UW System to ask lawmakers for part of $32 million GOP withheld to end diversity efforts in October

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System leaders plan to ask Republican lawmakers this fall to release about half of the $32 million they withheld in the hopes of defunding campus diversity initiatives, a top UW budget analyst said Tuesday.

Sean Nelson, the system`s vice president of finance and administration, told regents during a meeting that system leaders will ask the Legislature`s Joint Finance Committee in October to release about $15 million. He said the system plans to submit a proposal to spend the money on engineering, data, science and nursing programs. He did not elaborate before the regents went into closed session...
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