Students at UW-Platteville’s Richland Center campus and community leaders on Thursday petitioned University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman to reverse his decision to end in-person instruction at the campus.
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UW-Platteville Richland freshman Brody Smith, center, tells UW System President Jay Rothman, not pictured, about his experience with the campus. Smith will transfer to UW-Whitewater a year earlier than he planned as classes cease on the Richland Center campus July 1.
Photos: UW-Platteville Richland in Richland Center
UW-Platteville Richland students -- from left, twins Heath and Haley Zumach, and Emily Lund -- work on a project for their business leadership and management class, in the student services area at the college. Lund, who raises 30 beef cattle and 20 goats on a family farm by herself, is unsure of what she'll do next year after classes at the campus cease, as going to UW-Platteville feels like her only option but it poses financial and scheduling challenges.
Fran Borman, who teaches math at UW-Platteville Richland, in her office at the college in Richland Center. Borman will transfer to UW-Platteville's math department next fall, as Richland Center's campus is set to end in-person instruction after this spring.
(From left) Heath Zumach, sophomore from Richland Center, does the announcing during an intramural basketball game, as Jim Bell, a student and works full-time as maintenance staff at the college from Hill Point, and Izeah Currier, freshman from Blue River, watch the game in the gymnasium at UW-Platteville Richland in Richland Center, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Students play an intramural basketball game in the gymnasium at UW-Platteville Richland. The campus' enrollment has fallen by 90% during the past decade.
Izeah Currier, freshman college ambassador from Blue River, walks through campus at UW-Platteville Richland. University and campus officials are mulling how to best use the campus in the wake of an announcement that in-person classes for degrees will no longer be held there, starting July 1.
Dorothy Thompson, retired marketing and communication staff at UW-Platteville Richland, left, talks with sophomore Damian Kleinsasser, right, from Viola, as she hands out “save the campus” buttons in the student center on campus in Richland Center, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Dorothy Thompson, retired marketing and communication staff at UW-Platteville Richland, hands out “save the campus” buttons on campus in Richland Center, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
UW-Platteville at Richland.
UW-Platteville Richland in Richland Center, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Dave Fretz, a pastor in Richland Center, with Ronald Schmidt, right, talks about the news of UW-Platteville Richland ceasing classes next fall, during a visit to Kelly’s Coffee House in downtown Richland Center. He and his wife had been reassured the Richland Center campus would be an option for his children after high school and is disappointed to see it end instruction.
Downtown Richland Center, pictured, and the greater Richland Center community have already felt the economic impact of the campus' decline, Mayor Todd Coppernoll said, as staff and students have dwindled over the span of a decade.
