We’ll have a much better idea of what the University of Wisconsin is getting from the state by the end of the day.
The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee is set to act on the UW’s budget request today. The UW’s president wants an eight-percent budget increase in the state’s new spending plan. That would be on top of the four-percent tuition hike that regents approved back in the spring. Lawmakers have already turned down a request from the university for a new engineering building at the Madison Campus. The JFC will also decide on the budgets for DPI and the state’s Department of Transportation today.
