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June 5, 2026

Higher Education/System

Regents approve tuition increase for Universities of Wisconsin

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Channel 3000

The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a proposal to increase resident undergraduate tuition by 2 percent for the 2026–27 academic year.

“This 2 percent tuition increase represents a balanced and measured approach to addressing the rising costs our UW universities face,” said Regent President Amy B. Bogost.

The decision, by a vote of 15-1, comes after several years of significant financial restructuring across UW universities, including reductions in structural deficits, operational changes, and campus-level cost containment efforts designed to strengthen long-term financial stability.

Badgers will pay more, but UW-Madison’s tuition still low in Big Ten

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The Cap Times

In-state students will once again pay a higher tuition rate to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison — but their cost remains lower than at peer schools.

On Thursday, the UW system’s Board of Regents approved a 2% tuition increase for resident undergraduates next school year. Tim Nixon was the only regent to vote against the measure.

“We’ve increased tuition four years in a row. I personally have not been provided with sufficient information to believe it is again necessary. No matter how reasonable the increase, the burden on students, parents and the public is real,” Nixon said at the board’s meeting at UW-Milwaukee.

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Athletics

Spot in Wisconsin’s hall of fame ‘surprising’ for Janet (Huff) Dyer

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Wisconsin State Journal

Janet (Huff) Dyer followed her sister to the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team. Now she’s following her into the Badgers’ hall of fame.

Badgers star back leads Wisconsin’s 2026 hall of fame class

“It was definitely surprising,” Dyer said. “I never expected it. But it was a very important moment for me.”

UW Experts in the News

Mobile home parks at risk in Wisconsin

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Wisconsin State Journal

Roughly 20 million Americans live in manufactured houses, which are made in factories.

Though they’re often called mobile homes or trailers, that’s really a misnomer because their owners can’t easily relocate them. Typically, the people who own them rent the land underneath the houses from the owners of parks for manufactured home. Sometimes an owner will rent their home to someone else while paying to rent the land as well.