Students Respond to Differential Tuition Referendum
Implementing differential tuition. Photo by Lily Dettle

Students Respond to Differential Tuition Referendum

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point shared their thoughts on the future with differential tuition after the proposal asking for it passed in a referendum last week.

Students approving differential tuition was a major step in having it implemented at UWSP. If the UW System Board of Regents approve the measure, students will pay an additional $200 per semester in exchange for fewer bottleneck courses and hiring more professional advisers.

Erin Gellings, freshman communication sciences and disorders major, said she voted in favor of differential tuition.

“I voted for it because I think it is really important that everybody has good advisers,” she said.

Allie Tripp, freshman interior architecture major, said she did not participate in the referendum but that she thought she probably would have voted against the measure.

“I don’t think it will effect me at all except I have to pay $200,” she said. “It has nothing to do with me.”

Of the six students surveyed by The Pointer staff, five did not participate in the referendum.

Kendra Kudla, freshman interior architecture major, said she did not vote because she did not feel sufficiently informed.

“A lot of the information was confusing from my point of view,” she said.

Tyler Bohr, freshman education and special education major, said he simply did not have enough information to make an informed vote.

Kaitlin Piette, sophomore international studies major, said she supported differential tuition but said she could not find the time to participate in the referendum.

But some students still found the results exciting.

“Hopefully my financial problems will be solved, and people will get out at the time they want and expect to be,” Piette said.

Gellings also said she looked forward to the opportunity to graduate on time.

“Now I expect to get out in four years for sure,” she said. “I guess I have higher expectations.”

 

Matthew Wiltzius

Reporter

Matthew.R.Wiltzius@uwsp.edu

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