Wisconsin students at U should pay Minnesota resident rates.
June 7, 2007
StarTribune
Editorial
When a legislative session ends, thoughts at the University of Minnesota turn quickly to tuition. It was a good session for the university, and the pricing ideas emanating from Morrill Hall this week are mostly good too, to wit:
• Wisconsin Discount Days should come to an end at the University of Minnesota. The arrangement officially called "reciprocity" tilts too far in the Badger State's direction. President Robert Bruininks is right: If the two states' higher education negotiators can't come up with a new agreement that's fairer to Minnesota, the Board of Regents should unilaterally charge Wisconsin students Minnesota resident rates, beginning with the 2008 freshman class.
It's not fair to taxpaying Minnesotans, or to the state's neighbors to the north and west, that they pay higher tuition when they enroll at the University of Minnesota than Wisconsinites do. Wisconsin students at the Twin Cities campus pay what they would have paid if they had enrolled on the Big 10 campus in Madison. No other reciprocity arrangement with a state or province carries similar terms.
Posted by john5091 at June 7, 2007 10:18 AM