UW Regents are being asked this week to sign-off on the university’s barely one billion-dollar budget request for the next two years.
Regents will meet in Madison starting tomorrow, and the 855 million-dollar budget request from president Jay Rothman is on their agenda. Rothman said on Monday that the UW System needs millions-of-dollars more to be a competitive school. He says Wisconsin ranks at the bottom of the list nationally when it comes to state funding. But his 855 million-dollar request would be a 65 percent increase in state funding in just two years.
State taxpayers are currently sending one-point-three billion-dollars to the UW.
