Budget Cuts Threaten Unique Programs At UW-Stevens Point, Administrators Say
3/31/2015
Wisconsin Public Radio

​By Glen Moberg

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is being hit particularly hard by the governor’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System. School officials point to the elimination of entrepreneurial research in so-called segregated programs as one of the toughest hurdles.
 
 

UW-Stevens Point will lose $1.4 million dollars for the segregated programs—budget items that are funded by fees instead of general tax revenue. Add to that $8.2 million in other cuts, and the school is being hit harder than any other campus, according to Chancellor Bernie Patterson.

 
“Our cut to our state support is 25 percent, the highest of any of the universities in the system,” Patterson said. “We will have fewer people working here, maybe as many as 115 positions.”
 

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