One of UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin’s top priorities is keeping the university affordable through need-based financial aid, she said Thursday in a speech at an event formally welcoming Martin to Wisconsin.
Less important, she said, is an unrealistic goal of keeping tuition flat or decreasing it.
She said the university must raise more money for need-based aid and envisioned a sliding scale of college tuition.
“Those who can afford to pay more should pay more,” Martin said. “Those who can afford less should pay less; and those who cannot afford to pay anything should pay nothing in actual dollars but should be allowed to contribute to their own education through work study.”