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Task force grapples with UW System cuts

Easy answers are hard to find for how the University of Wisconsin System can continue offering the same quality education at an affordable cost with less state support.But a task force advising the Legislature on flexibilities that could help make campuses more efficient wrestled with several key issues during an all-day hearing Wednesday in Madison, including the role tuition should play in supporting campuses and financial aid, and how the best and brightest faculty and administrators can be attracted and retained if salaries aren?t competitive.