Tagged: state budget

Board of Regents meets to finalize UW System budget

Board of Regents meets to finalize UW System budget

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...

Town Hall Meeting Recap – June 3, 2015

Town Hall Meeting Recap – June 3, 2015

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...

Tax collection update brings sobering news

Tax collection update brings sobering news

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...

Cross talks about Gov. Walker’s errata

Cross talks about Gov. Walker’s errata


(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...

Update on budget: No final decisions before June


Update on budget: No final decisions before June


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...

Poll shows opposition to UW System cuts


Poll shows opposition to UW System cuts


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...

Madison chancellor announces budget-cutting measures

Madison chancellor announces budget-cutting measures


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,...