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In November, System President Jay Rothman ordered UW-Platteville to end in-person classes next year at its Richland Center campus. Enrollment at the two-year college fell from 567 students in 2014 to just 60 this semester.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Richland are fighting to save their campus after UW System President Jay Rothman announced the two-year campus would no longer offer in-person classes come July 1.
The UW System's Office of Educational Opportunity is approving charter school launched by dubious operators without much public notice.
As colleges work to enroll more underrepresented students, some of them are pledging free tuition. New tuition promise programs for low-income students are starting in the UW System and at Carthage College next fall.