The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is calling for a do-over.
The board is scheduled to vote 5 p.m. Wednesday on the same deal it rejected Saturday. It will be the board’s fifth meeting in a chaotic seven days.
The UW Board of Regents will meet again on Wednesday to reconsider a deal brokered between Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman and legislative Republicans to secure pay raises for UW system employees and funding for UW-Madison’s long-awaited engineering building in exchange for restructuring system diversity efforts.
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The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents will vote again on a Republican-brokered deal it rejected Saturday that would unlock pay raises for employees and fund UW-Madison’s new engineering building in exchange for slimming its DEI positions.
Universities of Wisconsin regents have decided to vote again on a deal with Republican lawmakers that calls for reducing diversity positions in exchange for funding to cover employee raises and campus construction projects, including a new engineering building at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents previously rejected the proposal Saturday in a 9-8 vote.
Growing student, faculty criticism says the proposed deal exchanged diversity, equity and inclusion programming without foreknowledge from the students it would affect.
The adoption of the deal in the rescheduled meeting comes at the recommendation of Regent President Amy Blumenfeld Bogost, Regent Ashok Rai, Regent Kyle Weatherly and UW President Jay Rothman. Bogost voted against the deal Saturday, while Rai and Weatherly voted for the deal.
Under the deal, the school system would freeze the number of DEI positions at its schools through 2026. Additionally, a third of those positions would be realigned “to areas with a primary focus on academic and student success.”
“I think the frustration that many of us are feeling has only been magnified,” professor at UW Green Bay, Jon Shelton, said.
The board has a meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening. An agenda lists a “recommendation to approve” terms related to a state funding proposal. Republicans have withheld $32 million of funding from UW because of opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Universities of Wisconsin regents have decided to vote again on a deal with Republican lawmakers that calls for reducing diversity positions in exchange for funding to cover employee raises and campus construction projects, including a new engineering building at UW-Madison.
