The proposal to split UW-Madison from the University of Wisconsin System may be dead, but UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin said she hopes another plan will rise in its place to give the university more freedom from oversight. Martin said she?s ?accepted the improbability? that Gov. Scott Walker?s controversial budget proposal will pass. ?I?m actually delighted by the potential in some of these compromise plans we?ve seen to get forms of decision-making and authority, as well as flexibility, for UW-Madison and the other campuses,? Martin said. ?It would be unprecedented obviously to have that kind of progress.?
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