{"id":6609,"date":"2014-07-29T10:07:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T16:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2014-07-29T10:07:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T16:07:29","slug":"when-does-the-university-of-wisconsin-cease-to-be-a-public-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6609","title":{"rendered":"When Does the University of Wisconsin Cease to be a Public University?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Brost, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior from Shorewood, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/opinion\/when-does-the-university-of-wisconsin-cease-to-be-a-public-university-b99317129z1-268535042.html\">asks<\/a> in Friday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/\"><em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/a> at what point does a state university cease to be a university?<\/p>\n<p>Brost writes that state spending on higher education has fallen 28 percent since 2008, and UW-Madison receives just 15 percent of its budget from the state. Nationally, as state funding drops, tuition increases &#8212; 231 percent over the past 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Brost observes investment in public higher education is a good for the state&#8217;s economy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With $1.2 billion in state funding, the UW System contributes more than $15 billion to Wisconsin&#8217;s economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brost argues that if current trends continue, Wisconsin&#8217;s funding of higher education will end in 2040.<\/p>\n<p>The full article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/opinion\/when-does-the-university-of-wisconsin-cease-to-be-a-public-university-b99317129z1-268535042.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Brost, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior from Shorewood, asks in Friday&#8217;s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at what point does a state university cease to be a university? Brost writes that state spending on higher education has fallen 28 percent since&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6609\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,13],"tags":[27,48],"class_list":["post-6609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-national-context","category-the-state","category-uw","tag-higher-education-funding","tag-tuition","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6612,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}