More students, fewer spaces

Megan Twohey reported in last Sunday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that it's getting harder to be admitted to the University of Wisconsin. In recent decades,

The UW System administration saw UW-Milwaukee, with its doctoral status, large size and urban setting, as a place to address the needs of students rejected by UW-Madison. It envisioned turning UW-Milwaukee into a Wisconsin version of Michigan State University or the University of Illinois at Chicago.

When UW-M was upgraded from a teacher's college to a branch of the UW, wasn't it envisioned turning it into a Wisconsin version of UCLA? Or is "envisioned" how UW-M says "marketed"?

There are problems elsewhere in the UW System.

Since 1989, the percentage of UW-Madison freshmen from Wisconsin has dropped from 65% to 59%, while the percentage of non-resident freshmen has risen from 21.5% to 25.9%.

Students in neither category went from 13.5% to 15.1%. Maybe they're the undocumented immigrant freshmen.