Stop me if you?ve heard this one before. The University of Wisconsin System argues its faculty and staff are in desperate need of pay raises in each of the next two years just so these in-demand folks can keep from falling further behind those at peer institutions.
Fiscal conservatives reflexively howl that those within the UW System simply don?t understand the magnitude of the budgetary crisis facing Wisconsin and are out of touch for wanting more when everyone else is trying to make do with less.
….Maybe it’s not an either/or proposition, but right now the million-dollar question appears to be: What’s a greater threat to the future of Wisconsin …
Ballooning budget deficits or a less competitive University of Wisconsin System?