Biennial Budget Campaign

Dear Legislators, #WI NEED TO TALK

Biennial Budget Campaign 2011-2013

Every two years, the state of Wisconsin creates, approves, and spends a multi-billion dollar budget that touches everything from agriculture to education. The higher education of the state is in part funded by the Wisconsin state biennial budget. The University of Wisconsin system receives a portion of it’s funding from the Wisconsin state budget.
United Council’s Budget Campaign is going to strike back a campaign for students to save their University. Through actions and ideas brought by students to the legislators to say no more cuts to the UW System.

We are taking Action:

  • Lobbying the UW Board of Regents and Wisconsin State Legislature
  • Running actions on your campus (i.e. a press conference, postcard signing activity)
  • Engaging students in a campus wide or statewide rally
  • Educating students about issues directly affecting them (teach-in, socials)
  • Working directly with the press to provide them with the information we need and the coverage we need to make this a statewide issue
  • Crafting and executing new and creative tactics

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Articles on Where UW Campuses have to Cut Back

PUBLISHED:VIA THE POINTER by Logan Carlson

Regents Consider Costs of Funding Cuts to System
Students are facing a rising cost of tuition, while at the same time the amount of funding the UW System receives from the state has been steadily decreasing. The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents met on February 9th to discuss the intersection between tuition costs and state funding for higher education, as well as possible avenues for universities to maintain quality instruction…

…“In our College of Letters and Science we currently have an 800 to 1 student to advisor ratio,” said Michael Lowell, the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.

PUBLISHED:2/22/2012 VIA THE BADGER HERALD – by Alissa Scalzo

State budget cuts take toll on campus library system

As a result of funding cuts presented in the state budget, University of Wisconsin libraries will take a hit in services and staffing.

Elias added the cut would mean fewer hours, employees and services to the public.