Jake Baggott doesn’t remember precisely where he was or on what day he first heard the term “COVID-19,” but the coronavirus has since consumed most of his waking hours.
In 2018, according to the Children’s Cooperative Book Center at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Education, fewer than a third of all children’s and young adult books in the United States featured a person of color as a main character. Only around one fifth were written or illustrated by a person of color, despite the fact that now most young children in this country are nonwhite.
In a new study, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that children with an incarcerated parent whose family used resources from the education nonprofit behind “Sesame Street” experienced more positive social-emotional development.
He may be in the seat for only a year or so, but former Gov. Tommy Thompson brings a solid record of supporting academic research to the job of interim president of the University of Wisconsin System.
Abraham Lincoln is the next historical figure whose statue deserves removal, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students say.
Some UW-Madison students of color want the university to remove one of its most iconic landmarks, a statue of Abraham Lincoln, because of what they see as the former president’s anti-Indigenous and anti-Black history despite Lincoln’s legacy of ending slavery in the U.S.
“As the leader of UW–Madison, I believe that Abraham Lincoln’s legacy… should be both celebrated and critiqued,” Blank said in her statement. As an example, Blank argued that while the University relied on “money from land expropriated from Native Americans,” the Lincoln-era land-grant Universities–like UW–have increased access to upward social mobility.
More than 20 people attended a town hall Thursday hosted by University Housing to address the hike, which will be effective July 1 and average $50 a month per household across Eagle Heights, Harvey Street Apartments and University Houses. The three buildings house about 2,500 residents across over 1,200 units.
“I just think he did, you know, some good things … the bad things that he’s done definitely outweighs them,” McWhorter said.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coaching wins leader is part of the 11-member class of 2020 for the UW Athletic Hall of Fame.
“We have the ability to reach a lot of people,” said Turner. “It’s really important for everyone to see it too because I believe that all of us going in there are fighting for the same things and fighting for equality.”
Football coaches and their players are correct when they note the importance of focusing on factors within their control and ignoring those they cannot affect.
Such narrow margins are indicative of how split Wisconsinites are politically, which should translate to the Legislature, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
“We were fortunate that the pandemic hit during the primaries rather than the general election,” said Barry C. Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It provided a sort of training ground for states to turn the corner on voting by mail.”
“Many of the protesters want to divert and reallocate funds away from the police into social services and the communities,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor Ralph Grunewald. “That makes a lot of sense.”
“(It’s) very difficult to take politics out. When we get new information we filter it through what we already believe,” says Dr. Dietram Scheufele, a science communication professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
B Corp certification isn’t particularly well known among consumers yet, said Neeraj Arora, executive director of the Nielsen Center for Marketing Research at UW-Madison, but he thinks awareness of the certification and its meaning will grow.
Tim returned to Madison in 1976 to practice rheumatology, and also held a Professorship of Medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health before retiring in 2012.
