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June 9, 2021

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Wisconsin Republicans approve $1.5 billion for state building projects

Posted on 6/9/2021

Wisconsin State Journal

A little less than half of the GOP proposal, or nearly $629 million, is earmarked for the University of Wisconsin System. Evers had asked for about $1 billion for UW campuses. Humanities is on track to be demolished by 2030 because the committee approved $88 million for a new academic building that will move many academic departments housed in Humanities to the new facility. A quarter of the cost will be covered through fundraising with the rest supported through state borrowing.

GOP Lawmakers Approve $1.5B For State, UW System Construction Projects

Posted on 6/9/2021

Wisconsin Public Radio

Republican lawmakers on the state Legislature’s budget committee voted Tuesday evening to approve $1.5 billion of Gov. Tony Evers’ $2.4 billion plan for state construction projects, including roughly $629 million of the governor’s $1 billion plan for the University of Wisconsin System.

Wisconsin Republicans agree to $1.5 billion in building projects for UW and other public facilities

Posted on 6/9/2021

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee agreed Tuesday to spend $1.5 billion over two years for University of Wisconsin buildings and other public facilities.

Research

Development agencies will use pandemic relief funds to study region’s economic potential

Posted on 6/9/2021

The Capital Times

The funds will also allow MadREP to update its comprehensive economic development strategy, called Advance Now 2.0, as well as the extensive accompanying reports on industry sectors. The 900 pages of reports, released in 2019 after years of research by MadREP and University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension, examined several key sectors for the region. Now, with new data released since, the agency would like to refresh those reports before acting on their findings. The agencies have not yet determined what contractors they will hire to conduct the studies.

Higher Education/System

Wisconsin projects $4.4B more in tax revenue by mid-2023 following ‘unprecedented’ tax collections

Posted on 6/9/2021

Wisconsin State Journal

In light of the new projections, Evers also announced that an estimated $300 million in cost savings across 18 state agencies — which the governor called for during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — would be returned to those departments. That includes more than $45 million to the University of Wisconsin System, $5 million to the Wisconsin Technical College System and nearly $25 million to the Department of Children and Families.

Campus life

Exclusive: Chris Evans Was Captain America. Now He Wants to Help Gen Z Reshape US Politics

Posted on 6/9/2021

Newsweek

Talia Joseph, 19, is looking forward to flexing that sort of newfound political muscle. As an incoming freshman this fall at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, she is not only a youth voter but a swing-state voter as well. “People my age realize how much of an impact our vote had in 2020,” she says. “I like Joe Biden, but he’s not perfect. If he makes any policies we don’t approve of, we know we can pressure him.” Joseph, who’s one year older than Thunberg, is active in fundraising and organizing aimed at turning up the heat on the administration in combating climate change.

State news

Wages, child care and more: Why the labor market isn’t growing

Posted on 6/9/2021

Wisconsin Examiner

Quoted: “These jobs aren’t the same jobs they were a year ago, and our lives aren’t the same lives that they were a year ago,” says Laura Dresser, associate director of COWS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The research and policy center examines economic issues as they affect workers and employment.

Workers in the hospitality industry, already at the lower end of the wage scale, were especially hard hit.

“Those jobs make for very hard lives,” Dresser says. As the coronavirus spread, “either your venue shuts down and your work goes away, or if your work doesn’t go away, you’re exposed through your work.”

Athletics

PGA makes 3rd stop in South Carolina, LPGA stays by the bay

Posted on 6/9/2021

AP

Bernhard Langer is leading the Schwab Cup and playing this week. He has yet to win this tournament, though he was a runner-up in 2018 when it was shortened to 36 holes. … Fred Couples is in the field. He is playing the PGA Tour Champions for only the fourth time this year. He won this tournament four years ago. … This is the home course of the University of Wisconsin golf teams. … Stephen Ames is in the field one week after rallying from seven shots behind to win in Iowa for his second Champions title.

Gabe Carimi, Meghan Duggan, Blake Geoffrion in group joining Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame as class of 2021

Posted on 6/9/2021

Wisconsin State Journal

Highly decorated players from University of Wisconsin football, women’s hockey and men’s hockey lead a group of 12 who will be inducted into the school’s athletics hall of fame in September.

Wisconsin’s Cole Caufield once again in the middle of thrilling NHL playoff moment

Posted on 6/9/2021

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Former Stevens Point Area High School and University of Wisconsin hockey star Cole Caufield added another chapter to his wild first go-round in the NHL playoffs.

UW Experts in the News

Understanding the dangers of ransomware, cyber attacks at the local level

Posted on 6/9/2021

NBC-15

“Ransomware is the corporate killer,” Bob Turner, UW-Madison Chief Information Officer said.

Obituaries

Smith, Michael E.

Posted on 6/9/2021

Wisconsin State Journal

From 1995 until 2009, Michael served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, where he taught courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, and a seminar on sentencing and corrections.

UW-Madison Related

It’s time for an overhaul of academic freedom

Posted on 6/9/2021

The Washington Post

Ross’s termination and its reverberations changed that. Although Ross landed on his feet at the University of Wisconsin, historian Arthur Lovejoy resigned from Stanford in protest.