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