Giving the University of Wisconsin-Madison autonomy from the UW System could come at a high cost – a $50 million budget cut from the state and a 10% tuition increase each of the next two years for Madison students, according to a memo the UW-Madison chancellor sent to Gov. Scott Walker?s administration. The tuition boost would offset the budget cut by the state and help pay for the Madison Initiative, a program for improving undergraduate education at UW-Madison that has been endorsed by the UW System Board of Regents.
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