{"id":8463,"date":"2019-03-20T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=8463"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:09:15","slug":"profs-state-budget-forum-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=8463","title":{"rendered":"PROFS State Budget Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3113 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capitol-Forward-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capitol-Forward-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capitol-Forward-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capitol-Forward.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>PROFS will host a forum to discuss Governor Tony Ever&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/proposals\/ab56\">2019-21 state budget proposal<\/a> at noon, Tuesday, April 2 in Room 159 Education (1000 Bascom Mall) This event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>The panel includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/legislators\/assembly\/1850\">State Representative Dave Murphy<\/a> (R-Greenville), Chair, Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/legislators\/assembly\/1865\">State Representative Katrina Shankland<\/a> (D-Stevens Point), former Joint Finance Committee member<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Buhrandt, Senior Director for State Relations, UW System<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elpa.education.wisc.edu\/elpa\/people\/faculty-and-staff-directory\/nicholas-hillman\">Nicholas Hillman<\/a>, Educational Leadership &amp; Policy Analysis professor, UW-Madison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The governor\u2019s higher education budget includes increases of $44.7 million in FY20 and $66 million in FY21 and a 2% pay plan for UW System employees, including UW-Madison faculty. Additional details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$45 million for capacity building initiatives<\/li>\n<li>$5 million for UW Colleges student support services<\/li>\n<li>2-year tuition freeze, including $50.4 million to fund the freeze<\/li>\n<li>$10 million for a nurse educators program<\/li>\n<li>$17.4 million for Wisconsin Grants, a need-based grant program for Wisconsin students<\/li>\n<li>$3.5 million and 20 FTE for UW Extension agriculture representatives<\/li>\n<li>$500,000 for environmental education at UW-Stevens Point<\/li>\n<li>$18 million for a general increase to the Wisconsin Technical College System<\/li>\n<li>Resident tuition for undocumented Wisconsin residents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The state budget process is a months-long process that stretches into summer and often into autumn. The Joint Finance Committee and both houses of the Republican-led state legislature must approve the plan before it is returned to the governor for his vetoes and final approval.<\/p>\n<p>Event cosponsors: The Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE), Academic Staff Professionals Representation Organization (ASPRO), and the Wisconsin Alumni Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROFS will host a forum to discuss Governor Tony Ever&#8217;s 2019-21 state budget proposal at noon, Tuesday, April 2 in Room 159 Education (1000 Bascom Mall) This event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=8463\">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":[4,19,13,17],"tags":[152,27,34,18,137],"class_list":["post-8463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-profs","category-the-state","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-2019-21-state-budget","tag-higher-education-funding","tag-joint-finance-committee","tag-legislature","tag-uw-system","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8463","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=8463"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8485,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8463\/revisions\/8485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}