The new entity UWM was created and put under the UW System which until that time had had only the Madison campus and the extension offices to worry about in 1956 It consisted of the former Wisconsin State College Milwaukee f k a Milwaukee State Teachers College f k a Milwaukee Normal School with its East Side campus plus the downtown operations of the University of Wisconsin s extension service So it was a merger not just a rename but the main part of the new entity in terms of student count hours of instruction etc was the original components of the old WSC M But is the only person I ve ever encountered in my life who says that in 1971 The University of Wisconsin meant the four campuses together rather than either the place in Madison or else the UW System which latter is normally referred to under that name