OSHOSH, Wis. – By mistake the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh mailed letters to applicants that they weren’t accepted. Although the public institution is funded with tax dollars, the university has been less than eager to inform the public about the mistake. One exception last week was a response to a media query in which the university acknowledged that 400 bad letters went out and that a software update was at fault. Requests for sit-down news interviews, however, went unanswered. Did the university take corrective action? Television station WBAY quoted prospective student Richard Pratt more than a week later that he hadn’t received a follow-up about his “not you” being an error. “I would’ve been a first-generation college student,” he said. Pratt plans to start college elsewhere in the fall.
UW-Oshkosh profile
Enrollment: 16,000
Budget: $250 million
Chancellor: Andrew Leavitt since 2014