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The University of Wisconsin-Madison has broken ground on a new engineering building after a funding fight that saw the new structure used as a political bargaining chip.

The 395,000-square-foot Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center will occupy a 2.5-acre site in the heart of the school’s engineering campus, the university announced on April 17. It will be the third time the university has constructed a new engineering academic building over the last six decades to meet ever-growing demand, per the release.

Currently, the university has the space to educate only about a tenth of all applicants. The road to reach groundbreaking was a difficult one — the new engineering center was part of a political fight over the last two years between the school and Wisconsin Republicans, who stalled public funding until the university agreed to limit diversity, equity and inclusion programming, according to Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Increasing capacity for STEM is always a positive in my book! Way to go Wisconsin!