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The cost of attending

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University of Wisconsin schools

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is going up in the fall.

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This month

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the UW Board of Regents

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approved a 2% tuition hike

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for in-state

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undergraduate students

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plus roughly commensurate

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increases in fees and

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room and board.

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With a 30% decline in

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highest-paying

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international students

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and volatile

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federal research funding

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what is a university to do

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except use that tuition lever?

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That's a great question.

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UW

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the Universities of Wisconsin

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have three primary

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revenue sources, right?

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Federal grants, which we are

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among the top in the nation

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at securing.

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We enroll students who

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pay tuition and fees

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and we receive funding

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from the state.

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State support has long stagnated

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with the exception

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of the recent increase

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and so tuition dollars are a

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primary way of raising funds.

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With a tuition freeze for

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many, many years

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our ability to do that

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was hamstrung.

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So it quite literally strangled

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some of the campuses.

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We benefit from having

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international students and even

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students from out of state who

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pay higher tuition rates because

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they can afford it.

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They are mobile

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geographic for colleges.

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With a decline in

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international student enrollment

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there aren't many other students

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that we can look to

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except for our in-state students

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especially now because

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the state has begun to

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increasingly regulate

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our ability

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to even draw students

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from Minnesota and Iowa

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and other out-of-state partners.