Walker cuts $300 million from university budget then gives $200 million to the NBA

[bendog]

I really think Hill would have an easier time with Walker than Jeb. I wouldn't mind Jeb at all, as I voted for his Pop 3 times, but Jeb's a neocon like his idiot big brother, and there's citizens united

 

[Harry Dresden]

frank i dont believe a sports team is considered infrastructure.....

Is it close enough to bash Obama for something?

did frank bash obama?......i did not see it.....i dont think i seen his name mentioned until now......i could be wrong though....

 

[Edgetho]

He should take that money and earmark it for Wisconsin's Football Team

(13) Wisconsin 0
(10-3, 7-1 Big Ten)

(5) Ohio State 59
(12-1, 8-0 Big Ten)

 

[zeke]

did frank bash obama?......i did not see it.....i dont think i seen his name mentioned until now......i could be wrong though....

Conditioned response; see frank post, see frank bash obama..
Frank must of missed a chance.

 

[zeke]

(13) Wisconsin 0
(10-3, 7-1 Big Ten)

(5) Ohio State 59
(12-1, 8-0 Big Ten

In my mind, you don't have much in the way of redeeming qualities. (no offense)
Other than you're an Ohio State fan. And that helps. Go Bucks.

O H

 

[regent]

Think of the effect shutting down the NBA would have on the unemployment figures for black males!

not all black males can play basketball

Reminds me as a kid we used to believe blacks could not play basketball, baseball or football very well. Our evidence: how many are in the pros?

 

[nodoginnafight]

Ahahaha look when another dumb ass lib started a similar thread on this the other day, I researched it for myself. What I discovered was yet again libs were telling half the story and being dishonest. So you can either get off your lazy fat ass and do your own research as I did, or you can blow it out your ass it makes no difference to me.

You are lying

What Walker 8217 s UW budget cuts and increased autonomy means for students and faculty The Badger Herald

LMAO...are any of you bunch of dumb asses aware that I already posted Gov. Walkers quotes? I'm guessing no.

oh wait. you LIED. Surprise surprise surprise

Summary of the Proposed 2015-17 State Budget Cuts Wisconsin Alumni Association

So whose word do you take on whether or not UW ASKED for the cuts - the UW chancellors or Walker.

I cited the chancellors who were VERY clear that they did NOT ask for the cuts. So you lied and Walker lied (if he really claimed that).

I don't see any link showing Walker even said the Univ asked for 300 million cut.

I haven't seen it either and I seriously doubt it exists. When is the last time you heard of anyone asking for less money? Gonna have to see that from a darn good source before I buy into that!

 

[Siete]

Frank was busy brushing his tooth with Preparation H

 

[daws101]

Think of the effect shutting down the NBA would have on the unemployment figures for black males!

not all black males can play basketball

Reminds me as a kid we used to believe blacks could not play basketball, baseball or football very well. Our evidence: how many are in the pros?

your point?

 

[Edgetho]

dimocraps is what they is.....

Scott Walker to UW faculty: Work more than 14 hours a week
By Pedro Gonzales
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker reportedly wants to "cut" $300 million from the University of Wisconsin budget over the next two years. I am always skeptical of the use of the term "cut" – from the article and other sources, I cannot genuinely tell if it is a budget-to-budget cut or simply a reduction in the rate of increase. Also, in no news story is it reported what the actual budget of UW is, so readers will have no idea what kind of impact it will have on the system. But I did some digging and can tell you that the prior two-year budget for UW was $6 billion, so this $300 million may be a 5% cut...at most.

In any event...so what?


"In the future, by not having the limitation of things like shared governance, they might be able to make savings just by asking faculty and staff to consider teaching one more class a semester," Walker told reporters at the Madison hotel.

Word of Walker's remarks about faculty teaching loads needing to be heavier prompted UW-Madison to release a faculty workload survey from February 2014. The survey yielded 191 full responses from biological sciences, humanities, physical science and social studies departments, according to UW-Madison.

Of those who responded, 96% said they teach, supervise and mentor undergraduate students and spend an average of 14.2 hours per week instructing undergraduates and an average 4.2 hours per week advising and mentoring.

All reported research activities as part of their work, with an average of 8.4 hours per week spent on research/creative work with students. The total time spent with research, scholarship or creative work was an average 21.3 hours per week.

Let's look closely at these numbers, because they're important. Professors self-reported teaching 14 hours a week and spending 4 hours "advising and mentoring." I don't know where you went to college (or if you did), but where I went, a large East Coast university, most professors didn't spend any time advising or mentoring, and they sure didn't teach 14 hours a week. Furthermore, I doubt the veracity of self-reported "teaching hours." If it's unverified, they have every incentive to report having taught more than they did. Some classes aren't even taught by professors, but rather by teaching assistants.

But let's pretend they really do teach 14 hours a week. They claim to do 8 hours of "research" a week, but again, who cares? Remember, this is a public university. Should the taxpayer really be paying to subsidize academic research? Does the average citizen in Oshkosh benefit materially from a new treatise on the wonders of socialism or a research paper on what The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn says about transgenderism? I think that at a public university, taxpayers should only be expected to pay for teaching. Why can't they teach 20 hours a week? Or better yet, why can't they teach 40 hours a week? Many don't even do their own grading because they have teaching assistants.

Let's take a look at the results of the UW system. Only a little more than 50% of students managed to graduate in 4 years. Another 30% graduated after spending 6 years to complete a 4-year program. Why should the taxpayer pay for such poor results, or pay to have students take 6 years to do a 4-year program?

Teachers should be working full-time to teach students. The student body should be downsized to eliminate students who can't handle the work. With these commonsense measures, $300 million could easily be cut from the UW budget.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker reportedly wants to "cut" $300 million from the University of Wisconsin budget over the next two years. I am always skeptical of the use of the term "cut" – from the article and other sources, I cannot genuinely tell if it is a budget-to-budget cut or simply a reduction in the rate of increase. Also, in no news story is it reported what the actual budget of UW is, so readers will have no idea what kind of impact it will have on the system. But I did some digging and can tell you that the prior two-year budget for UW was $6 billion, so this $300 million may be a 5% cut...at most.

In any event...so what?

"In the future, by not having the limitation of things like shared governance, they might be able to make savings just by asking faculty and staff to consider teaching one more class a semester," Walker told reporters at the Madison hotel.

Word of Walker's remarks about faculty teaching loads needing to be heavier prompted UW-Madison to release a faculty workload survey from February 2014. The survey yielded 191 full responses from biological sciences, humanities, physical science and social studies departments, according to UW-Madison.

Of those who responded, 96% said they teach, supervise and mentor undergraduate students and spend an average of 14.2 hours per week instructing undergraduates and an average 4.2 hours per week advising and mentoring.

All reported research activities as part of their work, with an average of 8.4 hours per week spent on research/creative work with students. The total time spent with research, scholarship or creative work was an average 21.3 hours per week.

Let's look closely at these numbers, because they're important. Professors self-reported teaching 14 hours a week and spending 4 hours "advising and mentoring." I don't know where you went to college (or if you did), but where I went, a large East Coast university, most professors didn't spend any time advising or mentoring, and they sure didn't teach 14 hours a week. Furthermore, I doubt the veracity of self-reported "teaching hours." If it's unverified, they have every incentive to report having taught more than they did. Some classes aren't even taught by professors, but rather by teaching assistants.

But let's pretend they really do teach 14 hours a week. They claim to do 8 hours of "research" a week, but again, who cares? Remember, this is a public university. Should the taxpayer really be paying to subsidize academic research? Does the average citizen in Oshkosh benefit materially from a new treatise on the wonders of socialism or a research paper on what The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn says about transgenderism? I think that at a public university, taxpayers should only be expected to pay for teaching. Why can't they teach 20 hours a week? Or better yet, why can't they teach 40 hours a week? Many don't even do their own grading because they have teaching assistants.

Let's take a look at the results of the UW system. Only a little more than 50% of students managed to graduate in 4 years. Another 30% graduated after spending 6 years to complete a 4-year program. Why should the taxpayer pay for such poor results, or pay to have students take 6 years to do a 4-year program?

Teachers should be working full-time to teach students. The student body should be downsized to eliminate students who can't handle the work. With these commonsense measures, $300 million could easily be cut from the UW budget.



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[zeke]

Reminds me as a kid we used to believe blacks could not play basketball, baseball or football very well. Our evidence: how many are in the pros?

You must be really old.
I am 61 and have always known blacks could play ball. Some good, some bad. Just like all the white guys that I played ball with and against.
How old are you?

Or was you being sarcastic and I missed it? Or are you pre Jackie Robinson? I got a 91 yo step dad who saw Jackie play up in Chicago. First black he recalls seeing in professional sports.

 

[bendog]

Should the taxpayer really be paying to subsidize academic research?

run with that econ message, edge.

 

[Flash]

The filthy ass union loving Democrats have done everything possible to bring down Walker and they have failed, miserably.

The Democrats should love basketball seeing their high percentage of Blacks. I don't see the problem.

 

[bendog]

The filthy ass union loving Democrats have done everything possible to bring down Walker and they have failed, miserably.

The Democrats should love basketball seeing their high percentage of Blacks. I don't see the problem.

jmo, I think taking on public sector unions is a good thing. But there's a difference between that and cutting education and R&D to fund special interest give aways and tax cuts just for the sake of cutting taxes.

 

[zeke]

They claim to do 8 hours of "research" a week, but again, who cares?

See what I meant. You went to college? Graduate? What'd you study?
Now why would a university want a Professor to be working on research?
First, they have to publish in their field. In academia, that's just what they have to do to move forward in their careers.
The university benefits from having successful, publishing professors because they bring in research grant monies and great name recognition for the school. And of course the higher quality of the educator and the better reputation of the school, the better quality of student the school attracts. The better quality student becomes the more successful alumni and offers to build a new stadium. So the school thrives and the educators thrive and the students thrive.

You sure you went to college?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

dimocraps is what they is.....

Scott Walker to UW faculty: Work more than 14 hours a week
By Pedro Gonzales
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker reportedly wants to "cut" $300 million from the University of Wisconsin budget over the next two years. I am always skeptical of the use of the term "cut" – from the article and other sources, I cannot genuinely tell if it is a budget-to-budget cut or simply a reduction in the rate of increase. Also, in no news story is it reported what the actual budget of UW is, so readers will have no idea what kind of impact it will have on the system. But I did some digging and can tell you that the prior two-year budget for UW was $6 billion, so this $300 million may be a 5% cut...at most.

In any event...so what?


"In the future, by not having the limitation of things like shared governance, they might be able to make savings just by asking faculty and staff to consider teaching one more class a semester," Walker told reporters at the Madison hotel.

Word of Walker's remarks about faculty teaching loads needing to be heavier prompted UW-Madison to release a faculty workload survey from February 2014. The survey yielded 191 full responses from biological sciences, humanities, physical science and social studies departments, according to UW-Madison.

Of those who responded, 96% said they teach, supervise and mentor undergraduate students and spend an average of 14.2 hours per week instructing undergraduates and an average 4.2 hours per week advising and mentoring.

All reported research activities as part of their work, with an average of 8.4 hours per week spent on research/creative work with students. The total time spent with research, scholarship or creative work was an average 21.3 hours per week.

Let's look closely at these numbers, because they're important. Professors self-reported teaching 14 hours a week and spending 4 hours "advising and mentoring." I don't know where you went to college (or if you did), but where I went, a large East Coast university, most professors didn't spend any time advising or mentoring, and they sure didn't teach 14 hours a week. Furthermore, I doubt the veracity of self-reported "teaching hours." If it's unverified, they have every incentive to report having taught more than they did. Some classes aren't even taught by professors, but rather by teaching assistants.

But let's pretend they really do teach 14 hours a week. They claim to do 8 hours of "research" a week, but again, who cares? Remember, this is a public university. Should the taxpayer really be paying to subsidize academic research? Does the average citizen in Oshkosh benefit materially from a new treatise on the wonders of socialism or a research paper on what The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn says about transgenderism? I think that at a public university, taxpayers should only be expected to pay for teaching. Why can't they teach 20 hours a week? Or better yet, why can't they teach 40 hours a week? Many don't even do their own grading because they have teaching assistants.

Let's take a look at the results of the UW system. Only a little more than 50% of students managed to graduate in 4 years. Another 30% graduated after spending 6 years to complete a 4-year program. Why should the taxpayer pay for such poor results, or pay to have students take 6 years to do a 4-year program?

Teachers should be working full-time to teach students. The student body should be downsized to eliminate students who can't handle the work. With these commonsense measures, $300 million could easily be cut from the UW budget.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker reportedly wants to "cut" $300 million from the University of Wisconsin budget over the next two years. I am always skeptical of the use of the term "cut" – from the article and other sources, I cannot genuinely tell if it is a budget-to-budget cut or simply a reduction in the rate of increase. Also, in no news story is it reported what the actual budget of UW is, so readers will have no idea what kind of impact it will have on the system. But I did some digging and can tell you that the prior two-year budget for UW was $6 billion, so this $300 million may be a 5% cut...at most.

In any event...so what?

"In the future, by not having the limitation of things like shared governance, they might be able to make savings just by asking faculty and staff to consider teaching one more class a semester," Walker told reporters at the Madison hotel.

Word of Walker's remarks about faculty teaching loads needing to be heavier prompted UW-Madison to release a faculty workload survey from February 2014. The survey yielded 191 full responses from biological sciences, humanities, physical science and social studies departments, according to UW-Madison.

Of those who responded, 96% said they teach, supervise and mentor undergraduate students and spend an average of 14.2 hours per week instructing undergraduates and an average 4.2 hours per week advising and mentoring.

All reported research activities as part of their work, with an average of 8.4 hours per week spent on research/creative work with students. The total time spent with research, scholarship or creative work was an average 21.3 hours per week.

Let's look closely at these numbers, because they're important. Professors self-reported teaching 14 hours a week and spending 4 hours "advising and mentoring." I don't know where you went to college (or if you did), but where I went, a large East Coast university, most professors didn't spend any time advising or mentoring, and they sure didn't teach 14 hours a week. Furthermore, I doubt the veracity of self-reported "teaching hours." If it's unverified, they have every incentive to report having taught more than they did. Some classes aren't even taught by professors, but rather by teaching assistants.

But let's pretend they really do teach 14 hours a week. They claim to do 8 hours of "research" a week, but again, who cares? Remember, this is a public university. Should the taxpayer really be paying to subsidize academic research? Does the average citizen in Oshkosh benefit materially from a new treatise on the wonders of socialism or a research paper on what The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn says about transgenderism? I think that at a public university, taxpayers should only be expected to pay for teaching. Why can't they teach 20 hours a week? Or better yet, why can't they teach 40 hours a week? Many don't even do their own grading because they have teaching assistants.

Let's take a look at the results of the UW system. Only a little more than 50% of students managed to graduate in 4 years. Another 30% graduated after spending 6 years to complete a 4-year program. Why should the taxpayer pay for such poor results, or pay to have students take 6 years to do a 4-year program?

Teachers should be working full-time to teach students. The student body should be downsized to eliminate students who can't handle the work. With these commonsense measures, $300 million could easily be cut from the UW budget.



Read more: Blog Scott Walker to UW faculty Work more than 14 hours a week
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As usual, Progs are lying

 

[bendog]

They claim to do 8 hours of "research" a week, but again, who cares?

See what I meant. You went to college? Graduate? What'd you study?
Now why would a university want a Professor to be working on research?
First, they have to publish in their field. In academia, that's just what they have to do to move forward in their careers.
The university benefits from having successful, publishing professors because they bring in research grant monies and great name recognition for the school. And of course the higher quality of the educator and the better reputation of the school, the better quality of student the school attracts. The better quality student becomes the more successful alumni and offers to build a new stadium. So the school thrives and the educators thrive and the students thrive.

You sure you went to college?

Also, his link panned students taking 6 years to graduate. Anyone here work while in school? PS, anyone go onto graduate school with very difficult academic coursework requirements, but also get an undergrad degree in a humanity where they could get the GPA up enough to get accepted?

The question is do these a-holes simply not know anything about getting an educ to be a professional, or do they just hate academia. THAT is the question Walker's gonna be asked.

 

[Edgetho]

See what I meant. You went to college? Graduate? What'd you study?
Now why would a university want a Professor to be working on research?
First, they have to publish in their field. In academia, that's just what they have to do to move forward in their careers.
The university benefits from having successful, publishing professors because they bring in research grant monies and great name recognition for the school. And of course the higher quality of the educator and the better reputation of the school, the better quality of student the school attracts. The better quality student becomes the more successful alumni and offers to build a new stadium. So the school thrives and the educators thrive and the students thrive.

You sure you went to college?

I didn't write that, I quoted it.

College boy, huh?

Maybe it should be more like $500 Million in cuts.

moron

Since when does it matter if a History Prof does research? Does History change?

How much English Lit research is required? How about Black Studies? How about Poetry? How about you pull your head out of your ass and realize that College types are SERIOUSLY overpaid and under-worked.

How do i know? My sister is a College Professor.

Same shit with you fucks every time...... We're either reducing the number of Cops and Firemen, starving babies or cutting back on research.

Piss off

 

[Dana7360]

That works out to $1650 for every university student to give to a Basketball team

What do you expect from a college dropout?

Again the university asked Walker to make those cuts, don't you feel like an idiot now for starting this thread?

You're going to have to provide credible proof of that because I just did a search on university of wisconsin asks for 300 million in cuts. Nothing came up. The only things that came up articles about the cuts but nothing saying the school asked for it.

 

[bendog]

It's not the cuts, dulledge. It's the tradeoff. If Wisc took 300mil to try and get educ access to kids who can't get to brick and cement campuses ... it'd be a bit different.