The University of Wisconsin System faces a cut of up to $174 million under Gov. Jim Doyle’s 2009-’11 budget, offset in part by estimated tuition increases of between 5% and 6% in each of the next two years, state officials announced Tuesday.
Not all families will feel the effects of the tuition increase, however. In a new move aimed at protecting the middle class, families with incomes of less than $60,000 will be held harmless from the tuition increases thanks to a $38 million boost in state funding for financial aid.
That was good news for Cedric Lawson, legislative affairs director for the United Council of UW Students, which represents 110,000 UW students.