The UW Budget: From bad to worse in 2 days.
My posting on Wednesday on the reductions in state funding of UW was incorrect. I relied on a number of news accounts (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, WSJ, etc.) for the information. Now, having read Vice...
View ArticleRise in sticker price at public colleges outpaces that at private colleges...
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published the following article on rising costs at public universities: Rise in Sticker Price at Public Colleges Outpaces That at Private Colleges for 5th...
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The real UW pay plan.
This figure (click to enlarge) represents the real and nominal changes in the salary of a UW System employee. This does not include total compensation such as health insurance, costs of leave...
View ArticleSupporting our future.
As the new year approaches, I have our future students on my mind. Today one of our core values is at stake—something that should concern all of us who are committed to the future of our college,...
View ArticleGive the Wisconsin Compact some teeth.
Last Wednesday, the Joint Finance Committee handed UW System an additional $46.1 million cut in the form a budget lapse, continuing the deleterious trend of divestment from public higher education and...
View ArticleResponding to decreased state support: A modest proposal.
The Commission on Faculty Compensation and Economic Benefits has issued its annual report for 2011-2012 [PDF]. The commission rightly identifies a looming crisis in compensation for faculty and staff...
View ArticleWUU: “Proposed UW compensation plan may result in greater inequities in pay...
The following press release was received by S&W from the Wisconsin University Union. Reader comments are encouraged. For Immediate Release: May 1, 2012 For More Information Contact: David Ahrens:...
View ArticleWUU releases “Review of Recommendations of the HR Design Project Compensation...
This document was received together with the press release appearing in the previous post. Again, reader comments are strongly encouraged. – Ed. The Human Resource (HR) Design Project has completed...
View ArticleThe continued marketization of UW-Madison.
This article has been cross-posted from the The Education Optimists at the request of the author. – Ed. Last year, I wrote extensively about efforts led by former Chancellor Biddy Martin and her...
View ArticleThe missing message about universities and society.
The role of public higher education in a rapidly changing world rose to prominence last week with two developments: the University of Virginia’s governance debacle (see local commentary here) and the...
View ArticleReframing the conversation about tuition.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank has spoken recently of the desirability of raising out-of-state tuition to help make ends meet on the UW-Madison campus. Her proposal offers one of the few potentially viable...
View ArticleComments and questions about the discussion of splitting the UW System from...
If you haven’t done so, please read today’s WI State Journal article, “Splitting UW System, UW-Madison from state being discussed at Capitol,” which I pasted below and once you do so then consider the...
View ArticleSifting and Winnowing comes out of mothballs.
In light of the tremendous challenges dire emergency facing the University of Wisconsin in the form of Governor Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to UW System and creation of a new public...
View ArticleA call to pay attention and engage.
You must delve more deeply into the governor’s proposals to cut the UW-System budget by $300 million in the coming biennium and to spin off the university from the state as a public authority (a...
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The history of tuition and state support at UW-Madison
Many people are understandably confused by arguments concerning declines in state support, increases in tuition, and total support available for the instructional mission of the university. This...
View ArticleJFC goes nuclear in the war on the University of Wisconsin
On Friday afternoon, a neutron bomb was lobbed in the rapidly escalating war on the University of Wisconsin. The Joint Finance Committee revealed, and then quickly approved, an omnibus budget motion...
View ArticleWhen it’s not just the faculty voting ‘no confidence’
True to form, Governor Walker continues to ramp up the inflammatory and factually baseless public rhetoric against UW faculty in the wake of votes of no confidence that have now passed in Madison, La...
View ArticleA cost-saving measure for UW System
With the departure of Jim Villa, the Vice President for University Relations who led the UW System’s communications and lobbying efforts during the critical budget negotiations of Spring 2015, we have...
View ArticleQuestions left unanswered by President Cross’s TV interview – another view.
In a TV interview on May 17, 2016, UW System President Ray Cross reacted to the no-confidence votes spreading throughout the System that call on the President and the Board of Regents “to recommit...
View ArticleWORT radio interview with two UW faculty about changes in UW System.
Associate Professors Karma R. Chávez (UW Madison) and Holly Hassel (UW Marathon County) were interviewed (with listener call-ins) today by the radio show “A Public Affair” on WORT 89.9. “Today we are...
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