Allseeing,
President Reilly leads a UW System workforce of some 40,000 faculty, academic and classified staff, and graduate assistants. He is also responsible for the UW System’s $5.6 billion annual budget, made up of state support, federal funding, tuition and fees, and private gifts.
Who was he appointed by? Walker had nothing to do with it. Get off your high horse and look within your own political party and fix your problems first.

You may need to educate yourself on how the UW system works. The governing body is the Board of Regents. The Regents are appointed by the governor. They serve term limits. Ain't Working Walker already appointed seven lemmings sitting on the board after only two years in office. In the next two years he should have seven more lemmings to do his bidding. He will have majority control in little over a year and will be pulling the strings on his puppets there. Walker is accountable. This and all the other debacles he creates are his mess. Doyle caught all kinds of hell over the spending/payroll issues. You Tea Party tools want to cherry pick the little real and imagined good Walker has done and forget about the bad. Well, if he and you take the credit for the good you have too take the bad also. And there is a lot of bad. Quit making excuses for this ineffective governor who can't get results.

Allwhateverl...the current system, PeopleSoft is the program started in 2006, when Doyle was gov. This is the system that is having so many problems now. There have been problems for years. This is the third iteration of payroll systems. Neither Doyle nor Walker should be blamed for the bumbling of the university. The administration of the UW system, Reilly, should be held accountable. Do you think for one minute that the liberals who run the UW system would even give Walker the time of day? They run their own agendas, budgets and programs. You just hate Walker so much you would blame him for anything. Get a life!

dont know donna- The Lawson UW Software turd was brought to us by another inept Republican governor Scott Mcallum in 2001. Doyle started in 2003. In case you cant do the math, he got handed the the Lawson Steamer. Keep playing the Doyle card, that is all Walker is holding.
Don't you guys get tired of trying to defend Walker and his failed policies and inept ideas? He handed out the tools, made the tough decisions, has had complete control of the government, broken the unions, given away $100s of millions to business and has continued to fail in getting results. Do the state a favor and pitch Aint Working Walker and find someone closer to center that will get this economy growing and attract business to our State.

Memo to High School Seniors - scratch the UW School of Business off your list...

All whatever...do your homework....in 2006 the UW system scraped a $26 million fiasco payroll program under the Lawson system. Doyle was governor so this is not a new problem. They then decided to spend more money on the Oracle system which didn't work either. I believe they are using People Soft now. Again, aren't this UW people supposed to be smart?

The only way your brother could have seen this debacle coming is if he was psychic. Maybe the old system he worked on was lame, but it wasn't spewing free tax payer money with wreckless abandon. The current system was ram rodded into law a little less than two years ago by "It Ain't Workin' Walker" and his lemming band of misfits Republican Legislators. I am betting that if you looked into it you would also find that the system was bought or installed by their campaign backers for payment on their donations.

My brother worked for UW years ago...some sort of IT position. Anyway, when they first brainstormed connecting all the campuses for the purpose of payroll/benefits and had someone design the software/hardware for it, he predicted it wouldn't work and quit his State job foreseeing huge problems with it. Wonder if this is what he had predicted all along?

Bob Slydell: So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh: Great.
Dom Portwood: So, uh, Milton has been let go?
Bob Slydell: Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it'll just work itself out naturally.
Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem is solved from your end.

BTW, "Payroll Glitches" are usually called embezzlement buy any other business.

Although this probably isn't a liberal vs conservative issue. The UW Board is mostly run by liberals and that is why it gets looked at it that way. They biggest issue is that no one will be held responsible. At least one person was supposed to oversee this and someone should be fired for it. What job does the board actually do? Shouldn't they ultimately be responsible for this as well? Reilly has been in his position since 2004 and it sure seems like the UW has had A LOT of problems starting around that time. All caused by people that WANT the responsibility, but don't want to TAKE responsibility.

And this leaves a $13 million gap to replace with tuition hikes ???

If only they had access to proper accounting training...

Does this accounting "dike" have some really big holes in it? Is the 1.1 million dollar loss in addition to the 13 million dollar loss already reported for the last 2 years? Do insurance companies give back the health benefit overpayment funds? After all, was any health benefit actually achieved? If not, why not? Are pension overpayments returned from the state pension funds? Is this really a liberal versus conservative issue or is it a bone-headed accounting error? Is the system too big and ungainly? Is there opportunity for crooks to be crooked and take advantage of the system? Maybe further investigation by news reporters would be enlightening. Who has a big enough thumb to plug this $6+ million a year hole?

All whateveryourname ....I know you want to hang anything you can on Walker but this is the liberal, lazy bastion of the UW system's fault. It snowed yesterday...you can blame Walker for that too? The UW system's laid back low work ethic demeanor and attitude have their heads in the clouds and because it won't cost them anything, after all its just funny money to them. In the real world there would be mass firings, but in UW liberal world there will probably be promotions of those responsible. UW has ALWAYS had problems in the computer systems department. And they are supposed to be smarter than the rest of us.

Ah yes, yet another NOT WORKING WALKER failure to add to the list. Scott Walker's mandate for the UW Human Resources Design Project was born in his ACT 32. The UW, like many things Walker had to stick his fingers in, was running along just fine. Now, like the others, there is missing money and problems. Now more of my tax payer money has to be thrown at yet another Walker created problem to investigate and try to fix it. How much more is this one going to cost us? It's not working Walker. The Milwaukee Journal has more in depth coverage and states, "Among the most serious concerns: "a material weakness" related to the security of the Human Resource System, which "increases the risk of inadvertent, erroneous, or unauthorized payments or changes to the system."

In other words, could someone who helped build the Human Resource System, and continued to have access to the system during the lengthy transition period after it went online, create fictitious employees and pay them fraudulently? There's no evidence that happened, but the audit will look for that type of activity, officials said."

No kidding, when do they get concerned?

That's a "glitch" ???