Students attending a University of Wisconsin System campus will likely see tuition increases of 5.5 percent for the 2011-12 academic year.
The UW System?s Board of Regents is slated to review an operating budget and consider new tuition rates for the upcoming school year when it gets together for its monthly meeting Thursday and Friday on the UW-Madison campus. And for the fifth consecutive year, UW System President Kevin Reilly has proposed the 5.5 percent tuition increase for resident undergraduates at the four-year campuses.