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After having their dreams dashed repeatedly for nearly four decades, supporters of collective bargaining rights for UW System faculty and academic staff believe things could be different this time around. Their optimism stems primarily from the new makeup of state government, with Democrats controlling the Assembly, the Senate and the governor's office for the first time in 22 years...
University of Wisconsin System officials are proposing changes to speed up the construction of new buildings while holding down costs. A report released Tuesday says laws and rules governing the state building program are outdated, overly burdensome and time-consuming...
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee would take a $19.8 million budget cut over the next two years under Gov. Jim Doyle's budget plan, university officials said Monday. The reduction makes up about 11% of the UW System's total $174 million budget reduction. The system late Monday released a breakdown of the cuts that each of its campuses will have to absorb if Doyle's budget passes in its current form...
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will provide about $5.4 million — more than any other UW System school — to help create $25 million in financial aid for Wisconsin students. Gov. Jim Doyle’s 2009-11 state budget includes a one-time transfer of $25 million from UW System school reserves to fund student financial aid. The system sorted out how schools would pay for the financial aid based on how much each had in reserve funds from user fees for residence halls, dining halls and other services. UW-L had more than $20 million in reserve. Its $5.4 million share is more than twice as much as UW-Madison’s $2.1 million...
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse likely will face more than $11 million in budget cuts over the next two years, Chancellor Joe Gow said Monday. Those cuts could amount to $8 million to $9 million even when factoring in tuition increases estimated at 5.5 percent annually over the next two years, Gow said. The amount reflects the additional $5.4 million UW-L lost from its reserve funds to help provide more financial aid for Wisconsin students under Gov. Jim Doyle’s budget, said Gow...
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will likely have to cut about $3.35 million from its budget throughout 2010 and 2011, according to UW System estimates released Monday. In Gov. Jim Doyle’s 2010-2011 proposed state budget, he included cuts to the University of Wisconsin System totaling $174 million. Every campus is going to feel the effect, UW spokesman David Giroux said...
...On Thursday, March 5, (UW-Stout biology professor Kitrina) Carlson will be joined by a colleague from UW-Manitowoc at the UW System Board of Regents meeting in Madison to receive the first-ever Regents Diversity Award in the team category...
Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate reaffirmed a resolution in support of domestic partner benefits for state workers at their monthly meeting Monday...
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin told members of the Faculty Senate Monday she predicts UW will be subject to over $50 million in budget cuts under Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed biennial budget. The amount equates to more than a third of the $150 million in cuts expected across the UW System...She went on to say the total should be mostly offset by an increase in tuition, although the exact increase is not yet known...
Members of the UW-Madison Faculty Senate met Monday to reaffirm their stance on domestic-partner benefits in the state and how budget cuts might affect the university. Topics of concern included tuition, faculty salaries and domestic-partner benefits. Chancellor Biddy Martin said Gov. Jim Doyle’s budget included a proposed government deficiency reduction for the UW System...
Controversial proposed revisions to the UW System’s Chapter 17 non-academic misconduct policy will be open for discussion on Thursday, March 5 at 7p.m. in UW-Milwaukee’s Zelazo Center. Prior to the hearing, there will be an informational session at 4 p.m. Students can listen to a speaker from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a national non-profit organization whose mission includes an effort to defend and sustain individual rights at America's colleges and universities...
Winners were announced Monday in the University of Wisconsin's 100-hour Wiscontrepreneur Challenge. The third annual event attracted a record of nearly 200 students and 63 entries, compared to last year's 17, during the four-day competition...
Faced with a tough economy, parents get some answers about how to afford sending their kids to college. Representatives from five area colleges talked with parents concerned about how to pay for their children's education..."College is affordable even in the toughest times," Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton told them...
Struggling college students are having an even more difficult time because of the financial downturn...Federal financial aid applications filed nationwide for this fiscal year increased by 9% compared with last year, a projected 1.2 million more applicants, according to Department of Education data...Financial strategist Paul Rivers says parents losing their jobs has played a key role in more students seeking aid; 30% of his clients were declared eligible for more aid from their college because of an "unusual circumstance" last year...
Just when they need money most, some colleges and universities are incapable of tapping their rainy day funds. Currently, 21 states are still governed by decades-old laws that restrict endowment spending, according to the Uniform Law Commission. With revenues drying up for many colleges, these regulations are likely to result in fewer scholarships being awarded next year at some institutions, according to fund raisers and legal analysts...
Schools struggling with some of their worst budget crises in generations are taking stock of President Obama's stimulus package -- hoping the money will restore funding for things like textbooks, teacher salaries and tuition. The $100 billion in funding dedicated to education touches programs for almost every age group, from early-childhood programs to financial aid for college students. While the money, part of the $787 billion stimulus package, may not result in a full turnaround, districts say, it will help stop some of the bleeding...
...Mr. Zerden’s minor stir four years ago has lately grown into a full-blown movement by more than 200 Harvard Medical School students and sympathetic faculty, intent on exposing and curtailing the industry influence in their classrooms and laboratories, as well as in Harvard’s 17 affiliated teaching hospitals and institutes. They say they are concerned that the same money that helped build the school’s world-class status may in fact be hurting its reputation and affecting its teaching...
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, a Harvard Medical School official who has fought diseases that affect the poor around the world, has been named the next president of Dartmouth College...
Responding to layoff concerns at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Chancellor Kathryn A. Martin told about 200 faculty and staff members Monday that a budget cut of at least 8 percent for the next school year probably will mean job cuts. The grim picture could get worse today, she said, with the announcement of the state revenue forecast...