Task force set up to study ways to restructure UW system
Wisconsin News-- A task force was named yesterday to work on a re-structuring of the University of Wisconsin system. The two Republicans who chair the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee named former Milwaukee financial executive Michael Falbo to head the panel
MADISON - A task force was named yesterday to work on a re-structuring of the University of Wisconsin system. The two Republicans who chair the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee named former Milwaukee financial executive Michael Falbo to head the panel.
Finance co-chair Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) said the group will consider a wide range of ideas to help the university produce more graduates, while the money to teach them keeps going down. The governor and Legislature cut the UW’s funding by a quarter-billion dollars over the next two years. But system president Kevin Reilly said more money – and not less – is needed to achieve the ambitious goal the UW set last year. That’s to increase the number of degree-holders by 80,000, or 30-percent, by 2025 to provide a more talented labor pool and attract higher-paying jobs to Wisconsin.
Reilly said yesterday that the university cannot sustain its current enrollment of 182,000 students statewide without “re-investing” more tax dollars. But Darling said the increased flexibility lawmakers gave the UW this year will make the institution stronger without the need for more cash. She said the task force will study new ways to run the university system – and to make sure its degree programs are aligned with Wisconsin’s economic needs.
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