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Evers: UW regents ‘got taken to the cleaners’ over DEI funding deal

The deal, which Evers called “rotten” during a one-on-one sit down with News 3 Now, secured funding for building improvements, employees pay raises, and general funds for UW schools; in exchange, the GOP-controlled Legislature required the university system to reassign a third of current diversity, equity and inclusion positions to other work.