@WIExaminer @Hredman There’s money but the #wisgop does not want the #UWSystem to have it. “…Gov. Tony Evers wanted to use part of the state’s $7 billion surplus to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funding for the system. Instead, in the budget Evers eventually signed into law, Republican lawmakers cut $32 million from the UW System budget. The state still has a $4 billion surplus and an additional $1.8 billion in its “rainy day fund.” 

.#UWSystem begins layoffs, shutdowns due to budget shortfall via @Hredman

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/uw-parkside-uw-platteville-announce-staff-furloughs-amid-budget-shortfalls/

Periodic reminder that we still have not restored the $250 million the GOP cut from the #UWSystem budget under Scott Walker, even as it gave the #Bucks $250 million for the UW Budget Cut Arena.

Now, Robin Vos does his regular bit about Evers (newsflash: this is how budgeting & politics works. Both parties propose stuff. It's not "dropping a bomb") & the state's leading newspaper again stenographizes him in a block quote & is complicit in fanning this nonsense narrative.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/real-estate/commercial/2023/02/14/290-million-for-brewers-ballpark-included-in-state-budget-proposal/69898267007/

I actually think people in Wisconsin don’t realize this, & the state media rarely covers it. So the public thinks it’s perfectly reasonable for the state to have complete regulatory control over the #UWSystem & #UWMadison, especially older voters who remember the pre-1980s model. But I suspect the politics would be very different if we framed every discussion about relations b/w the two ends of State Street around the idea that 85% of university funding is <not> from the state government.

Vos & the Fidesz-on-Mendota party are now going to weaponize this during budget negotiations & use it to cut funding for UW &/or impose absurd new reporting & training requirements on faculty & students. All because the administration again made the awful mistake of agreeing to let a group of politically-motivated non-survey research specialists impose a badly-designed survey designed to reach predetermined conclusions on the #UWSystem. Literally, everyone could have predicted all of this.

Truly, no one could possibly have predicted.

Once again, Robin #Vos is lying about things that aren't actually happening on UW campuses. And once again, this is exactly why #UWSystem officials should have refused to participate in this poorly designed, politically-motivated survey that can tell you <exactly nothing> about the scope and scale of "#freespeech” concerns on college campuses, in Wisconsin or anywhere else: https://mastodon.social/@mcopelov/109793079202249389

From: @nickfleisher
https://mstdn.social/@nickfleisher/109831742471185166

ICYMI:
#GovtonyEvers' Board of Regents appointment extends his control over the #UWSystem, @Hredman reports

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/evers-makes-board-of-regents-appointment-furthering-control-of-uw-system-evers-makes-board-of-regents-appointment-furthering-control-of-uw-system/

Controversial #UWSystem #FreeSpeech survey finds students afraid to express views in class

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/controversial-uw-free-speech-survey-finds-students-afraid-to-express-views-in-class/

Residents plead with state, #UWSystem officials to save #UWRichland @Hredman reports.

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2023/01/27/students-learn-here-richland-center-residents-make-plea-to-save-campus/

#news
New this morning: Community leaders including former Senator Dale Schultz decry the #UWSystem decision to close #UWRichland after a string of decisions. #SenHowardMarklein says it couldn’t be helped. #WisconsinExaminer's #HenryRedman reports.

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/12/13/community-leaders-compare-decision-to-kill-uw-richland-to-medieval-blood-letting/

The #UWSystem #CharterSchools authorizer, Office of Educational Opportunity, has enough schools (13) to be among the largest 20 #Wisconsin school districts. #WisconsinExaminer Editor #RuthConniff asks: Why don’t we know more about them?
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/11/15/what-you-dont-know-about-the-uw-systems-new-charter-schools-should-worry-you/