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UW–Stevens Point branch campus closures imminent unless enrollment increases
Leadership at UW–Stevens Point warns that its Marshfield and Wausau branch campuses will not survive without increases in enrollment, which has plummeted almost 70% over the past 13 years, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Thomas Gibson, the university’s chancellor, said in a viability report the spring to UW President Jay Rothman that alternative revenue strategies, like renting space to community groups and other UW organizations, will not make up for the hundreds of thousands of dollars the campuses are collectively losing each year.
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