As Wisconsin state colleges struggle to maintain their enrollment, the Wisconsin College Committee has found a way to increase the number of first-year students at every WCC college.
Director of Admissions, Nouh Monaye, shared the new plan that involves placing all graduating Wisconsin high schooler’s names in a large hat and pulling people to go to a random WCC college, regardless of if they want to go or not. “This is to ensure that we have enough students at all of our schools and get the budgets back to where they were years ago,” Monaye said.
Students will not have any choice in what college they want to go to and will not receive any help with tuition payment.
WCC-Stoughton has raised concerns because of their higher expectations of incoming students such as GPAs, transcripts and other admission requirements. Wisconsin College Committee’s focus is to get enrollment up and have not addressed WCC-Stoughton’s comment.
Although this year there had been a slight increase of incoming students in fall 2023, Wisconsin College Committee wants more. “More money … I mean more students is always a good thing,” Monaye said.
High school seniors began to panic as some students started to receive letters in the mail regarding what college they will have to go to in fall 2024. “I wanted to go into the trades, they are also struggling with the industry,” Brody Miller, a senior at Richfield high school, said.
Parents and students started protesting outside of the Wisconsin College Committee’s office in hopes of changing their minds.
“My child has a right to choose where to go. She does not have enough money to go to Stoughton. When I tried calling, I was on hold for five hours, and when I tried to email the Director of Admissions, I was just sent a frowning emoji,” concerened parent, Jean Austin said.
The new requirement has set the incoming class of combined first-year students in all WCC schools to be over 65,000 students, putting all universities in a housing crisis because all freshman and sophomore students must live on campus due to the residency requirement made decades ago by the Wisconsin College Committee.
Effective immediately, high school juniors must register as an anticipated graduating senior for the following year so they can be placed in a WCC college. High school juniors that do not participate will be charged with treason.
Reports of Wisconsin high school seniors leaving the state to escape the requirement are increasing as fall 2024 approaches. Wisconsin College Committee are organizing manhunts to bring them back to the state.
