MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – As a new school year begins this week, University of Wisconsin chancellors are working to keep their faculty on board amid a host of state budget cuts.
Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank says a number of her top faculty got rare summer job offers from other schools — and she expects an “unusually large” number of outside offers once the fall semester gets underway.
The UW’s budget woes were spread nationally this year, as the result of Governor Scott Walker’s presidential candidacy. Blank says she’ll do what’s necessary to keep top faculty, even if means a deeper deficit for the state’s largest campus.
UW-Milwaukee Chancelor Mark Mone says he’ll describe a “leaner and more focused” campus in the wake of the system’s two-year, $250 million state funding cut, and tighter faculty layoff policies.
Faculty tenure rights are no longer a part of state law, although the Board of Regents has vowed to keep them.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
