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Goldrick-Rab returns to Madison to talk future of Wisconsin Idea
By Sydney Widell | Nov. 9, 2016The Wisconsin Idea–the UW System’s grounding principle for outreach to the state—will only be put into action when all students have access to affordable education, according to Sara Goldrick-Rab, former UW-Madison sociology professor and author of “Paying the Price.” In her Tuesday lecture “The Future of Wisconsin Higher Education,” Goldrick-Rab investigated how the state’s student aid policies are falling short of meeting student need and are failing the students who need it most. “To me, what the Wisconsin Idea has meant in my life is to do better than this,” Goldrick-Rab said.
