UW System wants budget boost
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System is proposing a budget that asks for an additional $21 million in state funding.
The UW System released its preliminary requests Monday, ahead of a Thursday meeting of the UW Board of Regents.
Most state agencies have been asked to submit budgets that seek no new money. But UW System spokesman Dave Giroux said System officials were given the green light to include the additional request.
The system is also seeking $187 million for construction projects in Madison, La Crosse and Stevens Point. That money would be in the form of state-supported bonds but is separate from the 2013-15 budget.
The $21 million would be used in part fund the UW System’s new flexible-degree initiative, which would grant college credit for real-world life experience.
Aug 21, 2012 at 9:57 a.m.
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From personal experience the UW system is the closest thing to a leftist utopia that will EVER be.
Aug 21, 2012 at 7:20 a.m.
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Not a year goes by where the UW Madison campus DOESN'T ask for money from somewhere. It's either a tuition increase or more tax money from the state. Looking at the way this university manages its budget, any economics course taught at the UW Madison campus must be a dismal failure. I would be surprised to fine even a single successful economics professor at that school?
Aug 21, 2012 at 6:56 a.m.
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wader8 and onelifetolive.....excellent posts! Couldn't agree more! UW Madison has been on a building splurge for the last many years. If they can't look ahead and budget then use the old buildings. Students don't need these taj mahals.
Aug 21, 2012 at 6:15 a.m.
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The state shouldnt fund anything. If people want education... they should fund it. If the school cant afford to sustain itself...Charge more. Duh. More of my tax dollars given as handouts... What a crock..
Aug 21, 2012 at 12:54 a.m.
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I'm sure the economics faculty could come up with some cost savings in the UW system. They could team up with the engineering dept and really get things done. I mean, let that be part of the curriculum, let the students give gradable ideas on how the make the campuses more efficient (energy, recycling, professor productivity rates...etc). It's what is happening in most corporations these days. Peace
Aug 20, 2012 at 9:42 p.m.
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Additional funding is a ludicrous request. The UW system is rampant with excessive salaries, wasteful spending, and Taj Mahal facilities. UW-Madison Administrators need to hop in their cars and go to Stevens Pt, River Falls, and Platteville and learn how to run a University on good old fashioned midwest frugality. I have faculty friends at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee and they privately embarrassingly admit the lucrativeness of their positions. It's like a dirty little secret they don't want anyone to know.
Aug 20, 2012 at 9:11 p.m.
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Of course they won't get it from this Governor. We know how he loves education. All they do is educate our kids so they can obtain decent jobs. Oh wait. The big corporations took the tax breaks and lined their pockets instead of creating those jobs. Money well spent. How many jobs were lost last month?
Aug 20, 2012 at 6:01 p.m.
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Let's just say the additional budget expenditures were approved, I'll take bets they'd still propose big tuition increases as well.
Aug 20, 2012 at 5:59 p.m.
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Of course they are....
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