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After reaching an agreement with Panjab University in Chandigarh, India, UW-La Crosse officials said they hope to begin sending students to study there by Spring 2008 and attract more students from India to La Crosse.
The Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance suggested limitations to a veterans tuition benefit program scheduled to begin this fall, voting to cut state funding for the program by tens of millions of dollars and specifying that the benefit could not be used for graduate or professional school and would expire 10 years after veterans leave the service; UW System officials said the university has always supported tuition coverage for veterans.
Related: "Committee reduces tuition breaks for vets," Capital Times, June 11.
UW-Madison's world-renowned research capabilities could serve to attract investors to Wisconsin, and state legislators should direct the proposed Wisconsin Venture Center to be located nearby.
UW System officials told a state task force that a formerly abandoned IT project is ready to begin anew, and that the university has updated business practices and a new vendor; the task force will examine several failed state-funded IT projects to determine what can be done to better conserve state funding.
Nationwide measures to limit conflicts of interest between higher education institutions and private lending firms do little to address the mounting debt that faces many of today's college graduates; as federal financial aid programs have failed to keep up with rising tuition, more college students are turning to private companies, which offer loans at interest rates much higher than the federal government.