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How other states help students avoid debt

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently released the Badger First-Generation Transfer Promise Program, which would offer one or two years of free tuition at the university for first-generation college students who meet academic requirements and transfer in with an associate’s degree from UW Colleges or Wisconsin Technical College System school. However, the program is contingent upon additional state funding for the UW System in the 2017-19 biennial state budget.