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Governor Doyle's budget plan delivers a $174-million cut to the UW System. UW Colleges and Extension Chancellor David Wilson says that includes a $120-million cut to the system's general program revenue over two years. He says some of that reduction will be made up by possible tuition increases of five to six percent...
State budget cuts will likely lead to larger class sizes and fewer course options at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. "It's going to affect us across the board," Interim Parkside Chancellor Lane Earns said. "There is no doubt our classes are going to be bigger and our student options for more classes are going to be limited"...
The mother of an 18-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student found dead of an apparent overdose over the weekend offered a warning Monday to young people who might consider partying with alcohol and prescription drugs: "As strong and brilliant and bright and popular as you can be, you can't cheat death," said Kathleen Raddatz of Waukesha. "You think you can have a good time with this stuff and be safe. You're wrong"...
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin announced her selection for chief of staff Monday morning. As chief of staff, Becci Menghini will manage office projects and act as a liaison internally and with the public...
...La Crosse campuses are promoting recycling and energy conservation initiatives this year. ..UW-L students voted last year to tag an additional $5 per semester onto tuition for a Green Fund for renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects...
UW-Madison released a statement Monday revealing its support for domestic-partner benefits in Gov. Jim Doyle's 2009-'11 biennial budget. Doyle's budget includes a provision that would give health insurance to domestic partners of state employees. It would also grant domestic partners hospital-visitation rights and the right to inherit property from each other...
...It now appears a smaller version of the city's proposed weatherization loan program, which it put on its stimulus package wish list, could start even without federal dollars... The city has the money available through its home improvement loan program and recently, representatives from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center on Wisconsin Strategy told O'Connell they could provide free technical service if the city started a program...
Providing college students with ways to make the most of their money, especially during a recession, is the focus of a seminar being held this weekend at UW-Madison...
The headline in the Wisconsin State Journal screams: "State workers feeling pain of budget shortfall". Right - and I'm from the government and I'm here to help you. When he first ran for Governor in 2002, Jim Doyle promised to reduce the state workforce by 10,000 positions. Let's see how that promise is playing out?...Doyle's proposed 2009-11 budget doesn't use furloughs or job cuts to help close the budget shortfall. It also allows "domestic partners" of state employees to participate in the gravy train that is the state health care program and allows state university and faculty staff to unionize. That's not enough to mollify the army of people who work for the State though...
The acting director of the National Institutes of Health begged university administrators on Wednesday to avoid even applying for stimulus money unless the universities planned to hire people almost immediately. "It would be the height of embarrassment," the official, Dr. Raynard S. Kington, said, "if we give these grants and find out that institutions are not spending them to hire people and make purchases and advance the science the way they're designed to do"...
The University of Michigan announced on Monday that it was ending its apparel licensing agreement with the Russell Corporation, becoming the 12th university to do so in response to the company's decision to close a unionized factory in Honduras...
With the ink barely dry on the $787-billion economic-stimulus bill, Congress is moving on to an overdue piece of budget business: a $410-billion appropriations measure for the current fiscal year, which began in October. The bill, which Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced on Monday, would finance education, research, and other domestic programs until October 1, when the 2010 fiscal year will begin. It would provide $30.3-billion for the National Institutes of Health, a $938-million increase over the 2008 fiscal year, and increase the maximum Pell Grant by $119, to $5,350, in the 2009-10 academic year...