Category: Budget news

See full text of Governor Scott Walker’s State of the State speech here.

Governor Scott Walker will deliver the annual State of the State address at 3 p.m. today. Watch the address live at WisconsinEye.

Members of UW–Madison’s boards of visitors serve as advisers to schools and colleges across campus. Recently, working with the Wisconsin Alumni Association, hundreds of these advisers signed this letter to the governor and state legislators in support of the UW. WAA also took out newspaper ads across the state.

Speaking to a group of local educators, UW-Madison alumni and supporters in Lake Delton, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said that cuts to the University of Wisconsin System budget are beginning to affect the quality of the institutions. Read the full story at Wisconsin Dells Events.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education Marsha Mailick penned an editorial making the case for reinvestment in UW-Madison. Read the op-ed here.

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank gave her annual State of the University address to the Faculty Senate yesterday afternoon. Read her prepared remarks here. Audio of the address is available here.  

Now is the time for the state to reinvest in its higher education system, University of Wisconsin­–Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told a crowd of about 100 students, staff, faculty and state legislators who attended a campus budget forum Wednesday at the Gordon Dining & Event Center. Blank provided an update on the university’s current budget …

The campus community is invited to be part of a discussion about the state budget and its impact on the University of Wisconsin–Madison in a forum on Wednesday, Sept. 14, from 3:30-5 p.m. at Gordon Dining & Event Center, 770 W. Dayton St.

In a visit with the editorial board of the La Crosse Tribune, UW System President Ray Cross said investment in the system in an investment in the future of Wisconsin. Read the article here.