Wisconsin, Minnesota tuition reciprocity stokes rivalry
MILWAUKEE—The longtime tuition reciprocity agreement between Wisconsin and Minnesota is stoking a cross-border rivalry as the two states compete for a declining number of top college prospects.
The decades-old agreement allows students from either state to pay in-state tuition across the border.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the University of Minnesota’s main Twin Cities campus is the biggest recipient of Wisconsin residents.
That’s tough competition for University of Wisconsin campuses in places River Falls and Superior. Both try to offset the competition by attracting Minnesotans. Declining birthrates are expected to shrink the pool of prospective students in both states for the next few years.
Campus officials in both states say the reciprocity arrangement is popular with students and their families, and mutually beneficial to both states.
Nov 27, 2012 at 7:11 a.m.
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Donnaw - Don't start with your silliness with me. Nowhere on this subject did I say what I posted here were facts. When you asked I told you they were anecdotal. Opinions are allowed on here I believe. Contrary to a lot of the things I see posted on this site by the wingnuts. When they are pressed I don't get answers.
Nov 26, 2012 at 12:43 p.m.
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wasp..if a conservative used anecdotal evidence you would come unglued but I guess when you're a liberal you can pick and chose what you call "facts."
Nov 26, 2012 at 10:55 a.m.
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donnaw - I will give you the same sources that I get from the right wingers on most of their posts, only I am honest and will admit it; anecdotal. I talk to my grandchildren and their friends who are in college. I also get pretty much the same thing from friends that have kids and grandkids in school, that have changed their majors. I also have place in northwestern Wis. and have teacher friends there that tell me teachers are moving to jobs across the border if they get the opportunity. Is is a Stampede? No, but I think it does say something.
Nov 26, 2012 at 6:18 a.m.
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wasp...your source?
Nov 26, 2012 at 5:25 a.m.
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A large number of students going to college are education students. Very few want to be teachers in Wis. We already have teachers along the western border migrating to jobs in Minn.
Nov 25, 2012 at 8:52 p.m.
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So why aren't they trying to attract out-of-state students at full freight?
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