State Budget Gives UW Campuses Money To Add Students, Researchers
Plan Could Add More Than 7,000 Students To System In Coming Years
Updated: 3:57 pm CDT October 30, 2007
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READ: Visit Channel 3000's Politics SectionREAD: Channel 3000's "Reality Check" SeriesINTERACTIVE: Write Your Rep.VISIT: Follow Money In PoliticsMADISON, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin System is about to get bigger.The newly passed state budget will allow system officials to add more researchers at UW-Milwaukee, more adult students in the two-year UW colleges and more undergrads at UW-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh.The budget, which was signed into law last week, allows UW campuses to begin expansions intended to increase the number of graduates and boost economic development.UW System President Kevin Reilly had campaigned for more than a year for the so-called Growth Agenda. He said that it's critical to the state's economic future.The campuses will get $21.4 million next year to begin many of the projects, which will require more tax and tuition dollars to be completed.The plans could add up to 7,700 more students in the UW System over the next six to eight years, pushing enrollment to 160,000 -- plus hundreds more professors and staff members.
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