{"id":5086,"date":"2013-04-25T05:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T11:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2013-04-25T05:53:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T11:53:25","slug":"governor-walker-says-he-will-make-changes-to-uw-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=5086","title":{"rendered":"Governor Walker Says He Will Make Changes to UW Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Scott Walker <a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/news\/local\/state-and-regional\/walker-to-propose-tuition-freeze-for-uw\/article_b4041f28-acfb-11e2-8832-001a4bcf887a.html\">said<\/a> yesterday that he intends to make changes to his 2013-15 biennial budget recommendation for the University of Wisconsin System. Details are expected in the next seven to ten days. The governor&#8217;s original budget proposal for UW System included $181 million for cost-to-continue and economic development efforts.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewheelerreport.com\/JFC\/2013\/0424doaerrata.pdf\">letter<\/a> to the co-chairs of the Joint Committee on Finance, the governor wrote the changes are &#8220;in light of the revelations regarding the University of Wisconsin System&#8217;s reserves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week the governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcrescent.com\/viewart\/20130423\/OSH0101\/304230260\">said<\/a> he supports a tuition freeze for the next biennium, but did want additional cuts to his proposed budget. Walker&#8217;s remarks came at press conference in Milwaukee where he spoke about his recent trip to China, noting the 90-percent increase in students from China studying at UW-Madison over the past four years. The governor also said that Wisconsin&#8217;s trade with China increased over the same time period \u00a0and that China is an important trade partner for the state.<\/p>\n<p>A Walker spokesman would not say if the governor now supports a decrease in his original $181 million proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Scott Walker said yesterday that he intends to make changes to his 2013-15 biennial budget recommendation for the University of Wisconsin System. Details are expected in the next seven to ten days. The governor&#8217;s original budget proposal for UW&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=5086\">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":[19,13,17],"tags":[60,48,137],"class_list":["post-5086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-2013-15-state-budget","tag-tuition","tag-uw-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086","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=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}