The closure of six Universities of Wisconsin branch campuses has left their counties with an extensive, and expensive, problem: Finding a purpose for the buildings and land the UW system left behind.
UNIVERSITIES OF WISCONSIN | BRANCH CLOSURES
As UW branch campuses close, counties are left with empty buildings and property. Here's what they plan to do
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Sam Kaufman, Fond du Lac County executive, shows where a public safety training facility is planned to be, in the former art department of the UW-Oshkosh at Fond du Lac campus. With the campus's closure, Fond du Lac County has a $1.2 million plan to repurpose the buildings and land for things such as housing and county department office space.
The physical education building at the former UW-Oshkosh at Fond du Lac campus would become a county sports complex under plans the county has for the property.
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This is what it would take for the remaining branch campuses to survive, according to the Universities of Wisconsin chancellors who oversee them.
