Tag: state budget
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Regent budget accounts for impacts of $250 million, two-year cut
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The UW System Board of Regents approved a 2015-16 budget Thursday that factors in $125 million in “painful” annual cuts from the Governor and Legislature. Several Regents and UW System officials were vocal in reacting to the actions necessitated by GPR reduction in state funding. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, reports that Regent Charles Pruitt voted against…
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Board of Regents meets to finalize UW System budget
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With Senate passage yesterday and Assembly approval possible today, it’s likely the UW System Board of Regents will have a good handle on what the 2015-17 state budget allocation will be when board members meet Thursday (July 9) in Madison to ratify the System’s one-year spending plan. UW-Green Bay is anticipating a $2.8 million GPR…
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In the news: Gov. Walker and tenure issue
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Some see it as political grandstanding, or as proposals that seem dramatic but won’t in fact change much about the way the UW System does business. Others see deep-seated enmity and a campaign to gut academic freedom and punish higher ed. The Politico website has a relatively concise but well-balanced overview that talks to people…
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Town Hall Meeting Recap – June 3, 2015
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UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary Miller met with the campus community in a Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, June 3, 2015 to answer questions related to the budget and discuss plans for making reductions in the weeks and months ahead. What follows is a summarized and paraphrased list of topics discussed and a summarized version of…
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Tax collection update brings sobering news
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Wisconsin tax collections won’t grow beyond earlier projections, state lawmakers were told Wednesday. Gov. Scott Walker and legislators had been saying for months that they were hopeful revenue gains would make it possible to dial back some of cuts to K-12 schools and the University of Wisconsin System proposed in the governor’s initial budget plan.…
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Students Against Cuts plan two events this week
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The Green Bay chapter of the student organization UW Students Against Education Cuts — which organized a rally on campus earlier this spring — is organizing two final events this week, open to all: • A “Duct Tape Rally” on Tuesday (May 5) at 2 p.m. near the Weidner Carillon outside the Union — people…
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Cross talks about Gov. Walker’s errata
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(Sounds kind of racy, doesn’t it? But we digress.) UW System President Ray Cross issued a statement last week concerning the technical corrections to his budget proposal that the governor released recently, including several key aspects of the public authority proposal and the preservation of the Wisconsin Idea. Cross questioned the CPI-based tuition cap proposed…
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Update on budget: No final decisions before June
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UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary L. Miller distributed a short letter with the title “Budget Reduction Update” to UW-Green Bay faculty and staff members this morning (April 21). He shared that the University’s leaders and advocates continue to have constructive conversations with state legislators about the size of the UW System funding cuts and important new…
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Poll shows opposition to UW System cuts
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A Marquette University poll released Thursday found 70 percent of Wisconsin respondents oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut University of Wisconsin funding by $300 million, while 26 percent support it. The poll found slightly greater opposition to cutting funding for K-12 schools.
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Madison chancellor announces budget-cutting measures
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UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a $36 million package of program and staffing cuts on Friday. It includes the elimination of approximately 400 positions; program mergers and restructuring in the areas of information technology, agriculture, and the arts; larger classes and fewer course options; and scaling back student support services and building maintenance.