GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A plan to transform the UW-System has been given the green light.
The UW-Board of Regents has approved a proposal to merge the system’s two-year schools with its four-year campuses.
UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary Miller is pleased with Thursday’s vote.
“Regonalizes assets around these students and gives us an opportunity to leverage each other’s strengths to offer more opportunities for students.”
The proposal calls for the Fond du Lac and Fox Valley campuses merging with UW-Oshkosh.
It also has the Manitowoc, Marinette, and Sheboygan campuses joining up with Miller’s UW-GB, which he says will bring expanded opportunities for those students.
“Particularly with what’s going on with the Packers and Microsoft, and Kohler Lodge up now around Lambeau Field, and the Bellin Health headquarters in Green Bay.”
Miller says his school looks forward to working with the three campuses in the coming months.
“We want to learn what’s going on at these campuses and see where we can push out four-year degrees to some of them, where we can use some of their facilities to do things that we’re doing better.”
The changes are scheduled to take effect July 1.
“It’ll probably take more than a year. By the time we get to June, we’ll have part of it done, and then we’ll move into finishing it all. The goal is to make the administrative switch in July.”
Officials say this is in response to declining enrollment at its two-year institutions.
