At first glance, a key premise of Chancellor Biddy Martin’s undergraduate initiative seems absurd. In an effort to make the University of Wisconsin-Madison “affordable to all,” she is proposing a tuition increase.
Yet Martin’s Madison Initiative for Undergraduates — the first major proposal of her eight-month-old tenure — has met with little organized resistance from students, who, in the past, have howled at any attempt to raise the cost of a college education.