[FroggyTheGremlim]

Whine, Wisconsin

Whine, Wisconsin

Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine ...

[wiggen]

I see the authors point but i have to assume funding is part of the chancellors job so maybe she sounds whiney but she’s supposed to fight for funding.

[4rcane]

cut her salary and divert the money saved to other part of education. Problem solved

[boycott]

She’s in the 1% that liberals need to protest. Are liberal students okay with the 1%ers when it’s one of them?

[DoodleDawg]

If the Chancellor wants to restore the cuts to the university budget then all she has to do is announce that the first programs to feel the cuts will be the football and basketball programs.

[drpix]

"{Chancellor} Blank, who was hired in 2013, collects a base salary of $495,000, plus various perks and benefits."

The UW system has been corrupted by self-enriching elitist hypocrites - enabled by a soviet style propaganda media. From "Wait, HOW Many UW System Employees Make More than Wisconsin's Governor?" - 1130-WISN :

"Governor Walker earned $143,871.52 last year. That would make him the 408th highest paid employee in the University of Wisconsin System. That’s right, there are 407 people in Wisconsin’s universities that made more money last year than Wisconsin’s Governor."

"UW System President Ray Cross... earned $525,000 - more than three times the Governor’s salary."

"The highest-paid professor earned $306,030... {and} didn’t teach a single course during the fall semester, and is not teaching any courses this semester."

[Graybeard58]

Many of Wisconsin’s teachers have to be liking Walker by now, he’s saved them a pile of money, since he made union dues voluntary. Many of them have stopped paying dues.

I suspect that a large number of those former dues payers were once gung ho unionists.

[From The Deer Stand]

Gov. Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the UW System represents 2.5% of its overall budget. Liberals call this an “attack on education,” forgetting the $250 million cut to the U of W by Democrat Gov. Jim Doyle when he was in office. Doyle’s cut, at that time, represented a higher percentage of the overall UW System budget.

[Sooth2222]

The problem isn't non-engineering and science majors. Unemployment among college graduates -- including all silly and useless majors -- is much lower than that of high school graduates. The problem (and this is what Rebecca Blank should be spending her energy attempting to improve) is that the product that colleges and universities produce is grossly overpriced.

[Stosh]

The University of Wisconsin’s endowment, as of 2013: $2.2 billion. (And if it’s not significantly higher today, they ought to be looking for a new director of development).