Tag: UW System

Republican state Sen. Steve Nass wants to strip the UW System of any authority to implement Covid-19 safety measures such as mandatory testing, reporting vaccination status or requiring masks on campus. Nass bizarrely accuses some UW Chancellors of ” taking advantage of Delta variant hysteria ” to enact excessive pandemic…

NOTE: I sent this letter to the Regents today. I was not able to log in to the website for the Presidential search, as I am no longer part of the UW community. Dear Regents,  I watched the open forum yesterday with James Johnsen, who has been recommended to the…

The UW Board of Regents, in order to protect and preserve its role as the governing body of the University of Wisconsin System, must reject Scott Walker’s budget proposal in full. The sometime-governor is once again attempting illegitimately to exert control over the UW System, contrary to the organizing statutes….

From the fabulous Dissent and Cookies blog comes this blog (reprinted with permission) shedding light on the exodus of faculty from the UW System in the wake of funding cuts to the UW-System by Republicans in the Legislature, not to mention the possibility of further radical changes to the UW…

Conservatives have described Scott Walker, in his undeclared run for President (I choke as I type that phrase), as “not ready for prime time.” They cite his flip-flopping, his handling of the Liz Mair hiring/firing resignation, and his inability to answer expected questions. What they don’t cite is Walker’s inability…

From my email inbox comes this excellent resource from regular reader lufthase, who put together a spreadsheet pertaining to funding for the UW System in the context of Gov. Walker’s unprecedented funding cuts to the UW System. The recent discussion surrounding Walker’s cuts to the UW System budget spurred me…

Here’s Democratic State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout’s latest newsletter discussing Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million evisceration of the UW System’d budget. “I love college, Mom,” my son told me. “There is nowhere else I can hear a conversation in a different language every day.” My son got me thinking about…

This just speaks volumes about the state of our state under Gov. Scott Walker. While I understand that Gov. Walker’s decision to cut $300 million in funding from the UW system is not tied to his decision to borrow $220 million to help build a basketball arena for the billionaire…

Gov. Scott Walker on Friday proposed freezing the University of Wisconsin System tuition for another two years, adding on to a similar hard cap enacted last year. That should give him just about enough time to finish his degree…we wouldn’t want him saddled with thousands in student debt going into…