If Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed higher education funding cuts pass, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could nix as many as 300 positions, between buyouts, attrition and layoffs.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Rochester Republican, said Tuesday that the cap makes sense because parents wouldn’t have to worry about huge tuition hikes. But he says he still doesn’t support autonomy because he doubts the regents will use it to run the system more efficiently and cheaply.
In a rare move for the normally nonpolitical organization, the Madison area’s lead economic development agency on Tuesday came out against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
For every taxpayer dollar spent on the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university generates $24 for the state economy, according to a new consultant’s report.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow doesn’t see the value in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cap tuition at UW System campuses to the rate of inflation.
Another University of Wisconsin campus has announced a potential early retirement plan for its employees, raising concerns about larger class sizes.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s higher education reporter says the proposal to transform the University of Wisconsin System into a public authority seems unlikely to become reality, though that does not rule out the possibility that the system will gain some flexibility after the budget is signed.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos held a news conference Tuesday in which he expressed support for a cap on University of Wisconsin tuition increases, as well as funding changes for state parks and a prescription drug program.
University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross said Tuesday he does not support Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to peg future tuition increases to the rate of inflation.
Three Republican lawmakers held a listening session Monday at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, which faces a 25 percent cut in state aid under Gov. Walker’s proposed state budget. It was the first budget hearing by Republicans on the campus.
Gov. Scott Walker has officially asked the Legislature to keep the University of Wisconsin’s guiding principle known as the “Wisconsin Idea” intact.
The first votes on Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year state budget will come this week, but the most difficult decisions, including whether to reduce cuts to public schools and the University of Wisconsin, aren’t expected to be made until later in May.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is the latest UW school to offer employee buyouts to help absorb massive cuts Gov. Scott Walker has proposed for the system.
Gov. Scott Walker is using a cleanup letter on his budget to propose limiting tuition increases at the University of Wisconsin System to the rate of inflation once the current tuition freeze expires.
Gov. Scott Walker lent his support Monday to an embattled plan to decouple the University of Wisconsin System from state control with added state protections against tuition hikes for Wisconsin residents, but a key lawmaker still sees no hope for its passage this session. “I think it is dead in our caucus,” said Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, who’s co-chairman of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee. “I believe there will be enough support to remove it.”
A bedspread that may have covered Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying will be tested for his blood in Wisconsin on Tuesday, 150 years to the day after the 16th US president was fatally shot while watching a play in Washington. University of Wisconsin textile expert Majid Sarmadi will test the cotton bedspread to determine if human blood is on the Wisconsin Historical Society artefact.
I am a fiscally conservative Republican and I support Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television. The proposed state budget includes cuts to the Education Communications Board that are just plain wrong.
Gov. Scott Walker wants to modify his state budget plan to cap University of Wisconsin System resident undergraduate tuition increases according to inflation, according to a letter his administration sent to the leaders of the Legislature’s finance committee on Monday.
Wisconsin’s of two-year UW College campuses, along with UW Extension, will struggle if Republican Governor Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts are implemented. Cathy Sandeen, who was officially inaugurated last week as Colleges and Extension chancellor, said the 13 freshman-sophomore campuses located around the state offer an important educational gateway
The UW System Board of Regents voted Friday to approve tuition increases for some students at UW-Madison as well as at schools in La Crosse, Milwaukee, Parkside, Platteville, River Falls, Stevens Point, Stout and Whitewater during a meeting at UW-Waukesha.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents finalized tuition increases for nine campuses on Friday, and pushed back against a key lawmaker who blasted UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank for proposing a 35% tuition increase over four years for nonresident undergraduates.
WAUSAU – Leaders from across the state — across businesses, governments and educational systems — will assemble this week to talk about the future of Wisconsin education.
MARSHFIELD, Wis. WSAU — State Representative Katrina Shankland and a number of other officials will be holding a roundtable discussion this morning at UW-Marshfield/Wood County to talk about the proposed cuts to the UW-System’s budget.
Current and former players on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh men’s soccer team say plans to eliminate the program are “short-sighted.”
A University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents committee approved plans to raise nonresident and graduate student tuition at nine campuses to help offset $300 million in cuts Gov. Scott Walker has proposed for the system.
UW System President Ray Cross is working closely with state lawmakers and the governor’s office, in hopes of reducing funding cuts to the system. An English professor last month in a public forum asked Cross point blank whether he’d resign if he couldn’t achieve that goal. Cross replied emphatically, “Yes.”
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is considering merging its College of Fine Arts with its College of Letters and Science as it struggles with a proposed 25 percent cut in its state aid.
The UW Board of Regents met at UW Waukesha on Thursday to discuss the looming cuts if Governor Walker’s proposed budget goes through unchanged.
The proposed 300 million dollar cut to the University of Wisconsin System budget would be too hard on the state’s two year campuses, like Marshfield and Wausau. That’s according to State Representative John Spiros, who says he is working with other lawmakers including Representative Dave Heaton of Wausau to try saving the two year campuses from the budget cuts. “In our two year schools, I know that we have one in the campus here at Marshfield, there’s campuses throughout that would be hurt immensely from those budget cuts.”
UW-Madison had two top choices for researchers at the Carbone Cancer Center and at the nursing school, but medical officials there say the uncertainty of the budget led to their picks choosing somewhere else.
UW-Madison’s first choices for director of the Carbone Cancer Center and a top-level faculty researcher in the nursing school turned down the jobs in early February because of concerns about declining funding and clout at the university, according to records obtained by the State Journal under the state’s open records law.
Civic and business leaders, legislators, members of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, UW staff and campus shared governance leaders will participate in a discussion on the future of public higher education in Wisconsin next week.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is taking a long-promised plan to raise tuition for nonresident and professional students to the Board of Regents this week.
MILWAUKEE WITI — The University of Wisconsin System campuses are searching for ways to plug the $300 million budget cut Governor Scott Walker has proposed. It could mean certain students will soon be paying more to go to college.
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students are speaking out against what university officials say amounts to a $7.5 million funding cut in the proposed state budget.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam released a proposal Monday detailing a tuition increase for nonresident and international undergraduate students and for several graduate programs at UW-Madison.
Faced with the prospects of state budget cuts and two more years of a tuition freeze for in-state undergraduates, nine University of Wisconsin System campuses will seek permission this week to raise nonresident, international, graduate and professional school tuition by as much as 20%.
Ray Cross’ stated willingness to resign as president of the University of Wisconsin if the GOP-controlled legislature and Gov. Walker don’t relent on the $300 million cut to his budget demonstrates just how much he needs to reposition the university in strategic terms.
University of Wisconsin officials are caught between different constituencies: communicating to legislators, students, faculty and the public. This week’s cover story explores the balancing act of campaigning for the best possible outcome while preparing for the deepest possible cuts and endeavoring to protect core academic offerings.
Dozens of college students enrolled at schools within the University of Wisconsin System are spending their spring break speaking out against Governor Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts.
As the University of Wisconsin System seeks to pare back its spending wherever possible, one means of mitigating the cuts is likely off the table: the often-floated possibility of merging the two-year UW-Waukesha and four-year UW-Milwaukee campuses.
The rally, and statewide letter writing campaign against the cuts, has been organized by a student group called UW Students Against Education Cuts.
A spokesperson for Blank said Thursday that there a no plans to change the operating model of the golf course.“The university is exploring numerous avenues to mitigate the proposed budget cuts, including suggestions on costs savings and efficiencies received from faculty, staff and the public,” John Lucas, executive director of university communications, said in an email.
Cross said at a forum on Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget Wednesday at UW-Eau Claire that the review system for tenured professors should include probation if warranted, and dismissal if gaps in performance are not addressed, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.
UW System President Ray Cross remains hopeful state lawmakers will reduce the proposed $300 million budget cut to Wisconsin public universities after negotiations between “two extremes.”
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross called for changes in how campuses handle tenured faculty on Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is being hit particularly hard by the governor’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System. School officials point to the elimination of entrepreneurial research in so-called segregated programs as one of the toughest hurdles.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students — angered by proposed university system spending cuts — invited other UW students from throughout the state to participate in a rally Thursday in Madison.
Gov. Scott Walker proposed a biennial state budget in early February that called for large cuts to education. So what does that mean for Madison College and our students?
UW-Oshkosh officials hope an early retirement option will help the school deal with Governor Scott Walker’s proposed funding cuts.
Two campuses within the University of Wisconsin System announced Tuesday they are offering employees a voluntary retirement buyout with a one-time payout equal to 50% of an employees annual base salary.
Four University of Wisconsin System schools (Oshkosh, Eau Claire, Superior and Green Bay) are offering employees buyouts to help absorb their shares of a $300 million system-wide cut in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
In their matching gray #SaveOurUW T-shirts, members of the Associated Students of Madison traveled to the Joint Finance Committee hearing at Reedsburg High School Thursday to vocalize their concerns over Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget.
The proposal to eliminate the Educational Approval Board is part of Walker’s proposed 2015-17 budget. Since its unveiling in February, the board’s Executive Secretary David Dies has been trying to persuade state lawmakers to reject the idea.
In all of the debate over the cuts to the University of Wisconsin System in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plan, the group that has the most at stake is the most often overlooked:
It can be statistically proven that the wealth of nations lies not with the oil and minerals in their lands, their strategic locations or the prominence of their armed forces, but rather in the level of education that their citizens have achieved. I will testify that I have found the pathway to happiness and success through education.
Thousands of University of Wisconsin System advocates put together 12,000 pages of petition signatures and public comments that were submitted to a legislative finance committee considering massive cuts to the system, a group of system supporters said Thursday.
When Gov. Scott Walker proposed a $300 million cut to the state’s university system over two years, Democrats called it a “massive” and “destructive” blow.
Ray Cross pledged Wednesday to resign as president of the University of Wisconsin System if he fails to secure a substantial reduction in proposed state budget cuts and is unable to protect tenure, shared governance and academic freedom for UW campuses.
Cross, facing withering criticism, told a UW-Milwaukee gathering of employees and students that he’d resign if he can’t substantially reduce the $300 million cut and preserve cherished employee protections including shared governance, tenure and academic freedom. He stood by his answer later, saying in an interview that “I don’t believe any higher education leader wants to be any part of an institution that doesn’t have tenure or shared governance.”
