The proposal to split UW-Madison from the rest of the University of Wisconsin System should be taken out of the budget and the state Legislature should instead work on a separate bill to give all UW System campuses flexibility, said Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater. Nass, chairman of the Assembly Colleges and Universities committee, wrote to the co-chairs of the state Legislature?s budget committee Tuesday with a “path to resolving the current controversy over the New Badger Partnership (UW-Madison split from the UW System).” Nass is opposed to the split. He suggests that his committee — and the state Senate?s higher education committee — work on developing a comprehensive bill to give statutory flexibility to all the UW System campuses, with a goal of having the new bill take effect by July 1, 2012.
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