Category: State budget

Sen. Fred Risser and Reps. Therese Berceau, Chris Taylor and Lisa Subeck will hold a session from 4-7 p.m. Thursday in Room B130 of Van Vleck Hall on the UW-Madison campus.

Born on a farm and still most comfortable on the land, Ray Cross brings a down-to-earth approach to the job of bringing together the UW System and the governor and Legislature.

Several Democratic lawmakers from Madison are holding a listening session Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to gather public input on the governors proposed $300 million budget cut and new public authority for the UW System.

Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services Robert Cramer and his team are preparing for an additional $5 million cut to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville budget in addition to the ongoing $5 million structural deficit base cut already in place.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly has joined the growing opposition on UW campuses to state lawmakers creating an independent public authority for the UW System without it first being studied by a blue ribbon committee.

Though the UW System’s proposed autonomy measures would mean removing state mandates for minority scholarship funding, both university and UW System officials said those scholarships will be unaffected.

Following Gov. Scott Walker’s call for a $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System for the 2015-’17 biennium, southeastern Wisconsin UW campuses are busy preparing to meet the worst-case scenarios.

Some University of Wisconsin chancellors brought rough estimates of how many jobs they may have to eliminate under the governor’s proposed budget at a Board of Regents meeting on Thursday.

As Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential star continued to rise, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, challenged him on how his budget treats the University of Wisconsin System.

Chippewa Valley WQOW – Some UW System employees are concerned about a plan that could end their status as state employees. It’s part of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal and his plan to allow the UW System Board of Regents to have public authority.

Is removing protection for the 11-acre research and recreational forest on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukees campus a conspiracy to make way for development, or a technicality to shift rules governing the UW System from state statute to Board of Regents policy under a proposed UW System Public Authority?

Creating a University of Wisconsin Public Authority isnt the only way to gain autonomy from cumbersome state rules, a member of the UW System Board of Regents adamantly pointed out Thursday.

Regents and chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System vowed Thursday to push back against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to higher education.

University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is seeking a smaller budget cut than the $300 million Gov. Scott Walker is proposing.  He’s also asking for greater autonomy for the system.  Joy Cardin’s guest education policy expert discusses what a UW System Authority would look like and why…

According to Joy Cardin’s guest, the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement has some serious flaws. He explains why he says the Wisconsin Idea is not unique, does not tolerate conservative viewpoints, and is committed to ideology instead of truth….

In 48 U.S. states, government spending on each college student is still below where it was before the recession that ended almost six years ago. Now, at least seven governors propose cutting deeper.

I have had communications with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, the UW Marathon County Dean Keith Montgomery, a biophysics professor of UW-La Crosse and many others on the impact proposed state budget cuts will have on our currently outstanding UW System. Their universal opinion is that the cuts will seriously, in Blank’s words, “risk the investment that generations of Wisconsinites have made to create a highly ranked university in our state.”

As a current undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and member of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Associated Students of Madison, the student association on campus, I am deeply concerned about the possible ramifications of Scott Walker’s proposed budget on students such as myself. When I was a junior in high school, I dreamed of going out-of-state for school. However, I realized that I could obtain the same caliber of education at an in-state price – at UW-Madison.

I am deeply concerned about the proposed cuts to the UW system, and the proposed loosening of public control.

Officials say Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed biennial budget plan to whittle down the University of Wisconsin System budget by $300 million over two years could lead to devastating cuts to smaller two-year campuses across the state.

With chants of “No if’s, no but’s, just say no to budget cuts!” about 50 University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students rallied on campus Wednesday to oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to trim UW System funding by $300 million.

University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is seeking a smaller budget cut than the $300 million Gov. Scott Walker is proposing.  He’s also asking for greater autonomy for the system. Joy Cardin’s guest education policy expert discusses what a UW System Authority would look like and why she says it’s a bad deal.

UW-Madison faculty are struggling to find a way to influence the plan to convert the university from a state agency to an independent public authority, as proposed in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.

The editorial “Scott Walker’s School Days” Feb. 23 is misleading on at least two points. First, it states that, “the demonstrators even object to Mr. Walker’s suggestion that UW’s ‘Wisconsin idea’ mission include a goal ‘to develop human resources to meet the state’s workforce needs.’” In fact, the objection was to the removal of phrases including, “basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth” and “to extend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campuses.” (Subscription required.)

Members of the state’s budget committee met Tuesday to hear testimony from state agencies on Gov. Scott Walker’s recent budget proposal.

The Legislature’s finance committee began on Monday a months-long push to revise Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal for the next two fiscal years, grilling a handful of state officials on cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, plans for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena and the manning of prison towers.