On the dumb scale, dissing “The Wisconsin Idea” while youre governor of Wisconsin is somewhere just to the south of suggesting that the Green Bay Packers are such a suck on the states resources that they should move to the U.P. Now, of course, that notion might gain purchase if Mike McCarthy settles for a few more field goals from the one-yard line but thats another column.
Carl Gulbrandsen, whose job is to convert research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into commercial businesses, needed less than a nanosecond Thursday to begin itemizing specific ways the school has enhanced the states economy.
Over the next few weeks, the Legislature will receive the full text of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget, along with the analysis of the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. As I review those documents, I will be interested to see more details on Gov. Walker’s proposed changes to the University of Wisconsin System, including a $300 million budget cut over two years.
EDITOR: I am a conservative when it comes to high debt levels and spending. I’ve been a supporter of Gov. Scott Walker supporter for the most part because we needed an elected official willing to take a stand on controlling government spending.
While the big kerfuffle in Madison this week was over Gov. Scott Walker’s budget attempt to redefine the Wisconsin Idea and turn state universities into jobs programs, there remains in the budget an even more outrageous proposal that would put a black veil over public oversight of university operations.
University of Wisconsin Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank delivers a fiery speech to the UW System Board of Regents about the expected $91 million budget hole. She said it would be the result of Governor Scott Walker’s proposed two-year spending plan, which calls for $300 million in cuts to the UW System.
We call upon our state legislators, Rep. Al Ott and Sen. Frank Lasee, to vocally and forcefully oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s devastating cuts to the University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday that the news of the past week involving Gov. Scott Walker’s budget will prompt other universities to “raid” her best faculty.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was able to kill collective-bargaining rightsfor state workers, but he can’t kill the Wisconsin Idea, the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin. Not yet, at least.
The chancellor of the state’s flagship university warned Thursday that top faculty and best students will go elsewhere if proposed state budget cuts go through because they will harm the quality of education and lead to program cuts.
Gov. Scott Walker and aides scrambled Thursday to respond to revelations that his administration had insisted to University of Wisconsin officials on fundamental changes to the Wisconsin Idea, which has been the guiding principle for the states universities for more than a century.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s new budget proposal reads like a modern day Republican manifesto: reductions in property taxes, expansion of school vouchers, elimination of Common Core and implementation of drug testing for food stamp recipients.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal to cut University of Wisconsin funding by $300 million was called “devastating” by UW-Oshkosh employee groups.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said on Wednesday that Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal is “a good place to start,” but that he’s concerned about the magnitude of the funding cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
Governor Scott Walker backed away Wednesday from an effort to end the University of Wisconsin’s mission to search for truth and improve the human condition — at least on paper.
Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, said late Wednesday that his proposal to remove the public-service focus of the public university system’s mission was a “drafting error.”
In quickly restoring the Wisconsin Idea on Wednesday to its central place in the states public university system, Gov. Scott Walker said its mission statement of searching for truth had only been proposed for removal from state law because of an oversight or drafting error in his budget bill.
Following an unexpected change to the Wisconsin Idea in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget bill, Walker said in a statement Wednesday a drafting error led to several sentences being cut.
The governor’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System has UW-Madison officials looking more than ever at alternative solutions to compensate for the anticipated loss in state funds.
Gov. Scott Walker’s suggestion to ask professors in the University of Wisconsin System to teach one more class raised concerns among faculty that the university could lose some of its prestige in research.
In the past couple of weeks, the landscape of Wisconsin politics has been filled with politicians, students, university officials and other university stakeholders screaming into microphones, each trying to proclaim that they hold the key to the future of the UW System. One side loves to tout the flexibilities that the UW System would have under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, while the other shrieks in terror at the drastic budget cuts to public education.
Chanting “no ifs, no buts, no education cuts” a group of around 100 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students, faculty and staff protested the governor’s budget proposal that would cut $300 million from the UW System.
In the past few weeks, there has been much discussion regarding the University of Wisconsin System, its budget and access to higher education. But this discussion has missed some important points:
During his tenure as Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker has gotten a lot of ink for things he has done. But far less attention has been paid to the things he hasn’t been able to accomplish.
On the one hand, the Wisconsin Idea is a relic of Progressive-Era gasbaggery. The idea that the Wisconsin public university system could reach its fingers into every corner of the state was cooked up by university leaders like Charles Van Hise when he wasn’t trying to rid the state of “defectives” through the practice of eugenics. In the past 100 years, anyone who rightly criticized any wasteful practices at the UW were met by howls of “but the Wisconsin Idea!,” as if the mere invocation of the term constituted the last word.
Stunned educators accused Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday of trying to kill the Wisconsin Idea, which has guided the mission of the states public higher education system for more than a century.
But under Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 budget, public broadcasting in Wisconsin faces a sharp 34 percent budget cut next year and an additional 1.4 percent in 2017.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said Wednesday that more borrowing for road projects, historic cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and flat funding for K-12 schools are the top concerns so far among caucus members.
The head of the board that oversees Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television says he has “a lot of work” ahead of him as he fights a $5 million state funding cut that Gov. Scott Walker proposed Tuesday when he unveiled his two-year budget plan.
The term “drafting error” may be enshrined as a legendary Wisconsin phrase after Wednesday’s events.
Wisconsinites swooped in to defend the Wisconsin Idea Wednesday from Gov. Scott Walker’s budget bill rewrite of the University of Wisconsin’s mission.
Facing a massive backlash, Gov. Scott Walker retreated Wednesday from a proposal to wipe out language at the foundation of the Wisconsin Idea — the long-cherished principle that the state’s public universities exist to seek truth and serve the people of the entire state.
As Wisconsinites continue to review and make sense of Governor Walker’s budget, economist Steven Deller discusses how the proposals will affect the economy.
It appears that Gov. Scott Walker does not actually intend to end the “Wisconsin Idea” in his executive budget.
Gov. Scott Walker said his decision to cut funding to public broadcasting is about balancing priorities.
You might think that one of the nation’s leading academic communication programs would be a good place to make a long-distance phone call.
In his 2015 budget proposal, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker R offers an unusual change amid the details of how and where he proposes spending the state’s money. As noted by the watchdog site PR Watch and brought to our attention by journalist Abe Sauer, Walker would like to change the statement of purpose and mission for the University of Wisconsin system. Less talk about searching for truth; more talk about meeting the state’s workforce needs.
Gov. Scott Walker abruptly backed off Wednesday from a contentious plan to eliminate the University of Wisconsin System’s public service mission statement known as the “Wisconsin Idea” and replace it with the charge of meeting the state’s workforce needs.
Governor Scott Walker backed away Wednesday from an effort to end the University of Wisconsin’s mission to search for truth and improve the human condition — at least on paper.
Gov. Scott Walker, a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination, on Tuesday proposed a new spending plan for Wisconsin that relies on borrowing and spending cuts, including deep reductions to state universities, and steers clear of tax increases.
UW–Platteville is facing millions of dollars in budget cuts for its 2015–16 academic year at the time it could face part of a proposed $300 million UW System budget cut.
In addition to unprecedented budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin UW system, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker struck “the search for truth” and the Wisconsin Idea from the university’s mission in his executive budget bill unveiled last night.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wants to require drug testing for those seeking a variety of public benefits, dramatically cut funding to the University of Wisconsin System and greatly expand a private school voucher program under a budget he delivered Tuesday that comes as he takes more steps toward a presidential run.
Highlights of Gov. Scott Walker’s $68.2 billion two-year state budget released on Tuesday:
Gov. Scott Walker put major changes to Wisconsin’s education system on the table Tuesday as he introduced his proposal for the state budget to the state Legislature.
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate released a unanimously passed resolution Monday stating their disapproval of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the UW system.
Gov. Scott Walker laid out his $68 billion budget proposal for the next two years Tuesday, calling for major changes at the University of Wisconsin System and an extension of the tuition freeze for in-state undergraduates.
Walker’s proposal to disband the Educational Approval Board, an out-of-the-spotlight agency that decides whether for-profit colleges can operate in the state, comes after the board appeared to conflict in recent years with Republican lawmakers over a proposal to set standards for retention and job placement at for-profit schools.
Lawmakers in both parties are questioning whether a proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System is too large.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s state faced a big budget deficit. To solve it, he plans to decimate one of the most respected and productive university systems in the country. And he plans to spend hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars for a professional basketball arena.
UW-Madison officials also prepared to negotiate relief from a hard hit from Walker with legislators and with campus allies, bringing in a state Capitol veteran as a lobbyist and producing a simple, slick summary of its budget that showcases the numbers that make its case.
Noted: ? Cut state funding for the University of Wisconsin System by 13%, freeze tuition for two years, and starting in July 2016 free the system from some state rules on personnel, procurement and building projects.
Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a $68 billion two-year spending plan Tuesday night that calls for a sweeping expansion of private school vouchers, consolidating control over environmental regulation and natural resources, sharp cuts for the University of Wisconsin System and defunding public television and radio.
A great state needs a great state university — as a source of educational opportunity, vital research and economic development. The founders of Wisconsin understood this, making provision in the first state constitution “for the establishment of a state university, at or near the seat of state government.” That provision also speaks of linking the great state university in Madison with “colleges in different parts of the state as the interests of education may require.” And it outlines strategies for supporting and sustaining higher education in Wisconsin.
UW-Milwaukee will have to slash $40 million from its budget if Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System becomes law. The state faces a $283 million shortfall in the current budget, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, and a $2.2 billion structural deficit in the next two-year budget cycle.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011 fight with public-sector unions sparked huge protests—and elevated him into a national figure in conservative politics. Now, as he eyes a run for president, he is targeting another group on the public payroll: university professors. (Subscription required.)
With $300 million in cuts proposed for the University of Wisconsin System, it is tempting to say that the sky is falling. But saying that requires real cuts and real impacts that are felt immediately by the general public. Unfortunately, the impact of these cuts will take years to be fully felt.
Three Democratic lawmakers from Dane County on Monday said Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System would damage the local and state economy and the quality of a UW education.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank outlined a strategy Monday at a meeting of the university’s Faculty Senate, where members unanimously adopted a resolution opposing the proposed cut to the UW System in the state biennial budget.
Walker has said he will propose cutting $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System, about a 13 percent reduction, over the next two years while also freezing tuition. In exchange, Walker wants to give the UW System more freedom from state oversight and laws, a move that university officials have sought for years to give them greater control of their own operations. Much of the debate in the Legislature is expected to focus on the size of the proposed cut and just how much latitude to give UW as it moves toward a public authority model.
