Governor Doyle is asking state legislators to invest $225 million into it’s UW system. the governor says the state’s 26 institutions are unable to take in all the students who want to join nursing, engineering and teaching professions and that problem could lead to a shortage in the near future.
The funding will be distributed between all 26 schools in the UW system, with the largest chunk likely staying right here in Madison. It’s money that will be used to create more seats in programs that are seeing shortages in the real world, like nursing.