Another contentious spending provision is Republicans’ plan to cut the University of Wisconsin System’s budget by $32 million in an attempt to force the school officials to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion offices and programming.
‘We have the potential to make some really clear policy recommendations around this,’ Dr. Kate Walsh says.
Wisconsin high school graduates ranking in the top 5% of their class would be guaranteed admission to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under a Republican bill expected to be introduced Tuesday.
Republican lawmakers have earmarked more than $3 million to help Washington County jumpstart a merged community college pilot program. The county is trying to preserve access to college in West Bend amid steep enrollment declines at UW-Milwaukee’s Washington County campus.
Madison is a city surrounded by lakes and since 1939 the Hoofer Sailing Club has been a guide for everyone from beginners to advanced sailors to learn and teach.
The former Wisconsin Badgers football player accused of carrying a stolen gun at a downtown block party in late April won’t face criminal charges if he completes a county-run deferred prosecution program.
Markus Allen was referred to the Deferred Prosecution Unit as a “pre-charge” referral, District Attorney Ismael Ozanne explained. Allen will not be charged if he completes a deferred agreement.
Letter to the editor: In this current budget cycle, Wisconsin has a very large surplus. But instead of using the surplus to support one of our great economic engines, the University of Wisconsin System, the Wisconsin GOP wants to cut millions of dollars from its budget.
Letter to the editor: The decision of the Republicans on the state Joint Finance Committee to withhold $32 million from the University of Wisconsin System for diversity, equity and inclusion could be a very good decision — if the funds are properly reallocated.
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor of practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek that Prigozhin “clearly made himself look weak” and that his group’s task was too difficult to accomplish short of mass and open defection of members of the Russian armed forces or security services.
However, in the context of climate change, the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere is less relevant than the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, Grant Petty, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of two textbooks on atmospheric physics, told USA TODAY in an email.
Brazil, again, offers a strong example: Some companies that slaughter cows for beef say they’re monitoring their supply chains to ensure that they aren’t driving deforestation; they’ve agreed to only source cattle from suppliers without recent forest loss. Yet those same cattle may have traveled through several other farms where deforestation happened before reaching the slaughterhouses’ direct suppliers, according to Amintas Brandão Jr., a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin Madison. So in reality, those companies are implicated in environmental harm and misleading consumers.
Ankita Bharadwaj joined UW–Madison’s Office of Human Resources as BIPOC Employee Retention Specialist in November 2022.
Dr. Shobhina G. Chheda is associate dean for medical education at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
