{"id":6936,"date":"2014-12-19T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6936"},"modified":"2014-12-18T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T17:46:15","slug":"uw-system-president-ray-cross-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6936","title":{"rendered":"UW System President Ray Cross Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Walters of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiseye.org\/\">WisconsinEye<\/a> recently interviewed University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross to discuss the future of the University of Wisconsin System. Video of the interview is below.<\/p>\n<p>Topics of discussion included a look to future budgeting and funding constraints, the possible <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UWS-baccalaureate-engineering-programs.pdf\">creation of new engineering programs at three UW System campuses<\/a>, and the relationship between UW System and the Wisconsin Technical College System.<\/p>\n<p>Walters and Cross spoke at length about\u00a0Cross&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6911\">recent remarks<\/a>\u00a0to the Board of Regents and the subsequent plans for a transformational study of the UW System. Cross estimates this study will occur over the next several months, and faculty will be engaged in the process.\u00a0Cross also said UW System must do a better job at communicating what faculty do, in and outside the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if\u00a0UW-Madison will be included\u00a0with the proposed reforms, Cross said UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee have a research focus and the final recommendations may not fully apply to those two campuses.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W2ch2KXy9Ig?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Walters of\u00a0WisconsinEye recently interviewed University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross to discuss the future of the University of Wisconsin System. Video of the interview is below. Topics of discussion included a look to future budgeting and funding constraints,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6936\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[108,58,137,124],"class_list":["post-6936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw-system","tag-2015-17-state-budget","tag-public-higher-education","tag-uw-system","tag-wisconsineye","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936","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=6936"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6944,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}