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Pushing back on a Gov. Tony Evers veto protecting the University of Wisconsin System’s extensive diversity, equity and inclusion infrastructure, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is asking for legislative committee approval to again remove $32 million from the system’s budget unless it dismantles its DEI programs.

If the vast UW System Diversity, Equity and Inclusion effort — which costs approximately $32 million biennially — is so necessary, why is it such a failure?

At a time when the job market is begging for graduates with bachelor’s degrees, the opportunity for many Black students to earn a college degree is being squandered. The number of Black students entering UW-Milwaukee — the UW school with the largest Black population — has been steadily decreasing in recent years.

It’s campaign season, so the only numbers that seem to matter to the mainstream media are the ones in polls.

Alumni also express concerns about debt and the value of their degrees

With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses

Over 180 credit unions and banks across Wisconsin already offer student loan refinancing products and/or student loans.

Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical

In UW System and on Madison campus, women dominate in degrees, personnel and leadership roles

Activist leanings and lack of ideological diversity among the knocks against growing Gender and Women’s Studies major

We need to rethink how we use the faculty at the non-Ph.D.-granting schools in Wisconsin to improve the lot of the state’s students.

UW System graduation rates holding Wisconsin back. Authors of WPRI report suggest recreating four-year outstate campuses.

How to recreate the outstate university and finally give students their money’s worth

College tuition continues to rise at a rate that greatly exceeds inflation and student loans are becoming more and more onerous.

Conservative UW System students, at a round-table discussion hosted by the Badger Institute, recount their challenges bucking the liberal trend.

► What do the UW instructors without it – the ones doing much of the teaching – think?
By Ike Brannon, Ph.D.
► How the Regents can make professors accountable to taxpayers and students

“My family wanted private schools because private schools take education seriously. They offer a more rich education and prepare me for my future,” said Sahara Aden, of Milwaukee. But her family couldn’t afford the steep tuition.

We need to know why nearly half of liberal arts graduates from our state’s top university regret the way they spent their money.

Many of LakeView Technology Academy’s graduates are leaving high school with half of an associate’s degree in their pockets. Others are entering four-year universities as second-semester freshmen.

Lori A. Weyers, president of Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, says the IT worker shortage is reaching a “crisis” stage.