(UNDATED) Thirty-five years after being formed, the stateâ??s University system is being charged with having an â??outdated, inefficient management structure,â? and a new report calls for reform.
The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has issued the 27-page report, titled, â??Renewing the University of Wisconsin System: Creating the Capacity to Manage and Compete.â? Independent researcher Tom Fletemeyer says the report is not meant to be critical for the sake of being critical, but rather to look at ways the University can be strengthened. He says there were several incidents that prompted the report, including charges of staff-faculty personnel problems, inappropriate spending, fabricated research, an audit that showed 40 felons employed within the system, and a failed multi-million dollar software project. He says number of those sorts of things raise questions about whether there were deeper management problems. Fletemeyer says any sign that thatâ??s the case gives rise to a lot of concern, simply because the University is so important to the state.
