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 …
Budget news
Governor Evers signs budget bill
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 …
Budget bill goes to the Senate
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 …
Assembly tackles budget bill
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.
Dairy Innovation Hub gets budget panel approval
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 …
UW System President Cross, Regents President Petersen statements on JFC vote
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 …
Committee approves UW-Madison building projects
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: …
Cross and Blank: Aging UW facilities need repair, reinvestment
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 …
News coverage of Joint Finance vote on UW System budget
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 …
Chancellor Blank reaction to Tuesday JFC vote
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 …