STEVENS POINT - Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget would cut state funding to the UW System by 13 percent, or approximately $300 million.
The cut would help resolve a projected budget shortfall, but UW administrators worry about how the cuts would affect the universities.
UW-Stevens Point would lose 25 percent of its state aid, or more than $9 million, if the Legislature approves the cuts. That $9 million represents 3.5 percent of the school's budget. Three-plus percentage points may not sound like a huge amount, but university leaders say the cut is larger than it appears because the university doesn't actually control a large portion of that budget.
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