November 9, 2007

Controversial Aid Plan Dropped in Wisconsin

By MARY ANDOM

The University of Wisconsin at La Crosse is withdrawing a contentious plan to expand its need-based student aid with an increase in tuition. The proposal, called the "Growth and Access Agenda," would also have increased enrollment by 1,000 students over five to eight years.

The university's chancellor, Joseph Gow, said a quarter of the money raised by a $1,320 tuition increase over three years would have gone toward need-based financial aid. The other 75 percent would have been used to

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