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bounty44 -> RE: College Records Finally Exposed!! (2/13/2015 7:13:52 AM)
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quote:
ORIGINAL: cloudboy
Scott Walker in 2015 has proposed slashing The University of Wisconsin System budget by 13%.
Scott Walker, a Presidential Candidate who values education and investing in America's future.
scott walker, a presidential candidate who believes in fiscal responsibility.
"According to the spending breakdown here, between 2006-2007 and 2011-12, administrative spending the University of Wisconsin dropped from $67,298,831 to $66,995,697, a cut of $303,134 or 0.5%.
"But at the same time, spending on instruction was slashed from $633,483,020 to $601,254,569 --- a cut of $32,228,450 or 5.1%. In other words spending on teaching students was cut at a rate more than 10 times higher than cuts to administration. You might want to check the fat there...
"At some point universities need to prioritize their programs, recognizing that adding extraneous programs results "in a substantial diminution of resources for existing programs," and the "price for academic bloat for all is impoverishment of each...
"UW’s building boom continues, with work beginning on a new ambitious master plan. Legislators might want to scrutinize the plan to and separate the essential from the Taj-Mahal Syndrome projects"
http://www.rightwisconsin.com/featured/about-that-uw-bloat-290996411.html
some perspective:
"Proposed cuts are a small slice of the overall revenue, and private businesses deal with bigger swings all the time...
"The overall budget for the UW System is $6,098 million per year. (Another way of saying $6.1 billion.) The $150 million cut per year represents about 2.5 percent of the total yearly operating budget. I understand that not all of these funds are "accessible" and many are already committed in "cost-to-continue" operations. Many small and large businesses experience much greater fluctuations than this — and they survive and even thrive. A 2.5 percent cut certainly does not constitute the "end" of a very resilient UW System!"
(so never minding that the majority of the operating costs of a university do not come from the state directly)
http://www.marshfieldnewsherald.com/story/opinion/2015/02/09/bob-kulp-uw-system-budget-cuts-perspective/23104937/
and if we really want to take a good look at whats going on in universities around the country, this gives some wonderful insight:
Getting What You Pay For? a Look at America’s Top-Ranked Public Universities
"For too long, many higher education leaders have blamed state funding cuts, and state funding cuts alone, for the steep and steady upward trend in tuition. This report will look at some other culprits:
broken faculty reward systems that push teaching responsibilities ever downward, runaway executive salaries and administrative bloat, and the campus
building boom that continues to add underutilized physical facilities...
"According to the National Survey of Student Engagement, 34% of college seniors at research-intensive universities study ten hours per week or less, while 54% study 15 hours or less.
Despite reports showing that undergraduates are studying and learning less and less in their four years at college, their GPAs are increasing..."
"Employers who complain that newly-hired college graduates lack the skill and selfdiscipline to be effective will find much of the cause in the relatively low level of expectation for student work
set at colleges and universities...
"According to a survey of over 30,000 freshmen on 76 campuses, students who consumed at least one drink in the last two weeks spent an average of 10.2 hours a week drinking, versus
an average of 8.4 hours a week studying...
"Of the public universities in this report, only four merited the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s “green light” rating, meaning no serious threat to free speech...
"In-state tuition at the top 52 public universities, on average, rose 31% from 2007-08 to 2012-13, after adjusting for inflation...
"[T]he sad reality is that at more than half of these schools, notwithstanding the recession, growth in administrative spending outpaced growth in instructional spending."
"32 of the institutions in this study pay their president or chancellor a salary that equals or exceeds that of the President of the United States. Public universities in Division I of the NCAA now spend
three to six times as much on athletics per athlete than they spend on academics per student..."
and a good point to close on:
"The limited data on teaching loads collected by the federal government fails to provide the public and policymakers with sufficient information to ensure that faculty time—
universities’ most precious resource—is being used in a cost-effective manner..."
http://www.goacta.org/images/download/getting_what_you_pay_for.pdf
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