Tag: UW System
Posted inGovernment

Republicans seek $3.5B tax cut favoring top earners, $32M reduction for UW System

Scott BauerAvatar photo by Scott Bauer / Associated Press and Harm Venhuizen / Associated Press Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Income taxes would be cut across the board by $3.5 billion under a plan announced Thursday by Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature’s budget-writing committee, a proposal that Democrats assailed as being skewed to benefit the wealthy. Republicans also plan to cut the University of Wisconsin System’s budget by $32 million despite a projected record-high […]

Posted inOpinion, Scott Walker's Wisconsin

Your Right to Know: Don’t let the UW hide research records

by Bill Lueders Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

This blanket exemption would spare the UW from needing a good reason to deny access to these records, as current law requires. Instead, universities could categorically spurn inquiries from citizens, media and even lawmakers looking into controversial research, potential threats to public safety, conflicts of interest or how tax dollars are spent.

Posted inWisWatch Blog

Three years after investigation, Obama signs campus sexual assault bill

by Kate Golden Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

President Obama signed the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act today, as part of the Violence Against Women Act. It’s been three years since the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism published an investigation that found sexual assaults remain seriously underreported and many women still face barriers to notifying authorities at University of Wisconsin campuses.