Proposed legislation that would establish a 3 percent tuition cap remained stuck in a state committee Tuesday after university officials argued it would cripple the quality of education in the UW System.
One day after local lawmakers suggested the state should use $17 million of its general purpose revenue to offset tuition increases for low-income students, Rep. Rob Kreibich, R-Eau Claire, offered his own solution to help cash-strapped students in a meeting of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities-a cap on tuition increases for the next two years at 3 percent. The proposal earned the bipartisan support of several Democrats, including Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison.