The latest program to launch under the Odyssey Project umbrella, Odyssey Senior offers people age 60 and older an opportunity to preserve their histories.
Written by Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
About half of Pennsylvania’s counties were in the bottom portion of an annual ranking of health outcomes, according to the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
The UW System Board of Regents voted last week to raise tuition prices by an average of 4.9% (or $404) across all 13 universities and 26 campuses in Wisconsin. Room and board rates will increase too, by an average of 3.5%, resulting in an overall 4.2% (or $706) increase for all in-state students.
The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities held a more than four hour meeting on Thursday in an attempt to find ways the Legislature can facilitate free expression on the state’s public university campuses.
Republican state lawmakers questioning whether a lack of political diversity on college campuses is hurting education discussed possible fixes — like considering political affiliation when hiring professors — during a legislative hearing Thursday. The meeting follows a University of Wisconsin System student free speech survey that found a majority of conservative respondents reported self-censoring views in class.
An hour before the polls closed on Tuesday, Teddy Landis was standing outside a freshman dining hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, trying to encourage students who hadn’t voted yet to cast their ballots.
Thursday’s hearing was the first formal legislative discussion since the results of the UW System’s controversial free speech survey were released earlier this year. The survey focused on how much students self-censor or decline to share opinions in class. Republicans often accuse colleges of suppressing conservative views in classrooms and in who is invited to speak on campus.
Students emphasize importance of togetherness amid differing views.
Beginning in the fall of 2023, UW will help recruit and train 24 educational psychology students with an emphasis on diversity and cultural response.
“Fair values of loans and securities are not qualitatively different,” said Tom Linsmeier, an accounting professor at the University of Wisconsin and former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. “They measure the same amount: the price at which the asset can be sold in an orderly transaction in the market today.”
They moved with their four children to Madison, WI, where John spent 50 years of enjoyable teaching and research in biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The nonprofit news publication chose 12 former and current students and employees of UW-Madison, to make up their list of influential leaders for this year.
