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GOP lawmaker says UW gets enough money

July 16, 2011 By Bob Hague

There’s partisan feuding over everything it seems these days, including the cost of a UW education. Some members of the UW Board of Regents are “crying wolf” about the impact of cuts under the Republican state budget. So says GOP Representative Steve Nass of Whitewater. “We fund the UW System by more than a billion dollars every year, and historically every single session we hear from the university about how they cannot survive without more money. And they certainty have survived very well.”

UW Regents have approved a budget that includes a 5.5 percent tuition hike, and some Democratic appointees to the board accused Republicans of disregarding the needs of middle-class students. Nass argues that tuition hikes were a lot higher when Democrat Jim Doyle was Governor. “We are paying the administrators, the chancellors of the system and the president very well,” said Nass. “They are supposed to be managers of the institution, and they are supposed to be running the institution so it doesn’t go into the ground. That is their job.”

John Colbert, WIBA

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