I know that the current interest in energy savings may be considered a reason to economize, but this symbolic image seems to me worth the effort.
]]>Maybe the university should allocate and use its money more wisely. We have lost a lot of wonderful professors who went to other schools for more opportunities that UW-Madison has the potential to give. Instead, we spend those money on the wrong places.
The Breese Terrace Union is now in the old UHS building. I do have to applaud people for using old buildings for a different purpose, but the union will be a waste of resource if no student use it.
]]>The message of cutting higher education funding at the expense of student financial accounts is that we are not a valuable resource in Wisconsin. I WILL be leaving the state to find employment elsewhere in the coming year once my research and thesis is complete. The message is clear, “higher education is not a priority in the State of Wisconsin”. The budget shortfall and effect on students is a disgrace to all of us hard-working students. The effects will run deeper than graduates leaving the state, but that is the effect it has on me and my wife. Staff will continue to leave, and departments will suffer. I am already seeing it within my department as one Researh Associate cannot stay on, and will be moving onto Ball State most likely.
Sorely disappointed yet again,
Tom
]]>When you compare the work time lost to furloughs to the amount of time currently being spent on discussing how to cut the budget, you would probably come out ahead with furloughs. And professional staff will continue to do the work that needs to be done, despite having to take mandatory “days off.”
Second idea: Stop tearing down and putting up buildings. If the hemorraghing of faculty positions is not staunched we will have a lot of empty new buildings, with no one to teach in them. And why replicate the same mistakes of the 1970s: putting up badly designed, poorly built buildings that we now have to tear down because they were built by the lowest bidder? Just ask maintenance staff which buildings need the most work; it is generally the new ones. It’s time to turn John Wiley’s building-binge supertanker around. The argument that “the money for buildings comes from a different source” just doesn’t hold up in this economic climate.
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