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UW System to Screen Potential Employees

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People with criminal pasts will be red-flagged if they’re applying for work on UW campuses.A year after the UW Board of Regents approved giving virtually every new hire a background check, UW campuses are starting that practice.Mike Simonson reports from Superior…

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