UW Stevens Point is a step closer to differential tuition, Paper Sciences position in jeopardy
7/14/2015
WSAU Radio Wausau

By Larry Lee 

 The Governor may be talking about the White House, but many state-funded entities are still talking about Scott Walker's budget and the vetoes. The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point was impacted by the veto pen.

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Chancellor Bernie Patterson says veto cuts to both the Paper Science position and the planned Aquaculture Specialist are both disappointing, and very different in their affect. "The Paper Science funding was existing funding that will now go away, so that's particularly problematic. The additional $100,000 dollars for the NADF (Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility) in Bayfield, Wisconsin was new funding that was going to add an extension position, UW Extension position, at that facility, which would have been quite helpful and a great thing to do, but that's different than having existing funding of a position that's currently filled go away."

Patterson says the Stevens Point campus can still seek funding for the Paper Sciences position through the Board of Regents. "We're going to do just what the Governor recommended, and we're going to make a request to the UW System for them to pick up that funding as he suggested in his veto."

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