The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents is considering direct admissions for some of its campuses in an attempt to reverse enrollment declines, Wisconsin Public Radio reported.
Historically, 32 percent of high school grads from the state of Wisconsin have enrolled at one of the system’s campuses immediately after graduation. That dropped to about 27 percent in 2020.
The University of Wisconsin System is considering automatically admitting high school graduates to its campuses in hopes of stemming enrollment declines and boosting college access.
Climate hazards like flooding, drought and wildfires are making known infectious diseases worse for people, according to a new study.
The research identified more than 1,000 pathways for events tied to climate change like extreme rainfall, sea level rise and heatwaves to make people sick, according to Jonathan Patz, one of the study’s co-authors.
“We’ve known for a long time the impacts of climate change,” said Patz, a professor with the Nelson Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences at UW-Madison, describing direct effects like heat waves and mosquito- and water-borne disease. “In this study, these viral and bacterial diseases show up as worsening from the effects of climate change.”
UW-Madison scientists studying the genetics of orangutans in zoos were stumped. The lineages they found didn’t match those made public when the orangutan genome was sequenced in 2011.
Noted: Last week, James Sweet, Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and AHA president, published his monthly column in Perspectives on History, an association publication. The column, titled “Is History History? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present,” argued that too many historians are practicing presentism, very roughly defined as interpreting the past through the lens of the present. And in so doing, Sweet said, these historians stand to make history indistinguishable from other social sciences.
Written by Debbie Ford, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin–Parkside.
I studied for a master’s degree in education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. My program was batty. We made Black Lives Matter friendship bracelets. We passed around a popsicle stick to designate whose turn it was to talk while professors compelled us to discuss our life’s traumas. We read poems through the “lenses” of Marxism and critical race theory in preparation for our students doing the same. Our final projects were acrostic poems or ironic rap videos.
This week, UW System President Jay Rothman announced the Wisconsin Tuition Promise, a new initiative to ensure underserved Wisconsin students can attend any university in the system tuition-free.
Noted: Months after struggling with his math test, Hope went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for six weeks of classes in a summer bridge program. He took a math class that covered what he missed in high school. He signed up to take calculus in the autumn.
Hope also brought back study skills that he stopped using in high school. He started studying at the library. He rediscovered what it is like to enjoy school.
Most importantly, he says the experience changed his way of thinking. Now he feels like he is at school to learn, not just to get by.
“After this, I definitely feel prepared for college,” he said. “If I didn’t have this, I would be in a very bad place.”
Explore John Bascom, the colorful President of the University of Wisconsin from 1874-1887 who championed women’s rights, worker’s rights, temperance, the pursuit of truth, and a notion that would go on to earn fame as “The Wisconsin Idea.” Professor Emeritus of History J. David Hoeveler, of UW Milwaukee, whose most recent book is John Bascom and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea, sheds light on the important Wisconsin figure.
Noted: One of the beneficiaries will be Travis Higgins, who was drawn to the Madison campus in 2009 because ITT staff secured a loan for him within 30 minutes of him visiting the school.
Higgins said he studied criminal justice with plans to transfer to a technical college or University of Wisconsin System campus. Then he learned his credits wouldn’t transfer. With $24,000 in debt already accumulated, he dropped out.
The UW Bookstore has launched a new clothing line ahead of the upcoming football season, and it will have fans seeing spots.
The Princeton Review has ranked the University of Wisconsin-Madison first for colleges with ‘Lots of Beer.’
It was quickly determined that the person was deceased, but officials suspect no foul play.
David started his 32 year UW-Extension career in Marinette County in 1965, eventually becoming Portage County’s Agriculture Agent in 1970, retiring in 1996. The highlight of his career was being Executive Secretary of 1982s WI Farm Progress Days.
Quoted: Donations certainly show a really strong degree of energy and activism on the part of those donors who are concerned about major changes in American life, said Eleanor Neff Powell, associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“This is a really unusual dynamic where you’re having this big set of fired up voters on the left, as evidenced by these contributions,” Powell said. “It suggests that something not normal is happening in the election cycle.”
Quoted: When we create the image of ourselves that we want to share online, we’re more likely to craft that persona to fit a certain standard, said Christine Whelan, a clinical professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Social media has definitely upped the ante … to enhance ourselves to fit what we think is the cultural ideal.”
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team took five pictures of the senior class, each with a different combination of players, during its media day.
Four seniors captured another memory on Wednesday participating in a near-decade-old tradition. Coach Kelly Sheffield memorialized the moment those seniors jumped into Lake Mendota with a slow-motion video he shared on Twitter.
The University of Wisconsin women’s volleyball team unveiled itself during its annual Red-White Scrimmage Saturday at the UW Field House.
The White squad, led by sophomore Julia Orzol and freshman Ella Wrobel, scored a 2-1 win that was capped by a deciding third set that needed seven set points to complete.
Nothing says welcome to college football like 316 pounds on a 6-foot-3 frame.
Gio Paez is still building a name for himself with the University of Wisconsin football team, but the junior is a certified load. Freshman Joe Brunner experienced that firsthand early into his first fall camp with the Badgers.
Quoted: The Karles represent a group of individuals and families who have made a change and are now dealing with the financial consequences, for better or worse. “The pandemic made people really think and take stock of their living situations,” said Cliff Robb, an associate professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We saw so many different employment opportunities become flexible in their structures, so people started to reassess it all.”
“There’s never going to be like a checklist,” says Dr. Lisa Barroilhet, a gynecologic oncologist and the interim chair of obstetrics and gynecology for the UW. “Even before there were particular concerns about the legal ramifications, these situations are always incredibly individualized and nuanced.”
Mark Eppli, the director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins Live at Four to talk about the future of the housing market.
In 1990, Bill retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after serving as Associate Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and Director of the School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences.
Ted moved to Wisconsin and was a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison from 1957 – 1990.
Barbara Ames didn’t write “Hamilton.” She hasn’t won the EGOT. And she didn’t create the upcoming podcast “Arts Educators Save the World.”
Without Ames, though, the world may not have the Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robert Lopez and Erica Halverson that did.
Ames taught each of the three renowned artists when they attended New York’s Hunter College Elementary School. Halverson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education professor who is an expert in how people learn through the arts, is hosting the new podcast.
