Campus safety initiatives may have to be put on hold at some schools in the University of Wisconsin System in the face of possible budget reductions, some campus leaders say.
The Commission on University Security – convened by UW System President Kevin Reilly after the shootings at Virginia Tech – last month released its recommendations for ensuring school safety. It noted that only two campuses, UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, have “full-service law enforcement agencies,” and recommended that all four-year campuses in the system have armed university police 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Story quotes Dale Burke, assistant police chief at UW-Madison.