Supply short of demand for UW economics classes
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ It's a basic economic problem: The supply isn't meeting the demand.
Economics students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are having a tough time getting into classes after enrollment in the program surged over the past decade.
The department had 183 majors 10 years ago. Now, it has 442.
Parent Christine Jersild recently wrote the department a letter, complaining that her daughter and another student couldn't get into a class required for their December graduation.
"Both need ONE more upper level econ course to meet their graduation requirement and neither one can get in to a class despite efforts to be on waiting lists, sit on floors, talk to instructors, etc.," she wrote. "This is a tremendous outrage and one that has serious repercussions."
Jersild's daughter and her friend eventually got into the class, but many complain their experience is all too common. For example, 29 students were on the waiting list for International Trade & Finance this year, and 21 students were on one for both Law and Economics and Econometrics.
The department has added about three instructors in the past decade for a total of about 50.
Sep 9, 2008 at 5:33 p.m.
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If you are geting ready to graduate from college in a few months, your mother should not be fighting your battles. You are an adult, write the letter yourself. Just a hint for when you are out in the real world.
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And don't take mom along on your job interviews either, unless she has made cookies....
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