{"id":6528,"date":"2014-06-05T12:02:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6528"},"modified":"2014-06-05T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:02:18","slug":"june-board-of-regents-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6528","title":{"rendered":"June Board of Regents Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/uw-system-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-363 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/uw-system-logo.gif\" alt=\"uw system logo\" width=\"149\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsa.edu\/bor\/agenda\/2014\/june-outline.pdf\">is meeting<\/a> at UW-Milwaukee today and tomorrow, June 5 and 6. The regents\u00a0will meet\u00a0in committee\u00a0Thursday morning and in full Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. Video and audio stream of the full meetings is\u00a0available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsa.edu\/bor\/agenda\/2014\/june-outline.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?tag=regents\">new regents<\/a>\u00a0are participating in their first meeting &#8212; Jos\u00e9 Delgado, Eve Hall, UW-Madison student Nicolas Harsy, and UW-La Crosse student Anicka Purath.<\/p>\n<p>The board will discuss the 2014-15 annual budget and begin discussion on the 2015-17 biennial budget process. UW System President Ray Cross <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/news\/local\/education\/article_6e809e5f-520a-5bad-90cb-6a4ea4db8e22.html?_dc=412215139716.86365\">told<\/a> the <em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u00a0he expects the current tuition freeze to continue into the 2015-17 biennium. Governor Scott Walker recently<a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6438\"> expressed support<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0a continued tuition freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Rebecca Blank has repeatedly said she would like to raise professional school tuition to levels similar to peer institutions, but Cross said the timing is not right for such an increase and tuition will be frozen for all undergraduate and graduate students, regardless of residency.<\/p>\n<p>The board will also discuss plans to spend down financial reserves. The <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/education\/proposed-uw-system-budget-would-trim-surplus-b99283368z1-261686711.html\">reports<\/a> the current budget will spend down about 15 percent of the reserves, much of it coming from tuition reserves. UW System will carryover about $61 million in unspent tuition in 2014-15, down from $151 million one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is meeting at UW-Milwaukee today and tomorrow, June 5 and 6. The regents\u00a0will meet\u00a0in committee\u00a0Thursday morning and in full Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. Video and audio stream of the full meetings&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6528\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[108,111,48,137],"class_list":["post-6528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-2015-17-state-budget","tag-financial-reserves","tag-tuition","tag-uw-system","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528","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=6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}