Diversity and representation in children’s literature has always been skewed. According to a 2018 study by the librarians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education Cooperative Children’s Book Center, only 10% of children’s books depict the main characters as Black, and just 4% of executive-level publishing professionals and literary agents are Black.
The recent controversy surrounding Dr. Seuss allows us an opportunity to reflect broadly on the need for more positive representation in children’s books. The Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison determined that in 2019, books depicting either white main characters or animals and nonhuman objects—such as trucks—made up 71 percent of all books published, leaving little room (29 percent) for books depicting any main characters of color (11.9 percent Black, for instance, and 5.3 percent Latinx).
In the last decade, Act 10 has hurt Wisconsin. A report by the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin found a 70% decline in public-sector union membership from 2010 to 2017.
Public hearings are planned for April 9 at UW-Whitewater, April 21 at Rhinelander’s Hodag Dome and April 22 at UW-Stout in Menomonie. The budget committee also will host an online session on April 28. The in-person public hearings will take place from 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. and will provide time for attendees to testify.
Starting this week, Sims is responsible for leading fundraising efforts alongside a team in UW’s College of Engineering, while also providing leadership development and skills support to team members across the foundation, as its new senior director of development.
Election had 7% turnout, consistent with past ASM elections.
As the weather warms and UW-Madison and Dane County COVID-19 restrictions have eased up, UW-Madison students are gathering outside and following varying degrees of COVID-19 public health guidelines — sparking concern among the campus community.
The Associated Students of Madison passed key legislation at their meeting Tuesday. Those key pieces of legislation included endorsing the 2021-23 Executive Budget for the UW System introduced by Gov. Tony Evers, introducing “unpaid positions” of certain student government positions and encouraging academic departments to create individualized Ethnic Studies courses.
But Mark Stephenson, dairy policy analyst at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said you would never know it just by looking at Wisconsin’s total milk production for the year.
’We understand the eagerness of many students to get vaccinated and we share that eagerness,’ UW says.
As part of the coverage, we interviewed Dr. William Hartman with UW Health about vaccine safety and who should get the shots.
“Making sure, given the disproportionate impact, that those communities do actually get prioritized and receive the vaccine is really critical to protect them, because they clearly are at higher risk,” said UW Health’s Chief Diversity Officer Shiva Bidar-Sielaff.
Pharmacy Professor at the school, Mary Hayney, oversees the student vaccination effort.“Pharmacy students are ready to volunteer,” Hayney said. “For example, many of them, unlike other healthcare providers, or licensed healthcare providers, they don’t have patient care responsibilities. So, they’re available and ready to help.”
Dr. Apple Bodemer said she started seeing more cases of hair loss last summer, with an increase in the fall as COVID-19 surged in Dane County. “Prior to COVID-19, I was seeing two to four hair loss patients per month,” Bodemer said in a statement. “Recently, I have been seeing up to five or six a day.”
The effects are still clear today. NFL player Quintez Cephus sued the University of Wisconsin, Madison last month, alleging that being expelled from the university caused him to fall in the NFL draft. Cephus, who was eventually reinstated and now plays for the Detroit Lions, was still one of the lucky ones. Others, such as Clemson’s John Doe, were forced into anonymity or smeared publicly as rapists.
Letter to the editor: “The WNPRC does not provide room for their monkeys to exercise, nor access to the outdoors, and they never see the sunlight.”
Gov. Evers nearly $1 billion proposal for UW system upgrades essential for outdated, deteriorating campus buildings.
Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, said the event doesn’t match the definition of ballot harvesting or ballot collection.
Tessa Conroy, regional economist and small business expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that many people have gotten used to shopping online and getting their dinner delivered.
In 1968 they moved to Madison, Wis., where he became Chief veterinarian and Head of Veterinary Services at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center. He remained in that position for 27 years.
Diversity and representation in children’s literature has always been skewed. According to a 2018 study by the librarians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education Cooperative Children’s Book Center, only 10% of children’s books depict the main characters as Black, and just 4% of executive-level publishing professionals and literary agents are Black.
