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WPR Headline Story – UW campuses plan for large cuts

UW System chancellors say they?re dismayed by what they call a disproportionate amount of budget lapse cuts called for by the Walker Administration. UW schools have till November 7 to figure out how to cut millions from their budgets. In a memo, Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch states agencies were told to plan for $174 million in cuts from a lapse in the current state budget. Of that, $65 million or around 38-percent of that would come from the University of Wisconsin System.