For the second time in Gov. Scott Walker’s gubernatorial tenure, a proposal to split off the University of Wisconsin System or its flagship UW-Madison from state control has died at the hands of the Republican Legislature, according to a top lawmaker.
The Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce and The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce issued a joint statement Tuesday to urge state legislators to look for ways to reduce Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the UW System.
The state’s two largest chambers of commerce Tuesday joined forces to warn that Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System could hurt the economy.
A powerful committee of state lawmakers dives deeper this week into votes on Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial state budget. A flurry of decisions will come in May. That’s our cue to roll out some recent PolitiFact Wisconsin fact checks and articles on the 2015-17 spending plan.
Facing a deficit going into the two-year budget cycle that begins in July, Gov. Scott Walker has proposed slashing funding for the University of Wisconsin System, public K-12 education and other vital programs.
GREEN BAY – We’re following the money with Wisconsin’s state budget.The legislature won’t vote to cut the UW system loose from state oversight. However, budget cuts remain a possibility.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to give the University of Wisconsin System more independence from state law and oversight won’t pass this year, while other flexibilities and the level of funding for higher education remain up for debate, co-chairs of the Legislature’s powerful Joint Finance Committee said Tuesday.
The Republican co-chairs of the state Legislature’s budget committee say they won’t support Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to turn the University of Wisconsin System into a public authority.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s plan to create a public authority for the University of Wisconsin System will not gain the approval of the legislature’s budget committee, according to the panel’s co-chairs.
Republicans in the state Legislature are abandoning a proposal by GOP Gov. Scott Walker to spin off the University of Wisconsin System as a separate government authority, but said they are committed to giving campuses more flexibilities to manage budget cuts.
Chancellor Blank has a blog that talks about the need to weaken the University of Wisconsin-Madison to make room for state budget cuts.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross said on Friday that he doubts a public authority will become a reality for the state’s university system.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross said on Friday the time has come to dip into the system’s reserve funds, as it faces about $300 million in cuts in the next state budget.
Gov. Scott Walker is suggesting a budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System that may be smaller than the $300 million he originally proposed.
WHITEWATER — University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross held a forum Thursday at UW-Whitewater, opening the floor to any and all questions.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) hasn’t even gotten his proposed budget cuts passed into law yet, but that’s not stopping the state’s prestigious public university system from moving to lay off staff, prompting fears of a “massive brain drain.”
A couple of lawmakers want to shield the UW-Extension and two-year campuses from the proposed $300 million cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, as proposed in the state budget. However, System President Ray Cross has said none should be exempt, otherwise all campuses would want the same deal. “I appreciate that,” he says, “however I don’t believe that’s the right solution.”
An editorial about Walker’s shifting stances mentions a recent paper, “The Whiteness of Wisconsin’s Wages,” by Dylan Bennett, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, and Hannah Walker, a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Washington, which argues that “Governor Walker and his allies activated the racial animus of white workers.” The piece also mentions Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the UW system.
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In an interview broadcast Sunday on WKOW-TV program “Capitol City Sunday,” state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, indicated that restoring funding to K-12 education and to transportation are also among the top priorities … [W]ith the UW Board of Regents voting to raise tuition on out-of-state and graduate students, Fitzgerald said there “seems to be even less of a commitment to backfill” a $300 million cut to the UW System over the next two years. The way that Fitzgerald described it, there is still some animosity left over from the Legislature’s 2013 dealings with the UW System over the latter’s fund surpluses.
Professor Grant Petty, head of UW-Madison’s faculty lobbying group, says signals indicating the Legislature is unlikely to reduce cuts to the UW System proposed by Gov. Scott Walker are not a responsible way to manage higher education in the state.
Letter to the editor from Jonathan Burkham, an assistant professor of human geography at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
It is very unlikely the state legislature will restore much of the $300 million proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System in the state budget. That’s what Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) told WKOW TV in Madison, but UW System President Ray Cross isn’t buying it.
Citing a strong partnership with UW-Manitowoc, the County Board came out against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
As we continue to wrestle with potential cuts to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, I am reminded of a quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Herbert Swope: “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.”
Nearly two-thirds of respondents in the new Wisconsin Survey are against a proposed $300 million cut in the state budget for the University of Wisconsin System. Support or opposition to the idea appears to break down along party lines.
UW–Platteville is cutting $3.7 million from its 2015–16 budget and increasing revenues by $1.5 million to address the university’s existing structural deficit and expected state aid cuts in the state’s 2015–17 budget.
APPLETON (AP) – Gov. Scott Walker says new tax collection forecasts coming out in May will not provide a windfall, but any additional revenue should first be directed to help K-12 schools.
The leader of Wisconsin’s largest private university says he’s worried that proposed budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin System might harm collaborations with his school.
Two University of Wisconsin campuses are seeing more than one-third of employees seek voluntary buyouts among faculty and staff members who are eligible for early retirement.
Quoted: “Certainly a good case can be made that the sum of the Walker administration policies have had the effect of increasing income inequality in Wisconsin,” said Andrew Reschovsky, professor of public affairs and applied economics at UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. UW-Madison political scientist Ken Mayer said ultimately, Walker record’s on the economy may not matter.
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside knows it has to plan for some cut in state funding over the next biennium, but there’s been no word yet on exactly how much, and administrators are doing the best they can to minimize the impact on campus.
Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on the Wisconsin Idea did not end with his botched attempt to re-write the University of Wisconsin’s mission statement. The substance of the attack is ongoing in his state budget.
Every Wisconsin legislator knows how they want to spend any unexpected windfall in tax collections in the two-year budget cycle that ends in mid-2017. Their wish lists include more money for K-12 schools, especially rural schools; reducing Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300-million cut in state aid to the UW System; borrowing less to put more cash into highway construction and maintenance statewide, and maintaining current programs that help seniors and the disabled.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and other University of Wisconsin System officials say increasing non-resident tuition will bring UW’s rates up to “market value,” but some experts worry the spike will decrease enrollment.
MENASHA – Faced with $6.5 million in budget reductions, leaders and staff members at University of Wisconsin Colleges — including the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley — searched for answers Monday at a town hall meeting.
Nearly 50 positions at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will be cut in order to balance an estimated $7.6 million reduction in state funding.
A lively debate underway in Wisconsin and across the nation questions the value of public research universities to the state taxpayers who help support them. This debate indicates that many do not understand the role these universities play in driving innovation and keeping the state and U.S. competitive.
UW-Platteville and UW-Stout recently became the latest campuses in the University of Wisconsin System to offer buyouts to senior staff to mitigate Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts of $300 million to state campuses in the next two years.
A lively debate underway in Wisconsin and across the nation questions the value of public research universities to the state taxpayers who help support them. This debate indicates that many do not understand the role these universities play in driving innovation and keeping the state and U.S. competitive.
“It has a very large but a very complicated budget that’s funded from many many different sources. The state source though, is an important source and we’re seeing a cut of this size that is over a two year period will have an impact,” former UW Whitewater Assoc. Dean Richard Haven said. That impact could mean 400 jobs eliminated at UW-Madison.
Thousands of UW-Madison students will have fewer courses to choose from and longer wait times to see academic advisers next year. Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced the University will eliminate 400 positions for the 2015-16 school year to trim $21 million.
UW-Madison plans to cut 400 jobs across campus — most of them open positions that won’t be filled — as well as drop some programs and collect an additional $3.5 million yearly from its athletics department to deal with Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million, two-year cut to the University of Wisconsin System, chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Friday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will eliminate about 400 positions, most of them vacant, and will close or restructure several academic programs across campus over the next two years in response to anticipated state budget cuts, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced on her blog Friday.
Wisconsin’s flagship university will eliminate some 400 jobs, curtail support services and cut or combine certain programs in response to a multimillion-dollar budget cut proposed in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget.
Noted: Petrowski says the bigger and more controversial things often get dealt with later in the budget process. That’s why he doesn’t see the University of Wisconsin budget cuts getting immediate attention. He is concerned about what that UW budget is going to do to the smaller, two-year campuses like those in Marshfield and Wausau. “When you get to a lot of the two-year schools, there’s not a lot of places that they can cut other than personnel, you know, like when you’re dealing with Madison of course, you have a lot of the research coming in, a lot of those dollars coming in through research, and other activities, and like in UW Marathon County, there’s not that option there.”
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a package of drastic program and staffing cuts on Friday, as a response to Governor Scott Walker’s $300 million, two-year cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she has a plan to cut about 400 staff positions if the Legislature approves Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the UW System.
The Marquette University Law School poll released Thursday found 70 percent oppose Walker’s proposal to cut University of Wisconsin funding by $300 million, while 26 percent support it. The poll found 78 percent oppose Walker’s plan cutting funding for K-12 schools by $127 million, while 18 support it.
The Marquette University Law School poll released Thursday found 70 percent oppose Walker’s proposal to cut University of Wisconsin funding by $300 million, while 26 percent support it.
The Joint Finance Committee will vote on a proposal in Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year budget that would scrap the Educational Approval Board, which oversees about 250 institutions enrolling about 60,000 students. In the 2013-14 reporting period, the schools received a total of more than $350 million in tuition.
Two state senators are requesting a public hearing to learn more about the impact Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget would have on University of Wisconsin campuses across the state.
KIMBERLY – With $300 million in budget cuts looming for the University of Wisconsin System, community leaders and educators discussed challenges and brainstormed ideas Wednesday for making public higher education more sustainable in the state.
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Platteville leaders will make $3.7 million in budget cuts over the next two years through a series of cost-saving measures, including the elimination of some staff positions and the creation of an incentivised early retirement program.
Thank you Wisconsin State Journal for Wednesday’s article “Campus pumps economy.” It is clear the University of Wisconsin System generates money for the state, lots of money, and at better returns than most stocks.
A new poll says the Wisconsin public doesn’t support the size of the Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and public K-12 education.
The state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee is nixing a provision in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal that would’ve exempted some research at the University of Wisconsin System from open records laws.
A proposal that would have hid University of Wisconsin research from public view has been removed from Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, making it more difficult to pass the Legislature this session.
SOMERS — Heads turned and people stopped to stare as about three dozen students and staff chanting “up, up with education, down, down with legislation” marched on the University of Wisconsin-Parkside campus on Wednesday, protesting proposed state budget cuts.
SOMERS — A small but loud group of students and staff marched through the University of Wisconsin-Parkside campus Wednesday afternoon, calling attention to budget cuts they believe will come if legislators approve Gov. Scott Walker’s budget as is.
