Last week, UW administration announced large layoffs at UW-Oshkosh, and the end of in-person instruction at UW-Fond du Lac and UW-Milwaukee at Washington County. The Milwaukee Sentinel reports that UW-Oshkosh issued 140 layoff notices last Monday and 76 employees accepted an early retirement offer.

A Public Affair host Douglas Haynes kicks off the program with Senator Kelda Roys, who is a member of the Senate Universities and Revenue committee. She joins the show to explain the recent funding decisions made by the Republican-led committee. Then we spend of the rest of show with a roundtable of guests who are grappling with the announcement from their roles within the UW system.

Our guests are John Dobyns, Operational and Outreach Director of the Cooperative Academic Partnership (CAP) program; Cindy Schultz, Academic Department Associate in the department of advertising, multimedia journalism and public relations at UW-Oshkosh; Aubrie Selsmeyer, UW-Oshkosh student and opinion editor of the Advanced Titan; and Stephanie Spehar, Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Sustainability Institute for Regional Transformations at UW Oshkosh, and a member of United Faculty and Staff of Oshkosh. John and Cindy have both taken the early retirement option.

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