UW-Madison will work to boost accessibility and eliminate the achievement gap — which are often attributed to race and socioeconomic status — in a new initiative led by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the ID requirement kept as many as 23,000 people from voting in two of the state’s most Democratic counties, Milwaukee County and Madison’s Dane County, with African Americans more than three times as likely as whites to be deterred from voting.
Dr. Chris Cascio, an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that when participants were subconsciously primed to think about things they cared about, and then shown messages encouraging new exercise habits, the areas in their brain associated with reward and positive self-valuation lit up.
Gov. Scott Walker appointed two people to the governing board overseeing Wisconsin’s public universities, pending state Senate approval Tuesday.
Citing a need to better compete for talent, especially top faculty, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross announced Monday he would seek a pay plan giving 3 percent raises to all UW System employees each of the next two fiscal years, starting July 1.
Thousands of University of Wisconsin System employees would receive 3 percent annual raises over each of the next two years if lawmakers and the System’s governing board approve a plan officials released Monday.
Pay plan requests a 3 percent wage increase for all UW System employees.
Madison streets around the construction site for the UW-Madison Chemistry Building project are in lane closure and street closing mode, and some will be until spring.
Construction on the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Chemistry Building will continue through 2021, causing various types of lane closures throughout the project, according to city officials.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the budgets of Wisconsin Association of Black Men and Sex Out Loud Monday evening.
They challenged the nine departments within the Division of Student Life to a friendly competition aimed at increasing donations to the Open Seat Food Pantry.
Alongside his work with the Green Bay Packers, former head coach Mike McCarthy spent the past eight years giving back to American Family Children’s Hospital.
Wisconsin Republicans endured a tough election last month, losing all major statewide offices. In response, the lame-duck legislators are calling a so-called extraordinary session. Their agenda? To make it harder for citizens to vote and to strip away powers from newly elected Democratic officials.
–Donald P. Moynihan is the McCourt chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He served as a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 2005 to 2018.
Tommy Thompson used to say: “Good policy makes for good politics.” How right he was. He worked to generate common sense reforms, and he produced results for Wisconsin.
Column by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Column by Stephen M Gavazzi of Ohio State University.
Quoted: Jane Piliavin, a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Wisconsin who authored a book on emergency intervention, said women are more likely to respond to a child in trouble than are men.
Sending troops into Gaza probably weakens support for the party in office (Netanyahu’s Likud), providing the more hawkish coalition members an advantage in future elections by further polarizing the Israeli electorate.
–Chagai M. Weiss is a PhD candidate in the political science department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Quoted: Moynihan, who taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 2005 until earlier this year, notes that Evers would also lose power historically reserved by Wisconsin governors to seek waivers from federal programs under the GOP proposal, something Republicans have long claimed is essential for federalism to flourish.
Quoted: “This is just the legislature, after losing the election somewhat surprisingly, deciding they don’t they want an attorney general from the opposing party,” says Barry Burden, a political scientist from the University of Wisconsin Madison.
