Campus closures, tuition hikes and the end of some educational programs are all possibilities if the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee goes through with proposed cuts over diversity, equity and inclusion offices on campus, UW System President Jay Rothman said Monday.
“The public funding for our four-year university system is currently ranked 42nd out of 50 states in the nation,” Rothman told the committee. “I’m going to say that again, 42nd out of 50 states in the nation. I’ve lived in this state my entire life. That is a very different complexion than what I grew up with in this state. That is disturbing to me.”
The Varsity Collective is separate from UW but has worked with UW athletic director Chris McIntosh and others in the athletic department to ensure its program is aligned with the university’s NIL guidelines. The collective signed a deal in 2022 with Opendorse, the NIL platform UW uses with its athletes, to create the infrastructure for connecting athletes with NIL opportunities.
Changes in NCAA coaching rules have some University of Wisconsin teams waiting to see how many people will be on staff next season.
Republicans on the committee voted down the long-anticipated and much-needed new engineering building on the UW Madison campus. Not so long ago that would have been a slam dunk Republican priority.
Letter to the editor: The 130-year-old UW Choral Union will no longer be a part of the School of Music outreach to the community. I am so very disappointed.
Lyric Bartholomay, a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies integrated pest management and public health entomology who was not part of the study, said “increasingly tailored genetic approaches” will be necessary in the future to protect crops and people from pests, especially as insecticide resistance increases.
