The cost of tuition will go up by hundreds of dollars at Universities of Wisconsin schools under a plan passed by UW leaders on Thursday.
The UW Board of Regents voted to increase tuition by 5% at most campuses, saying the university system didn’t receive enough funding from the state this budget cycle and citing concerns about potential federal funding cuts.
“I think it’s a little unfair,” Ryan Lenertz, a junior studying statistics at UW-Madison, said. “I mean, somebody has to foot the bill, so I think you stick it on students and students will pay it because they want to go to school here.”…