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He estimates he'll have as much as $100,000 in loans when he graduates. But his parents also aren't helping him out financially. Menne, a marketing major, said he wouldn't qualify for the program. But as sophomore Hudson Menne pointed out, students whose families make more than the $62,000 income cutoff may also be struggling. UWM students interviewed on Monday about the new program were supportive of making college more affordable. Also known as the FAFSA, the form can be filed beginning Oct. Financial aid staff will notify qualifying students based on the information they provide in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. There's no separate application for the Wisconsin Tuition Promise. By year four, when the program is fully installed, the program is estimated to cost $35.6 million annually and support 8,000 students. UW officials estimate the Wisconsin Tuition Promise will cost $13.8 million for the first year of the program. 'And I think when they continually see the issues around talent, that we don't have that talent we need in the state to be successful, I think they will agree with us moving forward that this is a good investment.' 'They are all committed to doing what's right for the state,' he said. Tony Evers included the program in his state budget request but the Republican-controlled Legislature stripped it out of their own so the idea went nowhere.Īsked why this time could be different, Rothman said he's spent time with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle since starting the job earlier this summer. The UW System pitched the Wisconsin Tuition Promise program in the last state budget, too.ĭemocratic Gov. That includes $123 million to provide employees with 4% salary increases in each of the next two years and $115 million for a variety of other needs, including filling critical staffing needs and covering inflationary increases for goods and services. The UW Board of Regents will vote on the proposal Thursday, the first step that kicks off the state budget process.Īltogether, the UW System is asking for a $262.6 million budget increase over 2023-25. This suggests to him that even though tuition for in-state students has been frozen for a decade, a state college education is increasingly out of reach for some.

He said a UW System education is the most affordable in the Midwest, but fewer low-to-moderate-income and first-generation students are attending UW campuses. Rothman is asking for about $25 million to cover the first two years of the program. The amounts will vary by student but UW officials estimate the average student award over four years will be $4,500.īut unlike the Madison program, which is funded through a mix of private money and institutional resources including tuition revenue, the UW System program would be funded by taxpayers. Like the UW-Madison program, the statewide tuition promises will operate as last-dollar awards, meaning the UW System covers what isn’t met by other financial aid a student receives, such as a Pell grant and other scholarships. The UW-Madison program launched in 2018 and the first group of students who received the scholarships graduated this spring. The System's program essentially extends Bucky's Tuition Promise, a UW-Madison full-tuition program for low-income students, to all other UW campuses.

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