Tag: state budget
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Finance to talk about UW System budget March 3
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This isn’t the same as the big public hearings held around the state — those will come later this spring — but the Joint Finance Committee has announced its schedule of “agency briefings” to address the governor’s budget proposals one-on-one with the various state agencies. UW System Administration’s session with Joint Finance is scheduled for…
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Chancellor: Budget reduction is closer to $4.6m
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The revenue gap facing the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay under the governor’s proposed budget will in reality be closer to $4.6 million annually than to the initial projection of $4 million, Chancellor Gary L. Miller said Friday morning (Feb. 20). Miller addressed an audience of more than 200 faculty, staff members and students in an…
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Slate: He’s baiting you, progressives
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The governor’s proposed 2015-17 budget for the UW System continues to be the topic of numerous national articles, columns and opinion pieces. The online publication Slate typically has a progressive slant, but this time, they come down on liberals who, the columnist argues, are being out-maneuvered by a politician who knows his audience… and his…
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Walker’s UW System proposals making national news
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With stories made live Monday on the websites of the New York Times and Washington Post joining a recent article by the Wall Street Journal, Gov. Scott Walker has achieved a trifecta of national attention for his 2015-17 UW System budget proposals. The articles and their links: New York Times: 2016 ambitions seen in Walker’s…
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Reminder: Budget Blog is up and running
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Comments, questions, observations and answers continue to be posted at the Budget Blog located on the Chancellor’s website. Please remember, if you are making a habit of checking the blog on occasion, that not all new posts appear at the top of the column. Entries that are made as “replies” to earlier posts will appear…
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Miller confirms next ‘town hall’ for Friday morning
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In an email to UW-Green Bay faculty and staff on Monday, Chancellor Gary L. Miller reminded employees of the timetable and process for campus planning in anticipation of a likely UW-Green Bay budget reduction in 2015-17. The University could face a cut of up to $4 million for the fiscal year starting July 1 if…
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UW-Green Bay groups pass resolutions against UW System budget reductions
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Governance groups and related organizations at UW-Green Bay have joined others at campuses statewide in voicing their consensus on the UW System budget cuts proposed in the governor’s 2015-17 budget. Resolutions were passed by the Faculty Senate, Academic Staff Committee, University Staff Committee and the Retirees Association.
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WFRV-TV 5 covers student roundtable
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Channel 5 news covered a student roundtable discussion Monday night hosted by the Student Government Association to consider the proposed $300 million, two-year cut to the UW System. “It’s not giving the school enough time to figure out the budget for next year,” said one student, senior Casey Krueger.
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‘Cuts to UW System could seriously hurt state’s economic growth’
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That’s the headline over a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel guest column co-authored by Tom Shannon, CEO of BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, based in Milwaukee, and Kevin Conroy, CEO of Exact Sciences, a Madison biotech company.
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Sen. Lasee says cuts aren’t that big
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State Sen. Frank Lasee is among the state lawmakers who argue that Gov. Walker’s proposed reductions for the UW System aren’t as large as UW officials make them out to be. When measured against the totality of the System’s $6.1 billion annual budget, Lasee says, a $150 million cut is a 2.5 percent reduction. (System…