That’s the message from a report called Restoring Regional Public Universities for Recovery in the Great Lakes, released this month by the Brookings Institution. The report suggests that public, regional universities — which include all the University of Wisconsin System four-year schools other than Madison and Milwaukee — are neither fully appreciated nor properly funded.
Tommy Thompson’s new job title has the word “interim” in front of it. But we trust he’ll be much more than a stopgap administrator for the University of Wisconsin System.
In between strained breaths, German — a freshman from West Bend attending UW-Madison — said he had been running from building to building in an attempt to cast his ballot. “I haven’t missed an election yet,” he said.
Picking former Gov. Tommy Thompson to serve as the interim president of the University of Wisconsin is a good thing.
Typically a bustling mainstay of the city’s summer months, the Memorial Union, eerily empty and quiet during the COVID-19 pandemic, will begin a slow reopening Monday as it prepares to welcome campus back for the fall semester.
The business owners who remain on one of Madison’s most iconic streets — stretching from the State Capitol to UW-Madison — are trying to move forward with respect and purpose.
Five UW political science PhD candidates released a report on Twitter detailing faculty diversity in the UW Department of Political Science. Using publicly available data, the graduate students found there has not been more than one Black faculty member in any given year since 1970.
According to a tweet, the robbery happened at University Avenue and Lake Street.
Sadness, anger, frustration and worst of all, no surprise. These were just some of the emotions University of Wisconsin student-athletes Madison Cone and Tyra Turner felt last month when seeing and reading about the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
Linn Posey-Maddox, an associate professor of educational policy studies at UW-Madison, said the pandemic exacerbates existing racial inequities in education.
In 1959 and joined the Theatre Arts and Drama Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He reached the rank of Professor and served as Assistant Dean of the College of Letters and Science, chair of the Faculty Advising Service, and head of the Student Orientation, Advising, and Registration (SOAR) program.
Jean Heitz will be remembered for her patience, her strength, and her generosity, as well as for the passion she brought to her role at the UW-Madison Biology Department, where she was a Distinguished Faculty Associate since 1978.
