Jesus Salas, a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents since 2003, resigned today to protest the lack of a state budget provision for tuition aid for the children of undocumented workers.
The resignation came just before Gov. Jim Doyle signed the 2007-09 budget into law this morning. Salas blamed Doyle for not pushing harder to keep the student tuition remission provision in the budget, calling the failure “intolerable.”