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UW-Madison plans for 400 job cuts under state budget By Ellie Herman The Daily Cardinal
The effects of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget have become clearer to the UW-Madison community in the past week as Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently detailed the elimination of 400 positions and the closing or merging of several programs. UW-Madison is preparing to carry $96 million of the $300 million cut to the UW System proposed in the governor’s state budget. The Board of Regents approved the university’s plan to increase nonresident tuition April 10, and is scheduled to start the increase this fall. Blank granted the deans
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of each college the autonomy to decide which programs to cut. The deans are expected to start announcing their budget plans Monday, Blank said in an online post. “Our programs and services are all useful and worthy of support, but we have attempted to prioritize those most essential,” Blank said in the post. “I recognize that this process will impact good people and limit our ability to serve students and the state.” The termination of 400 jobs will bring additional changes to campus, such as the ending or restructuring of several programs including information technology, agriculture and the arts, according to the post.
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Service in Moldova influences UW staffer
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ings on campus. While Blank said in the post the university will attempt to find other ways to deal with the cuts, she asked the Athletic Department and other schools and colleges within UW-Madison to “make greater financial contri-
Turning 50 inspires some to buy a new car or pick up a new hobby. But Sylvia Swift, a UW-Madison Physics Department employee, joined the Peace Corps and spent two years doing community and organizational development in Moldova, a country in Eastern Europe. “I had turned 50 years old and I didn’t have any children and I was at a point in my life when I could walk away from my day job and I wanted to give back. I wanted to try to make the world a better place and I decided on the Peace Corps,” Swift said. While in Moldova, Swift pri-
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Chancellor Rebecca Blank explained effects of the proposed state budget on UW-Madison in a blog post last week. Students can expect larger class sizes with fewer course options and a reduction in advising services, which Blank said could hurt both the time students take to graduate and retention. Additional support services are expected to be reduced and UW-Madison will budget less money toward maintaining build-
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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”