Gov. Scott Walker has cited his experience battling unions here four years ago as proof that voters appreciate a political leader willing to “go big and go bold.” So as he woos supporters around the country for a possible presidential bid, Walker (R) is once again picking a fight against a powerful institution at home — public universities.
Gov. Scott Walker wants the treasurer of his new political committee to serve on the board that oversees the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics even though Democrats say the appointment is inappropriate.
The national higher education funding trend shows states putting more money into campuses.
After a paper found that biomedical research is “an unsustainable, hyper competitive system,” the University of Wisconsin began a campus-wide conversation Monday launched by Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
A provision in Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget would allow the University of Wisconsin System to keep the details of its research secret.
David Nelson is the new director of purchasing services at UW-Madison, the university announced on Tuesday. He will start his new job on Monday, Feb. 23.
“TAA is ready to fight tooth and nail against these cuts,” UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association treasurer Travis McArthur told Chancellor Rebecca Blank at a packed forum on proposed state budget cuts Thursday.
On WKOW-TV’s “Capitol City Sunday,” the board’s executive director tried to clarify what state dollars to the public broadcasting and communications agency support.
Despite a -13 degree wind chill, several hundred people gathered at the UW-Madison’s Library Mall on Saturday afternoon to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cuts to the UW System.
In a just-released study, UW-Madison researchers found that kids who had participated in the curriculum were less selfish and exhibited better social skills and greater mental flexibility than children who did not do the exercises. And in an added bonus, the kids who did the kindness curriculum earned higher academic marks at the end of the school year.
They rallied on campus Saturday on the fourth anniversary of the beginning of large-scale demonstrations against a Walker plan that eliminated collective bargaining rights for most of Wisconsin’s public employees.
State budget headlines have focused on massive cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and an attack-then-retreat on the Wisconsin Idea, which, we must infer, is that rare concept still popular across both blue and red Wisconsin.
A mere 2.5 percent budget reduction is what is being asked of the University of Wisconsin System. With a $6.1 billion annual budget, 35,000 employees for reference, the city of Manitowoc has 34,000 residents, 26 campuses and $700 million in cash reserves, the System has many opportunities to get lean, find efficiencies and make your tuition and tax dollars stretch further.
Last month, I was on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at a talk on race. The facilitator began by apologizing for being a white man. I went quiet
Defend the Wisconsin Idea? Sure, but let’s get real about how intellectually and politically radical it is.
Several hundred UW-Madison students, faculty members and other employees braved sub-zero wind chills Saturday afternoon to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut in funding to the UW System over the next two years.
Eleven years after the state of Texas deregulated tuition at its public universities, soaring tuition bills have both university and state officials rethinking the more autonomy/less public money proposition.
The day after Gov. Scott Walker released his budget, I attended a forum on entrepreneurship hosted by the UW-Madison Business School where Lt. Gov. Kleefisch spoke. During her talk she shared a famous Reagan joke: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ’I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” The room went silent. Kleefisch chuckled, “I didn’t get a single laugh!” Did it occur to her that no one laughed because many of us felt personally insulted?
The announcement about the raise suspensions, “effective immediately,” was made in a Feb. 5 memo to state agencies’ human resources directors.
Laura Wyatt promotes urban outdoors as administrative program manager of UW-Madison’s Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
Archival images pair with contemporary photos from the December 2014 “die-in” in two galleries on campus.
The state’s biennial budget may not be finalized until May or June, but layoffs as a result of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System could hit UW-Madison as soon as April, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Wednesday.
While the shift isn’t generating the amount of publicity as Walker’s plan to make the Natural Resources Board advisory, the change is significant since it consolidates key borrowing decisions within the Department of Administration, including bonding for transportation purposes. Under the Walker budget, the Building Commission would no longer meet in order to approve projects or the borrowing to make them happen. The commission — which by statute includes members of both political parties and is chaired by the governor — has traditionally met monthly. Instead, the commission would operate under what the budget proposal calls a “passive review process” where items are considered approved unless a majority of Building Commission members request a meeting.
The governor is proposing a $2.5 million cut in state funding each year over the next two years to the Educational Communications Board, which spends about $19 million a year.
Column by April McHugh, a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
New technology is leading us to be able to print a tangible 3D object. The process of 3D printing has infiltrated its way into the Madison area more and more, proving to make life easier for some.
Editorial board says: “The Wisconsin Legislature must resist the governor’s ideologically driven thrust at the state university system.”
The Madison metro area ranked first in the nation for having the highest percentage of graduates in STEM fields.
Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he never intended to dramatically rewrite the University of Wisconsin Systems mission statement, even as a December email showed his administration clearly ordered that it drop a guiding principle known as the “Wisconsin Idea.”
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.
Exact Sciences is giving credit to University of Wisconsin graduates and Madison locals who are now employed there for the company’s recent expansion and success.
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.
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.
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.
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.
University of Wisconsin School of Business marketing professor Thomas O’Guinn is a commentator in several episodes of a new cable television series about iconic, brand-savvy American business leaders.
Noted: Kirsten Kukowski, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, will serve as “Our American Revival” communications director. Kukowski previously worked for the Republican Party of Wisconsin in 2007-2008 and since 2011 has been Republican National Committee press secretary.
The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism www.WisconsinWatch.org collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
“Dairy agriculture in Wisconsin is a big deal, and we have landscapes where we can maintain it. We just have to be wise in how we do it,” said Fred Madison, a UW-Madison soil science professor emeritus, who has been aware of groundwater problems in Kewaunee County for 40 years.
UW graduate Chad Gracia’s documentary “The Russian Woodpecker” won a big prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Recognizing the importance of Wisconsin’s Native Americans to the state, University of Wisconsin faculty members are reaching out to those communities to strengthen the connection between the state’s flagship university with Wisconsin’s original inhabitants.
In an effort to further research in veterinary medicine, the University of Wisconsin is looking to expand a newly created animal shelter medicine program with a newly acquired $1.3 million in funds.
The Classified Staff Executive Committee discussed the possible effects of the upcoming state budget Thursday.
While the University of Wisconsin’s Massive Online Open Courses had high worldwide enrollment numbers last year, they will have a more local focus this year, including a hands-on aspect at the end of the semester.
Changes could be on the way for the UW System in the next state budget.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says there is no proposal under discussion that would give her campus independence beyond that of the university system.
The season’s first MOOC brings together the DNR, UW-Madison, the Aldo Leopold Foundation and thousands of students via the Internet. The end of class get-together features venison stew. “What an opportunity to sort of marry this digital free content to face-to-face engagement around the state,” said EI spokeswoman Lika Balenovich.
The UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine raised $1.3 million in grants, gifts and pledges to help fund a Shelter Medicine Program, according to a university press release.
Days after The Wisconsin State Journal reported Gov. Scott Walker was considering splitting UW-Madison from the rest of the UW System in his budget proposal, neither state Republicans nor System officials have confirmed or denied the allegation.
University of Wisconsin graduate Kersti Niebruegge translated her passion for learning into a profession by becoming a footage researcher for popular television stations and shows, such as Late Night with Seth Meyers.
A University of Wisconsin graduate and Madison local landed on this years’ Forbes 30 under 30 under the Enterprise Technology category.
University of Wisconsin rewarded exceptional staff performances with more than 1,637 merit payments in 2014, the most awarded by any state agency.
Noted: In college, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Klunder found a group of like-minded friends and joined the multicultural student coalition. After receiving a master’s degree in social work, she took a job at Macalester College in Minnesota, advising minority and feminist groups and working on the school’s response to sexual assault.
Barbata, the UW Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence for Spring 2015, will stage a major parade in downtown Madison on May 2.
The free on-campus film series starts this weekend, including “Citizen Kane” on Saturday night.
Takeaways from the “UW Voices” series will inform the implementation of the new campus diversity plan.
But he won’t expand on the internal discussions until his Feb. 3 budget address.
A debate about whether or not police should wear body cameras took center stage at UW Thursday night.
Bud Selig never had to break up any craps games as Major League Baseball’s Commissioner like he did back in the days as fraternity president in Wisconsin.
Six have been unveiled in the past 48 hours — including the two all-important coordinators — but that’s not quick enough for some. But there’s something to be said for making certain you select the right people to spread your message.
