MADISON (AP) | The co-chair and another Republican member of the Legislature’s powerful budget committee panel said Wednesday that they don’t support giving the University of Wisconsin more independence from state oversight, in another sign of dwindling support for Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to do just that.
Committee members announce new UW plan
From left, University of Wisconsin System regents president Michael Falbo, system president Ray Cross, and UW-Eau Claire chancellor Jim Schmidt, listen to a question posed to them during state agency budget briefings for the Joint Committee on Finance at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Tuesday.
Cross' answer was short — "Yes" — and came in response to a question from Richard Grusin, a UW-Milwaukee English professor who started an onli…
Just call him Ray caught-in-the-Cross-fire.
Nygren called the funding and tuition cap proposals “good ideas” but said he still opposes the switch to a public authority because it’s happe…
