Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session
Relating to: allocation of funding for University of Wisconsin System institutions.
University of wisconsin — Finance University of wisconsin — Regents
- Introduced, stopped here
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill generally requires the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin
System to equalize per-student funding among UW institutions, excluding
UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, by July 1, 2031.
Under current law, the Board of Regents must allocate funds and adopt budgets
for the respective UW institutions giving consideration to the principles of
comparable budgetary support for similar programs and equitable compensation for
faculty and academic staff with comparable training, experience, and
responsibilities and recognizing competitive ability to recruit and retain qualified
faculty and academic staff. A significant portion of state funding for the UW System
is from a single general purpose revenue appropriation to the Board of Regents for
general program operations. This appropriation also provides outcomes-based
performance funding for UW institutions.
This bill requires that, by July 1, 2031, the Board of Regents allocate to all UW
institutions, other than UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, an equal amount of GPR
funding, excluding performance funding, per full-time equivalent undergraduate
student enrolled at the institution. The Board of Regents must also make
incremental progress in each fiscal biennium toward achieving this requirement. In
submitting its biennial budget request for the next four biennia, the Board of Regents
must include information detailing a plan for achieving equivalent per-student GPR
funding at all UW institutions, other than UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, by
July 1, 2031, and the Board of Regents' progress toward that plan.