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...According to the report, academic research and development is vital to creating highly successful entrepreneurial activity in the emerging “knowledge economy.” The report warns if state spending for higher education continues its downward trend, Wisconsin’s educational system will find itself in a very precarious economic position...
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials estimate that the state's budget shortfall for 2009-'11 will translate to about a $50 million cut to UWM's budget - part of a roughly $500 million cut to the UW System. UWM Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Christy Brown provided the estimates at today's Plenary Panel session. To get the figures, Brown looked at the percentage cut the UW System took when the state had a $3.2 billion shortfall in 2003-'05. Back then, the UW System took a $250 million cut, but the system raised tuition significantly, bringing in about $100 million in added revenue. In the end, UWM 's cut was $13.2 million. No one expects there to be the political support for a significant tuition increase this time around, however...
In a little more than two weeks, a representative of the U.S. Peace Corps will visit our university to encourage and inspire a new set of prospective volunteers to enter this wonderful form of global community service. The upcoming visit, Feb. 18 to 20, continues what another national Peace Corps staff member recently told us is one of the strongest university-Peace Corps relationships in the nation...(Author: Linda Bunnell, Chancellor of UW-Stevens Point)...
The UW-Madison subcommittee on Sexual Assault and Dating Violence hosted UW-Madison faculty and students Thursday for a workshop on the dangers of stalking...
Now, more than ever, students are feeling the effects of today's struggling economy. UW-Whitewater lecturer Daniel Teferra said he understands the cutbacks students are making in the midst of the current economic recession...
The state's budget shortfall over the next two years has grown by $346 million, to $5.75 billion, said a report released Thursday. That report from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau came out a day after Gov. Jim Doyle - without specifics - warned in his "state of the state" speech that the deficit would rise...
...A report from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau released Thursday says state revenues could fall $593 million short of expenses when the budget period ends on June 30th. That's almost $250 million more than an estimate released just a few weeks ago...
...A new Pew Social & Demographic Trends survey reveals that Wisconsin is the fifth "stickiest" state in the U.S.: the fifth highest percent of population born in the state and still living there...
...According to the Pew Research Center study “American Mobility: Who Moves? Who Stays Put? Where’s Home?” people from Wisconsin are some of the country’s most immobile citizens and are likely to spend their life in one community, often remaining in one of the state’s many small towns...
The one-time, multibillion-dollar congressional stimulus offers public schools "an extraordinary opportunity," not just to plug gaping state and local budget holes, but to improve education in ways that have eluded the USA for decades, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday. The stimulus, which includes about $141 billion for schools and colleges overall, proposes nearly $12 billion in new stopgap funding this year for two key federal programs and even more in 2010. Critics of the handout say it will reset schools' expectations dramatically upward after 2010...
Now that a multibillion-dollar stimulus bill is moving through Congress in the latest attempt to bail out a faltering economy, the lawmakers and pundits who seemed to be asleep at the wheel over the past decade are suddenly gripped by the virtue of fiscal responsibility...A focus might be the $7-billion that colleges hope to get for renovation, improvements, and energy-efficiency projects... (paid subscription required)
As the U.S. Senate prepares to take up an economic-stimulus bill packed with money for colleges and students, a quiet battle is taking place over whether the measure should raise the limits on student borrowing through the federal loan programs... (paid subscription required)
The dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School is being removed from her position as part of a consolidation of university leadership. In a statement Thursday, U President Robert Bruininks cited streamlining and cost savings in his decision to merge the positions of medical school dean and vice president of health sciences...