Budget proposal is best in a decade for UW, Ray Cross says, but items remain on wish list

[TexasTowelie]

Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to increase funding for the University of Wisconsin System is the best budget news UW has heard in a long time, System President Ray Cross said Thursday.

But there are still several changes officials hope the Legislature will write into the budget before it becomes law.

Lawmakers from both parties have cut funding for the UW System in five of the last six state budgets, most recently by $250 million in 2015. Walker’s executive budget, released last month, would increase funding for the System by more than $100 million in total, including $42.5 million in new money distributed based on how UW campuses perform on a range of metrics and $50 million that was lapsed from the System in the current budget.

“This is the best … budget proposal we’ve had in over a decade, and we need to be appreciative,” Cross told the UW Board of Regents.

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[LakeArenal]

1. "and we need to be appreciative."

I don't appreciate anything from Walker's government. They have done their best to ruin the UW system. Well all public education in Wisconsin. I believe I read the UW's cancer research rating had been downgraded due to cuts to it.