This summer, classes will cease at UW-Platteville's branch campus in Richland Center.Ĭurrent UW-Green Bay Chancellor Michael Alexander told Wisconsin Public Radio the merger has been great for them. At the same time, enrollment has fallen significantly at nearly every other branch campus in the state.
Since 2019, enrollment at those campuses has increased. Shortly after the system's merger, former Chancellor Gary Miller announced the creation of a "One University" model that would provide associate's, bachelor's and graduate degree programs at "alternate locations" in Manitowoc, Marinette and Sheboygan. UW-Green Bay was the first to take a different approach. Many four-year universities have begun offering bachelor's degree programs at the former colleges they were paired with, which were initially designed as a lower cost way to earn associate's degrees and transfer to four-year schools. Each of the eight universities has taken different approaches to managing the new branch campuses. The restructure was meant to address declining enrollment and a $250 million cut to state funding in 2015. Tuition at former University of Wisconsin System colleges in Marinette, Manitowoc and Sheboygan will increase by around $1,300 over four years as part of UW-Green Bay's "One University, Four Locations" strategy.Įight state universities were merged with what had been stand-alone two-year campuses in a 2018 UW System restructure.
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