Kimber Wilkerson is the faculty director of UW-Madison’s Teacher Education Center. She says there are many reasons hiring teachers is difficult right now.
“A critique of the teaching profession is the pay,” said Wilkerson. “I think COVID has exacerbated that experience by making the working conditions for teachers even more challenging.”
Noted: Beyond Usona, the Midwest has been waking up to psychedelic medicine’s potential. UW-Madison and University of Michigan both started research centers for psychedelic drugs in 2021. Ohio State launched such a center earlier this year. University of Chicago has a leading researcher in the field in Harriet de Wit. And the Medical College of Wisconsin has one of the best serotonin-based pharmacology researchers in John McCorvy.
Scientists identified the moth with the help of the University of Wisconsin Diagnostic Lab.
Guests include assistant scientist Tyler Lark and Yanhua Xie, a postdoctoral research associate, both at UW-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE).
Some colleges have, or plan to make, abortion medication available … the University of Wisconsin-Madison is unlikely to follow. As of now, University Health Services (UHS) on campus does not provide abortion medication.
“[Abortion medication] care falls outside the scope of our services. This is not affected by the recent Supreme Court decision,” UHS health communications strategist Sarah Clifford said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison responded with recommendations from Public Health Madison and Dane County (PHMDC) health officials as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared Dane County a “high” community level of transmission as of July 21. This is because of an increase in hospitalizations and confirmed cases around the county.
“And in the middle of his tenure as governor, there was a huge controversy because he actually pushed to change the language of the University of Wisconsin’s mission statement to take out the idea that the goal of the university is the search for truth.”
Noted: The American Institute of Architects Wisconsin bestowed honor awards, the Wisconsin Architectural Awards program’s highest recognition, on four projects designed by its members.
Another eight projects received merit awards including:
• Hamel Music Hall, Madison. Strang Inc., Steinberg Hart.
University of Wisconsin’s Mead Witter School of Music’s concert and performance space uses the “warmth of precast concrete (which) echoes the limestone of other iconic campus buildings, but the form of the Music Center reflects the forward-thinking, progressive ‘Wisconsin Idea,'” the nomination said.
It’s not talked about much, but it’s more common than you may think, according to University of Wisconsin experts. The condition affects approximately 10% of men per decade of life (i.e., 40% of men in their 40s, 50 percent of men in their 50s, 60% of men in their 60s).
The Supreme Court’s controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which was released on June 24, has led to vast disparities in reproductive healthcare access between states. In Wisconsin, the reversal of Roe v. Wade allowed the state’s 173-year-old abortion legislation to be enforced.
Simply put, Midwestern residents looking to attend neighboring states’ universities are suffering at the expense of out-of-state tuition — even if they live only a few hours away from the school.
On the surface, university executives could use the guidelines of the Big Ten athletic conference to give in-state tuition reciprocity. Given that all current members of the Big Ten conference are “state-schools,” or public universities, this idea would allow all residents of these states to attend other Big Ten member schools at an in-state tuition rate.
Quoted: “We already have this the system where childcare is getting more and more expensive, harder and harder to get into childcare, more and more poverty, structural poverty that’s racialized,” Dr. Tiffany Green said. “Then we have abortion on top of that where the people that need them most can’t get access to the services they need and they’re more likely, for a lot of reasons, to be black, brown and or indigenous.”
Quoted: “‘Decertifying’ (or any variant, such as ‘voiding’) a presidential election after the fact is simply not a thing,” UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer said …
“The complete absence of any decertification mechanism in either the constitution or federal statutory law is a fundamental point,” UW-Madison law school associate professor Robert Yablon said. “That legal silence is glaring given that other aspects of the presidential election process are set out in detail, including in Article II Section 1, the 12th Amendment, and the Electoral Count Act.”
Alvin Thomas, who is an assistant professor in the UW-Madison Human Development and Family Studies Department, said while there are many obstacles that minorities face in accessing mental health treatment, there are a few major issues that stand out.
