UWSP state aid would fall to 1980s level in Walker plan
1/31/2015
Stevens Point Journal

By Logan Carlson

Gov. Scott Walker's proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System would continue a decades-long shift of higher education funding from all state taxpayers to students and their families.

And at UW-Stevens Point, state funding would decline over the next two years to an amount not seen since before most of the school's students were born, said Chancellor Bernie Patterson.

"There is clearly a shift in the cost of education from the state to the students," Patterson said. "That's what we have seen over the last several decades, and that trend seems to be picking up speed."

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Chancellor; Budget