Republicans who control the Legislature set in motion a plan Thursday to end the freeze on in-state tuition that has been in place for eight years at University of Wisconsin schools.
The Republican-controlled budget-writing committee declined to extend a tuition freeze at University of Wisconsin System schools for the next two academic years, setting the stage for students to potentially pay more for their education as soon as this fall.
SHAPE: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, by Jordan Ellenberg. (Penguin Press, $28.) In fine-grained detail, “Shape” reveals how geometric thinking can allow for everything from fairer American elections to better pandemic planning. It offers a critique of how math is taught, an appreciation of its peculiar place in the human imagination and biographical sections about beautiful minds and splendid eccentrics. Ellenberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is “rather spectacular at this sort of thing,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes. His “preference for deploying all possible teaching strategies gives ‘Shape’ its hectic appeal; it’s stuffed with history, games, arguments, exercises.”
“There are many different pathways into mathematics,” said Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “There is the stereotype that interest in math displays itself early. That is definitely not true in general. It’s not the universal story — but it is my story.”
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute has released its 2021 County Health Rankings and found that every county in Wisconsin has a high percentage of excessive drinkers.
Wisconsin is the only state in the country where every county reported excessive drinking among 23% of its adult population or higher.
The Wisconsin Legislature’s powerful budget committee declined to extend a tuition freeze for in-state undergraduate students, a move that would allow the University of Wisconsin System to raise the costs for attending its institutions for the first time in eight years.
University of Wisconsin officials on Thursday announced kickoff times for five of the Badgers’ 12 regular-season games, including the season opener against Penn State.
Starting Wednesday, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will no longer require fully vaccinated people to wear masks at most indoor places on campus.
As more and more Wisconsinites complete their vaccine schedules, the University of Wisconsin has relaxed its vaccine rules.
The university released updates to its COVID-19 policies, noting guidance for event capacity, face masks and outdoor physical distancing were all changing. UW Madison noted it is making these changes based on evidence that shows COVID-19 vaccines are effective in protecting people from COVID-19. These changes will also be in line with when Public Health Madison & Dane County’s health order is set to expire.
Quoted: Wisconsinites have bifurcated politics, said Mike Wagner, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rural and Republican Wisconsinites value independence, hard work and feeling respected, but tend to distrust urban centers and government institutions. They are also more likely to live in less information-rich environments, Wagner said, including cities without daily newspapers. This has spilled over into Wisconsinites’ response to the pandemic.
“The best predictor of skepticism about vaccines, from our early analyses, is a belief that the election was stolen from President Trump,” Wagner said.
The Legislature’s Republican-led budget committee has voted to end a University of Wisconsin tuition freeze that has been in place for eight years and long been a GOP priority that had bipartisan support.
Noted: Moniz’ collection of short stories, “Milk Blood Heat,” was called an “electrifying debut” by a Washington Post reviewer who wrote it is “exhilarating and shocking and even healing.” She won the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, among other awards, and is leaving Jacksonville soon to teach creative writing at her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Her father set up a folding table for her workspace. She treasured it so much she took it with her when she left home for art school. Ehlert studied at the Layton School of Art and graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
A new center at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health seeks to examine how a person’s environment and social conditions impact their health down to the molecular level.
Noted: Johnson, 25, the 2017 Michigan Women’s Amateur Champion from North Muskegon and former University of Wisconsin golfer, thought for several years that she wanted to be an orthodontist.
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a professor in the political science department at the University of Wisconsin, said Catenacci “has what is potentially a strong argument,” comparing the matter to when a federal judge told former President Donald Trump he could not block negative comments on his Twitter feed because it constituted a “limited public forum.”
“What was so unethical is that they targeted African American men,” Dr. Eva Vivian, a professor at the UW School of Pharmacy, said. “I feel that they felt that a Black man’s life didn’t matter, that their lives were less valuable than [those of] white men.”
Communities of color will have a hard time bouncing back post pandemic because of economic inequality gaps that worsened over time, according to a UW-Madison inequality expert. “There are racial disparities in almost any outcome that you can think of,” Denia Garcia, UW-Madison professor of public affairs said. “Racism exists in almost every institution.”
Noted: Friess grew up in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, and got a degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin.
