More students, fewer spaces (cont.)

I previously noted Megan Twohey's report in the July 23, 2006 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had this on what now passes as the goal for UW-M.

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.

Just as I recalled, that's a quite diminished vision.

As [University of Wisconsin President Fred] Harrington put it at that time [September 1964] "UWM is to become Wisconsin's UCLA."
--J. Martin Klotsche [former UWM Chancellor], Confessions of an Educator: My Personal and Professional Memoirs (1983), p. 156