Tuesday, October 23, 2007

$2.5 million for growth agenda

Just because I am interested, I looked up the report on the budget this afternoon. It looks like we got about half of what was originally proposed in March 2006 (there is a link to the original proposal). Here it is:

(6) UW-Oshkosh [$1,619,600 GPR and $910,600 PR]. The funding would be the first part of a three biennia plan with the goal of increasing the number of Wisconsin residents with bachelor's degrees; by the end of the three biennia, UW-Oshkosh plans to increase undergraduate headcount enrollment by 1,440. UW-Oshkosh would accomplish this increase in headcount enrollment by increasing access to programs and majors and by increasing retention and graduation rates. Under the plan, UW-Oshkosh would expand existing programs,
including: (a) biology and microbiology; (b) medical technology; (c) psychology; (d) nursing; (e) criminal justice; and (f) teacher education. In addition, new programs relating to business, applied science, and fire and emergency response management would be offered.


Here is the link to the budget report from the state.

The next question is how do we do all of this with half the money??

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well that is good for those programs. What about the rest of the faculty?

Anonymous said...

Any word on pay raises for faculty and staff?

Anonymous said...

They just received an average 2.25%increase on April 1, 2007.

Working To Make A Living said...

a little off topic but I found this interesting essay on intellectuals.

http://www.chomsky.info/books/power01.htm

heres and excerpt
Still, in the universities or in any other institution, you can often find some dissidents hanging around in the woodwork—and they can survive in one fashion or another, particularly if they get community support. But if they become too disruptive or too obstreperous—or you know, too effective—they're likely to be kicked out. The standard thing, though, is that they won't make it within the institutions in the first place, particularly if they were that way when they were young—they'll simply be weeded out somewhere along the line. So in most cases, the people who make it through the institutions and are able to remain in them have already internalized the right kinds of beliefs: it's not a problem for them to be obedient, they already are obedient, that's how they got there. And that's pretty much how the ideological control system perpetuates itself in the schools—that's the basic story of how it operates,(noam chomsky, understanding power)

Anonymous said...

If other departments had grown in enrollments the way THOSE departments have, they'd get some pie, too. They haven't.

Anonymous said...

yeah who needs humanities professors anyway. more cromanl justice majors will really help the local economy grow