GOP Governor Candidates Want To Freeze UW Tuintion Again: The Cost of College Is Their Fault!

 

This article is behind a fire wall at JSOnline. I have an issue with that but that may be my next post. But here it is if you subscribe:

Governor candidates Tom Tiffany, Josh Schoemann call for changes to UW, including tuition freeze

This is follow up on my post about the GOP candidates for governor wanting to eliminate tenure in the UW system.

Another point of contention of course, and I am sure this is bipartisan, is that tuition in the UW system is too high. Granted, it is insane. But our GOP candidates want to revert to a Walker era solution: freeze tuition.  ??  Just like daily expenses for you and me, the basic costs of providing a college education continue to grow. So freezing tuition is just starving the system and not providing a real solution. And of course as revenues decline, the university has  to take shortcuts to hold down costs. But what does that do to the quality of education provided.

Want to hold down tuition gentlemen? Have the State of Wisconsin fund the UW system in the 21st Century at the same levels (% wise) as they did in the post World War II era. It has gotten to the point that state support has dwindled to a minority source of revenues. At this point does the state even have the right for 'naming rights'?