MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ-WRN) — The UW System Board of Regents approves the layoff of nearly three dozen tenured faculty at UW – Milwaukee’s branch campuses.
Regent and State Superintendent Jilly Underly was the lone opposing vote.
“I’m just deeply troubled that tenured faculty members are being laid off due to program eliminations with a budget that exceeds $6 billion,” said Underly. “I believe we could have found a way to preserve these positions, especially when their combined payroll represents such a small fraction of our financial resources.”
A policy from 2015 allows the board to fire faculty whose programs have been eliminated or because of financial difficulty.
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