badger4life

Come on Doyle, you need to make sure that the UW gets enough funding to keep it’s professors. It seems like a no brainer to me, but I may be biased, if you lose good teaching and research professors eventually the UW will lose its reputation as a top public university – once that starts to happen demand for enrolling at the UW will drop and so will tuition revenue, and there will also be less research money coming in. Less research money and tuition means you can’t pay people as much and all of this means less tax revenue for the state and so on.

This post goes out to Jim and Harry.

Wisconsin excerpt from Wikipedia

Wisconsin has been one of the leading public universities in the United States since the beginning of the 20th century and ranks as one of the great research universities of the world. In U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of national universities in 2006, Wisconsin ranked 34th. Among U.S. universities, the University of Wisconsin is frequently listed as one of the “public Ivies”—publicly-funded universities providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. In addition to being a highly-ranked school in education, geography, history, and sociology, the university was recently ranked the second-best college at which to earn an education degree, and the overall seventh-best public school in the United States. In the Gourman report on undergraduate programs, the University of Wisconsin was ranked the third-best public university, after the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan. Additionally, it was ranked the eighth-best university in the United States for overall strength of the undergraduate programs. In 2006 the school also produced six Fulbright Scholars. According to the National Research Council there are over 70 programs at UW ranked in the top 10 nationally. In one study,[2] the University of Wisconsin was assessed as the 16th best among world universities. In a 2004 study by Bloomberg Market News, researchers found that UW tied Harvard for producing the most CEOs at Standard & Poor’s 500 companies. UW is second only to Harvard in the number of doctorates produced in the US, and leads the nation by numbers of alumni in the Peace Corps. The University is one of 60 elected members of the Association of American Universities.

Oh yeah, and one more for Big Jim

Wisconsin also holds the distinction as the nation’s number one party school, according to the 2005 Princeton Review’s annual survey and the May 2006 issue of Playboy magazine. The “work hard, play hard” mentality of Wisconsin’s student body is clearly displayed by the combination of the aforementioned academic and social life rankings.