Weeks before a deadline to submit budget requests to Gov. Tony Evers, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman provided a glimpse of his ambitions for increased state funding of higher education.
Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates loved much of her time as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She loved the city, the water and the student union.
But she has written that her campus years in Wisconsin were in some ways a “lost time” for her. She found much of the older, male-dominated faculty — and their old-school teaching methods — to be dull. And her time featured a turning point that could have led her down a path away from her future accolades, which include a National Book Award, the National Humanities Medal and several Pulitzer Prize nominations.
UW-Stevens Point leadership is warning that its two branch campuses in Marshfield and Wausau can’t survive unless enrollment increases.
The Republican-led effort is primed to double down on the austerity logic behind the UW’s problems.
According to the University of Wisconsin Division of Extension, cranberry marshes cover 21,000 acres in 20 of Wisconsin’s central and northern counties where more than 250 cranberry farms produce nearly 61 percent of the nation’s supply.
Talks are underway with the Ho-Chunk Nation to schedule the official flag-raising.
“I’m sure the Indigenous student groups from UW-Madison will be a big part of the ceremony as they were a big part of helping me shape these inclusive measures,” Rose said.
Kaziak, a 1998 graduate of Wausau East High School, earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Minnesota and a master’s of fine arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He takes part in exhibitions across the Midwest and has won numerous awards, including Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture in 2021, bestowed by the International Sculpture Center.
The $7.75 million from base salary and an additional compensation agreement isn’t the only money Chris McIntosh will make over a new five-year contract as University of Wisconsin athletic director.
Federal regulators have convinced a jury and a judge that Google illegally quashes competing browsers and apps. Could consumers benefit if Google is forced to give up its monopoly power? UW-Madison IT Specialist Beth D’Angelo joins us to talk about this and more in our tech update.
“Turnout is going to be quite uneven across the state, just depending on whether there’s something of interest that’s really got voters’ attention or not. That unevenness is probably going to determine whether these issues end up passing or not,” said Barry Buden, a political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the university’s Elections Research Center. “These are big choices made by a relatively small number of folks.”
Cary Bloodworth, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professor, told Public Investigator that she hasn’t seen a blanket policy for juvenile records like this one before.
However, she said there are some advantages to such policies, like maintaining a minor’s privacy. The goal of the juvenile justice system is focused on rehabilitation, she said, rather than punishment.
State law provides an exception for news organizations that request law enforcement records about children and youth for “the purpose of reporting the news,” as long as they do not publish their identities.
