Community expresses concern over UWSP budget cuts
5/16/2016
WAOW Channel 9

By Courtney Terlecki

 Questions, concerns and disappointment filled a meeting at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Monday night.

"Every walk of life here are concerned about this erosion of resources that support our tax investments that we've made over our lifetimes of our families lifetimes of the UW system," said Patty Drier, a UWSP alum and the Portage County Executive.

School officials said budget cuts in place for 2015 through 2017 have greatly affected the university. Dozens of staff, alumni and community members went to the meeting to listen to the UWSP Chancellor detail those effects and to ask questions.

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Chancellor; Budget