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Jodi Emerson: “We are funding our public universities 44th in the nation.”

Featuring: Jodi Emerson, Democratic | Wisconsin State Assembly, District 91

UW System Campuses May Be In Danger… Again (Hour 2)

Published May 27, 2026 | Video Starts at 30:53

She was up at the Capitol. The Joint Finance Committee now has adjourned for the day and no action. So I think that this is a win for today. Agree or disagree? We are funding our public universities 44th in the nation. Used to be 43rd. We slipped. Yeah. If we don't. The goal with that 855 million is to maybe get us up into the mid 10s, their mid 20s. (30:53–31:00)

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Asserts that Wisconsin ranks 44th in the nation for funding public universities.

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“Governor Evers put it in his budget asking for 855 additional million dollars for this year's budget.”
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“They were going to actually be cutting 87 million, I think is what we were hearing.”
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“The universities are importers of people into our state.”
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“We bring people in from Minnesota and Illinois and Iowa and other [states].”
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“We are looking at being an aging state.”
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“We need our universities to be strong and we also need them all over the state too.”
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“UW Madison has got one of the best medical research facilities in the entire nation.”
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“The goal with that 855 million is to maybe get us up into the mid 10s, their mid 20s.”
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“If we have to cut 80 some million dollars, I can just about guarantee that we can say goodbye to all the two-year campuses.”
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“We will probably be saying goodbye to one, if not more of the four-year campuses.”
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“Tuition's gonna go up, that's a given.”
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“It would just be so devastating to our universities.”
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“Businesses around the state and around the country are not just wanting, but insisting that their new workers come out trained in AI.”
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“We need to make sure that we've got money in the budget so that the professors can learn how in the course of their, their course, they can…”
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