MADISON ? University of Wisconsin System officials planned to spend a large chunk of their 2012 reserves on several items including scholarships, construction projects and staff salaries, according to a state report.
Rebecca Blank, new UW-Madison chancellor, noted recently that state support has slipped to 15 percent of overall UW-Madison spending. But, says Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris, with Walker in power, she and other UW officials must tread carefully: ?They can?t afford to take them on head-on.? (Also refers to research by Kathy Cramer.)
Future students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s dairy and meat science program can look forward to learning in a state of the art facility. On Wednesday, Governor Scott Walker announced renovation plans for the The Babcock Hall, Center for Dairy Research, and the Meat Science and Muscle Biology Laboratory. The work is expected to be completed by 2018.
Before auctioning off cattle, pigs and sheep at the governor?s annual blue ribbon livestock auction at the Wisconsin State Fair, Gov. Scott Walker announced Wednesday that proposed renovations of University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings for dairy and meat science research will go forward as planned.
University of Wisconsin Board of Regents President Mike Falbo says UW System officials need to improve relations with legislators following a tense budget session.
?A lot of people use the term structural deficit and they define it in different ways,? says Andrew Reschovsky, an economist at UW-Madison?s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
In their meeting last month, some members of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents lamented that the state Legislature was micromanaging the board.
Gov. Scott Walker and members of the legislature ordered a tuition freeze in the University of Wisconsin system after it was discovered more than three-quarters of a billion dollars had been secretly piling up in surplus cash.
When Republicans released a Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo this spring showing that the UW had hundreds of millions in reserves, they attacked it for hiding the money and for holding too much of it. In the budget that?s now law, Republicans directed the UW to come up with a new system for tracking its reserves.
The outgoing head of the UW-Madison says University System officials should be cautious about freezing tuition in the future.
In vetoing a last-minute budget provision to boot the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism off the UW-Madison campus, Gov. Scott Walker didn?t pan the effort as much as its narrow scope.
A nonprofit group which provides Internet services to school districts, libraries and other public-sector entities expects to maintain a viable business model, despite the loss of its largest customer, the University of Wisconsin System.
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.
