Walker's proposed UW cuts go too deep: Our View
2/1/2015
Wausau Daily Herald
 

Higher education costs a lot of money. The University of Wisconsin System, which serves 180,000 students and employs 39,000 people in Wisconsin, asks a lot. Its budget includes more than $1 billion in state money; tuitions have been rising, putting pressure on many middle-class families; the system leans on federal grants and private donations and other revenue sources. It's expensive.

It's also one of the most valuable investments we make as a state.

In direct economic terms, the more educated our workforce, the higher our state's overall standard of living will be. And in all sorts of intangible ways the university system improves our quality of life — injecting culture into communities, offering broad-based liberal education, helping define our sense of Badger identity.

Gov. Scott Walker's proposed Draconian cuts to the system will undermine those values and hobble future economic growth.

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Alumni; Chancellor; Budget