Catching up on a couple higher education-related items …
** One of three finalists has withdrawn from consideration to be the next dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, the Wisconsin Law Journal reports. Gene Nichol, professor and director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina School of Law, told the university of his decision earlier this week, the website reports. It?s not clear why he pulled his name. The two finalists still in the running are Nicholas Allard and Margaret Raymond.
** The Senate voted 25-7 to ensure each region of the state has a representative on the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The measure next goes to the Assembly.
** States allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition — instead of charging more costly out-of-state fees — have witnessed a 31-percent increase in that population’s college-going rate and a 14-percent drop in high-school dropouts among undocumented Latino students, according to a report out of Roger Williams University’s Latino Policy Institute.