{"id":8556,"date":"2024-01-25T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8556"},"modified":"2024-01-25T21:59:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:59:57","slug":"uw-president-says-students-not-choosing-universitys-branch-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8556","title":{"rendered":"UW President Says Students Not Choosing University\u2019s Branch Campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/uw-president-students-not-choosing-branch-campuses\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/uw-president-students-not-choosing-branch-campuses\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1363\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/madison.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"UW Reforms\" title=\"Wisconsin Republicans\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 The president of the University of Wisconsin says young people are not choosing the university\u2019s branch campuses.<\/p>\n<p>President Jay Rothman told a crowd in Milwaukee the demand is simply not there for the UW\u2019s local campuses like it once was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to accept what was market reality,\u201d Rothman said at an event at the Milwaukee Press Club. \u201cThe 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\u2019t looking at those branch campuses the way they once were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rothman said online options are making things difficult for small, local campuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re in a branch campus, or somewhere hard to reach, online availability has changed the landscape,\u201d Rothman said.<\/p>\n<p>Rothman\u2019s 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-Oshkosh announced an end to in-person classes at its Fond du Lac campus.<\/p>\n<p>All three campuses have just a few hundred students each this semester.<\/p>\n<p>Rothman said, overall, the entire university system is facing some difficult financial times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are having to make hard choices at some of our campuses including furloughs, buyouts and layoffs,\u201d Rothman said.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Press Club that 10 of the UW\u2019s 13 campuses are all running a deficit this year.<\/p>\n<p>Rothman said he hopes to close those deficits by 2028 but warned it will take more federal money to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all focused on the same thing, and that is student success. We have a long way, certainly encountering some headwinds in being successful, but we are going to work through it,\u201d Rothman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/uw-president-students-not-choosing-branch-campuses\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 The president of the University&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8558,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions\/8558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}