As lawmakers consider the next round of spending on higher education in Wisconsin, new data shows per-pupil taxpayer funding for state technical colleges is more than twice as high as it is for state universities. At the same time, the University of Wisconsin System says 10 of its 13 universities have structural deficits ranging from millions to tens of millions of dollars. The data comes from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association's, or SHEEO, higher education finance report. It shows Wisconsin taxpayers at the state and local level spent $13,956 per full-time-equivalent, or FTE, student at two-year technical colleges and $6,227 per FTE student at state universities
