Tag Archives: tuition freeze

Funding the Freeze: A March Through the Snow

Despite the snow, students, faculty and alumni met at the capitol building on April 18 in Madison to march to the University of Wisconsin-System Board of Regents office with letters condemning the proposed program cuts currently under consideration at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. At a press conference before the march, Chad Goldberg, sociology professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and ... Read More »

Joint Finance Committee Freezes Tuition, Slashes Budget

The Joint Finance Committee decided to implement a system wide tuition freeze last June for the next two years for the University of Wisconsin after determining that the UW system’s reserve was too large. Without the tuition freeze, students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point would have seen a two percent tuition increase this year, and students at other UW schools could have seen ... Read More »

The UW Surplus and How it Affects Stevens Point

The alleged billion-dollar surplus found in the University of Wisconsin System’s budget last week could mean a tuition freeze and a loss in state support to the UW System and its universities. The budget that is being scrutinized is a snapshot of the budget from June 2012. Much of the money did not come from tuition but rather from federal ... Read More »