Dear Editor:
There’s a madness in Madison.
At one time, in-state students attending the state universities paid only one third of the cost. Now they’re charged for more than half of the instructional budget. (The governor and Legislature recently decided that veterans were to get free tuition. However, since this was an underfunded mandate, the Board of Regents had to come up with the money by raising tuition for all the other students!)
The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Employment Relations rescinded University of Wisconsin faculty raises while approving substantial increases for professional state employees.
(Gruberg is a professor emeritus of political science at UW-Oshkosh)