...But as more students are majoring in multiple subjects, administrators in the UW-Madison College of Letters & Science are asking if carrying more than one major really benefits students and whether it puts too much pressure on college resources...
The University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh could face up to $7.8 million in budget cuts in the next two years as the state looks for ways to balance its $5.7 billion deficit....The $7.8 million figure is a "worst-case scenario" for UWO and makes up 4.1 percent of Doyle's proposed cuts to the university system. Chancellor Richard Wells said it is more likely that cuts at UWO would be $5.8 million and come with a 5.5 percent tuition hike for students. Wells said a $2.5 million rainy-day fund would be depleted and a hiring freeze put in place at the university as a first step toward filling the budget deficit...
When a university chancellor uses words like "deep cuts" and "significant impact," one could assume times are tough. University of Wisconsin schools must slash their budgets as the state faces a $5.7 billion deficit. As part of the governor's proposed budget, the UW System must cut $174 million...
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As part of Governor Doyle's budget, U.W. schools must make big cuts to their bottom line. Overall, $174 million will be slashed in the U.W. system. At UW-Oshkosh, that means cutting between $5- and nearly $8 million over the next two years. UW-Green Bay will be forced to cut between $2.8- and nearly $4 million. Some of that could be offset by tuition hikes -- a move some students can understand yet don't want to see. Projected between five- and six-percent, a tuition hike would help universities facing major cuts...
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UW-La Crosse will contribute nearly $5.4 million to a $25 million financial aid initiative for in-need students, if Gov. Jim Doyle's budget plan is approved. The new funding will come not from the state budget but existing funds that UW schools have saved in auxiliary accounts. Since UW-L had saved roughly $20 million as of June of last year, the UW System is expecting this university to fund about 21% of the total aid package statewide. The auxiliary funds, or savings accounts collected by Residence Life, dining services, continuing education, parking, and many others, are typically used for maintenance and growth projects...
...Week before last, Gov. Jim Doyle stopped in at the La Crosse Tribune, ensuring our editorial board that he was committed to education — including higher ed. He was apologetic that the current budget crisis meant that the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s cost-neutral growth and access proposition would be postponed yet again. But he ensured us that access to a college education would be a high priority for his administration. Now we know what that commitment meant: the theft of student-contributed funds from UW-La Crosse to be redistributed to help other campuses’ students pay for their education. In fact, UW-L will pay about $5.4 million for financial aid across the system — considerably more than twice as much as UW-Madison will pitch in...
The University of Wisconsin System will face a $174 million budget cut during the next two years under Gov. Jim Doyle's new budget proposal. To counter tuition increases, the budget also calls for more financial aid for students from families making less than $60,000 a year...Chancellor Richard Telfer said it is too soon to tell how the budget cut will affect UW-Whitewater...
UW-Oshkosh music faculty member Charles Combe died unexpectedly Tuesday...
A University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity has voluntarily suspended its social activities while Madison police investigate an alleged October sexual assault at its Langdon Street house...
The manager of the landmark dairy store at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been fired for selling outdated ice cream — but she claims her age, not the ice cream's, is to blame...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fired the manager of its landmark dairy store last year for selling outdated ice cream and for other food safety and quality problems, according to her dismissal letter. The manager, Eileen Karre, claims she was unfairly let go and is appealing to get her job back...
Washburn University is ahead of schedule in pacifying the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the use of a stylized letter "W." An agreement resulting from a trademark infringement lawsuit by UW-Madison called for all items bearing Washburn's blue version of the letter -- similar to UW's red W -- to be removed from the Washburn University Book Store by next Monday...
...Last week, Alvarez, the University of Wisconsin’s football coach-turned-athletic director, offered a laughable defense for the Athletic Department’s Exceptional Achievement Award Policy in the wake of criticism from faculty who think the easily achieved performance bonuses are just another way to funnel money to coaches without making their salaries appear to be extravagant...
United Council, one of the oldest and largest student associations in the country, is making a push to get all the UW System campuses, including UW-Platteville back into the fold. UC was founded in 1960 to create a united voice for students across the System. UW-P left UC in 2006 because Student Senate felt UC was being dominated by the larger campuses and did not properly represent the smaller System campuses like UW-P. UC charges students of member universities $2 a semester to fund their organization...
With one major brick in the [UW-Eau-Claire] Davies Center reconstruction project now settled, student senators are turning to the next step in the process...
