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Walker sends auditor, budget hawk to oversee troubled UW System

By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON – Gov. Scott Walker said he wants to increase transparency and accountability in Wisconsin’s embattled public higher education system in his latest round of appointments to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents,

To that end, Walker appointed former state auditor Janice Mueller, who retired from that post in 2011, and former GOP state Sen. and Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow, a Republican, to serve seven-year terms on the board. The governor also appointed Josh Inglett, a University of Wisconsin-Platteville student, to a two-year term.

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Walker’s appointees are expected to be confirmed by the Senate Wednesday. Their terms would begin immediately and they’d act on UW policy decisions at July’s regents meeting if confirmed.

With questions surrounding what lawmakers see as the UW System’s robust reserves and ongoing concerns about accounting transparency, is Walker sending a message to the board in his appointment of an auditor and a former senator with a reputation as a budget hawk?

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