A Southwest Wisconsin Technical College agribusiness management student fills the compartments of a planter with soybean seeds at the college’s farm on May 7, 2025. Students planted about 10 soybean varieties and will use new technology to compare the yields, part of the college’s increasing emphasis on precision agriculture. (All photos by Patricio Crooker for Wisconsin Watch)

‘If our graduates don’t make family-sustaining wages, we’re not going to offer the program anymore,’ a Southwest Wisconsin Technical College official says. ‘Our degrees have to have value.’

B y Natalie Yahr

Wisconsin Watch

Eight years ago, Southwest Wisconsin Technical College faced a crisis. An accreditation agency had placed the Grant County community college on probation for shortcomings in using evidence t

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