University of Wisconsin students expressed both concern and support Thursday at the first of two campus forums on Chancellor Biddy Martinâ??s Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, which would increase tuition, financial aid and academic services for students.
The forum focused on student perspectives with prominent issues being the transparency of initiative fund spending, how students are supposed to pay the tuition increase and the voice of students in the spending process.
The initiative is focused on adding faculty to the College of Letters and Science, which has lost 65 to 70 professors since 2004, Martin said.