Chancellors GOP Assembly's "Shrink Agenda"
Gov. Jim Doyle said the Assembly's budget proposal put the UW System and the state at a "tipping point."
"The state is doing better than we were four and six years ago, and we now have an opportunity to make a major public investment into our universities to build the access and make them affordable," Doyle said during a round-table discussion today with chancellors at the Capitol.
University officials described how the Assembly's "shrink agenda," as Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard called it, would mean fewer sections, larger classes and program cuts.
With the state budget is still up in the air, the Board of Regents is expected to decide next Tuesday on the system's annual operating budget and tuition for the upcoming school year.
See the release here.
Listen to Doyle's remarks.
Listen to UW President Kevin Reilly's remarks.
Listen to the rest of press conference, including questions from reporters here.
-- By Claudette Torbey
Labels: Doyle, UW Funding
