UW regents are on-board with the plan to ask for nearly a billion-dollars more for the university over the next two years.
Regents yesterday approved President Jay Rothman’s 855 million-dollar budget request. He says the UW needs the money to continue to pay employees more. They’re due for an eight percent raise over the next two years. But he also wants to use the money to pay tuition for students from families making under 55 thousand-dollars a year. Republican lawmakers say they’re willing to give the university some of that money, but not without reforms and budget cuts first.
