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University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank told UW Board of Regents that Gov. Scott Walker's proposed $300 million in cuts to the UW System are too big.
Members of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and visitors applaud UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank's comments attacking proposed budget cuts.
Visitors and members of the UW Board of Regents attend a meeting of the board inside UW-Madison's Union South in Madison, Wis. Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. John Hart -- State Journal
The UW Board of Regents is committed to maintaining shared governance.
“These cuts are too large. They’re too large for our university, and they’re too large for the state.”
In a memo to state lawmakers, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimated the potential impact of Gov. Scott Walker's cuts on the 2015-16 budgets of the individual schools in the UW System.
Schools are sorted by the percent change to their budgets.
Source: Legislative Fiscal Bureau
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"Sadly, the state of the students is drastically not well," said Amanda McGovern, a UW-Stevens Point student and president of the United Counc…
Regents to lawmakers: The cuts are too deep, the public authority model needs more study, and shared governance and tenure must be preserved.
Rebecca Blank has decried a proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System.
"They don’t need to look any further than the East Wing of the State Capitol," Sen. Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, said in a statement.
"I tend to believe collective bargaining for faculty and staff would not be a good fit to the current culture of UW-Madison," one professor sa…
The suggestion might win over lawmakers skeptical that more autonomy for the University of Wisconsin System would lead to runaway tuition increases.
The System released emails to the State Journal under the state's open records law.
They held signs criticizing Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to cut $300 million in funding to the System in the next two years.
This document was prepared by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. It breaks down funding cuts by campus in the University of Wisconsin System. UW-W…
State funding is just one source of revenue. See university funding sources.
UW System revenue sourcess over time
University of Wisconsin officials had objected to changes.
Facing a massive backlash, Gov. Scott Walker retreated Wednesday from a proposal to wipe out the language at the foundation of the Wisconsin Idea.
Statement from Gov. Scott Walker:
Republicans legislative leaders say increased borrowing for roads, cuts to UW and flat K-12 funding are top concerns.
The two-year spending plan is more than $68 billion.
Gov. Scott Walker's proposed $300 million cut over the next two years would throw the University of Wisconsin System "under the bus," accordin…
Wisconsin is one of a handful of states that hasn't restored higher education funding in this fiscal year to where it was in 2009-2010.
Ray Cross says he is "frustrated" by the governor's comments that faculty should teach more classes.
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