University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman defended campus diversity programming this week as Republican state lawmakers consider cutting university funding by around $32 million because of opposition to those efforts.
The University of Wisconsin System, which does not have local property tax authority under state law, received around $15,079 per full-time-equivalent student. That funding ranked Wisconsin eighth worst in the nation.
The West Campus District Plan calls for a hotel, amenity spaces, affordable housing, and research spaces to be added.
Revised concept plans for UW-Madison’s underutilized West Campus will emphasize residential and research spaces while also bringing in a hotel, either by renovating the hulking Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation building or by replacing it.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, ignited debate after indicating on June 13 that he wanted the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee (JFC) to completely cut diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) funding across the University of Wisconsin System.
Chalk up one more award for J.J. Watt. The future NFL Hall-of-Famer will be headed to the University of Wisconsin’s Hall of Fame this year.
Wisconsin hasn’t seen a clear trend of more drought conditions, according to Steve Vavrus, director of the Wisconsin State Climatology Office and a climate scientist with UW-Madison.
“In fact, if you look at the past 20 years or so since 2000, we had more drought episodes in the first half of that period than the last half,” Vavrus said.
William Spriggs, the assistant secretary of labor in the Obama administration and former chief economist for the AFL-CIO, who died at age 68, was such an economist and such a leader.
UW-Madison and other UW System schools, however, have no paid parental leave. Employees must instead exhaust their accrued sick or vacation days for paid time off, or take an unpaid leave of absence.
