{"id":3780,"date":"2012-08-24T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2012-08-24T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:15:43","slug":"two-views-on-uw-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3780","title":{"rendered":"Two Views on UW Flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/\">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a><\/em> offers two editorials about granting UW System increased management flexibilities. First, the <em>Journal Sentinel&#8217;s<\/em> editorial board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/opinion\/on-the-agenda-more-autonomy-for-campuses-9d6iqu8-167246415.html\">argues<\/a> that UW campuses deserve more autonomy and should be given more control over their finances and building projects:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The universities should have more room to set their own tuition, do  their own purchasing, make their own travel plans and develop their own  buildings. Greater autonomy would lead to greater efficiency and  probably save money in the process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Representative Stephen Nass (R-Whitewater) takes a different position. He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/opinion\/consequences-needed-for-lack-of-accountability-9d6iuql-167246425.html\">argues<\/a> that the 2011-13 budget, which capped tuition at 5.5 percent and included accountability measures for UW System, did not go far enough. Nass writes that the 2013-15 budget should include a 4 percent tuition cap and consequences for the university if it does achieve its accountability goals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The UW System was created in the 1970s. Its internal governance and  operational structures appear stuck in the disco era. While the  leadership of the UW System annually pledges internal reform and  modernization, the families of Wisconsin are today confronted with 26  campuses still dominated by an ivory tower bureaucracy that resists real  accountability, either to taxpayers or tuition-paying families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel offers two editorials about granting UW System increased management flexibilities. First, the Journal Sentinel&#8217;s editorial board argues that UW campuses deserve more autonomy and should be given more control over their finances and building projects: The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3780\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[60,26],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw-system","tag-2013-15-state-budget","tag-flexibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}