Virginia is often cited as the example to examine a state?s top universities seeking more autonomy from lawmakers, but a move in 2005 that gave those schools more freedom gets different grades from those who have studied it.
A recent Wisconsin Policy Research Institute report says Virginians praise the changes and argues they are a model that could help the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A former University of Virginia president says Wisconsin?s system works better. And Virginia lawmakers voted to tweak the state?s relationship with the universities because of a sharp jump in tuition since the last revision six years ago.