Struggling to Stay True to Wisconsin's Ideals - Kellie Woodhouse, Inside Higher Ed

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is not a particularly wealthy school. So when the writing on the wall made it clear that the regional campus, which educates 10,700 students, would have about a quarter of its state funds cut this year, Eau Claire administrators had already planned a course of action to trim the fat: significant administrative reductions, preferably as far away from the academic enterprise as possible. Yet dealing with a 13.5 percent reduction in operating funds requires massive change, and it turns out that it’s very difficult to keep the impact of such a loss entirely off the radar of students.The funding cuts were part of a controversial and sweeping two-year, $250 million pruning of Wisconsin’s university system by Governor Scott Walker and fellow state Republicans, and were passed alongside the continuation of an existing tuition freeze. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/07/29/university-wisconsin-eau-claire-responds-massive-cuts-state-support