Money's the big issue for UW System, leader says

In a speech Tuesday, new System President Kevin Reilly said that the UW system needs to "stop osing its brightest professors, increase the percent of students with college degrees, and resist a drift towards private education." In the speech to the members of the Wisconsin Innovation Network, an econmic development group that promotes entrepreneurship, Reilly said that the loss of professors due to better pay at other institutions was threatening UW-Madison's reputation as "one of the nations foremost research institutions." Over the past 10 years, 700 faculty members have left, taking with them grant connections. The number of classes taught by instructors as opposed to professors has increased by 30 percent in the past five years.