University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Office of the Assistant to the Vice Chancellor. Image Description

Subject Listing: African Americans
Image from: University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Office of the Assistant to the Vice Chancellor.
Records, 1971-1977.

During the 1970s the University of Wisconsin System considered opening a law school at the Milwaukee campus to go along with the law school already in Madison. This clipping from the August 9, 1972, Milwaukee Journal demonstrates that the idea was supported by a variety of groups on the Milwaukee and Madison campuses, but faced opposition from a number of other groups at both schools as well as the dean of Marquette University's law school. A public law school in Milwaukee was promoted as a way to provide access to a legal education for those in the Milwaukee area who might not be able or willing to pay tuition at Marquette University's law school as well as those who would prefer evening and summer classes. The University of Wisconsin system turned down the proposal for a second state-funded law school later in 1972.
[UWM Archival Collection 11: Box 1, Folder 13]