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More than 2,000 remains, first buried at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery more than a century ago, await identification and reburial.

Ten female students at the UW-Milwaukee thought they had full scholarships. Now the Afghan evacuees are scrambling to pay for school.

Initial data shows the number of freshmen and new transfer students is at the highest point since 2018. That’s after pandemic-driven declines in freshman enrollment nationwide.

As colleges work to enroll more underrepresented students, some of them are pledging free tuition. New tuition promise programs for low-income students are starting in the UW System and at Carthage College next fall.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced Monday that it installed 21 Narcan kits at its Milwaukee, Waukesha and Washington County campuses.

Mark Freeland comes to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from South Dakota State University. He is coming on board just as the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education receives a major $3 million gift from Bader Philanthropies.

The UW Board of Regents, somewhat reluctantly, voted Thursday to extend the tuition freeze in the upcoming school year.

Last August, about 150 students from the Asian University for Women were evacuated from Afghanistan as the Taliban took over. Eight of them are now studying at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Fewer Wisconsin high school grads are going to college. One reason may be that college has become less affordable for Wisconsin students in need of financial aid.

Students go to school to learn reading, writing and math. But what if they also were taught how to open a bank account, create a budget and build a good credit score? Personal finance education has been growing in Milwaukee at the high school and college level.