{"id":3821,"date":"2023-06-27T01:52:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T01:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2023-06-27T02:03:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T02:03:08","slug":"legislature-proposes-to-merge-uwmwc-and-mptc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3821","title":{"rendered":"Legislature Proposes to Merge UWMWC and MPTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/06\/26\/legislature-proposes-to-merge-uwmwc-and-mptc\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legislature-proposes-to-merge-uwmwc-and-mptc\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/06\/26\/legislature-proposes-to-merge-uwmwc-and-mptc\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legislature-proposes-to-merge-uwmwc-and-mptc<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Washington County would merge with Moraine Park Technical College under a\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wheelerbilltracking.com\/upload\/files\/motions\/motion126.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\">plan pushed through by Republican lawmakers Thursday<\/a>\u00a0as part of the state budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">If signed into law, UWM-Washington County could become the second UW branch campus to effectively shutter its doors since a 2018 restructuring put the UW System\u2019s two-year campuses under the oversight of four-years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">UW-Platteville Richland\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/education\/2022\/11\/22\/university-of-wisconsin-platteville-richland-center-to-axe-in-person-classes\/69671077007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\">essentially closed at the end of this school year<\/a>, a move that came after more than a decade of stagnant state funding, tuition freezes and declining enrollment that\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/education\/2022\/12\/21\/uw-richland-advocates-blame-uw-platteville-for-enrollment-problems\/69693075007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\">left the Richland Center campus with less than 60 students studying there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Joint Committee on Finance voted to shift UWM-Washington County from a UW branch campus to a \u201cjoint Moraine Park Technical College\/Washington County operation.\u201d It\u2019s unclear from the motion what, if any, UW\u2019s involvement would be post-merger. UW System could receive $3.35 million, pending the budget committee\u2019s approval, to aid in the transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/06\/26\/legislature-proposes-to-merge-uwmwc-and-mptc\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=legislature-proposes-to-merge-uwmwc-and-mptc The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Washington County would merge with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}