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July 14, 2023

Research

Long-unfunded Wisconsin State Climatology Office boosted by USDA grant

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Wisconsin Public Radio

For the first time in a decade, the Wisconsin State Climatology Office is receiving government funding. A USDA grant will focus the office on rural needs, particularly those of farmers. We talk to Steve Vavrus, the Wisconsin State Climatologist and a senior scientist for the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Climatic Research at UW-Madison, about this and funding for a statewide network of weather stations.

Higher Education/System

Wisconsin Republicans banned race-based hiring in local government. It’s already been illegal for over 50 years.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

One of the measures put forth by Republicans sliced $32 million from the University of Wisconsin System budget in an attempt to eliminate nearly 200 DEI jobs on UW campuses.

Vos relabeled the DEI acronym “division, exclusion and indoctrination” and called diversity programming at Wisconsin’s public universities the “single most important issue” facing humanity last month at a Republican state party convention in La Crosse.

Reparations push gains steam as communities nationwide consider payment plans — and not just for slavery

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Fox News

The University of California system, for example, has pledged to give free tuition to some Native American students amid a movement to reclaim tribal lands. The University of Wisconsin at Madison flew the flag of the Ho-Chunk Nation on campus for the first time in 2021 in an effort to acknowledge land taken from the tribe. And Cornell University launched a research project to account for all the land that it took from Native communities.

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People of UW: District 8 Alder and UW student MGR Govindarajan shares importance of getting involved

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The Badger Herald

Editor’s note: People of UW is a human interest series produced by features editors and associates. The series — published online and on our social media accounts — aims to highlight a student at the University of Wisconsin making an impact on the campus community. These Q&As are lightly edited for clarity and style.

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Rockabetty’s is closing as some Madison salons struggle with hiring, rising rents

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Wisconsin State Journal

That could have to do with workers in service industries gravitating toward jobs that were more stable during the COVID-19 pandemic, said Nancy Wong, UW-Madison professor of consumer science.

“Perhaps these industries also do not pay as well,” she said, and salon owners are faced with the expense of raising wages and offering regular hours. That cost can be passed on to customers.

Six Right-Wing Activists Filed 89,000 Georgia Voter Roll Challenges

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ProPublica

“If all these challengers are finding is inconsequential errors that do not affect election results on the whole, but they’re placing real and harmful burdens on voters, then you have to wonder why they’re really doing this,” said Derek Clinger, a senior staff attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “It’s doing more harm than good.”

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