Can't wait for the new WI supreme court to hear the pending case on gerrymandering. Hopefully it will allow us to get rid of the super majority in the next election.
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What an offensively misleading headline. ~$15.6m a year for employee salaries that only deal with diversity issues is INSANE. Especially with taxpayer money. Sorry y’all but these cuts are a good thing.
The UW system has approximately 39,000 staff, assuming that 0.5% is diversity (1 out of every 200), and that's about the right $
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin_System
Does that include funding for their Institute for Diversity Science and the research they do?
Is that insane? I don't know much about university funding, how does that compare to other academic departments and athletics?