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Nearly four months after the July 1 budget deadline, the state Senate and Assembly each voted to pass the 2007-09 state budget; this is the second-latest date by which the budget has been passed.
Related: "State budget approved, signing expected Thursday," Wisconsin State Journal, Oct. 24.
Also: "Legislature approves long overdue budget," Badger Herald, Oct. 24.
And: "Legislature passes state budget," Advance Titan, Oct. 24.
With the security of having a state budget, the UW System no longer has to grapple with contingency plans meant to make up what could have been a $150 million funding shortfall.
The state budget allocated money to move forward with planning for a graduate school of public health at UW-Milwaukee.
Related: "UWM plan survives budget," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 24.
Over the past decade, Wisconsin's tuition for public college education more than doubled, but still remains among the most affordable in the Midwest.
In the past five years, more than 1,000 students from UW-Marathon County have taken advantage of the UW Colleges Guaranteed Transfer Program and transfered to one of the UW System's four-year campuses.
The proposed federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act would allow immigrant children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents to attend college in the states; the U.S. Senate will consider the legislation today.
Related: "DREAM Act Vote on Tap," Inside Higher Ed., Oct. 24.