The state legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance today unanimously approved $45 million in outcomes-based funding for UW System schools. The committee approved dispersing $22.5 million in each year of the biennium (2019-2021). In addition, the panel also approved a proposal to fund a Dairy Innovation Hub, providing $8.8 million in funding for dairy research at …
In a Capitol news conference this morning, Governor Tony Evers signed the budget bill for the 2019-21 biennium, and issued his list of partial vetoes of the bill. UW—Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank issued the following statement: “Thank you to Governor Evers and the legislators who supported the tremendous infrastructure investment throughout the UW System in …
The State Assembly on Tuesday approved the 2019-21 budget bill on a 60-39 vote. The State Senate is deliberating the bill this morning. The session can be viewed on WisconsinEye. If the Senate approves the bill without changes, it will go to Governor Tony Evers, who will have six days to act on it. Update: The …
The Wisconsin State Assembly is set to take up the 2019-21 state budget bill at noon today. The session can be viewed on WisconsinEye.
The Joint Finance Committee on Tuesday approved an $8.8 million funding package for the proposed Dairy Innovation Hub. Kate VandenBosch, Dean, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, issued the following statement with her counterparts from Platteville and River Falls: As leaders of UW System agricultural programs, we would like to thank members of the Joint Finance Committee …
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross issued this statement Tuesday’s vote: “I deeply appreciate the Joint Finance Committee’s very strong investment in the University of Wisconsin System’s infrastructure. This will help us modernize laboratories and classrooms, repair aging and unsafe facilities, and replace obsolete structures. This long-term investment will help attract and retain more …
The legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance tonight approved on a 12-4 vote a package of building projects requested by the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Chancellor Rebecca Blank issued the following statement in response to the vote: “I want to express my deep appreciation to members of the Joint Committee on Finance for today’s action approving all …
State legislators have an opportunity to meet Wisconsin’s workforce needs by approving projects that will modernize classrooms and laboratories for students, UW System President Ray Cross and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told media members today at a press conference at Agricultural Hall. Governor Tony Evers proposed more than $2.5 billion in his capital budget request, …
Wisconsin State Journal: Republicans OK two more years of UW tuition freeze, reduce funding increase Capital Times: UW System’s Cross: ‘I feel like I’ve been kicked in the shins’ on budget committee vote Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Lawmakers extend UW tuition freeze for two years, cut Tony Evers’ funding increase for campuses WisPolitics: JFC cuts in half Evers funding …
Chancellor Rebecca Blank shared the following statement Tuesday, May 28 after the passage of a Joint Committee on Finance motion that extended the resident tuition freeze for two years, but did not support funding the freeze with the additional state funding requested by Gov. Tony Evers and UW System. The motion passed by a 12-4 …