Highlights: Tuition balances carried over from prior fiscal years have been reduced by more than 50% – from $143M in FY13 to $71.1M in FY15. This represents a decrease from a 16% carryover at the end of FY 2013 to 7.3% at the end of FY 2015, well below the 12% threshold established by new …
Chancellor Blank posted the following blog entry on “Blank’s Slate.” Gov. Scott Walker on Sunday, July 12, signed the bill that lays out the state of Wisconsin’s spending plan for the next two years. I know that over the last six months, members of the campus community, as well as our alumni and friends, have …
Gov. Scott Walker issued his budget message Monday, including vetoes to some provisions affecting UW-Madison and the UW System. Walker let stand changes that remove tenure from state statute and place it in Board of Regents policy. Among the items he vetoed were provisions to: Make the use of student fees subject to the approval of …
Chancellor Rebecca Blank today sent two letters to Gov. Scott Walker requesting vetoes of provisions in the 2015-17 state budget. The first letter, regarding changes tenure and shared governance at UW System schools, can be read here. Blank’s second letter, regarding language that would prohibit the Board of Regents from making a probationary or indefinite academic …
The Assembly passed a state budget early Thursday morning by a vote of 52-46. The spending plan contains $250 million in cuts to UW System, among other provisions. It next heads to Governor Scott Walker for his signature.
The Wisconsin Senate passed the state budget late Tuesday on a 18-15 vote. An amendment by Senator Fred Risser to restore $250 million in funding to UW System failed. The budget next heads to the Assembly on Wednesday, where it is scheduled to be taken up after 11:30 a.m. and voted on late in the evening. …
Chancellor Rebecca Blank issued a statement Friday in response to Thursday’s final meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance. The 2015-17 state budget next goes to the full Assembly and Senate. “I am disappointed that the budget proposal coming out of the Joint Committee on Finance does not eliminate or modify the language around faculty …
Reacting to proposed language in the state budget regarding tenure, The President’s Advisory Council of the Wisconsin Alumni Association has written a resolution in support of academic freedom. The council declared its strong support for protection of tenure and urges Gov. Walker and the legislature “to ensure that state statues and policies do not weaken the …
Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently wrote an op-ed for the Chronicle of Higher Education about proposed changes to tenure in Wisconsin. Read the full piece.
In a letter to Chancellor Rebecca Blank, 22 scholarly associations have spoken against the changes to tenure and shared governance proposed by the Joint Finance Committee. “The policies recommended by the Joint Finance Committee and included in the 2016 budget pose a direct threat to academic freedom by expanding the circumstances under which tenure can …