Sen. Judy Robson is "deeply disappointed" that the University of Wisconsin-Madison lobbied against a provision she put into the budget during Joint Finance to build a new nursing school on the campus.

The Assembly Democrats passed an amendment last night to pull the provision after the UW lobbied against it's inclusion.

"I am deeply disappointed that the University has not gone to bat to keep this provision in the budget and in fact has lobbied heavily against it," she said.

"We have an opportunity at our flagship campus to recruit and graduate more nurse educators to teach in nursing programs across the state. With more nursing faculty, we will be able to enroll more nursing students, graduate more nurses, put dislocated workers back to work, give our economy a boost, and improve the quality of health care each of us receives. This is an opportunity the University should embrace. They seem to have strayed from the Wisconsin Idea mission of improving people's lives beyond the university."

See the press release here.

-- By Greg Bump