At least two University of Wisconsin system schools have modified diversity offices or programming amid Republican lawmakers seeking to shut down DEI initiatives statewide.
UW-Oshkosh is eliminating about a sixth of its overall workforce, as 140 people received layoff notices Monday, another 110 positions will disappear due to retirements or vacancies and a still-unknown number of contract-based adjunct professors and lecturers will not be renewed for this spring.
The decision to participate was left up to each university. Of the 13 UW System campuses, only UW-Madison, UW-La Crosse and UW-Eau Claire have opted out of the program.
The Buckeyes (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten) and Badgers (4-2, 2-1) with square off at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 28 on NBC.
Conservative commentator to return to UW for first time since 2016.
Two events in Madison Monday included a conference on Social Science and Sustainability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the art exhibit “Garbology: What We Throw Away” at the Overture Center’s Playhouse Gallery.
A Milwaukee nonprofit and Froedtert Health are launching a new initiative to improve health outcomes for pregnant people and infants by offering prenatal care in a community setting.
Funded by a grant from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Penfield Children’s Center will be offering group pregnancy care sessions. Participants with similar due dates will meet regularly at the nonprofit’s location for pregnancy-related classes and to get an individual prenatal check-up through a new maternal mobile clinic operated by Froedtert. They’ll also be able to access postpartum care at the mobile clinic and work with a social care navigator at Penfield to access additional support.
The evaluation, conducted by the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, comes days after Kids Forward released an updated Race to Equity report that shows continued gaps in the experiences of white and Black Madisonians, including in education.
Letter to the editor: Thank you to UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin for her courage in speaking out about the scale and utter brutality of the Hamas attack on Israeli men, women, children and infants.
Rebranding of University of Wisconsin System is unnecessary change that will likely not have intended impact.
Miss America, Grace Stanke, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering student, won the pageant in December and chose to spend her year holding the title to promote nuclear energy.
Track offers specialization in sustainable development, inequality in housing.
Party leaders might be more extreme now as a result of the close party balance in the House,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The narrow margins for the majority party in recent years empower more strident and extreme factions within the party to demand fidelity to their preferences. It is possible that Pelosi’s more liberal position helped her maintain exceptional party discipline even while sometimes managing tenuous majorities.”
It could also be that, also over an immense period, glass will eventually crystallize and become a typical solid. In this light, glass is just liquid “that’s sliding on its way to being a crystal,” Mark Ediger, a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, says.
But there’s another exciting possibility here: that instead of crystallization, over very long periods, glass can inch closer to the state of “perfect disorder,” as Ediger describes.
“Let’s suppose that you have boxes,” he says, “many different boxes of different sizes and shapes, and you’re trying to pack them all into the back of a U-Haul.” If you manage to squeeze all the boxes in the back of the U-Haul, with no possible room for any others, and there’s only one possible configuration of the boxes that will allow you to do this, that’s perfect disorder.
This article was originally published in April before Jim Jordan was a candidate for speaker of the House and has been updated.
