UW-Madison chancellor: Scott Walker budget will mean job losses, longer stays for students

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UW-Madison plans to cut 400 jobs across campus — most of them open positions that won’t be filled — as well as drop some programs and collect an additional $3.5 million yearly from its athletics department to deal with Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million, two-year cut to the University of Wisconsin System, chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Friday.

The cuts will extend students’ time in college, with fewer classes offered because of fewer professors — both full-time and adjunct — around to teach them, said John Karl Scholz, dean of the College of Letters & Science.

In his college, the largest at the university, a faculty hiring freeze will mean 48 open faculty jobs and 44 open staff jobs go unfilled in the next year. That translates to 320 fewer courses that will be offered the year of 2016-2017 and 9,000 students who will miss out on a class spot they otherwise would have had.

Programs would be cut or restructured in agriculture, the arts and technology, Blank said in her statement without offering details