A Democratic leader blames GOP for UW underfunding

“The GOP has failed to invest in our campuses, making WI fall to 42nd in the nation in state support.”A banner with a graphic of mascot Bucky Badger's face hung between the columns of Bascom Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Nov. 25, 2014.

Around the same time, state Rep. Greta Neubauer took to X to attach the blame to Republican lawmakers. Neubauer is a Democrat from Racine and leads her party in the Assembly. Only New Hampshire, Arizona, Vermont, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Oregon and West Virginia provided less state funding.

Her communications director, Sidney Litke, shared a memo from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau that compares how much funding the UW System has asked for, versus what the budget-writing committee approved. There were two budgets that had more of a difference: In 2011-13, there was a $418 million difference between what UW requested and the committee approved, and a $339 million difference in 2015-17.If you’re getting lost in the numbers, this basically means Neubauer’s office is showing that Republicans have often approved much less funding than the UW System has asked for.

In the early 2000s, state funding made up around 25% of UW’s budget. In the early 1990s, it made up as much as 50%. But Neubauer is specifically talking about investments of state money, and the tuition freeze is only one piece of the larger picture.Neubauer said"the GOP has failed to invest in our campuses, making WI fall to 42nd in the nation in state support."

And while Republicans lifted a tuition freeze in 2021 — something the system said would help its finances — that’s a small factor, and something both parties played a role in keeping around, including Evers.

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