As The New York Times reported this week: âSome states charge much more tuition than others. In California, home to the nationâs largest community college system, students pay only $552 per 12-credit semester. Low-income students pay nothing. Tuition is low because California lawmakers use state tax revenue to heavily subsidize the cost of college.
âIn Vermont . community college tuition is six times more expensive: $3,360 per semester.â
As such, there are concerns about how states that have long-supported college access for low-income students will get less help (proportionally) from such a federal plan while, as the Times reported, âStates that have let tuition rise would be rewarded with something akin to a federal bailout.â
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According to Administrators of Nursing Education in Wisconsin, âIn 2018, Wisconsin nursing schools turned away over 1,000 students who wanted to enter the nursing profession or advance their education and improve their clinical skills.â Those rejections exacerbate the problem of how the Department of Workforce Development predicts that in 2025 Wisconsin will have a shortage of between 2,300 and 6,300 nurses.
Fixing that âbottleneckâ of too few educators is then critical to addressing the Silver Tsunami, ANEW argues.
Beyond that, educators say that Wisconsin needs to train the next generation of medical professionals to better serve the needs of the future than to continue with the status quo â that is, to train young nurses and doctors to work outside of hospital settings than in them.
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Berenice Lorenzo knew at a young age she wanted to go to college.
She also knew she wanted to be the first in her family to earn a college degree.
As she worked her way through high school, though, she hit a roadblock. How could she pay for that degree? The cost just seemed too much.
That is, until she considered Gateway Technical College â which helped her dream to become a reality through the resources and support of the Gateway Promise program. Berenice is now well on her way to earning her Nursing degree and has become a student leader and face of the college to the community through her role as Kenosha Campus ambassador.