Last Thursday, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents� Business, Finance and Audit Committee assembled to discuss lowering nonresident student tuition and adjusting UW executive salaries. The committee voted and concluded 5-1 that the tuition decrease will take effect at every UW campus except UW-Madison for the 2006-07 school year and made a unanimous decision to raise pay ranges for top administrative positions that will take be effective July 1, 2006. On Monday, Rep. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, announced plans to introduce a bill that would limit the arranged salary increases proposed by the Board.
The two issues here reflect very different subjects. The resolution on tuition will benefit UW schools in more ways than one. First off, the draw to UW schools will increase for out-of-state students while not decreasing the number of in-state students.