The University of Wisconsin System has to eliminate diversity and equity positions or sacrifice 6% pay raises over the next two years that were initially authorized in the budget Gov. Tony Evers signed this summer, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said.
Evers’ plan would funnel $66 million toward the UW System following a bruising budget season that included a $32 million cut. The $32 million is what Republicans identified as going toward diversity, equity and inclusion spending at universities over two years. A veto by Evers allowed campuses to absorb the cut while saving DEI positions.
The Republican speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly is blocking pay raises for University of Wisconsin employees unless the university cuts diversity, equity and inclusion spending by $32 million — a move that comes amid the Democratic governor’s calls for lawmakers to spend even more on higher education.
PharmD Early Assurance program aims to help UW system students stay close to home for undergrad.
Historic artwork by former UW professor commemorates Madison’s Ho-Chunk people.
Kelly Tyrrell, UW’s director of media relations and strategic communications, explained in an email statement to The Badger Herald that it would be difficult to draw a connection between either application size or average applicant qualification and UW’s ranking. “Our number of applicants has increased annually for many years now, a trend that has remained consistent irrespective of what our particular U.S. News ranking is in a given year,” Tyrrell said.
The outage frustrated many students and faculty during the first full week of the fall semester.
UW’s Odyssey Project plays a key role in helping returning prisoners and other disadvantaged learners overcome economic, social and educational barriers.
The Odyssey Project was founded in 2003 and has six programs spanning all age groups.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team will start its 25th season in a familiar spot: the top of the national rankings.
Wisconsin opens Big Ten play against Michigan State on Dec. 5, then plays three more nonconference opponents before its Big Ten schedule resumes against Iowa on Jan. 2. The 31-game slate features 17 matchups with teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament a season ago (plus a potential matchup with 2023 NCAA Tournament team West Virginia, depending on the outcome of games at the Fort Myers Tip-Off on Nov. 20). Two of those teams advanced as far as the Sweet 16.
While not doing much about climate change, the Biden administration has managed to increase the cost of living and weaken national security. Canceling oil leases signals to markets that making new investments won’t be profitable. This restricts domestic supply, increases prices and weakens Western economies. It also bankrolls our adversaries. Russia depends on higher oil prices to finance its war. Mr. Biden has also drawn down the strategic petroleum reserve and, more recently, allowed huge Iranian oil sales to China. The climate-change war on domestic fossil-fuel production is truly an all-around disaster.—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics
“The U.S. military was relatively ahead of the rest of society in implementing what today we call diversity, equity and inclusion programs,” sad John W. Hall, a 1994 West Point graduate and professor of U.S. military history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There is considerable risk associated with revoking those policies.”
In 1970, he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was known to hold office hours sailing on Lake Mendota and where he was professor emeritus at the time of his death.
Frank Tuerkheimer, a UW law professor and attorney who served on the legal team that prosecuted Watergate scandal co-conspirators during the 1970s and was the chief federal prosecutor in Madison during the Carter administration, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at 84.
