City of Milwaukee - File #: 240553

• File #: 240553
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/30/2024
• In control: JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
• Final action: 9/24/2024
• Title: Substitute resolution amending the City of Milwaukee’s Legislative Package to seek introduction and passage of state legislation authorizing Cities of the First Class to regulate or prohibit for-profit institutions of higher learning.
• Sponsors: ALD. CHAMBERS JR., ALD. COGGS, ALD. A. PRATT, ALD. BROSTOFF, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. MOORE, ALD. JACKSON
• Indexes: COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, STATE LEGISLATION

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
9/30/2024	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
9/24/2024	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
9/16/2024	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Members requested to be added as Co-Sponsors: Pratt, Brostoff, Bauman, Moore and Jackson Appearing: Ald. Coggs Justin Moralez Jordan Primakow	Pass	5:0
7/30/2024	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
240553
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
220724
Sponsor
ALD. CHAMBERS AND COGGS
Title
Substitute resolution amending the City of Milwaukee’s Legislative Package to seek introduction and passage of state legislation authorizing Cities of the First Class to regulate or prohibit for-profit institutions of higher learning.
Analysis
This resolution amends the City of Milwaukee’s Legislative Package to include the introduction and passage of state legislation authorizing Cities of the First Class to regulate or prohibit for-profit institutions of higher learning.

Body
Whereas, For-profit institutions of higher education consistently have “worse outcomes on [student] earnings, debt, and default” than both non-profit and public institutions of higher education, according to May, 2021, research from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University; and

Whereas, At the same time, May, 2020, research from the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy finds that for-profit institutions “account for about 40% of all higher education advertising spending, while serving just 6% of students”, and that for-profits outspend “nonprofits 4 to 1 and publics 20 to 1 on a per-student basis”; and

Whereas, The aforementioned Brookings publication consequently recommends increased regulation of for-profit colleges to ensure accurate representation in advertising, as well as general accountability and transparency; and

Whereas, Elimination of the Wisconsin Educational Approval Board in September, 2017, risked making Wisconsin “the only state in the nation without any meaningful oversight of private postsecondary education institutions”, whether for-profit or non-profit, as then-Executive Secretary of the Board David Dies wrote in an undated position paper; and

Whereas, In a January, 2024, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel op-ed, the presidents of the National Black Nurses Association’s Milwaukee Chapter and Wisconsin Federation of Nurses & Health...