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.
A former Fort Benning soldier convicted with his wife of crushing their three-day-old infant’s skull in June 2008 is set to have a mid-July hearing on a new-trial motion, with his defense aided by new medical evidence and an attorney from the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
Madison has benefited greatly from its building boom Downtown and elsewhere. This includes the central city, the East Washington corridor, the UW-Madison campus, State Street and beyond.
UW graduate Jill Soloway’s Amazon Prime series “Transparent” won the Golden Globe award for Best Comedy/Musical series on Sunday night.
Its creator is a University of Wisconsin graduate, by the way.
Noted: There’s even a UW-Madison program that trains and certifies new coaches. In 2013, the school’s Division of Continuing Studies began offering a Professional Life Coaching Certificate PLCC. Lead instructor Darcy Luoma, a life coach herself, says she and program director Aphra Mednick saw the program as a way to make the university a regional pioneer.
Ed Nuttycombe, 62, the hugely successful 26 Big Ten conference championship teams recently retired University of Wisconsin men’s track and field coach, was inducted into the track coaches Hall of Fame, and the man who presented Ed for induction was his father, Hall of Fame member Charlie Nuttycombe, 84.
Niebruegge, a 2003 UW–Madison grad with a degree in journalism, has published her debut novel titled “Mistake, Wisconsin.”
Claudia Card attended UW-Madison and has taught philosophy at her alma mater since 1966.
Maybe the GOP has actually convinced voters that we do not need and cannot afford a world-class research university such as the one we have at UW-Madison. After all, it is GOP pols who like to say — to dodge overwhelming evidence that climate change exists — that they cannot opine on it because they are not scientists. So, not grasping the promise of stem cells and other advanced research, maybe they think Wisconsin’s flagship university should stick to training for professions they understand.
Natalie Rudolph is one of 11 recipients for the award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
A security guard at UW Hospital was arrested on suspicion of numerous child sexual assault charges.
Joe Thomas, a standout Badgers lineman from 2003 to 2006, said the state Department of Natural Resources citations, which carry tens of thousands of dollars in potential fines, make things look worse than they are.
UW-Madison doesn’t include graduate earning information to the Department of Education’s College Scorecard, but payscale.com ranks it 166th for bachelor’s degree holders among 1,002 schools.
Some people and organizations are well ahead of the curve in terms of meaningful action. The Rev. Carmen Porco is doing great work on the North Side of Madison, creating new ways to think of low-income housing that defy stereotypes about low-income communities and what they can achieve. UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently stated that diversity and inclusiveness are priorities. Common Wealth Development and Freedom Inc. are two nonprofits doing important work. And of course the YWCA has a track record of encouraging dialogue and understanding.
2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the first awarding of the Bob Richards Consumer Advocacy Internship Award at UW-Madison.
Amy DeJong and Maya Warren will be in Los Angeles watching the show, and can’t talk about who wins the race, out of the four finalist teams.
