Tuition Boost At Wisc. Universities Hit Low-Income, Minorities Hardest
Walker budget cuts to higher education fueled the upcoming two-year, 11% UW-System tuition increase, and its effects will fall hardest on lower-income and minority students whose numbers are growing rapidly.
Whom do the Regents and Walker think are going to stop the brain drain out of Wisconsin, fill job vacancies and pay into Medicare and Social Security to keep the safety net in place?
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Not necessarily true, according to our very own Gov. whose family has been hard hit by the tuition increase. I listened to an interview in which he described how expensive school will be for his son who apparently graduated high school this year. And, next year will be an even bigger hardship for our first family when son #2 graduates and attends the UW. He also pointed out that most of the Regents (according to Walker) were appointed by Doyle. Thus, the tuition increase is not his doing. I am sure he would just reduce those pesky salaries at UW if he could. Let's hope he doesn't have to take a second job to make ends meet.
Well, well, well, maybe the Regents could have made other decisions had the University not been hit with such drastic cuts, not once but twice, while unnecessary highway projects go forward (among other things). And I will not weep for the Walker family dealing with two kids in college either. After all, they have a much higher income than most, and I believe that the Mrs. has family money. No, the people who deserve our support are those who rely on loans and scholarships based on need to get through school.
When Walker's appointees get full control of the board, they will cut the Liberal Arts, because those programs draw broader-minded liberal students and will expand the business programs, turning curricula over to the donors.
Mark my words: the goal is to remove UW-Madison as a draw for liberal kids who then might stay in town, and vote.
So what fueled the 5.5% increases for the last 4 years of Doyle's reign?
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