UW-Madison previously capped out-of-state undergraduate enrollment at 27.5%. In 2015, the university lifted the cap and replaced it with a policy requiring the institution to enroll 3,600 first-year students from Wisconsin each fall. That fall, the university admitted 4,685 first-year students...
Bailly objected to framing the school’s problem as merely a financial one, noting the school is “$24 million richer” this year due in large part to the growth in its $562 million endowment. “We are told these cuts are to be made because of an $8.6 million dollar sh...