UW President Says Students Not Choosing University’s Branch Campuses
The president of the University of Wisconsin says young people are not choosing the university’s branch campuses.
President Jay Rothman told a crowd in Milwaukee the demand is simply not there for the UW’s local campuses like it once was.
“We had to accept what was market reality,” Rothman said at an event at the Milwaukee Press Club. “The attendance at those campuses have dropped drastically in the past 10 years, far more than any of our universities. We have to accept consumers aren’t looking at those branch campuses the way they once were.”
Rothman said online options are making things difficult for small, local campuses.
“If you’re in a branch campus, or somewhere hard to reach, online availability has changed the landscape,” Rothman said.
Rothman’s comments came after UW-Green Bay last week said it will end in-person classes at its Marinette campus at the end of the current semester. UW-Milwaukee County ended in-person classes at its Washington County campus, and UW-Os