Tag: state budget
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‘Uncomfortable’ choices: Chancellor shares update at Town Hall III
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UW System Regents are hopeful a proposed $150 million annual cut will be reduced, if only by a modest amount, and they’re adamant that tenure and shared governance must remain intact, says UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary L. Miller, reporting on the March 5 Regents meeting he attended in Madison. At the same time, Miller told…
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Regents take steps to protect governance, tenure
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports this afternoon that the UW System Board of Regents has voted to appoint two task forces to rapidly develop policies that would protect shared governance and tenure — tenets of academia that UW President Ray Cross referred to as “fundamental pillars of a world-class university system.” The task forces, to…
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Joint Finance announces public hearings
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The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee has announced four regional public hearings for later this month to take comments on Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 budget proposal. The panel will meet March 18 at Brillion High School; March 20 at Alverno College in Milwaukee; March 23 at the University of Wisconsin-Barron County; and March 26 at Reedsburg…
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Bloomberg Business: State spending on college budgets has yet to rebound
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Bloomberg Business is reporting that, in 48 U.S. states, government spending on each college student is still below where it was before the recession that ended almost six years ago. Now, at least seven governors — in Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, West Virginia and Wisconsin — are reducing or proposing new reductions in…
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Rally recap, and snapshots
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The need for continuing, bipartisan support of the UW System was the main message at a rally outside the University Union late Wednesday afternoon (March 4). A crowd of about 75 braved bitter cold — single-digit temperatures and 20-mph winds — to participate in the gathering organized by the campus chapter of the statewide group…
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Press-Gazette coverage
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The Green Bay Press-Gazette rated Wednesday’s anti-budget-cut rally on campus its top local story of the day, giving coverage by reporter Patti Zarling and photographer Evan Siegle front-page treatment. Zarling mostly interviewed students about the proposed cuts. Senior Abby Lauerman told her, “I want faculty to keep doing what they’re doing, to keep doing what’s…
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Fox-11 report focuses on political outlook
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Fox-11 reporter Ben Krumholz (yet another UW-Green Bay grad) opened his report with a sound bite from junior Sierra Storm Spaulding that, again, emphasized the need for bipartisanship. “We’re not attacking the (Walker) administration,” Spaulding said. “We’re simply attacking the education cuts and what those are going to mean for students.” The Fox-11 report featured…
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More TV coverage
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A Local 5 news report on Wednesday’s rally noted that UW System officials have said any savings related to proposed autonomy for the System would take time to materialize, leaving the Universities to deal with most of the proposed $150 million annual reduction in the budget’s first year. The report also noted that a proposed…
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Miller to share summary on Friday
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One last reminder: UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary L. Miller will speak at 9 a.m. Friday (March 6) in Theatre Hall’s University Theatre, to share latest developments regarding the UW System budget, and to answer questions. Read more.
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Photos: Students, grads voice opposition to cuts
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The need for continuing, bipartisan support of the University of Wisconsin System was the main message at a rally outside the University Union late Wednesday afternoon (March 4). A crowd of about 75 braved bitter cold — single-digit temperatures and 20-mph winds — to participate in the gathering organized by the campus chapter of the…