agencies he plans to extend the University of Wisconsin tuition freeze in the next two-year state budget he will introduce in early 2017.

Gov. Scott Walker says he wants to extend the freeze on University of Wisconsin System tuition for another two years. The Republican governor also told UW and most other state agencies they should not anticipate new funding in his next budget.

State budget crunches and political turmoil have set off rumblings about a mass faculty exodus from public colleges in some states. High-profile defections stoke the rumors. But have professors really fled in droves?

University of Wisconsin System leaders are looking to give students an additional $12.7 million in financial aid over the next biennium.

After hinting this week that the state’s public higher education systems could see more support in the next budget, Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he’s considering tying any funding increases to performance.

Wisconsin’s public colleges and universities could see their funding increase in the next state budget based on how they do in certain performance measures, Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday.

Gov. Scott Walker hinted Wednesday that additional support may be heading to Wisconsin’s public higher education providers.

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will likely be the last campus this spring to hold a vote of no-confidence in the Board of Regents and UW System President Ray Cross.

Close to 70 percent of UW-Eau Claire faculty, or 227 staff members, voted in favor of a resolution saying they have no confidence in UW-System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.

Political storm clouds are forming over how much state aid the UW System will get in the next two-year budget. And, if Republicans keep control of the Legislature in November elections, those clouds could easily turn into a red-flag storm warning.

Reductions in public funding for higher education will negatively impact Wisconsin’s economy, according to a report released today by the Wisconsin Technology Council.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Faculty Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution expressing no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.

UW-Green Bay faculty plan to take a “no-confidence” vote Wednesday afternoon in UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents, while Gov. Scott Walker says university faculty “fail to grasp reality.”

t’s not often that a college student publicly accuses professors of immaturity and poor judgment. Yet Jacob W. Wrasse, a senior who this week finished his term as president of the student body at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, has done just that as his campus’s University Senate considers whether to rebuke top university-system officials for failing to better shield professors’ tenure protections from a legislative assault.

Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, wrote in a March email to the vice president of the system’s Board of Regents, who was chairing a task force on controversial changes to layoff policies concerning tenured faculty members, that tenure should not mean “a job for life,” according to public records first obtained by the The Cap Times. “That is a ‘union’ argument,” Cross wrote to Regent John Behling, comparing faculty members to railroad brakemen whom he said were kept on the job for years after they were no longer needed.

Next week, the University of Wisconsin-Extension will start planning to absorb $3.6 million in budget cuts to the agency’s county and university educational services.

Last year, $250 million dollars in state funding were cut from the UW system, which also meant a loss of $3.6 million dollars in funding for the UW-Extension, which is charged with broadcast operations like WPR, providing online degrees, and working with all of Wisconsin’s counties on agricultural and economic development issues. We talk to a political writer who says that cutting funding to the extension service is contrary to the Wisconsin Idea and what it means to be a Wisconsinite.

MENOMONIE — About $35 million may be available for UW System faculty and staff compensation thanks to lower fringe benefit costs from 1,400 workers leaving the university system, UW System President Ray Cross says.

University of Wisconsin – Madison officials say budgets cuts brought upon by the $250-million deficit facing the entire UW System will lead to cuts in the number of work hours for student employees. The students use the income from these jobs to pay for tuition, room and board.

Summaries outlining the impact of state funding cuts to higher education say University of Wisconsin System campuses have laid off employees, consolidated administration, reduced advising services and cut course offerings over the past year.