UW to ask for additional money and an end to tuition freeze

(AP) — University of Wisconsin System leaders plan to ask Gov. Scott Walker to lift a tuition freeze and give them about $40 million more in aid in the next state budget.

System President Ray Cross says the system's 2017-19 budget request will ask lawmakers to allow regents to set tuition rates and for an additional $42.5 million to help shorten time to graduation, expand programs offering high school students college credits and expand student internship programs.