UW Budget

By Charles Johnson with reporting and writing from JAMS 320 class at UW-Milwaukee An internship or work experience would be required to obtain an undergraduate degree from a UW System school under a proposal in Gov. Scott Walker’s new budget. The topic was not brought up in the actual budget address, and Walker has not […]

UW-Milwaukee expansion projects have been tabled, and tuition hikes may come in the school’s future, according to school officials during Friday’s budget update meeting. Capital projects at UWM have all been brought to a halt in response to last year’s $250 million budget cut to the UW-System. It has been estimated that 90 percent of […]

As the UW-Milwaukee campus grapples with an unprecedented budget cut, Dean Rodney Swain told the College of Letters and Science budget cuts committee that the focus, at least now, should be on “what to do with” people he called “temporary employees,” which he defined as lecturers and ad hoc teachers. The College is compiling a […]

Around 15 members of UW-Milwaukee’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors marched into Chapman Hall partway through the most recent meeting of the Chancellor’s Campus Organizational Effectiveness Team’s (CCOET) support team. The CCOET support team is a group that has been asked to provide advice on unprecedented budget cuts and a multi-million dollar […]

At the Oct. 21 meeting of the chancellor’s committee on finding efficiency to deal with UW budget cuts, Co-Chair Kyle Swanson led an exercise by handing around post-it notes and small note cards with schools and departments written on them. “This is going to be like a combination of fantasy football and which body part can […]

There is a level of distrust from some UWM faculty toward administration. This became abundantly apparent at a sparsely attended open listening session of the committee charged with finding efficiencies on campus in the wake of the budget cuts. The suggestions, from the very few in attendance, all had a similar theme. As each member would eventually […]

Gov. Scott Walker vetoed a provision in the biennial state budget on Sunday that would have turned all probationary contracts for academic staff in the UW System into fixed-term contracts. The Legislature would have mandated the elimination of indefinite status, the non-PhD equivalent of tenure, for about 158  academic staff at UW-Milwaukee, as well as more […]

There are 158 employees at UW-Milwaukee whose probationary terms could be switched to fixed term contracts – likely two years long – if the full Legislature approves a Joint Finance Committee measure ordering the Regents to eliminate indefinite status for academic staff in the UW System. As a result, they are on what the chancellor […]

Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts for the UW System have provoked opposition in the form of rallies and protests from the state Capitol to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus. However, there’s one group on campus that likes the cuts: The College Republicans. While some students oppose Gov. Walker’s plan, there are others who feel like […]

UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone announced, in an email to faculty and staff, the departments that have been selected to participate in the Voluntary Separation Incentive Package (VSIP), a retirement incentive package aimed at aiding the university in dealing with the proposed $300 million cut. The departments within UWM schools and colleges listed for participation in […]

This story is cross-published with the UWM Post. You can listen to Chancellor Mone’s Q and A with the Milwaukee Press Club below. Audio by Jordyn Noennig. UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone again suggested consolidating with other campuses as an option for slimming the UW System budget, but this time he said academic programs from different campuses could […]

Chancellor Mark Mone officially revealed Monday that UW-Milwaukee will offer a one-time buyout of 50 percent of an employee’s base salary, depending on their time with the university and whether they are part of a department that will offer the incentive. This led to at least one professor raising concerns about the potential for increased class […]