Last week, as scientists gathered inside a cozy research station in north central Wisconsin, not far from Minocqua, Michael Menon was one of the researchers in the room.
He’s the UW-Madison PhD student chosen to conduct the wolf study that’s being funded and co-led by the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission.
Steven Deller, the report’s author and an agricultural and applied economics professor at UW-Madison, said he attributes the state’s inability to return to the low poverty rates it saw in the late ’90s and early 2000s to a shift away from more highly-paid manufacturing jobs toward a more service-based economy, the state’s decline in unionization and a slow recovery from the Great Recession.
“The science on how hurricanes will change in the future is fairly complex and not entirely settled, but a few things are generally accepted,” Daniel Wright, a civil and environmental engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Hydroclimate Extremes Research Group, previously told Newsweek.
Wisconsin’s public universities and colleges could be liable for up to $100,000 in damages and institutions could be cut off from state grants under a Republican-authored bill seeking to add civil penalties for violating a person’s right to free speech.
Carthage College’s faculty members believe a new policy increasing the number of classes they must teach without upping their pay is the administration’s first step toward laying off staff.
The proposed legislation, Assembly Bill 86, would put an end to scholarship displacement in Wisconsin for students who receive scholarships of $5,000 or less from external sources. Currently, any college or university in the state can decrease a student’s financial aid when they receive funding from outside scholarships even if the student still has a balance for tuition.
“The idea is to kind of focus more on a colorblind society, and that’s a long time coming. I think there was maybe a reason in the past to do it the way it was done,” said Republican Senator Eric Wimberger, co-author of the bill. “If you keep it at the idea of simply being a disadvantaged status, then if there’s a systemic issue going on, then there’s gonna be a disproportionate number of people benefiting, who happened to be kind of having that negative effect.”
The Assembly’s higher education committee considered a bill Thursday that sets free speech policies at Wisconsin’s public universities and colleges and provides penalties for violating them. Another bill taken up by the committee would eliminate race-based higher education loan and grant programs.
“UW-Madison educates the state’s future workforce and drives its economy forward,” said UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin. “I have been clear that funding cuts, the lack of approval for a widely supported Engineering building and a hold on much needed pay increases for our employees, defy both reason and longstanding legislative tradition.”
Republican lawmakers are advancing a bill for a fourth time that would punish Wisconsin universities and technical colleges for free speech violations.
When Ed Hirs, an energy economist at the University of Houston, coined the terms “buckynomics” and “buckymarkets,” he couldn’t have predicted he’d end up in a legal battle with the University of Wisconsin and its iconic mascot, Bucky Badger. But according to a report from the Houston Chronicle that is exactly what is happening.
The U.S. Department of Education explained the new measures in a meeting with members of the press on Monday.
This is the fourth chapter of a 5-part series in which former University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson and Vice President Jim Langdon reflect on their experience guiding the system though the COVID-19 pandemic. As the health care crisis raged, facilities on the front lines began to have severe staffing issues. Drawing inspiration from the foundations of the UW System, they found ways to help students jump from the classroom to the community to assist.
Middle East experts Ghaith al-Omari and David Makovsky discussed policy options and perception of the conflict during an Oct. 24 talk at UW Hillel.
Dorothea Salo, an instructor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School, said the bill goes against “really bedrock, standard library ethics about letting people read what they want without interference, and without sharing that information.”
“The party majorities are sufficiently large that the legislature can get away with being completely unresponsive to anything a majority of voters want,” said Ken Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. “If you can’t lose, you don’t have to care. If you run the risk of losing, based on not caring, you will start to care.”
Labracke has been part of the project as a graduate student studying water resources management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute. The project, led by UniverCity Year, is aimed at creating a watershed plan to improve the impaired waterway and reduce the creek’s flooding.
The Student Advisory Board was established to facilitate communication between the student body and Mental Health Services, allowing them to address the mental health needs of students on campus, University Health Services Outreach Assistant Director Danyelle Okesanjo said.
Another prisoner, Edgar Salinas-Leal, 36, said he suffers from severe migraine headaches for which he received regular and routine treatment shots at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital, however, since COVID lockdowns, the prison canceled his appointments and they have not resumed.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver Chimere Dike can understand why something he holds so closely to his heart could have a different interpretation for others. Something like a keychain.
Wisconsin Athletics on Friday launched a $75 million fundraising push for a new indoor practice facility for the Badgers football team, the largest capital project in program history.
P.J. Liesch, manager of the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, tells us about the creepiest crawlers from the insect world, just in time for Halloween.
