It’s never easy to justify a big jump in tuition.
But UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has made a compelling case for a significant increase over the next four years to keep Wisconsin’s flagship university strong.
The UW Board of Regents should support Martin’s plan, which student leaders endorsed last week.
Gov. Jim Doyle’s state budget proposal assumes a tuition hike of about 5.5 percent over each of the next two years at UW System schools. Martin’s proposal will almost double that annual increase at UW-Madison to around 9.5 percent.