Victories
There are many other victories United Council has fought for and won over the years. Here are a few examples from recent years:
- Wisconsin’s sexual assault statutes to include alcohol as an intoxicant
- Both student seats on the Board of Regents
- Passage of “Michelle’s Law” allowing students the ability to retain their health insurance if they have to drop out of full-time enrollment due to illness
- Tuition remission for Wisconsin Veterans
- A UW-Colleges tuition freeze for an unprecedented three years in a row
- Increases in financial aid that effectively freeze tuition for all students from families making less than $60,000 a year
- Ensuring that students’ rights to legal representation in non-academic conduct hearings are upheld
- Increase in financial aid funding by $20 million in the 09-11 Biennial Budget
- Domestic Partnership Benefits for UW System Employees
- ‘Wisconsin Dream Act’ allowing certain undocumented students in the state of Wisconsin to attend the UW System at in-state tuition levels
- Rights for UW System faculty and staff to collectively bargain




