By Karen Herzog
Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings, cuts to academic advising, potentially increasing how long it takes to finish a degree, loss of student jobs on campus, inability to grow high-demand programs and outdated academic facilities not being maintained.
Only time will tell whether a $250 million biennial state funding cut to the University of Wisconsin System will result in the leaner, more efficient campuses that Republican lawmakers envision or an erosion of the quality education the campuses provide to roughly 180,000 students that critics of the cuts fear. There likely will be some of both.
The UW System on Monday evening released to state lawmakers and the news media one-page summaries of how the cuts are being implemented on each of the 13 four-year campuses, plus UW Colleges and UW Extension. The documents collectively provide the first big-picture look at how state funding cuts have affected higher education in Wisconsin's public universities, while most other states have increased funding for higher education.
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