Tag: budget
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Chancellor addresses employees on budget impasse
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Chancellor Thomas Harden addressed a gathering of about 250 UW-Green Bay faculty and staff last week (Feb. 24) with an update on the state-budget controversy.
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Update on budget repair bill, UW System
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• Chancellor updates faculty, staff on state budget UW-Green Bay Chancellor Tom Harden circulated an e-mail message late Wednesday afternoon (Feb. 16) in which he thanked faculty and staff members for their continued fine work and briefed them on developments related to the state budget. The message is archived here. • Faculty Senate OKs resolution…
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UW-Green Bay Faculty Senate to consider resolution on budget repair bill
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The UW-Green Bay Faculty Senate has added an agenda item to its monthly meeting, scheduled for Wednesday (Feb. 16). It’s a resolution in opposition to the budget-repair bill now under consideration by the Wisconsin Legislature. You can access a copy of the resolution as well as other material related to other agenda items; click here.
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Not much education-specific in State of the State
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Those interested in public higher education and/or K-12 heard little specific regarding those programs in Gov. Scott Walker’s first State of the State address in Madison Feb. 1. Instead, the governor outlined in more general terms the depth of Wisconsin’s budget problems. He said he believes there is clear need for Medicaid reform, changes in…
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Wisconsin could face $340 million shortfall this year
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According to an article from the Associated Press, Wisconsin may face as much as a $340 million dollar shortfall by the end of June. The new figures were released Monday by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The shortfall is in addition to the estimated $3.2 billion deficit projected over the next two years. Gov. Scott Walker…
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Academic Staff professional development funds
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Heard the expression “use it or lose it”? This could apply to the budget of the Academic Staff Professional Development Allocation Committee. Committee members are reminding all academic staff that monies are available for educational opportunities through June 30, 2011. If the budgeted dollars are not used by staff, they will be returned to the…
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Reminder: University closing Friday for ‘furlough day’
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UW-Green Bay will be closed for general business activities Friday (Nov. 26), the first of four campuswide furlough days identified by the University in response to state-ordered budget cuts. All state employees including those at UW-Green Bay are required to take as many as eight furlough days annually and to accept a corresponding 3 percent…
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UW-Green Bay to close for furlough day Nov. 26
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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will be closed for general business activities on Friday, Nov. 26, the first of four campuswide furlough days identified by the University in response to state-ordered budget cuts. As part of the plan to address the state’s multi-billion budget deficit, all state employees including those at UW-Green Bay are required…
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UW System leaders start 'barnstorming' tour here
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UW System President Kevin Reilly met with Green Bay area reporters Thursday (July 8) as part of what he called a statewide “barnstorming” tour to promote the importance of the UW System’s Growth Agenda. He was accompanied by Charles Pruitt, president of the Board of Regents, who also addressed the media during a news conference…
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P-G: Despite recession, scholarship/professorship funding moves forward
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There’s no disputing that the recession has an impact upon endowments, and on the Thursday (Feb. 4) front page of the Green Bay Press-Gazette — right there under the big photograph of a student working on an experiment in one of Prof. Michal Zorn’s classes — is an article offering a look at the topic…