Earlier this year, a UW-Madison student who had been charged with the second degree sexual assault of another student also had his case dismissed, after months of investigation, and close to trial.
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A UW-Madison proposal to lift the limit on how many out-of-state students the campus can enroll is closer to becoming policy after a committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved the plan Thursday. Wisconsin blog Bucky’s Fifth Quarter uncovered documentation posted on Wisconsin’s website showing that a Board of Regents vote will take place to determine whether the school will sign a 10-year deal with the Maryland-based apparel giant.
The system now caps the number of out-of-state undergraduate students at 27.5 percent of the undergraduate population at each campus. Adidas paid UW between $750,000 to $800,000 a year, while UA’s contribution will be $4 million annually.
The association has scoffed at Blank and Cross’ workforce-building justification, calling it absurd because most out-of-staters will leave Wisconsin after graduation.
Cross and Blank have insisted the driver for lifting the cap is workforce development, and discussion during Thursday’s committee meeting focused entirely on workforce demographics. The group says the school should improve in-state recruiting. Several Regents said they shared the university’s concern about Wisconsin’s shrinking pool of working-age adults.
Providing access to in-state students is the school’s “top priority, UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said in an email to The Associated Press”.
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“This will be a workforce crisis if we don’t do something to start dealing with this problem now”, Regent S. Mark Tyler said.
