{"id":789,"date":"2010-09-20T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=789"},"modified":"2010-09-20T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T14:44:58","slug":"orszag-column-highlights-importance-of-wednesdays-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Orszag Column Highlights Importance of Wednesday&#8217;s Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/peterorszag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-792\" title=\"peterorszag\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/peterorszag-106x150.jpg\" alt=\"peterorszag\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/peterorszag-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/peterorszag-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/peterorszag-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/peterorszag.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a>Peter Orszag, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/19\/opinion\/19orszag.html?_r=1&amp;scp=5&amp;sq=peter%20orszag&amp;st=cse\">writing<\/a> in yesterday&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>, points to rising health care costs as the primary reason why states have had to reduce their commitment to higher education in recent years. Orszag, former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Obama, highlights the particular challenge of paying public university faculty competitive salaries in this environment.<\/p>\n<p>Orszag writes, &#8220;Governments\u2019 general support for higher education 25 years ago was  nearly 50 percent greater than state spending on Medicaid. That  relationship has now flipped: Medicaid spending is about 50 percent  greater than support for higher education. If higher education\u2019s share  of state budgets had remained constant instead of being crowded out by  rising Medicaid costs, it would be getting some $30 billion more than it  receives today, or more than $2,000 per student.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The column illustrates the importance of Wednesday&#8217;s forum, co-sponsored by PROFS and CAPE (the Coalition for Affordable Public Education), on the funding of higher education generally and UW-Madison specifically. The forum will\u00a0 take place this <strong>Wednesday, September 22 at 4:30 pm<\/strong> in the Wisconsin Idea Room at the newly-renovated School  of Education, 1000 Bascom Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Biddy Martin will serve on the panel along with Chuck Pruitt, president of the UW System Board of Regents, and Kathi Seifert, a former Kimberly-Clark executive who recently co-chaired the Regent\u2019s Competitive University Workforce Commission. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us for this very important discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Orszag, writing in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times, points to rising health care costs as the primary reason why states have had to reduce their commitment to higher education in recent years. Orszag, former director of the White House Office&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=789\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[10],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-national-context","tag-higher-education-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}