A new University of Wisconsin–Madison program that provides free tuition for students from low- and moderate-income households comes at a good time for families struggling with the consequences of a depressed farm economy.
Here in Southeastern Wisconsin, that meant the UW-Waukesha campus and the UW-Washington County campus joined UW-Milwaukee. It is a move affecting thousands of students in the area.
On college campuses in Wisconsin and across the country they have been embraced as the next cool thing to tip a high school student’s decision. That’s key at a time when enrollments are declining, and jockeying for prospective students has become critical.
Newly proposed rules put forth last week by President Donald Trump’s education secretary would reduce the liability of UW-Madison and other Wisconsin universities investigating sexual assault by changing the definition of what constitutes sexual harassment.
To propagate artisanal cider trees, a producer often needs to graft. That’s exactly what 50 people opted to do on a Saturday afternoon this past spring as participants in the inaugural Hard Cider Apple Grafting Workshop hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.
The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers will be held Jan. 11-13, 2019, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in Madison, Wisconsin. The school serves new and beginning farmers, and emphasizes organic-production methods and direct marketing.
Known for extravagant antics, including riding an elephant and a camel onto the field, Leckrone will retire at the end of the 2018-19 academic year, which also marks his 50th year leading the band.
Nostalgia has laced much of Leckrone’s last football season: In the back of his mind and in his assistants’ and students’ minds is a ticking clock, counting down the days, the rehearsals, the games he has left.
“Every event, someone will say, ‘This is the last time you’re going to do that,'” Leckrone said.
His influence off the field reaches much further. Dixon earned a spot as one of 13 finalists for the William V. Campbell Trophy, which annually recognizes the best football scholar-athlete in the nation—partly for his community activities that include mentoring youth at a correctional center, developing a program for student-athletes aimed at reducing the stigma of seeking mental health services and speaking to community and youth groups. Dixon was also nominated to the 2018 American Football Coaches Association Good Works team.
Leckrone has changed the lives of students in his band, delighted millions of fans and entertained anyone within earshot for a half a century. And he’s done it with passion and style and class. We want to thank him and wish him as much joy in retirement as he brought to us all these years.
Bob McGrath offers counseling services to students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with guided meditations, which often focus on gratefulness.
