Leaders of of WiscNet, the Internet service provider the University of Wisconsin System dropped last month, told state senators Monday they are confident that the company will be able to continue providing services to public schools and libraries despite the loss of 27% of its revenue without the university business.
Gov. Scott Walker vetoed a clause in the 2013-15 state budget Sunday that would have forced the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism out of its space on the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s campus and prohibited faculty from collaborating with it.
DETROIT, MI ? The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism scored a big win over the weekend, as Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, vetoed a budget provision approved by GOP legislators that would have expelled the nonprofit newsroom from its offices at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The measure, passed in early June at the conclusion of a marathon overnight session, also would have prohibited university employees from doing any work related to the WCIJ.
Last week, I wrote here about a move by the GOP-dominated Wisconsin legislature to shut down an investigative reporting center which works with the journalism school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gov. Scott Walker vetoed a budget provision that would have ejected the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its office in a University of Wisconsin-Madison building.
After 57 vetoes, Governor Scott Walker has signed the Wisconsin state budget. The Sunday afternoon signing ceremony took place at a Pleasant Prairie business called Catalyst Exhibits.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed the state budget Sunday after making several dozen vetoes to it.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Bounty hunters will not be allowed in Wisconsin and an investigative journalism center will continue to operate on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus with vetoes Gov. Scott Walker made to the state budget.
Gov. Walker says he will veto a budget amendment crafted by ham-handed GOP members of the Joint Finance Committee that would have kicked the non-profit Center for Investigative Journalism out of its UW-Madison campus office space and obstructed its relationships with Journalism school faculty.
MADISON, Wis. AP – – The head of the Center for Investigative Journalism in Wisconsin says he is grateful to Republican Gov. Scott Walker for vetoing a provision in the state budget that would have kicked the center off the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
If reporters needed one more reminder that they still badly need a reliable replacement for the outmoded home subscriptions-and-advertising revenue model to stay in business, Wisconsin legislators are supplying it.
MADISON ? Most Wisconsin state workers and employees at the University of Wisconsin System will receive a 1 percent pay raise starting Sunday, after a legislative committee unanimously approved Gov. Scott Walker?s proposal.
Gov. Scott Walkers administration is recommending a 1 percent pay raise for state and University of Wisconsin workers in each of the next two years.
The Wisconsin state budget that would cut income taxes for all taxpayers, allow private school vouchers to expand statewide and freeze tuition at the University of Wisconsin is now in the hands of Gov. Scott Walker.
Outgoing UW-Madison chancellor David Ward said Wednesday he believes the university was ?rightfully dinged? by the Legislature for not being forthcoming about a $650 million surplus.
Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward says that a legislature-mandated tuition freeze without any larger debate is wrong.
Once upon a time, we were told that Wisconsin was all about job creation.?Wisconsin is open for business,? said the bumper stickers, the signs on the Wisconsin-Illinois border, the press releases, the elected officials and the actions of state government since January 2011.
The state?s Republican-led budget committee may have done no greater favor for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism than voting to evict it from two tiny offices in UW-Madison?s Vilas Hall.
The current state budget as proposed makes no sense. The Legislature, in a desperate effort to make themselves look good, plans to give back hundreds of millions of dollars in tax cuts that will cost the taxpayers dearly in the future.
MADISON ? Gov. Scott Walker said he wants to increase transparency and accountability in Wisconsin?s embattled public higher education system in his latest round of appointments to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents,
Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer whose works appear in a variety of publications, including Time and the Wall Street Journal.
For the last four years, I?ve taught an investigative reporting class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Not typical, you might say, for a long-time science writer who spends most of her time telling stories about our chemical world.
The Wisconsin state legislature?s attempt last week to evict the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from the campus on which it operates poses a threat to one hopeful model for the future of journalism, and suggests that a long history of journalistic innovation at American universities may be in trouble.
A proposal by the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee to boot the Center for Investigative Journalism off the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus should be removed from the state budget.
The University of Wisconsin System regents voted today to pursue pay raises for all UW employees.
MILWAUKEE ? The University of Wisconsin System regents approved a proposal Friday that could eventually lead to pay raises for all UW System employees.
And once again there is a nation full of journalists wondering what?s going on in Wisconsin?s state legislature.This week, a legislative committee approved a measure that would not only evict the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its offices on the University of Wisconsin campus, but also bar any university staff from working with the center.
At their meeting in Milwaukee today, University of Wisconsin regents talked about the latest proposed budget cutbacks for the university system.
The bipartisan freeze will keep tuition rates at the University of Wisconsin-Superior steady for two years. A surplus of nearly $650 million in the University of Wisconsin system has Gov. Walker confident in the higher education system going forward.
It?s hard to know what, if anything, Republican legislators were thinking when the budget committee voted, 12-4, to boot the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its offices at the University of Wisconsin. For starters, the legislators won?t reveal their motives to the public or to the leaders of the journalism center. That?s disturbing in itself.
Early this week, I awoke to learn that University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism student Mario Koran had won a prestigious scholarship named for a brave and talented young journalist who died last year while reporting in Mexico City.
THUMBS DOWN: Among the budget-cutting items approved in Wednesday?s pre-dawn voting by the Republican-dominated Joint Finance Committee was a motion that costs the state?s taxpayers almost nothing: The eviction of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from UW-Madison facilities and a ban on UW employees working for or with the organization.
A conservative radio talk show host and a moderate Republican state senator on Thursday both bashed a move to quash an investigative journalism center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Officials with the University of Wisconsin System say it will be a challenge for UW universities to deal with expected budget cuts, but they?re committed to figuring out a way to make things work.
A conservative radio talk show host and a moderate Republican state senator are both bashing a move to quash an investigative journalism center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The regents for the University of Wisconsin System will be meeting for the first time since a legislative committee voted to slash the UW budget.
Republicans? bid to cut the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism off from the state?s flagship university made me sad ? and not because the award-winning center puts out a quality product at a time when traditional news organizations face increasing difficulties.
A last-minute budget amendment would prevent the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from operating out of an office on the UW-Madison campus. That would have implications far beyond just the center and the university?s journalism school, says Greg Downey, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Students enrolling next fall in the University of Wisconsin?s new flexible degree programs for working adults will pay $2,250 for a three-month ?all you can learn? block of time, allowing motivated students to zip through multiple courses much faster than allowed in the traditional semester-based model.
The Joint Finance Committee?s measure booting the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from Vilas Hall, the beating heart of UW-Madison?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has turned into the little surprise story that could today, but it?s still unclear to what extent the loss of the nonprofit news group?s office on the campus would have on the plucky operation.
The legislature?s Joint Finance Committee voted early this morning to prohibit the UW from housing WCIJ, and to bar any UW employee from doing work related to the organization. WCIJ is a nonprofit investigative news organization that?s funded through grants and private donations.
The Legislature?s petty attempt to evict the Center for Investigative Journalism from the UW-Madison campus has quickly backfired.
Legislation that would bar University of Wisconsin professors from working with a nonprofit journalism center and kick the center off the Madison campus is a “direct assault” on academic freedom, the UW journalism school?s director says.
A provision added to the state budget would mean the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism might not be housed at the University of Wisconsin anymore.
Madison ? After an all-night round of closed-door meetings, Republicans early Wednesday loaded up the state budget with a grab bag of new policies, including allowing bail bondsmen to operate in Wisconsin.
Madison — The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism would have to leave the UW-Madison campus, under a Republican motion before the Legislature?s budget committe.
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism could no longer be housed at the University of Wisconsin under a provision added to the state budget.
Chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System are publicly jumping into the fray of the state budget debate, encouraging their campus stakeholders to lobby legislators to roll back a proposed freeze on tax dollars and delays in new flexibilities promised in the last state budget.
Governor Scott Walker was in Green Bay Tuesday to discuss a budget provision that got approval from the committee and is moving on to the full Legislature.
Opponents of a new bill want more time to study the legislation that would require photo ID and repeal a ban on corporate campaign contributions.
The University of Wisconsin System will also have its tuition frozen by state lawmakers after a controversy erupted over the university?s year-end balance. The proposal to freeze tuition was a bipartisan effort, and Governor Scott Walker recommended paring back his initial proposal to increase funding for the state?s universities. The governor?s administration secretary, in a letter to the legislature?s Joint Finance Committee, said the university system was “more interested in protecting its bank account than in ensuring a quality higher education.”
A sweeping plan to grant UW-Madison more flexibility in how it classifies, recruits, pays and evaluates its 20,000 employees has run into a legislative roadblock just a month before its planned July rollout, leaving administrators and union chiefs with the same question ? now what? ? but different reactions.
Part of the University of Wisconsin budget approved last night would make it harder for the UW student group United Council to collect dues.
Sale of public property: The Joint Finance Committee signed off last week on a proposal to give Gov. Scott Walker broad authority to sell heating plants, highways and other state property without seeking competitive bids. It mitigated the bill somewhat by stipulating that lawmakers must approve any sale and added some limits, but this is still a bad idea. Not asking for competitive bids is a recipe for wasting taxpayer money.
Early in his tenure, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly said he felt prepared for the challenges the job brought, noting the sharp elbows he developed while working in the State University of New York system.
Dont worry, Badgers sports fans, the Kohl Center is not for sale. But parking ramps and dormitories are among the buildings at the University of Wisconsins flagship campus, and other UW System campuses, that eventually could end up in the hands of private investors under a proposal headed for legislative approval.
The Legislature?s budget committee approved a two-year tuition freeze for the University of Wisconsin System and cut state funding by $152 million from what Gov. Scott Walker had proposed.
MADISON ? When the co-chair of the Legislature?s powerful Committee on Joint Finance says it might be best if you stepped down, you know you and your agency are in for a long, hard day.
The University of Wisconsin System moved one step closer to a tuition freeze for the next two years, in what could be the first in the system?s history, after the Legislature?s budget writing committee approved portions of Gov. Scott Walker?s budget Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. AP ? A key legislative committee voted Thursday to slash the University of Wisconsin Systems budget, venting its anger a few weeks after learning the system raised tuition for six straight years even though its currently sitting on a surplus of $650 million.
