University of Wyoming requests $12M for law school project

The University of Wyoming has requested $12 million from the state to fund more than half of a renovation and expansion project for its College of Law.

The law school project did not make it into the university’s formal request vetted by the State Construction Department and Republican Gov. Mark Gordon’s office last year before going to the Legislature in December, Laramie Boomerang reported Friday.

“We were designing the facility and didn’t know the cost of the facility over the summer,” Dean Klint Alexander told the Joint Appropriations Committee on Friday. “We did not want to come before you when we didn’t know what the cost was going to be, and that process played out between May and August 2019.”

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