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Nick Fleisher
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Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.
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Whenever this comes up Madison freaks the fuck out, bullies the regents, forms absurd alumni interest groups, and publishes laughable analyses contending that they are more underfunded than UWM. Campuses are dying out here. It is time for a change.

Attempts to adjust the formula have gone nowhere, said several former UW regents serving on the legislative committee. Atwell recalled the most recent push came from Milwaukee-area regents around 2021.

"It made people very, very nervous," Atwell recalled during the committee meeting. "Madison felt right away that Milwaukee was trying to take money from Madison. I remember (then-UW-Madison Chancellor) Becky Blank was in my face 30 seconds after a business meeting when you kind of start to ask these kinds of questions."

UW-Madison economics professor Ananth Seshadri published a report around this time anaylzing the state funding allocations of the state's two research universities. He concluded "there was no basis" for reallocation and said UW-Madison was more underfunded relative to its peers than UWM was to its peers.
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PGpgagliardi.bsky.social

WE NEED TO BUY BUCKY PANTS *sobs*

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Agreed!!

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CCbillsallak.bsky.social

GB's been absolutely boned since its inception; this can't be overhauled fast enough. Regional comprehensives FTW.

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Nick Fleisher
@nickfleisher.bsky.social
Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.
863 followers465 following1.8k posts