My parents make over $80,000 a year but do not pay any of my tuition or living expenses. How are you going to make this affordable for students like me who would not be eligible for grants but would impacted greatly by this increase?

Last year the College of Engineering started charging increased tuition for Engineering students in response to many of these exact concerns that this initiative is addressed at, specifically increasing the offerings of classes that are difficult to get into. It seems to me that this initiative is just a duplicate of the goal of engineering differential tuition for Letters and Sciences, but yet still increases tuition for engineering students without offering them added benefits.

I am a faculty member - strongly opposed to differential tuition rates based on parental income. Better to keep all tuition equal for everyone - and change support, aid, work/study, grants, etc. to make school more affordable. Differential tuition doesn't benefit students who pay for themselves and is just not a fair manner to pit students against one another essentially (who gets a break, who doesn't)

Out of state students already have to pay a significant more than in state. Why should we pay more for this initiative if its supposed to help all students equally? Its not fair to tack on extra bills to the already ridiculous cost for out of state students. Especially if financial aid is not going to compensate (not like it does now).

In business today rationalization of service is essential to cutting over head costs. When you look at the directories of personnel you can see duplication everywhere at UW-Madison. How about looking internally & show you have made an effort to cut costs before burdening students with these additional fees.

Since this is apparently all about enhancing an Undergraduate's time here at UW, couldn't we save an extra couple bucks and decrease some salaries around the school? UW is slowly taking away an affordable education for everyone, and quickly taking it away for anyone whose parent are in the upper/middle class.

Will there be allowances made for families who make over $80,000 but have more than one child in college? What about a family that makes $100,000 a year and has three kids in college at the same time? They are no more able to afford supplemental tuition than a family who makes $79,000 and has one child in college. It would be a grave error to assume that financial aid will automatically cover the additional burden of the family with more children in college.

How will this new initiative be measured to insure it is meeting the objectives of the program? How will these measurements be communitcated back to students and parents to really see that this is really working and is cost effective.

In today's economy, it is unresponsible to be thinking about raising tuition. Most entitiy's are looking for ways to cut costs, reduce staff and so on. Is the supplemental tuition , on top of an increase in regular tuition? Also, could you delineate the cost cuts you have come up with, please?

If this is to benefit all student services, and is not part of a state initiated tuition increase, then why the higher cost for out of state students - and 3 times the amount, at that.

Clearly some type of cutoff is necessary, but this is too arbitrary and raises serious equity concerns. Is it fair to hold harmless a student whose family makes $79,999, but not $1 more? Is it reasonable to say that $80,000 is the same for a family of 4 from Boston versus a single parent from Marshfield? Better to phase out the grant and vary the income level depending on family attributes.

They are asking for our ideas as to what with think about this initiative, but with the chancellor actually listen to us. I went to the forum last night and although she seemed very receptive to our ideas and concerns, I left under the impression that nothing will be changed. This is going to be placed on us no matter what we have to say. This should be put up to a student vote!

What about International students whose parents earn less than $80 000 a year and do not qualify for financial aid under UWMadison?