That Damn State Budget

So if the state budget doesn’t start to get hammered out and if the UW doesn’t get the funds it needs, there is not a happy outlook for the bane.

From the Wisconsin State Journal article:

"We have advised every campus unit to prepare plans for a mid-year budget cut representing 6.56 percent of UW-Madison’s general purpose revenue/fee base," said UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, in a letter to state legislators.

and later

The easy budget cuts have already been made, said UW-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell. What’s on the block now are people.

"Two years ago, we quit buying Xerox paper and all the other stuff we normally do," Farrell said. "We’ve already done that, so we’re down to cutting people."

That does not fill me with confidence about the future. :-/