Leaders from across the University of Wisconsin System sounded a collective alarm Thursday during a Board of Regents meeting on the UW-Madison campus, stressing that state budget cuts would deeply impact students.
“Let us take our share of the pain,” UW-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin told the regents. “But let us not undermine the extraordinary quality of a UW-Madison or UW System degree.”
Due to a projected $5.7 billion state budget shortfall and a deepening recession, UW-Madison would need to absorb $63.4 million in cuts over the next two years if Gov. Jim Doyleâ??s recommended 2009-11 biennium budget passes in its current form. That figure represents more than a third of the UW Systemâ??s potential $174 million in lost funding.