Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has requested more than $2.5 billion in his two-year building projects capital budget, with close to half of the proposed money going to upgrades and renovations at University of Wisconsin System facilities.
March 8, 2019
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Tony Evers seeks $2.5 billion for building projects — nearly half for UW campuses
Gov. Tony Evers wants to spend $2.5 billion on building projects — nearly half of which would be for University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Higher Education/System
Evers proposes large building projects for UW system
About half the money from Governor Tony Evers’ proposed building program would be spent on University of Wisconsin campuses.
UW-Madison Ranks 1st In The Nation For PhD Graduates
Simon Goldberg received his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017.His PhD was one of 844 conferred that year, a number which made UW-Madison the top doctoral degree conferring institution in the U.S. in 2017. That’s according to the most recent data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates, which is conducted by a group of federal departments and organizations.
Fitzgerald calls Evers’ capital budget plan ‘alarming’
Fitzgerald said in a statement the level of spending and borrowing in the plan is “alarming” especially given tax increases in Evers’ state budget proposal. That separate spending plan calls for raising the gas tax by 8 cents per gallon and capping tax credits for manufacturers.
Campus life
UW grants more doctorates in 2017 than any other US institution
UW, with 844 doctorates, came in first, University of California-Berkeley University of Texas, Austin, were runner-ups.
Crime and safety
Me Too founder Tarana Burke, UW community demand broader conversations surrounding sexual violence
Burke parted with a message to the university: “Don’t invite me to your school and think you’re checking a box. Y’all haven’t done anything yet.”
UW-Madison sued over sexual misconduct allegations by PEOPLE program
The plaintiff in the case, identified as Jane Doe because she is under 18 years old, accused another student in the PEOPLE program of directing inappropriate sexual behavior at her and other female students. The student accused, who is also under 18 years old, is identified as “M” in the lawsuit.
Agriculture
Wisconsin Farmers Expected To Take On More Debt Despite Improved Income
But Steven Deller, agricultural and applied economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it won’t offset the 17.8 percent decline in farm income last year.
Arts & Humanities
A Tibetan Refugee Starts Anew, One Small Paycheck At A Time
I folk danced on weekends, biked on rural roads, swam in forest lakes, and had potluck dinners with friends I had known for decades. I delighted in movies by independent filmmakers, attended folk music concerts, and met acquaintances for ice cream on the University of Wisconsin’s legendary Memorial Union Terrace.
Confessions of a Sensitivity Reader
The publisher Lee & Low, which tracks diversity statistics, notes that “37 percent of the U.S. population are people of color, but only 13 percent of the children’s books published in the last 24 years contain multicultural content.” In 1985, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison began counting the number of kids’ books written or illustrated by African-Americans.
UW grad Sean Hanish pursues his love of filmmaking with ‘Saint Judy’
Sean Hanish remembers the night when, as a University of Wisconsin-Madison college student, he fell in love. Not with a fellow student. With making movies.
Opinion
Column: Blue lights will guide us nowhere: How ASM’s election platform fails UW students, survivors
ASM must focus on the cause of sexual assault, rather than focus solely on mitigation efforts.
UW Experts in the News
Anti-hate leaders denounce conservative Supreme Court candidate: ‘Keep hate out of our courtrooms’
Quoted: “Judge Hagedorn represents a Christian position but not the Christian position. Challenging him does not call Christianity itself into question,” said Charles Cohen, an emeritus professor of religious studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison and an advisory board member of “We Are Many-United Against Hate.”
UW-Madison Related
Frans de Waal: ‘We are very much like primates’
In 1981, aged 33, he moved to the US — “There were no jobs in the Netherlands at the time. There was big unemployment among PhDs” — and began studying bonobos at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He found them to be “peaceful hippies” who, unlike chimpanzees, used sex rather than violence to defuse conflict.
Top Evers Aide Says Foxconn Air, Water Permits Deemed ‘Appropriate’
Rikkers worked previously for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and before that in various roles for the Obama administration. Brennan said Rikkers will begin his new job as “State Economic Initiatives Director” on Monday.
Madisonian works to improve education and create business opportunities in Ethiopia
At the University of Wisconsin–Madison she developed an interest in East Africa and the informal economies in that region.