University of Wisconsin-Madison drops in research ranking

[riversedge]

Source: AP



Posted: Sat 12:19 PM, Nov 26, 2016

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison has fallen out of the National Science Foundation's top five research institutions for the first time in over 40 years because of the school decreasing spending on research.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports the university's spending on research declined by over $100 million between 2012 and 2015. Campus officials highlighted the falling expenditures Tuesday as they encouraged lawmakers to increase funding for the University of Wisconsin System in the next state budget.

Vice chancellor for research and graduate education Marsha Mailick says years of funding cuts have made it more difficult for the university to recruit top researchers.....................

Read more: http://www.weau.com/content/news/University-of-Wisconsin-Madison-drops-in-research-ranking-403137706.html

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Gov Walker--Repug- has hit on public schools and our University for years. UWis-Madison--one of the finest research campuses in the world in going downhill because of Republicans in WI.

[Matthew28]

1. The Repubican party is anti-science

And will send this nation into another dark age if they get their way.

[mdbl]

5. It will be the last one

If they succeed.

[dhol82]

2. Really sad.

[HassleCat]

3. Need to privatize

They could bring in plenty of money doing studies proving climate change is a hoax, immigration is bad, etc.

[n2doc]

4. First Wisconsin, then the rest of the USA

Then the world. The Republican plan to create a new dark age.

[a kennedy]

8. This makes me so mad, and I want cry as well......

I DISPISE THIS PIECE OF CRAP. Almost as much as that tRump PIECE OF SH*T.

[elleng]

6. They can't stand education, and it shows, more and more every year.

[certainot]

7. so UWis rents its badger to 3 limbaugh stations

to attract advertisers so they can work for walker helping reelect him and other republicans and then help them defund public education, including itself!

here are 88 unis like wisconsin, pissing on their mission statements, students, and faculty.

at a cheap $1000/hr x 15 hrs/day x 5 days each stations is worth $75,000/WEEK FREE pr and infomercial time to deny global warming, defund public ed, and elect trumps.

that makes any of these unis good places to protest anything republican.

total 255 x $75,000 = $19,125,000/WEEK

ALABAMA 8 $600,000 Auburn 3, Alabama 2, Southern Alabama 2, Troy 1
ARIZONA 1 $75,000 Arizona St. 1
ARKANSAS 3 $225,000 Arkansas 3
CALIFORNIA 5 $375,000 San Jose State 2, USC 2, Fresno St. 1
COLORADO 4 $300,000 Air Force 2, Colorado 1, Colorado State 1
CONNECTICUT 1 $75,000 Connecticut 1
FLORIDA 20 $1,500,000 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2
GEORGIA 14 $1,050,000 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2
IDAHO 7 $525,000 Boise St. 4, Idaho 3
ILLINOIS 7 $525,000 Illinois 7
INDIANA 11 $825,000 Notre Dame 6, Purdue 4, Indiana 1
IOWA 5 $375,000 Iowa 4, Iowa St. 1
KANSAS 4 $300,000 Kansas St. 2, Kansas 1, Wichita St. 1
KENTUCKY 3 $225,000 Louisville 2, Kentucky 1
LOUSIANA 3 $225,000 LSU 2, La.-Monroe 1
MARYLAND 2 $150,000 Maryland 2
MASSACHUSETTS 1 $75,000 Boston College 1
MICHIGAN 19 $1,425,000 Michigan St. 11, Michigan 7, Western Michigan 1
MINNESOTA 4 $300,000 Minnesota 4
MISSISSIPPI 6 Mississippi St. 3, Mississippi 2, Southern Miss 1
MISSOURI 6 $450,000 Missouri 6
NEBRASKA 6 $450,000 Nebraska 6
NEVADA 1 $75,000 Nevada 1
NEW JERSEY 2 $150,000 Rutgers 1, Seton Hall 1
NEW MEXICO 3 $225,000 New Mexico 2, New Mexico St. 1
NEW YORK 7 $525,000 Syracuse 6, Army 1
NORTH CAROLINA 16 $1,200,000 North Carolina 8, North Carolina State 3, Duke 3, East Carolina 2
OHIO 10 $750,000 Ohio St. 6, Toledo 1, Dayton 1, Bowling Green 1, Xavier 1
OKLAHOMA 5 $375,000 Oklahoma St. 3, Oklahoma 1, Oral Roberts 1
OREGON 12 $900,000 Oregon St. 7, Oregon 5
PENNSYLVANIA 14 $1,050,000 Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1
SOUTH CAROLINA 4 $300,000 South Carolina 2, Clemson 2
TENNESSEE 7 $525,000 Tennessee 4, Memphis 3
TEXAS 16 $1,200,000 Texas A&M 9, Texas Tech 4, Texas 1, Texas Christian 1, Baylor 1
UTAH 1 $75,000 Utah St. 1
VIRGINIA 6 $450,000 Virginia Tech 5, Virginia 1
WASHINGTON 6 $450,000 Washington 5, Washington St. 1
WEST VIRGINIA 2 $150,000 West Virginia 1, Marshall 1
WISCONSIN 3 $225,000 Wisconsin 3

[Calista241]

9. I don't understand what you're saying here.

I looked up the University budgets here in Georgia where I live.

Georgia Tech's research budget went from $1.267b in 2016 to $1.343b in 2017.
UGA's research budget went from $1.340b in 2016 to $1.370b in 2017.
Georgia State's research budget went from $790m in 2016 to $1.024b in 2017.
Georgia Southerns research budget went from $377m in 2016 to $383m in 2017.

The top 4 Universities in Georgia all had substantial increases in their research budget. And that happened despite our having full Republican control of the State House and Senate, as well as a Repub Governor.

What that dumbass Walker is doing to Wisconsin is crazy and unforgivable, but other states aren't necessarily in the same boat.

I found all my numbers here:
http://www.usg.edu/fiscal_affairs/financial_reporting

[certainot]

10. those schools are broadcasting sports on those stations

so they're helping republicans in all their anti education anti democracy efforts

www.repbliconradio.org

[Grins]

11. A real hammerblow!

If there is any one true jewel in Wisconsin's crown it is the U. of Wisconsin system. Decades ago I marveled at it, and thought it only second to that of the U. of California system.

And then Prop 13 passed in California. The state was forced to cut its funding, killing one of the state's (actually, the world's) crown jewels. The left Wisconsin in a perfect position to take that crown and all the dollars that flowed into it from the state and those huge federal research dollars. And they took it! Big time. And one of the key Wisconsin governors who wanted to make bank on that research to benefit the state was Jim Doyle - a Democrat.

And then they elected Scott Walker, making Wisconsin another Republican disaster. And the scary part - they did it right in front of the blinking eyes of the state's voters. In plain effing sight. They did it to themselves.