UW-Extension Making Plans to Reduce Staff Due to Budget Cuts
Thursday, July 16th, 2015 -- 8:18 AM
(AP) -The University of Wisconsin Extension is making plans to reduce staff and leave vacancies open amid the largest cut in state support it's ever faced.The $5.2 million reduction is part of the state budget signed by Gov. Scott Walker. It represents an 8 percent cut in state funding for UW Extension, a university system whose mission includes educating communities that lack a four-year campus.
Under the new budget, the agency's Cooperative Extension division could lose 10 percent of its positions. The dean of the division, which includes agriculture agents, says about 7 percent of the positions are already vacant.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that every county in Wisconsin has at least one UW Extension agent. Now more counties will probably have to begin sharing agents.
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