{"id":6682,"date":"2014-09-15T11:46:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T17:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2014-09-15T11:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T17:46:25","slug":"governor-walker-reaffirms-support-of-tuition-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6682","title":{"rendered":"Governor Walker Reaffirms Support of Tuition Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Scott Walker visited four\u00a0University of Wisconsin System campuses last week, touting his support for a two-year tuition freeze. Speaking to students in Green Bay, Eau Claire, La Crosse, and Racine, Walker said if elected he would support an additional two-year tuition freeze. Tuition <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=5180\">was frozen<\/a> in 2013 after UW System was found to have about $1 billion in reserve.<\/p>\n<p>UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadertelegram.com\/news\/front_page\/article_56cfe444-396e-11e4-9b31-d309f519fbf0.html\">told<\/a> the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram that an extended\u00a0tuition freeze would have a detrimental impact on his campus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAnother two-year tuition freeze would certainly have a major impact on the finances of UW-Eau Claire. We are already anticipating an additional cut of at least $3 million in the coming year to address the current tuition freeze.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Green Bay, Walker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbaypressgazette.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2014\/09\/09\/walker-pushes-uw-tuition-freeze-downplays-deficit\/15359739\/\">told<\/a> students that he supported affordability over additional financial aid to students:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We know it&#8217;s not just about providing more financial assistance, it&#8217;s about providing a great price for a UW education that&#8217;s low to begin with.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At UW-Madison, tuition revenue funds approximately one-quarter of the cost-to-continue. UW System is currently working with the Department of Administration on an estimate of cost-to-continue as part of the state biennial budget process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Scott Walker visited four\u00a0University of Wisconsin System campuses last week, touting his support for a two-year tuition freeze. Speaking to students in Green Bay, Eau Claire, La Crosse, and Racine, Walker said if elected he would support an additional&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6682\">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":[19,17],"tags":[108,48,115],"class_list":["post-6682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw-system","tag-2015-17-state-budget","tag-tuition","tag-tuition-freeze","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682","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=6682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6686,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}