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Consolidate financial aid funds, equity for students

The head of Wisconsin’s private colleges would like to put three student financial aid funds into just one pot.

Rolf Wegenke, Ph.D., President of Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU), says there’s a financial aid disparity between colleges within our state.

Although he believes the UW System, the technical schools and the private colleges need more financial aid overall for their students, Wegenke (pronounce) says the UW fund gets a much greater percentage, by a ratio of 10-1.