A top GOP leader promised to slash the college system's budget as part of an ongoing fight over diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Republicans in the Wisconsin State Assembly could cut millions of dollars in funding from the University of Wisconsin amid an ongoing fight over diversity and inclusion programs.
"I hope we have the ability to eliminate that spending. The university should have already chosen to redirect it to something that is more productive and more broadly supported," Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the state's top Republican, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Talk of university budget cuts comes just days after Republicans refused to fund the university's top building project priority — a new engineering facility on the flagship Madison campus.
Vos has called campus diversity offices a waste of taxpayer money and said they further racial divides. Meanwhile, UW System President Jay Rothman hired a new chief diversity officer with an annual salary of $225,000 who began work on Monday. He did not publicize the hiring at a UW Board of Regents meeting earlier this month.
Democratic Sen. Kelda Roys, whose district includes the UW-Madison campus, called Vos petty ahead of the finance committee meeting and criticized the push to eliminate diversity initiatives. Republican Rep. Mark Born, co-chair of the finance committee, declined to take questions at Tuesday's meeting.
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