Roughly a year since Foxconn Technology Group pledged $100 million to help fund a new UW-Madison engineering building and company-related research, the university said it has received $700,000, less than 1% of the original commitment.
Foxconn’s partnerships with University of Wisconsin System campuses have seen mixed success so far.
A UW-Milwaukee program drew more student participation in its first year than originally announced, and Foxconn launched the second year of its “Smart Cities-Smart Futures” manufacturing competition Monday. Last year’s competition yielded 325 submissions from students, faculty, and staff from campuses across the state...
Ken Notes: No doubt Foxconn has slowed down to rethink many things. We need to be patient because it is the only real option we have. If we start pointing fingers at WEDC or the previous administration Foxconn could use the chaos to quietly slip out the back door.
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