Month: February 2015

The idea has been suggested recently that the $300 million proposed UW System budget cut amounts to only a 2.5 percent cut in overall UW System funding– or that reserves should be used to offset the proposed …

Chancellor Rebecca Blank and university administrators are gathering input and questions from the campus community related to the 2015-2017 biennial budget. Questions will be answered in this FAQ document. If you have a question you …

Friday morning’s budget forum with Chancellor Rebecca Blank will be webcast live and can be viewed here. The forum is from 9-10 a.m. in the Ebling Auditorium of the Microbial Sciences building, 1550 Linden Dr.

A standing room-only crowd of more than 350 employees packed the auditorium at the Health Sciences Learning Center late Wednesday night to hear information on how the state budget would impact UW–Madison. See more …

Thursday afternoon’s budget forum with Chancellor Rebecca Blank will be webcast live and can be viewed here. The forum is from 2:30-3:30 p.m., in Varsity Hall at Union South.

In an open letter to members of the state Assembly, UW-Madison military history professor Lt. Col. John Hall speaks movingly about how his hardworking parents made sure he and his siblings could go to college. Hall …

The Wisconsin Idea is the principle that UW-Madison should improve lives beyond the borders of campus. Over the years, the university has expanded the scope of the Wisconsin Idea to include serving communities across the …

Speaking to a joint meeting of employee governance groups Monday, UW–Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said proposed cuts to state support would impact educational quality and jeopardize generations of taxpayer investment that have made the school …

Archived video of Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s address to the UW Board of Regents is available here. The slides from the chancellor’s PowerPoint presentation are here.

University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told the UW Board of Regents Thursday that a proposed $300 million cut in state support for UW System would reduce student programming, lead to job lapses and layoffs, …